Miscellaneous M (Macartney-Murray)

Includes:

-two letters from W.T. Macartney-Filgate, dated 2 September 1923 and 7 February 1927, concerning two pictures in his collection of King George III and Queen Charlotte

-annotated photocopy of 'A catalogue of the genuine and curious collection of pictures of Owen Swinny [Macswiny], Esq.,...which will be sold by auction by Mr Langford, on Friday the 28th of ...February, and Saturday the 1st of March 1755'

-handwritten notes, undated (1p), and a publicity flyer, concerning the Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection; and a black and white photograph of 'The young Corsican convinced by General Paoli of the necessity of his uncle's death' by Richard Westall, with annotations on the reverse

-letter from Reverend Gervase W. Markham to Simpson, dated 15 May 1968, concerning pictures in the collection of the Markham family; annotated photocopy extract from a Robinson, Fisher and Harding sale catalogue, 10 November 1921, front cover and p4 only; and annotated photocopy extract from a Christie's sale catalogue, 8 July 1962, pp 5 & 6 only

-letter from Giuseppe Martinetto, dated 3 December 1964, concerning pictures in his collection by Albrecht Durer, Peter Paul Rubens and Bronzino

-typed list of pictures in the collection of A. Matsch, Vienna, undated (2pp)

-two letters exchanged between Letitia Simpson and Hugh Maude, dated 22 and 27 July 1946, concerning pictures in his collection at Belgard Castle, Clondalkin

-two letters exchanged between Letitia Simpson and Paul Maze, dated 5 and 12 August 1942, concerning a picture bought by him of a 'Port Scene, with a man-o'-war, and sailors on quay', from the Duke of Connaught's sale at Bagshot Park

-letter from Merryn Medlycott to Simpson, dated 6 December 1979, concerning pictures in the family collection

-typed list of pictures in the collection of L. Megret, 8 Belsize Crescent, dated 7 April 1933 (3pp)

-annotated typed list of pictures in the collection of Sir Thomas Merton, Stubbings House, Maidenhead, undated (4pp)

-letter from Simpson to M.P. Statham, County Archivist, Bury St. Edmunds, dated 28 September 1961, concerning pictures in the collection of the Metcalfe family of Hawstead House; and handwritten notes concerning works of art owned by Philip and Henry Christopher Metcalfe, undated (4pp)

-handwritten notes concerning pictures at Middleton Park, Bicester, dated 24 February 1930 (2pp)

-two letters exchanged between David Minlore and Letitia Simpson, dated 29 and 30 May 1935, and handwritten notes on the reverse of Minlore's letter, concerning pictures in his collection of Sir William Montagu, and Mary, daughter of John Pettie

-typed list of pictures sold from the collection of Mrs Percy Mitford, Mitford House, by Christie's on 28 April 1919, undated (1p)

-handwritten notes concerning pictures in the the collection of Lord Mitford, undated (3pp)

-typed notes concerning pictures in the collection of George Moore, dated 5 July 1929 (1p)

-'Report of M. Knoedler & Co., sole appraisers appointed by the State of New York and the estate of J. Pierpont Morgan to value and appraise as of March, 1913, the paintings owned by J. Pierpont Morgan, deceased, on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art', undated (4pp); and a typed list of pictures in the collection, dated 1 March 1935 (1p)

-two letters exchanged between Kinderman Walker and Charles Carstairs, dated 13 and 30 April 1923, and a typed note (1p) concerning pictures in the collection of the Earl of Morton

-letter from Anthony Blunt, Courtauld Institute of Art, to Simpson, dated 27 July 1970, concerning a drawing after Poussin's 'Crossing of the Red Sea', in the collection of Reverend John Mowll

-typed list of pictures in the collection of Lady Munster, dated 10 September 1947 (1p)

-letter from Trenchard Cox, Director, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, to Simpson, dated 22 November 1951, concerning pictures in the Murietta collection

-typed list of pictures in the collection of George Wolfe Murray, Cringletie, undated (1p)

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