Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell Papers 1949-1981

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Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell Papers 1949-1981

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Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: lgarcia@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554

Processed by:: Alison Dinicola
Date Completed:: December 28, 2001
Encoded by:: Pacific Data Conversion Corp.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Sir Sidney Carlyle Cockerell papers,

Date (inclusive): 1949-1981

Collection number: HM 63186-63262

Creator: Hughes, Muriel J.

Extent: one box

Repository: The Huntington Library

San Marino, California 91108

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

Sir Sidney Carlyle Cockerell Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Acquisition Information

The collection was donated by Muriel J. Hughes on June 23, 1981. The Acquisition number is 873.

There are no restrictions on access.

The collection numbers 77-cataloged items of correspondence and ephemera.

The collection makes up one box.

The collection dates are 1949-1981.

The call numbers are HM 63186 - 63262.

Biographical Note

Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell was born on July 16, 1867. He married Florence Kate Kingsford (d. 1949) in 1907, and had two daughters and one son. From 1889-1892, he worked as a coal merchant before going to work as a secretary to William Morris and the Kelmscott press 1892-1898. Between 1900-1904, he was in a partnership with Sir Emery Walker. At the age of 70, Cockerell retired after being the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for 30 years (1908-1937). Just before and a couple years after leaving the Fitzwilliam Museum, he was the European Adviser to Felton Trustees of National Gallery of Victoria, 1936-1939. During his long career, he was Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1910-1916, and of Downing College, 1932-1937. He was the literary executor of William Morris, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and Thomas Hardy. He was knighted in 1934 by the King of England. He was Hon. Litt. D. Cambridge; and Hon. Fellow of Downing College since 1937. For the last 10 years of his life, he was confined to his bed after heart problems. He died on May 1, 1962.

Scope and Content Note

The collection contains correspondence and ephemera from and about Sir Sydney Cockerell. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically, and correspondence covers the years 1949-1965. The recipient of these letters is Muriel J. Hughes, an American scholar who met Sir Sydney Cockerell through a mutual friend. Muriel J. Hughes corresponded with both Cockerell and later his secretary Dorothy Hawksley. The majority of the correspondence is from Sydney Cockerell to Muriel J. Hughes. Some of the letters were dictated to and written by Dorothy Hawksley for Cockerell, who signed each letter. The letters from May 1962-1965 are from Dorothy Hawksley to Muriel J. Hughes after Cockerell's death.

In a few of his letters, Sir Sydney Cockerell mentions his son, Christopher, who: invented the Hovercraft. Sydney Cockerell also occasionally mentions well-known British celebrities, such as Bernard Shaw.

Indexing: Subjects

Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901-. Cockerell: Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, friend of Ruskin and William Morris and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1964, Feb. 14. HM 63254.

Cockerell, Christopher, Sir, 1910-1999.In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, Sept. 22. HM 63216.

Cockerell, Christopher, Sir, 1910-1999. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, Oct 2. HM 63217.

Cockerell, Christopher, Sir, 1910-1999. In Christopher Cockerell: Inventor of the Hovercraft, The Observer Profile, 1962, Aug. 5. In Ephemera folder, HM 63262.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, Oct. 2. HM 63243.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, Oct. 26. HM 63244.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Jan. 5. HM 63245.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Jan. 15. HM 63246.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Jan. 23. HM 63247.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Feb. 13. HM 63248.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Aug. 12. HM 63249.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1962, Jan. 10. HM 63252.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1962, May 6. HM 63253.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. In Muriel J. Hughes, letter to The Huntington Library, 1981, May 24. HM 63257.

Guiness, Alec, 1914-. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, July 26. HM 63226.

Hawksley, Dorothy Webster, 1884-1970.Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962). In The Illustrated London New, 1964, Jan. 4. In Ephemera folder, HM 63262.

Keats House. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1952,Sept. 6. HM 63198.

Kelmscott Press, Chaucer. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, Feb. HM 63210.

Kingsford, F. (Florence). In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1949, Oct. HM 63189.

Kingsford, F. (Florence). In Obituary, The Times, 1949, Sept. 24 and 27. In Ephemera folder, HM 63259.

Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1949, Nov. 19. HM 63190.

Miller, Betty, 1910-1965. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1953, Mar. 30. HM 63202.

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1951, Feb. HM 63194.

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Feb. 16. HM 63223.

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Mar. HM 63224.

Standard, Paul, 1900-. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Jan. 25. HM 63221.

Indexing: Added Entries

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. Introduction for reprint of J. W. Mackail's Life of William Morris. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1949, Nov. 19. HM 63190.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. Good Handwriting. In Sydney Cockerell, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1951, Feb. 13. HM 63194.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. Note sent to Muriel J. Hughes. On Dorothy Hawksley, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1960, Jan. 15. HM 63246.

Hughes, Muriel Joy, 1903-? Handwritten note. On Sir Sydney Carlyle, letter to Muriel J. Hughes, 1959, June 24. HM 63211.

Collection Contents

Briggs, R. C. H. Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1867-1962, MS. (carbon copy typewritten: 5p.), 1962, May 5. HM 63186.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. 55 letters toMuriel Joy Hughes, 1903-. HM 63187-63241.

Hawksley, Dorothy Webster, 1884-1970. 15 letters toMuriel Joy Hughes, 1903-. HM 63242-63256.

Hughes, Muriel Joy, 1903-. 1 letter to The Huntington Library, L.S. (typewritten: 1p.),1981, May 24. HM 63257.

Victoria & Albert Museum. 1 letter to Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1867-1962, L.S. (typewritten: 1p.), 1961, Aug. 17. HM 63258.

Ephemera: Reprint from The Times of F. Kingsford, Lady Cockerell, obituary. HM 63259

Ephemera: 3 Printed items. HM 63260

Ephemera: 4 Clippings of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell's obituary. HM 63261.

Ephemera: 3 Miscellaneous clippings. HM 63262.

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