Joseph Reed
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Joseph Reed
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/12/461
Related People: Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient); Joseph W. Reed(Sender)
Creator(s): Reed, Joseph W (1932-)
Site Location(s): Created in - Middletown, Connecticut, USA( 39.4496, -75.7163 )
Date(s): 18 Jan 1966 - 8 Apr 1968
Size and medium: 6 letters
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/705253
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains 6 letters to Herbert Read from Joseph Reed, chiefly on the headed paper of Wesleyan University, Department of English.
The letters are filled with details of colleagues at Wesleyan University who Read would have met during his Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies. They include and in depth account of the leaving parties for Paul Horgan, and give thanks to Read and Ludo (Margaret Read) for a stay at Stonegrave during a visit to England. Joseph Reed also updates Read on the projects and publications of his wife, the writer Kit Reed.
1 letter of 7 November 1966 refers to the sale of Herbert Read's archive: 'Evidently Fritz [Herman Wardwell] Liebert, librarian of Yale's Beinecke, asked el Thieff if he could enter a bid on the Read archive and el.T. said that they were being catalogued and not yet ready for such matters as bids. Fritz interpreted this to mean that el T. thought he could sell them to Texas, which I find sad for Yale, but probably good for the Reads because they pay lots of money. Fritz said he would inquire again, which I hope he will.' The identity of 'el Thieff' is not clear.
An initial tranche of Read's archive was sold to the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
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