Great Libraries of Europe Cambridge, Oxford & Bath September 30 - October 10, 2013 With Susan Gibbons, University Librarian at Yale

Dear Yale Alumni and Friends,

Trinity College, Cambridge

The Library, Wormsley

Radcliffe Camera, Oxford

Calling all bibliophiles! I would like to entice you to join this original tour, designed exclusively for Yale, as a sequel to ‘The Bibliophile’s Bohemia & Moravia’. The program has been carefully planned to include some of the most historic and important libraries in the United Kingdom, indeed Europe, yet without travelling great distances. One of the highlights will be a special visit to the venerable and evocative Bodleian Library. Here the first non-British citizen was appointed Librarian in the University of Oxford’s 400year history. At several visits participants will be privileged to be shown, and even to handle, rare books and manuscripts and will benefit from the expertise of curators and archivists. Staying for several nights in the ancient university cities of Cambridge and Oxford and in the delightful 18thcentury spa town of Bath and exploring the countryside of East Anglia, the Chiltern Hills and the Cotswolds is part of the joy of this journey. We will be welcomed at a number of private family homes and houses with a literary connection, as well as to properties in the care of the National Trust, where aristocratic, erudite and occasionally eccentric lovers of books are brought to life. This tour is also an architectural adventure ranging from medieval, through Tudor, Jacobean, Georgian and High Victorian buildings and libraries to a superb and little-known example of the Arts & Crafts movement. Throughout our journey, with tour director, Harriet Landseer ’91, I will engage us in a dialog about both the history and future of libraries. How do university libraries such as those at Yale, Oxford and Cambridge steward their physical collections while addressing the increasing digital needs of their current students and faculty? Will books become museum objects or is there something irreplaceable in the human experience with a book? From Ham House, with the earliest library room in the UK, to the family archives of stately Longleat, we can promise a memorable experience. Please read on and act today to ensure your place. Warm regards,

Susan Gibbons University Librarian, Yale University The Old Rectory, Quenington

For additional information: call 203-432-1952, email [email protected] or visit www.YaleEdTravel.org

Front cover: The Library at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk (© National Trust Images / David Kirkham)

The Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

Yale Faculty Leader: Susan Gibbons In 2011 Susan Gibbons was appointed as University Librarian at Yale University. She earned an MLS and MA in history from Indiana University, professional MBA from the University of Massachusetts and a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Rochester. Gibbons has held library positions at Indiana University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst before moving to the University of Rochester in 2000, where she worked as the director of digital library initiatives before moving into administration. In 2008 she was appointed Vice Provost at the University of Rochester. She is well known in the library world, most significantly for the library user studies at Rochester she undertook starting 2004. In collaboration with an anthropologist, Gibbons determined how faculty and students do their academic work, find information, and make use of the physical and technological resources offered by the libraries. She has given many talks around the world on this project, which has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has also published her own book, ‘The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student: Making the Connections’ (ALA Editions).

Tour Director Harriet Landseer Harriet is a History of Art graduate of Yale College, Class of 1991. She lives with her family in Prague (with occasional stints in her native Ireland, and in Andalucia). She has led tours all over the world for Specialtours, part of The Ultimate Travel Company, now concentrating mainly on Central Europe. In addition, she works as a consultant to the Czech National Heritage Institute, and recently undertook the English version of their website and their coffee-table book on Castles and Country Houses. Her many other special interests include the issue of castle restitution to former owners after 1989, contemporary art in Central Europe, Chinoiserie garden pavilions, coffeehouse culture and childrens’ book illustration.

Tour itinerary Monday, September 30 Departure Independent departure for London.

Tuesday, October 1 London / Cambridge Arrive London Heathrow Airport and transfer by private coach to Richmond for a visit to Ham House, which has the earliest library room in the United Kingdom, created for the Duke of Lauderdale in 1672. Lunch at the Orangery Café. Continue to Cambridge, a center of learning since the 12th century, where three nights are spent at the Doubletree Garden House Hotel, situated on the River Cam. Welcome drinks and dinner in the hotel. (L, D)

Wednesday, October 2 Cambridge & Environs The morning will be spent exploring the most famous College Libraries, including the Wren Library at Trinity College and the Pepys Library at Magdalene, which contains his famous Diary, as well as a manuscript translation of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ and other treasures.

The Library at Ham House, Surrey constructed 1672-4 (© National Trust Images / Andreas von Einsiedel)

Continue for lunch at the Old Rectory Restaurant at Wimpole Hall. Here Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, amassed the largest and most important collection of books and manuscripts ever assembled by a private individual in England: the manuscripts would later form the nucleus of the British Library collection. By 1720, Harley’s guests were able to view his books in five specially designed spaces, known as the Book Room, and later in the Library, an extension built by James Gibbs. Dinner at Magdalene College, by special arrangement. (B, L, D)

Wimpole Hall

Thursday, October 3 Cambridge & Norfolk Today there will be an excursion to Blickling Hall, one of England’s great Jacobean houses. The superb Long Gallery was converted into a library c1745 (with the addition, in 1850, of a Pre-Raphaelite frieze painted above the bookcases). Blickling still contains one of the most historically significant collections of manuscripts and books in England. Nearby is Felbrigg Hall, one of the finest 17th-century houses in East Anglia. The Georgian interior includes beautiful furniture and paintings as well as a notable Library (1752-55), created by William Wyndham after he had completed the Grand Tour. Continue to Holkham Hall, residence of the Earls of Leicester for 250 years. After lunch at the Victoria Hotel visit this fine 18th-century Palladian mansion, designed by William Kent and known for the stately Entrance Hall and collection of Old Master paintings. We will have an exclusive visit to the Libraries. Return to Cambridge. (B, L) The Long Library, Holkham Hall (© Holkham Estates)

Hatfield House

Dyrham Park (© nrg123 / Shutterstock.com)

Friday, October 4 Cambridge / Buckinghamshire / Oxford

Sunday, October 6 Oxford / The Cotswolds / Bath

Leave in the morning for Hatfield House, which was built in 1607 and is the seat of the Marquess of Salisbury, a member of the Roxburghe Club. The Library contains more than 10,000 volumes dating from the 16th century to the present day.

This morning we drive through the delightful countryside of the Cotswolds to the village of Quenington, where we will be shown author Jessica Douglas-Home’s charming private library overlooking her garden. Lunch will be at the Old Rectory with art historian Lucy Abel Smith and her husband, David who have also created an unusual library pavilion in their garden.

After lunch at a nearby pub, continue to the Chiltern Hills near High Wycombe for a private visit to Wormsley, by special arrangement with Sir Mark Getty. His late father, Sir Paul, created the Library, with one of the finest private collections in the country including precious early manuscripts and a first edition of ‘The Canterbury Tales’. We continue to Oxford, where we shall stay for three nights at the traditional Randolph Hotel. Dinner at the hotel. (B, L, D)

After lunch we visit Dyrham Park, a handsome 17th-century mansion set in an ancient deer park. We continue to Bath, to stay at the small, privately-owned Queensberry Hotel for four nights. (B, L, D)

Monday, October 7 Bath & Environs Visits in the elegant spa city of Bath will include the Assembly Rooms and the famous bookseller, George Bayntun, where the Bindery, dating from 1829, is still used to make traditional morocco bindings with the original tools and blocks. Continue for a special visit to Beckford’s Tower, arranged with the Bath Preservation Trust. The tower was designed 1825-27 as a study retreat and library for William Beckford, writer, collector and patron of the arts. Lunch at a local restaurant.

Selden End, Duke Humphrey’s Library (Picture by Greg Smolonski : © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

In the afternoon visit Tyntesfield, a Gothic Revival fantasy, where the great Library is an extraordinary Victorian time-capsule. Return to Bath. (B, L)

Saturday, October 5 Oxford We walk to the Bodleian Library, one of the world’s great libraries, established in the 15th century. It contains 6.5 million books, manuscripts and maps. Special arrangements will be made to view some of the treasures. Continue to Merton College, founded in 1264, to visit the Old Library (1371-78), the Chapel (with Sir Thomas Bodley’s memorial) and the Somerset Maugham room. After lunch at Brasserie Quod, there will be a guided walking tour to include the Radcliffe Camera, the Baroque rotunda designed by James Gibbs. Later there will be an option to visit Christ Church Cathedral for choral evensong. (B, L)

Room view of the Library at Tyntesfield, North Somerset (© National Trust Images / John Hammond)

The Long Library, Eastnor Castle

Longleat

Tuesday, October 8 Bath, Herefordshire & Worcestershire

Wednesday, October 9 Bath & Wiltshire

Leave for Eastnor Castle, home of James Hervey-Bathurst in the scenic Malvern Hills. The recently refurbished Georgian interior includes the Long Library, re-designed for the 3rd Earl Somers in Renaissance style. Many of the 5,000 books came from the collection of the eminent historian, Dr Treadway Nash, whose daughter married the first Earl.

This morning there will be a visit to Longleat, seat of the Marquess of Bath. This grand Elizabethan house, with its palatial interiors and fine collection of Old Master paintings, contains seven libraries encompassing one of Europe’s largest book collections and archives.

After lunch at Eastnor, visit Madresfield Court, ancestral home of the Lygon family, with outstanding collections of furniture, pictures and porcelain, a beautiful Arts & Crafts chapel and a Library of some 8,000 books, designed by C.R. Ashbee. Return to Bath via Hay-on-Wye, time permitting. (B, D)

A private lunch has been arranged at Bradley House, where our host, the Duke of Somerset, will give an introduction to the history of the house and his family. Our final visit is to stately Wilton House, home of the Earl of Pembroke, where we will be shown books from the family collection, before returning to Bath for a farewell dinner at a restaurant. (B, D)

Thursday, October 10 Bath / Departure This morning transfer to London Heathrow Airport for your return flight to the US. (B)

Tour cost: $6,525 per person Single supplement: $855 The Library, Madresfield Court

Tour cost includes: Accommodation as detailed in the itinerary (Cambridge - 3 nights / Oxford - 3 nights / Bath - 3 nights); buffet breakfast (B) daily; 9 lunches (L) and 5 dinners (D) with wine, water and coffee or tea; welcome drinks; transportation by motorcoach throughout the tour; entrances to houses etc.; porterage at the hotels; taxes; gratuities to guides, waiters & drivers; the services of a Specialtours Tour Director throughout. Tour cost does NOT include: International or Domestic flights; travel insurance; visa costs (if applicable); any meals not detailed in the itinerary; items of a personal nature (e.g. telephone calls / laundry etc.).

www.YaleEdTravel.org The Violin Bookcase, Wilton House (© 18th Early of Pembroke & Trustees of Wilton House)

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The Library, Merton College, Oxford

Great Libraries of Europe Cambridge, Oxford & Bath September 30 - October 10, 2013 www.YaleEdTravel.org

Highlights include: • Lectures and discussions with Susan Gibbons, University Librarian at Yale • Insider access to some of the finest Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, as well as to the venerable Bodleian Library • Visits to private homes, several not generally open to the public, where you will be welcomed by the owners • Special visits to National Trust properties, accompanied by curators and librarians • Seeing some of the loveliest and most picturesque countryside in England, from East Anglia to the Cotswolds • A stay in the enchanting 18th-century city of Bath, which is still evocative of the world of Jane Austen George Bayntun Fine Bindings & Rare Books