Wind Benefaction and Ashmolean Library development

Title

Wind Benefaction and Ashmolean Library development

Shelfmark

MS. Wind 27

Summary

Papers relating to plans for the Ashmolean Library development, and to the administration and use of the Wind Benefaction, including:

Folder 1: 'Ashmolean Museum and Library': Brochures relating to Ashmolean development projects, including a new Ashmolean Library building, 1970s. [I, 14 A, v]

Folder 2: Papers relating to the Library of the Department of the History of Art and to Edgar Wind's personal library, mainly the question of their conservation and accommodation; legal advice relating to the administration of the Wind Trust Fund, and its use for the creation of a library room in memory of Edgar Wind in a new Ashmolean Library building; related correspondence with the Ashmolean Museum and the University of Oxford; appointment of the Sub-Committee for the Wind Benefaction of the Ashmolean Library, 1980-1981. [I, 14 A, vi+vii]

Folder 3: 'Bookplates for the Wind Benefaction': Correspondence with Simon Blake relating to the design and production of bookplates for the Wind Benefaction, 1984-1987; including drafts for, and samples of, bookplates with notes by Margaret Wind, and other samples of Simon Blake's work. Also includes correspondence relating to the design and production of bookplates [for the Wind Room at the Sackler Library], 1997-1998. [I, 14 A, viii]

Folder 4: 'Proposal for the Classics Center': Papers relating to the proposal of the creation of a new Classics Faculty Centre in the car park behind the Ashmolean Museum, and the relocation of the Western Art Library and Department of the History of Art, 1985-1986, including correspondence about the possibility of creating the Edgar Wind library room and funding for it through the Crane Foundation. [I, 14 B, ii]

Date

c. 1975-1998

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (4 folders)