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BARNETT, Samuel AND BARNETT, Henrietta


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4266

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BARNETT, Samuel AND BARNETT, Henrietta

Date(s): 1883-1932

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1.06 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Samuel and Henrietta Barnett were important figures in the social reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Samuel was the vicar of Saint Jude's Whitechapel, founder of Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Education Reform League. Later he became Canon of Bristol and Canon and Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey.

Henrietta was the founder of the London Pupil Teachers' Association, and is widely reknowned as the founder of Hampstead Garden Suburb.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection consists of 186 letters sent to or written by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. The correspondence is from public figures, including authors, poets, artists and other social reformers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The auction lots in which the material was purchased is reflected in the arrangement of the collection. Within the lots there was no discernable original order, and so the letters were catalogued alphabetically by author. Some lots consisted of letters from groups of people e.g. artists, whilst others consisted of letters from one individual only. The sub-series descriptions reflect the contents of these auction lots:
A-1: Social issues;
A-2: Matthew Arnold;
A-3: Artists;
A-4: Herbert Henry Asquith;
A-5: Authors;
A-6: Robert Baden-Powell;
A-7: Edward Coley Burne-Jones;
A-8: Walter Crane;
A-9: Octavia Hill;
A-10: Edwin Landseer Lutyens;
A-11: Royalty;
A-12: Mary Augusta Ward;
A-13: H.G. Wells;
A-14: James McNeill Whistler.

Conditions governing access:

This material is open for public consultation.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the authors and their descendants.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The correspondence was purchased at auction in 2000. LMA is extremely grateful for the financial contributions made towards this by the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust, the Hampstead Garden Suburb Archive Trust and the V&A Purchase Grant Fund.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

ACC/3816: Hampstead Garden Suburb;
F/BAR: Personal papers of Canon Barnett;
A/TOY: Records of Toynbee Hall;
LMA/4063: A quasi autobiography of Henrietta Barnett;
LMA/4255: Chatham Close, 005-006, Hampstead Garden Suburb;
LMA/4524: Mary Ward Settlement;
B98/048: Plans from the Building Control Office of the Borough of Barnet.

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Letter writing | Writing | Communication skills | Communication process
Poets | Writers | Authors
Social reform | Social policy
Social reformers | People by roles | People
Artists

Personal names
Arnold | Matthew | 1822-1888 | poet and critic
Asquith | Herbert Henry | 1852-1928 | 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith | statesman x Oxford and Asquith | 1st Earl of
Barnett | Dame | Henrietta Octavia Weston | 1851-1936 | social reformer and author
Barnett | Samuel Augustus | 1844-1913 | Canon of Westminster Social Reformer
Crane | Walter | 1845-1915 | artist
Hill | Octavia | 1838-1912 | housing and social reformer
Jones | Sir | Edward Coley | Burne | 1833-1898 | Knight | painter x Burne Jones | Sir | Edward Coley
Lutyens | Sir | Edwin Landseer | 1869-1944 | architect
Powell | Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden- | first Baron Baden-Powell | 1857-1941 | army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides
Ward | Mary Augusta | 1851-1920 | nee Arnold | novelist | philanthropist and political lobbyist
Wells | H G x Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | author
Whistler | James Abbott McNeill | 1834-1903 | painter and printmaker

Corporate names

Places