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Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910. Personal and family papers, ca. 1833-1930.

Title: Personal and family papers, ca. 1833-1930.

Chiefly correspondence of William Holman Hunt, with some correspondence of his wife Edith and other family members, and commonplace books of Edith and his father, William. The collection has been assembled from various sources, but includes a substantial family archive (formerly acession 870644). Hunt's letters contain extensive information on the Pre-Raphaelites, his own development as an artist, and his travels in the Middle East. His incoming correspondence includes letters from the writer Maurice Hewlett, the painters Walter Deverell, Edward Lear, Ford Madox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the critics John Ruskin, Frederic George Stephens and William Michael Rossetti. Taken together, Hunt's correspondence constitutes an important source on the English art scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. The commonplace book of William contains the only known manuscript copy of the "List of Immortals," the manifesto of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood set down in 1848 by Holman Hunt and Rossetti.

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