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Call Number:
MSS 22
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Wells, Henry Tanworth, 1828–1903
Title(s):
Henry Tanworth Wells Letter to Richard Redgrave
Date:
1873 June 2
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 2, folder 127
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
"My dear Redgrave, The auditors could not sign the general statement of accounts at the meeting on Friday last because the treasurer did not lay before us his authority from the council for expenditure on the new building. We adjourned until today - but again Mr Smirke 'had quite forgotten' to bring the necessary documents with him - so we have not signed. Our report will raise a debate as to tomorrow's council and will give you grounds for availing the vicious combination of architect & treasurer being one person. I hope you will do your utmost to press the question beyond a mere consideration and take a first step for a separation of the offices. It is difficult to do anything as matters are now ordered! After our last pre audit the council - because of certain withholdings from the auditors - delayed their permission to pay the bills - today we were called upon to post audit the very bills which have been paid in the face of the council. Believe me yours very truly, Henry T. Wells. In searching the bank book we found that our treasurer based[?] his labours by writing single cheques for Mr Eyre[?] as high as £692.- Mr Eyre to dispense[?] in smaller payments."
Additional Notes:
On mourning stationary. Addressed from: 9 upper Phillimore Gardens, W.
Physical Description:
1 sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11cm
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Artists
Etchers
Painters
Painting
Women painters
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863
Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880
Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865
Etching Club (London, England)
Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855
Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909
Gilbert, John, 1817-1897
Goodall, Edward A.
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894
Holl, Francis, 1815-1884
Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888
Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
Lewis, Charles George, 1808-1880
Linnell, William
Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870
Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896
O'Neill, Henry, 1798-1880
Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919
Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888
Richmond, George, 1809-1896
Roberts, David, 1796-1864
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890
Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877
Stanfield, George Clarkson
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905
Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872
Finding Aid Title:
Letters to Richard Redgrave
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11762.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450224
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450224?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1