IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/240
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BUMPUS, JOHN SKELTON (1861-1913)
Date(s): 1782-1883
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 7 production units
Name of creator(s): Various.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
These papers were collected by J S Bumpus, antiquarian researcher, from a number of sources including the personal papers of Maria Hackett of 8 Crosby Square, Bishopsgate (1783-1874). Maria Hackett devoted much of her life to campaigning for various causes, notably the welfare and education of the choristers at St Paul's Cathedral and the preservation of Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate. Her interests and activities are described in "Miss Hackett of Crosby Square", by K I Garrett, in Guildhall Studies in London History, vol.1, no.3, (1974), pp.150-62.
Most of the letters were formerly in the possession of William Hawes, vicar choral, almoner and master of the choristers at St Paul's Cathedral, 1812-46, to whom some of the letters are addressed. The writers include Sir Andrew Barnard, Alfred Bunn, Lord Burghersh (John Fane), Joseph Grimaldi, Samuel Carter Hall, Rev Sydney Smith and many prominent organists and musicians of the late 18th and 19th centuries, including Adrien Boildieu, John Braham, G A P Bridgetower, Thomas Cooke, John Goss, William Jackson, Vincent Novello, Mary Paton, William Shield and Charles and Samuel Sebastian Wesley.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters and papers of and concerning Maria Hackett (of 8 Crosby Square, Bishopsgate, 1783-1874), and letters relating to church music. 1782-[1910]. Compiled and collected early 20th century.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Further papers of, or about, Maria Hackett are held at St Paul's Cathedral Library and at the Royal School of Church Music. Guildhall Library holds, in addition to the papers collected by Bumpus, collections of material made by K I Garrett in the course of her research into the life of Maria Hackett (see CLC/451).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.