Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 11 of 11 records

Total number of records: 11

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Herbert Read Collection11
Brotherton Collection10
English Literature4

Count of Subject

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

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)3
Cecil Day Lewis1
Day Lewis, C (1904-1972)1
Eliot, T S (1888-1965)1
Hepworth, Barbara Dame (1903-1975)1
Manning, Hugo (1913-1977)1
White, Gabriel1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18001
From 190010

Archive File

Wyndham Lewis

1893 - 1968

This file contains photographic reproductions of the work of Wyndham Lewis

More details


Archive File

Richard A Lewis

May 1964 - Aug 1966

Three letters addressed to Read, and a copy of one letter sent in reply. Correspondence concerns Lewis research for and promotion og his book Poems by Children of the English-Speaking World.

More details


Archive File

William Rose

14 Mar 1959 - 18 Mar 1959

1 letter to Herbert Read from William Rose, editor of the Letters of Wyndham Lewis (1963), with queries regarding Read's letters to Lewis.

More details

Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, 6 June 1968
Archive Item

Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, 6 June 1968

Hepworth, Barbara Dame (1903-1975)

6 June 1968

Letter begins: 'My dearest Herbert Just a note to say that Anthony telephoned about the Brancusi.' Hepworth writes about visits from friends and her conflicting sympathies with students and feeling ...

More details and larger image


Archive File

Bibliography notes: printed material

1934 - 1949

Printed articles found in file of notes headed 'Bibliography'. The majority of articles are from the 1940s, but 1, 'Where is your Vorticist', by Wyndham Lewis, published in Architectural Review, is da...

More details


Archive File

Madge Hales

13 Dec 1962 - 17 Dec 1962

1 letter to Herbert Read from Madge Hales, with a carbon copy of Read's response.

More details


Archive File

Book reviews: M-Q

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c.1914-1968

This file contains book reviews by Herbert Read. The majority of reviews are carbon copies of typescripts; any manuscripts or corrections are noted in the list below. Publications are by UK and overse...

More details


Archive File

Book reviews: R-Z

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c.1914-1968

This file contains book reviews by Herbert Read. The majority of reviews are carbon copies of typescripts; any manuscripts or corrections are noted in the list below. Publications are by UK and overse...

More details


Archive File

Arts Council

Manning, Hugo (1913-1977); White, Gabriel; Day Lewis, C (1904-1972)

19 May 1960 - 3 Aug 1967

This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to the Arts Council. Correspondence includes 6 letters between Herbert Read and Gabriel White, Director of Art at the Arts Council,...

More details


Archive File

T.S. Eliot

Eliot, T S (1888-1965)

1927 - 1968

This file contains 2 letters to Herbert Read from T.S. Eliot, and 1 manuscript poem. The letters are dated 1927 and 1959: the poem, which is to commemorate an 'anniversary', may have been sent for Rea...

More details


Archive File

Miscellaneous articles

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1929-1969

This file contains clippings and offprints of published articles, letters, poems and plays by Herbert Read. In most cases the articles have been cut from their original context, but where an entire co...

More details