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Herbert Read Collection10
Brotherton Collection9
English Literature4

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anarchism4
art4
art, modern4
english poetry4
modernism (art)4
sculpture, modern4

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Gowing, Sir Lawrence (1918-1991)2
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)2
Anderson, Sir Colin (1904-)1
Bullock, Michael (1918-)1
Guggenheim, Peggy (1898-1979)1
Rothenstein, John (1901-1992)1
Scott, Tom (1918-)1

Archive File

Cards and letters to and from Herbert Read

1914-1933

This file contains cards and letters to and from Herbert Read written during and after the First World War. The file includes: 1 postcard, with photograph of soliders including Read on recto, sent...

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The Egoist

1916-1919

This file contains 15 issues of The Egoist, edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver, with T.S. Eliot acting as Assistant Editor and Dora Marsden as Contributing Editor. Excerpts from James Joyce's Ulysses appea...

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Biography

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1918

1 prose typescript titled 'Biography', 8ff, by Herbert Read, with pencil note dating it at 'about 1918'.

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Promise of Greatness

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1964

Typescripts and copies with some manuscript annotations of chapters from 'Promise of Greatness: The War of 1914 - 1918', edited with an introduction by George A. Panichas, and foreword by Herbert Rea...

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Photograph description

c. 1968

A piece of paper titled 'All that was left of them', and lists the names of colleagues of Herbert Read who took part in the 2nd Battle of the Somme and were photographed on 1 April 1918. The descripti...

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First World War Service

c.1915-1919

This series contains material relating to Herbert Read's service during the First World War, including letters, certificates, and a scrapbook with cuttings of articles and poems by Read. Read was c...

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Tom Scott

Scott, Tom (1918-)

Oct 1967

One letter addressed to Read with a copy of Read's response. Scott had enclosed a poem for Reads comments (poem not included in file).

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Michael Bullock

Bullock, Michael (1918-)

4 Mar - 20 Nov 1963

This file contains: 2 signed typescript letters to Herbert Read from Michael Bullock; 2 carbon copy responses from Read, and 1 carbon copy note from Read's secretary. Bullock notes in his letters th...

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Lawrence Gowing

Gowing, Sir Lawrence (1918-1991)

11 Apr 1968 - 17 Jul 1969

This file contains 2 letters to Herbert Read from the artist Lawrence Gowing, successor to Quentin Bell as head of fine art at Leeds. Gowing writes about feeling close to Read in Leeds. 'there is a ...

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Tate Gallery

Rothenstein, John (1901-1992); Guggenheim, Peggy (1898-1979); Gowing, Sir Lawrence (1918-1991); Anderson, Sir Colin (1904-)

1955 - 30 May 1968

This file contains correspondence, meeting minutes and associated material relating to the Tate Gallery. Herbert Read was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1965 until his death in 1968. File 1 ...

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