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Call Number:
MSS 53
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Aitken, Charles, 1869–1936
Title(s):
Charles Aitken letter to D. Hewitt
Date:
1914 January 5
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 24
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Scope and Content:
"January 5, 1914. Dear Sir, I am very much obliged to you for your kind letter about the Lewis pictures. I will write to Christies'. I think the Birmingham Gallery must have bought some. I would be very grateful for the addresses of any owners of Lewis's pictures, if it is not troubling you too much. I am yours very truly, Charles Aitken [...]"
Additional Notes:
With blind-embossed letterhead: National Gallery, British Art, S.W.; and blind-embossed seal.
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 24 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence and Exhibitions
Subject Terms:
Antiquities
Art
Orientalism
Painters
Painting
Photography
Prices
Sculptors
Sculpture
Associated Places:
Egypt
France
Great Britain
Hayes (Bromley, London, England)
Paris
Associated People/Groups:
Aitken, Charles, 1869-1936
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Hewitt, D.
Tate Gallery
Finding Aid Title:
Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/10701.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629915
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629915?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1