'a sort of alladin' : Pugin's letters

• Published in: True principles : the journal of The Pugin Society Vol. 4; no. 5; pp. 369 - 381
• Main Author: Belcher, Margaret
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2015
• ISSN: 1747-9371

"Note: What follows is the text prepared for a talk given at the conclusion of the Gothic Revival Worldwide conference at the University of Kent in July 2012. It makes no attempt to incorporate remarks made extempore or to record any departures from the script. Quotations from Pugin's letters retain the style of my edition except for a few corrections made - for instance, changing Pugin's 'were' to the 'w[h]ere' required by the sense - in order to avert the possibility of stumbling in delivery. For quotations from Pugin's letters, references are given to the published sources wherever possible; most of these are to be found in The Collected Letters of A. W N. Pugin (Oxford University Press, 2001); the abbreviation 'HLRO' refers to the microfilm of the large collection of letters to Hardman which is in private hands."