| Description | Includes:
-two letters exchanged between Simpson and Lord Spencer, dated 24 & 30 November 1948, concerning a self-portrait by Bartholome Esteban Murillo in the collection at Althorp
-handwritten notes concerning works of art in the Spencer/Althorp collection, undated (8pp)
-extracts from an unknown publication giving lists of pictures belonging to the Spencer family in 1742, 1746, 1750, and 1802, undated (37pp)
-legal document titled 'An Act to authorise the sale of certain pictures bequeathed and settled by the First Codicil to the Will of the Right Honourable John Poyntz Earl Spencer deceased and to provide for the application of the proceeds for such sale; and for other purposes', dated 1924
-thirty-eight black and white photographs of works of art, some with annotations made by Ellis Waterhouse about artist and sitters
-list and twenty-eight black and white photographs of works of art in the Althorp collection, dated 1974
-photocopy of a document giving Oliver Millar's suggested corrections to the Althorp list, undated |