Scottish National Portrait Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland

Includes:

-seven letters from Stanley Cursiter, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, dated 13 January-23 June 1931, concerning the acquisition from Knoedler's of a picture by Filippino Lippi titled 'The Holy Family and Angels', stock number 17004

-two letters exchanged between Letitia Simpson and Cursiter, dated 7 and 9 September 1943, concerning the possible acquisition of pictures from a private collection

-two letters and a list of pictures exchanged between Letitia Simpson and Cursiter, dated 22 and 29 September 1943, concerning works of art for sale from the Morgan collection

-two letters exchanged between A.E. Haswell Miller, Keeper, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and Letitia Simpson, dated 31 January and 17 March 1948, concerning the acquisition of pictures with a Scottish connection

-three letters exchanged between Simpson, and Basil C. Skinnner and Robin Hutchison, both of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, dated 23 February-19 June 1962, concerning a picture titled 'A Shinty Match in the Highlands'

-five letters exchanged between Hutchison and Simpson, dated 17 May-30 September 1963, concerning the provenance and loan of works of art exhibited at an exhibition held at the gallery, titled 'Allan Ramsay, his Masters and Rivals'

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