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Description: | The Whitehouse Collection includes nearly 8000 mostly unpublished letters, including correspondence with his cousin Joan Severn (of 3000 letters), other family members and also associates such as Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning and his publisher George Allen. The 305 manuscripts and transcripts contain 29 volumes of Ruskin's Diaries (1835-1888), a selected edition of which has been published. The large collection of over 3600 books includes around 350 books from Ruskin's Library and contains all of Ruskin's published writings (a collected edition of 39 volumes). There are foreign language versions of some of the more important texts and also a comprehensive reference library of books about Ruskin. Other archives include transcripts, articles and newspaper cuttings featuring his whole range of interests including religion, geology, the arts and the environment. | Subjects: | Archives | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Lancaster University
Lancaster,
LA1 4YH | FAX: | 01524 593 580 | Telephone: | 01524 593 587 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1286 | Go to resource |
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