{"admin":{"added":1592997946000,"created":1548428174000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-110005450","indexed":1619180698031,"modified":1596725525000,"processed":1615827172920,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-110005450","uri":"http:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005450","uuid":"67ac3aa8-a16b-3978-9760-8584ee1bbf48","version":5},"agents":[{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-150522","uid":"adlib-agent-150522","uuid":"4dec5047-6f47-36f5-bd3b-cdb64cfaf960"},"summary_title":"Cockerell, Sydney C."}],"content":{"description":[{"type":"content description","value":"Gertrude Stead was the widow of E. W. Stead, a prominent collector of armour; Gilbert was their son.  This collection contains 18 letters from her to James G. Mann and to Cockerell, one from Cockerell to her, and one from Gilbert to Cockerell.  Many of her letters are annotated by Cockerell, and there is a copy of a second letter from Cockerell written on the reverse of one of hers. (FM\/5\/6\/3\/Stead\/1-20)\n\nThis collection is closely related to the correspondence from James G. Mann to Sydney Cockerell, and should be read concurrently with that collection (FM\/5\/6\/3\/Mann 1-34) and later Mann correspondence on the disposition of the Stead collection loans.\n\nIn September 1935 Gertrude Stead writes to James G. Mann that she is moving from Dalston Hall to a smaller house, and asks if he knows of any institute or museum that might take her husband\u2019s large collection of armour as a loan.  She sends him the catalogue of the collection, and wonders how arrangements for loans are made and how the length of time is established.  She then begins a direct correspondence with Cockerell, and invites him, along with anyone of his choice, to visit and examine the collection for themselves.  She explains that her son Gilbert must be consulted as well as the two other trustees of the estate.\n\nOn the reverse of Gertrude\u2019s letter dated 11 October 1935 is the copy of a letter from Cockerell to her: he and Mann think that the best course would be for her and her son to visit the Museum and \u2018talk the matter over on the spot\u2019.  He thinks that he can probably store the collection \u2018for a while\u2019 but prefers to delay a decision [by implication, in light of the planning in progress for the new gallery set to open in June 1936].\n\nIn a letter dated 24 October Gertrude quotes from a letter from her son, following his meeting with Mann, with the suggestion that they offer a ten-year loan or a five-year loan with the option to renew.  Cockerell\u2019s annotation records that he has replied that he cannot give an immediate answer as he must consider questions of space.\n\nGertrude and Gilbert visit the Fitzwilliam in November 1935; Cockerell and Mann visit Dalston Hall in January 1936.\n\nIn January 1936 Gertrude and Cockerell exchange letters confirming the agreed terms of a loan of the entire collection for five years, with the right to choose six pieces as a gift to be added to the Museum\u2019s permanent collection.  She acknowledges arrangements made for the transport of the collection to the Museum.  Subsequent letters discuss the selection of the pieces that will be kept so that lists can be exchanged and confirmed.  She also expresses annoyance that her lawyer, one of the trustees of the estate, has written to Cockerell, since she and her son \u2018have had the matter in hand as we are the two interested parties\u2019.\n\nIn May she writes that she and Gilbert have signed the agreed list of gifts and given it to the other trustees.  She thanks Cockerell for his invitation to the opening of the gallery in June.  Later she informs him that an accident [a fall] will prevent her from attending.  Gilbert writes early in June that he too must miss the opening, as he has suffered a severe attack of sciatica.\n\nGertrude\u2019s final letter in this collection asks Cockerell to send the numbers of the Stead Catalogue items that did not come to Cambridge so that she can give the trustees a list of what did come."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"FM\/5\/6\/3\/Stead","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"FM\/5\/6\/3\/Stead"},{"priref":"110005450","type":"priref","value":"110005450"},{"type":"uri","uri":"http:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005450","value":"http:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005450"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-188234","uid":"adlib-agent-188234","uuid":"8d50fc03-c278-310c-bd0d-d91ace7b4bbb"},"summary_title":"GB 00280"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1934,"from":{"earliest":1934,"latest":1934,"value":"1934"},"latest":1936,"range":true,"to":{"earliest":1936,"latest":1936,"value":"1936"}}],"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-198837","uid":"adlib-agent-198837","uuid":"745b9c1c-e2b0-3865-95b7-87892ecdf42e"},"summary_title":"Stead, Gertude W."},{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-198836","uid":"adlib-agent-198836","uuid":"9b928b54-009e-3f0c-b552-35fb9b416289"},"summary_title":"Stead, Gilbert"},{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-150522","uid":"adlib-agent-150522","uuid":"4dec5047-6f47-36f5-bd3b-cdb64cfaf960"},"summary_title":"Cockerell, Sydney C."}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"value":"20 items"}]},"note":[{"type":"history note","value":"Archive of the Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"objects":[{"@link":{"cascade":true,"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"object-110005449","uid":"adlib-object-110005449","uuid":"fba952a3-4a13-39f8-b2da-781bc8d00401"},"summary_title":"FM\/5\/6\/3\/Mann"}],"summary_title":"FM\/5\/6\/3\/Stead","title":[{"value":"Stead Collection of Armoury"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}