Arts Council
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Arts Council
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/11/11
Related People: C Day Lewis(Sender); Gabriel White(Sender); Hugo Manning(Sender); Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient)
Creator(s): Manning, Hugo (1913-1977); White, Gabriel; Day Lewis, C (1904-1972)
Date(s): 19 May 1960 - 3 Aug 1967
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692563
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to the Arts Council.
Correspondence includes 6 letters between Herbert Read and Gabriel White, Director of Art at the Arts Council, dated 13 Sep – 30 Jul 1960, 6ff. The letters discuss Read’s lending of a Picasso painting and a piece of Bernard Leach pottery to respective exhibitions at the Tate Gallery.
The file also contains multiple letters between Herbert Read and Eric W. White, Assistant Secretary at the Arts Council, discussing Read’s sponsorship of Hugo Manning, Michael Bullock, Basil Bunting and Alan Bold for the Arts Council’s 1966 Poetry Bursary Award, including letters from Michael Bullock and a manuscript letter to Read from Hugo Manning, dated 10 Jul 1965, 1f. A portion of letters between Read and White, now Literature Director at the Arts Council, dated 1967, discuss proposed changes to the sponsorship system, 9ff.
Also included in the file are 4 letters between Herbert Read and Nigel Abercrombie, Secretary-General and Cecil Day-Lewis, Chairman of the Literature Panel, both of the Arts Council, dated 15 -29 Dec 1966, 3ff. The letters discuss Read’s invitation by the Arts Council to become a member of its Literature Panel beginning 1 Jan 1967.
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