Contains personal papers, postcards, cuttings, photographs, and greetings cards. Abbott edited some of Gordon Bottomley's literary works and correspondence in the 1950s.
Contains photographs, a booklet on Mystra, notes on James Boswell, publishers' prospectuses for works by William Blake and Roloff Beny, a print of Tiepolo's 'The harnessing of the horses of the sun', a sketch of a deer by Han van Meegeren, and unused picture postcards.
Contains postcards of 19th and 20th century art arranged alphabetically by artist, and other postcards arranged by subject: costumes, Chinese pottery, mosaics, tapestries, masks, frescos, sculpture, Japanese colour prints, and illuminated manuscripts.
Correspondence of others collected by Claude Colleer Abbott
Scope & Content:
Contains: postcards to Alfred Bottomley; postcards to Gilbert Innes; a postcard from J. Sagar to his, and Gordon Bottomley's, aunt, Sarah Gordon; and a postcard from Gordon Bottomley to Edith Dawson.