Special correspondence of Gordon and Emily Bottomley
Scope & Content:
Some of the files contain notes by Prof. Claude Colleer Abbott and/or correspondence of Abbott with the subjects of the files (or their families) relating to the correspondence. Abbott edited some of Bottomley's literary works and correspondence in the 1950s.
Contains Bottomley’s own sketches and watercolours (where identified). Also contains a sketch by Alfred Bottomley, dated 1860, and Emily Burton’s sketchbook. Bottomley's work includes charcoal copies of work by Samuel Palmer and John Sell Cotman, and a pencil copy of Edward Burne Jones's 'The Eve...
Assorted original artworks and portrait prints. Includes a silverpoint portrait of James Hamilton Hay by Clinton Balmer, and a caricature of Bottomley [by Paul Nash?], together with etchings including one of Bottomley by A. Hugh Fisher, and others of Emily Bottomley and Alfred Bottomley, as well...
Family photographs of the Bottomley and Burton families
Scope & Content:
Contains two folders, the first containing photographs of Emily Bottomley's family (identified by Margaret Cropper, with an explanatory letter from Cropper to Professor Claude Colleer Abbott) and of a young Emily; the second folder containing early Bottomley family photographs, mostly unidentifie...