Finding Aid for the Eric Gill Archive, 1887-2003
(bulk 1905-1940)
Processed by Jennifer Alcoset.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Eric Gill Archive
Date (inclusive): 1887-2003 (bulk 1905-1940)
Collection number: MS
Gill
Creator:
William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library, UCLA
Extent:
76.2 linear feet, 14 flat files, 9 tubes,
8 items
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: This collection of materials accumulated by the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library documents the personal and artistic
development and activities of Eric Gill, a twentieth-century English
stone-cutter, sculptor, artist, author, typographer/type designer,
printer, book illustrator; and champion of social reforms. The collection
includes manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, legal and financial
documents, scrapbooks, clippings, periodicals, photographs, Gill's books
and library, as well as several printing items and a substantial amount of
art.
Physical location: William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library as the
owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection on Eric Gill, MS Gill, William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Acquisition Information
The Clark's first Director, Lawrence Clark Powell, began collecting
Eric Gill's art and manuscripts in the late 1940s and 1950s. He arranged
with a London bookseller to act as liaison with the Gill family, which
eventually designated the Clark to be the major repository of manuscripts
and correspondence. Along with the manuscripts came four hundred volumes
from the Gill's library as well as six volumes of scrapbooks and twenty
folders of press clippings. The Clark also acquired Gill's own file of
magazines and journals with his essays, articles and other contributions.
Additional material has since been acquired by the Clark Library,
including a related collection of ephemera, insurance documents and
publisher's contracts and art items.
In early 2002 the Delmas Foundation provided grant funding to the Clark
to arrange its archival collection on Eric Gill. An Assistant Librarian
was hired to organize, rehouse and inventory the collection as well as to
create an online finding aid in EAD for the Online Archive of California
(OAC).
Processing Information
Processed by: Jennifer Alcoset, January 2004
Biography
Son of a non-conformist minister, one of twelve children, Eric Gill was
born in Brighton in 1882 and brought up in Chichester, where he attended
art school and learned the rudiments of drawing. At the age of eighteen he
went to London to work in an architect's office, a prosperous firm
specializing in church buildings. Here he acquired more of a draftsman's
skills, although not entirely in sympathy with modern building methods,
which Gill believed to favor the designer and contractor at the expense of
the craftsman.
The Arts and Crafts movement, then in its first flowering, offered an
exciting alternative to the "wage slavery" of the office as well as the
opportunity to make his living independently. Instead of studying
architecture in the evenings, Gill learned the art of carving inscriptions
in stone. He attended classes in masonry at the Westminster Technical
School and lettering at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, both
schools specializing in practical, hands-on instruction in materials and
methods. His teacher at the Central School was Edward Johnston, an expert
calligrapher and an eloquent proponent of Arts and Crafts techniques. Gill
not only shared Johnston's rooms for a few years, but even contributed a
chapter to Johnston's Writing & Illuminating & Lettering, still a standard
text on penmanship. By 1904 Gill was self-employed, supporting himself and
his wife by carving lettering on public buildings for architects as well
as tombstones and memorial tablets for private clients.
At this time, Gill's interest in art, religion, and politics were
developing in diverse, often contradictory directions. His first
experiments in sculpture won the approval of such influential artists and
critics as Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, Roger Fry, and William
Rothenstein. They admired the primitive vigor of his work and also its
technical polish, a combination that prompted flattering comparisons with
archaic sculpture on one hand and the newly fashionable Post-Impressionist
art on the other. A German patron introduced him to Aristide Maillol,
hoping the two artists would work together and learn from one another.
During a brief and intense friendship with Jacob Epstein, he collaborated
on the monument for Oscar Wilde and joined in wild plans to build a
modernist Stonehenge in the Sussex countryside. On a much smaller scale,
Gill carved in Hoptonwood stone a Golden Calf, originally intended for a
London cabaret but eventually loaned to Roger Fry for the Second
Post-Impressionist exhibition, where it was surrounded by paintings of
Picasso, Matisse and Cézanne.
Gill never quite renounced his heritage in the Arts and Crafts or the
patronage of the London art world, but he adamantly refused to be
identified simply as a craftsman or an artist. He constantly sought other
labels, other ways to fix a special place for himself in a society that he
believed to be oppressive and unjust. He had a disputatious streak, a
craving to be heard, a compulsive urge to take sides on the social issues
of his day that could be satisfied only by sampling, asserting, and
rejecting a profusion of political and religious allegiances. He dabbled
in socialism, attended meetings of the Fabian Society, and spoke
vociferously against the factory system. But he soon wearied of the
discipline and obligations of political action, left London, and joined a
community of craftsmen in Ditchling, Sussex. While at Ditchling, he and
his wife converted to Catholicism, moved to another part of the village,
and founded there a reconstituted religious community linked with the
Dominican order. The Guild of SS. Joseph and Dominic operated on
Distributist rather than socialist principles, extolling the sanctity of
individual labor and advocating a return to private property and a
self-sufficient rural economy. Some members of the Guild helped Gill in
the studio, others tended livestock and tilled gardens.
Sculpture continued to occupy Gill during the Ditchling period
(1907-1924) - perhaps most importantly the Stations of the Cross at
Westminster Cathedral and the War Memorial at Leeds University - but at
the same time Gill mastered other skills and developed other sources of
income. His lettering was in great demand not just for stone inscriptions,
but also for painted signs and printing, particularly buildings, title
pages, and chapter headings. Characteristically, Gill learned wood
engraving to have better control over how his lettering was printed. Once
he became proficient with boxwood and graver, he began to experiment with
printmaking and book illustration, and in turn tried his hand at the
handpress, learning the first principles of typography and composition.
The Guild founded its own private press, more to make a political than an
artistic statement, yet its rudely printed broadsides and pamphlets are
fetchingly illustrated with some of Gill's first engravings.
In 1924 Gill moved his family and studio to a deserted, half-ruined
monastery in South Wales, having quit the Ditchling community in a dispute
over finances. Although remote, inconvenient, and uncomfortable, the
monastery of Capel-y-ffin provided a perfect setting for Gill to build his
ideal religious community without unwelcome publicity or intrusions from
the outside world. He found a new market for his wood engravings in the
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher of far more ambitious books than the
Guild, with higher standards of presswork, better design, and a more
sophisticated clientele, willing and able to pay handsomely for
sumptuously illustrated books. Increasingly intrigued by typography and
its possibilities for independent self-expression, Gill not only catered
to book collectors and bibliophiles but also to trade printers through the
Monotype Corporation, which commissioned from him a series of
distinguished typefaces. This lucrative relationship seems to have
overcome his aversion for industrial capitalism, even though he was being
paid by businessmen to design types for machine composition - and on
retainer at that. He also put his business in sculpture on a sound
financial footing by having his work regularly exhibited at the Goupil
Gallery in London. Assured of steady sales, he undertook one of his
largest, most impressive, and highly regarded carvings, Mankind, now at
the Tate Gallery. Some critics consider it a companion piece to the
earlier Mulier at UCLA, which is equally monumental if not a bit
portentous and cold.
As his fame and business grew, so did the demands on his facilities,
time, and energy. Gill brought his family closer to London in 1928,
settling at Pigotts, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in a commodious
red-brick farmhouse with outbuildings providing ample space for studios,
cottages, and a chapel. This too was intended to be a community of
craftsmen, though now defined more as employees and family members than as
adherents of a religious or political doctrine. Nevertheless Gill still
attracted pupils, disciples, and pilgrims, who came to learn from the
master craftsman, to share in his sense of high purposefulness, and to
observe how he and his associates managed to live and work together apart
from modern society.
In 1929 Gill reached the highpoint of his career: several major
monographs appeared on his sculpture; a complete collection of his
engravings was published in a lavishly printed limited edition; and a
selection of his polemical essays was printed at his own press
inaugurating a typeface of his own design. Within a year he suffered a
breakdown from overwork. Although he never fully recovered, he remained
formidably busy during the rest of his life. He designed and built a
church, noteworthy for its stark interior and the central placement of its
altar, a practical and symbolic expression of his views on liturgy. He
carved massive public sculptures for the headquarters of BBC and of the
London Underground. The British government selected him to carve huge
panels for the League of Nations building in Geneva. Along with these
prestigious commissions came more honors: he was elected an Honorary
Associate of the Institute of British Architects, and Associate of the
Royal Academy, and one of the first Royal Designers for Industry. Despite
failing health, he wrote his Autobiography during 1940 and kept hard at
work to the very end. While awaiting a minor operation, he corrected
proofs of the Autobiography, sketched out some book illustrations, started
a translation of the Psalms, kept up his accounts, and wrote the last
entries in his voluminous diaries. Unexpectedly the surgery failed, and he
died on November 17, 1940 at the age of fifty-eight.
When he died in 1940, he left behind more than a thousand engravings;
at least one hundred and fifty books with his illustrations; eleven
different printing types; and countless sculptures and inscriptions on
city buildings, Catholic churches, and public squares throughout England.
He harbored passionate convictions on religion, politics, and art, which
he expressed in more than two hundred articles and more than fifty books.
In his own day he was probably best known for his sculpture, his Stations
of the Cross at Westminster Cathedral, his controversial War Memorial at
Leeds University, and the monumental relief panels commissioned by the
British government for the League of Nations building in Geneva. Trained
by the distinguished calligrapher Edward Johnston, Gill developed an
extraordinary skill in lettering. His vigorous sans-serif lettering is
still used for tabular matter, signage, and advertising, and his elegant
Perpetua has long been a favorite display face for fine printing.
Gill's fame nowadays rests on fine printing. The private press movement
of his day opened a natural market for his many skills, not just
lettering, but also book illustration and book design. His Four Gospels
published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1931 is considered a modern
masterpiece, joining his wood-engraved illustrations, his decorative
lettering, and a specially designed typeface in an uncanny union of image
and text. A bitter foe of mass production and industrialized society, Gill
eagerly embraced the ideals of hand craftsmanship propounded by John
Ruskin and practiced by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Gill
collaborated with the Golden Cockerel Press on several important books and
also founded his own printing business, intended to be an outright
commercial venture. Although not exactly a private press, the firm of
Hague & Gill resembles the modern equivalent in that it bore its owner's
highly individual stamp in matters of editorial policy, manufacturing, and
design. Gill retained complete artistic control over publications such as
his Twenty-Five typefaces. The UCLA Library has published an annotated
checklist of Hague & Gill imprints, based on the Clark holdings and
business records.
Scope and Content
This collection of material accumulated by the Clark Library documents
the personal and artistic development and activities of Eric Gill, a
twentieth-century English stone-cutter, sculptor, artist, author,
typographer/type designer, printer, book illustrator; and champion of
social reforms. The collection includes manuscripts, diaries,
correspondence, legal and financial documents, scrapbooks, clippings,
periodicals, photographs, Gill's books and library, as well as several
original printing items and a substantial amount of art.
The collection is organized in ten series:
Series 1. Personal papers, 1895-1982 inclusive and undated, 3.6 linear
feet
Series 2. Professional papers, 1905-1945 inclusive and undated, 16.65
linear feet
Series 3. Art and artifacts, 1887-1940 inclusive and undated, 14 flat
files, 9 tubes, 15 linear feet, 8 items
Series 4. Correspondence, 1913-1940 inclusive and undated, 12 linear
feet
Series 5. Photographs 1908-1969 inclusive and undated, 6 linear feet
Series 6. Gill's books and library
Series 7. Legal and financial documents, 1900-1984 inclusive and
undated, 4.66 linear feet
Series 8. Printed material, 1909-2003 inclusive and undated, 16.29
linear feet
Series 9. Topical material, 1893-1967 inclusive and undated, 1.5 linear
feet
Series 10. Addenda (2008): Correspondence with David Hennessy and Dorothy Day, with related materials, 1935-1953 inclusive
and undated, .5 linear feet.
Container List
Series 1.
Personal papers 1898-1982
Scope and Content Note
This series is arranged into two subseries; Diaries and Biographical
and interview items.
Subseries 1.
Diaries, 1895-1952
Physical Description:
1.8 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of Gill's manuscript diaries, which he began
in 1895 and continued to add entries into until just before his death
in 1940. The detailed volumes contain information useful for
attributing Eric Gill's work and dating it. Also included are
manuscripts and galley proofs of Gill's Palestine diaries. The
subseries is arranged chronologically.
Box 1
1895-1912
Scope and Content Note
Lacks 1896, 1897, 1901 and 1909.
Box 3
1927-1940
Note
Includes unpublished manuscript diary May 10-July 15 1937,
"Journey to Palestine," together with an unpublished 1949 edition with
variant title page "from the Palestine Diary of Eric Gill" bound with
excerpts from the 1951 and 1952 editions.
Box 4
Palestine Diary collection,
1949-1952
Scope and Content Note
Collection consists of the complete galley proof of
the 1949 edition printed by Hague and Gill and published by the
Harvill Press, a loose galley proof leaf of the title page from the
1951 edition printed and published by Hague Gill and Davey, Ltd. and
two loose half sheets from the 1952 edition printed and published by
Hague Gill and Davey, Ltd.
Note
Gift of James Davis, 2001.
Subseries 2.
Biographical and interview items, 1910-1982 and undated
Physical Description:
1.8 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of biographical material about Eric Gill, including Gill's own autobiographical items, interview typescripts
with others regarding Gill, and articles on Gill. The subseries is arranged by subject, then date.
Box 5, Folder 1
Articles on Eric Gill,
1982
Box 5, Folder 2
Interview with David Jones, April 9, 1961
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of interview with David Jones, "Recollections of Eric Gill".
Box 5, Folder 3
Interview with unidentified person, May 4, 1961
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of interview with unidentified person regarding Eric Gill.
Box 5, Folder 4
Interview with Father Pepler, May 18,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of interview with Father Pepler regarding
Eric Gill.
Box 5, Folder 5
Interview with Joan and Rene Hague, May 18,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of interview with Joan and Rene Hague
regarding Eric Gill.
Box 5, Folder 6
Interview with David Jones II and Donald Attwater,
May 20, 1961
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of interview with David Jones II and
Donald Attwater regarding Eric Gill. First page is
missing.
Box 5, Folder 7
Interview - Eric Gill Programme, July 11,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Transcript of a program on Eric Gill. Interviewees
include Brenton, Richey, Joseph Cribb, David Kindersley, Rene Hague,
Joan Gill, Petra Gill, Father D'Arcy, Beatrice Warde, Father Francis
Meynell, G.T. Friend, David Jones, Stanley Morrison and Denis
Tegetmeier.
Box 5, Folder 8
Interview with Cecil and Vernon Gill, April 20,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Three typescripts of interview conducted by David
Kindersley at Clark Library, April 20, 1967.
Note
Final revised version includes index of major subjects and
persons mentioned.
Box 6
Bound collection of various manuscript items,
1910-1914
Scope and Content Note
Contains articles and letters Eric Gill sent to
Highway (1910-11), two pieces "He and He" and "She and She" written by
Gill dealing with his sexual experiences, "He and She" written by Gill
dealing with he and his wife's own sex life, an account written by
Mary Gill of her sexual experiences, various articles, notes and
letters written by Gill and four small drawings by
Gill.
Note
Source = G.F. Sims, 1964.
Box 6
Life of Eric Gill, The,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Robert Speaight's original unbound manuscript of the
biography of Gill, heavily corrected and revised, with many sections
which were deleted from the typescript.
Note
Source = G.F. Sims, 1965
Box 7, Folder 1-2
Autopsychography, v.1 and v.2,
1940
Scope and Content Note
Volume 1 of 2 of Gill's bound manuscript of his
Auto-psychography, defined by Gill as "an auto-pyschographical
portrait". Inserted are seven loose synopsis sheets annotated by
Gill.
Box 7, Folder 3
Autopsychography,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Gill's typescript copy with manuscript annotations
throughout. Included are typescript lists of addenda and typescript
and manuscript lists of possible illustrations to be
used.
Box 8
Autobiography - corrected proof and typescript,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes Gill's manuscript synopsis for
"Autopsychography", bound "Autobiography" volume 1 and II duplicate
proofs for retention printed by the Alden Press with Gill's manuscript
corrections and additions, photographic reproductions of Gill art and
photographs to be used, loose typescript of Autobiography with Gill's
corrections and additions. Housed in one clamshell box.
Note
Typescript shows change of title from "Autopsychography" to
"Autobiography".
Series 2.
Professional papers, 1905-1945 and
undated
Physical Description:
16.65 linear feet (31 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
This series is arranged into three subseries; Manuscripts,
Unpublished manuscripts and Lectures.
Subseries 1.
Manuscripts, 1916-1945
Physical Description:
13.5 linear feet (25 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of manuscript material regarding Gill's
published works: books, etc., written by Eric Gill; books, etc., to
which Gill was a contributing author; books, etc., illustrated by
Gill; books, etc., containing criticism of or reference to Gill's
work; and miscellanea. Included are manuscript notes, essay and
lecture drafts, page and galley proofs, original art, personal
letters, typescripts, fan mail, clippings, press reviews and Gill's
letters to editors in response to reviews of his work. Also included
are typescript bibliographies of Gill's publications.
The Clark's original subseries arrangement by Evan Gill's
Bibliography numbers was not retained, but rearranged alphabetically
by title, followed by Evan Gill's Bibliography number in parenthesis
"(ERG)". Titles followed by square bracketed numbers indicate items
that were added to Evan Gill's revised Bibliography. Bibliographical
items and Gill's reviews of other's books are also included in the
subseries and follow at the end of the Evan Gill Bibliography list.
These items are arranged chronologically.
The Clark's original title for this subseries was "Writings." See
Topical Series for printed/published versions of these manuscript
works.
Box 9, Folder 1
Abolish art and teach drawing (ERG 250)
Box 9, Folder 2
All that England stands for (ERG 44)
Box 9, Folder 3
And who wants peace? (ERG 36)
Box 9, Folder 6
Architects and builders (ERG 168)
Box 9, Folder 7
Architecture and industrialism (ERG 136)
Box 9, Folder 8
Architecture and sculpture (ERG 12)
Box 9, Folder 9
Architecture and sculpture (ERG 171)
Box 9, Folder 10
Architecture and sculpture (ERG 510)
Box 9, Folder 12-15
Art and a changing civilisation (ERG 29)
Note
An additional item can be found in Box 31.
Box 10, Folder 2
Art and business (ERG 242)
Box 10, Folder 4-5
Art and manufacture (ERG 19)
Box 10, Folder 6-7
Art and propaganda (ERG 167)
Box 10, Folder 8
Art and property (ERG 188)
Note
An additional item can be found in Box 31.
Box 10, Folder 9
Art and prudence (ERG 15)
Box 10, Folder 11
Art and religion (ERG 78)
Box 10, Folder 12
Art and the people (ERG 137)
Box 10, Folder 13
Art appreciation (ERG 93)
Box 10, Folder 14
Art in England now (ERG 211)
Box 11, Folder 1
Art in relation to industrialism (ERG 181)
Box 11, Folder 2
Art of Mr. Eric Gill, The (ERG 445)
Box 11, Folder 3
Art: The truth will out (ERG 168a)
Box 11, Folder 4-5
Artists' international exhibit (ERG 170a)
Box 11, Folder 6-7
Art-nonsense and other essays (ERG 18)
Box 11, Folder 10
Balancing the books (ERG 193)
Box 11, Folder 12
Beauty (in art) does not look after herself (ERG
523a)
Box 11, Folder 13
Beauty and the Indian workman (ERG 135)
Box 11, Folder 14
Beauty does not look after herself (ERG 157)
Note
An additional item can be found in Box 31.
Box 11, Folder 15-17
Beauty looks after herself (ERG 24)
Box 12, Folder 1
Book design this year (ERG 513d)
Box 12, Folder 2-3
British art in industry (ERG 164)
Box 12, Folder 4
Canticum canticorum (ERG 284)
Box 12, Folder 5
Christ and the workers (ERG 219)
Box 12, Folder 6-7
Christianity and the machine age (ERG 46)
Note
An additional item can be found in Box 31.
Box 12, Folder 8
Church and art, The (ERG 102)
Box 12, Folder 9
Church and state (ERG 66)
Box 12, Folder 10-12
Church of St. Peter the Apostle at Gorleston-on-the-Sea,
Norfolk, England (ERG 231)
Box 12, Folder 13
City of Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts
[657a]
Box 13, Folder 6
Clothing without cloth (ERG 20)
Box 14, Folder 1-8
Collection of material relating to Gill's pacifist
activities and chairmanship of Pax (ERG 224a)
Box 15, Folder 1
Communism and man (ERG 220)
Box 15, Folder 2
Condition of India (ERG 351a),
1934
Scope and Content Note
Cover design by Gill for "Condition of India: Being
the report of the delegation sent to India by The India League, in
1932". London, published by Essential News.
Note
The text itself is Gill Sans.
Box 15, Folder 3
Control of machinery (ERG 97)
Box 15, Folder 4
Copy sheets (ERG 311)
Scope and Content Note
Contains Edward Johnston's "Copy No.1. After
Winchester formal writing about 975 A.D." published by Douglas Pepler,
1916. Broadside; has wood-block by Eric Gill.
Note
Source = E. Mathews, 1956.
Box 15, Folder 5
Cotswold art and craftsmanship (ERG 189)
Box 15, Folder 7
Criterion in art, The (ERG 116)
Box 15, Folder 10
Design of a book [ERG 511b]
Box 15, Folder 11
Distributism and production (ERG 107)
Box 15, Folder 12
Drawings from life (ERG 48)
Box 15, Folder 13
Eating your cake (ERG 200)
Box 15, Folder 14
Education for what? (ERG 244)
Box 15, Folder 16
English attitude towards art (ERG 501)
Box 15, Folder 17
Engravings 1928-1933 by Eric Gill (ERG 27)
Box 15, Folder 18
Enormities of modern religious art, The (ERG
111)
Box 16, Folder 1
Eric Gill (ERG 435)
Note
An additional item can be found in Box 32.
Box 16, Folder 2
Eric Gill; Memorial Number (ERG 563)
Box 16, Folder 3-4
Eric Gill: Obituary notices (ERG 555)
Box 16, Folder 5
Eric Gill: T.O.S.D. (ERG 573)
Box 16, Folder 6
Eric Gill: Workman (ERG 599)
Box 16, Folder 7
European Mediterranean Academy (ERG 351)
Box 16, Folder 8
Evolution of peace (ERG 237)
Box 16, Folder 9
Eyeless in Gaza (ERG 190)
Box 16, Folder 10-11
Failure of the Arts and Crafts Movement, The (ERG
61)
Box 16, Folder 13
First step to peace: Stop false thinking, The (ERG
241)
Box 16, Folder 14
Five hundred years of printing (ERG 256)
Box 16, Folder 15
Fools and beasts (ERG 222)
Box 16, Folder 16
Function of news type, The (ERG 179)
Box 17, Folder 1
Future of sculpture, The (ERG 16)
Box 17, Folder 2
Future of sculpture, The (ERG 113)
Box 17, Folder 7
Gill and Epstein (ERG 497)
Note
An additional item can be found in Box 32.
Box 17, Folder 8-10
Glue and lacquer (ERG 301)
Box 17, Folder 11
Golden Cockerel Press, The (ERG 331)
Box 17, Folder 12
Grossherzog Wilhelm Ernst edition of the German
classics
Box 17, Folder 13
Human person and society, The (ERG 43)
Box 18, Folder 2-3
In a strange land (ERG 51)
Box 18, Folder 4
Indian sculpture (ERG 83)
Box 18, Folder 6
Initial letters, etc. engraved by Eric Gill (ERG 335),
1929
Scope and Content Note
Gill's proof copy with manuscript corrections, three
proof trial pages and two different versions of the back wrapper
colophon loosely inserted.
Note
G.F. Sims, 1962. EG 1510.
Box 18, Folder 7
Inscriptions in stone (ERG 57)
Box 18, Folder 8
Is there a papal social programme? (ERG 214)
Box 18, Folder 9
It all goes together [an essay] (ERG 198)
Box 18, Folder 10
It all goes together [selected essays] (ERG
52)
Box 19, Folder 5-6
Leeds University war memorial (ERG 407)
Box 19, Folder 7
Leisure state, The (ERG 239)
Box 19, Folder 8
Letters of Eric Gill (ERG 54)
Box 19, Folder 9
Lord's song, The (ERG 26)
Box 19, Folder 10
Machine problem, The (ERG 203)
Box 19, Folder 11
Machine-made Manchester (ERG 150)
Box 19, Folder 12
Machines - Destroyers of beauty (ERG 150a)
Box 19, Folder 13
Man and the machine (ERG 176)
Box 19, Folder 14
Man and the modern world (ERG 183a)
Box 19, Folder 15
Man without aesthetics (ERG 156a)
Box 19, Folder 16
Masses for masses (ERG 218)
Box 19, Folder 17
Masters and servants (ERG 65)
Box 19, Folder 18
Mediaevel sculptor, The (ERG 177)
Box 19, Folder 19
Modelling and carving (ERG 145)
Box 19, Folder 20
Modern memorial to overseas heroes (ERG 401)
Box 20, Folder 1
Monetary reform (ERG 206a)
Box 20, Folder 2-7
Money and morals (ERG 28)
Box 20, Folder 8-9
Morals and money (ERG 155)
Box 21, Folder 1
Mr. Eric Gill. Art Exhibits (ERG 424a)
Box 21, Folder 2-3
Mr. Eric Gill in Ireland (ERG 538)
Box 21, Folder 4
Nativity in modern printing [511d]
Box 21, Folder 9
Necessity of belief, The [review] (ERG 172)
Box 21, Folder 10
New testament in new dress, The (ERG 162)
Box 21, Folder 11
Nineteenth century ornamented types and title pages (ERG
225a)
Box 21, Folder 13
On clothes and man naked (ERG 165)
Box 21, Folder 14
On my bed at night (ERG 320),
undated
Scope and Content Note
Wood engraving created by Eric Gill for one of the
illustrations in "The Song of Songs", Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.
Note
Source = Gift of F. Brooke Whiting, 1966. Cleverdon #40
(p.41) illustration #73.
Box 21, Folder 15
On the flying Scotsman (ERG 141)
Note
An additional item can be found in Box 32.
Box 21-22, Folder 5-8
Necessity of belief, The [book] (ERG 32)
Note
Folder 5-8 of Box 21 and entire Box 22.
Box 23, Folder 2
Ownership and industrialism (ERG 207)
Box 23, Folder 3
Ownership and the means of production (ERG
252)
Box 23, Folder 4
Pacifism, revolution and community [6576]
Box 23, Folder 5
Paintings and criticism (ERG 126)
Box 23, Folder 6
Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem (ERG
512)
Box 23, Folder 7
Partnership and state ownership (ERG 189a)
Box 23, Folder 8
Patron and artist (ERG 195)
Box 23, Folder 11
Peace and poverty (ERG 235)
Box 23, Folder 12-14
Peace palace of the League of Nations at Geneva (ERG
507)
Box 24, Folder 1
Philosophy of art, The (ERG 85)
Box 24, Folder 2
Philosophy of work, A (ERG 221)
Box 24, Folder 3
Plain architecture (ERG 138)
Box 24, Folder 4
Plain chant and the plain man (ERG 175)
Box 24, Folder 5-6
Politics of industrialism, The (ERG 153)
Box 24, Folder 7
Postage stamp, The (ERG 243)
Box 24, Folder 9
Preface to an unwritten book, A (ERG 63)
Box 24, Folder 10
Problem of parish church architecture, The (ERG
95)
Box 24, Folder 14
Property and Catholic morals (ERG 194)
Box 24, Folder 15
Prospero or Abraham? (ERG 196)
Box 24, Folder 16
Quia amore langueo (ERG 296)
Box 24, Folder 17
Read, Herbert. The philosophy of anarchism
[658a]
Box 24, Folder 18
Religion is politics (ERG 228)
Box 24, Folder 20
Revival of handicraft, The (ERG 88)
Note
An additional item can be found in Box 32.
Box 24, Folder 21
Right lettering (ERG 121)
Box 24, Folder 22
Right-mindedness of modern art, The (ERG 123)
Box 25, Folder 1
Royal Design Institute [527a]
Box 25, Folder 2
Royal porch and Chartres, The (ERG 156)
Box 25, Folder 3
Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge (ERG
651)
Box 25, Folder 4
Sacred and secular (ERG 45)
Box 25, Folder 5-6
Sacred and secular in art and industry (ERG
41)
Box 25, Folder 7
Sculpture [book] (ERG 70)
Box 25, Folder 8
Sculpture [article] (ERG 173)
Box 25, Folder 9
Sculpture ['Encyclopaedia Brit.'] (ERG 213)
Box 25, Folder 10
Sculpture and the living model (ERG 23)
Box 25, Folder 11
Sculpture on machine-made buildings (ERG 34)
Box 25, Folder 12
Sculpture on machine-made buildings (ERG 184)
Box 26, Folder 1
Secular and sacred in modern industry (ERG
230)
Box 26, Folder 3
Seven deadly virtues, The (ERG 151)
Box 26, Folder 4
Shakespeare luncheon [652a]
Box 26, Folder 5
Ship painter's handbook, The (ERG 68)
Box 26, Folder 6
Short history of English sculpture (ERG 490)
Box 26, Folder 7
Sign and a symbol, A (ERG 144)
Box 26, Folder 8
Slavery and freedom and Loquela and Mirabilis (ERG
2)
Box 26, Folder 9
Social climbers in Bloomsbury (ERG 549a)
Box 26, Folder 10
Social principles and directions (ERG 42)
Box 26, Folder 11-12
Socialism and the arts and crafts (ERG 59)
Box 26, Folder 13
Society and the arts and crafts (ERG 58)
Box 26, Folder 14
Society of calligraphers (ERG 60)
Box 26, Folder 16
Songs without clothes (ERG 8)
Box 27, Folder 1
St. Teresa of Lisieux (ERG 225)
Box 27, Folder 2
Stations of the cross, The (ERG 71)
Box 27, Folder 3
Stations of the cross, The (ERG 209)
Box 27, Folder 5
Style in sculpture (ERG 125)
Box 27, Folder 6
Sun of justice, The (ERG 229)
Box 27, Folder 7
Superfluous architect, The (ERG 99)
Box 27, Folder 8
T.J. Cobden-Sanderson (ERG 81)
Box 27, Folder 9
Technique of early Greek sculpture, The (ERG
147)
Box 27, Folder 10
Three book types (ERG 30)
Box 27, Folder 11
'Times' coat of arms, The (ERG 140)
Box 27, Folder 12
Tradition and modernism in politics (ERG 208)
Box 27, Folder 13
Travels and suffering of Father Jean Brebeuf, The (ERG
297)
Box 27, Folder 15
Twenty-five nudes (ERG 38)
Box 29, Folder 1
Value of the creative faculty in man, The (ERG
174)
Box 29, Folder 2
Verzeichnis der Druckeder Cranach-Presse in Weimar
Gegrundet (ERG 453)
Box 29, Folder 3
W.E. Campbell's Utopia: His social teaching (ERG
134a)
Box 29, Folder 4
War and economics (ERG 230a)
Box 29, Folder 6
War is not romance (ERG 251)
Box 29, Folder 8
War, conscience and the rule of Christ (ERG
238)
Box 29, Folder 9
Westminster Cathedral (ERG 76)
Box 29, Folder 11
What is sculpture? (ERG 154)
Box 29, Folder 12
What should art mean? (ERG 119)
Box 29, Folder 13-14
What's it all bloomin' well for? (ERG 92)
Box 29, Folder 15
What's the use of art anyway? (ERG 210)
Box 29, Folder 16
When body holds its noise (ERG 178)
Box 29, Folder 17
Who is a typographical artist, Mr. Gill?
[511a]
Box 30, Folder 2
Work and culture (ERG 217)
Box 30, Folder 3
Work and leisure (ERG 185)
Box 30, Folder 4-6
Work and leisure (ERG 31)
Note
An additional item can be found in Box 32.
Box 30, Folder 7-10
Work and property (ERG 33)
Box 30, Folder 12
World at large, The (ERG 498)
Box 31-32
Manuscripts separated due to weight
Box 33, Folder 1
Writings published and unpublished,
1900-1930
Scope and Content Note
Gill's manuscript record of his writings from
December 1900-April 1930.
Note
Volume 1 from "Collection of three volumes of Gill's own
manuscript record of his writings." Volumes 2 and 3 are included in
Series 2, Professional papers: Volume 2 in Manuscripts subseries and
volume 3 in Lectures subseries.
Source = GF Sims, 1966.
Box 33, Folder 2
Gill's reviews other's books, 1914-1935 and
undated
Box 33, Folder 3
Eric Gill writings,
1930-1933
Scope and Content Note
Gill's manuscript record of his writings from May
1930-April 1933.
Note
Volume 2 from "Collection of three volumes of Gill's own
manuscript record of his writings." Volumes 1 and 3 are included in
Series 2, Professional papers: Volume 1 in Manuscripts subseries and
volume 3 in Lectures subseries.
Source = GF Sims, 1966.
Box 33, Folder 4
List of writings,
1933-1939
Scope and Content Note
Gill's manuscript book listing his writings from May
1933 to May 1939. Includes several inserted loose leaves listing
Gill's lectures from 1933-1935. Gill comments at the end of the book
"see 'Roland' (Dummy book) for continuation" with his initials and
"5-2-'40".
Note
Manuscript book includes G.? Gill's manuscript notes of 1843
regarding "Rostan's order in the examination of patients". Gift of
Evan Gill, July 1968.
Box 33, Folder 5
Bibliographical notes,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Notebook of typescript lists and notes with Gill's
and others manuscript annotations regarding his essays, lectures,
articles, book reviews, illustrations and letters to various
newspapers and journals, etc. Lists include publication information.
Notebook also contains Gill's notes on books to be examined, queries,
identification wanted, list of works by others which often concern or
make reference to Gill and his work and a chronological list of
notices of Gill exhibitions.
Note
Source = Oak Knoll, 1982.
Box 33, Folder 6
Bibliographies of Gill's publications,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Collection of loose typescripts of bibliographies of
Gill's publications.
Subseries 2.
Unpublished manuscripts, 1909-1940 and undated
Physical Description:
2.25 linear feet (4 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of manuscript and typescript notes and
article typescripts regarding Eric Gill's unpublished works. The
subseries is arranged chronologically.
The Clark's original title for this subseries was "Unlisted
writings".
Box 34
1909-1933
Note
Includes a 1933 document Gill wrote explaining the genesis
and characteristics of Joanna type.
Box 35
1934-1939
Note
Includes a collection of 1935 material regarding Gill's
projected book, Arabian Nights, including the opening page of text
with a drawing by Gill and sketches of the same; together with
estimates, trial setting, etc.
Box 37
Manuscript book, 1928
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript book in Gill's hand with original
drawings. Consists of a manuscript of his essay "2d plain 1d
coloured," a heavily corrected manuscript with deleted passages of his
"Preface to 'engravings,'" an unpublished and unplishable manuscript
draft of a short erotic novel illustrated with two drawings and an
erotic drawing with a manuscript note, "A stone statue of human fig.
being weak at the ankles requires extra
support...".
Note
Source = G.F. Sims, 1961. Detached front cover.
Subseries 3.
Lectures, 1905-1939 and
undated
Physical Description:
.9 linear feet (2 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of manuscript and typescript notes, lecture
contracts, requests, announcements, press clippings and slide lists.
The subseries is arranged chronologically.
Box 39
Lectures, essays and books,
1939-1940
Scope and Content Note
Gill's own bound manuscript record of his lectures,
essays and books written from May 1939-October 1940 with two
additional entries of works published in December 1940 after his
death.
Note
Volume 3 from "Collection of three volumes of Gill's own
manuscript record of his writings." Volumes 1 and 2 are included in
Series 2, Professional papers, Manuscripts subseries.
Source = GF Sims, 1966.
Series 3.
Art and artifacts, 1887-1940 and
undated
Physical Description:
14 flat files, 9 tubes, 15 linear feet (45 boxes), 8
items
Scope and Content Note
This series is arranged into six subseries; Drawings, engravings,
posters, etc., Sculpture, Printing blocks, plates and punches,
Sketchbooks and Miscellaneous artifacts.
Fuller descriptions of Eric Gill art can be found in an in-house,
searchable, non-image database at the Clark. The database comprises
records concerning Gill and Gill-related art that is held at the Clark.
The database also includes a small number of records concerning art
produced by others such as members of the Gill family, Edward Johnston,
Hague and Gill, Harry Kessler, Graily Hewitt, George Friend, Anthony
Foster, Laurie Cribb, Frances Cornford, Caslon and the Central School
for Art and Design. The database is searchable by title, artist, date,
object type (using a controlled vocabulary of largely preferred terms
from the Getty's
Art and Architecture Thesaurus ), description and in
some cases by numbers cross referenced from published works regarding
Eric Gill (ie. J.F. Physick's numbers from "The Engraved Work of Eric
Gill").
In some cases art items pertaining to a specific manuscript work are
filed under that work in Series 2. Professional papers, subseries A.
Manuscripts, arranged alphabetically by title. This generally applies to
works sized 8 ½ x 11 or smaller. This arrangement was imposed by the
Clark and was retained during processing.
Subseries 1.
Drawings, engravings, posters etc., 1907-1940
Physical Description:
14 flat files, 6 linear feet (25 boxes), 9 tubes, 8
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes drawings, sketches, watercolors, designs, lettering
examples, type proofs and specimens, page and smoke proofs, mock-ups,
posters, broadsides, prints, rubbings, tracings, engravings and
woodcuts. Also includes several associated items not stored in flat
files; collections of engravings, manuscript and typescript lists of
engravings and an engravings scrapbook. Material stored in flat files
are arranged by subject and/or by media, such as nudes, watercolors,
etc., then by date. This arrangement was imposed by the Clark and was
retained during processing. Associated items not stored in flat files
are arranged by subject, such as drawings, lettering, type design,
engravings, etc. then by date.
Map Drawer 01
Drawings and sketches of nudes, male and female, from
life; nudes, hands, feet, etc.; places or things,
Map Drawer 02
Portraits and watercolors
Map Drawer 03
Drawings and sketches regarding League of
Nations
Map Drawer 04
Sketches for carvings in stone and/or wood,
1935-1940
Map Drawer 05
Sketches for carvings in stone and/or wood,
1906-1934
Map Drawer 06
Tracings
Scope and Content Note
Includes calligraphic examples (including examples
from Mary Gill, Graily Hewitt and Edward Johnston), sample alphabets,
designs for painted signs and lettering and
rubbings.
Map Drawer 07
Eric Gill and Edward Johnston
Scope and Content Note
Includes calligraphic examples (including examples
from Mary Gill, Graily Hewitt and Edward Johnston), sample alphabets,
designs for painted signs and lettering and
rubbings.
Map Drawer 08
Designs for materials to be printed
Scope and Content Note
Includes books jacket designs, binding ornaments,
illustrations for books (printed and unprinted) and
posters.
Map Drawer 09
Architectural drawings and sketches
Scope and Content Note
Includes drawings and sketches of churches and
chapels, Ditchling Commons workshops, cottages at Ditchling, furniture
details, Pigotts and miscellaneous cottages.
Map Drawer 10
Designs for medals, coins, stamps and salvers
Box 40-48
League of Nations
drawings1936
Physical Description: nine tubes
Scope and Content Note
Unit collection of 16 mostly pencil sketches prepared
for carving of "The Re-creation of Man" in the Council Lobby of the
Peace Palace, League of Nations, Geneva. Many drawings are squared, in
1/4 full size, indicating in colored crayons the 1 1/2" and 2" desired
carving depth. With this, specifications print for the bas-relief
stone triptych showing foyer where carvings are to be placed. Also
includes rubbings from the lettering (in upper case 4" letters).
Collection rolled together for preservation.
Note
EG 156-172. Stored above Gill art flat files.
Box 49, Folder 1
Drawings, etc. regarding "The travels and sufferings of
Father Jean de Brebeuf", 1938 and
undated
Physical Description: 1 portfolio case
Scope and Content Note
Consists of three drawings: two rough pencil sketches
for the double title page; and one finished drawing, as well as two
copies of the prospectus (one annotated by Gill) and an annotated
specimen page of text.
Note
Herbert F. West, 1968, Cat 53: 340. See Physick 972-3, Gill
658-9, Gill 297, Pertelote 136.
Box 49, Folder 2
Miscellaneous erotic drawings, etc.,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Bound volume of miscellaneous erotic drawings,
engravings, pulls, etc. 39 items, mounted in bound volume 4 1/2 x 6
1/4 inches, paper covers.
Note
EG 1446.
Box 49, Folder 3
Office B.M.M., 1940
Scope and Content Note
Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Office of the
Blessed Virgin Mary. [Eric Gill, tr.] "Office B.M.M." - Little office
of the blessed Virgin Mary, as recited by the Dominican tertiaries. A
printed mock-up of the intended volume of Eric Gill's translation with
his holograph changes. Inserted note by Rene Hague indicates reason
for its not being printed.
Note
EG 828.
Box 49, Folder 4
Arabic type file, 1937-1938 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Collection includes proofs, specimen pages,
manuscript notes, designs, drawings and correspondence,
etc.
Note
Source = G.F. Sims, 1976.
Box 49, Folder 5
Manuscript and inscription letters,
1909
Scope and Content Note
"Manuscript and inscription letters for schools and
classes and for the use of craftsmen" by Edward Johnston, with 5
plates by A.E.R. Gill. London : John Hogg, 1909.
Note
EG 1595.
Box 50
Manuscript and inscription letters,
1911
Physical Description: Oversize
Scope and Content Note
"Manuscript and inscription letters for schools and
classes and for the use of craftsmen" by Edward Johnston, with 5
plates by A.E.R. Gill. London: John Hogg, 1911.
Note
EG 1583.
Box 51
Type and page proofs and specimens1918-1946 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes smoke proofs, Joanna specimens, proofs and
specimens, dummy of The Holy Sonnets, proof of text and modern
translation for The song of Roland and miscellaneous items.
Note
Formerly Press Coll. Gill Box-23G, source = Sotheby sale
Nov.9, 1981, Lot 79, and Box-16G.
Box 52
Collection of proofs1910-1928 and
undated
Physical Description: Oversize
Scope and Content Note
Includes page proofs of engravings, type setting,
etc. for works such as Hamlet, Canticum Canticourm and The
Odyssey.
Note
Source = Philip Duschnes.
Box 52
"Engraving, illustration, and
design"undated
Scope and Content Note
Proof on Japanese vellum with manuscript corrections
by Gill.
Note
Source = G.F. Sims.
Box 53
Engravings scrapbook,
1916-1924
Physical Description: 1 vol.
Scope and Content Note
Wood engravings done by Gill at Ditchling Common,
Sussex.
Box 54-56
Engravings in wood, copper etc., v.1-3,
1924-1931 and undated
Physical Description: 3 vols.
Scope and Content Note
Engravings in wood, copper etc. done by Eric Gill,
O.S.D. at Capel-y-ffin Abergavenny. No.1-679. Many include Gill's
holograph comments.
Box 57-60
Engravings scrapbook - Canterbury Tales, v.1-4,
1928-1930 and undated
Physical Description: 4 vols.
Scope and Content Note
Wood engravings done by Gill for The Canterbury
Tales.
Box 61
Collection of Gill engravings1908-1940 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Gill engravings D1-D232 and Gill numbers 18-575. Also
includes a collection of Gill's lists of: his engravings and woodcuts,
his prints for sale, his wood engravings out of print, books with his
engravings, etc., his woodcuts in the Victoria and Albert Museum which
have been photographed and his bookplates.
Note
Gill engravings source = Walter O. Schneider collection and
other sources. W.O.Schneider bequest identified "CLC-s". "Special
Collections Folder". Formerly Press Coll. Gill Box-3G. Engravings
lists source = G.F. Sims, 1963.
Box 62
Engravings scrapbook - The Four Gospels,
undated
Physical Description: 1 vol.
Scope and Content Note
Wood engravings done by Gill for The Four Gospels
printed and published by the Golden Cockerel Press,
1931.
Box 63
Engravings scrapbook - Troilus and Criseyde,
undated
Physical Description: 1 vol.
Scope and Content Note
Wood engravings done by Gill for Troilus and Criseyde
by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Note
Source = Bertram Rota?
Box 64
Proof engravings scrapbook,
undated
Physical Description: 1 vol.
Scope and Content Note
113 Gill proof engravings and several miscellaneous
items loosely inserted into a bound scrapbook.
Note
Proofs are marked on the reverse with Douglas Cleverdon's
"Engravings by Gill" "D" number, referencing works engraved by Gill at
Ditchling. The scrapbook bears a Rainforth Armitage Walker bookplate.
Handle with care - partially detached front cover.
Subseries 2.
Sculpture, 1920-1937 and
undated
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Content Note
Collection of sculpture including Adam and Eve, the seven-foot-tall
Caryatid carved by Eric Gill in 1926-1927 at Capel-y-ffin, a model of
Christ expelling the money changers, St. John Bosco, Sundial and the
Mulier sculpture sited at the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA). The subseries is arranged by title of work.
Mulier1912
Scope and Content Note
Portland stone.
Note
EG 1674. Sited at the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA), at the entrance to the Young Research Library.
Loving, undated
Note
EG 1678. Gill's own name for the sculpture was "Fucking".
Located in North Mezannine office.
Adam and Eve, 1920
Scope and Content Note
Male and female truncated figures carved in stone,
standing on wooden base. Overall size: 18 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
including base; stone is 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 3 inches. Signed E.G.,
1920.
Note
EG 1670. From the collection of Wm. Rothenstein. Located in
North Mezannine office.
Christ expelling the money-changers,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Model in Portland stone for Leeds University War
Memorial.
Note
EG 1668. Located in South Book Room glass case.
Caryatid, 1926-1927
Scope and Content Note
Original carving in pine, executed in Capel-y-ffin in
1926-1927 from a Wellingtonia pine cut down on the site. The carving
stands 7 feet high and is one of Gill's very few essays in woodcarving
of this size. No model was used.
Note
EG 1666. Located outside North Mezannine office.
Sundial, ca. 1937
Scope and Content Note
Carved in Hopton-Wood stone, with legend "When the
sun is not shining I do this for fun" colored in red by artist.
England, ca. 1937. 19 1/2 x 26 x 5 inches.
Note
EG 1671. Located in Reading Room outside well.
St. John Bosco, 1936
Scope and Content Note
Stone carving. The overall size of 30 inches
comprises a 23 inch high figure on 7 inch base. The saint holds a book
in one hand, rests other hand on head of dog seated by
him.
Note
EG 1669. Gill's ledger entry of 7/9/36 reads "Carved by
Anthony Foster, assisted by Eric Gill". Located at south end of
Reading Room.
Alphabet, undated
Scope and Content Note
Carved on gray stone, 23 inches wide, 18 inches tall,
and 1 3/4 inches thick.
Note
EG 1672. Loacated at the sound end of Reading
Room.
Subseries 3.
Sketchbooks, 1887-1939
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet (3 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes Gill's sketchbooks made in his childhood and in his mature
years, as well as three volumes of illustrated manuscript history
books done by Gill's daughter, Elizabeth, as a child. The subseries is
arranged by creator, then by date.
Box 65
History book of Elizabeth Gill, v.1-3,
1918-1919
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript exercise book depicting stories from the
Bible, with each page decorated in watercolor. Prepared under Eric
Gill's supervision and probably with his
assistance.
Note
EG 1416, 1418 and 1419.
Box 65
Apple barn club magazine, The,
1915
Scope and Content Note
No.1, for April, May, June [1915]. Eight drawings on
four leaves, plus inserted nine leaves of text. Contributions
identified AERGill [nd]; and Elizabeth Gill, Agnes Weller, Betty Gill,
Petra Gill and Joan Gill, April 1915. Text in unidentified hand,
titled "Nature notes, by Lucanus".
Note
EG 1445.
Box 66, Folder 1
Sketchbook #1, 1887
Scope and Content Note
Sketchbook #1, December 19, 1887 signed and dated on
the front and inside cover. Drawings on almost every page in pencil,
mostly railways. Bound in tan cloth. 28 leaves. 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches.
Note
EG 1405.
Box 66, Folder 2
Sketchbook #2, 1888
Scope and Content Note
Sketchbook #2, July 31, 1888, signed and dated on the
front and inside cover. Drawings on almost every page in pencil, one
has been watercolored at a later date. 28 leaves. 5 1/4 x 3 1/4
inches. Bound in tan cloth.
Note
EG 1400.
Box 66, Folder 3
Sketchbook, Dec. 2, 1888,
Scope and Content Note
Signed and dated on first leaf. Drawings in pencil
with some colored in crayon. Bound in black with gold lettering
"Sketches". 22 leaves. 7 1/4 x 5 inches.
Note
EG 1399.
Box 66, Folder 4
Sketchbook, 1888
Scope and Content Note
Signed and dated on front cover: Arthur Eric Rowton
Gill's Scrap Book of Original Sketches 1888. Drawings in pencil with
some watercolored. Bound in red cloth. 28 leaves. 8 1/2 x 7
inches.
Note
EG 1402.
Box 66, Folder 5
Engine book, 1890-1896
Scope and Content Note
Notebook listing engine's name, number and type with
notes and pencil sketches. Signed on inside cover: Eric R. Gill,
Engine Book, etc. Preston, New Dyke Road Drive. Brighton. Bound in
black leatheroid with name scratched on front cover: Engine
Book.
Note
EG 1404.
Box 66, Folder 6
Drawing book, 1891
Scope and Content Note
The drawings are sketched in pencil and watercolored,
mostly trains and country around Brighton. 22
pages.
Note
EG 1417.
Box 66, Folder 7
Drawing book, 1892
Scope and Content Note
Drawing book June 27, 1892 titled "To dear Helena
from Eric Gill". Comprises inscription panel and 11 more which fold
out showing railway bridges, tunnels, trains, ships, and country
scenes in ink and watercolor. Handmade foldout. 12 panels. 5' 10" x 8"
folding to 6" x 8".
Note
EG 1408.
Box 66, Folder 8
Engine drawing book, 1892
Scope and Content Note
Drawing book titled "Engines and the like by EG.
1892." Signed and dated in Gill's holograph on inside cover. Drawings
are in ink and pencil with watercoloring. Handmade. 22 pages. 8 1/2 x
4 inches.
Note
EG 1415.
Box 66, Folder 9
Engine notebook, 1896
Scope and Content Note
A listing of engine names, numbers, type, where built
and district with notes on type and pencil sketches. On inside of
cover and flyleaf: Railway Note Book. Eric R. Gill. and Eric R. Gill.
11.3.96. 6x4 inches. Bound in black leatheroid with name scratched on
front: E. Gill.
Note
EG 1401.
Box 67, Folder 1
Architectural details sketchbook, c. 1897
Scope and Content Note
Sketches of architectural details around Chichester,
also a list of the details he was to have sketched. No binding. 12
leaves, various sizes.
Note
EG 1428-1439.
Box 67, Folder 2
Notes on Design, 1898-1899
Scope and Content Note
Gill sketchboook, Book II, December 14, 1898,
Chichester. Includes pencil and watercolor drawings and
sketches.
Note
EG 1675. Source = G.F. Sims.
Box 67, Folder 3
Engine sketchbook, 1918
Scope and Content Note
Sketchbook of engine parts and several pages of
Gill's writing. Also included are a few pages of locomotive sketches
done in Gill's youth.
Note
EG 1676. Found in "Personal" file, Topical material series.
Box 67, Folder 4
Architectural details sketchbook, 1919-1923
Scope and Content Note
Drawings in pencil for Bisham Cross, Ausmering Cross,
Gough and Maclachlain tablets, etc. Bound in paper wrappers. 12
leaves. 8 x 5 inches.
Note
EG 1409.
Box 67, Folder 5
Sketchbook, May, 1933
Scope and Content Note
Signed and dated "A.T.G. from E.R. Gill. 1898" in
pencil and again in ink "Eric Gill..May, 1933". Drawings in pencil and
ink of cars, Egyptian statues and his trip to Jerusalem. Bound in
black fabric. 47 leaves. 8 x 5 inches.
Note
EG 1420.
Box 67, Folder 6
Paris sketchbook, 1938
Scope and Content Note
Twelve nudes drawn from life, some dated. 12 loose
leaves.
Note
EG 102-113. See R. Speaight's "Life of Gill", p. 291/2 for a
fuller description. Source = Alan G. Thomas, 1968.
Box 67, Folder 7
Three pencil nudes, 1939
Scope and Content Note
Three pencil nudes: female, back view from shoulders
to knees; male, front view from chest to knees; male genitals. 3
items, mounted, bound in vellum.
Note
EG 1.
Box 67, Folder 8
Undated sketchbook
Scope and Content Note
Signed on inside front cover in pencil. Drawings in
pencil. Bound in black with gold lettering "Sketchbook." 32 leaves. 7
x 4 1/2 inches.
Note
EG 1403.
Box 67, Folder 9
Undated sketchbook
Scope and Content Note
Contains sketches of items in Wallace collection as
well as sketches for his own work. Bound in tan cloth. 20 leaves. 4
1/2 x 7 1/2 inches.
Note
EG 1407.
Subseries 4.
Printing blocks, plates and punches, 1908-1940 and undated
Physical Description:
4.5 linear feet (12 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Consists of Gill's wood printing blocks, copper and zinc printing
plates and metal punches. The subseries is arranged by format of
material, then by Physick number when available.
Punches, ca. 1930
Physical Description: 2 wooden boxes
Scope and Content Note
Collection of original punches cut by Caslon from
drawings by Gill for Joanna type (from the artist's own printing-shop
with Rene Hague at Pigotts). Complete set of 12pt and 8pt Joanna type
(roman and italic in 12 pt; roman in 8pt). In two original wood
cases.
Note
EG 1665. Located in South Book Room glass case.
Box 68
Physick blocks 1-356, 1908-1926 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains Physick items 1-356: 1, 18, 36, 43, 46, 77,
139, 140, 157, 163, 285, 328, 342, 356.
Box 69
Physick blocks 624-783, 1930-1931 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains Physick items 624-783: 624 (2), 661, 662,
663, 664, 665, 666, 716, 720, 724, 732, 733, 757, 774,
783.
Box 70
Physick blocks 820-903, 1931-1936 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains Physick items 820-903 except oversize items
898 and 899: 820, 849, 851, 856, 871, 878, 889, 896, 900, 901, 902,
903.
Box 71
Physick blocks 904-993, 1936-1940 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains Physick items 904-993 plus oversize items
898 and 899: 904, 905, 919, 972, 973, 977, 983, 990, 991,
993.
Box 72
Miscellaneous blocks, 1925-1927 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains miscellaneous blocks not identified by
Physick number. Consists of Eric Gill woodblocks 108 and 139, Like a
young fawn #59, D3, D6, D7, Troilus and Criseyde #127, #136 and #166,
CLC 1-3, 5, 7, and 8-12, Bookplate D144 and #219.
Box 73
Miscellaneous blocks, 1929-1938 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains miscellaneous wood blocks not identified by
Physick number. Consists of Tristan Shandy diagram #324b, Faber plate
63, Ginn's English Bible #667, Faber plate 66, EG 418, Device #618,
Morley/Kennerly EG 611, Sir Thomas More's "Utopia" and an unmarked
block of maple leaves.
Box 74
Canterbury Tales blocks, 1927 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Blocks 154, 223, 225, 225g, 280, 290, 303, 305, 313,
333, 354, 380 and 383.
Box 75
Unidentified block,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified wood block of Christ figure? in various
pieces.
Box 76
Printing plates, 1924-1967 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains Kindersley 1963 zinc plate, Kindersley 1967
zinc plate, Physick numbers 369, 279, 280, 372, 373, 492, 296, 303,
304, 307, and unidentified unfinished Madonna and
#98.
Box 77
Hampshire hog
copperplate1915
Subseries 5.
Miscellaneous artifacts, 1908-1940 and undated
Physical Description:
3 linear feet (5 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The subseries contains artifacts associated with Gill and/or whose
creator is undetermined. Includes a Madonna and child gesso-filled
woodblock, a Madonna and child statuette and a pair of potholder with
a Gill nude drawing design. The subseries is arranged by title.
Madonna and Child figurine,
1912
Scope and Content Note
Original plaster polychrome statuette, 8 inches
high.
Note
EG 1638. Located in South Book Room glass case.
Box 78
Gill engravings, undated
Physical Description: 1 portfolio case
Scope and Content Note
Collection of eleven loose Gill engravings 1924-1927,
printed on heavy stock with deckled edge and three toe animal
footprint emboss. Consists of: Madonna and Child (3) (Physick
302-304), Crucifix (Physick 376), Portrait of a lady [Moira, Mrs.
Robert Gibbings] (Physick 296), Girl with three scallops (Physick
492), Flying buttresses (Physick 373), David (Physick 372), Gordian
Gill (Physick 280), Elizabeth Gill (Physick 279), Prior of Caldey
(Physick 369) and two unidentified incomplete
engravings.
Note
EG 1673. Clark has plates for all identified engravings as
well as a drawing of Flying butresses.
Box 79
Wood engravings
proofsundated
Note
Collection includes proofs EG 1661-1664 from former box Press
Coll. Gill Box-10G.
Box 79
Medallion, 1934
Scope and Content Note
"Eric Gill, O.S.D." (Casting of original medallion
portrait showing Gill's head and shoulders to left). Signed with
initials. Round metal, 42mm (1 5/8 inch) diameter. In box, 5 1/2 x 3
1/2 s 1/2 inch.
Note
EG 1634. Original medallion unlocated. Design is in intaglio
rather than relief. Source = Deval and Muir, 1973.
Box 79
Madonna and child wooden plaque,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Pearwood with enamel inlay. Lettered: "+ et verbum
caro factum est et habitavit in nobis."
Note
EG 1667.
Box 79
St. Christopher medal, ca.
1923
Scope and Content Note
Silver St. Christopher medal similar in design to the
two heads on Gill's engraving D-189 (Physick 220) which was executed
in 1923. Made by George Friend to Gill's designs. Joe Cribb letter, 24
Nov. 98.
Note
EG 1635. Source = Sims 1968.
Box 80
Mats and frames, undated
Scope and Content Note
Empty mats and frames for several Gill art items: EG
829, EG 830, EG 833, EG 844, EG 1089, EG 1342, EG 1425 and 2001 Rota
acquisition of "Ecce tu pulchraes"? drawing.
Box 81
Potholders, undated
Scope and Content Note
Pair of quilted potholders printed with drawing of
girl with long hair. "Lilly Lee" printed on tag.
Note
EG 613. Source = Basilisk, May 20, 1983. See Clark - Gill
Group II, 6.10.25.
Box 82
Vasari Society for the reproduction of drawings by old
and modern masters, second series, Part IX,
1928
Scope and Content Note
Empty portfolio for plates and letterpress.
Note
Back cover notes "Eric Gill architectural
drawings".
Series 4.
Correspondence, 1913-1940
Physical Description:
12 linear feet (24 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
This series consists primarily of personal and professional
correspondence between Eric Gill and publishers, patrons, family
members, friends and influential members of the London art world. The
series includes Gill's letters to the editors of various newspapers and
periodicals with his drafts, press clippings of the published letters,
press clippings of responses, and related correspondence. These files
are arranged alphabetically under the publication's name. A substantial
portion of the correspondence series also consists of condolence letters
and telegrams sent to Mrs. Mary Gill after Eric Gill's death in
November, 1940. Also included are nine manuscript shorthand notebooks in
Gill's secretary's hand of letters dictated by Gill from 1936-1939, a
Gill letterbook, a bound collection of Gill's rough drafts of letters
written July-November, 1940 and Gill's Letters from Jerusalem. These
items are arranged alphabetically by title at the end of the
correspondence.
Correspondence received by Eric and/or Mary Gill is filed
alphabetically under the correspondent's name; correspondence sent by
either of the Gills is filed alphabetically under the recipient's name.
Items within each file are organized chronologically. The alphabetical
arrangement imposed by the Clark was retained during processing. Some
reorganization was implemented, however: correspondence previously
separated into groups of uncataloged and cataloged material was
interfiled to facilitate easier subject access. Similarly,
correspondence previously divided by incoming letters to the Gills
(alphabetically arranged by correspondent, then date) and
incoming/outgoing letters to the Gill's (arranged chronologically) was
interfiled alphabetically as one unit.
Correspondence pertaining to a specific manuscript work is filed
under that work in Series 2. Professional papers, subseries A.
Manuscripts.
Box 83, Folder 8
Archbishop of Westminster, Arthur
Box 83, Folder 9
Architect and Building News
Box 83, Folder 11
Architectural Association of Ireland
Box 83, Folder 12
Architectural Design and Instruction
Box 83, Folder 14
Artists International Association (aia)
Box 83, Folder 17
Association for Moral and Social Hygiene
Box 83, Folder 26
Barrett, W.G. (William Garland)
Box 84, Folder 5
Borough of Hove, Public Library and Museum
Box 84, Folder 6
Boulter, Benjamin Consitt
Box 84, Folder 6
Catholic Libraries for H.M. Forces
Box 84, Folder 10
British General Insurance Company, Limited
Box 84, Folder 11
British Institute of Adult Education
Box 84, Folder 14
Bucks County Council, Highways and Bridges
Department
Box 84, Folder 21
Butler, Father (E. Cuthbert)
Box 84, Folder 29
Carter, George Christopher
Box 84, Folder 30
Caslon, H.W., and Company, Limited
Box 85, Folder 11
Charles, Dudley, Bishop of Northampton
Box 85, Folder 17
Christian Challenge Series
Box 85, Folder 20
Churchill, Clementine S., Lady
Box 86, Folder 1-3
Chute, Reverend Desmond Macready
Note
Includes art, poems, etc. done for Eric Gill
Box 86, Folder 9
Cleverdon, Thomas Douglas James
Box 86, Folder 12
Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. (Thomas James)
Box 86, Folder 15
College of Arts and Crafts
Box 86, Folder 17
Comité de l'Art des Fêtes
Box 86, Folder 23
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish)
Box 86, Folder 28
Cornford, Francis Macdonald
Box 87, Folder 2
Council for the Encouragement of Music and the
Arts
Box 87, Folder 5
Craig, John Herbert McCutheon, Sir
Box 87, Folder 11
Croydon (St. Andrew's Parish Magazine)
Box 87, Folder 17
D'Arcy, Father M.C. (Martin Cyril). S.J.
Box 87, Folder 23
Delany, Father Bernard, O.P.
Box 87, Folder 28
Destree, Bruno, Dom, O.S.B.
Box 87, Folder 30
Ditchling Volunteer Fire Brigade
Box 87, Folder 36
Dunn, Hansom and Fenwicke, Architects and
Surveyors
Box 87, Folder 41
Elwes, Reverend Valentine
Box 88, Folder 6
Exposition Internationale De Gravures
Box 88, Folder 9
Fabian Society (Great Britain)
Box 88, Folder 23
Forbes, T.L. (T. Lawrence?)
Box 88, Folder 24
Ford, Hugh Edmund, Abbot, O.S.B.
Box 88, Folder 30
Friend, George T.
Note
Includes instructions written to Eric Gill from Friend (metal
engraver) "To take a print without a press." Instructions cover the
pulling of intaglio prints from blocks and the transfer of drawings onto
wood and copper for engraving. Also methods of cleaning, polishing and
the removal of polish on copper, etc.
Box 89, Folder 5
Gayer-Anderson, R.G. (Robert Grenville?)
Box 89, Folder 8
George Allen and Unwin Limited
Box 89, Folder 15
Gill, Cecil
Note
Includes typescript "My brother, Eric Gill. A talk by Dr. Cecil
Gill 18.11.49".
Box 89, Folder 17
Gill, Elizabeth (Betty)
Note
Contains art done by Elizabeth Gill as a child.
Box 90, Folder 7
Gill, Petra
Note
Includes a photograph with Petra and Joanna Gill as young
women.
Box 90, Folder 11
Gill's nieces, nephews, grandchildren
Box 91, Folder 1-2
Goupil Gallery
Note
Includes "Woodblock carvings by Eric Gill" list (151 items
listed).
Box 91, Folder 21
Heal, Edith Florence Digby
Box 91, Folder 33
Hinsley, Arthur, Archbishop of Winchester
Box 92, Folder 16
Ignatius, Father of Llanthony (Joseph Leycester
Lyne)
Box 92, Folder 18
International Collection of Modern Book-Art
Box 92, Folder 22
J.P. McNulty and Company, Limited
Box 92, Folder 24
Jackson, Charles D'Orville Pilkington
Box 93, Folder 4
Journal of the Art Teachers' Guild and the New Society of
Art Teachers
Box 93, Folder 5
Junior Art-Workers' Guild
Box 93, Folder 12
Keynes, Geoffrey Langdon, Sir
Box 93, Folder 13
Keynes, Margaret Elizabeth
Box 93, Folder 18
L.H. Shattock, Chartered Architect
Box 93, Folder 24
Laughton, J.R.C. (John Robert Carr)
Box 93, Folder 26
Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert)
Note
Manuscript book in Eric Gill's hand-writing: "Pansies by D.H.
Lawrence. Poems copied from the limited edition i.e. the ones not
printed in the ordinary edition. The numbers on the left of the titles
are those of the pages in the limited edition." [Eric Gill's initials,
dated 10-2-1930].
Box 93, Folder 27
Lawrence ?, ?, Bishop of Northampton
Box 94, Folder 5
Lethaby, W.R. (William Richard)
Box 94, Folder 10
London and North Eastern Railway Magazine
Box 94, Folder 11
Longmans, Green, and Company
Box 94, Folder 15
Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir
Box 94, Folder 17
Maccoll, Dugald Sutherland
Box 94, Folder 29
Massé, Henri John Louis Joseph
Box 94, Folder 30
Mather, Joan
Note
Contains a photo postcard of Eric Gill and a
clergyman.
Box 95, Folder 1
McElligott, Dom Bernard, O.S.B.
Box 95, Folder 4
McNabb, Father Vincent, O.P.
Box 95, Folder 15
Ministry of Information (London)
Box 95, Folder 31
National Register of Industrial Art Designers
Box 96, Folder 9
Northcote, Freda Stafford
Box 96, Folder 23
Paget, Richard Arthur Surtees, Sir
Box 96, Folder 24
Pakington and Enthoven, Chartered Architects
Box 97, Folder 6
Pepler, Hilary Douglas Clark
Box 97, Folder 15
Portland, William John Arthur Charles James
Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of,
Box 97, Folder 23
Public Art Gallery, County Borough of Brighton
Box 97, Folder 27
Putnam and Company, Limited
Box 98, Folder 1
Raffalovich, André Sebastian
Box 98, Folder 5-6
Raverat, Jacques Pierre
Note
Among the items is a collection of twenty-nine autograph
letters from Gill - Source = Roy Davids Ltd., 2000.
Box 98, Folder 11
Red Rose Guild of Artworkers
Box 98, Folder 12
Reeves, Father John Baptist, O.P.
Box 98, Folder 26
Rope, Father (Henry Edward George)
Box 98, Folder 29
Rothenstein, William, Sir
Box 98, Folder 30
Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm
Box 98, Folder 33
Royal Institute of British Architects
Box 99, Folder 30
Rutter, Frank
1914 February 5
Note
Regarding the "big statue of the Blessed Virgin (alias 'Mulier')." Accession MS.2010.028.
Box 99, Folder 11
Shakespeare Memorial Committee
Box 99, Folder 23
South London Union of Socialist Sunday School's
Box 99, Folder 26
Squirrel, Harold S., Canon
Box 99, Folder 27
St. Edmund's College (Herts)
Box 100, Folder 21-25
Tegetmeier, Denis
Note
Contains 4 folders of published cartoons by
Tegetmeier.
Box 101, Folder 1
Thomas Thorp, Antiquarian Bookseller
Box 101, Folder 2
Thomas Worthington and Sons, Architects
Box 101, Folder 12
Tudsbery, Marmaduke Tudsbery
Box 101, Folder 15
Union Internationale des Beaux-Arts et des
Lettres
Box 101, Folder 20
Victoria and Albert Museum
Box 101, Folder 22
Votes for Women - The Women's Social and Political
Union
Box 101, Folder 25
Walker, Rainforth Armitage
Box 101, Folder 26
Walker, Rainforth Armitage, 1920-1931 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Collection of letters from Eric Gill to Rainforth
Armitage Walker. Also includes a few letters to Walker from Hilary
Douglas Pepler.
Note
Source = Elkin Mathews. Collection of loose items originally
housed in a scrapbook assembled by the dealer.
Box 101, Folder 28
Walter I. Rand - Society Emblems
Box 102, Folder 2
Watson, Janet, 1915
Scope and Content Note
3 correspondence items and a photocopy of a photograph
regarding Gill's Blessed Virgin and Child sculpture at St. Brides church
in Glasgow, Scotland..
Note
Source = Golden Legend, Inc., 2001. See Photographs series, Art
work subseries, Sculpture for original photograph. See Topical,
Box 102, Folder 8
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Box 102, Folder 9
West Sussex County Council (The High School for
Girls)
Box 102, Folder 18
William Sills Quarries and Private Sidings
Box 102, Folder 22
Woodforde, Reverend Christopher
Box 102, Folder 23
Woolwich Equitable Building Society
Box 102, Folder 24
Wycombe (Borough) Electric Light and Power Company,
Limited
Box 102, Folder 29
Zeitlin, Josephine and Jake
Box 102, Folder 30
Gill letterbook, August 1934- November
1934
Box 102, Folder 31
Gill letterbook draft summaries, August 1934-
November 1934
Box 103, Folder 120
Unidentified, 1909-1941 and undated
Box 104-105
Shorthand notebooks,
1936-1939
Scope and Content Note
Nine manuscript shorthand notebooks in Eric Gill's
secretary's hand, containing drafts of letters dictated by Gill,
1936-1939. The notebooks are arranged
chronologically.
Box 106
Letters from Jerusalem,
1934
Scope and Content Note
Collection of largely unpublished holograph letters
written by Eric Gill to his wife Mary, while he was on his journey to
Palestine March 10-June 13, 1934. Several letters contain small sketches
by Gill. Several original envelopes are included.
Note
Several letters, in edited form, were published in Gill's
"Palestine Diary."
Source = G.F. Sims, 1965.
Box 106
Letter book, July 1915-June
1927
Scope and Content Note
Comprises copies of Gill's letters 1915-1927, mainly in
Gill's holograph, with complete index in front. Many letters relate to
his work and include details about stones he was carving; small drawings
and inserted estimates for work are also included.
Note
Source = G.F. Sims, 1965.
Box 106
Collection of rough drafts of letters,
1940
Scope and Content Note
Bound collection of rough drafts of letters to editors
and notes Gill wrote from July 1940-November 1, 1940 while in Wycombe
Hospital.
Note
Last six pages include Gill's original sketches for drawings
and title page for Glue and Lacquer.
Series 5.
Photographs, 1908-1969 and
undated
Physical Description:
6 linear feet (4 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
This series is arranged into four subseries; People, Places, Art work
and Miscellaneous.
Subseries 1.
People, 1914-1969 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of photographs, reproductions, negatives and
slides of Eric Gill, Gill family members and several unidentified
persons. The subseries is arranged by subject, then date.
Box 107 OV
Eric Gill, undated
Physical Description: Oversize box.
Scope and Content Note
Collection of seven oversize photographs of Eric Gill
taken by Howard Coster. Includes images of Gill working in his
workshop.
Note
Negatives are avilable for two of the photographs. Two
photographs are mounted. EG 1519-1525.
Box 108, Folder 1
Cecil and Vernon Gill,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of Cecil and Vernon Gill, two of Eric
Gill's brothers, taken in Wales.
Note
See subseries 4. Miscellaneous for additional photographs of
Cecil and Vernon Gill taken at a 1967 conference on Eric Gill held at
the Clark.
Box 108, Folder 2
Eric Gill, undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains a photograph of Eric Gill in his studio
carving; a reproduction of Gill standing with a carving tool in hand;
and a reproduction of Gill in 1909.
Note
See also Box 109 for a photograph of Eric Gill in his
workshop with the unfinished League of Nations panel. See also Box 8 -
Personal papers series, Biographical and interview items subseries,
Autobiography - corrected proofs and typescript for reproductions of
Eric Gill in his studio engraving and Gill standing in his studio with
an unfinished League of Nations panel.
Box 108, Folder 3
Eric Gill and family members, 1914-ca.
1918-1919 and undated
Scope and Content Note
Negatives and reproductions of Eric Gill with his
parents and siblings at an unknown location; with his wife and
children (as well as Desmond Chute) on Ditchling Common, Sussex,
England; and with Mary Gill.
Note
One of the images of Gill, his wife and children standing
outside his workshop, The Crank, on Ditchling Common, Sussex, includes
Gill's just-completed Mulier sculpture in the background. The
reproduction of Eric Gill with his parents and siblings was taken from
an original owned by Eric Williams, Gill's grandson, who brought the
photograph during a visit to the Clark in June, 2003.
Box 108, Folder 4
Unidentified, undated
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of a group of children standing with a
priest.
Subseries 2.
Places, ca.
1920's-1959
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of photographs, a photographic postcard, a
reproduction and color slides of Capel-y-ffin, Eric Gill's Ditchling
house, Ditchling Press, St. Dominic's, Ditchling and the "Long room"
in Gill's Pigotts house. The subseries is arranged by subject, then
date.
Box 108, Folder 5
Capel-y-ffin, 1935
Scope and Content Note
Publicity photo postcard of
Capel-y-ffin.
Box 108, Folder 5
Ditchling Press, 1959
Scope and Content Note
Color slide (33 mm) of Ditchling
Press
Note
Gift of Professor Majl Ewing, January, 1960.
Box 108, Folder 5
St. Dominic's, 1959
Scope and Content Note
Color slide (33 mm) of St.
Dominic's.
Note
Gift of Professor Majl Ewing, January, 1960.
Box 108, Folder 5
Ditchling house, 1959
Scope and Content Note
Color slide (33 mm) of two unidentified women
standing outside of Eric Gill's house in Ditchling.
Note
Gift of Professor Majl Ewing, January, 1960. See subseries 1.
People, for a photograph of the Gill family on Ditchling
Common.
Box 108, Folder 5
Lourdes, 1939
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of a group of unidentified adults on a
street with a religious statue in the background. The reverse of the
photograph reads "Lourdes, 1939."
Box 108, Folder 5
"Long room" at Pigotts, ca.
1920's
Scope and Content Note
Reproduction of the "Long room" in Eric Gill's
Pigotts home, High Wycombe, England.
Note
The reproduction was taken from an original photograph owned
by Eric Williams, Gill's grandson, who brought the photograph during a
visit to the Clark in June, 2003.
Subseries 3.
Art work, 1908-1969 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of photographs, reproductions, a photo scrap
book and a color slide of Eric Gill drawings, sketches and designs,
inscriptional work, wood blocks and sculpture. The subseries is
arranged by subject, then date.
Box 109, Folder 1-2
Drawings, sketches and designs,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Photographs and reproductions of two-dimensional
works by Eric Gill. Includes a 1921 sketch of Mary Gill and Gill's
daughters Joan and Petra, a collection of Eric Gill's Nudes drawings
from 1926-1929 and 1931, two 1927 preliminary drawings for sculpture
of the Rossall School War Memorial altarpiece and a collection of
bookplate designs.
Note
See also Box 8 - Personal papers series, Biographical and
interview items subseries, Autobiography - corrected proofs and
typescript for reproductions of Gill sketches: a self-portrait of Eric
Gill, sketch of Father John O'Connor, sketch of Gill's children and
sketch of Mary Gill. The original 1921 sketch of Mary Gill, etc. is
held at the Clark. Photographs of Gill's Nudes were gifted from Walter
Shewring via Albert Sperisen. Contains EG 128.
Box 109, Folder 3
Inscriptions, undated
Scope and Content Note
Photographs, reproductions and a color slide (33 mm)
of inscriptional works by Eric Gill or his pupils. Includes memorials,
Gill alphabets and miscellaneous inscriptions.
Note
See also Box 8 - Personal papers series, Biographical and
interview items subseries, Autobiography - corrected proofs and
typescript for reproductions of Gill's 1932 incised alphabet.
Reproductions of the Gill alphabets were sent by J. Schwartz July,
1953. The color slide was a gift of Professor Majl Ewing, January,
1960. Contains EG 1636.2.
Box 109, Folder 4
Sculpture, 1949-1969 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Photographs and reproductions of models for and
finished sculpture by Eric Gill. Includes Adam and Eve, Ariel piping
to the children, Blessed Virgin and Child, Caryatid, Christ expelling
the money changers (model for Leeds University War Memorial), League
of Nations Creation, Mulier, Prospero and Ariel, St. John Bosco and
Sundial. Shots include works in process, completed and in
situ.
Note
Several reproductions of the Gill sculpture were sent by J.
Schwartz July, 1953. Sculpture pieces Adam and Eve, Caryatid, Christ
expelling the money changers, St. John Bosco and Sundial are held at
the Clark. The Mulier sculpture is owned by the Clark but is sited at
the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). See also: Box 8 -
Personal papers series, Biographical and interview items subseries,
Autobiography - corrected proofs and typescript for reproductions of
the Deposition scultpure in black hopton-wood stone; Subseries 1.
People, for a photograph of the Gill family standing in front of the
Mulier sculpture at the Gill's home in Ditchling; Printed material
series, Ephemera subseries, 1969 for photographic postcards of the
Guildford Cathedral, the Eastern sculpture designed by Gill and the
Chapel of St. George and the English Martyrs, Westminster Catherdral,
London.
Box 110
Inscriptions scrapbook - Photographs of inscriptions,
etc., 1908
Physical Description: 1 vol.
Scope and Content Note
Gill's photo scrapbook of his inscriptions 1903-1907
and undated. Also includes photographs of churches, graveyards,
trains, various exterior architecture, etc.
Subseries 4.
Miscellaneous, 1967 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of photographs, reproductions and slides
from an Eric Gill seminar talk held at the Clark Library, an
announcement from the Monotype Corporation regarding Perpetua type and
a collection of mounted nude photographs. The subseries is arranged by
subject, then date.
Box 108, Folder 6
Collection of nude photographs,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Booklet of mounted nude female photographs with Eric
Gill's bookplate and manuscript note on the final
leaf.
Note
GF Sims 1962.
Box 108, Folder 6
Eric Gill seminar talk,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Photographs and slides of participants at a seminar
talk on Eric Gill held at the Clark in April, 1967, including Vernon
and Cecil Gill (two of Eric Gill's brothers), David Kindersley and
Beatrice Warde. Also included are Beatrice Warde's slides used for the
seminar, consisting of various examples of Eric Gill's work.
Box 108, Folder 6
Perpetua type announcement,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Reproduction of a document announcing the production
of the Perpetua type cut from the designs made by Eric Gill for the
Monotype Corporation, London.
Note
The reproduction was originally located with a 1982 UCLA
Librarian newsletter that featured an article, "Eric Gill Centennial",
and the image. A copy of the image has been placed with the newsletter
and can be found in the Topical Series, Printed items subseries,
Catalogs-Exhibitions, 1982.
Series 6.
Gill's books and library, dates?
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of approximately 400 volumes from Gill's
"working library". A number are books he designed. The bulk comprise
association or presentation copies, and volumes used by Gill for
reference purposes which bear his bookplate, annotations and marked page
citations.
Series 7.
Legal and financial documents, 1900-1984 and undated
Physical Description:
6.48 linear feet (13 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
This series is arranged into five subseries; Ledger and account
notebooks, Publishing contracts, Accounts, Estate documents and
Miscellaneous business papers.
Subseries 1.
Ledger and account notebooks, 1901-1966
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of a collection of unpublished manuscript
ledger and account books kept by Eric Gill for the major part of his
working life and cover his activities as calligrapher, sculptor,
engraver and builder. The subseries is arranged in chronological
order. Descriptions for most items include a "Rota" number in
parenthesis which corresponds to the numbered descriptive entries in
the 1966 Bertram Rota, Ltd. Booksellers sale catalogue, which is
included in the subseries.
Account book, 1930
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript account book kept by Gill regarding his
personal expenses.
Note
Gift of Anthony Rota, 1968.
Account book, April 1914-April
1920
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript account book kept by Joseph Cribb for
sculptural and inscriptional work undertaken in the studio of Eric
Gill, including commissions from Count Harry Kessler, Westminster
Cathedral, Hilary Pepler and the Victoria and Albert
Museum.
Account notebook,
1931-1936
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript account notebook kept by Gill with details
of work done for Gill by Angus McD(ougall) and payments made from
February 1 to November 23, 1931. Also includes a list of church
collections and pew rent from April 9, 1933 to May 11,
1936.
Note
Source = Claude Cox, 1982.
Account book, v.2,
1935-1940
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript account book covering activities from
1925-1940. Consists of list of payments for work on carvings,
particularly those done with one of Gill's chief assistants Anthony
Foster, and general accounts.
Note
Source = GF Sims 1968.
Account book, v.1,
1925-1940
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript account book covering activities from
1925-1940. Consists of list of payments for work on carvings,
particularly those done with one of Gill's chief assistants Laurie
Cribb at Capel-y-finn and Pigotts, and general
accounts.
Note
Source = GF Sims 1968.
Accounts begun November 22, 1901
Physical Description: 4 loose leaves
Scope and Content Note
Gill's personal expenses November 22-December 10,
1901.
Note
Gift of Anthony Rota, September 1968.
Analysis cash book, January 1916 - August
1922
Scope and Content Note
Cash book detailing income and expenditure. Folio
notebook, brown spine, orange cloth sides. (Rota 15)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1778
Ledger, May 1922 - June
1927
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos.773-1000 and a few earlier items from 659
onward. Quarto box file, loose sheets. (Rota 9)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1777
Expenses and labor, October 1903 to December
31, 1904
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos.28-89, entered alphabetically under
customer's name. Blue octavo notebook, red spine with paper label "28
89", and another paper label pasted on front cover marked "W
/Work-current beginning:-October 1903./to Dec. 31. 1904." (Rota 2b)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1774
Ledger, March 30,
1908-1909
Scope and Content Note
Jobs 225-323, detailed entries. Bound leaves up
through Job 278, thereafter inserted leaves extracted from other
account books. Folio three-quarter black leather, blue cloth sides,
"LEDGER" stamped in gold on spine, and paper label lettered in ink,
"225-323." (Rota 5)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1775
Ledger, 1933-1938
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos. 1201-1500. Quarto box file, loose sheets.
(Rota 11)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1777
Ledger, 1938-1940
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos. 1497-1634. The last sheets of accounts are
not in Gill's hand but perhaps that of Mrs. Colette Yardley, his last
secretary (see scholar's note). Quarto box file, loose sheets. (Rota
12)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1777
Letter book, September 1914 to January
1921
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos.548, 553, 564, 567, 570-772. Includes
supplementary lists of blocks, drawings, and sculptures sold or for
sale at the French Gallery and the Goupil Gallery. Octavo notebook,
three-quarter leather, blue cloth sides, "Letter/Book" stamped in gold
on spine. (Rota 13)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1778
List of jobs (begun 1902),
1902-1909
Scope and Content Note
Inscriptions, drawings and painted inscriptions for
shop-fronts. Jobs numbered 1-224, 1902-1907, done by Gill alone; jobs
with new number sequence 1-66 done by Gill and Christie between May
13, 1907 and-March 31, 1908; jobs resume earlier number sequence at
225-323 done after March 31, 1908 by Gill alone. Black exercise book.
(Rota 1)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1773
Invoice book for: Id quod visum placet,
November 3, 1926
Scope and Content Note
Receipts for sale of Id quod visum placet. Bound
notebook. (Rota 9a)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1777
Analysis cash book, July 1933 - July
1938
Scope and Content Note
Cash book detailing income and expenditure. Folio
notebook, yellow spine, tan cloth sides. (Rota 17)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1778
Analysis cash book, August 1938 - November
1940
Scope and Content Note
Cash book detailing income and expenditure. Folio
notebook, black spine, black cloth sides. (Rota 18)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1778
Building business: Petty cash account, October
2, 1920 - December 1921
Scope and Content Note
Loose sheets from an octavo notebook. A supplement to
the Building business: Stock book. (Rota 19) and (Rota 20)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1779
List of inscriptions and other works,
1902-1910
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos.1-364. Details given for Items 1-89 and
324-364. 54 loose leaves. (Rota 2)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1773
List of work, 1910-1940
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos.324-1, 632. Contains Gill's detailed
explanation of his bookkeeping system. Bound octavo three-quarter
leather cash-book, cloth sides, and red spine label with "Journal"
stamped in gold. (Rota 3)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1774
Ledger, 1905-1908
Scope and Content Note
Details of work done by Gill alone and during his
partnership with Christie up to the dissolution in 1908. Octavo
ledger, three-quarter leather with green cloth sides. "1905" lettered
in ink on spine and paper label pasted on spine with "90-224 G and C
1-66." (Rota 4)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1774
Analysis cash book, July 1928 - June
1933
Scope and Content Note
Cash book detailing income and expenditure. Folio
notebook, maroon. (Rota 16)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1778
Building business: Stock book and Building business:
Plant book, October 2, 1920 - February 22
1922
Scope and Content Note
The first half of the notebook details costs for
materials; the second half of the notebook, working back from the
other end of the book, shows costs of equipment. The dates begin with
Gill's takeover from T. Shore and end with the sale of the plant to
Maxwell. Quarto notebook, red spine, blue cloth sides. (Rota 19a and
b)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1779
Eric Gill and A. Chisholm builders, Ditchling Common,
1920 - October 1922
Scope and Content Note
Double-entry ledger of income and expenditures.
Octavo, three-quarter red leather with green cloth sides; "Ledger"
stamped in gold on spine. (Rota 22)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1779
Ledger, June 1927 to September
1933
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos. 1001-1200. Includes supplementary material
to 1939. Quarto box file, loose sheets. (Rota 10)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1777
Analysis cash book, January 1, 1909 - December
31, 1915
Scope and Content Note
Cash book detailing income and expenditure. Folio
notebook, red spine, blue cloth sides. (Rota 14)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1778
I. Building business and II. Scul(p)tors business,
I. October 2, 1920 - February 1922; II. September 1923 -
May 1929
Scope and Content Note
Double-column cash book. Octavo ledger, three-quarter
brown leather with brown cloth sides, "Journal" lettered in gold on
spine and spine marked in ink with capital letter "B." (Rota 21)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1779
Repairs account, September 1924 - September
1928
Scope and Content Note
Account of repairs at the Monastery Capel-y-ffin.
Octavo, grey paper wrappers. (Rota 23)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1779
Analysis cash book, October
1922
Scope and Content Note
Cash book detailing cash received and cash payments
for October 1-16, 1942. Folio notebook, blue spine, yellow cloth
sides. (not listed in Rota, but numbered "24")
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1779
Bertram Rota Ltd., Booksellers sale catalog,
ca. Feb. 1966
Note
Sale catalogue of the Eric Gill notebooks. Description of the
notebooks kept by Eric Gill for the major part of his working life
that include his work as calligrapher, sculptor, engraver and builder.
Nine pages.
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1773
Time-sheet journal, April 1, 1902 to October
24, 1903
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos.1-27, not all numerically ordered. Contains
time-sheets of hours worked. Black octavo notebook, "W" marked on
front cover. (Rota 2a)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1773
Memorandum of expenses chargeable to jobs,
January 1910 to December 1911
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos.324-405, entered numerically. Octavo
notebook, quarter leather, black cloth, red spine with two paper
labels: "J" and "324 405." (Rota 6)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1776
Ledger, 1911 September to 1914
July
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos.406-569, with detailed notes of commissions
and some sketches. Octavo notebook, full green morocco leather, spine
faded to light brown with paper label, "406-569" in ink. (Rota 7)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1776
Ledger, September 1914 to January
1921
Scope and Content Note
Jobs nos.548, 553, 564, 567, 570-772. Octavo
notebook, black three-quarter leather, blue cloth sides. "LEDGER"
stamped in gold on spine, and paper label lettered in ink, "570-772."
(Rota 8)
Note
Also available on Clark Library microfilm no. 1776
Subseries 2.
Publishing contracts, 1929-1946
and undated
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of contracts and correspondence between Eric
and Mary Gill and various publishers regarding the printing and
publishing of written and engraved works by Gill. The subseries is
arranged by subject, then date.
Box 121, Folder 10
Bodley Head, Limited,
1933
Scope and Content Note
Publishing contract between Eric Gill and Bodley
Head, Limited, for the printing and publishing of Gill's
Art.
Box 121, Folder 11
Cape, Jonathan, Limited,
1929-1946
Scope and Content Note
Publishing contracts and correspondence between Eric
Gill and Jonathan Cape, Limited for the publishing of Gill's
Autobiography and Clothes, as well as publishing contracts and
correspondence between Mary Gill and Jonathan Cape for the publishing
of Eric Gill's Last Essays, In a Strange Land, and The Letters of Eric
Gill.
Box 121, Folder 12
Cassell and Company, Limited,
1929-1933
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Eric Gill and Cassell and
Company regarding the printing and publishing of Gill's Art Nonsense
and other essays by Eric Gill.
Box 121, Folder 13
Cleverdon, Douglas,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Publishing contract between Eric Gill and Douglas
Cleverdon for the engraving work done by Gill for Art and
Love.
Box 121, Folder 14
Faber and Faber, 1935
Scope and Content Note
Publishing contracts between Eric Gill and Faber and
Faber for the printing and publishing of Gill's The Necessity of
Belief and Work and Leisure.
Box 121, Folder 15
Golden Cockerel Press,
1927-1938
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Eric Gill and Golden Cockerel
Press regarding engraving work done by Gill for works including Art
and Prudence, The Canterbury Tales, and The Travels and Sufferings of
Father Jean Brebeuf. Also included is a work contract between Eric
Gill and Golden Cockerel Press.
Box 121, Folder 16
Hague and Gill, 1938
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Eric Gill and Hague and Gill
for the printing and publishing of Gill's 25 Nudes.
Box 121, Folder 17
J.M. Dent and Sons, 1941
Scope and Content Note
Publishing contract between Mary Gill and J.M. Dent
and Sons for the printing and publishing of (provisionally) Last
Essays by Eric Gill.
Box 121, Folder 18
Nicholson, Ivor and Watson, Limited,
1937-1938
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Eric Gill and Reverend
Valentine Elwes, Reverend Claud Williamson, and Graham Watson of Ivor
Nicholson and Watson, Limited regarding the publishing of Great
Catholics, a work which Gill contributed an essay
to.
Box 121, Folder 19
Sheed and Ward, Limited,
1932
Scope and Content Note
Draft of publishing contract and correspondence
between Eric Gill and Sheed and Ward, Limited for the printing and
publishing of Gill's Essays on Art and Prudennce.
Box 121, Folder 20
Sheldon Press, 1940
Scope and Content Note
Publishing contract and correspodence between Eric
Gill and Sheldon Press for the printing and publishing of Gill's
Christianity and the Machine Age.
Subseries 3.
Accounts, 1920-1940 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of account documents with institutions, or
regarding projects such as Capel-y-ffin, the Guild of SS Joseph and
Dominic, Hague and Gill, the Monotype Corporation and Pigotts, as well
as annual records of receipts and payments accounts. The subseries is
arranged by subject, then date.
Box 121, Folder 2
Capel-y-ffin, 1935-1940 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Bills, accounts, and correspondence concerning the
rebuilding of Capel-y-ffin. Includes a photographic postcard of the
chapel at Capel-y-ffin and several sketches. Also includes a schedule
of deeds, 1935, made out to Mrs. Ethel Foster (Mary) Gill regarding
the Monastery and Convent of Llanthony in the Parish of Llanigon,
Brecon.
Box 121, Folder 3
Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic,
1920-1927
Scope and Content Note
Legal documents and manuscripts concerning the
constitution and finances of the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic
collected by Gill at his departure from the Ditchling community.
Includes ephemera from the St. Dominic's Press, and correspondence
between Hilary Pepler and Eric Gill. Also includes a ten-page
autograph manuscript by Gill on his business relations with Pepler.
Box 121, Folder 4
Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic,
1921-1922
Scope and Content Note
Collection of Spoil Bank Association printed matter
regarding the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic.
Note
Source = Wolseley Fine Arts, 1996.
Box 121, Folder 5
Hague and Gill, 1930-1940 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, meeting minutes, account
statements, publishing estimates for Arabian Nights and 25 nudes,
royalty statemtnts, clippings, a 1934 blueprint of Hague and Gill
printshop, notes from Rene Hague about Hague and Gill, Ltd. and a 1936
sketch by Gill of the Hague and Gill premesis.
Box 121, Folder 6
Lion of S. Mark1934
Scope and Content Note
Signed manuscript in Gill's handwriting of estimated
expenses incurred for the production of a lion carved of Jerusalem
stone.
Box 121, Folder 7
Monotype Corporation,
1937?
Scope and Content Note
Includes two typescript lists (one edited by Eric
Gill) of checks received from 1926-1937 noting date, amount and
purpose, and a typescript document estimating costs for casting
equipment and master printers as well as probable profit for
Monotype.
Box 121, Folder 8
Pigotts, 1929-1940
Scope and Content Note
Includes contracts and correspondence with telephone
and electric companies regarding Pigotts.
Box 121, Folder 9
Receipts and payment accounts,
1928-1938
Scope and Content Note
Annual records of receipts and payment accounts,
signed by certified accountants.
Subseries 4.
Estate documents, 1937-1984 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of photocopies of Eric and Mary Gill's
wills, a memorandum Eric Gill wrote in October 1940 regarding his
funeral, two copyright documents and miscellaneous items. The
subseries is arranged by subject, then date.
Box 122, Folder 1
Gills wills, etc., 1940-1981 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of Eric and Mary Gill's wills, an Eric
Gill funeral memo and copyright documents.
Note
Gift of Christopher Skelton, November 10, 1981. From former
box Press Coll. Gill Box-4G.
Box 122, Folder 2
Last will and testament and codicil,
1937-1940
Scope and Content Note
Typescript draft of Eric Gill's last will and
testament, May 4, 1937, with manuscript corrections. Also includes a
separate codicil to the will, October 23, 1940.
Note
The items were previously housed in an oversize archival
folder with a Clark bookplate noting "Gift of Myron Laskin." An
inserted record printout notes "Bloomsbury Book Auctions, Christopher
Edwards, agent."
Subseries 5.
Miscellaneous business papers, 1900-1961
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of estimates for work to be executed by Eric
Gill, estimates for reproducing Gill artwork from various firms,
Gill's statements of work done for Rainforth Armitage Walker, an
income tax account document, insurance policies, lawsuit documents,
real estate documents, investment and loan documents, documents from
stone quarries, indenture documents, documents concerning art supplies
and other purchases made by Eric Gill, and a civil list pension and a
stock certificate for Mary Gill. The subseries is arranged by subject,
then date.
Box 122, Folder 4
Civil list pension, 1944
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Mary Gill's civil list
pension.
Note
Source = Jonathan Hill, Sotheby's sale 9 Nov. 1981 item 139
inv. From former box Press Coll. Gill Box-12G.
Box 122, Folder 5
Documents concerning art supplies and other purchases
made by Eric Gill, 1925-1940
Scope and Content Note
Includes invoices, estimates and
correspondence.
Box 122, Folder 6-7
Documents from stone quarries,
1925-1940
Scope and Content Note
Includes invoices, estimates and
correspondence.
Box 122, Folder 8
Estimates for printing and illustration by Eric Gill,
ca. 1929-1935
Scope and Content Note
Estimates for printing and illustration to be
executed by Eric Gill, including the Cranach Press Song of Solomon and
the Limited Editions Club Hamlet.
Box 122, Folder 9
Estimates for reproducing Gill artwork
Box 122, Folder 10
Estimates for sculptural and inscriptional work by Eric
Gill, ca. 1929-1935
Box 122, Folder 12
Gill's statements of work done for Rainforth Armitage
Walker, 1928-1931
Box 123, Folder 1
Income tax account,
1903-1937
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript income tax account in Eric Gill's hand
recording income for the years 1903-1937.
Box 123, Folder 2
Indenture documents,
1900-1912
Scope and Content Note
Two indentures, one is Gill's dated April 19, 1900
for five years to an architect, Wm.D. Carol, and the other, May 7,
1912, is a draft in Gill's holograph for the apprenticeship of Albert
Leaney to Gill for seven years.
Note
Source = G.F. Sims, 1970.
Box 123, Folder 3
Indenture documents,
1940
Scope and Content Note
Includes several manuscript documents regarding John
Skelton, Eric Gill's nephew and apprentice, and an incomplete
indenture contract from 1940.
Box 123, Folder 4
Insurance policies,
1929-1940
Scope and Content Note
Policies for fire and property insurance made out to
Eric Gill, 1929-1940, including inventories and correspondence
regarding Gill's property Capel-y-ffin and Pigotts, and papers
concerning mortgage payments.
Box 123, Folder 5
Insurance policies,
1909-1940
Scope and Content Note
One burglary, theft and fire policy made out to L.
McDonald Gill, 1909; two fire policies made out to L. King, 1916 and
1922; one cargo policy made out to Eric Gill, 1935, for one carton
containing two samples of stone; and one hand disablement policy made
out to Eric Gill with three renewal policies for
1938-1940.
Note
Source = Jonathan Hill, Sotheby's sale 9 Nov. 1981 item 139
inv. From former box Press Coll. Gill Box-12G.
Box 123, Folder 6
Investment and loan documents,
1932-1940
Scope and Content Note
Papers and correspondence concerning investments and
loans, addressed to Eric and Ethel Gill.
Box 123, Folder 7
Lawsuits, 1926
Scope and Content Note
Copy of affidavit regarding the lawsuit between Eric
Gill, Plaintiff, and Harry Douglas Clark Pepler,
Defendant.
Box 123, Folder 8
Money owed Gill and schedules for completion of work,
etc., 1916-1931
Scope and Content Note
Includes lists in Gill's hand of money owed him,
schedules for completion of work, etc.
Box 123, Folder 9-11
Pigott's chapel records,
1929-1961
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript collection of records, correspondence and
finanancial statements regarding Pigott's chapel. Records consist of
shedules of masses 1929-1961, kept by Eric Gill, Mary Gill and
unidentified person. Correspondence ranges from 1946-1950 between Mary
Gill and priests, etc.
Box 123, Folder 12
Real estate documents,
1905-1939
Scope and Content Note
Consists of a copy of an agreement for letting
between Douglas Whitlock and Eric Gill, 1905; a document concerning
the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Tithe Annuities
Apportionment Act, 1921, signed by Eric Gill, 1931, and a housing
agreement between Eric Gill and R.G.H. of Hague's House,
1939.
Note
Source = Jonathan Hill, Sotheby's sale 9 Nov. 1981 item 139
inv. From former box Press Coll. Gill Box-12G.
Box 123, Folder 13
Stock certificate, 1905
Scope and Content Note
Stock certificate made out to Ethel F. Moore (Mary)
Gill, 1905 for twenty shares of capital stock of The Gold and Platinum
Dredging Company of Boston.
Note
Source = Jonathan Hill, Sotheby's sale 9 Nov. 1981 item 139
inv. From former box Press Coll. Gill Box-12G.
Box 165
"Estimate of work required to be done in the erection and completion of a Catholic Church, Saint Peter the Apostle, at Lowestoft
Road, Gorleston-on-Sea, for the Diocese of Northampton,"
November 1938
Scope and Content Note
Bound volume
Series 8.
Printed material, 1909-2003 and
undated
Physical Description:
16.29 linear feet (36 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The series is arranged into five subseries; Catalogs, Clippings,
Ephemera and Periodicals.
Subseries 1.
Catalogs, 1949-1998
Physical Description:
.9 linear feet (2 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Booksellers and exhibition catalogs. The subseries is arranged by
subject, then date.
Box 124, Folder 1-16
Booksellers, 1951-1995 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Booksellers catalogs advertising Golden Cockerell
Press and Eric Gill items for sale including books, woodblocks, proof
engravings, manuscripts, prints and drawings.
Note
Formerly Press Coll. Gill Box-1G.
Box 125, Folder 1-10
Exhibition, 1949-1998 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Consists of exhibition catalogs of Eric Gill's work
with a substantial number of catalogs honoring Eric Gill's centenary
(1982). Also includes a joint exhibition catalog of work by Gill,
Denis Tegetmeier and David Jones as well as catalogs for solo
exhibitions of Joanna Gill's childhood drawings and Denis Tegetmeier's
work. Includes miscellaneous items such as an undated promotional ad
from Monotype advertising seven new Gill Sans fonts.
Note
Formerly Press Coll. Gill Box-2G.
Subseries 2.
Clippings, 1909-1950 and
undated
Physical Description:
3 linear feet (9 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Consists of loose and bound newspaper and magazine clippings
regarding Eric Gill and his work; reviews of Gill's art and published
works, articles on Gill, Gill's reviews of other's works, lectures and
articles written by Gill and articles written by Gill's friends.
Publications include The New Catholic Times, The Freewoman, The
Tablet, The Highway, The New Witness and Catholic Herald. The
subseries is arranged by format of material, such as loose clippings,
scrapbooks, then chronologically.
Loose clippings pertaining to a specific manuscript work are filed
with that work in Series 2. Professional papers, subseries A.
Manuscripts. Complete newspapers and magazines pertaining to a
specific manuscript work are filed in Clippings.
Box 128, Folder 1-8
Clippings, 1938-1946 and
undated
Box 129, Folder 1-6
Press clippings and articles by Gill's friends,
1922-1950 and undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes press clippings and copies of articles by
friends of Eric Gill found in his file.
Box 130-133
Clippings scrapbooks, v.1-v.4,
1914-1938
Physical Description: 4 volumes
Scope and Content Note
Clippings scrapbooks concerning Eric Gill and his
work. Volume 1 includes a general index, lists of wood-engravings and
sculptures and an index of newspapers, journals,
etc.
Note
Gift of Mabel Gill, June 1969.
Box 134
Gill's clippings scrapbook,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Two scrapbooks bound in one volume. One is "Clothes
with and without cloth" and the second is "Scraps etc.", both
consisting of newspaper and magazine illustrations, some annotated
with Gill's holograph comments. The latter includes a number of
reproductions of images of Gill and his work.
Subseries 3.
Ephemera, 1914-2003 and
undated
Physical Description:
5.49 linear feet (11 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes dust jackets, proofs of Clark blocks, pamphlets,
prospectuses, Douglas Pepler's The Game magazine, exhibition
annoucements, greeting cards, invitations, programmes, pamphlets,
dealer files and commercial work. The Clark's arrangement by topic or
format of material was retained during processing.
Box 135, Folder 1-49
Dust jackets, undated
Scope and Content Note
Primarily New Temple Shakespeare editions with
engravings by Gill. Dust jackets are arranged by
title.
Note
Formerly Press Coll. Gill Box-5G and 6G.
Box 136, Folder 1-34
Game, The, 1916-1923
Scope and Content Note
Several volumes of Douglas Pepler's "The Game, an
occasional magazine": Vol.1, no.1-Vol.6, no.34. Magazines are arranged
by volume number.
Note
Cataloged. Formerly Press Coll. Gill Box-13G.
Box 137, Folder 1-9
Dealer files and miscellaneous
ephemera1920-1965 and undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes dealer description and correspondence
material regarding Eric and Joanna Gill items for sale as well as
press clippings, handbooks, lecture announcements, postcards (several
photo), prospectuses and type specimens. Also includes a Gill family
tree. Ephemera is arranged chronologically.
Note
Formerly Press Coll. Gill Box-8G, Box-9G and Box-10G,
uncataloged. Dealer files from former box Press Coll. Gill
Box-15G.
Box 138, Folder 1-4
Miscellaneous
ephemera1966-1999
Scope and Content Note
Includes reviews and publicity for Fiona McCarthy
"Eric Gill" and Eric Gill Collection bookplate
items.
Box 139, Folder 1
Miscellaneous ephemeraca.
2003
Scope and Content Note
Contains a Gill family tree
document.
Note
Gift from Eric Gill's grandson, Eric Williams, June 2003.
Box 140, Folder 1-8
Miscellaneous ephemera,
1946-1950
Scope and Content Note
Contains series of souvenir programs for High Wycombe
Repertory Theater. Programs are arranged
chronologically.
Note
Source = Lot 80, Sotheby's Sale, Nov. 9, 1981. Fomerly Press
Coll. Gill Box-7G, uncataloged.
Box 141, Folder 1-4
Miscellaneous ephemera, 1946-1958 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes advertisements, dust jackets, exhibition
announcements, invitations, printed cards, programs and miscellaneous
items. Ephemera is arranged chronologically.
Note
Source = Lot 80, Sotheby's Sale, Nov. 9, 1981. Fomerly Press
Coll. Gill Box-7G, uncataloged.
Box 142, Folder 1-3
Pamphlets, 1917-1956 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Consists of pamphlets by and about Gill. By Gill: Art
and manufacture - Handworkers' pamphlet; Essential perfection; Slavery
and Freedom; Stations of the Cross. About Gill: Stanford University's
catalog of an exhibition of Eric Gill, etc. Also included are several
Latin Press pamphlets from Gill's collection. Pamphlets are arranged
by collection, then by date.
Note
Pamphlets by and about Gill are from former box Press Coll.
Gill Box-14G. Latin Press pamphlets source = G.F. Sims.
Box 142, Folder 4-7
Welfare Handbooks,
1919-1923
Scope and Content Note
Handbooks printed and published at St. Dominic's
Press, Ditchling, Sussex. Nos. 1-10, missing #1 and 5. Arranged
chronologically.
Note
Cataloged. Various sources = Rota; E. Mathews; Cosmopolitan
Science and Art Service Company, Inc.; Dawson's; Waterfield. Formerly
Press Coll. Gill Box-22G.
Box 143
Proofs of Clark blocks,
1908-1940
Scope and Content Note
Physick 1-993.
Note
Substantial number of proofs pulled by Saul Marks of The
Plantin Press.
Box 144, Folder 1-14
Prospectuses, 1916-1995 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Prospectuses for Eric Gill's and others works.
Includes prospectuses for Faber and Faber's "Engravings 1928-1933" and
"Money and Morals", Christopher Skelton's "The Engravings of Eric
Gill", the Golden Cockerel Press' "The Lord's Song", books published
at St. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, books printed by Hague and Gill and
a specimen page for "The Green Ship". Also included are several
non-Gill related prospectuses possibly collected by
Gill.
Note
Formerly Press Coll. Gill Box-18G. "Selected engravings by
Eric Gill" (EG 1593) item was originally located in the Gill art flat
file drawers.
Box 145, Folder 1-6
St. Dominic's press, 1916-1995 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains St. Dominic's press founding items,
catalogs, broadsides, engravings, proofs and miscellaneous
publications and printed items. Also includes works by Hilary Douglas
Clark Pepler. Arranged chronologically.
Note
"Adeste fideles.." [1916] noted as missing 11/3/1981.
Formerly Press Coll. Gill Box-19G and 21G (cataloged) and Box-20G
(uncataloged).
Subseries 4.
Periodicals, 1909-1966 and
undated
Physical Description:
6.9 linear feet (14 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Consists of journal and periodical items that include reviews of
Gill's art and published works, articles about Gill, Gill's reviews of
other's works, lectures, articles and letters written by Gill and
articles written by Gill's friends and colleagues. Also included are
several items published by Cecil Gill after Eric Gill's death.
Publications consist largely of Gill's own copies, some with Gill's
annotations, and include The Journal of the Royal Institute of British
Architects, The Architect and Building News, The Architect's Journal,
The Socialist Review, The Listener, The Highway, Artwork, Order and
The University Catholic Review. Many items have hand written or typed
notes generated by former Clark staff describing the item and often
include a number at the top right corner referencing the associated
Evan Gill bibliography item. The Clark's numerical arrangement by Evan
Gill's bibliography numbers was not retained as the materials were
rearranged chronologically.
Box 147
Collection of periodicals,
1910-1951
Scope and Content Note
Periodicals by or concerning Gill. Arranged
chronologically.
Note
Source = Mabel Gill, June 1969.
Box 159, Folder 1-10
Periodicals, 1941-1966 and
undated
Series 9.
Topical material, 1893-1967 and
undated
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet (4 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
This series contains Gill and Gill related miscellaneous files and
two objects. The series is arranged by format of material, then by
title.
Box 160
Change of address, 1908
Scope and Content Note
Gill's change of address form.
Note
From former box Press Coll. Gill Box-15G.
Box 160
Institute of builders, The,
1932
Scope and Content Note
Annual dinner program.
Box 160
Merit award, 1897
Scope and Content Note
Gill's merit award for writing.
Box 160
Hutton, John, Testimonial,
1915
Box 160
List of things in Eric Gill's pocket, ca. 1893
Box 160
Academie Europeenne Mediterranee project,
1930-1933 and undated
Box 160
Housemaker's Society, 1906-1910 and
undated
Box 160
Care of copper and magnesium plates - transfer of designs,
1967 and undated
Box 160
Capel-y-ffin school, 1935 and
undated
Box 160
Miscellaneous papers, etc., 1939-1940 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes three small proofs.
Box 160
Personal - Army experiences, matters at Ditchling, etc.,
1936-1941 and undated
Note
Contains several pencil sketches.
Box 160
Elementary (2d grade) perspective book,
1899
Scope and Content Note
Gill's book inscribed "E R Gill,
1899".
Note
Source = G.F. Sims
Box 161
Poetry, 1914-1934 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Poetry mostly by Gill with the exception of one item by
Hilary [Pepler?], Christmas, 1922 and one item by Sanchia Attwater,
Christmas, 1924.
Box 161
Postage stamps, 1935-1940 and
undated
Box 161
Quotations, 1928-1940 and
undated
Scope and Content Note
Quotations from other writers copied by
Gill.
Box 161
Projects Gill never completed, 1913-1938 and
undated
Box 161
Westminster mosaic controversy,
1931-1937
Box 161
Wedding invitation
design,1930
Scope and Content Note
Consists of the original drawing by Gill for the
invitation to the wedding of his daughther Petra and Denis Tegetmeier,
1930, with a proof of the invitation and one as issued on hand made
paper.
Note
Source = G.F. Sims.
Box 162
Address file box, undated
Scope and Content Note
Gill's address file box consisting of 147 3x5 cards
mostly in Gill's holograpgh, some typed.
Box 163
Eric Gill album, undated
Scope and Content Note
Album of Gill material collected by John Charles Tarr,
including signed proofs from "Twenty-five nudes", proofs from "The Song
of songs," "The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity" and "The Canterbury
Tales", reproductions of Gill and his sculptures, bookplates, type
samples, etc. Photographs include sculptures for the Broadcasting House,
Leeds War Memorial, "Mankind" at the Tate Gallery. Also includes a photo
postcard of Gill's works from Gill to Stanley
Morison.
Note
Originally bound, now with detached spine.
Series 10.
Addenda (2008): Correspondence with David Hennessy and Dorothy Day, with related materials,
1935-1953, undated.
Physical Description: .5 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence primarily with David Hennessey and Dorothy Day, as well as some others, mostly regarding publications and Catholicism.
A selection of Gill ephemera collected by Hennessey is also included.
Subseries 10.A.
Correspondence,
1936-1944, undated
Box 164, Folder 14
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
May 8, 1936
Box 164, Folder 5
To "Editors" from Eric Gill,
January 9, 1937
Box 164, Folder 6
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
January 9, 1937
Box 164, Folder 33
To Dorothy Day from Eric Gill,
February 5, 1937
Box 164, Folder 29
To Dorothy Day from Eric Gill,
February 10, 1937
Box 164, Folder 8
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
February 20, 1937
Box 164, Folder 27
To [Dorothy Day] from Eric Gill,
March 4, 1937
Box 164, Folder 13
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
March 25, 1937
Box 164, Folder 16
"Art in England now -- as it seems to me," typescript of broadcast talk by Eric Gill, with additions,
June 15, 1937
Box 164, Folder 36
To Dorothy Day from Eric Gill,
September 18, 1937
Box 164, Folder 11
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
November 19, 1937
Box 164, Folder 26
To David Hennessy from A.K. Coomaraswamy,
June 13, 1938
Box 164, Folder 7
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
June 15, 1938
Box 164, Folder 2
To Father John O'Connor from Eric Gill,
October 11, 1938
Box 164, Folder 4
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
October 13, 1938
Box 164, Folder 17
To David Hennessy from John O'Connor,
October 17, 1938
Box 164, Folder 3
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
October 28, 1938
Box 164, Folder 35
To "The Catholic Worker" from Eric Gill,
[December 1938]
Box 164, Folder 34
To Dorothy Day from Eric Gill,
June 16, 1939
Box 164, Folder 10
To William M. Callahan (at the Catholic Worker) from Eric Gill,
July 20, 1939
Box 164, Folder 31
To Dorothy Day from Eric Gill,
August 21, 1939
Box 164, Folder 9
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
September 25, 1939
Box 164, Folder 28
To Dorothy Day from Eric Gill,
December 28, 1939
Box 164, Folder 30
To Dorothy Day ["Dorothy Mott"] from Eric Gill,
January 5, 1940
Box 164, Folder 32
To Dorothy Day from Eric Gill,
February 9, 1940
Box 164, Folder 12
To David Hennessy from Eric Gill,
July 10, 1940
Box 164, Folder 25
To David Hennessy from A.K. Coomaraswamy,
December 1, 1940
Box 164, Folder 1
To David Hennessy from Dorothy Day,
[February 1942]
Box 164, Folder 18
To David Hennessy from Maisie Sheed, Sheed and Ward publishers,
September 8, 1943
Box 164, Folder 19
To David Hennessy from Maisie Sheed, Sheed and Ward publishers,
November 20, 1944
Box 164, Folder 15
Manuscript critique of Dorothy Day/Catholic Worker pamphlet by Eric Gill,
undated
Box 164, Folder 20
To David Hennessy from Mary Gill,
undated
Physical Description: Printed Christmas card by Eric Gill.
Box 164, Folder 21
Printed Christmas card by Eric Gill, signed by Evan R. Gill,
undated
Box 164, Folder 22
Prayer in calligraphy, perhaps by Eric Gill,
undated
Box 164, Folder 23
Aphorism in calligraphy, perhaps by Eric Gill,
undated
Box 164, Folder 24
Photographs of Eric Gill by Howard Coster,
undated
Subseries 10.B.
Ephemera,
1935-1953, undated
Box 164, Folder 37
Photostatic copy of letter to "Mr. Temple" from Eric Gill,
November 26, 1935
Box 164, Folder 38
Postcard to David Hennessy from "G.,"
September 6, 1943
Box 164, Folder 39
Copy of letter to "Father John" [O'Connor?] from Eric Gill,
October 11, 1938
Box 164, Folder 40
Published photograph of the "Glastonbury Madonna,"
undated
Box 164, Folder 41
"Of Interest to Women" column from "The Torch" mentioning Gill,
May 1942
Box 164, Folder 42
Issue of "Unity" with article by Eric Gill,
April 1941
Box 164, Folder 43
Prayer card for Eric Gill and letterhead from Aquinas Library, South Bend, Ind.,
undated
Box 164, Folder 44
"It all goes together" advertising postcard and letterhead from Junipero Serra Shop, San Francisco,
undated
Box 164, Folder 45
Gill publication advertisement postcards from David Hennessy's shop,
undated
Box 164, Folder 46
Eric Gill woodcut print clipped from unknown publication,
undated
Box 164, Folder 47
Advertising pamphlet for Evan Gill's
Bibliography of Eric Gill,
1953?
Box 164, Folder 48
Dustjacket for
Sacred and secular,
undated
Box 164, Folder 49
Letter to Rev. Anthony Noviello from Bishop William J. Hafey of Scranton, Pa.,
August 31, 1945
Physical Description: Regarding potential official approbation of Gill.
Box 164, Folder 50
Advertisement for
It all goes together,
undated
Box 164, Folder 51
Eric Gill newspaper article on work,
undated
Box 164, Folder 52
Letter to David Hennessy from "G---?ham,"
July 23, 1943
Box 164, Folder 53
Printing proof of Gill essay on "Work and culture,"
undated
