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Archive of correspondence, plans, friezes, property documents, etc: Swarthmoor Hall, 'The Birthplace of Quakerism': Its renovation by the Edwardian architect Frank Gray Wallis.

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[Swarthmoor Hall; Quakers]
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c.1913-1932.
£450.00

Swarthmoor Hall in Cumbria - known as 'The Birthplace of Quakerism' - is a building of immense symbolic importance to members of the Religious Society of Friends, a place of pilgrimage from all over the world. It is, in addition, an English Heritage listed building. This archive contains a mass of previously-unknown material relating to its renovation from 1913 onwards, under the supervision of the Liverpool architect Frank Gray Wallis (b. 1868), himself a Quaker.

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Three proof wood-engravings of the 'birthplace of Quakerism' Swarthmoor Hall by Edmund Evans, two from drawings by Birket Foster, with an Autograph Letter Signed by Foster, and a copy of a letter by Evans, to John Abraham and his wife Maria.

Author: 
Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899), painter and illustrator; Edmund Evans (1826-1905), wood-engraver and printer [Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria, 'birth' place of Quakerism]
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Foster's letter: 7 December 1864; on letterhead of The Hill, Witley, Surrey. Copy of Evans's letter: 20 December 1864; Raguet Court, Fleet Street, London. Engravings undated [1865].
£450.00
Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899), painter and illustrator;

ONE. Birket Foster's letter to John Abraham: 12mo, 2 pp. 26 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper, with one dog-eared corner. Docketed 'Birket Foster re Sketches'. A letter of Abraham's has been forwarded to him 'relating to the illustrations which I did for the late Wm. Benson (to illustrate the Memoirs of the Fell family I believe)'. He suggests that they be put into Evans's hands to engrave: 'he is a thoroughly conscientious man, and will do the best he can for the price you like to name'.

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Autograph Letter Signed to Edmund [?].

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Abram Rawlinson Barclay [Quakers; Banking]
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17 September 1841; 'Leytonstone near London'.
£225.00

Quaker author, editor and member of the London banking family (fl.1847), several of whose manuscripts are now in the Society of Friends' Library. Eight pages, quarto. Good, on lightly creased and discoloured paper. A long 'improving' letter. Begins by discussing his return from Polam in Bedfordshire, and a railway journey taking in York.

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