Letter to George Storey from M. Dulong, 1850 December 8 | Box 1, F1 | |
Letter to George Storey from Ernest Gambart, 1899 September 5 | Box 1, F1 | |
Letter to Ernest Gambart, 1899 September 9 | Box 1, F1 | |
Unfinished letter to Pettoc, 1915 November 10 | Box 1, F1 | |
Unidentified poem handwritten on the back. |
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Two postmarked envelopes, 1849 and 1901 | Box 1, F1 | |
One envelope is postmarked "Paris, Sept. 17 1849," and the other is addressed to "Mr. W. Hunt" of Notting Hill, postmarked "Deadwood, Cal. Oct. 17, 1901." |
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Yates Recipe for a Composition in Cement, undated | Box 1, F1 | |
Handwritten recipe for making cement and plaster. |
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"Lady Arabella's Lament," poem, undated | 1 page from printed book | Box 1, F1 |
Storey witnessed the Revolution of 1848 and wrote about it in his diaries
Physique celeste; La Chimie, La Meccanique, 1848-1849 | 1 notebook, 290 pages | Box 1, F2 |
Student notes written in French on science and math, collected and bound by Storey. Includes several diagrams. |
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Algebre--aussi des Polyedres, etc, 1849 | 1 notebook, 103 pages | Box 1, F3 |
Student notes written in French on algebra, collected and bound by Storey. Includes pen-and-ink sketch of Doric entablature. |
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Calcul, Arithmetique et Algebraique auss. Algebra Superioure ou Le Calcul differential et Integral, 1849 | 1 notebook, circa 100 pages | Box 1, F4 |
Student notes written in French on algebra and calculus, collected and bound by Storey. |
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Geometry, 1849 | 1 notebook | Box 1, F5 |
Student notes written in French on geometry and other sciences, collected and bound by Storey. Includes many diagrams, a few sketches, and an elaborate pen-and-ink tailpiece. |
Storey returned to England in 1850 and was accepted as a student by the Royal Academy. He first exhibited at the Academy in 1854, then later began teaching there. During this period, Storey was an integral part of the St. John's Wood Clique, which flourished during the 1860s.
A XVIth Century Love Song by Michel Angelo other poems, circa 1863 | 1 volume, circa 45 pages | Box 1, F6 |
Bound by Storey with red paper cover. Includes author's corrections and notes. Accompanied by a loose notebook page containing a handwritten dedication dated 1912. |
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The Poems of George Minimus , 1863 | 1 volume, 32 pages | Box 1, F7 |
Storey's first published work (London: Hutchings and Crowsley, Printers, St. John's Wood). Bound in plain chipboard cover with "Love's Folly" written in pencil on cover. Includes "Love's Folly" and "Juveniles" ("Violetta to Cupid," "A Sonnett by Violetta's Lover," "A Dream," and "A Lover by the Sea Shore"). |
Sir Daignous in the Black Forest, 1856 | 1 notebook, circa 70 pages | Box 1, F8 |
Fiction, collected and bound by Storey. Includes author's corrections and notes, and a laid in poem, "A Psalm," dated 1853. |
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Our Friends at Holywell. A Romance of Country Bumpkins, 1861 | 1 notebook, 97 pages | Box 1, F9 |
Fiction, collected and bound by Storey, although the gatherings are now loose. Includes author's corrections and notes. Also includes notes on "Old Fitch of St. Albans." |
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Laure (poem), circa 1855-1863 | 1 notebook, 26 pages | Box 1, F10 |
Bound by Storey. Includes many corrections, with author's note dated 1863. |
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Laure (poem in cantos), circa 1854-1867 | 1 notebook, 52 pages | Box 1, F11 |
Collected and bound by Storey with notebook paper wrapper. Includes author's corrections and additions. |
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Untitled book of poems, 1867 | 1 book, 240 pages | Box 1, F12 |
Includes author's corrections, table of contents, and dedication "To those true friends who have taught me to esteem human nature." Also includes a list of proposed additions to dwelling with sketched plan. |
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Assorted handwritten poems, circa 1860-1869, 1905 | loose notebook pages | Box 1, F13 |
Includes "Love's Folly," "Laure", "Ode to Hever Castle," and others. One poem is dated 1905; the rest are from the decade of the 1860s. |
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Too Late, 1872 | 1 notebook, 80 pages | Box 1, F14 |
Bound by Storey with dark grey paper wrapper. Manuscript of play that includes author's corrections, additions, and notes. |
Collected notes, 1870 | 1 notebook, 51 pages | Box 1, F15 |
Various writings collected and bound by Storey, although binding cord is now missing. Includes essay comparing music appreciation to art appreciation, and other inserted and laid-in materials of various dates. |
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Notes on Art, 1874-1875 | 1 notebook, 32 pages | Box 1, F16 |
Bound by Storey with dark brown paper wrapper. Numbered entries on various art topics. Includes laid in photographic image on paper of portrait (Storey's mother?), and a note "Bath Nov 20/75" by Storey about his book on art. |
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Notes on Art and Other Subjects, 1875-1876 | 1 hardcover notebook, circa 90 pages | Box 1, F17 |
Discussions of various art topics. Includes pencil sketches, laid in list of artists, and a letter addressed to "My Dearest Mother." |
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On the Study of Art. First Crude Notions, 1875-1877 | 1 notebook, 325 pages | Box 1, F18 |
Collection of lectures on various art topics given by Storey, collected and bound into one volume by Storey. On first page, he notes that this book is the "original manuscript of the Bedford Lectures" (see F34). |
Storey was appointed Associate of the Royal Academy in 1876, where he taught perspective. This period of his life culminated in the publication of his autobiography in 1899.
Homely Ballads and Old-Fashioned Poems , 1879 | 1 volume, 131 pages | Box 1, F19 |
First work published under his own name (London: John Bumpus, 158, Oxford Street). Original plain paper wrappers, with untrimmed pages. Many pages remain uncut. |
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Homely Ballads and Old-Fashioned Poems , 1879 | 1 volume, 131 pages | Box 1, F20 |
(London: John Bumpus, 158, Oxford Street) Red cloth hardcover binding, with "Poems by G. A. Storey" printed on cover. |
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Homely Ballads and Old-Fashioned Poems , 1879 | 1 volume, 131 pages | Box 1, F21 |
(London: John Bumpus, 158, Oxford Street) Original plain paper wrappers, with trimmed pages. Includes Storey's pen-and-ink drawing with title "Poems by G.A.S." on cover. Also included is an undated newspaper clipping containing an account of Storey's lecture on the Blenheim Raphael. |
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A Trip to Paris in 1815. Printed from the Diary of the Late W. J. C. Storey , 1879 | 1 volume, 40 pages | Box 1, F22 |
Original printed boards, with preface by G. A. Storey (London: Hutchings and Crowsley, Printers, St. John's Wood). Storey signed the front fly-leaf. William John Clayton Storey was Storey's uncle. |
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Meissonier and What We May Learn From Him , 1886 | 1 volume, 30 pages, and 1 notebook, 73 pages | Box 1, F23 |
Pamphlet containing Storey lecture, printed by the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts, London. Also included is Storey's corrected manuscript. |
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Michel Angelo Buonaroti, Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet, 1888 | 1 volume, circa 250 pages | Box 1, F24 |
Author's mock-up for book, bound in red cloth. Includes illustrations and tracings by Storey. The first part, published in 1893, is laid in this volume, and the second part, also laid in, was typeset but not published due to a change in ownership of the journal. |
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Sketches from Memory , 1899 | 1 volume, 401 pages | Box 2, F25 |
Presentation copy of author's autobiography (London: Chatto & Windus), bound in green cloth, inscribed "F. S. Smallfield from G. A. Storey with very many thanks for his kind assistance in correcting the proofs. Jan. 18, 1899." |
Cupid Fishing, 1892 | 1 typescript, 74 pages | Box 2, F26 |
Bound in boards by Storey. Includes corrections and translations of poems by Michel Angelo. Accompanied by a undated typewritten preface. |
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Aunt Turner's Legacy Vandyk at Sevanthem, 1895 | 1 notebook, 175 pages | Box 2, F27 |
Fiction, bound in boards and corrected by Storey. |
Short Chapters on Various Subjects, 1876 | 1 ledger book, 86 pages | Box 2, F28 |
Storey reused a number of books for his writings, like this House Inventory Book of Furniture, which contains household inventories with dates of 1832-1856. Storey used this book for several essays. Also inserted into this volume was a receipt for purchase of stock in London North Western Railway in 1875. |
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Essays in French and English on various subjects, 1877-1878 | 1 volume | Box 2, F29 |
Bound in green leather with tab closure. Contains essays by Storey in both French and English, and recipes for various conditions written in an earlier hand. Newspaper clippings and other slips of paper inserted. |
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Note Book. April 2, 1880, 1880 | 1 notebook, 84 pages | Box 2, F30 |
Brown paper pasted over hardcover. Contains writings about and advice to art critics. |
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Atmosphere and Space in Painting, 1883 | 1 notebook, 78 pages | Box 2, F31 |
Bound in paper wrapper by Storey. Handwritten lectures with pasted-in pictures and excerpts from printed sources. |
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Atmosphere and Space in Painting, 1883 | 1 notebook | Box 2, F32 |
Lectures written, collected and bound in boards by Storey. Includes pencil sketches and diagrams, and a partial draft of his book on perspective. Small note dated 1819 inserted in front. |
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Mysteries of Colour Footprints of the Beautiful, 1883-1885 | 1 notebook, circa 100 pages | Box 2, F33 |
Notes for lectures collected and bound by Storey, with corrections. Includes 1 watercolor chart. |
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The Bedford Lectures, 1886 | 1 volume, 368 pages | Box 2, F34 |
Bound collection of lectures given by Storey, with some sketches and diagrams. |
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Euclid and Apelles, 1887 | 1 volume, 115 pages | Box 2, F35 |
Bound by Storey. Author's mock-up with many geometrical diagrams. A sketch signed "yours very truly G. A. Storey," was inserted, along with notice of Storey's Meissonier lecture (see F23) and a Reference Library Application Form dated 1899. |
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A Primer of Perspective, or Perspective Simplified, 1887 | 1 volume, 197 pages | Box 2, F36 |
Author's mock-up with many diagrams and drawings. Storey writes on the title page, "This book was afterwards much enlarged and improved upon and was published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford under the title The Theory & Practice of Perspective. 1910." (see F47) Includes letter to Storey dated September 28, 1892. |
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Supplement to a Primer of Perspective, 1891 | 1 volume, 135 pages | Box 3, F37 |
Author's mock-up bound in cloth, with spine title printed in gold, "Primer of Perspective Vol. II." Illustrated with many diagrams. |
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The Lights and Shades of an Artist's Life, 1893 | 1 notebook, circa 200 pages | Box 3, F38 |
Anecdotal autobiographical account of Storey's early life and career from 1865 to 1875, collected and bound by author. Includes corrections and additions, and pencil sketch of mother and child on first page. |
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Miscellaneous Notes. Various, 1894 | 1 notebook, circa 90 pages | Box 3, F39 |
Essays, notes, lectures, and poems written, collected, and bound by Storey. Includes a section called "Notes on Art," and lecture notes titled "Photography from an artist's point of view--its use and abuse." Also includes a few pages of diary entries from 1848 and 1849, when Storey was in Paris. |
A letter in rhyme written by W. Harrison Ainsworth to my Mother when she was Miss Fitch, circa 1876 | 1 volume | Box 3, F40 |
Handwritten copy of 1826 letter from Ainsworth to Storey's mother, Emily. Bound in black boards. Included are two of his mother's letters and two letters addressed to "Dolly" (Storey's nickname). Also included is a loose sketch of a young woman on brown paper. |
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Inventory of St. John's Wood Road House, 1877-1878 | 1 ledger book, 37 pages | Box 3, F41 |
Hardcover leather-bound ledger book that includes lists of silver, silver plate, linen, books, pictures, and mounted sketches by Storey, some of which have "sold" prices written next to them. |
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Trip to Italy with Calderon 1879, 1879 | 1 small notebook, 126 pages | Box 3, F42 |
Travel diary recording Storey's trip with the Calderons through France and Italy. Includes pencil sketch at end. |
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Notes from Diaries: 1862-1886. No. 3, 1896-1899 | 1 notebook, circa 450 pages | Box 3, F43 |
Collected and bound by the author. Storey destroyed the original diaries, stating that he kept only "such notes as may be useful in making Sketches from Memory." Largely anecdotal, but details his artistic efforts and records every painting sold during this period. Includes two loose sketches and letters inserted into the volume. |
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Notebook, undated | 1 volume | Box 3, F44 |
Small vellum-bound sketchbook containing notes on Meissonier and sketches of some of his works. Includes a draft letter by Gladys Storey. |
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Sketchbook, 1890-1891 | 1 volume, 39 pages | Box 3, F45 |
Blue hardcover sketchbook contains preliminary pencil sketches of Margate by Storey. Includes a watercolor "sky composition" with descriptive labels. Also includes a drawing of a lamp by a young Gladys Storey. |
Notice of election to The Arts Club of London, 1876 | 1 pamphlet | Box 3, F46 |
Contains bylaws and notice of membership dues for The Arts Club. |
Storey was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in 1914, only five years before his death in 1919.
Theory and Practice of Perspective , 1910 | 1 volume, 272 pages | Box 3, F47 |
Storey's advance copy received March 5, 1910 (Oxford: Clarenden Press). Storey pasted in three reviews. A press cutting of Storey's obituary sent to his daughter Gladys is inserted into the book, along with a sketch of a seating arrangement and a list of individuals under the heading "Perspective." |
Love's Folly, 1856-1907 | 1 volume | Box 3, F48 |
Revised manuscript of Love's Folly, along with a sonnet and short untitled essay with diagram. Includes a loose newspaper clipping about a lecture given by Storey, a repair invoice with pencil sketches, and a faded photograph of a praying woman. |
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La Professor d'Anglais, circa 1909 | 1 notebook | Box 3, F49 |
Also includes several essays. |
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Continuation of the Gentleman in Black and His Remarkable Mirrors (Sardonius), 1913 | 1 volume | Box 3, F50 |
Also includes very brief essay, "Why Germany Hates England." |
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Sardonius. Part 2. The Mirrors, 1915 | 1 notebook, 50 pages | Box 4, F51 |
Homemade wrappers. Includes laid in notebook pages, "Nietzsche for the War," addressed to the Editor of the Times, Sep. 7th, 1914. |
Chats on Art, 1903 | 1 notebook, 150 pages | Box 4, F52 |
Several essays on art collected and bound by Storey in blue paper wrapper. Includes one diagram. |
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Sundry Notes on Art, etc, circa 1908 | 1 notebook, 83 pages | Box 4, F53 |
Collected notes and recopied materials dating from 1893-1908, bound together by Storey. Some exist in separate versions in other notebooks. Accompanied by one notebook sheet containing poem, "Raleigh and the Kings Concience", dated 1905. |
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Notes on Art and Artists, circa 1909-1912 | 1 notebook, 143 pages | Box 4, F54 |
Various essays and notes on art written, collected, and bound by Storey. Includes rough draft of essay on photography and art. |
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Fra. Bacon, a Wayward Essay, 1912 | 1 notebook, 68 pages | Box 4, F55 |
Includes pasted-in newspaper clippings related to Francis Bacon. |
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Some Notes on Art and Its Troubles, circa 1912 | 1 notebook, | Box 4, F56 |
Art-related essays written, collected, and bound by Storey. |
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Twelve Lessons in Perspective, 1913, 1913-1914 | 1 notebook, 104 pages | Box 4, F57 |
Binding detached. Lectures presented by Storey January 22 to February 28, 1913. Added in pencil inside front cover, "[S]torey, R. A., 1914, on Jan 27th." Includes many diagrams, sketches, and laid-in illustrations from his book on perspective. Also included is draft of letter to "Dear Lamb" requesting gift of money from the R.A. upon his retirement in recognition of his past services. He indicates that he is unable to leave the house due to his health, so the date of the letter is likely 1919. |
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Gaunts Physics and other notes, circa 1913 | 1 notebook, circa 225 pages | Box 4, F58 |
Storey's collected and bound notes from several publications on light and color. Includes some essays on art written by Storey, including his lecture on light and color delivered at the Royal Academy. Front board detached. |
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Notes and Essays on Art, Literature, etc. (Artists at Play), circa 1914 | 1 volume, 138 pages | Box 4, F59 |
Self-bound typescript composed of anecdotal entries on artists, essays, and poems. |
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Sundry Notes Recollections. Materials for Book, circa 1854-1915 | 1 volume, 84 pages | Box 4, F60 |
Notes, essays, poems, and stories collected and bound by Storey dating from 1854-1915. Includes laid-in illustrations from other publications, a preface for his second autobiography, and a variety of autobiographical materials. |
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Notes for Sardonius. 50 notes, 1908-1916 | 1 notebook, 115 pages | Box 4, F61 |
Miscellaneous collection of notes on variety of subjects, including art, fiction, poetry, and lectures attended by Storey. Also includes items recopied by Storey, and some pasted-in leaves from other notebooks (see F51 for Sardonius). |
List of Pictures Sketches by G. A. Storey. 1900, 1900-1912 | 1 volume, 20 pages | Box 4, F62 |
Vellum-bound ledger with list of paintings and sketches with dates and selling prices. Includes additions made up to 1912. Also includes a list of "The Literary Works of G. A. Storey" made after 1910. |
Pills to Purge Melancholy, undated | 1 volume, 4 pages | Box 4, F63 |
Green leatherbound book with one remaining clasp, and "1824" written on the cover. The rest of the book is blank. |
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Sporting Artists Other Recollections. Mostly Humourous, undated | 1 notebook, 200 pages | Box 4, F64 |
Anecdotes by Storey, collected and bound by the author. Includes a simple pencil sketch of houses. |
Gladys Storey was his only daughter.
Miscellaneous writings, undated | 1 volume, 15 pages | Box 4, F65 |
Contains numbered list of 51 books, a short poem, and introductory remarks for a play |
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Letter to Gladys Storey from Anne Ritchie, 1918 September 27 | 1 letter with envelope | Box 4, F66 |
Pencil note identifies Anne Ritchie as Thackeray's daughter. |
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Scribbling Diary 1926, 1926 | 1 volume | Box 4, F67 |
Daily diary kept by Gladys Storey for social and business engagements. |
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Minute Book, 1916-1946 | 1 volume | Box 4, F68 |
Record book for Gladys Storey's Bovril Fund. Includes meeting notes for 1916-1918, and 1940-1946, when the committee was revived for World War II. George Storey was chair of the committee until 1918, and Gladys took over as chair in 1940. Includes several letters to Gladys and call for donations "For The Soldier In The Firing Line." |
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Notebook containing Photographs and Postcards, undated | 1 volume | Box 4, F69 |
Postcards and photographic images on paper of northern England, Scotland, and Ireland, pasted onto notebook paper with handwritten labels. Some in color. Includes a short newspaper clipping mentioning Gladys Storey's costume in a play. Gladys Storey was an actress, and this may have been compiled on one of her theatrical tours. |
Extra covers from G. A. Storey's bindings, undated | 4 items | Box 4, F70 |
Examples of the covers used by Storey when he bound volumes of his writings. |