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MacColl Papers

sketch from letter of MacColl to his sister Lizzie, 1885: Ms MacColl M87

Some 6,000 letters to and from Dugald Sutherland MacColl (1859-1948), Keeper of the Wallace Collection and of the Tate Gallery, art critic, poet and founder of the National Art Collections Fund. Includes correspondence with many of the leading figures in the literary and artistic world between 1880 and 1940, e.g. W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, Max Beerbohm, H.G. Wells, Charles Ricketts, Augustus John, Auguste Rodin, Roger Fry and Walter Crane. The archive also includes MacColl's copies of some 70 exhibition catalogues. Presented in 1955 by René MacColl, son of D.S. MacColl.

Finding aids and descriptions

Records may be searched via the online manuscripts catalogue or go direct to the collection-level description.
Records for the exhibition catalogues have been added to the main Library catalogue; search in the usual way or browse through a list of titles
Maureen Borland, D.S. MacColl: poet, painter, art critic (London, 1995).
Nigel Thorp, Whistler, MacColl, Wright: art history papers, 1850-1950, in Glasgow University Library (Glasgow, 1979). An inventory of correspondence.
In addition, there is an unpublished typescript catalogue of the MacColl Papers containing abstracts of the entire correspondence.

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