Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Date:
Reference Number: SDK/2/1/2
Description
Box file two, labelled, 'HAKE. Distribution of S.T. Kitson Collection to Cotman Drawings - to be handed over to Leeds Art Gallery'. This file contains a series of labelled folders containing lists, correspondence and other ephemera relating to the distribution of Kitson's art collection by Hake. These files include:
'Loans to Manchester & Museums refused' (no contents),
'The Estate of Sidney [sic] D. Kitson, Esq - Deceased. Schedule of Drawings and other Pictires forming part of the above estate in and about Thornbury House, Kidlington, Oxon'.
Files labelled: 'LEEDS I. Receipts and correspondence during and after distribution',
'LEEDS II. Correspondence for distribution',
'Norwich',
'Letter from BM about Norwich Castle',
'Kitson - Final Adjustments 1949 - in current file',
'Drawings left with the Misses Kitson & others',
'Oxford and Cambridge Distributed',
'V&A Museum'
'RIBA'.
'A copy of' Leeds City Art Gallery and Temple Newsam Mansion Annual Reports 1938-9'.