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Album of Original Letters from John Pye to T. H. Cromek, 1862-1866
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Signed"Thomas H. Cromek, Wakefield Dec. 8th 1864." Contains 22 ALsS from John Pye to T.H. Cromek from 3 September 1862 to 1 August 1866. Numbered 1-21 (+ 1 unnumbered). 66 pages, 8vo. With a title page in T.H. Cromek's handwriting:"The following interesting correspondence with Mr John Pye, was elicited by a letter that I addressed to him on 11th Septr 1862, requesting him to furnish me with any facts relating to my late Father's life. Mr Pye's kindness of heart is thoroughly evinced by his prompt acquiescence to my wish, and the great amount of artistic information which he has given to me, kindly and willingly supplied in his letters, induce me thus carefully to preserve, as most valuable documents, all his letters to me. Thomas H. Cromek Wakefield Dec. 8th 1864." Contents laid onto or tipped onto the leaves of a quarto album. With morocco label"Letters etc. from John Pye Esq. to T. H. Cromek, 1862-3." An important unpublished sequence throwing much light on R. H. Cromek, Turner, the history of engraving, and of the life and career of John Pye himself.
Collection History
- Custodial History
By descent from T. H. Cromek. T. H. Cromek's daughter married John Warrington of Newland Hall, Wakefield. He was the father of Austin Warrington, whose son Paul Warrington inherited the Cromek archive and left the archive on his death to his wife, Jeanne Warrington, in 1992, who in turn left the archive to R. H. Cromek's great-great-great grandson Ian Warrington on her death in 2007, who sold the archive at Sothebys London in July 2008.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by John Delaney on April 6, 2009. Finding aid coded by John Delaney on April 7-8, 2009, based on the descriptions of John Hart and Chris Johnson.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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- Credit this material:
Album of Original Letters from John Pye to T. H. Cromek; Robert and Thomas Hartley Cromek papers, C1313, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 2
Find More
- Bibliography
See Dennis M. Read's R. H. Cromek, Engraver, Editor, and Entrepreneur (Ashgate, 2011) for more information about Cromek and these papers.
- Names:
- Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828)
Cromek, R. H. (Robert Hartley) (1770-1812)
Pye, John (1782-1874)