United States
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: United States
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/8/10
Related People: Huntington Cairns(Sender); Frederick S. Wight(Sender); Margaret Naumburg(Sender); Josef Albers(Sender); Blanchette H. Rockefeller(Sender); Rene D'Harnoncourt(Sender); Sam Francis(Sender); Rhoda Kellogg(Sender)
Creator(s): Cairns, Huntington (1904-1985); Wight, Frederick Stallknecht (1902-1986); Naumburg, Margaret (1890-); Albers, Josef (1888-1976); Rockefeller, Blanchette Hooker (1902-1992); D'Harnoncourt, Rene (1901-1968); Francis, Sam (1923-1994); Kellogg, Rhoda
Date(s): c.1948 - 1968
Size and medium: 5 files
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692796
Collection group(s): English Literature | Special Collections Art | Herbert Read Collection
Description
Substantial series of correspondence concerning Read's various visits to the United States, beginning with a lecture tour in 1948, followed by a fellowship at Harvard as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, during the academic year 1953 – 1954, 1954 Mellon Lecture and regular subsequent fellowships and lecture tours. Files are arranged chronologically, grouped together by year. The majority of the files consist of invitations from various colleges, universities and institutions to give lectures. There is also significant correspondence with individuals, including series of letters from Huntington Cairns, and later Frederick S. Wight, amongst others. Files also include letters from Margaret Naumburg, Josef Albers, Ruth Witt-Diamant, Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller, René d'Harnoncourt, Robert MacGregor (New Directions Publishing), Victor L. Butterfield, Sam Francis, Lawrence Quincy Mumford, Alfred Neumeyer and Kurt von Meier. There are also several family letters and notes, written
during an extended visit by Read in 1964.
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