Collection of correspondence and papers relating to the family and descendants of John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury, especially the children of his son the Rev. John Henry Robertson Sumner of Kelbarrow, Grasmere and his second wife Elizabeth Anne (née Gibson), including a series of eleven autograph letters signed (one signature clipped) by John Ruskin, to their third daughter Margaret Lilias (Maggie) Sumner, commenting in considerable detail on her drawings ("...With most students, the tendency to lose breadth in defining parts is a mere weakness: -- in you it is a kind of strength; the intensity with which you fasten on complex forms and colours having something of the old German involved Gothic... on seeing your copy of the Rouen Photo, again with a fresh eye, it does not appear to you patchy, chippy-gritty, -- hatchy, -- botchy – (I don't mean all these things, but something which they all partly describe --) – as compared with the original? – Try a little bit again and see if you cannot get it softer and more like shade, where shade is, and more broad in light where light is. And – in trees, do a single branch instead of a whole tree, and do it perfectly as you can – keeping the shades mysterious..."), 1881-86 where dated; cabinet card photograph of Clara Schumann at the piano, signed and inscribed to the eldest daughter, Lily Sumner, on the reverse, plus a note by Stainer requesting Miss Sumner's services as accompanist; a few papers relating to the Arnold family of Fox How; an autograph poem by John Davidson; sketchbook kept by Robert Gibson on board HMS Cornwallis, 1844, with views of Ascension Island, Madras docks, coolies, etc., and another seemingly by the same hand of 1840; Eton ephemera, photographs, pamphlets, legal and testamentary correspondence, etc., usual dust-staining etc., in a box, c.1800-1920