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  1. RESEARCHING THE MUSEUM & LIBRARY
  2. People
  3. Private Collectors

Iles, Isaac

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Proprietor of The Queen's Head in Bristol that maintained a collection of objects.

In 1925, Charles J. S. Thompson exchanged letters with and acquired several objects from a “Mr. Iles” in Bristol. Iles recounted to Thompson that the posts in his collection were “brought home by a soldier from South Nigeria after an expedition.” (Thompson, April 15, 1925). Upon arrival in Bristol, Thompson remarked on the objects which were "laid out like a museum" and in beautiful condition. Iles further explained that he had traveled to Nigeria and Congo himself bringing back many objects. Isaac’s father had started the collection by weapons from sailors coming off the ships. (Thompson, May 4, 1925).

Thompson’s correspondence gives Iles’s address as “broad plain”-- a 1914 registry of Bristol businesses then provides Iles’s first name. (Kelly’s Directory, 884)

Sources:

Kelly's Directory of Bristol (Gloucestershire, 1914): 884  

Thompson. Charles J. S. [Letter to Henry S. Wellcome]April 15, 1925 and May 4, 1925. Wellcome Collection, WA/HMM/RP/Tho/15:Box7 

Wellcome Archives:

  • Correspondence Between Thompson and Wellcome

  • I. Iles correspondence

  • I. Iles correspondence

  • I. Iles correspondence

http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/309339/rec/2
WA/HMM/RP/Tho/15:Box 7
WA/HMM/CO/Chr/J.102:Box 145
WA/HMM/CO/Chr/D.21:Box 98
WA/HMM/CO/Chr/B.7:Box 90