1991.1016.88

Henry Yates Thompson (author)

Letter to Emery Walker from Henry Yates Thompson thanking him for sending some 'collotypes' (type faces?) and asking for various illustrations. Found inserted in the book, Illustrations from One Hundred MSS in the library of Henry Yates Thompson (1912), when acquired by the museum, shelf F28 . Part of the Emery Walker Library.

Aylesbury

Arts & Crafts

Letter from Henry Yates Thompson to Emery Walker. Not dated apart from day of the week. Telegrams. Oving, Whitchurch, Bucks. Tuesday Oving House Aylesbury Dear Walker, Thanks for [Collotypes] received. I have still to receive from you Vincent de Beauvais 2 plates Boccacio 1 Bohemian Psalter 7 Medici Psalter 2 Paris in CV XV century 1 __ 13 I will be at Portman Square on Thursday at 12.30 in case you can bring the Boccacio MS or any of them (the plates) that morning. It would however do just as well if you could bring them all here on Saturday for the week end – 4.5 train from Marylebone to Waddesdon Manor, and if Miss Walker could as once before arrange to accompany you my wife would be very pleased to see her. We are probably alone [indecipherable] HYT[i] Cockerell[ii] has been some days here & likes your [Collotypes] very much. [Footnotes: [i]Henry Yates Thompson (1838 – 1928) was a newspaper proprietor and a collector of illuminated manuscripts. [ii] Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867 – 1962), collector and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge from 1908 to 1937. CAW