Item 195 - Letters relating to portraits of judges sought for the Judges' Chambers in the Trinity College Master's Lodge

1 vol.

Gift of Sir J. R. M. Butler and Sir N. M. Butler, March 1973. Add. MS a. 192 and 196 were given to the Library by the Butlers at the same time.

101 letters sent to Henry Montagu Butler as Master in response to his requests for portraits of judges to decorate the Judges' Chambers. The letters are from the subjects themselves or from their descendants, and the portraits referred to tend to be photographs and engravings. A seven page description of the project by Butler dated 15 July 1898 appears at the front with a list of subjects and donors up to that time, and naming George Denman as being of particular assistance in sourcing the portraits. A number of the letters are between Denman and Butler, and four of the letters are from the artist George Richmond.

See also: Papers of Sir James Butler, given to the library by his executors.

Letters mounted on album pages and bound in red leather with gold letters on front, "Autograph Letters from Donors and Friends Respecting the Portraits of Her Majesty's Judges at Trinity Lodge, 1888- " and the College crest in gold on the back cover.