GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP74 - PRESTAGE, Professor Edgar (1869-1951)

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GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP74 1881-1949 Collection (fonds) 7 boxes Prestage , Edgar , 1869-1951 , Professor of Portuguese , historian
Born in Manchester, 1869; his interest in Portugal arose from reading adventure stories, particularly of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India; while at school at Radley, began to study Portuguese; converted to Roman Catholicism, 1886; first visited Portugal, 1891; second class in modern history, Balliol College Oxford, 1891; admitted in 1896 and practised as a solicitor in his father's firm, Allen, Prestage & Whitfield, at Manchester until 1907; often visited Lisbon, mainly for historical research, and befriended several prominent Portuguese scholars, 1891-1906; elected to the Portuguese Royal Academy of Sciences; in Lisbon, introduced to the salon of Dona Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho, a distinguished writer and widow of the Brazilian poet Gonçalves Crespo, whose daughter he married, 1907; later lived in Lisbon; pursued research in the Portuguese state and private libraries; a monarchist, never reconciled to the republican regime until the advent of Dr Salazar; press officer at the British legation in Lisbon, 1917-1918; Camoens Professor of Portuguese, King's College London, 1923-1936; engaged in little teaching and mostly in research, arranging periodical public lectures on Portuguese themes; delivered the Norman MacColl lectures at Cambridge, 1933; lecture on the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance to the Royal Historical Society, 1934; elected Fellow of the British Academy, 1940; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; grand officer of the Order of São Tiago; corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, the Portuguese Academy of History, and the Lisbon Geographical Society; in his later years, concerned with spiritual matters rather than work; died in London, 1951. Publications include: translation, from the French, of Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Marianna Alcoforado (1893); with (Sir) C R Beazley, translated for the Hakluyt Society the chronicler Azurara (2 volumes, 1896, 1899); biography, in Portuguese, of the writer D Francisco Manuel de Mello (Coimbra, 1914); published diplomatic correspondence relating to the Portuguese Restoration of 1640, including (collaboratively) that of João F Barreto, Relação da Embaixada a França em 1641 (Coimbra, 1918) and of F de Sousa Coutinho, Correspondência Diplomática (Coimbra, volume i, 1920; volume ii, 1926; volume iii, 1950); Diplomatic Relations of Portugal with France, England and Holland from 1640 to 1668 (Watford, 1925 and Coimbra, 1928); Afonso de Albuquerque (1929); The Portuguese Pioneers (1933); Portugal: a Pioneer of Christianity (1933); lecture on the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance to the Royal Historical Society included in the society's Transactions, 1934; numerous articles in Portuguese historical reviews; contributed chapters to several publications; compiled a bibliography on Portugal and the War of the Spanish Succession (1938); published various Lisbon parish registers.

The Prestage papers were received by King's College London Archives in two accessions, the larger via King's College Library in 1980 and the smaller purchased from George H Green in 1985.

Papers of Edgar Prestage, 1881-1949, largely relating to his work on the history of Portugal, 16th-19th centuries. Letters to Prestage from various correspondents, 1886-1948 and undated, relate to a variety of subjects pertaining to his work, publications and translations, sources and interpretation, and also to acquaintances and contemporaries, other publications, and some personal matters such as correspondents' health and families, and include six letters from Fortunato de Almeida, 1917-1933 and undated; 24 letters from Joao Lucio de Azevedo, 1914-1933 and undated; 13 letters from Pedro Augusto de S Bartolomeu de Azevedo, 1910-1927 and undated; six letters from Henrique de Gama Barros, 1908-1925; five letters from Carlos Roma du Bocage, 1915-1918; three letters from Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1888-1889, and 12 letters from Lady Isabel Burton, 1894-1896, relating to Sir Richard's translation of Camoens; 22 letters from Julio de Castilho, 1908-1918; nine letters from Harold Castle, 1903-1906; six letters from Fidelino de Figueiredo, 1911-1918 and undated; eight letters from James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, 1905-1919; five letters from Anselmo Braamcamp Freire, 1905-1919; two letters from Pieter Geyl, 1923, 1926; letter from William Ewart Gladstone, 1893, congratulating Prestage on Letters of a Portuguese nun; ten letters from Edward Heawood, 1922-1933; letter from Benjamin Jowett, 1887, explaining entrance examinations at Oxford; five letters from Margery Lane, 1927 and undated; six letters from Manuel de Oliveira Lima, 1910-1927; two letters, 1928, 1932, from Manuel II, King of Portugal, concerning the monarch's bibliography of early Portuguese books; eight letters from Jacinto Octavio Picon, 1911-1920; seven letters from Jacinto Inacio de Brito Rebelo, 1895-1908; eight letters from Jaime Batalha Reis, 1894-1896, 1904-1905, 1922; 12 letters from Francisco Rodrigues, 1913-1918, 1930 and undated; two letters from John Ruskin, 1886 and undated, on the study of architecture; seven letters from Antonio Maria Jose de Melo Cesar e Meneses, 5th Conde de Sabugosa, 1905-1913; five letters from Luis Teixeira de Sampayo, 1921-1928; letter from Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, 1905, congratulating Prestage on Eca de Queiroz's The sweet miracle; five letters from Georg Schurhammer, 1930-1936; five letters from Wilhelm Storck, 1894-1895; five letters from Herbert Thurston, 1905-1913; ten letters from Pedro Tovar de Lemos, 2nd Conde de Tovar, 1916-1927 and undated; 13 letters from Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcellos, 1895-1896, 1907-1922, and 11 letters from her husband, Joaquim de Vasconcellos, 1897, 1908-1925; six letters from Afonso Lopes Vieira, 1910, 1914, 1927 and undated; five letters from Tomas Maria de Almeida Manuel de Vilhena, 8th Conde de Vila Flor, 1925-1929 and undated; letter from Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, [1892], regretting he cannot send a copy of his unnamed play (perhaps Lady Windermere's Fan) as it has not yet been published. There is also a letter of 1881 from Antonio Candido Goncalves Crespo to Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho (father and mother of Prestage's wife). Ephemera includes signatures of Gomes Eannes Azurara, William Wordsworth, [? Isaac] Disraeli and Samuel Wilberforce; Christmas cards; the visiting card of S T P Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, 1903; menus, including the House of Commons Coronation luncheon in Westminster Hall, 1902; a ticket to the coronation of Edward VII, 1902; and an invitation to a party at Windsor Castle, 1912. Otherwise the collection comprises research notes and transcriptions on various subjects and sources, including Restoration period Portugal; Sousa Coutinho; Portuguese in Africa, Brazil and Asia; the War of the Spanish Succession; 17th century Portuguese history, including diplomacy; the sermons of Father Antonio Vieira SJ; Portuguese bibliographies prepared by Prestage; annotated typescripts on the Portuguese in Abyssinia down to 1543, aspects and results of Portuguese colonisation, and Portuguese reminiscences (1948); Prestage's 'The Mode of Government in Portugal during the Restoration Period'; photographs of Portuguese fortresses in Morocco; notebook on 'Analyse das "Cartas Familiares" '; copies of letters of F de Sousa, including his embassies to France and Rome; copies of letters of Sir R Southwell, English ambassador to Lisbon; material relating to relations between Spain and Portugal; pamphlets and articles of Prestage; proofs for a chapter entitled 'L'Intevention Anglaise dans la Peninsule Iberique', in an envelope addressed to Prestage and labelled 'D Fernando & the Holy See by E Perroy'.

Some letters are bound in three volumes (two volumes Portuguese, the other English), two of which also contain ephemera. Other letters are located in files which reflect the subject themes of Prestage's work.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Portuguese, English, French

Typescript index (compiled by Richard Pound, Deputy Librarian of King's College) arranged alphabetically by correspondent giving the writer, date, and subject of each letter, and its location, and an outline manuscript list of the other material, are available in the reading room at King's College London Archives.

King's College Library purchased c2000 volumes relating to Portuguese studies from Prestage in 1948, which were taken possession on his death in 1951. Most were integrated into the library's Portuguese studies collection, except for some rarities retained in Special Collections.

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections, holds Prestage's correspondence with Charles Sarolea, 1936-1940 (Ref: Sar coll 232). Harvard University, Houghton Library, holds Prestage's commonplace book, 1887-1946.

Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: brief description in King's College London Manuscripts and Private Papers: A Select Guide (1982); Dictionary of National Biography; Who's Who; National Register of Archives; British Library online catalogue. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Feb 2001 Africa Almeida , Fortunato , De , fl 1917-1933 , Portuguese author x De Almeida , Fortunato Architecture Architecture education Asia Authors Autographs Azevedo , Joao Lucio , De , 1855-1933 , Portuguese author x De Azevedo , Joao Lucio Azevedo , Pedro Augusto De S Bartolomeu , De , fl 1910-1927 , Portuguese author x De Azevedo , Pedro Augusto De S Bartolomeu Azurara , Gomes Eannes , De , c 1410-1474 , Portuguese explorer x De Azurara , Gomes Eannes Barros , Henrique De Gama , fl 1908-1925 , Portuguese author Berkshire Bibliographies Bocage , Carlos Roma , Du , 1853-1918 , Portuguese politician and diplomat x Du Bocage , Carlos Roma Books Brazil Buildings Burton , Isabel , 1831-1896 , née Arundell , biographer , wife of Sir Richard Burton x Arundell , Isabel Burton , Sir , Richard Francis , 1821-1890 , Knight , explorer and diplomat Camoens , Luís , De , ? 1524-1580 , Portuguese poet x De Camoens , Luís x Camões , Luís , De x De Camões , Luís Carvalho , Maria Amalia Vaz , De , fl 1881 x De Carvalho , Maria Amalia Vaz Castilho , Julio , De , fl 1908-1918 , Viscount de Castilho , Portuguese author x De Castilho , Julio Castle , Harold , fl 1903-1906 , author Colonial countries Colonization Communication process Communication skills Coutinho , Rodrigo De Sousa , 1755-1812 , 1st Count de Linhares , Portuguese politician x Sousa Coutinho , Rodrigo De Crespo , Antonio Candido Goncalves , 1846-1883 , Portuguese scholar x Goncalves Crespo , Antonio Candido Diplomacy D'Israeli , Isaac , 1766-1848 , author x Israeli , Isaac , D' Documents East Africa Educational evaluation Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David , 1894-1972 , Duke of Windsor , formerly Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland x Edward VIII x Windsor , Duke of England Entrance examinations Ethiopia Europe European history Examinations Figueiredo , Fidelino , De , 1888-1967 , Portuguese author x De Figueiredo , Fidelino Foreign relations France Freire , Anselmo Braamcamp , 1849-1929 , Portuguese historian and politician Geyl , Pieter , 1887-1966 , Dutch historian Gladstone , William Ewart , 1809-1898 , statesman Handwriting Heawood , Edward , fl 1922-1933 , historian of watermarks and cartography Historians History House of Commons Indo-european languages Information sources Internal politics International conflicts International relations Italy Jowett , Benjamin , 1817-1893 , Master of Balliol College and biblical and classical scholar Kelly , James , Fitzmaurice- , 1857-1923 , Professor of Spanish x Fitzmaurice-Kelly , James x Kelly , James Kruger , Stephanus Johannes Paulus , 1825-1904 , Boer President of the Transvaal x Kruger , Paul Lane , Margery , fl 1927 Lemos , Pedro Tovar , De , fl 1916-1927 , 2nd Count de Tovar , Portuguese historian x De Lemos , Pedro Tovar x Tovar , 2nd Count de Lima , Manuel De Oliveira , 1867-1928 , Brazilian historian Manuel II , 1889-1932 , King of Portugal Manuscripts Meneses , Antonio Maria Jose De Melo Silva Cesar E , fl 1905-1913 , 5th Count de Sabugosa , Portuguese author x Sabugosa , 5th Count de Monarchy Morocco National bibliographies National history North Africa Photographs Picon , Jacinto Octavio , 1852-1923 , Spanish novelist Poets Political leadership Political systems Politicians Portugal Portuguese Prestage , Edgar , 1869-1951 , Professor of Portuguese , historian Publications Publishing Publishing industry Queiroz , José Maria Eça , De , 1845-1900 , Portuguese writer x De Queiroz , José Maria Eça Rare books Rebelo , Jacinto Inacio De Brito , fl 1895-1908 Reis , Jaime Batalha , 1847-1935 , Portuguese author Religious doctrines Religious texts Rodrigues , Francisco , fl 1913-1930 , Jesuit , Portuguese historian Romance languages Rome Ruskin , John , 1819-1900 , author, artist and social reformer Sampayo , Luis Teixeira , De , fl 1921-1928 x De Sampayo , Luis Teixeira Samuel , Herbert Louis , 1870-1963 , 1st Viscount Samuel , statesman x Samuel , 1st Viscount Schurhammer , Georg , fl 1930-1936 , German historian of religion Secondary documents Sermons Social scientists South America Southwell , Sir , Robert , 1635-1702 , Knight , diplomat Spain Storck , Wilhelm , fl 1894-1895 , German scholar of Portuguese and German literature Student evaluation Theology Thurston , Herbert , 1856-1939 , Jesuit , author Translation UK University of Oxford x Oxford University Vasconcelos , Carolina Micaëlis , De , 1851-1925 , German scholar of Portuguese x De Vasconcelos , Carolina Micaëlis x Vasconcellos , Carolina Micaëlis , De x De Vasconcellos , Carolina Micaëlis Vasconcelos , Joaquim , De , 1849-1936 , Portuguese scholar x De Vasconcelos , Joaquim x Vasconcellos , Joaquim , De x De Vasconcellos , Joaquim Vieira , Afonso Lopes , 1878-1946 , Portuguese author Vieira , Antonio , 1608-1697 , Portuguese Jesuit orator and missionary Vilhena , Tomas Maria De Almeida Manuel , De , fl 1925-1929 , 8th Count de Flor x De Vilhena , Tomas Maria De Almeida Manuel Visual materials Vocational education War War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) Western Europe Wilberforce , Samuel , 1805-1873 , Bishop of Oxford and Winchester Wilde , Oscar O'Flahertie Wills , 1856-1900 , author Windsor Wordsworth , William , 1770-1850 , poet Writers Writing Communications media Information sciences Wars (events) London

The Prestage papers were received by King's College London Archives in two accessions, the larger via King's College Library in 1980 and the smaller purchased from George H Green in 1985.

Papers of Edgar Prestage, 1881-1949, largely relating to his work on the history of Portugal, 16th-19th centuries. Letters to Prestage from various correspondents, 1886-1948 and undated, relate to a variety of subjects pertaining to his work, publications and translations, sources and interpretation, and also to acquaintances and contemporaries, other publications, and some personal matters such as correspondents' health and families, and include six letters from Fortunato de Almeida, 1917-1933 and undated; 24 letters from Joao Lucio de Azevedo, 1914-1933 and undated; 13 letters from Pedro Augusto de S Bartolomeu de Azevedo, 1910-1927 and undated; six letters from Henrique de Gama Barros, 1908-1925; five letters from Carlos Roma du Bocage, 1915-1918; three letters from Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1888-1889, and 12 letters from Lady Isabel Burton, 1894-1896, relating to Sir Richard's translation of Camoens; 22 letters from Julio de Castilho, 1908-1918; nine letters from Harold Castle, 1903-1906; six letters from Fidelino de Figueiredo, 1911-1918 and undated; eight letters from James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, 1905-1919; five letters from Anselmo Braamcamp Freire, 1905-1919; two letters from Pieter Geyl, 1923, 1926; letter from William Ewart Gladstone, 1893, congratulating Prestage on Letters of a Portuguese nun; ten letters from Edward Heawood, 1922-1933; letter from Benjamin Jowett, 1887, explaining entrance examinations at Oxford; five letters from Margery Lane, 1927 and undated; six letters from Manuel de Oliveira Lima, 1910-1927; two letters, 1928, 1932, from Manuel II, King of Portugal, concerning the monarch's bibliography of early Portuguese books; eight letters from Jacinto Octavio Picon, 1911-1920; seven letters from Jacinto Inacio de Brito Rebelo, 1895-1908; eight letters from Jaime Batalha Reis, 1894-1896, 1904-1905, 1922; 12 letters from Francisco Rodrigues, 1913-1918, 1930 and undated; two letters from John Ruskin, 1886 and undated, on the study of architecture; seven letters from Antonio Maria Jose de Melo Cesar e Meneses, 5th Conde de Sabugosa, 1905-1913; five letters from Luis Teixeira de Sampayo, 1921-1928; letter from Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, 1905, congratulating Prestage on Eca de Queiroz's The sweet miracle; five letters from Georg Schurhammer, 1930-1936; five letters from Wilhelm Storck, 1894-1895; five letters from Herbert Thurston, 1905-1913; ten letters from Pedro Tovar de Lemos, 2nd Conde de Tovar, 1916-1927 and undated; 13 letters from Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcellos, 1895-1896, 1907-1922, and 11 letters from her husband, Joaquim de Vasconcellos, 1897, 1908-1925; six letters from Afonso Lopes Vieira, 1910, 1914, 1927 and undated; five letters from Tomas Maria de Almeida Manuel de Vilhena, 8th Conde de Vila Flor, 1925-1929 and undated; letter from Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, [1892], regretting he cannot send a copy of his unnamed play (perhaps Lady Windermere's Fan) as it has not yet been published. There is also a letter of 1881 from Antonio Candido Goncalves Crespo to Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho (father and mother of Prestage's wife). Ephemera includes signatures of Gomes Eannes Azurara, William Wordsworth, [? Isaac] Disraeli and Samuel Wilberforce; Christmas cards; the visiting card of S T P Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, 1903; menus, including the House of Commons Coronation luncheon in Westminster Hall, 1902; a ticket to the coronation of Edward VII, 1902; and an invitation to a party at Windsor Castle, 1912. Otherwise the collection comprises research notes and transcriptions on various subjects and sources, including Restoration period Portugal; Sousa Coutinho; Portuguese in Africa, Brazil and Asia; the War of the Spanish Succession; 17th century Portuguese history, including diplomacy; the sermons of Father Antonio Vieira SJ; Portuguese bibliographies prepared by Prestage; annotated typescripts on the Portuguese in Abyssinia down to 1543, aspects and results of Portuguese colonisation, and Portuguese reminiscences (1948); Prestage's 'The Mode of Government in Portugal during the Restoration Period'; photographs of Portuguese fortresses in Morocco; notebook on 'Analyse das "Cartas Familiares" '; copies of letters of F de Sousa, including his embassies to France and Rome; copies of letters of Sir R Southwell, English ambassador to Lisbon; material relating to relations between Spain and Portugal; pamphlets and articles of Prestage; proofs for a chapter entitled 'L'Intevention Anglaise dans la Peninsule Iberique', in an envelope addressed to Prestage and labelled 'D Fernando & the Holy See by E Perroy'.

Some letters are bound in three volumes (two volumes Portuguese, the other English), two of which also contain ephemera. Other letters are located in files which reflect the subject themes of Prestage's work.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

• English

• Latin

Portuguese, English, French

King's College Library purchased c2000 volumes relating to Portuguese studies from Prestage in 1948, which were taken possession on his death in 1951. Most were integrated into the library's Portuguese studies collection, except for some rarities retained in Special Collections.

Typescript index (compiled by Richard Pound, Deputy Librarian of King's College) arranged alphabetically by correspondent giving the writer, date, and subject of each letter, and its location, and an outline manuscript list of the other material, are available in the reading room at King's College London Archives.

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections, holds Prestage's correspondence with Charles Sarolea, 1936-1940 (Ref: Sar coll 232). Harvard University, Houghton Library, holds Prestage's commonplace book, 1887-1946.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English