Gregory Trust

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This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to the Gregory Trust.


Herbert Read was a close friend of Eric C. Gregory, who were both co-founders of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). Read was also instrumental in establishing the Gregory Fellowships at the University in Leeds in the 1950s, forming the appointing committee alongside Gregory, T. S. Eliot, Henry Moore and Bonamy Dobrée.


Correspondence relating to the Gregory Fellowship in Painting includes letters to Herbert Read from Bonamy Dobrée, Norbert Lynton, Quentin Bell, Barbara Hepworth and J. V. Loach, Registrar of the University of Leeds mainly surrounding the appointment of Trevor Bell and Dennis Creffield as Gregory Fellows in 1960 and 1964, including a manuscript letter to Read from Dennis Creffield, dated 20 Dec 1963, noting his interest in the Fellowship, 2ff. The file also includes a signed typescript letter to Read from Roger Stevens, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, dated 17 Feb 1965, regarding a meeting of the Committee at the University, 1f and a typescript letter to the Gregory Fellowships Committee from J. V. Loach, Registrar and Secretary at the University of Leeds, dated 13 July 1967, confirming John Walker as the Gregory Fellow in Painting from 1967.


Correspondence relating to the Gregory Fellowship in Poetry and the Eric Gregory Award includes letters to Herbert Read from The Society of Authors discussing potential candidates for the Eric Gregory Award; a signed typescript letter from Jon Silkin at Stand Magazine, dated 16 Feb 1960, expressing his disappointment at the rumour that the Fellowship in Poetry will be discontinued; a signed typescript letter from Ian Hamilton at The Review, dated 5 Mar 1963, thanking Read for his support in his application for the Eric Gregory Award and a typescript letter to the Gregory Fellowships Committee from J. V. Loach, Registrar and Secretary at the University of Leeds, dated 13 July 1967, confirming Martin Bell as the Gregory Fellow in Poetry from 1967.


Correspondence relating to the death of Eric C. Gregory includes newspaper clippings of tributes to Gregory from Henry Moore and Philip Hendy; a retained copy of a typescript document bequeathing Maillol’s ‘Standing Nude’ bronze sculpture to Herbert Read; a carbon copy letter from Read to the Editor of The Times, dated 11 Feb 1959, enclosing an additional note for Gregory’s obituary; correspondence and typescript memorial services from Gregory’s funeral, including the typescript address that Read performed; a typescript will and testament dated 22 Jun 1959 and various typescript, manuscript and carbon copy letters between Read, Bonamy Dobrée, Wade & Co. Solicitors and John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery, regarding the execution of Gregory’s estate, including the gift of ‘Figure’ and ‘Head and Shoulders of Woman in Stone’ by Henry Moore to the Tate Gallery.


The file also includes a typescript paper entitled ‘Scheme suggested by Mr Eric C. Gregory and approved by the Council of the University of Leeds, 21st July, 1943’, setting out Gregory’s aims for the Fellowships, 4ff.

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