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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: Peter Waverly 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. Contributors to this bibliographic work have been Dr. Melissa Hardie, Andrew Symons, Esme Stanford, and Peter Waverly.
HYPATIA ARTS COLLECTION Administrative Centre: Trevelyan House Study Centre, Penzance Hon. Curator: Dr. Melissa Hardie The Hypatia Trust has determined to put its entire art holdings - primarily books and journals, but also some artworks by local artists and its 20 years collections of ephemera (letters, cards, invitation cards, exhibition catalogues, posters, etc) into the care of the West Cornwall Art Archive (WCAA) (Registered Charity, 2003). Together with the Archives of the Newlyn Art Gallery and the Newlyn Society of Artists, and those of Penlee House Museum and Art Gallery (Penzance Town Council), the Rainy Day Gallery, the Small Print Works, and other West Cornwall-based organisations and individual artists, a part-time staff supported by volunteers is developing a database of holdings related to the art and artists of West Cornwall. In 2008, the art library of the late Dr Partou Zia, has been received for cataloguing and adding to the combined holdings. (See current Newsletter) A longer term project is to acquire a publicly accessible study centre for the arts in Penzance, and the work being done now is preparatory to that future. Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall 1880-1940 is scheduled to be published by Art Dictionaries of Bristol in the current year. Edited by Melissa Hardie, it drew greatly on the WCAA and Hypatia Arts collections.
THE HYPATIA COLLECTION OF WOMEN'S HISTORY Administrative Centre: Exeter University Special Collections Library Hon. Curator, and Librarian: Dr. Jessica Gardner 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)
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