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Acquisitions
The collection continued to grow, and we were delighted to receive many generous gifts during the year.
A substantial collection of C18th and C19th drawings and prints, by artists including Thomas Allom, George Barret Jr., Samuel Bough, Joseph Farington, Samuel Phillips Jackson, Francis Nicholson, Thomas Miles Richardson Jr. and William Turner of Oxford.
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The gift of the W.W. Spooner Charitable Trust. A substantial collection of letters and other manuscripts by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Thomas De Quincey and many other writers of the Romantic period, some of them unpublished. The gift of the late Martin Crossley-Evans. A collection of maps including the 1695 edition of William Camden’s Britannia.
The gift of Veronica Finch. A collection of research papers relating to Thomas Bewick.
A gift from the estate of the late Iain Bain. A first edition of The Excursion (1814), with the bookplate of William Jackson, Archdeacon of Carlisle and Provost of The Queen’s College, Oxford. The book was given by the activist and campaigner Priscilla Bright McLaren to her great-nephew Roger Clark, the grandson of James Clark, co-founder of the shoemaker C. & J. Clark Ltd. Roger Clark was the family firm’s Chairman, 1938–42. A gift from the estate of the late Nathan Clark. A 1917 portrait of the Wordsworth scholar Ernest de Sélincourt by Arthur Gaskin. The gift of Ruth Morris. Manuscript notebook by an unknown author containing a transcription of A Description of the Lake at Keswick (and the adjacent Country) in Cumberland by John Brown, c.1767. The gift of Dr Christopher Donaldson. William Wordsworth’s copy of History of Herodotus in two volumes (1737), and containing his inscription. The gift of John Conder. A photograph of Grasmere Vale, possibly 1860s. The gift of Harvey Wilkinson.
This page top: Thomas Allom, Thrang Slate Quarry, Great Langdale (gift of the W.W. Spooner Charitable Trust)
This page middle: print of Toussaint Louverture, published in 1800 (gift of the W.W. Spooner Charitable Trust)
This page bottom: The History of Herodotus, 1737, inscribed ‘W. Wordsworth’ (gift of John Conder)
