Skip to main content

Whistler, Sir Alan Charles Laurence, 1912-2000 (Knight, glass engraver, writer and architectural historian)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1912 - 2000

Biography

Sir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler (1912-2000) Knight, glass engraver, writer and architectural historian

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Correspondence from Laurence Whistler, 3 Apr. 1948-22 Aug. 1950

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9251/W/5-7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The correspondence consists of c.1100 letters, 1926-61, with the letters after 1959 addressed to Kendon's widow. The correspondents include Lascelles Abercrombie (1 letter, 1931); Ernest Altounyan (surgeon, Aleppo) (17, 1936-51); John Arlott (3, 1944); John Armitage (4, 1940-51); Henry Baerlein (3, 1945-56); Sir Ernest Barker (2, 1948-55); H.E. Bates (1, 1941); Clifford Bax (1, 1948); Adrian H. Bell (11, 1940-47); Ernest A. Benians (8, 1948); Anthony Bertram (2, 1948); Edmund Blunden (16,...
Dates: 3 Apr. 1948-22 Aug. 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

from Laurence Whistler, Little Place, Lyme Regis, Dorset, 13 Jan 1953

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8905/10/W/59
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.

Dates: 13 Jan 1953
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

from Laurence Whistler, Little Place, Lyme Regis, Dorset, 30 Aug 1960

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8905/10/W/60
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.

Dates: 30 Aug 1960
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Letter from Laurence Whistler to Peter Hawkes; Lyme Regis, 27 Oct. 1964

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9846/216
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Letters and related items, mostly addressed to the editors of the Cambridge Review, and predominantly to Peter Hawkes. Some letters were intended for publication; most of the others concern the contribution (or otherwise) of articles and book reviews.

Dates: 27 Oct. 1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Letter from Laurie [Lawrence Whistler] (Lyme Regis, Dorset), 5 Oct. 1957

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9877/1/2/2/5
Scope and Contents

Pledging his friendship and stating that he was 'moved and almost bewildered' by all that had happened to Sassoon and enraged at his mistreatment by the press.

Dates: 5 Oct. 1957
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Letter from Laurie [Lawrence Whistler] (Lyme Regis, Dorset), 30 Oct. 1957

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9877/1/2/2/6
Scope and Contents

Concerning a visit to Heytesbury House; how glad he was that Sassoon had found faith; his own devotion to the Church of England; his work on his new alphabet; and his book on Rex Whistler.

Dates: 30 Oct. 1957
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Series

Letter (Heytesbury House), 13 Sep. 1939

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/249
Scope and Contents

Giving news of a visit from Sydney Cockerell; refugees staying at Heytesbury; Sassoon placed on the Ministry of Information's list of approved 'influential authors'; the wedding of Lawrence Whistler.

Dates: 13 Sep. 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Letters from Laurence Whistler to Geoffrey Keynes, 1939

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8490/2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes letters from Sassoon, Laurence Whistler, and publishers; with set of proofs of title page.

Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).