Correspondence

Description

Michael Sadler's correspondence within MS 1314 has been gathered from a number of sources, among them J H Higginson and Leeds University's own collections relating to his time as Vice Chancellor. The series comprises more than 220 items of correspondence both to and from Sadler. It is physically arranged as a discrete series, by name of correspondent and features in the Letters Database. Related material: additional letters from Sadler can be found in other collections of material within Special Collections, e.g. the Jacob Kramer archive. For more information on these, please consult the same database.


Additional correspondence added October 2017:

Two ms letters from Michael Sadler to Russell Stanley Mortimer [19 Dec 1941; Jan 7 1942].


Eight ms letters from Michael Sadler to Dr Richard Offor, librarian of Leeds University Library between 1919 and 1947 [1 Mar 1928; 9 Nov 1937; 25 Sep 1940; 24 Nov 1941; 27 Nov 1941; 3 Dec 1941; 14 Dec 1941; 5 Dec 1941].


Letter from Michael Sadler to Frank Gott, addressed to 'my dear Lord Mayor' discussing WWI and Sadler's experience of India while chairman for the Calcutta University Commission [18 Apr 1918]


A letter from Michael Sadler to Mrs Frank Gott regarding a letter of recommendation for Victor Rienaecker [30 Jan 1932].


A letter from Michael Sadler to Lascelles Abercrombie regarding Constable's edition of Godwin's Memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft and discussing the Librarian of the University of Leeds [7 Jun 1928].


A letter from the poet Alfred Hayes to Michael Sadler discussing the Birmingham District Institutes Union and enclosing their programme for 1891-1892; also commenting on the origin of the Birmingham Philosophical Institution [29 Sep 1892].


Also a letter from James Bryce to H.T. Ashby, the uncle of Dr Richard Offer, thanking Ashby for a picture of the Vale of Tempe [29 Jul 1903]; and ms notes on 'working mens college' and 'womens college' [2pp].

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