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Call Number:
MSS 3
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Millais, John Everett, 1829–1896
Title(s):
Letter to Philip Hermogenes Calderon
Date:
1889 November 8
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series I: John Everett Millais to Philip Hermogenes Calderon
Part of Collection:
1, folder 4
Provenance:
Acquired October 2008, Paul Mellon Fund.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

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 Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Addressed to Calderon at the Royal Academy in Piccadilly, sent from Birnam Hall, Birnam, N.B. Discusses his being in the Council preventing him from visiting. "I have had a wonderful year...": speaks of his satisfaction with his work and desire to create more art, tempered by current melancholy about there being too many paintings in the world: "even the smallest Scotch towns are stuffed with [paintings]..." Remarks that despite his words, he is not "bilious" and in fact has never been in better health.
Physical Description:
Autograph letter, signed; written in pen and black ink. 3 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 18 x 23 cm. + envelope.
Genre:
Correspondence and Letters
Subject Terms:
Painters
Painting, British
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833-1898
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896
Millais, Mary Hunt, 1860-1944
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Finding Aid Title:
Philip Hermogenes Calderon correspondence from John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/17.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2686
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2686?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1