Research and archival material collected for Face: Shape and Angle by Jessica Sutcliffe (2016), with an archive list, c. 1926-2020
File
MS. 16176/5
Held in our offsite storage facility
Comprises notes and papers gathered for the writing of Sutcliffe's book on Helen Muspratt and her photography, Face: Shape and Angle (2016), including Sutcliffe's lists of collected material:
- List of the archive contents with contextual notes prepared by the donor, c. 2019-2020
- D1 - Notes, research and some original materials gathered for chapters 1-3 on Muspratt's education and early life, including original letters from photographer Constance Ellis c. 1926, c. 1926-2012
- D2 - Notes, research and some original materials gathered for chapter 4 on Muspratt's Swanage photography studio, including original papers such as samples of Muspratt's headed notepaper and other business stationary, 1931-c. 2015
- D3 - Notes, research and some original materials gathered for chapters 4 and 6 on Muspratt's Purbeck artist friends Fra Newbery, the Spencer Watsons, Notley and Brynley, including original letters from Fra Newbery (1930) and correspondence between Helen Muspratt and Mary Spencer Watson together with Muspratt's research for an article on Newbery from 1976, 1976-c. 2016
- D4 - Notes, research and some original materials gathered for chapter 6 on Muspratt's photographs of Paul Nash and Eileen Agar, including original letters about reproduction rights of the photographs (1953-2012), 1953-2012
- D5 - Notes, research and some original materials gathered for chapter 5 and 6 on Muspratt's time in Cambridge and experimentation, including some important original photographs of Spanish Civil War refugee events (1938-1939), and documents including Helen Muspratt's Communist Party membership card, studio brochures, a photographic Christmas card from Lettice Ramsey (1946), and legal papers on the Ramsey and Muspratt's business partnership (1939) and dissolution (1945), correspondence about the sale of Ramsey's studio and the acrimonious dispersal of the negatives (1978-1986), 1937-c. 2016
Dates
- Creation: c. 1926-2020
Extent
1 box (3 folders)
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 16176/5
Former reference:
Box D1-D5
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk