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Art Gallery for six months or more each year for the Autumn, and 
other special exhibitions. 
“ It is exceedingly unsatisfactory to see well-known pictures, given 
or bequeathed to the City, as well as those bought by the Corporation, 
wandering about from room to room with no fixed abode, and many 
people may be discouraged from leaving or giving works of art to 
the collection thus dealt with for want of adequate accommodation. 
I understand a scheme has been suggested for building at the back 
of the present Gallery a new suite of rooms, to house the Autumn 
and other Exhibitions, and that the Corporation are willing to give 
the land. It is estimated that a building could be added on to the 
present block, externally plain but internally handsome and suitable 
for the purpose, at a cost of £16,000 to £20,000. Has not the time 
arrived to start such a scheme, and to invite contributions? I shall 
be glad to contribute £500, and believe the rest would soon be 
forthcoming. The Art Committee would then, with the existing 
rooms at its disposal, be able to spread out the Roscoe Collection 
(Royal Institution pictures), now crowded together and ineftectively 
hung in the dark ground-floor rooms, and be able to show to 
advantage the magnificent modern examples of art, of which all 
Liverpool people are justly proud. 
“This letter is at your disposal to place before the Committee or 
publish as you think best. With kind regards, 
“T am etc., 
“EDWARD P. THOMPSON.” 
A further sum of £590 has since been promised by a member of 
the Art and Exhibitions Sub-Committee, and it is hoped that during 
the current year the project so generously initiated by Mr. E. P. 
Thompson may be accomplished. 
Whenever the demands of the various special exhibitions 
permitted, the separate display in two rooms of works by Liverpool 
artists was continued, and the following additions to that section of 
the Permanent Collection were made in the course of the year :— 
