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Colin Franklin

Archive File: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/12/179

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Colin Franklin

Level: File

Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/12/179

Related People: Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient); Colin Franklin(Sender)

Creator(s): Franklin, Colin

Site Location(s): Created in - Blexleyheath, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom ( 51.4527, 0.128837 )

Date(s): 21 Mar 1968

Size and medium: 1 letter

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/704971

Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection

Description

1 signed typescript letter addressed to Herbert Read from Colin Franklin (1f), written on Routledge and Kegan Paul headed paper. Franklin writes about Read's influence on his time at Routledge: 'you gave me a standard and example which is the only one I try to keep; by which I mean, that the only faith that matters in publishing is to believe a good book will be listened to and that nothing else about a book matters; an d that any silly rubbish which detaches itself from proper merit in a book,, as for instance that horrible word 'prestige' and an equally irritating phrase about 'market research' has no place. I believe that your quiet asumptions about these things at the basket over the years, has spread itself and that we share it in our decisions now.'

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