Manuscript letters, notes, with printed newscuttings and exhibition catalogues

An archive of outstanding importance for the study of the pre-Raphaelite movement and of British 19th century art in general. The bulk of the 2000 items are letters to and from Madox Brown; correspondents include William Holman Hunt, Harold Rathbone, Frederick Stephens, William Bell Scott and patrons such as James Leathart, John Miller and Francis McCracken