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Letter 8, 1862 November 25

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Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Largely concerned with the Pye/Thornbury dispute over the Life of Turner. Sending THC a copy of one of his own letters to Thornbury and a cutting from the Athenaeum:"I have cut them out and added to them a MS copy of the first letter written by me to Mr Thornbury respecting the Turner work...I am of opinion that the letters are somewhat instructive to reflective men, for they seem to represent to view a sad picture of the State of Biographical Literature in Great Britain in the middle of the nineteenth century." This letter is followed by two enclosures: the manuscript copy of Pye's first letter to Thornbury and two pages of cuttings from The Athenaeum.

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.

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Conditions Governing Access

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Credit this material:

Letter 8; Robert and Thomas Hartley Cromek papers, C1313, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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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)