The collection contains family and personal correspondence, and also genealogical papers mostly compiled by Walter J. Wyon. There are papers relating to the family's official work, and also to their private commissions as medallists, engravers and sculptors.
Wyon Family: Business and Personal Papers
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- ReferenceGB 12 MS Add.7651
- Dates of Creation1800-1950 (Circa)
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish .
- Physical Description10 archive box(es) 10 boxes39 volume(s) 39 volumes5 envelope(s) 5 envelopes2 bundle(s) 2 packets
Scope and Content
Access Information
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Acquisition Information
Presented by Mrs. Eileen M. Wyon, widow of Allan Gairdner Wyon, 1963
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Bibliography
In 1917 Leonard Forrer produced a detailed biographical dictionary of the Wyons, with lists of coins, medals and sculptures, which was printed in the Biographical dictionary of medallists, volume VI, and reprinted as a booklet by Spink and Son Ltd. A copy of this booklet is included in the colllection (WYON 12/2/1).