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Samuel Butler Collection Subseries
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Boxes 14-15

  • Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/14-15
  • Subseries
  • 1902–1952 (The majority date from c.1919.)
  • Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Press cuttings relating to Samuel Butler.

Boxes 6-7

Notes and correspondence of Henry Festing Jones, relating to his edition of Samuel Butler's Notebooks.

Boxes 8-10

Correspondence and memorabilia relating to the Erewhon Dinners.

Folio Box 1

Drawings, paintings and prints, by or relating to Samuel Butler, Henry Festing Jones and their works. Includes some reproductions of Italian Renaissance drawings, presumably collected and copied by Butler.

Folio box 3

Photographic prints and reproductions of art works, produced or collected by Samuel Butler.

Glass plate negatives

Near-complete collection of Samuel Butler's glass plate negatives, corresponding to the collection of photographic prints (mostly in albums) also held by the Library. The plates have been rehoused in conservation-grade boxes and envelopes, retaining their original arrangement; the original packaging, consisting of 'Ilford Dry Plate' cardboard boxes and paper envelopes labelled by Samuel Butler and Alfred Cathie, are also in the collection. The collection is fully catalogued on an internal database and the majority of the plates have recently undergone digitization. Please contact the Library for more information.

'H. F. Jones Sketches'

Portfolio of sketches by Henry Festing Jones. Includes three autograph letters from Geoffrey Keynes to the Librarian of St John's College, Cambridge, dated March-April 1953, relating to the placing of this and other artworks by Jones and Samuel Butler in the Library.

Photograph album owned by Samuel Butler

Photograph album containing 19 double-sided leaves of mounts. Brown mock-leather binding with embossed pattern and gold-coloured detail. The album is three-quarters full and contains various photographic portraits of Samuel Butler's relatives and acquaintances, a few landscape photographs and a few photographic postcards and reproductions of artworks. A number of the family portraits are labelled in the hand of Henry Festing Jones, and a few photographs are labelled in Butler's hand.

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