University of Edinburgh
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: University of Edinburgh
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/11/141
Related People: Sir Herbert J. Grierson(Sender); Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient)
Creator(s): Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford (1866-1960)
Date(s): 27 Jul 1931 -18 Jul 1933
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692693
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to the University of Edinburgh.
Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Read from Sir Thomas Holland, Principal of the University of Edinburgh; H. J. C. Grierson, Knight Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and W. G. Fleming, Secretary to the University of Edinburgh, including 2 manuscript letters from Read to Holland, dated 28 Jun 1933, notifying Holland of his resignation from the Watson-Gordon Chair of Fine Art, 3ff.
This file also contains 1 typescript document titled ‘Commission by the University Court of the University of Edinburgh in favour of Herbert Read’, dated 27 Jul 1931, confirming Read’s appointment to the Watson-Gordon Chair of Fine Art, 2ff; articles printed in the Scotsman newspaper regarding a lecture by Read on Spanish art, including Read’s carbon copy response to the Editor, dated Mar 1933, 6ff and 3 loose manuscript and typescript booklets of Read’s Fine Art Department lecture notes from the First and Second terms.
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