Annual Report 2023

1. The following activities of the Policy Document 2023 were undertaken in 2023.
   1. Harlem Renaissance Correspondence Project

The research will continue to focus on correspondence concerning the leading intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance and Marcus Garvey’s back to Africa movement. Relevant archives are located at the British Library in London, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the University of Florida at Gainesville, the British Library, London and the University of Nairobi.

1. Library

Some 25 volumes were acquired on 20^th and 21^st century American and English literature, contemporary literary criticism and reference books.

1. Courses

Thirty-two lectures were given by Dr Van Notten on works by Graham Swift, Jeffry Eugenides, Jeanette Winterson, Pat Barker, Robert O Butler and John Irving. Eight lectures were given by Dr Tigges on works by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Thornton Wilder, V.S. Naipaul, William Trevor, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro and Rose Tremain.

Number of students 55.

1.4  Summer school

       A lecture was given by Dr Tigges on Quartet by Jean Rhys. 11 Persons attending.

2. The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Board of the Eleonora Stichting was held 9 September by video link.

3. Financial report. The policy is to support the activities of the Foundation as long as funds are available.

Statement of Financial Position on 31 December 2023
Assets		€				Liabilities		€
Inventory		279				Endowment Funds		-129.098
Receivables		–				Private loans		142.163
Working Capital		13.286				Short-term debt		500
Capital assets		13.565						13.565
Statement of Operations  31 December 2023
Debit
Expenses						Revenues
Programme		3.923				Program Revenues		10.825
Administration		12.432				Donations		4.000
Financial		2.334				Balance		3.864
		18.689						18.689

4. The Board wishes to recognise the commitment to the Stichting by Mr and Dr van Notten for their contribution of € 4,000. The Dutch IRS (Belastingdienst) acknowledged the mission of the Eleonora Stichting and gave it the designation of a charitable foundation (Algemeen Nut Beoogende Instelling) as of January 1^st 2008 for an indefinite period. The Stichting was designated a Cultural Charitable Foundation on 6 November 2020. The implication is that donations to the Stichting can be made free from taxation.

5. Members of the Board are: Dr Th.L. Heacox (chairman) (College of William and Mary), W.F.J. van Notten (secretary & treasurer), Dr P.E. Russell (Vassar College), and Dr C. Cogswell (Northwestern University).