| Description | Includes:
-four letter exchanged between Letitia Simpson and Lady Madge Ashton, dated 21 September-8 November 1957, concerning a request for photographs of works of art to be used in a book on children
-letter from Ellis Waterhouse, The Barber Institute of Art, to Letitia Simpson, dated 7 February 1955, concerning pictures by Gainsborough; and three letters exchanged between Waterhouse and Simpson, dated 14 December 1961-3 November 1966, concerning research on various works of art
-two letters exchanged between Letitia Simpson and Battersby & Co, dated 17 and 21 September 1931, concerning portraits for sale of members of the Pitt family
-letter from H.B. Baverstock & Son, dated 26 October 1959, concerning two religious pictures by unidentified artists being offered for sale
-two letters exchanged between Max de Beer and Letitia Simpson, dated 8 and 10 June 1938, concerning the possible purchase of a portrait by James Lonsdale
-letter from [?] Benfield-Harbottle to Freddie Menzies, dated 4 September 1929, concerning the sale of a picture, possibly by George Romney
-letter from Robert Benson & Co. Limited to Charles Carstairs, dated 22 November 1927, listing the prices of pictures to be sold by private treaty
-letter from H. Lee Bimm, dated 26 March 1966, offering pictures titled 'Christ Attacked by a Rogue' and 'Christ' to Knoedler's, and two black and white photographs of the works of art
-three letters from Julius Bohler, dated 2 March 1925-22 March 1926, concerning the sale and purchase of pictures by artists including Raffaelino del Garbo, and Anthony van Dyck
-letter from Abraham Bredius, dated 3 November 1924, concering a picture in the collection of Prince Gagarin, and a picture by Vermeer in the Boyman's Museum
-letter from Maurice W. Brockwell, dated 27 November 1940, concerning the loss of his draft papers about the artist Marshall Claxton
-letter from Simpson to H.R. Brooks, dated 31 July 1962, concerning the purchase of a bronze by Henry Moore
-two letters exchanged between Letitia Simpson and Burke's Peerage, dated 28 February 1933 and 9 March 1933, concerning the succession of the Earldom of Egremont
-three letters from Charles Albert de Burlet, dated 26 June 1926-13 June 1933, concerning research on various artists, including Petrus Christus and Tintoretto
-two letters exchanged between Simpson and Ben Nicolson, The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd, dated 24 and 28 February 1967, concerning a catalogue of a sale of Old Master paintings in 1760 |