| Description | Correspondence mainly between Faunthorpe [mainly copy correspondence] and William White of The Ruskin Museum, Sheffield, 1890 -1892, regarding the increasingly acrimonious issue of the ownership of John Ruskin’s picture cabinet and John Gould’s ‘Birds of New Guinea’, which White believed should be transferred from Whitelands.
For example: 4th Mar 1892 ‘it is the wish of Mr Ruskin that all the property of St George’s Guild be now collected here entirely’
9th Mar 1892 ‘as to the cabinet once and for all it was an absolute gift by Mr Ruskin to this College…it was a gift to this College in perpetuity and the Guild have nothing at all to do with it, any more for example, than they have with the May Queen’s Gold Cross. And the same remark applies to whatever else he gave us, actually writing with his own hand “Gift” when he meant Gift, and telling me when he meant Loan etc.'
Plus mss notes entitled ‘The Ruskin Cabinet Gift to Whitelands College’ by Faunthorpe with excerpts of letters 1881-83 referring to the picture cabinet and its contents.
Plus mss notes on 'Bird's Head by John Ruskin' [with transcript].
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