Peter Willis was born in Yorkshire in 1933 and educated at the University of Durham (BArch 1956, MA 1995) and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where his thesis on “Charles Bridgeman: Royal Gardener” (PhD 1962) was supervised by Sir Nikolaus
Pevsner. He spent a year at the University of Edinburgh, and then a year in California on a Fulbright Scholarship teaching in the Department of Art at UCLA and studying the Stowe Papers at the Huntington Library.
From 1961-64 he practised as an architect in the Edinburgh office of Sir Robert Matthew, working on the development plan for Queen’s College, Dundee, the competition for St Paul’s Choir School in London, and other projects.
In 1964-65 he held a Junior Fellowship in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, returning to England to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1965, where he was
successively Lecturer in Architecture and Reader in the History of Architecture. He was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota in 1968-69, and a Visiting Fellow at Yale in 1980-81.
In 1968 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, in 1970 a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and in 1983 a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Peter Willis was awarded the degree of DLitt by the University of Durham in 1992. He died on 12 August 2016.
The bulk of the collection consists of working materials for Peter Willis’s research on the history of architecture, landscape and gardens. It includes substantial sections on Charles Bridgeman (especially his work at Stowe), William Kent,
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, and the use of banking records. There are also over eighty files on other landscape gardeners, architects, artists, and patrons, over a hundred files on individual estates and their surroundings, and a smaller group of
subject files on such matters as gardening tools and techniques, garden history, sources and archives, nurseries and plants, the picturesque, and travel and the Grand Tour. The collection also includes a section on the life and work of Sir Leslie
Martin, supplemented by coverage of modernism and twentieth-century architecture in Britain.
The collection contains chiefly photographs and negatives, transcripts and facsimiles of manuscript sources, correspondence, notes, bibliographical references, offprints, guidebooks, and pamphlets. More substantial printed books included in the
gift have been incorporated in the University Library's printed book collections.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of Collections (email pg.library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible
with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material
WIL/F/CA6/16; WIL/F/CA9/10, WIL/H/EN/7.
A final section of the collection, due to be given to Durham University Library at a later date, will contain material on Chopin’s visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848, the subject of Peter Willis’s later research. It is intended that
this will be supplemented by a gift to the Library of additional books on Chopin and his circle.
Quarr Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 4ES
Papers connected with Peter Willis’s research on the architect and monk Dom Paul Bellot, OSB, are held at Quarr Abbey, where they are available for consultation.
Peter Willis's publications include articles and essays on twentieth-century architecture, and the history of architecture and landscape, and the following books:
(ed. and contributor),
(ed., with J.D. Hunt),
, (London, 1977); reprinted with supplementary plates and a catalogue of additional documents, drawings and attributions, 2 (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2002)
(consulting ed. and contributor), John Musgrove, ed.,
A complete bibliography of his publications is included in the papers (section
Material relating to Charles Bridgeman (d.1738), landscape gardenerReference: WIL/AExtent: 7 boxes
(For material on individual sites at which Bridgeman worked see also the site files in
WIL/F. )
Bibliographical Note
Related publications by Peter Willis (for copies see
WIL/Z):
“The work of Charles Bridgeman, royal gardener to George II”,
Amateur historian, 6 no.3, (Spring 1964), p.91-96.
“A poet’s gardener”,
Listener, 72 no.1865 (24 December 1964), p.1007-1009.
“Charles Bridgeman. A problem in genealogy”,
Blackmansbury, 7 nos 3 and 4 (June and August 1970), 55-8, reprinted as a booklet (Isle of Wight, 1970).
“The inventory of Charles Bridgeman. A note”,
Blackmansbury, 7 nos 5 and 6 (Oct. and Dec. 1970), p.109.
“The gardener and the painter: a new attribution to Hogarth”,
Apollo, 95 no.19 (Jan. 1972), p.30-33.
“From desert to Eden: Charles Bridgeman’s “capital stroke” [i.e. the ha-ha]”,
Burlington magazine, 115 (March 1973), p.150-155.
“Creator of the English garden. Charles Bridgeman’s tools and techiniques”,
Country life, 153 (17 May 1973), p.1401-1404.
“Les plaisants paysages. Vanbrugh, Bridgeman et le ha-ha” in
Jardins et paysages: le style anglais ed. A. Parreaux and M. Plaisant (Lille, 1977), p.23-50.
“Charles Bridgeman: the royal gardens” in
Furor hortensis ed. P.Willis (1974), p.41-47.
Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden (London, 1977; new edition, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2002).
“Charles Bridgeman and Sir John Vanbrugh. Aspects of a partnership”,
Landscape design, no.126 (May 1979), p.20-23.
“Charles Bridgeman” in
Macmillan encyclopedia of architects, ed. A.K. Placzek (New York, 1982), vol.1, p.287-288; vol. 4, p.411-412.
“Charles Bridgeman” in
The Oxford companion to gardens (Oxford, New York, 1986), p.72-74.
“Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden: new documents and attributions” in
English architecture, public and private: essays for Kerry Downes, ed. John Bold and Edward Chaney (London, 1993),
p.247-264.
WIL/A1 before 2002
Photographs, various sizes, for most of the plates in Peter Willis's
Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden (2002) [
copy at WIL/Z1/2002]. There are photographs for all of the book's plates except no.s 5a, 8-11, 15b, 16a-17a, 19, 23a, 27, 32a, 33b, 50b, 55b-57a,
63b, 70, 72b, 83, 88a-b, 96a-b, 102b, 107, 112b, 114-115, 117-118, 121-122, 125-128, 148-149, 155a, 165b, 177b, 183b, 184, 185a-b.
For a full description of the plates see the book.
WIL/A2 before 1977
Photographs and, in all but one case, large format negatives of those plans of gardens, estates and buildings from Bodleian Library, MS Gough Drawings A.3 and A.4, which (except as mentioned below) are attributed to Bridgeman. All are reproduced
as plates in Peter Willis's
Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden (2002), except A.4.53 and aA4.65, which Willis does not attribute to Bridgeman in either the 1977 or 2002 editions of his book, and A.3.25 and A.3.36, for which in the
2002 edition Willis withdraws the tentative attribution to Bridgeman which he made in the 1977 edition.
The file contains photographs of the following:
Gough Drawings A.3.4,Hackwood (Willis plate 200).
Gough Drawings A.3.7, Brocket (Willis plate 192a).
Gough Drawings A.3.9, Eastbury (Willis plate 28b).
Gough Drawings A.3.10, Eastbury (Willis plate 194).
Gough Drawings A.3.15, Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park (Willis plate 99a).
Gough Drawings A.3.19, Ledston (Willis plate 207a).
Gough Drawings A.3.24, Trafalgar (Willis plate 225).
Gough Drawings A.3.25, Trafalgar (attribution to Bridgeman withdrawn).
Gough Drawings A.3.31, Wimbledon (Willis plate 44b).
Gough Drawings A.3.32, Amesbury (plus 2 details, both with negatives, Willis plates 36, 37b, 162b).
Gough Drawings A.3.33, Wolterton (Willis plate 235).
Gough Drawings A.3.36, Trafalgar / Standlynch (attribution to Bridgeman withdrawn).
Gough Drawings A.3.40r & v, The Bell Inn, Stilton (Willis plates 224 a and b).
Gough Drawings A.4.3, The Bell Inn, Stilton (Willis plate 223).
Gough Drawings A.4.10, Wolterton (Willis plate 237b).
Gough Drawings A.4.18, Wolterton (Willis plate 237a).
Gough Drawings A.4.20, Wolterton (Willis plate 80b).
Gough Drawings A.4.21, Eastbury (Willis plate 195).
Gough Drawings A.4.22, unidentified (Willis plate 241).
Gough Drawings A.4.24, Hackwood (wrongly identified as Farley in 1977 ed., corrected in 2002; Willis plate 201b).
Gough Drawings A.4.25, Tring (Willis plate 226a).
Gough Drawings A.4.27, Scampston (Willis plate 221b).
Gough Drawings A.4.29, Sacombe (Willis plate 220a).
Gough Drawings A.4.30, Wimpole (Willis plate 230a).
Gough Drawings A.4.31r & v, Wimpole (detail of 31r = Willis plate 233).
Gough Drawings A.4.32, Tring (Willis plate 226b).
Gough Drawings A.4.33, unidentified (Willis plate 242).
Gough Drawings A.4.34, Hackwood (wrongly identified as Farley in 1977 ed., corrected in 2002; Willis plate 201a).
Gough Drawings A.4.35, Wimpole (Willis plate 228).
Gough Drawings A.4.36, unidentified (Willis plate 244).
Gough Drawings A.4.37, unidentified (identification as Scampston in 1977 withdrawn 2002; Willis plate 245).
Gough Drawings A.4.40, Brocket (Willis plate 192b).
Gough Drawings A.4.43, unidentified (Willis plate 243).
Gough Drawings A.4.44, Wimbledon (Willis plate 44a).
Gough Drawings A.4.46, Stowe (plus 10 details, all with negatives; Willis plates 116 [the whole drawing] and 119a-120b [four of the details]).
Gough Drawings A.4.48, Moor Park (Willis plate 217).
Gough Drawings A.4.49, Greenwich (Willis plate 199a).
Gough Drawings A.4.51, Bell Inn, Stilton (Willis plate 222).
Gough Drawings A.4.52, Mereworth (Willis plate 216).
Gough Drawings A.4.53, Windsor Castle (no plate; not attributed to Bridgeman in 1977 or 2002 eds).
Gough Drawings A.4.54, Purley (Willis plate 47b).
Gough Drawings A.4.55, Wolterton (Willis plate 238a).
Gough Drawings A.4.56, Wolterton (Willis plate 236).
Gough Drawings A.4.57, Houghton (Willis plate 81b).
Gough Drawings A.4.58, Moor Park (plus detail; detail = Willis plate 51a).
Gough Drawings A.4.60, Audley End (Willis plate 188).
Gough Drawings A.4.61, Wolterton (Willis plate 238b).
Gough Drawings A.4.62, Hampton Court (Willis plate 202).
Gough Drawings A.4.63, Rousham (plus 3 details; plan = Willis plate 61; one of the details = Willis plate 62a).
Gough Drawings A.4.64, Sacombe (Willis plate 46b).
Gough Drawings A.4.65, Somerset House, London (no plate; not attrib. to Bridgeman in 1977 nor 2002).
Gough Drawings A.4.66, Scampston (Willis plate 221a).
Gough Drawings A.4.67, Audley End (Willis plate 187).
Gough Drawings A.4.68, Lodge Park, Sherborne (plate 209).
Gough Drawings A.4.69, Wimpole (plate 75).
Gough Drawings A.4.73, Scampston (without negative; Willis plate 48a).
Gough Drawings A.4.74, Hampton Court (Willis plate 74).
Gough Drawings A.4.75, Gunton (plate Willis 80a).
Gough Drawings A.4.78, Tring (plate 45a).
Gough Drawings A.4.81, Claremont (identified in 2002 ed., Willis plate 193b).
Gough Drawings A.4.85, Ledston. (Willis plate 207b).
WIL/A3 before 1993
Photographs for the plates of maps and plans of gardens illustrating Peter Willis's article "Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden" (published in
English architecture, public and private: essays for Kerry Downes, ed. J. Bold and E. Chaney, London, 1993, p. 247-64): 12 black and white prints, with overlays marked up with instructions to the printer. Sites
represented: Gobions or Gubbins, Hertfordshire; Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire; Lumley Castle, Co. Durham; Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire; Wroxall or Wroxhall, Warwickshire.
WIL/A4
Drawings by Peter Willis of motifs appearing in plans by Bridgeman (30 leaves):
WIL/A4/1-6
Informal motifs in Bridgeman's signed plans (Stowe, Blenheim).
WIL/A4/7
Motifs in Bridgeman's signed plans: scales (Blenheim, Hampton Court, Amesbury).
WIL/A4/8
Motifs in Bridgeman's signed plans: various (Eastbury, Amesbury, Hampton Court).
WIL/A4/9-30
Motifs in Bridgeman's unsigned plans:
WIL/A4/9-18
Cabinets Houghton, Down Hall, Farley, Moor Park, Rousham, Scampston, Gunton, Brocket, [Tyburn? tentative identification, later withdrawn], Sacombe, Tring, Boughton, Wimpole, Trafalgar, Purley).
WIL/A4/19
Mounts (Eastbury, Kensington, Trafalgar, Boughton, Gunton).
WIL/A4/20-25
Basins (Wolterton, Rousham, Down Hall, Boughton, Purley, Kensington, Moor Park, Somerset House, Farley, Sacombe, Scampston, Tring, St James's Park).
WIL/A4/26
Kitchen gardens (Brocket, Trafalgar, Down House, Purley, Sacombe, Audley End, Wolterton).
WIL/A4/27-28
Scales (Eastbury, Somerset House, Hampton Court, Hovingham, Wolterton, Amesbury, Kensington, Wimbledon, Brocket, Audley End, Gunton, Claremont, Rousham, Mereworth, Wimpole, Farley, Tring, Hackwood).
WIL/A4/29
Walls (Stowe, Wimpole, Boughton, Farley, Moor Park, Eastbury, Rousham, Houghton).
WIL/A4/30
Not categorized (Wolterton, Boughton).
WIL/A5 after 1977
Two leaves of corrections by Peter Willis to his book
Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden (1977). These are not incorporated in the 2002 edition (which reprinted the 1977 text unaltered, but added supplementary material).
WIL/A6
Transcripts, photocopies and notes relating to Bridgeman genealogy and family history:
WIL/A6/1-5 1677-1720
Transcripts of the wills in Essex County Record Office of Richard Bridgeman, gardener, 1677, Elizabeth Bridgeman, 1678, William Bridgeman, 1677, Edward Bridgeman, 1686, and John Bridgeman, gardener, 1720.
WIL/A6/6 1677
Photocopy of inventory of the goods of Richard Bridgman or Bridgeman, gardener, 1677.
WIL/A6/7 1729
Photographs of letter from Stephen Bridgman to the Earl of Oxford, from Down Hall, 1729 (BL, loan 29/90, Portland Papers).
WIL/A6/8 1738
Photocopy of grant of letters of administration for the estate of Charles Bridgeman, 1738 (PRO PROB.6.115).
WIL/A6/9
Folder of index cards and notes of bibliographical references to sources of information, both manuscript and printed, on Charles Bridgeman and Bridgemanfamily history, with occasional quotations of passages of interest.
WIL/A7
Facsimiles of documents relating to Charles Bridgeman (mostly printed by Peter Willis in the appendices to his
Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden):
WIL/A7/1 1726-1728
Appointments of Bridgeman as royal gardener, 1726 (as partner to Wise) and 1728 (as successor to Wise): photocopies of PRO WORKS 6/114, f.7-10r and 12v-15v (printed CB&ELG p.151-5), and of a variant of the first of these, WORKS 16/39/1,
f.1-3.
WIL/A7/2
Photographs and photocopies of the originals of Bridgeman correspondence printed in
CB&ELG p.156-160 (correspondents Charles Bridgeman, Alexander Pope, Charles 2nd Viscount Townshend, Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and Mrs Sarah Bridgeman), and some related
correspondence of Peter Willis.
WIL/A7/3 1738
Negative photostats of the will of Charles Bridgeman, 1738, PRO, PROB.II.692 (BRODREPP 1738), both the version printed
CB&ELG p.169-170 and a variant.
WIL/A7/4
Negative photostat of the probate inventory of Charles Bridgeman, PRO PROB.3/37/95 (printed
CB&ELG p.161-167), and related correspondence of Peter Willis with G.A. Coulson and John H. Harvey, discussing aspects of the inventory.
WIL/A7/5 1738
Photocopy of petition on Sarah Bridgeman to the Treasury Commissioners, 1738, PRO Treasury Books and Papers CCXCIX (T.I:299), no.10, f.23-24 (printed
CB&ELG p.168).
WIL/A8
Material concerning the portrait of Charles Bridgeman attributed to William Hogarth in Vancouver Art Gallery:
WIL/A8/1
Photographs for the illustrations to Peter Willis's article about the painting, "The gardener and the painter: a new attribution to Hogarth",
Apollo, 95 no.19 (Jan. 1972), p.30-33. These include the Hogarth portrait in Vancouver, three group portraits in which Bridgeman figures (A Club of Artists by Gawen Hamilton,
The Rake's Progress - The Levee by Hogarth, and An Assembly of Virtuosi, attributed to Hamilton or Hogarth) and a sketch by Sir James Thornhill of "old Master Charles Bridgeman", possibly
Bridgeman's father. Only details of the group portraits are reproduced in the article, but the photographs in this file also include prints of the whole paintings.
WIL/A8/2
File of index cards, notes and correspondence relating to the Hogarth portrait and other paintings discussed in Willis's article.
WIL/A9 before 1941
"Mysterious portrait of Charles Bridgeman": photographs of a painting in the possession of Alexander Hume of Islington, Ontario, claimed by him to be a portrait of Charles Bridgeman by William Hogarth - an identification not supported by Peter
Willis; with related notes and correspondence of Peter Willis with Alexander Hume, Prof Michael McCarthy of Toronto, and George Clark of Stowe School, 1979-80. The painting was reproduced in the
Burlington magazine, 79 (1941), where the subject was said to be Captain Richard Evans.
WIL/A10
Notes and correspondence about the sale of Charles Bridgeman's possessions at Aaron Lambe's in Pall Mall, London, starting on 8 December 1741, and about Peter Willis's attempts (unsuccessful) to trace a copy of the sale catalogue.
WIL/A11
Correspondence about Charles Bridgeman between Peter Willis and other scholars and custodians of papers. Correspondents include Juliet Allan, Geoffrey Beard, Bedfordshire Record Office, Briony Blackwell, T.S. Blakeney (archivist to Lord
Townshend), Lord Chandos, Lady Cholmondeley, Howard Colvin, Peter Eden, Georgina Fuller, Andor Gomme, Keith Goodway, Robin Hamlyn, John Harris, John H. Harvey, the Huntington Library, Gervase Jackson-Stops, James Lees-Milne, the Library of Congress,
Nottingham University Library, Lord Pembroke, John Phibbs, J.H. Plumb, Margaret Richards (archivist at Badminton), Andrew C. Skelton, Earl Spencer, and Lord Walpole. Sites mentioned include Althorp, Blenheim, Wimbledon, Stowe, Gubbins, Amesbury,
Raynham, Trafalgar House, Houghton, Badminton, Claremont, Sacombe, Dallington, Castle Hill, Lumley, Wimpole, Cliveden, Coopersale, Bowood, and Wolterton.
WIL/A12
Notes, photocopies, photographs and microfilm concerning material related to Charles Bridgeman in the British Library Department of Manuscripts. Includes microfilm and printout of selected pages from Add. MS 61478 (Blenheim Papers), negative and
prints of Add. MS 4809 f.141v, negative and photographs of leaves from Add. MS 39167, negative and prints of a letter from Bridgeman to Lord Oxford in Loan 29/90, Portland Papers, and offprints of articles by Frances Harris on the Blenheim Papers (
Archives, 22, 1997) and on Charles Bridgeman at Blenheim (Garden history, 13, 1985).
WIL/A13
Notes on material concerning Charles Bridgeman in the Public Record Office.
WIL/A14 c. 1719
Notes and correspondence on material relating to Charles Bridgeman in the Duchy of Cornwall Office, London; the Essex Record Office (with a photograph of a Bridgeman receipt, 1719, in Samuel Tufnell's receipt book, D/Dtu 276); Hovingham Hall,
Yorkshire; Northamptonshire Record Office (with a photocopy of Bridgeman receipts, 1726/7 from Andrew Marchant's receipt book in the Montagu (Boughton) MSS); and the Warwickshire Record Office).
WIL/A15
Miscellaneous biographical material related to Charles Bridgeman:
WIL/A15/1
Typescript list of Bridgeman's clients, with notes of their associated houses or landscapes.
WIL/A15/2
Typescript lists, variously arranged, of parks with Bridgeman connections.
WIL/A15/3
Typescript list of Bridgeman's friends and fellow-artists.
WIL/A15/4 1978
Photocopied extracts concerning Alexander Pope, Charles Bridgeman and William Kent from Morris R. Brownell's
Alexander Pope & the arts of Georgian England (1978).
WIL/A15/5
Photocopied extract from
Notes and queries suggesting Bridgeman as author of the poem "A hue and cry after four of ye King's Liege subjects".
WIL/A15/6 2003
Andrew Eburne, “Charles Bridgman and the gardens of the Robinocracy”,
Garden History: Journal of the Garden History Society, 31, 2 (2003), p.193-208
Material relating to Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown (1716-1783), landscape gardener and architect.Reference: WIL/CExtent: 2 boxes.
(For material on individual sites with Capability Brown connections, see also the site files in
WIL/F)
Bibliographical Note
Related publications by Peter Willis (for copies see
WIL/Z):
“Capability Brown in Northumberland”,
Garden history, 9 no.2 (1983), p.157-183; reprinted as a booklet (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1983).
“Capability Brown’s account with Drummond’s Bank, 1753-1783”,
Architectural history, 27 (1984), p.382-391.
WIL/C1
Bibliographical notes and references.
WIL/C2
Miscellaneous publications relating to Capability Brown:
WIL/C2/1 7 December 1962
R. Banham, “Kent and Capability”, New statesman (7 December 1962), p.842-843.
WIL/C2/2 1972
J. Barrell,
The idea of landscape and the sense of place 1730-1840 (Cambridge, 1972), p.48-51, 216-219.
WIL/C2/3 1973
H. Bilbrough, “Documents in record offices which might affect the assessment of the achievement of “Capability” Brown”,
Garden history, 1 no.3 (1973), p.9-22.
WIL/C2/4 6 September 1979
J.D. Bond, “Trees in the “Capability” tradition”,
Country life (6 September 1979), p.684-685.
WIL/C2/5
C. Bowden, “The capable apprentice” (newspaper cutting, source not recorded).
WIL/C2/6 1972
P. Breman, and D. Addis, Guide to Vitruvius Britannicus (New York, 1972), p.11-12.
WIL/C2/7 2 September 1983
J. Brown, “The art of Capability”, review of an exhibition, “Capability Brown and the northern landscape” at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle,
Building design (2 September 1983), p.12-13.
WIL/C2/8 1983
Capability Brown and the northern landscape, catalogue of an exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Temple Newsam, Leeds, and Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough, 1983
(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1983).
WIL/C2/9 December 1971
G.B. Clarke, “Lancelot Brown’s work at Stowe”,
Stoic, 25 no.1 (December 1971), p.17-22.
WIL/C2/10 1974
J. Clifford,
Capability Brown: an illustrated life of Lancelot Brown 1716-1783 (Princes Risborough, 1974).
WIL/C2/11 1995
H. Colvin,
A biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840, 3rd ed. (New Haven, 1995), p.165-167.
WIL/C2/12 1973
J.M. Crook, “Northumbrian gothick”,
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 121 (1973), p.271-283.
WIL/C2/13 March 1966
C.R. Denton, “Capability Brown’s homeland [Kirkharle, Northumberland]”, Newcastle life (March 1966), 2p.
WIL/C2/14 July 1975
M. Ellison, review of D. Stroud’s Capability Brown in The architect (July 1975), p.58.
WIL/C2/15 August 1958
B. Hackett, “Some Northumberland landscapes of the English school”,
Journal of the Institute of Landscape Architects, 43 (August 1958), p.2-4, 12, and 44 (November 1958), p.7-9.
WIL/C2/16 22 February 1979
D. Jacques, “Capability Brown at Warwick Castle”,
Country life (22 February 1979), p.474-476.
WIL/C2/17 February 1978
D. Jacques, “Lancelot Brown: the professional man”,
Landscape design, 121 (February 1978), p.24-27.
WIL/C2/18 September 1975
G. Jellicoe, “Brown improved”, review of D. Stroud’s
Capability Brown, in Architectural review, 158 (September 1975).
WIL/C2/19 23 September 1998
L. Kitchin, “Ardour in the arbour”,
Times higher education supplement (23 September 1998), p.17.
WIL/C2/20 13 May 1983
L. Kitchin, “Lasting value of the first impressionist”,
Times higher education supplement (13 May 1983), p.11.
WIL/C2/21 Summer 2001
“Lancelot Brown (1716-83) and the landscape park”,
Garden history, 29 no.1 (Summer 2001) [whole issue].
WIL/C2/22 Winter 1977
K. Lemmon, “A Capability Brown memorial”,
Garden history, 5 no.3 (Winter 1977), p.22-24.
WIL/C2/23 1976
E. Malins, and the Knight of Glin,
Lost demesnes: Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845 (London, 1976), p.60, 71.
WIL/C2/24 1983
P. McKay,
Capability Brown at Castle Ashby, exhibition catalogue (1983).
WIL/C2/25 1983
H. Moggridge, “Cadland, Hampshire: restoration of Capability Brown’s landscape for Boarn Hill Cottage”,
Landscape design, 8 (1983), p.23-24.
WIL/C2/26 1995
J.L. Phibbs, The assassination of Capability Brown: a revised working paper [an enquiry into the criticisms of Brown made by the picturesque movement] (Eastleach, 1995).
WIL/C2/27 Autumn 1976
P. Quennell, “Petworth House and park” in National Trust,
The heritage in danger (Autumn 1976), p.9.
WIL/C2/28 1842
M.A. Richardson, The local historian’s table book, historical division, vol. 2 (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1842), p.277-278.
WIL/C2/29 1835
W. Roberts,
Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, 3rd ed. (London, 1835), vol.1, p.267.
WIL/C2/30 1815
L. Simond,
Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain during the years 1810 and 1811, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1815), p.v-xiii, p.148-155.
WIL/C2/31 1815
L. Simond,
Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain during the years 1810 and 1811, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1815), p.54-57.
WIL/C2/32 1957
D. Stroud,
Capability Brown, rev. ed. (London, 1957).
WIL/C2/33 November 1974
D. Stroud, “The early years of Capability Brown”,
House and garden (November 1974), p.83-86.
WIL/C2/34 28 November 1981
D. Stroud, “Endangered species”, review of R.Turner’s
Capability Brown and the eighteenth-century English landscape, in Country life (28 November 1981).
WIL/C2/35 13 January 1984
D. Stroud, “In the natural style”, review of D. Jacques’
Georgian gardens, in TLS (13 January 1984), p.43.
WIL/C2/36 1865
J. Sykes,
Local records, new ed., vol. 1 (Newcastle, 1865), p.324.
WIL/C2/37 1980
A.A. Tait,
The landscape garden in Scotland 1735-1835 (Edinburgh, 1980), p.193.
WIL/C2/38 1906
The letters of Horace Walpole, ed. P. Cunningham, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1906), p.332-335.
WIL/C2/39 1965
Horace Walpole’s correspondence with the Countess of Upper Ossory, vol. 2 (London, 1965), p.385-387.
WIL/C2/40 1895
R. Welford,
Men of mark ‘twixt Tyne and Tweed (London, 1895), vol.1, p.404-408.
WIL/C2/41
R. Williams, “Making places: garden mastery and English Brown”,
Journal of garden history, 3 no.4, p.382-385.
WIL/C2/42 Spring 1969
A.C. Wood, “Lancelot Brown and Newnham Paddox”,
Warwickshire history, 1 no.1 (Spring 1969), p.3-17.
WIL/C2/43 1980
S. Wrathmell, “Village depopulation in the 17th and 18th centuries: examples from Northumberland”,
Post-medieval archaeology, 14 (1980), p.113-126.
WIL/C2/44 2003
John Phibbs, “The Englishness of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown”,
Garden History: Journal of the Garden History Society, 31, 2 (2003), p.122-140.
WIL/C3
Capability Brown’s drawings:
WIL/C3/1
Card index of preliminary notes by Peter Willis for a catalogue of Capability Brown’s drawings: general notes, followed by notes on drawings of Adderbury, Oxon.; Ashburnham Place, Sussex; Audley End, Essex; Badminton, Glos.; Blenheim, Oxon;
Bowood, Wilts; Broadlands, Hants; Brocklesby, Lincs.; Buckingham House, London; Burton Constable, Yorks; Cadland, Hants; Cambridge Backs; Castle Ashby, Northants; Claremont, Surrey; Croome, Worcs; Fenstanton, Hunts; Grimsthorpe, Lincs; Hainton Hall,
Lincs; Heveningham, Suffolk; The Hoo, Herts; Ingestre, Staffs; Kirkharle, Northumberland; Kirtlington Park, Oxon.; Langley, Bucks; Lowther, Cumbria; Milton Abbey, Dorset; Moccas, Herefordshire; Newnham Paddox, Warw.; Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon.;
Packington, Warw.; Paultons, Hants; Peper Harow, Surrey; Petworth, Sussex; Richmond, Surrey; Rothley Lake, Northumberland; St James’s Park, London; Slane Castle, Co. Meath; Swinnerton, Staffs; Temple Newsam, Yorks; Trentham, Staffs; Wimpole, Cambs;
Woodstock, Oxon.; Youngsbury, Herts.
WIL/C3/
Correspondence, notes, extracts, photocopies and illustrations relating to drawings by Brown of a variety of sites, arranged alphabetically by site (Audley End, Badminton, Blenheim, Burton Constable, Castle Ashby, Croome, Curry Rivel, Fenstanton,
Grimsthorpe, Hainton Hall, The Hoo, Ingestre, Milton Abbey, Newnham Paddox, Peper Harow, Richmond, Slane Castle, Trentham Park, Wimpole, and an unidentified park). The file includes photographs of two drawing of Grimsthorpe from the Lincolnshire
Archives Office (WIL/C3/2/11-12), and of a drawing of Richmond Surrey, PRO Works 32/96 (WIL/C3/2/24).
WIL/C4
Miscellaneous correspondence of Peter Willis relating to Capability Brown, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Correspondents: Beaulieu archivist (about Beaulieu and Ditton Park), Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire and Cheshire
Record Offices, Mrs Gillian Drummond, Durham County Record Office, Essex, Gloucestershire, and Hampshire Record Offices, John H. Harvey, Hereford and Worcester Record Office, Hertfordshire Record Office, Thomas Hinde (about Kirkharle), Hoare’s Bank
(about Savernake), Robert Holden, Huntingdon Record Office, John Lord (one letter enclosing a photocopy of a letter from Lady Jane Gray to Sir Gilbert Heathcote, mentioning Brown’s work at Burleigh, and another about Brown’s work at Brocklesby),
P.H. McKay (about Castle Ashby, including photocopy of a letter from the Castle Ashby MSS about Brown’s work at Fenstanton), Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire Record Offices, Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Staffordshire Record Office and
William Salt Library, Stafford, Dorothy Stroud, Surrey Record Office, Robert Taylor (about Wakefield Lodge), Roger Turner (about Richmond and Luton Hoo), and the West Sussex and Wiltshire Record Offices). Includes (WIL/C4/65-66) photocopies of “Mr
Browne’s Survey of Aynho Park Gardens &c: 1760” and of payments to him 1761-63 in Cartwright estate accounts, Northamptonshire Record Office C(A) 3499.
WIL/C5
Facsimiles of documents relating to Capability Brown:
WIL/C5/1
Photograph and photocopies of entry of his baptism, 30 August 1716, in Kirkharle Parish register, Northumberland Record Office EP/127/1.
WIL/C5/2
Photograph of letter from Brown to Lord Cobham, from Stowe, 24 February 1746/47, and of Brown’s account for the men “imployed in The New Garden at Stowe”, 4 April 1747 (originals in the Huntington Library, California).
WIL/C5/3
Photocopy of letter from Brown to George Bowes, 22 October 1750 (Durham County Record Office, Strathmore Collection, D/St/347/37), describing his monument to Lord Cobham at Stowe, and offering assistance if Bowes should wish to commission a
pillar of a similar kind.
WIL/C5/4
Photocopy of Brown’s will, proved 1 March 1783, PRO PROB 11/1101, f.69v-77r, and transcript of the first part of it.
WIL/C6
Capability Brown in North-East England:
WIL/C6/1 1978-1983
Notes, with map, on Brown’s works in Northumberland, contents list for a 1978 travelling exhibition (“Capability Brown in the North-East”), text for a 1983 exhibition on Brown at the Department of Town and Country Planning, University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, poster for the 1983 exhibition “Capability Brown and the northern landscape”, accompanying text for a 1983 slides lecture on Brown, and photocopies of aerial photographs by Aerofilms Ltd of Little Harle Tower, and Belsay,
Northumberland.
WIL/C6/2
Photographs for the illustrations to Peter Willis’s article “Capability Brown in Northumberland”, figures 1-8, 10-22. Lacks photograph for figure 9, the 1762 portrait of Sir Walter Calverley Blackett (for which see
WIL/F/WA2/46), but includes a photograph of an engraving of Reynolds’ later portrait of Blackett, published by John Brand in 1769. The illustrations include Nathaniel Dance’s portrait of Brown, views and drawings of Kirkharle,
views and drawings of Rothley Lake, photographs of Thomas Wright’s Codger Fort and Daniel Garrett’s Rothley Castle, a Gainsborough portrait of Hugh, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and views of Alnwick Castle and Hulne Priory.
WIL/C7
Capability Brown at Lowther, Westmorland:
WIL/C7/1
Research notes by Peter Willis on Capability Brown at Lowther, including notes on the account of Sir James Lowther at Hoare’s Bank.
WIL/C7/2 mainly 1763-1771
Descriptions, photocopies, and photographs of drawings and plans for proposed work at Lowther by Capability Brown among records deposited by the Earl of Lonsdale in Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle (six drawings for a new mansion, 1763, consisting
of elevations for the north and south fronts, and plans of the cellar, principal, chamber, and garret stories; plan for remodelling the house and park, 1763; plan for remodelling the house and park, 1771):
WIL/C7/2/1 1980
Descriptions of the drawings and plans from
Architectural drawings from Lowther Castle, Westmorland, ed. H. Colvin, J.M. Crook and T. Friedman (Leeds, 1980).
WIL/C7/2/2
Descriptions of the drawings and plans by Peter Willis.
WIL/C7/2/10-21 1763
Photographs of the drawings for a new mansion,1763.
WIL/C7/2/22-27 1763
Large photocopies of the drawings for a new mansion, 1763.
WIL/C7/2/28-40 1763
Photographs (whole plan and details) of the 1763 plan for remodelling the park.
WIL/C7/2/41-49 1771
Photographs (whole plan and details) of the 1771 plan for remodelling the park.
WIL/C7/3
Photocopies of views of Lowther by Knyff and Kip ca.1700, Matthias Read ca.1725, and Charles Steuart 1775, and plans and descriptions of Lowther from Colen Campbell’s
Vitruvius Britannicus, vols 2-3 (1717-25), not executed; description of a set of four unexecuted designs for Lowther by Colen Campbell in the collection of Mr. and Mrs Paul Mellon; photocopies of aerial photographs of
Lowther by Aerofilms Ltd.; photocopy of 1:25000 Ordnance Survey map of Lowther and its surroundings.
WIL/C7/4
Miscellaneous correspondence of Peter Willis relating to Capability Brown at Lowther, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Correspondents: Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Bank of England, Dr J.V. Beckett, Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, Cumbria
County Library, Cumbria Record Office, Gervase Jackson-Stops, the Earl of Lonsdale, Dr Jill Low, and Angus Taylor. The correspondence with the Earl of Lonsdale confirmed Peter Willis’s supposition that Brown’s plans for Lowther were never
implemented, even in part.
WIL/C7/5
Bibliographical references relating to Lowther.
WIL/C7/6
Articles and extracts relating to Lowther and the Lowther family:
WIL/C7/6/1 1977
J.V. Beckett, “The eighteenth-century origins of the factory system: a case study from the 1740’s”,
Business history, 19 no.1 (1977), p.55-67.
WIL/C7/6/2 1977
J.V. Beckett, “English landownership in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the debate and the problems”,
Economic history review, 2nd ser., 30 no.4 (1977), p.567-581.
WIL/C7/6/3 1980
J.V. Beckett, “Illness and amputation in the eighteenth century: the case of Sir James Lowther (1673-1755)”,
Medical history, 24 (1980), p.88-92.
WIL/C7/6/4 1978
J.V. Beckett, “The Lowthers at Holker: marriage, inheritance and debt in the fortunes of an eighteenth-century landowning family”,
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 127 (1978), p.47-64.
WIL/C7/6/5 1982
J.V. Beckett, “Regional variation and the agricultural depression, 1730-50”,
Economic history review, 2nd ser., 35 no.1 (1982), p.35-51.
WIL/C7/6/6 1960
B. Bonsall,
Sir James Lowther and Cumberland & Westmorland elections 1754-1775 (Manchester, 1960), p.v.
WIL/C7/6/7 1972
P. Breman, and D. Addis,
Guide to Vitruvius Britannicus (New York, 1972), p.109: “Lowther Castle”.
WIL/C7/6/8 1966-1967
R.W. Brunskill, “Lowther village and Robert Adam”,
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, 14 (1966-67), p.57-73.
WIL/C7/6/9 1980
H. Colvin, and others, eds.,
Architectural drawings from Lowther Castle, Westmorland (1980), p.13-19.
WIL/C7/6/10 1968
Cumbria characters, catalogue of an exhibition at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 1968: description and photocopy of portrait of Sir James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, at Askham Hall.
WIL/C7/6/11 1962
D. Defoe,
A tour through the whole island of Great Britain, vol.1 (London, 1962), p.270-273.
WIL/C7/6/12 1974
The destruction of the country house 1875-1975 (London, 1974), figure 286: drawing room at Lowther Castle by Sir Robert Smirke, 1806.
WIL/C7/6/13
Dictionary of national biography, vol. 34, p.217-221 (article on James Lowther (1736-1802), Earl of Lonsdale.
WIL/C7/6/14 1967
N. Pevsner, Cumberland and Westmorland, Buildings of England (1967), p.272-274: Lowther Castle.
WIL/C7/7
Extracts from Cumbria Record Office
Summary list of the records of the Earl of Lonsdale:
WIL/C7/7/1
Introduction and contents description.
WIL/C7/7/2
Architectural drawings.
WIL/C7/7/3
Plans transferred from the Estate Office, Lowther, 27 April 1964.
WIL/C7/7/4
Additional plans transferred from Lowther Estate Office, 9 July 1966.
WIL/C7/7/5
Maps relating to Westmorland deposited by Lord Lonsdale in the Record Office, Carlisle.
WIL/C8
Miscellaneous notes, transcripts, extracts, and illustrations relating to a number of sites with Capability Brown connections, established or putative. Arranged alphabetically by site (Alnwick, Aske Hall, Audley End, Fenstanton, Kew Gardens,
Temple Newsam, Stowe and Tong Castle). Includes a photograph of Stowe Church.
WIL/C9
Portraits of Capability Brown: photographs of the portrait by Nathaniel Dance in the National Portrait Gallery, London; correspondence about its date with John Kerslake and John Jacob; and discussion by John Ingamells in
Preview: City of York Art Gallery quarterly (July 1970), p.830-1, of similarities between a portrait of Brown attributed to Richard Cosway, location unknown, and a portrait of a man by M.F. Quadel, newly acquired by
the York Art Gallery.
WIL/C10
Photocopies of poetical references to Capability Brown.
WIL/C11
Three caricatures relating to Capability Brown.
Site files (on individual estates, gardens, buildings)WIL/F15 boxes.
Many of the files include material alluding to 'Capability' Brown, William Kent, and Charles Bridgeman.
WIL/F/AB
Abbotstone, Hampshire:
Photostat of Bodleian Library, Gough Maps vol 10, fol.37: “Plan of the situation of His Grace the Duke of Boltons seat at Abbotstone on ye Rising Ground Opposite to ye Front of the Old House”.
WIL/F/AL
Alnwick Castle, Northumberland:
WIL/F/AL/1-15
Photographs and published illustrations of engravings and paintings of the castle, details of aerial photographs available from Aerofilms Ltd and the University of Cambridge Committee for Aerial Photography, aerial photographs taken in 1979 (one
in colour), map of the Alnwick area, and notes on drawings of the castle by Robert Adam.
WIL/F/AL/19
Postcards of two paintings of the 9th Earl and the 1st Duke of Northumberland, plus black and white photograph of the latter, and related correspondence.
WIL/F/AL/20-23 1958-1981
A.C.S. Dixon, “The restoration of Alnwick Castle by Hugh, First Duke of Northumberland, 1750-1786” (King’s College, Newcastle, B.Arch. dissertation, 1960); B. Hackett, “Some Northumberland landscapes of the English” (1958); M. Hudson, “The
Tenantry Column at Alnwick” (
Country life, 1981); and photocopy of “Extracts from M.S. entitled Alnwick Castle described and illustrated with drawings by P. W[addel], 1785”.
WIL/F/AL/23-43
Photocopied extracts relating to Alnwick from various sources, including the 19th-century histories of the town printed by William Davison and works by M.R.G. Conzen, Francis Grose, Fitz-Greene Halleck, and J.P. Neale.
WIL/F/AL/44-46
Bibliographical and research notes on Alnwick by Peter Willis.
WIL/F/AM
Amesbury, Wiltshire:
3 photographs of Bodleian Library, MS Maps Misc.a.1, a landscape garden plan which Sir Howard Colvin has suggested may be of Amesbury by Charles Bridgman.
WIL/F/AS
Ashburnham, Sussex:
Reference to plans of park, bridges and offices, 1767, by Capability Brown.
WIL/F/AU 1958-1985
Audley End, Essex: Correspondence of Peter Willis with Essex Record Office, and Richard Flenley, 1984-1985; bibliographical references; guidebook (1958); photostat of Bodleian Library MS Gough Drawings A.4.67 (a plan of Audley End); notes by
Peter Willis on that plan and another in the same manuscript; extracts from
The landscape of Audley End: summary report of historical and site surveys with recommendations for future treatment, prepared by Land Use Consultants for the Directorate of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings
1983; photocopied plans (A3 and A4) from that report; M. Girouard, “Three episodes in the history of Audley End” (1982); and extracts from J.D. Williams, Audley End: the restoration of 1761-1797 (1966).
WIL/F/BA
Badminton, Gloucestershire:
WIL/F/BA/1-18
Correspondence of Peter Willis with the Duke of Beaufort, Gloucestershire Record Office, Andor Gomme (enclosing photocopies of four letters between Lord Noel Somerset and Anthony Morgan, 1734, which refer to Charles Bridgeman), and Sir Oliver
Miller, 1971-2001.
WIL/F/BA/19
Notes by Peter Willis on Bridgeman drawings for Badminton.
WIL/F/BA/20-25
Aerial photograph of Badminton Park, 1972; photographs of a painting at Windsor Castle of Frederick, Prince of Wales, hunting at Badminton, a painting by Canaletto, and a drawing attributed to Wooton.
WIL/F/BA/26-31
Bibliographical notes and references.
WIL/F/BA/32-34
H. Colvin, “Georgian architects at Badminton” (
Country life, 1968); A. Gomme, “Badminton revisited” (Architectural history, 1984); J.N.P. Watson, “Badminton blue and buff: the Duke of Beaufort’s hunt” (Country
life, 1979).
WIL/F/BE1 1986
Beaudesert, Staffordshire:
D.R. Coffin, “Repton’s Red Book for Beaudesert” (
The Princeton University chronicle, 1986).
WIL/F/BE2 1987-1987
Beaulieu, Hampshire:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with John Phibbs, 1986-1987, enclosing photocopies of estate plans and estimates for water works (with transcript by Phibbs) from the Beaulieu muniments.
WIL/F/BE3 1991
Belton House, Lincolnshire:
Gervase Jackson-Stops, “Belton House, Lincolnshire: a property of the National Trust” (
Country life, 1991).
WIL/F/BE4 1979-1986
Beningbrough, Yorkshire:
Guidebook (1986); articles on the redesign of the house’s interior by David Mlinaric for the National Trust, and four 1979 articles by John Cornforth, Martin Drury, John Garrett, and John Kerslake, on the house and its use to display National
Portrait Gallery collections.
WIL/F/BE5
Benwell Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne:
WIL/F/BE5/1-4
Bibliographical references.
WIL/F/BE5/5-6 1978-1979
Two photographs of the exterior.
WIL/F/BE5/7-10
Photocopies of plans and drawings in the Northumberland Record Office, and of an extract from an OS map.
WIL/F/BE5/11-20
Photocopied extracts relating to Benwell from various sources, including Benwell parish magazine, and works by M. Hope Dodds, M.A. Richardson, and D. Stroud.
WIL/F/BL1 1776
Blair Castle, Perthshire:
Large format negative and black and white print of engraving entitled “Jardins de Blair au Duc d’Atholl”, from G.L. Le Rouge,
Détails des nouveaux jardins à la mode (Paris, 1776).
WIL/F/BL2 1741-1995
Blenheim, Oxfordshire:
Bibliographical references and cuttings; correspondence of Peter Willis with David Green 1959-61; photograph of design for the gardens at Blenheim from Bodleian Library MS. Top.Oxon.a.37* fol. 2; photograph of portrait of Sarah, Duchess of
Marlborough in the National Portrait Gallery; photocopies and transcript of two letters from her to Charles Bridgeman’s wife, 1741; two guidebooks to Blenheim (1979 and 1992); D.W. Booth, “Blenheim Park on the eve of ‘Mr Brown’s improvements’” (
Garden history, 1995); F. Harris, “Charles Bridgeman at Blenheim” (Garden history, 1985); G. Worsley, “Planning into the 25th century: the replanting of Blenheim Park” (Country life, 1987).
WIL/F/BL3 1980
Blue Bridge House, Halstead, Essex:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Graeme Moore about restoration of the Blue Bridge House garden, 1980, enclosing two versions of a short history of the house and the garden laid out there for John Morley (1656-1732).
WIL/F/BO1 1983
Boarn Hill Cottage, Hampshire:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Mrs Gillian Drummond, 1983.
WIL/F/BO2
Boughton, Northamptonshire:
Notes by Peter Willis on garden plans of Boughton by Charles Bridgeman (at Boughton), and plans of Boughton by Gabriel Delahaye (in the Bodleian Library and the Public Record Office), together with two photographs of the Bridgeman plans
(reproduced in Willis’s
Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden, 2002, plates 190a-b).
WIL/F/BO3 1957
Bower House, Essex:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Essex Record Office, 1957, and negatives and prints of the inscription in the entrance hall, which mentions Henry Flitcroft and Charles Bridgeman.
WIL/F/BO4 1987
Bowood, Wiltshire:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Kate Fielden of the Bowood Estate Office, 1987; clippings of two illustrations of Bowood; chronological notes about it; photocopy of “King’s Bowood Park”, by the Earl of Kerry.
WIL/F/BO5 1751
Boynton Hall, Yorkshire:
Photograph of painting of Sir George and Lady Strickland at Boynton, by Arthur Devis, 1751, in Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.
WIL/F/BR1 1994-1996
Briggens, Hertfordshire:
A.C. Skelton, “The development of the Briggens estate, Hunsdon, since 1720” (
Hertfordshire archaeology, 12, 1994-96).
WIL/F/BR2 1980
Broadlands, Hampshire:
Gervase Jackson-Stops, “Broadlands, Hampshire”, pts 1-3 (
Country life, 1980).
WIL/F/BR3 1979-1984
Broadwick Street, London:
Research notes by Peter Willis; brochure on the restoration of nos 48-58 (an early Georgian terrace, including Charles Bridgeman’s house), by Haslemere Estates, and its linking to a new neo-classical office building in Dufours Place, c.1983-84;
photographs and negatives of the restored terrace, including two interiors of no. 54 (Bridgeman’s house); earlier illustrations of the street and surrounding area; correspondence of Peter Willis, 1979-1984, about the restoration and the erection of
a commemorative plaque to Bridgeman; cuttings and photocopies on the same topics.
WIL/F/BR4 1975-1980
Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Suffolk Record Office and with Mrs Fiona Cowell, 1975-1984, and photocopies and descriptive notes on the garden plans of Brocket in Bodleian Library, MS Gough Drawings A.3.7 and A.3.40.
WIL/F/BR5 1984-1992
Brocklesby, Lincolnshire:
Note on plans of Brocklesby by Capability Brown; correspondence of Peter Willis with John Lord, 1984, about Brown’s work at Brocklesby, with enclosed photocopies of documentary evidence; copy of Lord’s article “The building of the mausoleum at
Brocklesby, Lincolnshire” (
Church monuments: journal of the Church Monuments Society, 1992).
WIL/F/BU1
Buckingham House, London:
Photograph of painting of Buckingham House, St James’s Park, by Edward Dayes, in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
WIL/F/BU2
Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire:
Bibliographical note.
WIL/F/BU3 1984
Burghley House, Northamptonshire: Bibliographical notes, correspondence of Peter Willis 1984, and photocopy of letter from Lady Jane Gray (Lincolnshire Archives Office 3 Anc 9/1/2), all relating to Capability Brown’s work at Burghley.
WIL/F/BU4 c.1970s
Burton Constable Hall, Yorkshire:
Guidebook (c.1970’s) and bibliographical references.
WIL/F/BU5 1996
Burwood Park, Surrey: Correspondence of Peter Willis with Bernard Pardoe and with Sotheby’s, 1996, about an 18th-century survey and plan of the Burwood gardens and park which was sold at Sotheby’s in 1988. A photocopy of part of the plan is
included.
WIL/F/CA1 1940
Cadland House, Hampshire:
Bibliographical references, and photocopy of D. Stroud, “Lancelot Brown’s design for the south courtyard at Burton Constable” (
Country life, 1940), which includes references to Cadland and an illustration of it.
WIL/F/CA2 1980
Cambo, Northumberland:
Postcards, photographs, notes, correspondence of Peter Willis with Alistair Elliot, 1980, and photocopied extracts from works by Dorothy Stroud and Arthur Young.
WIL/F/CA3 1972
Cambridge Backs and King’s College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:
Correspondence and bibliographical notes of Peter Willis, chiefly about schemes by Charles Bridgeman for the Backs; photographs and large format negatives of plan of King’s College by James Essex, view of King’s College New Building from the
Grove engraved by Lamborn, and an unidentified engraved plan of the Backs and adjacent colleges; aerial photograph of Cambridge, ref. RC8-E 247; copy of T.P. Hudson, “James Gibb’s designs for University buildings at Cambridge” (
Burlington magazine, December 1972), and misc. photocopied extracts relating to King’s and its gardens.
WIL/F/CA4 1969
Capesthorne Hall, Northamptonshire: “Who designed Capesthorne Hall”, offprint of two articles by A.H. and S.M. Gomme, and S.A. Harris, reprinted from
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 121 (1969).
WIL/F/CA5
Capheaton Hall, Northumberland:
WIL/F/CA5/1-6
Bibliographical and biographical notes and references.
WIL/F/CA5/7-14 1979
Aerial photographs of the house and surroundings, 1979; photograph of Capheaton lake, 1979.
WIL/F/CA5/15-18
Photographs of 18th-century painting of the house, and of portrait by Charles Jervais of Martha and Theresa Blount and portrait of Theresa Charlton by Michael Dahl.
WIL/F/CA5/19
Photocopied map of the area around the house.
WIL/F/CA5/20-28 1978-1981
Correspondence of Peter Willis 1978-1981 (correspondents: John Browne-Swinburne of Capheaton, Coutts Bank archives, Alistair Elliot, Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts).
WIL/F/CA5/29 1977
Duplicated background notes for a visit by students of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne School of Architecture to four Northumberland country houses (Chipchase Castle, Hesleyside, Wallington Hall, and Capheaton Hall), 1977.
WIL/F/CA5/30-35
Copy of B. Long, “Capheaton 1668-1675” (
Northumberland Local History Society quarterly, 21), photocopy of A.A. Tait, “Classicism in eccentric form: the architecture of Robert Trollope (Country life, August 1965)”, and misc.
photocopied extracts relating to Capheaton.
WIL/F/CA6 1992-2007
Carshalton House, Surrey: Three postcards of Carshalton House and the exterior and interior of its water tower; correspondence of Peter Willis with Andrew Skelton of the Carshalton Water Tower Trust, 1992-94, enclosing a copy of a draft paper by
Skelton (WIL/F/CA6/10) on “Carshalton and Briggens: an initial discussion”; and correspondence of Peter Willis with the Greater London Record Office, 1992.
The Hermitage and the development of the Carshalton House landscape garden, Andrew Skelton (2007) (WIL/F/CA6/16).
WIL/F/CA7 1950-1993
Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire:
Capability Brown at Castle Ashby (exhibition catalogue by P. McKay, 1993), and photocopied extract from Dorothy Stroud’s Capability Brown (1950).
WIL/F/CA8
Castle Hill, Devonshire:
WIL/F/CA8/1
Note on paintings of the house.
WIL/F/CA8/2-10 1982-1985
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Robin Fausset, 1982, and copies of a letter from Fausset to Lady Margaret Fortescue and a letter from John Harris to Fausset, both 1985, concerning conflicting attributions of the Castle Hill gardens to William
Kent and to Charles Bridgeman.
WIL/F/CA8/11-13 1979-1987
Photocopies of Robin Fausset, “The creation of the gardens at Castle Hill, South Molton, Devon”, and reply by John Harris (
Garden history, 13 (1985), p.103-125, & 15 (1987), p.167-171), and of Kenneth Woodbridge, “Landscaping at Castle Hill” (Country life, January 1979).
WIL/F/CA9
Castle Howard, Yorkshire:
WIL/F/CA9/1-4 1972-1988
Introductory leaflet, plan of the surroundings, and two guidebooks (1972 and 1988).
WIL/F/CA9/5-6
Photographs of the mausoleum, and of a portrait by Kneller of Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, in the National Portrait Gallery.
WIL/F/CA9/7-9 c.1735-1992
Photocopies of poem C
astle-Howard, the seat of the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Carlisle, by Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (1735?), and extract from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, by H. von
Pűckler-Muskau, vol. 1 (1832); review by Kerry Downes of C. Saumarez Smith, The building of Castle Howard (1990); and copy of “Half in love with easeful death”, article on the Castle Howard mausoleum in Antique
collector, February 1992.
WIL/F/CH1
Charlecote, Warwickshire:
Bibliographical reference.
WIL/F/CH2
Chatsworth, Derbyshire:
Notes on sources for study of Chatsworth, and on letters and drawings consulted by Peter Willis during a 1957 visit there.
WIL/F/CH3 1961-1975
Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire:
Bibliographical and research notes by Peter Willis, copies of Marcus Binney,
“Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire”, parts 1-3 (Country life, February 1975), and photocopy of Joan D. Tanner, “The building of Chicheley Hall” (Records of
Buckinghamshire, 17 no.1 (1961), p.41-48).
WIL/F/CH4
Chiswick House, Middlesex:
WIL/F/CH4/1-2
Bibliographical references.
WIL/F/CH4/3 1991
Guidebook Chiswick House and gardens by Richard Hewlings (2nd ed., 1991).
WIL/F/CH4/4-5
Postcard of portrait by Jonathan Richardson of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and photograph with large format negative of engraving of Chiswick garden bagnio from Colen Campbell’s
Vitruvius Britannicus (1725).
WIL/F/CH4/6 1953-1978
Photocopies of Kerry Downes, “Chiswick Villa” (
Architectural review, 1978), and C.M. Sicca, “Lord Burlington at Chiswick: architecture and landscape” (Garden history, 1982), and copy of M. Whiffen, “New light at Chiswick” (Architectural review, 1953).
WIL/F/CL1 April 1993
Claremont, Surrey: J. Harris, “The beginnings of Claremont: Sir John Vanbrugh’s garden at Chargate in Surrey” (
Apollo, April 1993).
WIL/F/CL2
Cliveden, Buckinghamshire:
WIL/F/CL2/1 1990
Guidebook (1978, rev.1990).
WIL/F/CL2/2-7 1991-1992
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Christopher Wall of the National Trust, 1991-1992.
WIL/F/CL2/8-14
Photocopy and transcript of letters of Lord Archibald Hamilton and Lord Orkney relating to Cliveden, 1706-23, in National Library of Scotland, Fraser Collection 1033.
WIL/F/CL2/15-17 1749-c.1762
Photocopies of surveys of Cliveden garden by John Richardson, 1749, and Samuel Andrews c.1762.
WIL/F/CL2/18-22
Note on design for part of the Cliveden garden attributed to Charles Bridgeman (
Country life, 1977); Gervase Jackson-Stops, “The Cliveden Album: drawings by Archer, Leoni and Gibbs for the 1st Earl of Orkney” (Architectural history, 1976), “Cliveden, Buckinghamshire”
parts 1-2 (Country life, February-March 1977), and “Formal garden designs for Cliveden: the work of Claude Desgots and others for the 1st Earl of Orkney” (National Trust year book,
1976-77).
WIL/F/CL3 January 1975
Cliveden, Philadelphia, USA:
N. Cooper, “Cliveden, Philadelphia: a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation” (
Country life, January 1975).
WIL/F/CO1 July 1974
Cockermouth Castle, Cumberland:
Gervase Jackson-Stops, “Cockermouth Castle, Cumberland”, parts 1-2 (
Country life, July 1974).
WIL/F/C02 1970-1978
Cole Green Park, Hertfordshire:
Bibliographical note; correspondence of Peter Willis with W.J. Brushe, 1978, enclosing photocopies of plan in the Cowper papers, Hertfordshire Record Office, for a garden layout at Cole Green, and another plan (Hertfordshire Record Office
D/EP/P16) for an arcaded yew grotto there; photocopy of Lawrence Stone, “Cole Green Park, Hertfordshire” (
The country seat, ed. H. Colvin and J. Harris, 1970, p.75-80).
WIL/F/CO3
Compton Place, Sussex:
Bibliographical notes by Peter Willis.
WIL/F/CR1 1974-1980
Cragside, Northumberland:
Bibliographical and research notes; National Trust leaflets; short articles on “Conservation in action – the future of Cragside” (
Country life, July 1974), “Cragside & Richard Norman Shaw”, by Sir James Richards (National Trust, autumn 1978), account of the official opening of Cragside to the public (National Trust, autumn 1979), “Cragside, Northumberland: a property of the National Trust”, by Clive Aslet (Country life, September 1980), “Mending the cracks in Cragside”, by Peter Elphick
(RIBA journal, September 1980), and “Hunt the wallpaper”, by Sheila Petit (National Trust, spring 1980).
WIL/F/CR2 1758
Croome Court, Worcestershire: Two photographs of painting of Croome Court by Richard Wilson, 1758, and photocopy and description of design for Croome Church by Capability Brown.
WIL/F/CU
Curry Rivel, Somerset:
Description by Peter Willis of survey drawing of Curry Rivel by Capability Brown, RIBA drawings collection RAN 47/F/2/9-10.
WIL/F/DA1
Dallington Hall, Nottinghamshire:
Notes by Andor Gomme and Peter Willis about Charles Bridgeman’s work at Dallington.
WIL/F/DA2 1982
Dartington Hall, Devon:
Laurence J. Fricker, “Dartington Hall, Devonshire, England”, offprint from E
ighth Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (1982).
WIL/F/DA3 2001
Dawley, Middlesex: B.T. White,
The history of Dawley (Middlesex) (Uxbridge, 2001).
WIL/F/DE November 1980
Devonshire House, London:
John Cornforth, “Devonshire House, London”, parts 1-2 (
Country life, November 1980).
WIL/F/DO1 c.1970s-1985
Dodington, Gloucestershire:
Guidebook [c.1970’s], descriptive notes, and letter from Nicholas Kingsley of Gloucestershire Record Office, 1985.
WIL/F/DO2 1957
Down Hall, Essex:
Bibliographical and research notes of Peter Willis, letter to him from H. Bunker Wright, 1957, and photographs of portraits of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (National Portrait Gallery 1808) and Humphrey Wanley (National Portrait Gallery
579).
WIL/F/EB c.1980s
Ebberston Hall, Yorkshire:
Guide leaflet, c.1980’s, and photograph, with large format negative, of engraving of Ebberston from Colen Campbell’s
Vitruvius Britannicus, vol. 3 (1725).
WIL/F/EN
Enville Hall, Staffordshire:
Photostat of plan of Enville gardens and surroundings by Robert Holden, based on O.S. 6 inch 88 NW (1955).
WIL/F/ER
Ermenonville, Oise, France:
Descriptive leaflet; undated guidebook by René Mathieu to the 18th-century landscaped park created by René-Louis de Girardin (inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s
La nouvelle Héloïse, and by Girardin’s visit in England to William Shenstone’s ferme ornée, the Leasowes, at Halesowen); two coloured postcards of views in the park; and photocopy of
chapter 1 from André Martin-Decaen’s Le Marquis René de Girardin (1735-1808) d’après des documents inédits (Paris, 1912).
WIL/F/ES
Esher, Surrey:
Notes on payments from accounts at Hoare’s Bank, suggesting that Charles Bridgeman worked at Esher.
WIL/F/FE1
Fen Drainage:
WIL/F/FE1/1-13
Bibliographical references.
WIL/F/FE1/14-18 1958
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Keith Hinde of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and H.C. Darby, 1958.
WIL/F/FE1/19-22 1724-c.1725
Photograph with large format negative of first page of
An answer, paragraph by paragraph, to A report of the present state of the Great Level of the Fens … [1724]; two interpretation drawings by Christopher Taylor, 1974, of Charles Bridgeman’s 1724 proposals for Fen
drainage; and photograph of map of the Fens possibly by Thomas Badeslade, c.1725 (Cambridge University Library MS Plans 598).
WIL/F/FE1/23 1983
J.M. Coles,
“Archaeology, drainage and politics in the Somerset levels”, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce journal (March 1983), p.199-214.
WIL/F/FE2 1767-1983
Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire:
Notes by Peter Willis on visit to Fen Stanton Church, 1983; postcard and illustration of the church; photocopy of letter from Capability Brown to the Earl of Northampton, 1767, about Fen Stanton; and miscellaneous photocopied accounts of Fen
Stanton from works by N. Pevsner, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, and the Victoria County History.
WIL/F/FU
Fulham Road, London:
Photograph of plan entitled “A survey of his Majestie’s private roade from London to Fulham” (Public Record Office MPE 482), at one time, but no longer, tentatively attributed to Charles Bridgeman by Peter Willis.
WIL/F/GI
Gibside, Durham:
WIL/F/GI/1 c.1970
Guidebook.
WIL/F/GI/2-5 1979
15 aerial photographs, 1979, and photograph and two postcards of the chapel.
WIL/F/G
Bibliographical references and research notes by Peter Willis.
WIL/F/GI/12-24 1978-1988
Correspondence of Peter Willis with the Bank of England Archives, Coutts Bank, Durham County Record Office, Hoare’s Bank, A.G. Purves, etc., 1981-1988, and copy of letter to Margaret M. Hudson from Dorothy Stroud, 1978.
WIL/F/GI/25-27
Photocopies of two plans of Gibside in Durham County Record Office.
WIL/F/GI/28-42 1940-1993
Marcus Binney, “Gibside needs a plan” (
Landscape, December 1987); Margaret Hudson, “Pillar of Patriotism” (Country life, December 1979); Christopher Hussey, “Gibside, County Durham”, parts 1-2 (Country
life, February 1952); Peter Orde, “Gibside Chapel” (National Trust news, autumn 1972), and miscellaneous cuttings and extracts relating to Gibside, p.1940-1993.
WIL/F/GO 1980
Goodwood, Sussex:
T.P. Connor, “Architecture and planting at Goodwood, 1723-1750” (
Sussex archaeological collections, 117 (1980), p.185-193).
WIL/F/GR
Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire:
WIL/F/GR/1-2
Bibliographical notes.
WIL/F/GR/3-15 1983
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Lincolnshire Record Office, John Lord, and the Royal Horticultural Society, 1983.
WIL/F/GR/16-24
Four photographs of illustrations of Grimsthorpe by William Stukeley (Bodleian Library MS Top.Gen.d.14, f.36v-37v, 38v); and slides, negatives and prints of four drawings and plans of Grimsthorpe in Lincolnshire Archives.
WIL/F/GR/25-28 1970-1991
Notes on Grimsthorpe by W.A. Brogden, 1983; H. Colvin, “Grimsthorpe Castle, the north front” (
The country seat, ed. H. Colvin and J. Harris, 1970, p.91-93); T. Colvin, “Grimsthorpe Castle” (Archaeological journal, 1974); J. Lord, “Sir John Vanbrugh and the 1st Duke of Ancaster:
newly discovered documents” (Architectural history, 1991).
WIL/F/GU1
Gubbins (or Gobions), Hertfordshire:
WIL/F/GU1/1-6
Bibliographical and research notes by Peter Willis.
WIL/F/GU1/7 1993
Guidebook,
Gobions estate, North Mymms, Hertfordshire, by P. Kingsford, R. Bisgrove and L. Jones (1993).
WIL/F/GU1/8-27 1991-2002
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Gloucestershire Record Office, Gobions Woodland Trust, and Hertfordshire County Record Office, 1991-2002.
WIL/F/GU1/28-35 1735-1838
Photostat of drawings of Gubbins (Bodleian Library, Gough Maps 11, f.38); photocopy and 4 photographs of estate map of Gubbins surveyed by Thomas Holmes, 1735 (Gloucestershire Record Office D1245 FF 75), with descriptive notes by Peter Willis;
and photostats of estate plan of Gubbins from 1838 sale catalogue.
WIL/F/GU 1983-1992
Gunton, Norfolk:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with George Carter, 1983, about the park at Gunton; photostat of drawing of garden layout at Gunton by Charles Bridgeman (Bodleian Library, MS Gough Drawings A.4.75), with descriptive notes by Peter Willis;
postcard of Gunton; photocopy of Marcus Binney, “The fight for Gunton Park” (
Country life, May 1986), and cutting about the sale of Gunton in 1992.
WIL/F/HA1 2001-2002
Hackwood, Hampshire:
Bibliographical note, cuttings about plans for the Spring Wood garden at Hackwood after its sale in 1998, and correspondence of Peter Willis with Martin Wood and Sally Hocking, 2001-2002, about Charles Bridgeman’s work at Hackwood. The
correspondence encloses two sets of historical notes on Hackwood, prepared by Hocking in 2001 and by Wood in 2002, and an aerial colour photograph.
WIL/F/HA2 1749-1989
Hagley Hall, Warwickshire:
Bibliographical notes; guidebook, 1989; E.A.M. Bulmer, “Lord Lyttelton at Hagley Hall” (
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, new series 30, 1986); plan of the gardens and surrounding area by Robert Holden, based on a 1955 OS map; and photograph of 1749 engraving entitled ‘A view in Hagley
Park’.
WIL/F/HA3 c.1730
Ham House, Surrey:
Photograph of an engraving of Ham House by Badeslade and Rocque, c.1730, showing the garden layout.
WIL/F/HA4 1962-1972
Harewood, Yorkshire:
Guidebook, 1962, and copy of J.M. Robinson, “In pursuit of excellence” (
Country life, June 1979).
WIL/F/HA5
Hartwell, Buckinghamshire:
WIL/F/HA5/1-9 2001
Two letters from Eric R. Throssell, 2001. Enclosed with these are notes by him entitled “The lost gardens of Hartwell belonging to Sir Thomas Lee 1667-1749” for a Buckinghamshire County Museum exhibition, “The Great Garden Show”, in 2001; a
colour photograph of a painting of the house; photocopies of plans by him of his reconstructions of the 17th and 18th century gardens; and a leaflet by him entitled “Hartwell Buckinghamshire: the formal gardens, a reconstruction based on the eight
paintings of Balthasar Nebot, 1738”.
WIL/F/HA5/10 March 1979
John Harris, “Views of an 18th-century garden: Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire” (
Country life, March 1979).
WIL/F/HE1 1970
Henham Hall, Suffolk:
Hugh Honour, “James Byres’s designs for rebuilding Henham Hall” (
The country seat, ed. H. Colvin and J. Harris, 1970, p.164-169).
WIL/F/HE2 1951-1992
Henrietta Place, London:
Bibliographical notes; offprint of John Summerson, “Henrietta Place, Marylebone, and its associations with James Gibbs” (
London topographical record, 21, 1958); 2 exterior photographs of Henrietta Place, postcard of the drawing room of no. 11 [Charles Bridgeman’s house, demolished in 1956], and 2 postcards of St Peter’s Church, Vere St,
with related letter from the London County Council Architect’s Department, 1951; correspondence of Peter Willis and brochure and cuttings about the Building Design Partnership’s Henrietta House office building development in Henrietta Place,
1992.
WIL/F/HE3 1960-1980
Hesleyside, Northumberland:
Bibliographical and research notes; aerial photographs, 1979 (contact prints numbered 1-9, 60-66, and 4 enlargements), map of the surrounding area; correspondence with Major John Charlton (owner of Hesleyside), Mrs Pauline Dower, and Dorothy
Stroud, 1978-80, about the possibility that Capability Brown worked there; background historical notes for a visit of students from the School of Architecture, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, to four Northumberland country houses including
Hesleyside, 1977; photocopies of Brian Hackett, “A formal landscape at Hesleyside in Northumberland” (
Archaeologia aeliana, 1960), and of extracts relating to Hesleyside from books by M.Hope Dodds, J.P. Neale; M.A. Richardson, Dorothy Stroud, and R. Welford.
WIL/F/HE4
Hevingham Hall, Suffolk:
Bibliographical note.
WIL/F/HO1 c.1960s-1990
Holkham, Norfolk:
Three guidebooks (
Holkham Hall: a short guide to the state rooms [c.196-], Holkham Park: its development over three centuries, 1983, and Holkham Hall, Norfolk: seat of the Earls of
Leicester, 1990), and two articles by W.O. Hassall (“Clumps” and “Ilexes at Holkham”) from Garden history, 1978.
WIL/F/HO2
The Hoo, Hertfordshire:
Notes by Peter Willis about a drawing of a bridge designed by Capability Brown for The Hoo.
WIL/F/HO3 1953
Houghton, Norfolk:
Letter from Nikolaus Pevsner to Peter Willis, and reply, 1959, about work by Charles Bridgeman at Houghton.
WIL/F/HU 1958-1979
Hulne Priory [Alnwick], Northumberland:
Notes on sources; aerial photographs, 1979 (contact prints numbered 48-50, 118-124, and 3 enlargements, one in colour); 7 photographs, 1957-80; John Fleming, “Adam Gothic” (
Connoisseur, October 1958), and Alistair Rowan, “The Duke of Northumberland’s garden house at Hulne Priory” (Architectural history, 41, 1998).
WIL/F/IN 1970
Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire:
Kerry Downes, “Three drawings for Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire” (
The country seat, ed. H. Colvin and J. Harris, 1970, p.55-57).
WIL/F/KE1 1963-2001
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire:
Bibliographical notes; two guidebooks, 1988 and 1999; exhibition catalogue
Robert Adam and Kedleston: the making of a new-classical masterpiece, by Leslie Harris, 1987; colour postcards of the North Front, the Marble Hall, and the Saloon; maps of the surrounding area, showing the layout of
the park; descriptive notes by Peter Willis on a drawing of a canal with cascades at Kedleston; correspondence of Peter Willis with Howard Colvin, Leslie Harris, and the National Trust archivist at Kedleston, 1963-2001; Gillian Darley, “Treasure
trove” (Building design, 27 March 1987), review of an exhibition from the Kedleston archives; John Harris, “The importance of Kedleston” (Architect, November 1986); Leslie Harris and
Gervase Jackson-Stops, “When Adam delved: Robert Adam and the Kedleston landscape” (Country life, March 1987); Gillian Wilson, “The Kedleston fountain: its development from a seventeenth-century vase” (Journal of the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983).
WIL/F/KE2
Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, London:
WIL/F/KE2/1-2
Photographs of plan ascribed to Charles Bridgeman, Nationalmuseum Stockholm CC.2753 (Willis,
Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden, 2002, plate 206a), and plan (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Central Library, 712.5 KEN/F. portfolio A33), which Willis tentatively ascribed to Bridgeman in
the 1977 edition of his book, but this attribution is withdrawn in the 2002 edition.
WIL/F/KE2/3-6 1973-1977
Two photographs of the Queen’s Temple, Kensington Gardens (designed for Queen Caroline by William Kent), 1973, and two cuttings about its restoration, 1977.
WIL/F/KE3 1776
Kew Church, Surrey:
Photograph, with large format negative, of engraving of the elevation from G.L. Le Rouge,
Détails des nouveaux jardins à la mode (1776).
WIL/F/KI1 1940
Kielder Castle, Northumberland: Bibliographical notes, and extract from M. Hope Dodds,
History of Northumberland, vol. 15 (1940).
WIL/F/KI2 1985
King’s Weston, Gloucestershire:
Letter from Gloucester County Record Office, 1985, about sources,
WIL/F/KI3
Kirkharle and Little Harle, Northumberland:
WIL/F/KI3/1-7
Bibliographical notes and references, including copy of Northumberland Record Office list of Anderson [Little Harle] MSS.
WIL/F/KI3/8 1986
Cutting about John Anderson’s planned programme of improvement to his Little Harle estate.
WIL/F/KI3/9-14 1979
Aerial photographs (contact prints numbered 20, 22-28, 77-84, and 5 enlargements, one in colour).
WIL/F/KI3/15-20 1978
2 photographs of Kirkharle Hall farm, taken in 1978, one photograph of an earlier painting of Kirkharle Hall, and 2 photographs of Kirkharle village and one of St Wilfred’s Church Kirkharle, all also taken in 1978.
WIL/F/KI3/21-39 1980-1982
Descriptive notes by Peter Willis on a plan of Kirkharle attributed to Capability Brown, 15 photographs of the plan and details from it, and two related letters from Stuart Wrathmell, 1980-1982.
WIL/F/KI3/40-45 c.1700s-1800s
Photocopied extracts from 18th-20th century maps showing the area around Kirkharle; and photocopies of most of plan of the Kirkharle and Dean Hall estates surveyed by Edward Grace April 1828, and of extracts from sale particulars and plan of the
Kirkharle estate, 1836 (both from originals in Northumberland Record Office NRO 660).
WIL/F/KI3/46-50 1975
Photocopied extracts concerning Kirkharle from books by John Hodgson, Sir Lambton Loraine, Dorothy Stroud, and R. Welford, and from “Deserted and shrunken villages in southern Northumberland from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries”, by Stuart
Wrathmell (Cardiff Ph.D. thesis, 2 vols, 1975).
WIL/F/LE
Ledston Hall, Yorkshire:
WIL/F/LE/1-2
List by Peter Willis of sources for study of Ledston Hall and garden, chiefly in private ownership.
WIL/F/LE/3-6 c.1720s
Photographs of 4 paintings of Ledston by Settrington, c.1720s.
WIL/F/LE/7-16
Photographs of two plans of the Ledston gardens (Bodleian Library Gough Drawings A.3.19 and A.4.85), and photocopy of another plan by Charles Bridgeman (in private ownership), together with photographs of an accompanying detailed manuscript
description probably in Bridgeman’s hand, and a letter to Lady Elizabeth Hastings about Bridgeman’s designs for Ledston (both in the same private ownership). With descriptive notes on each of the 3 plans by Peter Willis
WIL/F/LE/17-20
Bibliographical notes.
WIL/F/LE/21-30 1966-1991
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Howard Colvin, 1966, and Granville Wheler, 1990-91.
WIL/F/LE/31-34 June 1907-August 1949
“Ledston Hall, Yorkshire, the seat of Mr. G.C.H. Wheler” (
Country life, June 1907); A.S.O., “Ledston Hall, Yorkshire, the seat of Major George Wheler”, parts 1-2 (Country life, December 1938); A. Oswald, “A sight-seeing tour in 1676: the diary
of John Conyers of Walthamstow. II.The return journey” (Country life, August 1949).
WIL/F/LI 1711-2001
Lillington, Warwickshire:
Small photograph of “An exact plan of Lillington Manor”, 1711 (Warwickshire County Record Office CR 556/197), actual size negative photostat and reduced size positive photostat of the plan, related correspondence of Peter Willis with Warwickshire
County Record Office, 2001, and photocopy of transcript of text of survey accompanying the plan, published in W. Cooper,
The history of Lillington, Leamington Spa (1940), p.119-126.
WIL/F/LO1 1895-1992
Londesborough, Yorkshire:
Bibliographical notes; notes supplied by Tony Scott, 1975, on George Hudson and Londesborough Park; correspondence of Peter Willis with David Neave and the University of Hull archivist, 1974-92; miscellaneous publications on Londesborough: James
Lees-Milne, “Lord Burlington in Yorkshire” (
Architectural review, July 1945), David Neave, Londesborough: history of an East Yorkshire estate village (Londesborough, 1977) and “Lord Burlington’s park and gardens at Londesborough”
(Garden history, Spring 1980), and Richard Wilton, “Historic Londesborough” (Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, 1895).
WIL/F/LO2 1968-1976
Longford, Wiltshire:
Bibliographical notes; correspondence of Peter Willis with John Cornforth, the Dowager Countess of Radnor, and the Earl of Radnor, 1970-1976; and extract from article in
Country life annual, 1968, with illustration of James Wyatt’s model for a hexagonal castle, 1796.
WIL/F/LU
Lumley Castle, Durham:
WIL/F/LU/1-11
Bibliographical notes.
WIL/F/LU/12-35 c.1760
10 photographs of drawings of the castle, c.1760, in the collection of the Earl of Scarbrough (Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, National Buildings Record negatives BB87/5670-79), with related correspondence with the
NBR.
10 photographs.
WIL/F/LU/36-39 c.1721-1768
3 photographs of plan of the castle by Charles Bridgeman c.1721 (whole plan and 2 details), and photocopy of plan by Thomas White, 1768, both in the collection of the Earl of Scarbrough.
WIL/F/LU/40-41 1991-1992
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Aerofilms Ltd and the University of Cambridge Committee for Aerial Photography, 1991-1992, with enclosed photocopies of aerial photographs of Lumley which each can supply.
WIL/F/LU/42-57 1986-1994
Correspondence of Peter Willis with T.W.Beastall, Chester-le-Street District Council (enclosing Chester-le-Street riverside proposals, revised master plan RV/1, January 1992), Kerry Downes, the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, the Earl
of Scarbrough, and Dr Michael Tooley, 1986-94.
WIL/F/LU/58-73
Miscellaneous publications relating to Lumley: publicity leaflets produced by Lumley Castle Hotel; John Cornforth, “The Francini in England” (
Country life, March 1970); and extracts from books by Kerry Downes, David Green, John Harris, Thomas Hinde, Robert Hugill, David Jacques, Peter Leach, James Lees-Milne, Nikolaus Pevsner, Romney Sedgwick, edition by
Geoffrey Webb of the letters of Sir John Vanbrugh, and Neville Whittaker.
WIL/F/MA1 1984
Madingley, Cambridgeshire:
Letter from Cambridgeshire County Record Office, 1984.
WIL/F/MA2
Marble Hill, Middlesex:
WIL/F/MA2/1-7
Bibliographical notes.
WIL/F/MA2/8-9 1992
Letter from Mavis Batey, 1992, with enclosed historical notes about work on the house and gardens at Marble Hill 1724-1726.
WIL/F/MA2/10-15 1966-1986
Miscellaneous publications relating to Marble Hill: exhibition catalogue Marble Hill,
Twickenham: the Countess of Suffolk and her friends, 1966; publicity leaflet c.1970’s; two guidebooks, 1982 and 1988, the latter by Julius Bryant; Ashley Barker, “Marble Hill House” (Transactions
of the Ancient Monuments Society, 1981); Julius Bryant, Marble Hill: the design and use of a Palladian estate, Twickenham, 1986).
WIL/F/MA2/16-18 1749-1973
Photograph of Marble Hill from across the river, 1973; photograph of water-colour of the Countess of Suffolk by J. Harris (National Portrait Gallery 2457); and photograph, with large format negative, of engraving of Marble Hill, 1749.
WIL/F/MA2/19-30
2 sets (respectively of 8 x 10 inch and 12 x 15 inch prints) of 5 photographs of estate plans of Marble Hill in the Lothian (Blickling) Papers (Norfolk Record office MC 184/10/1-3), with descriptive notes by Peter Willis, and related
correspondence with Norfolk Record Office. The plans MC 184/10/1-2 are ascribed to Charles Bridgeman.
WIL/F/MI
Milton Abbey, Dorset:
Notes by Peter Willis on drawing of Milton Abbey (RIBA drawings collection G4/17) attributed to Capability Brown.
WIL/F/MO1 1971
Moor Park, Hertfordshire:
T.P. Hudson, “Moor Park, Leoni and Sir James Thornhill” (
Burlington magazine, November 1971).
WIL/F/MO2 1935-1984
Mount Clare, Surrey:
“Mount Clare, Roehampton, the residence of Mr. Lancelot Hugh Smith” (2 parts,
Country life, January-February 1935), and Anne Riches, “Mount Clare, Roehampton” (Architectural history, 1984).
WIL/F/NE1
Newby Hall, Yorkshire:
WIL/F/NE1/1-3
Bibliographical and research notes.
WIL/F/NE1/4-6 1960s-1982
2 guidebooks to Newby Hall [1960’s] and 1982, and leaflet guide to the church of Christ the Consoler, Skelton-cum-Newby.
WIL/F/NE1/7-11
5 articles on Newby: John Cornforth, “Newby Hall, North Yorkshire” (3 parts,
Country life, June 1979, with two supplementary letters to the editor from Cornforth, June-July 1979) and “Newby in the 19th century” (Country life, December 1980); Robin Middleton, “The
sculpture gallery at Newby Hall” (AA files, 13, Autumn 1986).
WIL/F/NE2
Newton Park, Somerset:
Bibliographical note about a 1761 source
WIL/F/NO
Northumberland House, London:
Bibliographical and research notes, cutting of illustration of Canaletto painting of Northumberland house and related extract from Alnwick Castle guidebook, and photocopy of Ian Dunlop, “Northumberland House, London” (
Country life, July 1953).
WIL/F/OT August 1970
Otterden Place, Kent:
James Lees-Milne, “Otterden Place, Kent” (
Country life, August 1970).
WIL/F/PA
Painshill Park, Surrey:
WIL/F/PA/1-15
Bibliographical and research notes.
WIL/F/PA/16
Photograph and large format negative of engraving by Woollett, “A view from the West Side of the Island in the Garden of the Honble Charles Hamilton Esqr at Painshill”.
WIL/F/PA/17-31 1772-1971
Photographs (13 prints) of the whole of a manuscript account in the hand of William Gilpin (1724-1804), illustrated with a plan and 8 pen and wash drawings, of a visit he made to “Mr. Hamilton’s gardens at Painshill near Cobham Aug. 14 1772”,
with note by Peter Willis and descriptive cutting from
Garden History Society Newsletter 14 (September 1971), p.28.
WIL/F/PA/32-39 1975-1991
Articles and cuttings concerning Painshill: Norman Kitz, “Adam’s early folly” (
Country life, December 1979); life of the Hon Charles Hamilton from Miles Hadfield’s “Biographical dictionary of British gardeners” (House and garden, February 1975; Janet and Amy Jack,
“Pleasure park re-creation” (RIBA journal, March 1991); Mark Swenarton, “Hamilton’s estate” (Building design, February 1984); Michael Symes, “The Hon Charles Hamilton at Holland Park”
(Journal of garden history, April-June 1983); John Young, “A ‘Gothick’ park returns from the wilderness” (Times, 17 July 1985); cuttings of illustration of Gothic tent folly designed by
Batty Langley, 1747, and 1989 letter about restoration work at Painshill.
WIL/F/PE 1984-1985
Peper Harow, Surrey:
Notes, cuttings, sale catalogue descriptions, and correspondence of Peter Willis with Professor John Wilton-Ely and Christie’s, 1984-1985, about 3 drawings of Peper Harow attributed to Capability Brown; and cutting of article from the Guardian,
28 August 1985, about use of Peper Harow mansion for a therapeutic community for disturbed children.
WIL/F/PR 1987
Prior Park, Bath, Somerset:
Gillian Clarke,
Prior Park: a compleat landscape (Bath, 1987).
WIL/F/QU 1990s
Queen’s House, Greenwich:
Guidebook,
The Queen’s House: a royal palace by the Thames [199-].
WIL/F/RE
Redlynch Park, Somerset:
Bibliographical note on a 1738 engraved plan.
WIL/F/RI 1736-1753
Richmond Park, Surrey:
Photocopies of 1736 and 1753 editions of Stephen Duck’s poem “On Richmond Park, and Royal Gardens”.
WIL/F/RO1 1804
Roche Abbey, Yorkshire:
Exhibition catalogue description of watercolour of the abbey ruins by Thomas Sunderland, c.1804.
WIL/F/RO2
Rothley Lakes, Northumberland:
WIL/F/RO2/1-5 1978
Bibliographical and research notes, and letter from Pauline Dower, 1978.
WIL/F/RO2/6-11 1979
Aerial photographs, 1979 (contact prints numbered 30-35, and 5 enlargements, 1 in colour).
WIL/F/RO2/12-17 1978
2 photographs of the lakes, 1 photograph of Codger’s fort (folly designed by Thomas Wright, 1769), and 3 photographs of Rothley Castle (folly designed by Daniel Garrett, 1745), all taken in 1978.
6 photographs.
WIL/F/RO2/18-22
Photographs of drawings attributed to Capability Brown (in the collection of the National Trust at Wallington): two plans for the eastern section of the lake, a drawing of a cascade between two parts of the lake, and two drawings (plans and
elevations) for a lakeside banqueting house.
5 photographs.
WIL/F/RO2/23-26
Photocopies of two documents mentioning Rothley in the Wallington MSS (Northumberland Record Office ZWN.D19/1-2), and of maps of the surrounding area.
WIL/F/RO2/27-30 1979-1980
Photocopied extracts relating to the Rothley Lakes and adjacent follies from books by John Hodgson, Dorothy Stroud, and Arthur Young, and 2 cuttings from
Country life, December 1979 and February 1980, about Rothley Castle.
WIL/F/RO3
Rousham House, Oxfordshire:
WIL/F/RO3/1-15
Bibliographical notes.
WIL/F/RO3/16-20 1956-1979
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Thomas Cottrell-Dormer, 1957, and Rachel Trickett, 1976-1979.
WIL/F/RO3/21-24 1950s-1960s
2 guidebooks, [1950’s and 1960’s?], the earlier with a loose folded plan of the gardens, and a publicity leaflet.
WIL/F/RO3/25-30 1963-1986
Articles and cuttings relating to Rousham: Mavis Batey, “The way to view Rousham” (
Garden history, 1983); David R. Coffin, “The Elysian fields of Rousham” (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1986); John Fleming, “William Kent at Rousham, an
eighteenth-century Elysium (Connoisseur, July 1963); Simon Pugh, “Nature as a garden: a conceptual tour of Rousham” (Studio international, October 1973); cutting about drawings of
Shotover and Rousham by William Kent sold at Sotheby’s 1968; Anne Robinson, “How long will the money flow in our English country gardens?” (Sunday Times, 18 August 1974).
WIL/F/RO3/31-37
4 colour postcards and 3 black and white photographs of Rousham.
7 pieces.
WIL/F/RO3/38-40 1773-1948
Photographs of painting of Rousham by Thomas Jones, 1773, design by William Kent for a garden temple at Rousham, and plan of the gardens reproduced in M. Jourdain,
William Kent (1948), plate 105.
WIL/F/RO3/41-43
Negative photostat and black and white photograph of details from plan of Rousham in Bodleian Library, Gough Drawings A.4.63, with descriptive notes by Peter Willis.
WIL/F/RO3/44
Map of the Rousham park by Robert Holden.
WIL/F/SA1 1957
Sacombe, Hertfordshire: Correspondence of Peter Willis with Edward Medlicott of Sacombe, 1957; photograph, with large format negative, of H. Hulsbergh engraving of Sacombe; descriptive notes on two plans of Sacombe, Bodleian Library, Gough
Drawings A.4.29 and A.4.64, tentatively ascribed by Willis to Charles Bridgeman; and positive photostat of Bodleian Library, Gough Drawings A.4.64 (here referred to as “Vanbrugh’s plan for Sacombe”), with transparent overlay of Ordnance Survey map,
and attached historical notes.
WIL/F/SA2
Sandbeck, Yorkshire, and Glentworth Hall, Lincolnshire:
WIL/F/SA2/1-4 1992
Bibliographical notes, and letter from John Lord, 1992.
WIL/F/SA2/5-20
Photographs, two in colour, of drawings (plans, elevations, and a ceiling design) of Sandbeck Park and/or Glentworth Hall, Lincolnshire by James Paine in the collection of Lord Scarbrough, together with related correspondence of Peter Willis with
staff of the National Buildings Record, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, which supplied the photographs (NBR references BB87/4510-4522 and FF87/122-123). Several of the drawings are not firmly identified.
15 photographs.
WIL/F/SA2/21-26 1965
Articles and extracts on Sandbeck: Mark Girouard, “Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire” (3 parts,
Country life, October 1965), and extracts from books by Thomas Hinde, and Peter Leach.
WIL/F/SC
Scampston, Yorkshire:
Exhibition catalogue description of painting of a Gothick tea house at Scampston, c.1780, notes by Peter Willis on drawings of Scampston in Bodleian Library, Gough Drawings A.4.27, 37, 66 and 73, and negative photostat of A.4.27.
WIL/F/SE
Seaton Delaval, Northumberland:
WIL/F/SE/1-13
Bibliographical and research notes.
WIL/F/SE/14-16 1725-1941
2 photographs of engravings of Seaton Delaval from Colen Campbell’s
Vitruvius Britannicus, vol. 3, 1725, and colour postcard of painting of Seaton Delaval by John Piper, 1941 (Tate gallery 5748).
2 photgraphs and 1 postcard.
WIL/F/SE/17-18 1979
Aerial photographs of Seaton Delaval.
2 photographs.
WIL/F/SE/19-27 1953-1973
Photographs of the exterior of Seaton Delaval.
WIL/F/SE/28-35 1721-1973
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Kerry Downes, 1973; printed genealogy of the Delaval family; “Seaton Delaval: a major design comparative study submitted by Robert Holden for the Diploma in Landscape Design, University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
1970-1971”; photocopy of letter from James Newburn to Admiral Delaval, 1721 (Northumberland Record Office B25/VI/113) about building work and garden plans at Seaton Delaval; extracts related to Seaton Delaval from publications by Brian Hackett and
Eneas Mackenzie, and letter by Basil Anderton in
Country life, 1923.
WIL/F/SH1
Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire:
Research notes, and photograph of engraving of Shardeloes by W.H. Toms after T. Badeslade.
WIL/F/SH2
Sherborne & Lodge Park, Gloucestershire:
WIL/F/SH2/1-8 1990-1991
Bibliographical note, and correspondence with Katie Fretwell, 1990-1991.
WIL/F/SH2/9-10
Photocopy and annotated positive photostat of detail from plan of Lodge Park gardens, Bodleian Library Gough Drawings A.4.68.
WIL/F/SH2/11-13 1990-1999
National Trust publications on Sherborne and Lodge Park: two leaflet guides to Lodge Park, [199-] and 1999, and Katie Fretwell,
Sherborne and Lodge Parks park and garden survey 1990.
WIL/F/SH2/14-17 1899-2000
Clive Aslet, “Lodge Park, Gloucestershire” and “Sherborne House, Gloucestershire” (
Country life, March 1986); Katie Fretwell, “Lodge Park, Gloucestershire: a rare surviving deer course and Bridgeman layout” (Garden history, Winter 1995); Mary Miers, “Lodge Park,
Gloucestershire” (Country life, May 2000); and extract from Blacker Morgan, Historical and genealogical memoirs of the Dutton family of Sherborne (1899).
WIL/F/SH3
Shotover House, Oxfordshire:
Research notes, and photograph of 1750 engraving.
WIL/F/SL July 1980
Slane Castle, Co. Meath:
Mark Odlum, “Slane Castle, Co. Meath” (3 parts,
Country life, July 1980).
WIL/F/SP
Spring Gardens, London:
Photograph of plan of Spring Gardens (Public Record Office MPE 555), tentatively ascribed to Charles Bridgeman by Peter Willis in his
Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden (1977), but attribution withdrawn in the 2002 edition.
WIL/F/ST1 1967
Stanmore House, Middlesex:
Bibliographical note, and extract, including illustration of Stanmore, from H. Bolitho and D. Peel,
The Drummonds of Charing Cross (1967).
WIL/F/ST2 1969-1992
Stilton (Bell Inn), Huntingdonshire:
Research notes; correspondence of Peter Willis with Watney’s, 1969, and with Liam McGivern, proprietor of the inn, 1992; publicity leaflets for the inn; descriptive notes by Peter Willis on drawings of the inn possibly by Charles Bridgeman in
Bodleian Library, Gough Drawings A.3.40 and 40v, and A.4.3 and 51; postcard and 3 photographs of the inn; 3 extracts and cuttings relating to it.
WIL/F/ST3
Stourhead, Wiltshire:
WIL/F/ST3/1 March 1965
Kenneth Woodbridge,
Henry Hoare’s paradise: the making of Stourhead (reprinted from The Art bulletin, March 1965).
WIL/F/ST3/2 1969
Stourhead pleasure grounds (map, with brief introduction signed K.A.S.W., and index to trees and shrubs by G.S. Thomas, 1969).
WIL/F/ST3/3 1978
The conservation of the garden at Stourhead and parts of the park relating to it: report and recommendations of the committee appointed by the National Trust (Bath, 1978).
WIL/F/ST3/4-5 1984
National Trust leaflet guides to Stourhead and Stourhead gardens, 1984.
WIL/F/ST3/6 1990
Stourhead, National Trust guidebook (1990).
WIL/F/ST3/7 1991
Kenneth Woodbridge,
The Stourhead landscape, Wiltshire, National Trust guidebook (1991).
WIL/F/ST3/8 1992
National Trust,
The Stourhead list of pictures (1992).
WIL/F/ST3/9 1986
Entry for Stourhead from
The Oxford companion to gardens (1986).
WIL/F/ST3/10-13
Photocopies of a description by Joseph Spence of a visit to Stourhead, 1765, and related documents (Nottingham University Library, Newcastle Papers, NeC 2951, 3225b, and 3226), partly printed in The genius of the place, ed. J.D. Hunt and Peter
Willis (1975), p.272-273, with sheet of notes from Kenneth Woodbridge, correcting some mistranscriptions and omissions there.
WIL/F/ST4/
Stowe, Buckinghamshire:
WIL/F/ST4/1 1746
Illustrations of Stowe from Jacques Rigaud’s
Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire belonging to the Right Honourable Viscount Cobham (London, 1746):
WIL/F/ST4/1/1
Photographs and large format negatives of the title-page and all 16 plates from British Library copy G.2887 of the work.
WIL/F/ST4/1/2
Photograph and large format negative of plate 1 from British Library copy G.2886 of the work.
WIL/F/ST4/1/3
Photographs of plates 1-5, 7-16 from Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, copy 42.75.
WIL/F/ST4/1/4
Photographs, with large format negatives, of details from plates 1, 2 and 8.
WIL/F/ST4/1/5
Strip negatives of the plates.
WIL/F/ST4/1/6 1987
Two prospectuses for the 1987 facsimile of the work published by BW Publications (Ben Weinreb), London, and photocopies of advertisements for the 18th-century issues of the work.
WIL/F/ST4/2
Other engraved illustrations of Stowe:
WIL/F/ST4/2/1
Photographs and large format negatives of the general plan (with 2 details) and 16 plates from George Bickham’s
The beauties of Stowe (London, 1753).
WIL/F/ST4/2/2
Photographs of plan (with detail) and 3 plates (with 2 details) from Benton Seeley’s
Stowe: a description of the magnificent house and gardens, together with large format negatives of plates II and V. The plan is from the 1763 edition. The editions from which the photographs of the plates are taken are
not identified, and there are two versions of plate V.
WIL/F/ST/2/3 1744
Photograph of engraving of gateway at Stowe by J.Vardy after William Kent from Vardy’s
Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent (1744).
WIL/F/ST4/2/4 1776-1788
Photographs with large format negatives of plan and 3 plates of Stowe from G.L. Le Rouge’s
Détails des nouveaux jardins à la mode (Paris, 1776-88).
WIL/F/ST4/2/5 1801
Engraving of Stowe by J. Storer after J. Britton (London, 1801), and photograph of the engraving.
WIL/F/ST4/3 1680-1954
Photographs of drawings of Stowe: anonymous drawing c.1680 (private collection) entitled “The South Prospect of Sr Richd Temples house at Stow-Langport”; 2 plans of conduit house and surrounding area, and of the lake (Huntington Library, Stowe
Temple Papers, Stowe House and other plans etc, 57 and 61); and drawing of temple by Laurence Whistler (plate 83 in his
The imagination of Vanbrugh and his fellow artists, 1954).
WIL/F/ST4/4 1938-1969
Aerial photographs of Stowe, taken in 1938, 1949, 1964, and 1969.
6 prints.
WIL/F/ST4/5 1973-1978
3 photographs taken at Stowe in 1973 (views of a temple, a riverside, and a doorway), and 1 photograph of Stowe church taken 1978.
4 photographs.
WIL/F/ST4/6 1991
Stowe Gardens Survey, carried out for the National Trust in 1991 by LUC (Land Use Consultants, Chalton St, London). The file consists chiefly of an Ordnance Survey map covering Stowe, and copies of LUC drawings:
WIL/F/ST4/6/1 1958
Ordnance Survey, scale 1:10,560 or 6 inches to 1 mile, Provisional ed., sheet SP 63 NE, 1958.
WIL/F/ST4/6/2 1991
LUC 630/01/02, “LUC grid applied to topographical survey (1991) by laser surveys.
WIL/F/ST4/6/3 1991
LUC 630/01/03, “Interpolation of original natural topography pre 1680’s”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/4
LUC 630/01/04, “Interpretation of extant cut and fill”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/5
LUC 630/01/05, “Pre 1680 possible location of new house”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/6
LUC 630/01/06, “c.1680 drawn by D. Sumpster Drg. No. 1304/15”
WIL/F/ST4/6/7
LUC 630/01/07, “c.1700”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/8
LUC 630/01/08, “c.1700 plan drawn by D. Sumpster Drg. No. 1304/9K”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/9
LUC 630/01/09, “c.1720 plan aerial view interpreted by D. Sumpster Drg. No. 1304/10K”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/10
LUC 630/01/10, “1739 Bridgeman plan, 100 m grid added by LUC for interpretation”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/11
LUC 630/01/11, “1739 Bridgeman plan interpreted by LUC”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/12
LUC 630/01/12, “1739 Bridgeman plan interpreted by D. Sumpster Drg. 1304/11D”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/13
LUC 630/01/13, “1753 Bickham interpreted by D. Sumpster”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/14
LUC 630/01/14, “1756 Seeley, grid added by LUC”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/15
LUC 630/01/15, “1756 Seeley, interpreted by LUC”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/16
LUC 630/01/16, “1777 Seeley and LUC grid”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/17
LUC 630/01/17, “1777 Seeley, LUC interpretation”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/18
LUC 630/01/18, “1777 Seeley, D. Sumpster interpretation Drg. No. 1304/13D”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/19
LUC 630/01/19, “1797 Seeley and LUC grid”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/20
LUC 630/01/20, “1797 Seeley, LUC interpretation”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/21
LUC 630/01/21, “1797 Seeley, D. Sumpster interpretation Drg. No. 1304/14D”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/22
LUC 630/01/22, “1843 estate plan (Huntington)”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/23
LUC 630/01/23, “1880 1st ed. O.S.”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/24
LUC 630/01/26, “Garden buildings changes in name and location”.
WIL/F/ST4/6/25 1990-1991
Correspondence of Peter Willis with LUC, 1990-91.
WIL/F/ST4/7
Miscellaneous notes, cuttings and photocopies relating to illustrations of Stowe.
WIL/F/ST4/8
Early descriptions of Stowe:
WIL/F/ST4/8/1-23 1735-1800
Lists of visitors’ descriptions before 1750 and between 1750 and 1800; other references, many supplied by George B. Clarke; transcribed extracts from accounts of visits in 1735 and 1742 (from British Library, Add. MSS 15776 and 22926), and from
various other descriptions of and references to Stowe.
WIL/F/ST4/8/24 1990
Descriptions of Lord Cobham’s gardens at Stowe (1700-1750), Buckinghamshire Record Society 26 (1990), an anthology ed. by George B. Clarke.
WIL/F/ST4/8/25 1977
George Bickham,
The beauties of Stowe (1750), Augustan Reprint Society 185-186 (Los Angeles, 1977).
WIL/F/ST4/8/26-27 1742-1810
George Boyse’s poem about Stowe, “The triumphs of nature”: photocopies from
The Gentleman’s magazine, 1742, and The works of the English poets, 1810.
WIL/F/ST4/8/28 1748
J. de C.,
Les charmes de Stow (London, 1748): photocopy.
WIL/F/ST4/8/29 1751
William Gilpin,
Dialogue upon the gardens … at Stow, photocopy of an unidentified edition of the prose version, first published in 1751.
WIL/F/ST4/8/30 1776
A new display of the beauties of England (London, 1776): photocopy of p. 272-81 describing Stowe.
WIL/F/ST4/8/31 1832
H.L.H. von Pückler-Muskau,
Tour in England, Ireland and France in the years 1828 & 1829 (London, 1832): photocopy of p.274-281, about Stowe.
WIL/F/ST4/8/32 1824
C.C.G. della Torre di Rezzonico,
Viaggio in Inghilterra (Venice, 1824), photocopy of p.120-136, describing a visit to Stowe in 1787
WIL/F/ST4/8/33 1732
Gilbert West,
Stowe, the gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Cobham (London, 1732): photocopy.
WIL/F/ST4/8/34 1777
Thomas Whately,
Observations on modern gardening, 4th ed. (London, 1777): photocopy of p.243-245, describing the Temple of Concord and Victory at Stowe.
WIL/F/ST4/9 1966-1967
“The history of Stowe”, articles extracted from
Stoic, 1967-7? 26 parts in springback binder. Parts 1-5, 7-8, 10, 13-14, 19-20 are by George B. Clarke; parts 6, 9, 11-12, 15-18, 21-26 are by Michael Gibbon.
Contents:
1. “Ancient and mediaeval Stowe”.
2-3. “The rise of the Temple family”.
4. “Sir Richard Temple’s house and gardens”.
5. “The early life of Richard Temple, Viscount Temple”.
6. “Lord Cobham’s house”.
7. “The Vanbrugh-Bridgeman gardens”.
8. “Military gardening: Bridgeman and the ha-ha”.
9. “Gilbert West’s walk through the gardens in 1731”.
10. “Moral gardening”.
11. “Lord Cobham’s garden buildings, part 1 (1715-1737), Vanbrugh, Gibbs, and Kent”. With an inserted extract from a letter from George B. Clarke, 1966, about the Cobham pillar.
12. “Lord Cobham’s garden buildings, part 2: Gibbs (1738-1748); The question of the Grecian temple”.
13. “Kent and the eastern gardens”.
14. “Lancelot Brown’s work at Stowe”.
15. “Garden ornaments”.
16-17. “The Grenville family”.
18. “Earl Temple and Giambattista Borra”.
19. “Earl Temple’s gardens: the first phase”.
20. “Earl Temple: master gardener”.
21. “The garden buildings of Earl Temple and the Marquis of Buckingham”.
22. “The rebuilding of the house”.
23. “Lord Buckingham and the completion of the interior”.
24-25. “The dukedom of Buckingham and Chandos”.
26. “The second duke and afterwards”.
WIL/F/ST4/10 June 1973
The splendours of Stowe, separate issue, with independent pagination, of the articles on Stowe published in the June 1973 issue of Apollo. Contents: Denys Sutton, “The faire majestic
paradise of Stowe”; Michael Gibbon, “Stowe House, 1680-1779”; George B. Clarke, “The gardens of Stowe” and “Grecian taste and gothic virtue: Lord Cobham’s gardening programme and its iconography”; Desmond Fitzgerald, “A history of the interior of
Stowe”; Colin Anson, “The picture collection at Stowe”; and Paul Whitfield, “Bankruptcy and sale at Stowe: 1848”.
WIL/F/ST4/11
Miscellaneous guidebooks, pamphlets and articles of Stowe:
WIL/F/ST4/11/1 Autumn 2001
G. Aaltonen, “A chip off the old block”,
The National Trust magazine, 94 (autumn 2001), p.18-25 [on the re-creation of a statue at Stowe damaged by lightning].
WIL/F/ST4/11/2 March 1970
B.A. Barr, “The trees of Stowe”,
Stoic, 24 no. 2 (March 1970), p.54.
WIL/F/ST4/11/3 1993
J.V. Beckett, “The Stowe Papers”,
Archives, 20 (1993), p.187-199.
WIL/F/ST4/11/4 1997
M. Bevington, “Select bibliography: Stowe landscape garden”,
New arcadian journal, nos 43-4 (1997), p.101-121.
WIL/F/ST4/11/5 1994
M. Bevington,
Stowe: the garden and park (Stowe, 1994).
WIL/F/ST4/11/6 18 May 1984
“Abandoned project for Stowe School, John Craig”, photograph of model,
Building design (18 May 1984), p.12.
WIL/F/ST4/11/7 2 January 1969
G.B. Clarke, “The early gardens of Stowe”,
Country life (2 Jan. 1969), p.6-9.
WIL/F/ST4/11/8 June 1973
G.B. Clarke, “The gardens of Stowe”,
Apollo (June 1973), p.558-565.
WIL/F/ST4/11/9
G.B. Clarke, “Grecian taste and gothic virtue: Lord Cobham’s gardening programme and its iconography”,
Apollo (June 1973), p.566-571.
WIL/F/ST4/11/10 1991
G.B. Clarke, “The lady with the squint: an examination of revolutionary iconography at Stowe”, in
La Grecia antica mito e simbolo per l’età della grande rivoluzione (Milan, 1991), p.299-319.
WIL/F/ST4/11/11 December 1967
G.B. Clarke, “Lot 671”,
Stoic (Dec. 1967), p.16-18.
WIL/F/ST4/11/12 August 1981
G.B. Clarke, “The Medallions of Concord: an association between the Society of Arts and Stowe”,
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (Aug. 1981), p.611-616.
WIL/F/ST4/11/13 18 May 1972
G.B. Clarke, “Military gardening at Stowe”,
Country life (18 May 1972), p.1254-1256.
WIL/F/ST4/11/14 July 1970
G.B. Clarke, “Moral gardening”,
Stoic (July 1970).
WIL/F/ST4/11/15 October 1985
G.B. Clarke, “Signior Fido and the Stowe patriots”,
Apollo (Oct. 1985), p.248-251.
WIL/F/ST4/11/16 1971
G.B. Clarke,
Stowe (St Ives, 1971) [brief guide].
WIL/F/ST4/11/17 March 1972
G.B. Clarke, “Stowe; ici est né le jardin anglais”,
Connaissance des arts (March 1972), p.66-74.
WIL/F/ST4/11/18 January 1978
Clarke, G.B., “Stowe – one school’s experience”, duplicated typescript, Jan. 1978.
WIL/F/ST4/11/19 March 1969
G.B. Clarke, “The Stowe Papers”,
Stoic (March 1969), p.205-207.
WIL/F/ST4/11/20 1985
G.B. Clarke, “Where did all the trees come from? An analysis of Bridgeman’s planting at Stowe”,
Journal of garden history, 5 (1985), p.72-83.
WIL/F/ST4/11/21 1969
H.F., “The restoration and reclamation of gardens”,
Garden History Society occasional paper 1 (1969).
WIL/F/ST4/11/22 March 1967
H. Creighton, “Repairs to the garden buildings”,
Stoic (March 1967), p.206-209.
WIL/F/ST4/11/23 13 September 1989
D. Cruickshank, “Temples of learning”,
Architects’ journal (13 Sept. 1989), p.30-31.
WIL/F/ST4/11/24 November 1968
R.Q. Drayson, “Public schools: Stowe”,
Tatler (Nov. 1968), p.42-43.
WIL/F/ST4/11/25 July 1971
R.Q. Drayson, “Public schools: Stowe”, differently illustrated version of the article above,
Edinburgh Tatler (July 1971).
WIL/F/ST4/11/26 January 1969
M. Gibbon, “The Queen’s Temple at Stowe”,
Country life (Jan. 1969), p.78-80.
WIL/F/ST4/11/27 June 1973
M. Gibbon, “Stowe House, 1680-1779”,
Apollo (June 1973), 552-7.
WIL/F/ST4/11/28 April 1974
M. Gibbon, “The first neo-classical building? Temple of Concord, Stowe, Buckinghamshire”,
Country life (April 1974), p.852-853.
WIL/F/ST4/11/29
Reprint, with minor alterations, of the above article, in
Stoic.
WIL/F/ST4/11/30 1983
C.N. Gowing and G.B. Clarke,
Drawings of Stowe by John Claude Nattes in the Buckinghamshire County Museum (1983).
WIL/F/ST4/11/31 1991
P. Hayden, “The Russian Stowe: Benton Seeley’s guidebooks as a source for Catherine the Great’s park at Tsarkoe Selo”,
Garden history, 19 (1991), p.21-27.
WIL/F/ST4/11/32 May 1985
M. McCarthy, “Soane’s ‘Saxon’ Room at Stowe”, J
ournal of the Society of Architectural Historians (May 1985), p.129-145.
WIL/F/ST4/11/33 1994
R. Quaintance, “Unnamed celebrities in eighteenth-century gardens: Jacques Rigaud’s topographical prints”,
Image et langage, 11 no. 1 (1994), p.93-131.
WIL/F/ST4/11/34 1991
J.M. Robinson,
Stowe landscape gardens (1990, rev. 1991) [brief guide].
WIL/F/ST4/11/35 1990
J.M. Robinson,
Temples of delight: Stowe landscape gardens (London, 1990).
WIL/F/ST4/11/36 1956
L. Whistler,
Stowe: a guide to the gardens (1956).
WIL/F/ST4/11/37 1968
Stowe: a guide to the gardens, rev. ed. of the above, by L. Whistler, M. Gibbon and G.B. Clarke (1968).
WIL/F/ST4/11/38 1974
----, 3rd ed., with further revisions (1974).
WIL/F/ST4/11/39 1957
A picture book of Stowe, rev. ed., reprinted from The Stoic (1957).
WIL/F/ST4/11/40
Stowe parish church, undated guide.
WIL/F/ST4/11/41 1986
“The Stowe Gardens Buildings Trust”, prospectus (1986).
WIL/F/ST4/11/42 1970
“Stowe 1970”, school prospectus.
WIL/F/ST4/11/43 1970
“Stowe bulletin, from the Headmaster, Stowe School … 1970”.
WIL/F/ST4/11/44
“Stowe recent developments”, undated school prospectus.
WIL/F/ST4/11/45 1939
W.D. Templeman, “The life and work of William Gilpin (1724-1804), master of the picturesque and vicar of Boldre”,
Illinois studies in language and literature, 24 nos 3-4 (1939), p.32-130.
WIL/F/ST4/11/46 August 1971
J.N.P. Watson, “Field sportsmen’s gathering at Stowe”,
Country life (Aug. 1971), p.324-325.
WIL/F/ST4/11/47 August 1997
R. Wheeler, “The gardens of Stowe and West Wycombe”,
Apollo (Aug. 1997), p.3-7.
WIL/F/ST4/12 1957-1991
Notes, correspondence and photostats, relating to manuscripts concerning Stowe in the Huntington Library, California, including correspondence of Peter Willis with staff of the library, 1957-1976, and George B. Clarke, 1974-1991.
WIL/F/ST4/13 1991
Correspondence, 1991, and lists relating to manuscripts concerning Stowe in Reading University Archives.
WIL/F/ST4/14 1949-1991
Miscellaneous brief cuttings and photocopies relating to Stowe, 1949-1991.
WIL/F/ST4/15
Card index of bibliographical references to Stowe.
WIL/F/ST5
Studley Royal, Yorkshire:
WIL/F/ST5/1
Bibliographical references.
WIL/F/ST5/2-10 1974-1993
Guidebooks, articles and extracts: National Trust brief guide (1984 reprinted with corrections 1989), publicity sheet (1986), and guidebook (1988), all entitled
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal; Pitkin guide to Fountains Hall (l974); description from RIBA journal December 1993 of new Fountains Abbey visitor centre;
Mr. Aislabie’s gardens, catalogue of a 1981 exhibition about the gardens at Studley Royal, Hackfall and Kirkby Fleetham, landscaped for John Aislabie (1670-1742) and his son William (1700-1781); photocopied extracts
relating to Studley Royal from various works including Thomas Gent’s The antient and modern history of the loyal town of Rippon 1733 (with poem “Studley-Park”).
WIL/F/ST5/11-19 1758-1972
Aerial photograph of Studley Royal, 1972; 2 photographs (with large format negatives) of engravings of the gardens by A. Walker, 1758; and 6 postcards of the gardens, abbey, and visitor centre.
WIL/F/SY 1927-1984
Syon House, Middlesex:
Bibliographical references; 1979 guidebook; articles on Syon from
Country life, May 1927 (by H.A. Tipping) and December 1950 (by Christopher Hussey); correspondence of Peter Willis with John Lord, 1984; and miscellaneous cuttings 1951-1972.
WIL/F/TR1 February 1986
Trafalgar House (also called Standlynch House), Wiltshire:
S. Jeffrey, “An architect [John James] for Standlynch House” (
Country life, February 1986); negative photostat of plan from Bodleian Library Gough Drawings A.3.24; and 2 photographs of plans from Bodleian Library Gough Drawings A.3.25-26.
WIL/F/TR2
Trentham Park, Staffordshire:
Design by Capability Brown for gate lodges at Trentham Park, photocopied from an illustration in a Weinreb catalogue.
WIL/F/TR3 1993-2001
Tring Park, Hertfordshire:
Gervase Jackson-Stops, “Tring Park, Hertfordshire” (
Country life, November 1993); letters from Alan Fletcher to Peter Willis, 1998 and 2001, and copies of Fletcher’s reports for English Heritage on the history of Tring Park; and photograph of engraving by J.Harris after
T. Badeslade.
WIL/F/WA1 1973-1984
Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1984, and copy of Marcus Binney, “Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire” (
Country life, August 1973).
WIL/F/WA2
Wallington, Northumberland:
WIL/F/WA2/1-5 1989
National Trust undated leaflets, and two guidebooks,
Wallington: an architectural guide (undated) and Wallington (1989).
WIL/F/WA2/6
Map of the area around Wallington, from OS sheet NZ08.
WIL/F/WA2/7-14 1977
Duplicated notes for a visit to Wallington and other Northumberland country houses by students of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne School of Architecture, 1977, and photocopied extracts relating to Wallington from works by William
Hutchinson, M.A. Richardson, John Ruskin, Dorothy Stroud, G.S. Thomas, Richard Welford, and Arthur Young.
WIL/F/WA2/15-20
References to maps, drawings and other documentary sources for the study of Wallingford.
WIL/F/WA2/21-30 1979
Contact prints of 10 aerial photographs of Wallington, taken 1979; colour enlargements of 2 of them and black and white enlargements of 6; and black and white photograph of the exterior of the house, also taken 1979.
WIL/F/WA2/31-37 1975-1993
Photocopy of National Trust inventory of drawings and plans at Wallington, 1975; correspondence of Peter Willis with Hugh Dixon about some of the drawings, 1993, and photocopy of fuller descriptions of some of them from Gervase Jackson-Stops’
An English Arcadia: designs for gardens and garden buildings in the care of the National Trust (1991); photograph of one of the plans of Wallington, and photograph of Kip and Knyff engraving of Sir William Blackett’s
house in Newcastle.
WIL/F/WA2/38-48
Notes and correspondence of Peter Willis about portraits of members of the Calverley and Blackett families; photographs of portraits at Wallington of Julia, Lady Calverley (b. 1685), and Sir Walter Calverley Blackett (by Sir Joshua Reynolds),
photocopy of another Reynolds portrait of Sir Walter, and photograph of engraving after that portrait.
WIL/F/WA2/49-55 1952-1980
Photocopies of letters to the editor relating to Wallington from
Country life, 1952-1980, and of account of the Wallington swans from National Trust of Northumbria newsletter, 1977.
WIL/F/WA3 1985
Wanstead Park, Essex:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Lorna Paterson, enclosing photocopy of part of a 1734 Rocque drawing showing an ampitheatre in the grounds of the park.
WIL/F/WA4
Warwick Priory and Castle, Warwickshire:
WIL/F/WA4/1 1711
Negative photostat of plan of Warwick priory and surrounding gardens attributed to James Fish junior and Charles Bridgeman, 1711 (Warwickshire Record Office CR 26/2/2).
3 sheets.
WIL/F/WA4/2 2 sheets.
Negative photostat of map of Warwick town and the priory estate attributed to Charles Bridgeman (Warwickshire Record Office CR 217 / bundle 1).
WIL/F/WA4/3-7
3 photographs of parts of Warwickshire Record Office CR 26/2/2, including blow-up of the bird’s-eye view of the priory; photograph of plan of the priory gardens attributed to Charles Bridgeman, c.1727 (Warwickshire Record Office CR 56); and
photograph of Warwickshire Record Office CR 217 / bundle 1.
WIL/F/WA4/8 1975
Letter from Warwickshire Record Office about the above plans.
WIL/F/WA4/9 Autumn 2000
Geoffrey Smith, “Henry Wise’s plan for the priory at Warwick”, reprint of an article published in
Journal of the Warwickshire Gardens Trust, autumn 2000.
WIL/F/WA4/10
Bibliographical reference to letters about work at Warwick Castle, 1759.
WIL/F/WE1
Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire:
Bibliographical reference.
WIL/F/WE2 10 October 2000
Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire: Patrick Eyres, “Whig patriotism and improvement at Wentworth Woodhouse” (
Q/W/E/R/T/Y: arts, literatures & civilisations du monde anglophone, 10, octobre 2000).
WIL/F/WE3 1761-2001
Westbury House, Hampshire:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Julian Gwyn and with Hampshire County Record Office, 1969-2001; photocopies of plan of Westbury House and gardens, 1761, and of “A particular of the estate late Adml. Cavendish in Hampshire”, East Sussex
Record Office SAS/G/Ha42 and Ha/66(2a); and photocopied extracts from Julian Gwyn’s
The enterprising admiral: the personal fortune of Admiral Sir Peter Warren (Montreal, 1974).
WIL/F/WE4 June 1974
West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire:
Gervase Jackson-Stops, “The West Wycombe landscape, I-II” (
Country life, June 1974).
WIL/F/WI1 1990s-2001
Wilton House, Wiltshire:
Guidebook [199-?], and copy of David Coffin’s “Venus in the garden of Wilton House” (
Source: notes in the history of art, 20 no.2, winter 2001).
WIL/F/WI2 1732-1992
Wimbledon House, Surrey:
Transcript of directions by the Duchess of Marlborough for work on the gardens at Wimbledon by Charles Bridgeman, 1732; Frances Harris, “The best workmen of all sorts: the building of Wimbledon House, 1730-1742” (
Georgian Group journal, 1992); and copies of plates 43b and 44a-b from Peter Willis’s Charles Bridgeman and the English landscape garden, showing plans of Wimbledon.
WIL/F/WI3
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire:
WIL/F/WI3/1-4
Bibliographical references.
WIL/F/WI3/5-7 1980-1999
National Trust publications:
An introduction to Wimpole Hall (1991), Wimpole Hall, by David Souden (1991, rev. 1999), and Wimpole Park, Cambridgeshire: survey, by J.L. Phibbs
(1980).
WIL/F/WI3/8-14 1979-2000
Articles and extracts: David Adshead, “A modern Italian loggia at Wimpole Hall” (
Georgian Group journal, 10, 2000); Gervase Jackson-Stops, “Exquisite contrivances: the park and gardens at Wimpole – I” (Country life, September 1979); Eric Parry, “Wimpole Hall” (Architects’ journal, March 1986); Dorothy Stroud, “The charms of natural landscape: the park and gardens at Wimpole – II” (Country life, September 1979); and extracts from Notes and queries 17
December 1974 and Wren Society publications 17 (both printing a poem attributed to Charles Bridgeman about a journey to Wimpole) and from the chapter on the first shrubberies from Mark Laird’s The flowering of the English
landscape garden 1720-1800 (1999).
WIL/F/WI3/15-23 1957-2001
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Elsie Bambridge 1957-1965, the Cambridge county archivist 1957, and Nottingham University Library 2001.
WIL/F/WI3/24-30
Photograph, with large format negative, of engraving of gothic tower at Wimpole; 3 photographs of Wimpole garden plans in the collection of the National Trust; and negative photostats of parts of garden plans in Bodleian Library Gough Drawings
A.4.30-31.
WIL/F/WO1
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire:
Notes on drawings for Woburn Abbey and gardens in the Woburn MSS, Bedford Office, London, and quotation from documents in the same collection mentioning work by Charles Bridgeman; extract from H. Repton’s
Enquiry into the changes of taste in landscape gardening (1806); and photocopy of an illustration of Woburn Abbey in the period 1630 to 1752.
WIL/F/WO2
Woburn Farm (alternatively Wooburn Farm), Surrey:
WIL/F/WO2/1 1759
Photograph, with large format negative, of engraving of Woburn, Philip Southcote’s ferme ornée, by Luke Sullivan, 1759.
WIL/F/WO2/2-3 1795-1974
Photocopy of part of William Robertson’s travel diary, October 1795 (National Library of Ireland MS 248), describing a visit to Woburn Farm, and typescript transcript by Robert Holden, 1974.
WIL/F/WO2/4-9
Letters from Robert Holden to Peter Willis, 1972-1974, about his work on a projected thesis on the 18th-century ferme ornée, with particular reference to Woburn.
WIL/F/WO2/11-23
Drafts and notes by Robert Holden for his projected thesis. Includes:
WIL/F/WO2/15
“Philip Southcote: a preliminary sketch”.
WIL/F/WO2/16
“Southcote family tree”.
WIL/F/WO2/20
“C18 parks in the Thames Valley west of London”.
WIL/F/WO2/22
“Flowers and belt planting at Woburn Farm”.
WIL/F/WO2/24-27
Maps by Robert Holden of, respectively, Woburn Farm (“based on 1834 deed plan, 1844 tithe map and C18 and C19 views, trees as 1834 plan”); Woburn Farm (“source: 1845 tithe commissioners plan [and] 1st edition 6” O.S. map [1860’s]”); 18th century
parks and views in the Thames Valley, and 18th century parks, open fields and uncultivated land in the Thames Valley (both based on John Rocque’s maps of Middlesex 1754 and Surrey c.1768).
4 maps.
WIL/F/WO2/28-29 1974-1975
R.W. King, “The ‘ferme ornée’: Philip Southcote and Woburn Farm” (
Garden history, 2 no. 3, 1974), and related letter to the editor from David Jacques (Garden history, 3 no. 2, 1975).
WIL/F/WO2/30 1979
James Sambrook, “Wooburn Farm in the 1760’s” (
Garden history, 7 no. 2, 1979).
WIL/F/WO3 1970-1985
Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire:
Letter from Gloucestershire County Record Office, 1985, and copy of David Verey, “Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire” from
The country seat, ed. H. Colvin and J.Harris (1970), p.237-243.
WIL/F/WR1 1719-1995
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire:
Photograph of plan of Wrest Park by Edward Laurence, c.1719 (Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service L33/286 fol. 3), and related letter from the record office; L.C. Halpern, “The Duke of Kent’s garden at Wrest Park” (
Journal of garden history, 15 no. 3, 1995); and Timothy Hudson, “A ducal patron of architects” (Country life, January 1974).
WIL/F/WR2 1903-1992
Wroxall, Bedfordshire: Bibliographical references, correspondence of Peter Willis with Christine Hodgett, 1992; Alison Hodges, “A Victorian gardener: Edward Milner (1819-1884)” (
Garden history, 1977); and photocopied extracts from Records of Wroxall Abbey and manor, Warwickshire (1903).
Personal Files and Corporate FilesWIL/G12 boxes.
Material on Gardeners, Architects, Artists, Patrons, Related Societies and Institutions, Writers on Gardens and Landscapes
WIL/G/AA1
Collective biography:
Brief biographies in chronological order of presidents of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1835-1984 and recipients of its Royal Gold Medal 1848-1984, extracted from
RIBA journal 91 no.5 (May 1984), p.43-66 (presidents) and p.73-143 (Royal Gold Medallists).
WIL/G/AD1
Adam family - the architect William Adam (1689-1748) and his sons Robert Adam (1728-1792) and James Adam (1732-1794):
WIL/G/AD1/1-3
Colour postcard and black and white photograph of portrait of Robert Adam attributed to George Willison (National Portrait Gallery 2953), and black and white photograph of portrait of Robert Adam by Sir Henry Raeburn in Aberdeen Art Gallery.
WIL/G/AD1/4 1978-1992
Publicity for and reviews of exhibitions, lectures, conferences and events relating to members of the Adam family.
WIL/G/AD1/5
Bibliographical references.
WIL/G/AD1/6 1978-1994
Book reviews.
WIL/G/AD1/7-32
Articles and pamphlets:
WIL/G/AD1/7 February 1978
Geoffrey Beard, “Adam and his men” (
Architects’ journal, February 1978).
WIL/G/AD1/8 1992
Bryant,
Robert Adam: architect of genius (London, 1992).
WIL/G/AD1/9 1991
Iain Gordon Brown, “David Hume’s tomb: a Roman mausoleum by Robert Adam” (
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1991).
WIL/G/AD1/10 August 1992
Iain Gordon Brown, “The picturesque vision: fact and fancy in the cappricio plates of Robert Adam’s Spalatro” (
Apollo, August 1992).
WIL/G/AD1/11 1992
Iain Gordon Brown,
Monumental reputation: Robert Adam & the emperor’s palace (Edinburgh, 1992).
WIL/G/AD1/12 1952
W. Ryle Elliot, “The work of Robert Adam in Northumberland” (
Archaeologia aeliana, 1952).
WIL/G/AD1/13 May 1968
John Fleming, “Robert Adam’s castle style, I” (
Country life, May 1968).
WIL/G/AD1/14 May 1968
John Fleming, “Seton Castle’s debt to ancient Rome: Robert Adam’s castle style, II” (
Country life, May 1968).
WIL/G/AD1/15 August 1977
Michael Foster, “The house that Adam built [Woolton Hall, Liverpool]” (
Building design, August 1977).
WIL/G/AD1/16 1993
Adam in context: papers given at the Georgian Group Symposium 1992, ed. Giles Worsley (London, 1993).
WIL/G/AD1/17 1964
Ralph Holland,
Drawings by Robert Adam for Alnwick Castle and the buildings in the park and neighbourhood (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1964), photocopy of an illustrated catalogue possibly privately circulated rather than published.
WIL/G/AD1/18 Winter 1992
A.G. Kinghorn, “Computer visualization, and Robert Adam’s unbuilt designs for Edinburgh” (
Prospect architecture Scotland, Winter 1992).
WIL/G/AD1/19 December 1979
Norman Kitz, “Adam’s early folly [at Painshill, Surrey]” (
Country life, December 1979).
WIL/G/AD1/20 December 1979
Jill Low, “French taste in London: William Weddell’s town house” (
Country life, December 1979).
WIL/G/AD1/21 February 1990
John Olley, “20 St James’s Square” (
Architects’ journal, February 1990).
WIL/G/AD1/22 August 1987
Heather Rose, “In the dog house [Chatelherault, near Hamilton]” (
Building design, refurbishment supplement, August 1987).
WIL/G/AD1/23 September 1974
Alistair Rowan, “After the Adelphi: forgotten years in the Adam brothers’ practice. Three Bossom lectures” (
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, September 1974).
WIL/G/AD1/24 November 1974
Alistair Rowan, “The Royal Society of Arts” (
Country life, November 1974).
WIL/G/AD1/25 August 1974
Alistair Rowan, “Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire” (
Country life, August 1974).
WIL/G/AD1/26-28 August 1973
Alistair Rowan, “Yester House, East Lothian, I-III” (
Country life, August 1973).
WIL/G/AD1/29 1978
James Simpson, “Robert Adam, born 1728: the Scottish family background” (Scottish Georgian Society,
Annual report 1978 and bulletin 5, 1978).
WIL/G/AD1/30 22 August 1976
John Summerson, “The master builders: Adam – all for originality” (
Observer magazine, 22 August 1976).
WIL/G/AD1/31 December 1978
A.A. Tait, “The private Robert Adam: drawings from the architect’s collection” (
Country life, December 1978).
WIL/G/AD1/32 June 1982
John Wilton-Ely, “An electric revolution in art: the Adam achievement reassessed” (
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, June 1992).
WIL/G/AD1/33-35 c.1979-1985
Miscellaneous cuttings, c.1979-1985, relating to a 1749 design by Robert Adam for a gothic pavilion, an unexecuted design by him for an Edinburgh University building, and plans to restore Blair Adam House.
WIL/G/AD2
Joseph Addison (1672-1719):
WIL/F/AD2/1
Photograph of portrait of Addison by Kneller (National Portrait Gallery 3193).
WIL/G/AD2/2
Bibliographical references.
WIL/G/AD2/3-14 1705-1822
Photocopies of Addison’s “An essay on the Georgics” (from
The British poets, 87, Chiswick, 1822), extracts from his Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (from the London, 1705 and 1718 editions), and essays by
him related to nature, art, landscape and gardens in the Spectator nos 37, 411, 414, 417 and 477, and the Tatler nos 67, 81, 123, 161 and 218.
WIL/G/AL August 1978
Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817-1891), engineer and designer of public parks:
Bibliographical references, and copy of John Merivale, “Charles-Adolphe Alphand and the parks of Paris” (
Landscape design, August 1978).
WIL/G/AN
William Henry Ansell (1872-1959), architect:
Photograph, photocopied photographs and portrait, biographical details from
Directory of British architects 1834-1900 (1993), and photocopied obituaries.
WIL/G/BA1
Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans (1561-1626):
Bibliographical note on his essay “Of building”, and photocopy of his essay “Of gardens” from London, 1625 edition.
WIL/G/BA2 November/December 1973
Bernard Baron (1696-1762), engraver:
John E. Ruch, “Bernard Baron, un graveur français en Angleterre au début du XVIIIe siècle” (
Nouvelles de l’estampe, novembre/décembre 1973).
WIL/G/BA3
Daines Barrington (1727-1800), lawyer, antiquary and naturalist:
Bibliographical references, and photocopy of his essay “On the progress of gardening. In a letter from the Hon Daines Barrington to the Rev. Mr. Norris secretary. Read June 13, 1782” (from
Archaeologia: or Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, 7, 1785).
WIL/G/BE1 Autumn 1975
Guillaume Beaumont (d. 1727), gardener:
Copy of Annette Bagot, “Monsieur Beaumont and Col. Grahme. The making of a garden, 1689-1710” (
Garden history, 4, autumn 1975), and biographical note.
WIL/G/BE2 1973-1977
William Beckford (1760-1844), patron:
Bibliographical references, copy of Robin Wyatt, “The man with a passion for towers” (
House and garden, December 1973/January 1974), review of James Lees-Milne’s William Beckford, and 1977 cutting about sale of Beckford papers.
WIL/G/BE3
Paul Bellot, OSB (1876-1944), architect and monk:
[For a copies of Peter Willis’s 1994 M.A. thesis and 1996 article on Bellot, see
WIL/Z5/1994 and
WIL/Z4/1996. Papers relating to his research work on Bellot are deposited and may be consulted at Quarr
Abbey, Isle of Wight.]
WIL/G/BE3/1 1948
Paul Bellot,
Propos d’un bâtisseur du bon Dieu (Montreal, 1948).
WIL/G/BE3/2 1996
Dom Bellot, moine-architecte 1876-1944, ed. Maurice Culot and Martin Meade (Paris, 1996).
WIL/G/BE3/3 1978
Nicole Tardif-Painchaud,
Dom Bellot et l’architecture religeuse au Québec (Québec, 1978).
WIL/G/BO1 1974
Bourgignon [alternatively Bourguignon], 18th-century gardener:
Letter from Hugh Bilbrough 1974, research notes by Peter Willis, and bibliographical and biographical references and photocopied extracts, concerning the identity of the gardener Bourgignon or Bourguignon responsible for garden designs for Weald
hall, Essex and Thorndon Hall in the 1730’s, and whether he might be the P. Bourguignon who worked at Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire, or the French mapmaker Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697-1782).
WIL/G/BO2
Jacques Boyceau [alternatively Boiceau, Boisseau], seigneur de la Barauderie (1588-163-?), Intendant des Jardins du Roi:
Francis Hamilton Hazlehurst “Jacques Boyceau de La Barauderie, Intendant des Jardins du Roi”, undated offprint from
Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français.
WIL/G/BR 1939
Richard Bradley (d.1732), F.R.S., botanist:
Photocopy of W. Roberts, “R. Bradley, pioneer garden journalist” (
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 64, 1939).
WIL/G/BU1
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694-1753), patron:
WIL/G/BU1/1
Bibliographical references.
WIL/G/BU1/2-3 1970-1974
Letters to Peter Willis from James Lees-Milne, 1970, and the University of Hull archivist, 1974.
WIL/G/BU1/4-6 1713
Photographs of portrait of Lord Burlington by Knapton at Chiswick House, engraving “A view of the bridge upon the canal in Lord Burlington’s Gardens at Chiswick”, and 1713 engraving by Matteo Ripa, in the Chinese style of landscape painting, of
the Chinese imperial gardens at Jehol (British Museum, Engr. 1955-2-12-01/26).
WIL/G/BU1/7 1714
Photographs of cover and four openings from volume of household accounts, 1714, relating to Chiswick and Burlington House (Chatsworth 75A, Cupboard L), with related notes by Peter Willis.
WIL/G/BU1/8
Photographs of the whole of a manuscript volume at Chatsworth entitled “A Catalogue of the Earl of Burlington’s Library, At his Lordships Seat at Chiswick; January, 1741-2”.
WIL/G/BU1/9-14
Articles and pamphlets on Burlington:
WIL/G/BU1/9 1973
Apollo of the arts: Lord Burlington and his circle, catalogue of an exhibition at Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1973.
WIL/G/BU1/10 1981
Jacques Carré, “Architecture et historicisme en Angleterre dans le cercle de Burlington (1725-1745)” (
Annales littéraires de l’Université de Besançon, 249, 1981).
WIL/G/BU1/11 1982
Lord Burlington and his circle. Papers given at a Georgian Group symposium on 22 May 1982 (London, 1982).
WIL/G/BU1/12 1960
Basil Gray, “Burlington and Father Ripa’s Chinese engravings” (
British Museum quarterly, 22, 1960).
WIL/G/BU1/13 1974/5
Pat Rogers, “The Burlington circle in the provinces: Alexander Pope’s Yorkshire friends” (
Durham University journal, 67, 1974/75).
WIL/G/BU2 1981
Decimus Burton (1800-1881), architect:
Philip Miller,
Decimus Burton 1800-1881: a guide to the exhibition of his work (London, 1981).
WIL/G/CA1 1967-1981
Charles Cameron (c.1740-1812), architect:
Bibliographical references, photocopies of brief biographical accounts of Cameron from published sources, and copies of Arts Council exhibition catalogue
Charles Cameron c. 1740-1812: architectural drawings from the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad and Architectural Museum, Moscow (London, 1967), and article “Palladio goes east” by Olivia Sands (Building design, 6 February 1981).
WIL/G/CA2 1967-1979
Colen Campbell (1676-1729), architect:
Bibliographical references; prospectus for New York, Blom, facsimile edition of
Vitruvius Britannicus and other publications and engravings related to Campbell available from B. Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd; photocopies of T.P. Connor, “Colen Campbell as architect to the Prince of Wales”
(Architectural history, 22, 1979) and “The making of Vitruvius Britannicus” (Architectural history, 20, 1977); and copy of review of H.E. Stutchbury’s The
architecture of Colen Campbell (1967).
WIL/G/CA3
Joseph Carpenter (d. 1726), Royal Gardener to George I:
Research notes, largely on location of sources.
WIL/G/CA4
Robert Castell (d. 1728), writer on classical architecture:
Bibliographical references, photocopy of extracts from Castell’s
The villas of the ancients illustrated (London, 1728), and photographs with large format negatives of 6 plates from that work.
WIL/G/CH1 1763-1985
Sir William Chambers (1723-1796), architect:
Bibliographical references; 3 photographs with negatives of plate entitled “A View of the Wilderness, with the Alhambra, the Pagoda and the Mosque” from Chambers’
Plans, elevations, sections, and perspective views of … Kew (1763), and of the title-page of that work and the title-page of his Desseins des édifices …des Chinois (1767); 2 photographs
of plates from G. Le Rouge, Détails des nouveaux jardins à la mode (1776); 2 plans of Kew Gardens; photocopied extracts from Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture …engraved …from the originals
drawn in China by Mr. Chambers (1767); Gavin Stamp, “Somerset House discovered” (RIBA journal, August 1985); photocopies of brief biographical accounts of Chambers from published sources; and cutting of letter
to RIBA journal, October 1985, concerning him.
WIL/G/CH2 1977
Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain (c.1710-c.1771), landscape painter and etcher:
Letter to Peter Willis from George Clarke, 1977, and research notes and bibliographical and biographical references.
WIL/G/CH3 February 1973
Thomas Church (fl.1930’s), landscape architect:
Michael Laurie, “Thomas Church and the evolution of the California landscape garden”,
Landscape design (February 1973).
WIL/G/CL1 1939-1967
Herbert Francis [Frank] Clark (1903-1971), landscape architect:
Photograph of Clark; photocopies of letters from him, 1939 (now in the Jack Pritchard archive at the University of East Anglia), about the Isokon (Lawn Road) flats; 4 letters from him to Peter Willis, 1960-1967 (one including translation of
poetic inscription by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik at Corby Castle); cuttings and photocopies of obituaries of Clark, and a short published biographical article on him.
WIL/G/CL2
Claude le Lorrain (1600-1682), artist:
Bibliographical reference, and 8 photographs of landscape paintings by Claude.
WIL/G/CL3
Sir John Clerk, Bart, of Penicuik (1676-1755):
Bibliographical notes; photocopy of manuscript of Clerk’s poem “The country seat” (Scottish Record Office GD 18/4404/1); course notes for an Open University radio broadcast about the poem; and copies of Iain Gordon Brown,
The Clerks of Penicuik: portraits of taste & talent (Edinburgh, 1987), and the same author’s The hobby-horsical antiquary (Edinburgh, 1980).
WIL/G/CO1
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749), patron and amateur landscape gardener:
Notes on sources, photographs of Kneller portrait of Cobham (National Portrait Gallery 3198), photocopy of illustration of drawing of Cobham by Michael Dahl, and biographical note about Cobham by George Clarke.
WIL/G/CO2 1956-1997
Sir Howard Colvin (1919-2007), architectural historian:
45 letters and cards from Colvin to Peter Willis, 1956-1997; and copies of profiles of Colvin from
House and garden (April, 1978) and Architects’ journal (2 November 1995). The letter dated 1 September 1967 encloses (WIL/G/CO2/16) a photograph of an 18th-century drawing entitled “Mr.
Bridgeman’s House” in All Souls College, Oxford. The letter dated 28 December 1971 encloses (WIL/G/CO2/24) typescript notes by Colvin on the supervision and management of the royal gardens in the 17th and 18th centuries.
WIL/G/CO3 1809-1810
William Combe (1741-1823), author of Dr Syntax:
Photocopy of Combe’s poem, “The schoolmaster’s tour”, from
Poetical magazine, vols 1-3 (1809-10).
WIL/G/CO4 1681
Charles Cotton (1630-1687), poet:
Photocopy of Cotton’s poem,
The wonders of the Peake (London, 1681).
WIL/G/|CO5 February 1753-April 1755
Francis Coventry (d. 1759):
Photocopy of extracts relating to gardening and landscape from the periodical
World for the year, nos 6, 15, 76, and 118-119 (February 1753-April 1755).
WIL/G/DA1
Michael Dahl (1656-1743), painter:
Photograph of portrait of Theresa Charlton by Dahl at Capheaton Hall, Northumberland, and correspondence of Peter Willis with Mrs. Alison Hodges, 1992, about Dahl’s portrait of Charles Bridgeman and other Bridgeman sources, including a plan by
him for Wroxall, Warwickshire.
WIL/G/DA2 1983
Sir John Dalrymple (1726-1810):
Photocopy of “Sir John Dalrymple’s ‘An essay on landscape gardening”, with an introduction by Robert Williams (
Journal of garden history, 3 no.2, 1983).
WIL/G/DA3
Charles Dartiquenave [alternatively Darteneuf] (1664-1737), Surveyor-General of the King’s Gardens:
Photograph of portrait of Dartiquenave by Kneller (National Portrait Gallery 3239), and photocopied extract relating to him from Jonathan Swift’s
Journal to Stella, vol.1 (1948).
WIL/G/DE1
Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731):
Photocopied extracts relating to landscape gardens at Stowe, Chiswick House, Gunnersbury House, Peckham, and Painshill, from Defoe’s
A tour through the whole island of Great Britain (1724).
WIL/G/DE2
Antoine Joseph Dézallier d’Argenville (1680-1765), writer on gardening:
WIL/G/DE2/1-21
Research notes and bibliographical references relating to Dézallier and his advocacy of the use of the ha-ha in landscape gardening
WIL/G/DE2/22-26 1711-1722
Photocopied extracts from the 1711 and 1722 editions of Dézallier’s
La théorie et la pratique du jardinage, and the 1712 English translation of it by John James entitled The theory and practice of gardening. The work, originally published anonymously, has
sometimes been wrongly ascribed to A.J.B. Le Blond.
WIL/G/DE2/27-36
List of plates in the 2nd edition (1728) of James’s translation,
The theory and practice of gardening, and 7 photographs of plates of garden designs from the 1712 edition (all but plate 1 with negatives); and photograph and photocopy of 2 illustrations of ha-has.
WIL/G/DE2/37-38
Typescript note by Peter Willis on the significance of Dézallier’s writings in the history of landscape gardening, and teaching materials for a university course on garden design in France and England, 1680-1765.
WIL/G/DE2/39-45 1949-1973
Photocopies of F.G.M. Cardew, “L.S.A.I.D.A.: a riddle of horticultural authorship” (
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 74, 1949), and Miles Hadfield, “History of the ha-ha” (Country life, May 1963); copy of Miles Hadfield, “John James and the formal garden in
England” (Connoisseur, February 1951); and cutting of letter to Country life, September 1973.
WIL/G/EA 1968-1983
William Eames [alternatively Emes] (fl. c.1760-1800), landscape gardener:
Biographical note; correspondence of Peter Willis with John Harris, 1968, and Staffordshire Record Office, 1983; and copies of John Cornforth, “Dudmaston, Shropshire”, parts 2-3 (
Country life, March 1979).
WIL/G/EV1
Charles Evelyn (dates unknown), pseud:
Bibliographical note, and photograph, with negative, of frontispiece from Evelyn’s
The lady’s recreation (1717), an engraved scene of house and formal garden.
WIL/G/EV2 1699-1978
John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist:
Bibliographical references, including 1981 Blackwell sale catalogue of books written by or relating to Evelyn and books from his library; photocopied extract from Evelyn’s
Acetaria (1699), relating to the plan of a royal garden; photocopy of Sayes Court garden plan, 1653; and photocopies or copies of David R. Coffin, “John Evelyn at Tivoli” (Journal of the Warburg
and Courtauld Institutes, 1938), David Jacques, “John Evelyn and the idea of paradise” (Landscape design, November 1978), Stella Margetson, “The vanished gardens of London” (Country
life, November 1963), and Sandra Raphael, “John Evelyn’s Elysium Britannicum” (Garden, November 1977).
WIL/G/FI1
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723), architect:
Bibliographical references, photographs of façade and plan of St Charles Borromaeus church, Vienna, designed by Fischer von Erlach, and 7 photographs of title-page, plates list, and 5 plates from his
A plan of civil and historical architecture, translated by Thomas Lediard (2nd edition, 1737).
WIL/G/FI2 1975
James Fish, senior (d. 1702) and junior (1673-1740), surveyors and estate map makers:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Warwickshire Record Office, 1975.
WIL/G/FL
Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769), architect:
Photograph of portrait of Flitcroft attributed to Bartholomew Dandridge in the Royal Institute of British Architects.
WIL/G/FU
Joseph Furtenbach (1591-1667), architect:
Bibliographical references, and two photographs (with large format negatives) of plates of garden designs from his
Architectura civilis (1628).
WIL/G/GI1
James Gibbs (1682-1754), architect:
Photograph of portrait of Gibbs by J.M. Williams (National Portrait Gallery 504).
WIL/G/GI2 1691-1796
J. Gibson (fl. 1690’s), writer on gardening:
Photocopy of “A short account of several gardens near London, with remarks on some particulars wherein they excel, or are deficient, upon a view of them in 1691”, a transcript of a 17th-century text signed J. Gibson, read from the original
manuscript to the Society of Antiquaries 3 July 1794 by Dr Hamilton and published in
Archaeologia, vol. 12 (1796), p.181-192.
WIL/G/GI3
William Gilpin (1724-1804), writer on the picturesque:
WIL/G/GI3/1
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/GI3/2
Photograph of landscape sketch by Gilpin in private collection.
WIL/G/GI3/3-4 1748-1976
Copy of Gilpin’s
A dialogue upon the gardens … at Stow (1748), Augustan Reprint Society 176 (Los Angeles, 1976), and photocopy of extracts from his Remarks on forest scenery, vol. 2 (1791).
WIL/G/GI3/5-6 1960-1974
Photocopies of Mavis Batey, “Gilpin and the schoolboy picturesque” (
Garden history, 1974), and Paul Ilie, “Picturesque beauty in Spain and England: aesthetic rapports between Jovellanos and Gilpin” (Journal of aesthetics and art criticism, 19 (1960).
WIL/G/GI3/7 1969
Jane Peile McKinnon, “William Gilpin: planting and the picturesque”, term paper for a University of Minnesota course on the 18th-century landscape garden, 1969.
WIL/G/GO 1968-1973
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Research notes and bibliographical references relating to Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire (argued to have inspired Goldsmith’s poem “The deserted village”); letter and card from Mavis Batey to Peter Willis, 1973, and
copies of her article “Nuneham Courtenay: an Oxfordshire 18th-century deserted village” (
Oxoniensia, 23, 1968) and her guidebook Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire: a short history of the house, gardens and estate (Abingdon, 1970); photograph of portrait of Goldsmith attributed
to the studio of Reynolds; and 6 photographs and postcards of engravings and a drawing of Nuneham, and views of the house and landscaped church.
WIL/G/GR 1974-1976
Greening family, royal gardeners in the 18th and early 19th centuries:
Research notes and biographical references, and 2 letters to Peter Willis from John Harris, 1974-1976.
WIL/G/HO1
William Hogarth (1697-1764), painter and engraver:
Bibliographical references, and photographs of portrait of Charles Bridgeman by Hogarth in Vancouver Art Gallery and group portrait “An Assembly of Artists” variously attributed to Hogarth or Gawen Hamilton in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, with
typescript notes relating to the latter painting.
WIL/G/HO2 1792
Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809), dramatist and novelist:
Photocopy of extract relating to landscape design from his novel
Anna St Ives (London, 1792).
WIL/G/HO3 2000-2001
Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), medal collector:
Copies of Patrick Eyres, “ ‘Patriotizing, strenuously, the whole flower of his life’: the political agenda of Thomas Hollis’s medallic programme” (
The medal, 36, 2000), and “Celebration and dissent: Thomas Hollis, the Society of Arts, and Stowe Gardens” (The medal, 38, 2001).
WIL/G/HU 1955-1970
Christopher Hussey (1899-1970), architectural historian:
17 letters to Peter Willis, 1955-70, predominantly concerning the latter’s research on Charles Bridgeman, and order of service for memorial service for Hussey, April 1970.
WIL/G/JA 1712-1991
John James (c.1673-1746), surveyor and architect:
Photograph, with negative, of plate 1, “The generall disposition of a magnificent garden upon a level”, from James’s
The theory and practice of gardening (London, 1712); correspondence of Peter Willis with Sally Jeffery, 1984-91, enclosing (WIL/G/JA/5) extracts from Dr Jeffery’s 1986 London Ph.D. thesis “English baroque architecture:
the work of John James); and copy of her article “An architect for Standlynch House” (Country life, February 1986).
WIL/G/JE 1976-1986
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996), landscape architect:
5 brief letters from Jellicoe to Peter Willis, 1976-1986, largely concerning the latter’s work on Charles Bridgeman.
WIL/G/JO 1993
Percy Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993), architect and town planner:
2 newspaper obituaries for Johnson-Marshall, and funeral order of service (with photograph), July 1993.
WIL/G/KN November 1954
Leonard Knyff (1650-1722), topographical artist:
Bibliographical reference, and copy of Hugh Honour, “Leonard Knyff” (
Burlington magazine, November 1954).
WIL/G/LA1
George Lambert (1710-1765), landscape painter:
Photograph of painting by Lambert of a classical landscape (Tate Gallery 211).
WIL/G/LA2 1728-1977
Batty Langley (1696-1751), landscape gardener and architectural writer:
Research notes and bibliographical references; photographs of plates XVIII, XX (with negative) and XXI from Langley’s
New principles of gardening (London, 1728); photograph of a drawing of “Artificial Roman ruins” by him (1728); photocopies of short extracts from Batty and Thomas Langley’s Ancient architecture,
restored and improved (1742) and Gothic architecture improved by rules and proportions (1742, facsimile reprint, 1972), and of the introduction and contents list from Batty Langley’s New
principles of gardening (1728); photocopies of brief biographical notes on Langley from published sources; and photocopies of Eileen Harris, “Batty Langley: a tutor to freemasons (1696-1751)” (Burlington
magazine, May 1977), and Alastair Rowan, “Batty Langley’s gothic” (from Studies in memory of David Talbot Rice, ed. G. Robertson and G. Henderson, Edinburgh, 1975).
WIL/G/LA3 1693-1971
Jean de La Quintinie (1626-1688), garden designer and architectural writer:
Bibliographical references; photograph with film and glass plate negatives of headpiece illustration of a kitchen garden with espaliered fruit trees from John Evelyn’s translation of La Quintinie,
The complete gardener (1693), vol. 2, p.78; and copy of “Jean de La Quintinie and his connection with English gardens”, by D.J. Sales, Alison Hodges and Lesley Bannister (Garden History Society
newsletter, September 1971).
WIL/G/LA4 1715
John Lawrence (1668-1732):
Photograph, with large format negative, of engraved frontispiece of a formal garden from
The clergman’s recreation (1715).
WIL/G/LE1 1721
Bernard Lens (1682-1721), painter:
Photograph of 1721 miniature portrait of Lens (National Portrait Gallery 1624).
WIL/G/LE2 1776-1787
Georges Louis Le Rouge, writer on architecture:
Research notes and bibliographical references; and photographs of 4 plates from G. L. Le Rouge’s
Détails des nouveaux jardins à la mode (1776-87), entitled, respectively, “Vuë du chateau ruine dans les jardins anglais de la chapelle pres de Nogent sur Seine a M. de Boulogne”, “Plan de la grotte et tombeau
d’Ermenonville”, “Idées pour la construction des rochers dans les jardins anglais. Dessinées d’après nature dans la Forest de Fontainebleau en 1734”, and “Diverses grottes. Chinoises et autres”; with large format negatives of each of the photographs
except the last.
WIL/G/LO1 1706-1964
George London (d. 1714), royal gardener:
Research and bibliographical notes; two photographs, with negatives, of “The plan of Mr Tallard’s Garden at Nottingham” from
The retir’d gard’ner, translated by George London and Henry Wise (1706); two photographs, with negatives, of plan of Brompton Park nurseries (Kensington Central Library, MS 2266), with related letter from the
librarian, 1964; and photocopies of extracts from The retir’d gard’ner (1706), and of “A catalogue of the library of George London, Esq.; late chief gardener to her Majesty” (part of A catalogue
of books ancient and modern …to be sold by auction …24th …November 1712).
WIL/G/LO2
John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), landscape gardener and horticultural writer:
WIL/G/LO2/1
Bibliographical references and research notes.
WIL/G/LO2/2-14 1974-1982
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Laurie Fricker, 1974, and Melanie L. Simo, 1981-1982.
WIL/G/LO2/15-18
Photographs of two portraits of Loudon (one by John Linnell) and of a memorial plaque on his London house, and photocopy of engraved portrait of him published in
The Garden, December 1871.
WIL/G/LO2/19-27
Articles and extracts from works by Loudon:
WIL/G/LO2/19 July 1834
“On the difference between common, or imitative, genius, and inventive, or original, genius in architecture” (
Architectural magazine, July 1834).
WIL/G/LO2/20 August 1834
“On those principles of composition, in architecture, which are common to all fine arts” (
Architectural magazine, August 1834).
WIL/G/LO2/21 January 1835
“On unity of system in architecture” (
Architectural magazine, January 1835).
WIL/G/LO2/22
“Hints for breathing places for the metropolis, and for country towns and villages, on fixed principles”.
WIL/G/LO2/23 1833
Extracts from Loudon’s
Encyclopaedia of cottage. Farm and villa architecture (1833), including figures 1414-1416, 1427-1429, 1514-1524, 1566-1568, 1610-1612, and 1732-1733
WIL/G/LO2/24 April 1940
“The beau ideal of a hundred years ago”, a description by Loudon of the perfect, although imaginary, residence of an English country gentleman, originally published in his
Encyclopaedia of architecture, 1833 (reprinted in Architectural review, 87, April 1940); this photocopy is incomplete.
WIL/G/LO2/25-27
“Hints respecting the manner of laying out the grounds of the public squares in London, to the utmost picturesque advantage”, letter from Loudon to the editor of an unidentified periodical, with a description of plate 18 fig. 3 (a design for
laying out a public square) from Loudon’s
Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds (London, 1813), and a photograph of the plate.
WIL/G/LO2/28-36
Articles and extracts about Loudon:
WIL/G/LO2/28 1980
Phillada Ballard, “John Claudius Loudon and the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society’s gardens at Edgbaston: 1831-1845” (
Garden history, summer 1980).
WIL/G/LO2/29 March 1979
Mavis Batey, “Pioneer in preservation: Great Tew, Oxfordshire” (
Country life, March 1979).
WIL/G/LO2/30 1968
L.J. Fricker, “Loudon’s house preserved” (
Garden History Society newsletter, summer/autumn 1968).
WIL/G/LO2/31 1970
Introduction by Christopher Gilbert to his
Loudon furniture designs (1970).
WIL/G/LO2/32 October 1971
John Gloag, “Loudon: picturesque progressive” (
Architectural review, October 1971).
WIL/G/LO2/33 1872-1873
Noel Humphries, “Recollections of John Claudius Loudon” (published in parts in
The Garden, vols. 1-3, 1872-1873; this photocopy is incomplete).
WIL/G/LO2/34 March 1985
Alan Thompson, “Pure Loudon: John Loudon’s semi-detached Bayswater villas are to be reunited” (
Building design, March 1985).
WIL/G/LO2/35 1981
Melanie L. Simo, “John Claudius Loudon: on planning and design for the garden metropolis” (
Garden history, autumn 1981).
WIL/G/LO2/36 April 1975
David C. Stuart, “Recreating a Georgian kitchen garden” (
Country life, April 1975).
WIL/G/LO2/37-44 1970-1990
Reviews of books relating to Loudon, 1970-1990.
WIL/G/LO2/45-47 1969-1980
Miscellaneous brief clippings relating to Loudon, 1969-1980.
WIL/G/MA1
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722):
Photograph of portrait of Marlborough after Kneller (National Portrait Gallery 553).
WIL/G/MA2 1970-1976
John Martin (1789-1854), painter:
Colour postcard of Martin’s painting “Christ stilleth the tempest”, copy of
John Martin 1789-1854, artist, reformer, engineer (catalogue of an exhibition at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1970), photocopy of Southampton Art Gallery information sheet on Martin’s painting “Sadak in
search of the waters of oblivion”, and cutting of review of book about Martin, 1976.
WIL/G/MA3 1992-1994
Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), landscape designer:
Newspaper obituary for Marx, 1994, and review of book on gardens designed by him, 1992.
WIL/G/MA4 1773-1973
William Mason (1725-1797), garden designer:
Bibliographical references, photograph of portrait of Mason, facsimiles of page from his commonplace book (York Minster Library MS Add. 25) and his epitaph on Capability Brown, photocopies of part of his poem
The English garden (London, 1781) and of his poem An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers (London, 1773), and copies of A candidate for praise: William Mason
1725-97 Precentor of York (catalogue by Bernard Barr and John Ingamells of a York Festival exhibition, 1973), and “An intellect of many facets”, article on Mason by John Ingamells (Country life, June 1973).
WIL/G/MA5
Sir Robert Hogg Matthew (1906-1975), architect:
WIL/G/MA5/1-4 1932-1955
Photocopies of award-winning designs by Matthew for a national library and (jointly with Basil Spence) a layout of a bridge-head, 1932, and of Matthew’s RIBA fellowship application, 1955.
WIL/G/MA5/5 January 1964
Pilgrim Street development: report on site 1 (January 1964), report by Matthew’s firm Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall & Partners for Newcastle upon Tyne City Council.
WIL/G/MA5/6-8 1986-1994
Articles relating to Matthew and work by his practice: Miles Glendinning, “National internationalist: Robert Matthew and the modern movement” (
Architectural heritage, 9); Patrick Hannay, “Distillers HQ, Edinburgh” (Architects’ journal, January 1986); and Ken Powell, “Cavaliers and roundheads” (Building
design, April 1994).
WIL/G/MA5/9-20 1975
Obituaries on Matthew, 1975, and brief biographical notes on him from published sources.
WIL/G/MA5/21-25 1970-1995
Miscellaneous cuttings relating to Matthew.
WIL/G/ME
Eric Mendelsohn (1887-1946), architect:
WIL/G/ME/1-9 1990-1996
Letters and cards to Peter Willis from Mendelsohn’s daughter, Esther Mendelsohn Joseph.
WIL/G/ME/10-18 1910-1970
Photocopied notes by Birkin Haward on drawings of buildings by the Mendelsohn and Chermayeff practice, 1934-38, and recollections of his time in the practice’s Jerusalem office, 1935; list of archive of Mendelsohn’s drawings and papers, 1910-53,
compiled in 1969 prior to sale; photocopy of contents list and other extracts from catalogue of surviving sketches by Mendelsohn compiled by Lotte Schiller, 1970; and notes by Peter Willis on sources and bibliographical references relating to
Mendelsohn.
WIL/G/ME/19-21 1994
Leaflets, undated and 1994, on the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, designed by Mendelsohn, and colour postcard of a drawing of it.
WIL/G/ME/22-31
Exhibition catalogues and articles on Mendelsohn: [For a copy of Peter Willis’s article, with Russell Stevens, on Mendelsohn’s De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, see
WIL/Z3/1990.]
WIL/G/ME/22-24 1991
Guide to exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright, Eric Mendelsohn, the prophets of modern architecture”, by Gallery Lingard, London, 1991, with catalogue and list of Wasmuth portfolio plates offered for sale by the Gallery.
WIL/G/ME/25 1987
Sigrid Achenbach, ed.,
Erich Mendelsohn 1887-1953: Ideen, Bauten, Projekte (Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz,1987).
WIL/G/ME/26 1988-1989
Sigrid Achenbach,
Erich Mendelsohn architectural drawings, introduction to exhibition at the Kunstbibliothek Berlin, 1988-89.
WIL/G/ME/27 August 1954
Reyner Banham, “Mendelsohn” (
Architectural review, August 1954).
WIL/G/ME/28 1991
Ralph Beyer, “Erich Mendelsohn” (
Thirties Society journal, 7, 1991).
WIL/G/ME/29 1991
Jonathan Glancy, “Mendelsohn in England” (
Thirties Society journal, 7, 1991).
WIL/G/ME/30 1969
Susan King,
The drawings of Eric Mendelsohn (catalogue of an exhibition at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, 1969).
WIL/G/ME/31 1987
Erich Mendelsohn 1887-1953 (catalogue of a touring exhibition by Modern British Architecture, 1987).
WIL/G/MI 1942
Nicolas Michot (1707-1790), landscape gardener:
Microfilm and printout of Marcel Mayer, Nicolas Michot ou L’Introduction du jardin anglais en France (Paris, 1942), with a sheet of notes by Peter Willis on the book.
WIL/G/MO1 November 1981
László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), artist and photographer:
Brief biographical notes on Moholy-Nagy from published sources, and photocopy of Terence Senter, “Moholy-Nagy’s English photography” (
Burlington magazine, November 1981).
WIL/G/MO2 1713-1974
Samuel Molyneux (1689-1727), astronomer and politician:
Photocopy and typescript transcript of letter from Molyneux, 14 February 1713, describing a visit to Hampton Court, Bushy Park, Richmond New Park, Petersham Lodge and other gardens in the London area, including the College of Physicians Garden,
Chelsea (Southampton Civic Record Office, D/M/1/3, f. 86-97), with a related letter from the Southampton City archivist, 1974, and an article by A.J. Sambrook, “Pope’s neighbours: an early landscape garden at Richmond” (
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 30, 1967).
WIL/G/NO 1686-1700
Timothy Nourse [alternatively Nurse] (d.1699):
Photograph, with large format negative, of engraved frontispiece of a garden from Nourse’s
Campania felix (1700), and photocopies of “An essay of a country house” (pages 297-344 from Campania felix), and of chapter “Of solitude” from Nourse’s A discourse
upon the nature and faculties of man (1686).
WIL/G/OL
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), landscape architect:
[For a copy of Peter Willis’s article “An American in England: Olmsted at Birkenhead”, see
WIL/Z2/1978.]
WIL/G/OL/1 December 1972
Tanya Edwards Beauchamp, “Renewed acclaim for the father of American landscape architecture”,
Smithsonian (December 1972).
WIL/G/OL/2 1993
Rupert Goddard, “Frederick Law Olmsted: travels in England in 1850”, University of Newcastle upon Tyne B.Arch. dissertation, 1993.
WIL/G/OL/3 August 1981
Stephen Rettig, “British influences on Frederick Law Olmsted and Central Park”,
Landscape design, 135 (August 1981).
WIL/G/OL/4-7 1992
Bibliographic references, and poster for “Olmsted in England”, Frederick Lindley Morgan lecture given by Peter Willis at the University of Louisville, 1992.
WIL/G/PA1
John Buonarotti Papworth (1775-1847), architect:
Microfilm of drawings by Papworth in the Royal Institute of British Architects. 22 frames.
WIL/G/PA2 1962-1991
Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), gardener and designer of parks and buildings:
Research notes and bibliographical references; letter from Birkenhead Central Library, 1978, enclosing list of material on Birkenhead Park in its Local History and Archives Dept; copy of
Sir Joseph Paxton 1803-1865 (catalogue of a Victorian Society exhibition, 1965); and miscellaneous cuttings about Paxton, 1962-1991, chiefly relating to the Crystal Palace, which he designed.
WIL/G/PE 1974-1980
Joseph Perfect (fl. 1730’s), gardener:
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Timothy Connor.
WIL/G/PI 1982-1991
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), artist:
Copies of a review of recent literature on Piranesi by Robin Middleton, 1982, and
Piranesi and the new vision of classical antiquity in the eighteenth century, catalogue by T.J. McCormick of an exhibition at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, 1991.
WIL/G/PO
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), poet:
WIL/G/PO/1
Bibliographical references and research notes.
WIL/G/PO/2-8 1969-1981
Correspondence of Peter Willis with the archivists to the Marquess of Bath and Coutts Bank, P.L. Heyworth, and the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1969-1981.
WIL/G/PO/9-15
Colour postcard and black and white photograph of portrait of Pope attributed to Jonathan Richardson (National Portrait Gallery 1179); two photographs (one with negative) of a drawing of Pope in his grotto at Twickenham from the Chatsworth
Devonshire collection, and 4 photocopied illustrations of paintings of Pope’s villa.
WIL/G/PO/16-21 1709-1731
Notes on Pope’s account with Drummonds Bank; photocopies of records of his account with Hoares’ Bank and of a letter from him to Lady Swinburne, 1709 (Northumberland Record Office, Swinburne Papers, ZSW 510/6); and photographs and microfilm of
his essay
An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington. Occasion’d by his publishing Palladio’s designs of the baths, theatres, &c. of ancient Rome (1731).
WIL/G/PO/22-41
Exhibition catalogue and articles relating to Pope:
WIL/G/PO/22 1980
Alexander Pope’s villa: views of Pope’s villa, grotto and garden, a microcosm of English landscape, Greater London Council exhibition catalogue (1980).
WIL/G/PO/23 1961
Elizabeth Arlidge. “A new Pope letter” (
Review of English studies, 1961).
WIL/G/PO/24 1975
Charles Beaumont, “Pope and the Palladians” (
Texas studies in literature and English, 1975).
WIL/G/PO/25 1979
Howard Erskine-Hill, “Heirs of Vitruvius: Pope and the idea of architecture” (chapter 7 from
The art of Alexander Pope, ed. Erskine-Hill and A. Smith, 1979).
WIL/G/PO/26 1973
Howard Erskine-Hill, “A new Pope letter” (
Notes and queries, 1973).
WIL/G/PO/27 1971
William Gibson, “Three principles of Renaissance architectural theory in Pope’s Epistle to Burlington” (
Studies in English literature, 1971).
WIL/G/PO/28 1980
B.S. Hammond, “Old English genius: Pope’s Epistle to Bolingbroke” (
British journal for 18th-century studies, 1980).
WIL/G/PO/29 1969
P.L. Heyworth, “A new Pope letter” (
Times literary supplement, 1969).
WIL/G/PO/30 1964
F.M. Link, “A new Pope letter” (
Review of English studies, 1964).
WIL/G/PO/31 1973
A.C. Lunn, “A new Pope letter in the Trumbull correspondence” (
Review of English studies, 1973).
WIL/G/PO/32 1976
Maynard Mack, “My ordinary occasions: a letter from Pope” (
The Scriblerian and the Kit-Kats, 1976).
WIL/G/PO/33 1973
P.E. Martin, “The garden and Pope’s vision of order in the ‘Epistle to Burlington’” (
Durham University journal, 1973).
WIL/G/PO/34 1950
C.J. Rawson, “Some unpublished letters of Pope and Gay …” (
Review of English studies, 1950).
WIL/G/PO/35 1974-1975
Pat Rogers, “The Burlington circle in the provinces: Alexander Pope’s Yorkshire friends” (
Durham University journal, 36, 1974/75).
WIL/G/PO/36 1979
Pat Rogers, “Timon’s villa again” (
British journal for 18th-century studies, 1979).
WIL/G/PO/37 1966
G.S. Rousseau, “A new Pope letter” (
Philological quarterly, 1966).
WIL/G/PO/38 1991
F.E. Salmon, “Alexander Pope and Circe’s sacred dome” (
Review of English studies, 1991).
WIL/G/PO/39 1987
A.J. Sambrook, “Pope’s neighbours: an early landscape garden at Richmond” (
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1987).
WIL/G/PO/40 1972
A.J. Sambrook, “The shape and size of Pope’s garden” (
Eighteenth-century studies, 1972).
WIL/G/PO/41 1970
George Sherburn, “Letters of Alexander Pope, chiefly to Sir William Trumbull” (
Review of English studies, 1970).
WIL/G/PO/42-55 1976-1989
Cuttings and copies of reviews of books on Pope.
WIL/G/PO/56-67 1715-1989
Miscellaneous extracts and cuttings from works by or relating to Pope published.
WIL/G/PR1 1957-1976
Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet:
Research notes and bibliographical references; photograph of portrait of Prior (National Portrait Gallery 562); and correspondence of Peter Willis with Edward Malins, Staffordshire Record Office, and Prof H. Bunker Wright.
WIL/G/PR2
Jack Pritchard (1899-1992), furniture designer:
WIL/G/PR2/1-2 c.1982-2003
Descriptions of the archive of Pritchard’s papers deposited initially at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and subsequently transferred to the University of East Anglia.
WIL/G/PR2/3-9 1982
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, and with Pritchard (referring to the cataloguing of the archive).
WIL/G/PR2/10-13 1930-1955
Photocopies of 4 documents from the archive (NU/PP/15/2/2, memorandum about the proposed company Wells Coates & Partners, 1930; NU/PP/15/5/1930, memorandum from Wells Coates re proposed houses, Lawn Road, Hampstead, February 1930;
NU/PP/15/5/1932, “Isokon Isometric Unit Construction”, March 1932; NU/PP/16/1/3925, speeches by Nikolaus Pevsner and Henry Morris at Lawn Road flats 21st birthday party, 1955).
WIL/G/PR2/14-17 1980
Isokon, catalogue of an exhibition at the Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980, and related publicity.
WIL/G/PR/2/18-20 1984
Cuttings relating to Pritchard and Isokon, 1985, including two reviews of his memoir
View from a long chair (1984).
WIL/G/PU 1971
Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau (1773-1792), traveller and writer on landscape gardening:
Bibliographical references, and photocopy of “Pückler-Muskau and Alphand”.chapter 17 from N.T. Newton’s
Design on the land: the development of landscape architecture (1971).
WIL/G/RE1 1943-1997
Sir Charles Herbert Reilly (1874-1948), architect:
Photocopy of Reilly’s article “The Royal Academy plan for central London” (
Studio, 1943), publicity for an exhibition on Reilly and the Liverpool School of Architecture, 1996/7, and brief biographical note on him from a published source.
WIL/G/RE2 1808
Humphrey Repton (1752-1818), landscape gardener:
Biographical note, and coloured postcard of engraving of Repton’s proposed pheasantry at Brighton pavilion, 1808.
WIL/G/RE3 1762-1987
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), portrait painter:
Bibliographical references; photograph of Reynolds’ painting “Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy”, 1762; correspondence of Peter Willis with the King’s College, Cambridge, librarian, and with Jacob Rothschild, the Courtauld Institute, and Prof
J. Riely, 1977-87; and photocopies of Reynold’s
Discourses on art, no. 13, and extracts from William Blake’s annotations on the Discourses.
WIL/G/RI1
Jacques Rigaud (1681-1754), artist and engraver:
WIL/G/RI1/1
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/RI1/2-20
Photographs of drawings by Rigaud of gardens of English country houses and engravings by him of gardens of French chateaux: 7 of Chiswick House (in the Chatsworth collections); 1 of Claremont (Victoria & Albert Museum, D259-1890); 2 of
Chantilly, 3 of Fontainebleau, 1 of Monceau, 3 of St Cloud, 1 engraving of Seaux, and 1 of Versailles.
WIL/G/RI/21-31 1979-2001
Colour reproduction and black and white photograph of painting by Rigaud of the Queen’s theatre from the Rotunda at Stowe, with related correspondence of Peter Willis with Christies, 2001, and with Spink & Son Ltd, 1979.
WIL/G/RI1/32-34
Articles about Rigaud:
WIL/G/RI1/32 1898
M.C. Ginoud, “Jacques Rigaud, dessinateur et graveur Marseillais” (
La “quinzaine”, 1898).
WIL/G/RI1/33 1994
Richard Quaintance, “Unnamed celebrities in eighteenth-century gardens: Jacques Rigaud’s topographical prints” (
Cycnos, 2, 1994).
WIL/G/RI1/34 1999
Richard Quaintance, “Who’s making the scene? Real people in eighteenth-century prints” (chapter 9 from
The country and the city revisited, ed. G. Maclean and others, 1999).
WIL/G/RI2
Matteo Ripa (1682-1746), missionary priest and engraver:
Microfilm and 37 photographs of the contents of an album of engravings of gardens in the Chinese style by Ripa (British Museum, Department of Oriental Antiquities, 1955-2-12-01), and photocopy of a related article, Basil Gray, “Lord Burlington
and Father Ripa’s Chinese engravings” (
British Museum quarterly, 22, 1960).
WIL/G/RI3
Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886), architect:
WIL/G/RI3/1 1966
Henry-Russell Hitchcock,
Richardson as a Victorian architect (Northampton, Mass., 1966).
WIL/G/RI3/2 1984
J.K. Ochsner, “H.H. Richardson’s Frank William Andrews House”,
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 43:1 (March, 1984).
WIL/G/RI3/3 June 1992
J.K. Ochsner and T.C. Hubka, “H.H. Richardson: the design of the William Watts Sherman House”,
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 51 (June 1992).
WIL/G/RI3/4 October 1973
J.F. O’Gorman, “The Marshall Field Wholesale Store: materials toward a monograph”,
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 37:3 (October 1973).
WIL/G/RI3/5-6
A description of Trinity Church [Boston] by the architect Henry Hobson Richardson, undated pamphlet, and descriptive leaflet about the church by S.M. Rice, also undated.
WIL/G/RI3/7 December 1968
T.E. Stebbins, “Richardson and Trinity Church: the evolution of a building”,
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 27:4 (December 1968).
WIL/G/RO1 1986
Hubert Robert (1733-1808), artist:
3 photographs and 1 coloured reproduction of architectural paintings by Robert in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, with related notes and correspondence of Peter Willis with the museum, 1986.
WIL/G/RO2 1990
David Roberts (1796-1864), artist:
David Roberts’ Egypt, Henry Sotheran Ltd exhibition catalogue and price list.
WIL/G/RO3
Thomas Robins (1715-1770), artist:
WIL/G/RO3/1-4 1976
Research notes and bibliographical references (including 1976 prospectus for Basilisk Press edition of John Harris’s
Gardens of delight: the rococo English landscape of Thomas Robins the elder).
WIL/G/RO3/5-8
2 black and white photographs and 2 colour reproductions of garden paintings by Robins of Honington Hall, Warwickshire, Woodside, Old Windsor, and an unidentified site.
WIL/G/RO3/9-11 1976
Royal Institute of British Architects exhibition catalogue Gardens of delight: the art of Thomas Robins, by John Harris (1976), and 2 reviews of the exhibition.
WIL/G/RO3/12-13 1972-1979
Articles by John Harris, “Painter of rococo gardens: Thomas Robins the elder” (
Country life, September 1972) and “Father of the gardenesque” (Country life, June 1979).
WIL/G/RO4
John Rocque (c.1705-1762), cartographer:
WIL/G/RO4/1
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/RO4/2-5
Photograph of engraved plan and views of the gardens of Chiswick House by Rocque, with related note by Peter Willis, and photograph of part of Rocque’s map
An exact survey of the city’s of London, Westminster … (1746), showing the layout of the “Little Park” and “Royal Garden” at Richmond, and, across the river, the gardens of Sion House.
WIL/G/RO4/6-8 1973-1991
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Hugh Bilbrough, 1973, and Pamela D. Kingsbury, 1991.
WIL/G/RO4/9-14
Articles on Rocque:
WIL/G/RO4/9 after 1994
Anne Hodge, “The practical and the decorative: the Kildare estate maps of John Rocque” (
Irish arts review, undated [after 1994]).
WIL/G/RO4/10 1971
Arnold Horner, “Cartouches and vignettes on the Kildare estate maps of John Rocque” (
Quarterly bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, 14, 1971).
WIL/G/RO4/11 1988
Jean O’Neill, “John Rocque as a guide to gardens” (
Garden history, 16, 1988).
WIL/G/RO4/12 1952
Hugh Phillips, “John Rocque’s career” (
London topographical record, 20, 1952).
WIL/G/RO4/13 1746-1972
Christopher Thacker, review of facsimile reprints of Rocque’s
Plan of the cities of London Westminster (1746) and Exact survey of the city’s [sic] of London Westminster published by Harry Margary (Garden History Society
newsletter, 16, 1972).
WIL/G/RO4/14 1948
John Varley, “John Rocque. Engraver, surveyor, cartographer and map-seller” (
Imago mundi, 5, 1948).
WIL/G/RO5
John Rose (fl. 1672), gardener to Charles II:
Bibliographical references and research notes, and two photographs of painting, ascribed to Hendrick Danckaerts, showing Rose presenting the first pineapple grown in England to Charles II.
WIL/G/RO6 1750-1979
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778):
Bibliographical notes; correspondence of Peter Willis with Dr R.A. Leigh, 1972, enclosing a photocopied extract from
Mercure de France, 1750; and copies of Les joies de la nature au XVIIIe siècle (Bibliothèque nationale exhibition catalogue, 1971) and Murray Forsyth, “Rousseau in Staffordshire” (Country life, November 1979).
WIL/G/RO7
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), artist and caricaturist:
WIL/G/RO7/1
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/RO7/2-7
4 colour postcards of water-colours by Rowlandson (grounds at Ham House; entrance to the Mall, Spring Gardens; Vauxhall Gardens; and “The Connoisseurs”), and 2 black and white photographs of paintings by him of a coffee-house and of “Saxon
deities” at Stowe.
WIL/G/RO7/8-14 1977-1990
Black and white and colour photographs of drawing by Rowlandson of the Temple of Concord and Victory at Stowe, and related correspondence of Peter Willis with Dr Neville Southwell, 1977-1981, and David Lambert, 1990.
WIL/G/RO7/15 1967
Ronald Paulson, “Rowlandson and the dance of death: review article” (
Eighteenth-century studies, 3 no. 4, 1967).
WIL/G/RO8 1987-1995
Herbert James Rowse (1887-1963), architect:
Cuttings from
Architects’ journal, 1987 and 1989, of notes on Rowse by Eric Hyde, and programme for the gala concerts, 1995, to mark the reopening of the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, which he designed.
WIL/G/RU 1849-1982
John Ruskin (1819-1900):
Postcards of two portraits of Ruskin (National Portrait Gallery 1058 and1336); photographs of plates 1, 6 and 8 from his
The seven lamps of architecture, 4th ed. (1849), and plates 8 and 21 from The stones of Venice, vol. 1, 4th ed. (1886); and copy of The drawings and watercolours of
John Ruskin (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, exhibition catalogue, 1982).
WIL/G/RY
John Michael Rysbrack (1693?-1770), sculptor:
Bibliographical references; 2 photographs of Rysbrack’s busts of George II at Windsor Castle and of Queen Caroline in the Wallace Collection; 13 photographs of memorial to Theophilus Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon (1696-1746) in Ashby de la Zouche
church, by William Kent, Joseph Pickford, and Rysbrack, and related letter from Michael Snodin to Peter Willis, 1985.
WIL/G/SE
Eduard F. Sekler (b. 1920), professor of architecture and Director of the Carpenter Center, Harvard University:
WIL/G/SE/1-10 1990-1998
9 Christmas cards, each of which reproduces a drawing by Sekler of a church, sent by him to Peter Willis, 1990-1998, and one letter from him to Peter Willis, 1997, with comments on Dom Paul Bellot.
WIL/G/SE/11-13 1965-1978
Articles by Seckler: “Structure, construction & tectonics” (
Connection, Harvard University, 1965); “Summary of the master plan for the conservation of the cultural heritage of the Kathmandu valley” (A-7703 United Nations Development Program, UNESCO, 1977); “Architectural trends
in Europe 1880-1914” (Canadian collector, 13, 1978).
WIL/G/SE/14 1991
Cutting about Sekler.
WIL/G/SH
William Shenstone (1714-1763), landscape gardener and poet:
WIL/G/SH/1
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/SH/2
Photograph of portrait of Shenstone (National Portrait Gallery 263).
WIL/G/SH/3-4 1864-1873
Photocopies of Shenstone’s essay “Unconnected thoughts on gardening” from vol. 2 of the 1864 and 1873 editions of his
Works in verse and prose.
WIL/G/SH/5-13 1779-1979
Photocopy of Shenstone’s poem “The Leasowes” [about his ferme ornée in Worcestershire]; map by Robert Holden of the layout of the park; 4 photographs of engravings of the house and gardens, 1758-c.1800 (those by Jenkins, 1779, and Hearne and
Pouncy, 1792, with large format negatives); and copies of 3 articles about Shenstone and the Leasowes: R. Paice, “The Leasowes – a rediscovery” (Landscape design, 99, 1972)); John Riely, “Shenstone’s walks: the genesis of the Leasowes” (Apollo,
September 1979); and Andrew Young, “The Leasowes” (chapter from his The poet and the landscape, 1962).
WIL/G/SM
Edwin Smith (1912-1971), architectural photographer and artist:
WIL/G/SM/1-43 1965-2002
Letters to Peter Willis from Smith, 1965-1972 (largely about a photographic commission for illustrations for Willis’s book on Charles Bridgeman); letters and cards to Willis from Smith’s widow Olive, 1972-1996 and undated (with photographs by
Smith mounted on several of the cards); publicity sheet for her book
Edwin Smith photographs 1935-1971 (1984); and Times obituary for her, 2002.
WIL/G/SM/44-49 1974-1997
Catalogues of exhibitions of Edwin Smith’s work, 1974-1997, including
Aspects of the art of Edwin Smith (exhibition at The Minories, Colchester, 1974), exhibition at the gallery House 62 Regents Park Road, London, 1976, and exhibitions by Sally Hunter Fine Art, 1993-1997.
WIL/G/SM/50-60 1976-1989
Cuttings, reviews and publicity sheets about exhibitions of Edwin Smith’s work, 1976-1986, and a 1989 book of his photographs.
WIL/G/SO c.1962-1980
Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain:
Publicity leaflets and application forms for the society, its periodical
Architectural history, and its conferences c.1962-1980 (including summaries of papers to be given at the 1979 and 1980 annual symposia); cutting about the society’s annual dinner, 1964, with leaflet about the Society
of Architectural Historians, USA, whose president spoke at the dinner; and menus for the annual dinners, 1971, 1973, and 1975-1980, signed by those attending.
WIL/G/SP
Joseph Spence (1699-1768) :
WIL/G/SP/1
Bibliographical references.
WIL/G/SP/2-15 1972-1978
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Robert Holden (supplying notes on Spence gardening material at Yale), Holger Klein, Nottingham University Library (about Spence material in the Newcastle Papers), the Newcastle Estates and Yale University
Library, 1972-1978.
WIL/G/SP/16
Notes by Peter Willis on Spence material at Nottingham University Library and Yale.
WIL/G/SP/17-21 1761-1975
Photocopies of Nottingham University Library, Newcastle Papers, Ne C2951 (letter from Spence to Lord Lincoln, 17 September 1761), Ne C3225a (notes on Horace’s villa) and Ne C3226 (notes on “Mr Hoare’s at Stourton”), with typescript transcript of
Ne C3226 and note from Kenneth Woodbridge correcting errors in the transcript as published in
The genius of the place (1975).
WIL/G/SP/22-25
Photocopies of essay by Mr. Dalrymple on gardening, and two leaves of notes by Spence headed “Shades of green; deeper, & deeper” [a list of trees] and “Of slopes” (originals in Yale University Library, Beinecke Library, Spence Papers, Boxes
VIII-IX), together with a summary list of the Spence Papers at Yale.
WIL/G/SP/26-29 1978-1980
R.W. King, “Joseph Spence of Byfleet”, parts 1-4 (
Garden history, 6-8, 1978-80).
WIL/G/SP/30-31 1967-1975
Cuttings of reviews of books on Spence.
WIL/G/ST1 October 1977
Charles Steuart (fl. 1763-1790), painter:
Bibliographical reference, and photocopy of David Irwin, “Charles Steuart, landscape-painter” (Apollo, October 1977).
WIL/G/ST2
William Stukeley (1687-1765), antiquary:
WIL/G/ST2/1
Bibliographical references.
WIL/G/ST2/2-14
Photographs of drawings by Stukeley of Blenheim, Boughton, Claremont, Grimsthorp, Houghton, and Wimpole (all with negatives, except those of Grimsthorp), from Bodleian Library MS Top.Gen.d.14, f.14v, 36r, 43v, 44v, 45r, 7v, 36v, 37r and v, 38v,
41v, 47v, and 48r.
WIL/G/ST2/17-18 1954
Photographs of drawings by Stukeley entitled “Castellum Vanbrugiense apud Grenovicum. 16 June 1721” and “The Nunnery at Grenewich. 16 Jun. 1721”, reproduced from plates in Whistler’s Imagination of Vanbrugh ad his fellow artists (1954).
WIL/G/ST2/19-20 1724-1991
Typescript transcript of extracts from Stukeley’s
Itinerarium curiosum (1724), with descriptions of the gardens of Boughton, Peak District scenery, and the gardens at Chatsworth, and Woodstock; and copy of T. Longstaffe-Gowan, “Stukeley’s travelling gardens” (Architectural review, April 1991).
WIL/G/SU
Sir John Summerson (1904-1992), architectural historian:
WIL/G/SU/1-16 1955-1979
Letters and cards from Summerson to Peter Willis, largely related to Willis’s research on Charles Bridgeman, and to the activities of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.
WIL/G/SU/17-19 1976-1982
Extracts from Summerson’s speech at the award to him of the RIBA gold medal, 1976 (
RIBA journal, December 1976); “Let us say grace”, a letter from him to the editor of Concrete quarterly (April-June 1982) about Sir Henry Wotton’s translation from Vitruvius of the three
conditions of building well; and an undated note by him (duplicated typescript) entitled “The ‘art and society’ problem in modern society”.
WIL/G/SU/20-23 1984-1987
Articles about and interviews with Summerson: David Pearce, “Unwilling agent of conservation” (
RIBA journal, March 1984); Jan Burney, “Summerson swansong” (Building design, September 1984); Martin Pawley, “The sense of the modern” (Architects’
journal, November 1987), and “Ps” (RIBA journal, February 1992).
WIL/G/SU/24-31 1992-1993
Memoir of Summerson, by Howard Colvin (
Proceedings of the British Academy, 90, 1996), and obituaries for him, 1992-1993, from the Architectural review (by J. Mordaunt Crook), Building design (by
John Harris and Mark Swenarton), Ecclesiological Society newsletter (by P. Velluet and K.H. Murta), The independent (by Colin McWilliam, Alan Powers, and Howard Colvin),
RIBA journal (by Lionel Esher), and Society of Antiquaries of London, Annual report: proceedings 1992-1993.
WIL/G/SU/32-34 1976-1989
Cuttings about the award of the RIBA gold medal to Summerson, 1976, and his opposition to the demolition of listed houses in Camden, 1989.
WIL/G/SW
Stephen Switzer (1682?-1745), gardener and writer on gardening:
WIL/G/SW/1-37
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/SW/28-41 1967-1976
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Carl Barbier, 1973, and W.A. Brogden, 1967, and photocopy of letter to Brogden from Margaret M. Hudson, 1976.
WIL/G/SW/42-45 1715-1742
Photocopies of sections from Switzer’s
Ichnographia rustica, 1742 edition, vol. 3 (p. vi-xvi “The introduction to rural and extensive gardening, &c.”; p.113-127, “A description of a beautiful rural garden”; and Appendix p. 1-11 “A farther account of
rural and extensive gardening”), and of the preface to his The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener’s recreation (1715).
WIL/G/SW/46-50 1742
Photographs of plates facing vol. 2 p.115, 150 of Switzer’s
Ichnographia rustica (1742), photocopy of plate facing vol. 2 p.156, and photographs (with negatives) of plate facing vol. 3 p.44, and appendix plate 39.
WIL/G/SW/51-54 1729
Photographs (with negatives) of Switzer’s
An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks (1729), vol. 1 plate 60 and vol. 2 plate 37, and photocopy of vol. 1 plate 3.
WIL/G/SW/55 1715
Photograph of engraved title-page of Switzer’s
The nobleman gentleman & gardener’s recreation (1715).
WIL/G/SW/56-57
Duplicated notes on Switzer’s career by W.A. Brogden, and photocopy of the conclusion of his Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis (Chapter 12, “Switzer and 18th century garden design”).
WIL/G/SW/58-63
Articles containing material on Switzer:
WIL/G/SW/58 September 1979
Elizabeth Banks, “Restoring an ageing landscape: changes in the gardens at Chevening, Kent” (
Country life, September 1979).
WIL/G/SW/59 September 1953
David Green, “Father of English gardening” (
Listener, September 1953).
WIL/G/SW/60 1977-1978
Anthony Mitchell, “The park and garden at Dyrham” (
National Trust year book, 1977-78).
WIL/G/SW/61 May 1979
R.A. Redfern, “Change of course” (
Country life, May 1979).
WIL/G/SW/62 1978
James Turner, “Stephen Switzer and the political fallacy in landscape gardening history” (
Eighteenth-century studies, summer 1978).
WIL/G/TA 1992
William Talman (1650-1719), architect:
Copy of Giles Worsley, “William Talman: some stylistic suggestions” (
Georgian Group journal, 1992).
WIL/G/TE
Sir William Temple (1628-1699):
Bibliographical references, photographs of two portraits of Temple (National Portrait Gallery 152 and 3812), and photocopy of his essay “Upon the gardens of Epicurus; or, Of gardening, in the year 1685”.
WIL/G/TH
Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734), painter:
WIL/G/TH/1
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/TH/2-4
3 photographs of portrait of Thornhill by J. Richardson (National Portrait Gallery 3962), self-portrait (Aberdeen Art Gallery), and drawing “The Connoisseurs and Sir James Thornhill”, also by Thornhill (Art Institute of Chicago).
WIL/G/TH/5-9
5 photographs of drawings by Thornhill: Lakeside scene (Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce 622); Scenery for Asinoë, Queen of Cyprus (Victoria and Albert Museum, D.26-1891); Design for a garden pavilion on a terrace (Victoria and Albert Museum,
D.126-1891); Garden building with dome for Mr. Berkeley’s terrace, and Garden building with dome for Mr Barclay (Worcester College, Oxford, YD4 nos 72 and 75).
WIL/G/TH/10-12 1943-1974
Publications relating to Thornhill: E. de N. Mayhew,
Sketches by Thornhill in the Victoria and Albert Museum (1967); “Sir James Thornhill’s collection” (anonymous editorial, Burlington magazine, June 1943); and G. Jackson-Stops, “All
paradise before your eyes” (Country life, May 1974).
WIL/G/UN1 1955-1956
University of Manchester School of Architecture:
244: journal of the University of Manchester Architectural and Planning Society, nos 3-5, 7 (1955-56).
WIL/G/UN2 1970
University of Newcastle upon Tyne School of Architecture:
Newcastle papers in architecture and building science, from the School of Architecture, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, No. 1 (1970). [This was the only issue ever published. Peter Willis was the nominal
editor.]
WIL/G/VA1
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1736), architect:
WIL/G/VA1/1
Bibliographical references.
WIL/G/VA1/2-3
Photographs of portraits of Vanbrugh by Kneller (National Portrait Gallery 3231) and Richardson (Royal Institute of British Architects).
WIL/G/VA1/4-7
Articles containing texts of letters of Vanbrugh: A. Rosenberg, “New light on Vanbrugh” (
Philological quarterly, 1966); A.R. Huseboe, “Vanbrugh: additions to the correspondence” (Philological quarterly, 1974); J. Milhous, “Five new letters by Sir John Vanbrugh” (Harvard Library bulletin, 1979); and Clyve Jones, “To dispose in earnest of a place I got in jest: eight new
letters of Sir John Vanbrugh” (Notes and queries, December 1989).
WIL/G/VA1/8-13
Articles about Vanbrugh:
WIL/G/VA1/8 December 1984
David Cast, “Seeing Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor” (
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1984).
WIL/G/VA1/9
David Cast, “The evolution of a vocabulary in Vasari, Jones, and Sir John Vanbrugh” (
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1993).
WIL/G/VA1/10 May 1965
S. Lang, “Vanbrugh’s theory and Hawksmoor’s buildings” (
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1965).
WIL/G/VA1/11 June 1987
F. McCormick, “John Vanbrugh’s architecture: some sources of his style” (
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1987).
WIL/G/VA1/12 December 1974
S.J. Rogal, “John Vanbrugh and the Blenheim Palace controversy” (
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1974).
WIL/G/VA1/13 February 1954
Laurence Whistler, “Vanbrugh’s smaller houses” (
Architectural review, February 1954).
WIL/G/VA2 1967-1968
John Vanderbank (1694-1739), artist:
Copies of H.A. Hammelmann, “A draughtsman in Hogarth’s shadow: the drawings of John Vanderbank” (
Country life, January 1967) and “Eighteenth-century English illustrators: John Vanderbank 1694-1739” (Book collector, 17, 1968).
WIL/G/WA1
Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford (1717-1787):
WIL/G/WA1/1
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/WA1/2-4
Colour postcard and black and white photograph of portrait of Walpole by J.G. Eccardt (National Portrait Gallery 988), and reproduction of mezzotint of portrait of him by Reynolds).
WIL/G/WA1/5
Colour postcard of aquatint of Strawberry Hill, and illustrations of architectural details of the building.
WIL/G/WA1/6
Photograph of design for Walpole’s bookplate.
WIL/G/WA1/10-12
Cuttings of illustrations of Walpole’s library, and of a drawing by him of the chapel in the woods at Strawberry Hill.
WIL/G/WA1/13-15 1785-1975
Photocopy of Walpole’s
An essay on modern gardening, with parallel English and French texts (1785), copy of edition of the English text entitled On modern gardening (London, Brentham Press, 1975), and photocopy
of a bibliographical note about the work by W.S. Lewis appended to a New York, 1931 edition.
WIL/G/WA1/16-25
Exhibition catalogue and articles related to Walpole:
WIL/G/WA1/16 1980
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill (catalogue of an exhibition at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, 1980).
WIL/G/WA1/17 February 1979
John Cornforth, “The style and form of Farmington” (
Country life, February 1979).
WIL/G/WA1/18 April 1972
Lucy Grimes, “Strawberry Hill at Fowberry Tower” (
Connoisseur, April 1972).
WIL/G/WA1/19-23 June 1973
J. Mordaunt Crook, “Strawberry Hill revisited”, parts 1-3 and related letter to the editor (
Country life, June 1973).
WIL/G/WA1/24 November 1979
Joan Stevens, “Jersey through Walpole’s eyes” (
Country life, November 1979).
WIL/G/WA1/25 Autumn 1988
John Warren, “The restoration of Strawberry Hill” (
Strawberry fare: literary and arts magazine, autumn 1988).
WIL/G/WA2 1744
Joseph Warton (1722-1800), critic:
Photocopy of Warton’s poem
The enthusiast: or, The lover of nature (London, 1744).
WIL/G/WH1
Thomas Whately (c.1728-1772), writer on gardening:
Research and bibliographical notes, and photocopy of Whately’s “An essay on the different natural situations of gardens” appended to Horace Walpole’s
Observations on modern gardening (London, 1801).
WIL/G/WH2
Laurence Whistler (1912-2000), glass engraver:
WIL/G/WH2/1-29 1961-1978
Letters from Whistler to Peter Willis, largely concerning the latter’s research on Charles Bridgeman.
WIL/G/WH2/30-34 1975-1992
Postcard of the west window of St Nicholas Church, Moreton, Dorset, and miscellaneous cuttings, 1975-1992 relating to other glass engravings by Whistler.
WIL/G/WH2/35-36 1976-1992
Copies of
Laurence Whistler, C.B.E.: an exhibition for his 80th birthday (catalogue of an exhibition at Sotheby’s, 1992), and David Pryce-Jones, “Two brothers from a kingdom of delight” (Daily telegraph
magazine, 1976).
WIL/G/WH3 1768-1983
Thomas White (d. 1811), landscape gardener, of Woodlands near Lanchester, Co. Durham:
Note and letter to Peter Willis from Jill Low, 1983, about a plan of landscape gardens at Burton Constable, Yorkshire, by White; photocopies of another plan by him, 1768, of landscape gardens at Lumley Castle, Co. Durham; and copy of David
Neave’s article “Thomas White, landscape gardener” (
Garden History Society newsletter, May 1972).
WIL/G/WI1 1997-1998
Sir Colin St John Wilson (b. 1922), architect:
Copies of
Colin St John Wilson (catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1997, with contributions by K. Frampton, R.B. Kitaj, and M. Richardson), and Roger Stonehouse, “Inside story: the British
Library building at St Pancras” (Architecture today, January 1998).
WIL/G/WI2 1961-1965
Henry Wise (1653-1738), landscape gardener: Research notes and bibliographical references, photograph of portrait of Wise by Kneller at Kew Palace, and letters to Peter Willis from David Green, 1961, and H.D. Wise, 1965.
WIL/G/WI3
Rudolf Wittkower (1901-1971), art historian :
WIL/G/WI3/1-4 1966-1987
Letters to Peter Willis from Wittkower and his wife Margot related to Willis’s research on Charles Bridgeman.
WIL/G/WI3/5 1969
Rudolf Wittkower, “English Neo-Palladianism, the landscape garden, China, and the enlightenment” (
L’arte, no. 6, 1969).
WIL/G/WI3/6-7 1972-1994
H.A. Millon, “Rudolf Wittkower,
Architectural principles in the age of humanism: its influence on the development and interpretation of modern architecture” (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May
1972), and A.A. Payne, “Rudolf Wittkower and architectural principles in the age of modernism” (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1994).
WIL/G/WI3/8-12
Cutting about Wittkower (with photograph of him), 1976, and obituaries of him, 1971-1972, from
Architectural review (by N. Pevsner), Burlington magazine (by Howard Hibbard), RIBA journal (by John Harris), and The
Times.
WIL/G/WO1 1968-1985
Richard Woods (c.1716-1793), land surveyor and landscape gardener:
Bibliographical references, correspondence of Peter Willis with Fiona Cowell, 1984-1985, and letter to Willis from John Harris, 1968.
WIL/G/WO2
John Wootton (1682-1764), painter:
WIL/G/WO2/1
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/WO2/2-3
Photograph of self-portrait of Wootton in the National Portrait Gallery, and colour postcard of portrait by him of Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton.
WIL/G/WO2/4-13
Photographs of paintings by Wootton of hunting scenes at Badminton, a group at Castle Hill, Devon, the Beaufort Hunt, Prince Frederick at Kew Gardens, groups at Langley Park and Stourhead, a harbour scene, a classical landscape, and a landscape
with fishermen.
WIL/G/WO2/14-17
Cuttings of illustrations of paintings by Wootton.
WIL/G/WO2/18-29 1971-1992
Correspondence of Peter Willis with John Kerslake, Sotheby’s, and Colnaghi, 1971, and with Malcolm Rogers and Arline Meyer, 1992, about portraits by Wootton.
WIL/G/WO2/30-31 1975-1984
Arline Meyer,
John Wootton 1682-1764: landscapes and sporting art in early Georgian England (catalogue of an exhibition at Kenwood, 1984), and Oliver Millar, “Jan Wyck and John Wootton at Antony” (National
Trust year book 1975-76).
WIL/G/WO3 1681-1688
John Worlidge [alternatively Woolridge] (fl. 1669-1698):
Photocopies of the preface to Worlidge’s
Systema agriculturae, being the mystery of husbandry (London, 1681), and book 1, on “Of gardens of pleasure, and the solid ornaments thereof”, from his Systema horti-culturae: or, The art of
gardening (London, 1688).
WIL/G/WO4 1974
Thomas Worthington (d. 1909), architect:
Copy of Anthony Pass, “Thomas Worthington: practical idealist” (
Architectural review, May 1974).
WIL/G/WR1 1992
Stephen Wright (d. 1780), architect and landscape gardener:
Copy of Michael Symes, “The garden designs of Stephen Wright” (
Garden history, spring 1992).
WIL/G/WR2
Thomas Wright (1711-1786), architect, landscape gardener, and cosmographer, of Byers Green, Co. Durham:
WIL/G/WR2/1
Research notes and bibliographical references.
WIL/G/WR2/2-7
Photocopies of manuscripts by Wright among the Wright MSS in Newcastle upon Tyne City Library, vols 4, 6 and 8, including “Retirement a Poem”, “An Explanation of the Design of a Garden for his Grace the Duke of Beaufort at Badminton”, “Measures
at Stoke”, and title-pages of “Ideas and Rules to be Observ’d In Disposition of Buildings and of Planting”, “Observations on Building and Planting”, and “Introduction to Building and Planting”.
WIL/G/WR2/8-11 1971-1987
Correspondence of Peter Willis with Colin Cunningham, Durham Cathedral Library, and David Lambert.
WIL/G/WR2/12-17
Publications about Wright:
WIL/G/WR2/12 1993
M.J. Tooley,
Thomas Wright of Durham (catalogue of an exhibition at Durham University Library, 1993).
WIL/G/WR2/13 1976
Extract about Wright’s work at Tollymore, Co. Down, from E. Malins and the Knight of Glin,
Lost demesnes: Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845 (1976).
WIL/G/WR2/14-16 August-September 1971
Eileen Harris,
The architecture of Thomas Wright, parts 1-3, entitled, respectively, “The wizard of Durham”, “A flair for the grandiose” and “Architect of rococo landscape” (Country life, August –
September 1971).
WIL/G/WR2/17 1992
Timoth Mowl, “The Castle of Boncoeur [i.e. Stoke Park] and the Wizard of Durham” (
Georgian Group journal, 1992).
WIL/G/WR2/18-19 1979
Reviews of Eileen Harris, Thomas Wright’s arbours and grottos.
WIL/G/WY Decmeber 1979
James Wyatt (1746-1813), architect:
Copy of John M. Frew, “Richard Gough, James Wyatt, and late 18th-century preservation” (
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1979).
