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Benjamin Martin Chandler Letter

 Collection — Box: VMF 17, Folder: 14
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf205

Autograph letter signed to "My dear old Chap" from "BM" on stationery of "Hidcote House, Campden, Gloucestershire, [England]." 1 page. The author, Benjamin Chandler, sends his friend a copy of the book 'I fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo S. Francesco di Assisi,' an important example of craft printing from the Ashendene Press, saying "This book is in better company in your library than in mine."

Dates

  • Creation: 1925 December 20

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open

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Extent

1.00 items

1 folders

Biographical and Historical Information

Benjamin Martin Chandler (February 20, 1872-December 7, 1948) was a wealthy American expatriate who restored historic homes and collected fine prints and books from the Arts and Crafts Movement, even jointly purchasing one of the Kelmscott presses with his friend E.V. Greggs.

Hidcote Manor Garden is a garden located on the outskirts of the small village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England and owned by the National Trust. Created by an American horticulturalist, Major Lawrence Johnston, it is often described as one of England's great "Arts and Crafts" gardens with its collection of rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders.

Johnston's mother, Mrs. Gertrude Winthrop, purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate in 1907. Johnston soon became interested in turning the fields around the house into a garden. By 1910, he had begun to lay out the key features of the garden and by the 1920s had twelve full-time gardeners working for him. The garden takes the form of a series of outdoor "rooms" of various characters and themes, achieved by the creative use of box hedges, hornbeam and yew and stone walls. These rooms, such as the 'White Garden' and 'Fuchsia Garden' are linked together, some by imaginative vistas and furnished with topiaries. Some have ponds and fountains, and all are planted with flowers in bedding schemes. They surround the 17th century manor house, and there are a number of outhouses and a kitchen garden. The garden was acquired by the National Trust in 1947.

Method of Acquisition

Originally laid in I Fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo S. Francesco di Assisi by Fioretti di San Francesco. BX4700 F63 A2 1922. Accession number 944, July 17, 1968

Title
Benjamin Martin Chandler Letter
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
eng

Revision Statements

  • 2021 March 19: Resource record updated in ArchiveSpace by Sarah Schnuriger.

Collecting Area Details

Part of the Manuscripts Collecting Area

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