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The following collections are owned and administered by the Hypatia Trust: ELIZABETH TREFFRY CORNISH LITERATURE & ART HISTORY COLLECTION Administrative Centre: Trevelyan House Study Centre, Penzance Hon. Curator: Tehmina Goskar A complete database is drawing near completion, and will be made available in print and CD format. This development has been made possible by internal funding of the Trust itself, and external research funding from the Arthur Quiller Couch 'Q' Fund of Cornwall County Council and the Cyprus Well Grassroots Literary Development Fund. Contributors to this bibliographic work have been many and the contributions of names, information and written documents continue to be added. Permanent placement for this Collection in a central location in Cornwall is currently under discussion, and will be announced in due course. Fundraising for this transition will be necessary, especially in these difficult economic times when museums and libraries are being continually under-funded in light of the educational work that they perform, and the central place they hold in people's minds related to culture, place and memory.
HYPATIA ARTS COLLECTION Administrative Centre: Trevelyan House Study Centre, Penzance The Hypatia Trust Arts Collection is made up of books and journals, but also some artworks by local artists and its 30 years of collecting ephemera (letters, cards, invitation cards, exhibition catalogues, posters, etc). In 2008, the art library of the late Dr Partou Zia, was received for cataloguing and added to the combined holdings, and shared with the University College Library at Penryn. Recently (2010) the archival remains of the RainyDay Gallery (exhibition scrapbooks, posters) of Penzance, have been donated by the long-time proprietor and friend, Martin Val Baker, who has retired after some 40 years in the art and printing businesses of the area. He brought together the original book about creative people of the 1980s in West Cornwall, Eighty from the Eighties, in which many artists and performers feature. Martyn is now available for lectures and slide shows about the creative arts of the area, and the writings of his remarkable father, Denys Val Baker. Latterly the art slide collection of the late Vaughan Tregenza of Mousehole, has also been added to our holdings, and these are in process of listing. Some sculptures and watercolours have been presented along with the Andrews-Westlake Collection, by Marian Elizabeth 'Elsie' Andrews, formerly of Tregerthen, Zennor.
THE HYPATIA COLLECTION OF WOMEN'S HISTORY Administrative Centre: Exeter University Special Collections See details for access and on-line catalogue click here
THE PAUL & VERA WAGNER AMERICAS COLLECTION Currently some 3,000 books, journals and ephemera related to the history and literature of the American (North and South) civilisations and cultures. This Collection, made in memory of the collector's grandfather and mother, both avid readers and collectors in their own time, whose collections have gone to various Texas libraries and museums, has been presented as a donation to the North American Studies Program of the University of Bonn, Germany. The collection contains a variety of subjects in depth, such as 19th century philosophical thinking (Emerson & Thoreau), fiction, biography, poetry, religious movements, phase two feminist journals, African-American literature, the westward movements, Central and South American educational projects, Canadian literature, etc. Professor Dr Sabine Sielke, the Director of the North American Studies Program at Bonn, has recently joined the Council of the Hypatia Trust. (See Newsletter, Summer 2008) The collection has now been catalogued and an online bibliography is available. You can access the bibliography by clicking here. When you get to next page you will need to click 'hier' in the second paragraph. |