Ashmolean I

Title

Ashmolean I

Shelfmark

MS. Wind 17

Summary

Correspondence and other papers, 1955-1967, relating to the Ashmolean Museum, its organisation and funding, collections, library, and relations to other departments of the University of Oxford, including:

Folder 1: 'Ashmolean, 1955-61': Edgar Wind's correspondence, memoranda and other papers, 1955-1967, relating to the business of the Ashmolean Museum, including the memorandum on the Museum's additional (financial) needs in the quinquennium 1957/8-1961/2, 1955; request for the admission to Wind's lectures of students from a finishing school, 1955; papers concerning the role of teaching and research staff (notably the three Professors of Archaeology and Edgar Wind) in relation to the Museum, and the facilities available there for them, c. 1955-1957; papers concerning the Museum's slide collection and photographic service, 1956-1967; papers concerning the administration of the Ashmolean Library, 1955-1967, including a memorandum by the librarian, 1963. Correspondents include K.T. Parker, Ian Robertson, R.W. Hamilton, R.F. Ovenell, Christopher Hawkes, C.T. Lilley, Gerald Taylor, Nigel Foxell; Trevor Ashton, Albert Hourani. Also includes a summary by Margaret Wind. [I, 17, i; WIND 20]

Folder 2: 'Ashmolean, 1957-1960': Edgar Wind's correspondence and other papers, 1957-1964, relating to the business of the Ashmolean Museum; including papers concerning the use by Wind and others of premises at 34/35 Beaumont Street, 1957; papers of, and concerning, the Liaison Committee (consisting of the Standing Committee of the Visitors of the Ashmolean, the Professors of the History of Art, European Archaeology, and the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, and the Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art), 1957-1963; correspondence with the Ashmolean Library and related material concerning the Fine Art Library, 1957-1960; notices and correspondence concerning the election of P.C. Bayley as a visitor of the Museum, 1958; papers relating to the admission of readers to the Museum's Print Room, 1960 and 1964; memorandum on the Museum's additional (financial) needs in the quinqennium 1962/3-1966/7, 1960. Correspondents include K.T. Parker, Christopher Hawkes, R.W. Hamilton, R.F. Ovenell, H.H. Keen, C.T. Lilley, Ian Robertson, P.C. Bayley, Walter Oakeshott, John Sparrow. [I, 17, ii; WIND 20]

Folder 3: 'Ashmolean Museum 1961 statute': Correspondence, memoranda and reports, extracts from the Oxford University Gazette and other papers, 1959-1961, concerning the revision of the governing statute of the Museum, including the draft statute submitted to the General Board on 26 November 1959 and the text finally approved by Congregation on 30 May 1961. Correspondents and authors of memoranda and reports include Colin Hardie, D.M. Hawke, Sir Folliott Sandford, Christopher Hawkes, Edgar Wind, John Sparrow, Ian Richmond, R.W. Hamilton, K.T. Parker. [I, 17, iii; WIND 20]

Date

1955-1967

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)