BIB_ID
423673
Accession number
MA 2092.1-48
Creator
Field, Michael.
Display Date
England, 1888-1910.
Credit line
Gift of H. Bradley Martin, 1960.
Description
48 items (152 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
Housed with a blue wrapper which enclosed MA 2092.3 - MA 2092.8) saying "Master's / beloved Letters / from Hastings / in February 1897." The note is in Miss Cooper's hand. Within this wrapper were also three blue stamped envelopes postmarked Hastings; two of the envelopes are postmarked February 25 and one envelope is postmarked February 26, 1897. It is not clear to which letters (MA 2092.4, MA 2092.7 or MA 2092.8) these envelopes belong. On the verso of one envelope Miss Bradley has written "K. had no ink!!" All three envelopes are addressed "Miss Cooper / Durdans / Reigate / Surrey." Also wrapped with a gray envelope addressed "Important / Hennie!" and on the inside flap "Sweet, Sweet, / Sweet, how sweet!."
Housed with a postcard from an unidentified sender with an original watercolor illustration on the front with a title written in ink in the lower right corner "This is Biskra. / Lion." The illustration shows 4 camels parading in the foreground with two stick figures walking behind camels 1 and 2. There are several palm trees in the background and two tents behind the parade of camels. The postcard is stamped, has two postmarks and is addressed to "Miss Bradley / Durdans / Reigate / Angleterre." The date of the postmark is illegible. The postcard is housed with MA 2092.43.
Letters from Katharine Bradley to Edith Cooper are variously signed as "Michael" and "The Master" and written to Miss Cooper as "Merle" and "Hennie."
Housed with a postcard from an unidentified sender with an original watercolor illustration on the front with a title written in ink in the lower right corner "This is Biskra. / Lion." The illustration shows 4 camels parading in the foreground with two stick figures walking behind camels 1 and 2. There are several palm trees in the background and two tents behind the parade of camels. The postcard is stamped, has two postmarks and is addressed to "Miss Bradley / Durdans / Reigate / Angleterre." The date of the postmark is illegible. The postcard is housed with MA 2092.43.
Letters from Katharine Bradley to Edith Cooper are variously signed as "Michael" and "The Master" and written to Miss Cooper as "Merle" and "Hennie."
Provenance
Gift of H. Bradley Martin, 1960.
Summary
A collection of correspondence by and to Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper dating from 1888 to 1910, including 7 autograph letters signed from Katherine Bradley to Edith Cooper written from Hastings in February 1897, three autograph manuscripts of poems, two autograph transcriptions of letters to Michael Field, one autograph letter signed to Mary Berenson, six autograph letters signed from Anna Swanwick, seven autograph letters signed from Father Vincent McNabb, 2 autograph letters signed from Henry Daniel, three autograph letters signed from Florence Gribbell and eleven autograph letters signed from various correspondents to the Misses Bradley and Cooper. Letters in this collection have been described individually in forty-eight separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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