- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
- Title:
- Letters of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell to Janet Camp Troxell
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3j333230x
- Dates:
- 1937-1959
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Contains approximately 175 letters by Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, written after Cockerell's retirement as director (1908-1937) of the Fitzwilliam Museum, to Janet Troxell, an American collector of manuscripts, discussing, in part, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Kelmscott Press, and Cockerell's rare book and manuscript collections.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection contains approximately 175 letters by Cockerell, written after Cockerell's retirement as director (1908-1937) of the Fitzwilliam Museum, to Janet Troxell, an American collector of manuscripts, discussing, in part, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Kelmscott Press, and Cockerell's rare book and manuscript collections. Also present are correspondence between Dorothy Webster Hawksley, the artist, and Janet Troxell, some photographs of Cockerell, and photographs of drawings by Hawksley.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell was a British museum curator and rare book and manuscript collector. Janet Troxell was an American collector of manuscripts.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Mrs. Troxell via. Prof Dudley Johnson April 3, 1981 (AM81-63).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Letters of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell to Janet Camp Troxell; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3j333230x
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
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- Subject Terms:
- Artists -- England -- 19th century.
Book collectors -- England -- 20th century.
Collectors and collecting -- England -- 20th century.
Museum directors -- England -- 20th century.
Poets, English -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
Drawings.
Photographs. - Names:
- Kelmscott press
Hawksley, Dorothy Webster, 1884-1970
Troxell, Janet Camp
