Call Number:

C1471

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); John Everett Millais Letters to His Daughter Effie, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1874-1889 (inclusive)

Creator:

Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896

Form:

Letters -- 19th century. and Photographs -- 19th century.

Abstract:

Consists primarily of a series of over forty autograph letters by the English artist John Evereet Millais to his daughter Effie.

ohn Everett Millais was painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His daughter Effie was one of his favorite models.

The collection consists of a series of over forty autograph letters signed by Millais to his daughter Effie, prefaced by a poem "To Effie" opening "O for the days when her schooling is over"; plus an autograph letter to her father-in-law, Judge Sir William James, two studio photographs of Millais, a signed Carte d'Exposant for the Exposition Universelle de 1878, and a lock of Millais's hair ("cut off at Birnam, October 1874""). A number of the letters bear pen-and-ink sketches; others address his paintings. Disbound from the original volume (covers retained, titled "Millais' Letters to his Daughter Effie"). Several signatures have been excised, a few letters are incomplete, and one apparently was removed from the album at an early date. The letters date from Kensington, Perthshire, and elsewhere.

The files are arranged chronologically.