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Total number of records: 58

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Herbert Read Collection58
Brotherton Collection42
English Literature7

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
anarchism7
art7
art, modern7
english poetry7
modernism (art)7
sculpture, modern7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hepworth, Barbara Dame (1903-1975)4
Brumwell, J R M2
Forster, E M (1879-1970)2
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)2
Robertson, Seonaid M2
Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983)1
Gray, Milner1
Hart-Davis, Rupert (1907-)1
Hudson, Tom1
Kasak, Nikolai (1917-)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18002
From 190055
From 20001

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M. Alpatov

14 Dec 1964

1 carbon copy of a letter from Herbert Read to M[ikhail?] Alpatov to an address in Moscow, 1f. Read thanks Alpatov for his copy of Alpatov's History of Art, and congratulates him for the work, which R...

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Phyllis M. Corney

10 Aug 1967

1 manuscript letter to Herbert Read from Phyllis M. Corney, 1f.

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O.M. Broz

1918 - 1968

1 manuscript letter from O.M. Broz to Herbert Read. Broz hopes that Read might see his paintings when he visits Prague, and attaches a typescript headed The Transcendental Revelationsim, to explain 't...

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Nicolai M Kasak

Kasak, Nikolai (1917-)

5 May 1966 - 12 Aug 1967

Three letters addressed to Read, a copy of one letter written in reply, and a copy of Kasak's essay 'Action of Positive and Negative Space', sent to Read along with photographs of Kasak's work (not in...

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Richard M Ludwig

19 Jun 1954 - 3 May 1956

Three letters addressed to Read from Ludwig, and one letter to Read from Frank McShane. Correspondence concerns requests to view letters written by Ford Madox Ford to Read.

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E. M. Lyddiatt

Jun 1966

Letter addressed to Read and copy of letter sent in reply. Lyddiatt writes to request Read's advice on publishing her book on spontaneous painting in psychiatric hospitals.

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Madan M. Sarup

Nov 1967

Two letters addressed to Read with copies of Read's response on reverse. Sarup, then a student at the Institute for Education asks Read for information on Marion Richardson.

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E.M. Stephenson

Stephenson, Ethel M

9 Feb 1965 - 9 Mar 1965

This file contains letters to Herbert Read from E.M. Stephenson, and 2 carbon copies of responses from Read. Stephenson writes to Read regarding a possible new edition of her poetry and prose work,...

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M.R. Tewari

23 Aug 1966 - 5 Mar 1968

This file contains letters to Herbert Read from M.R. Tewari as well as carbon copies of responses from Read.

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E.M. Torshilova

Aug 1966

1 letter to Herbert Read from E.M. Torshilova. A copy of Read's response is typed on the verso.

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Sylvia M. Vial

16 Jan 1965

Letter addressed to Read from Vial, asking if he can buy a copy of a volume of poems by Norman Fincher.

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Harry M. Waterman

Dec 1967

Two letters to Read from Harry M Waterman, with copies of Read's replies. Waterman was a solicitor who had represented Stass Paraskos at his obscenity trial in 1966, at which Read had appeared as a wi...

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