Miscellaneous S (St Albans-Sudeley)

Includes:

-typed notes concerning pictures belonging to the Duke of St. Albans, undated (4pp)

-two letters and a note from Baroness Victoria Sackville, dated 24 and 25 May 1928, concerning the sale of items from her collection

-typed list of pictures at Salisbury House, Campsie Glen, undated (1p)

-typed list of pictures at Scampston, undated (2pp)

-annotated typed extract from 'The London Chronicle', Volume III, No. 210, May 2-4 1758, detailing pictures in the collection of Sir Luke Schaub, sold by Mr Langford between 26-28 April 1758, undated (5pp)

-annotated photocopy of a typed list of pictures from the collection of Sir David Scott, Boughton House, exhibited at the Kettering Art Gallery from April-May 1959, undated (2pp)

-typed extracts from 'A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of pictures, of Mr Samuel Scott...which will be sold by auction by Mr Langford and Son...on Thursday the 4th of this Instant April 1765' (3pp); and 'A catalogue of the entire collections of prints, books and casts in plaster of Mr Samuel Scott...which will be sold by auction by Mr Langford and Son...on Monday the first of April 1765, and the three following evenings' (4pp)

-typed list of pictures from the Senff collection sold by Knoedler's New York office on 28 and 29 March 1928, dated 10 April 1928 (3pp)

-letter from Lloyd Churchill to Knoedler's London office, dated 22 August 1922, concerning works of art for sale in the collection of Mrs Severn, Brantwood, Coniston, which were formerly the property of John Ruskin

-two letters exchanged between Simpson and Arthur Oswald, Country Life, dated 14 and 18 December 1961, concerning three portraits by Gilbert Stuart in the collection of Sir Frederick William Shaw, 5th Baronet

-letter from Sylvia Shaw, dated 16 May 1969, concerning a picture in her collection by A. Brunel Debaines

-letter from Michael Diamond, City of Sheffield Art Galleries, dated 18 October 1965, concerning their White collection pictures

-two photocopy letters from Clare Sheridan, dated 31 December 1957 and 3 May 1959, a black and white photograph, and a letter from Robin [Hutchison?], Scottish National Portrait Gallery to Simpson, dated 27 December 1965, concerning a portrait of John Motley in Sheridan's collection

-typed extract from a letter to Letitia Simpson from an unknown correspondee, dated 25 August 1928, and a typed list of pictures dated September 1928 (2pp), both concerning pictures in the Sigmaringen Gallery

-letter from Lawrence Gowing, University of Durham, to Simpson, dated 15 February 1957, concerning pictures in the Silvertop collection

-handwritten notes concerning three pictures in the collection of Mr Sinclair, undated (1p)

-letter from Helge Skorlande to Knoedler's London office, dated 14 March 1927, offering pictures for sale from his collection

-two letters exchanged between Simpson and Michael Compton, Walker Art Gallery, dated March 1958, concerning the collection of Colonel Smith

-typed notes concerning pictures in the collection of the Society of Dilettanti, dated 9 December 1975 (6pp)

-typed notes concerning pictures in the collection of Mr Somers Somerset, The Priory, undated (1p)

-three letters exchanged between John Fleming and Simpson, dated 26 November-21 December 1973, concerning pictures in the collection of William Blundell Spence

-three letters from 'Cuckoo' to Charles Carstairs, dated 23 October-8 November 1923, concerning a picture by Donatello in the collection of the Marchese Spinola

-handwritten and typed notes concerning pictures in the collection of J.W. Steers, undated (2pp)

-typed list of pictures at Stow, Buckinghamshire, undated (5pp)

-typed list of pictures in the Straus collection, dated July 1929 (2pp)

-letter from Francis Watson, The Wallace Collection, to Simpson, dated 19 December 1955, concerning pictures in Lord Sudeley's collection at Buckingham Gate

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