Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	File
Reference Number	UCLCA/4/1/2/4/8
Title	Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarships for Mural Painting
Date	1938-1967
Description	Comprises- - two copies of the Regulations for the Awards 1938, one of which is annotated - correspondence regarding potential interest in the fund from various parties following an advertisement placed in The Times newspaper 05 May 1952 - correspondence regarding a University of London application to the fund for murals to be painted in the new University Students' Union Building - papers regarding the commissioning process for the murals and consideration of the sketches submitted - correspondence with Stanley Spencer including a handwritten letter from the artist expressing his enthusiasm for the commission, 13 Sep 1957
Extent	1 folder
AdminHistory	The fund was founded in 1926 to encourage mural painting by Mrs Gertrude Abbey in memory of her husband Edwin Austin Abbey RA.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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