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Morris Gallery

Archive File: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/11/99

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Morris Gallery

Level: File

Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/11/99

Related People: Henry Moore(Sender); Ben Nicholson(Sender); Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient)

Creator(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); Nicholson, Ben (1894-1982)

Date(s): 8 Oct 1955 - 3 Sep 1959

Size and medium: 11 items

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692651

Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection

Description

This file contains correspondence relating to the Morris Gallery.


Correspondence includes 5 signed typescript letters to Herbert Read from Morris Weisenthal, owner of the Morris Gallery, dated 8 Oct 1955 – 10 Aug 1959, 5ff. The letters discuss a poetry contribution by Read to the Gallery’s upcoming publication of a portfolio of etchings illustrating the work of various contemporary poets, and the possibility of Henry Moore and later Ben Nicholson contributing the etching that will accompany Read’s poem.


The file also includes a signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Henry Moore, dated 27 Jun 1956, in which Moore discusses the development of his etching which he is not happy with, 1f, and a manuscript letter to Herbert Read from Ben Nicholson, dated 17 Oct 1956, agreeing to provide an etching for the publication, 1f.

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