Call Number:

C0572

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Letters of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell to Janet Camp Troxell, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1937-1959 (inclusive)

Creator:

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century, Drawings., and Photographs.

Abstract:

Contains approximately 175 letters by Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, written after Cockerell's retirement as director (1908-1937) of the Fitzwilliam Museum, to Janet Troxell, an American collector of manuscripts, discussing, in part, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Kelmscott Press, and Cockerell's rare book and manuscript collections.

Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell was a British museum curator and rare book and manuscript collector. Janet Troxell was an American collector of manuscripts.

The collection contains approximately 175 letters by Cockerell, written after Cockerell's retirement as director (1908-1937) of the Fitzwilliam Museum, to Janet Troxell, an American collector of manuscripts, discussing, in part, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Kelmscott Press, and Cockerell's rare book and manuscript collections. Also present are correspondence between Dorothy Webster Hawksley, the artist, and Janet Troxell, some photographs of Cockerell, and photographs of drawings by Hawksley.