Wallis, G. P. Dudley

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Most of the correspondents in this sub-subseries resided or did business in County Donegal, and thereby suggest the surrounding community and its interactions with Glenveagh, McIlhenny's country estate in the northwest of Ireland. With many written during the early 1940s, their letters give voice to the ways of life necessitated by war. Many are letters of thanks to McIlhenny for sending items from America that were rationed or in short supply in Europe, particularly tea, as well as...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries documents institutions and individuals who for the most part would contact McIlhenny in the hopes to sell, buy or borrow works of fine and decorative art and antiquities. Material pertaining to his parents' collection, including its disposition as shared between McIlhenny and his sister, is intermingled. Requests for photographs of McIlhenny's collection, permission to publish, and general art inquiries are also included. Material consists primarily of correspondence and...