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Total number of records: 51

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Archives50
Art items1

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Herbert Read Collection51
Brotherton Collection29
English Literature8

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anarchism8
art8
art, modern8
english poetry8
modernism (art)8
sculpture, modern8

Top 10: People and organisations

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Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)6
Aler, Jan1
Alloway, Lawrence (1926-1989)1
Anderson, Sir Colin (1904-)1
Baldelli, Giovanni1
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)1
Cecil Day Lewis1
Day Lewis, C (1904-1972)1
Drew, Jane (1911-1996)1
Eliot, T S (1888-1965)1

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From 180012
From 190039

Archive Art Sub-series

Original art works

1952 - 1968

This file contains original lithographs by: Alfred Manessier (signed, no. 62 of 200, cover of an exhibition catalogue, Galerie de France, 1952). Massimo Campigli ("Deux Femmes assises”, signed, n...

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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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Enrico Accatino

1893 - 1968

This file contains photographic reproductions of the work of Enrico Accatino

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Colin Smythe

1967

Correspondence with Peter Bander, editor at Colin Smythe. The correspondence relates to a volume of essays on education called Looking Forward to the Seventies, to which Herbert Read was invited to co...

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Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1964

Typescript with manuscript amendments titled 'Abbot Hall Art Gallery Kendal' and dated 11 August 1964.

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American paintings

1893 - 1968

This file contains photographs or other reproductions of unidentified American paintings.

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The Art of Collaboration

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1949 - 1968

1 typescript carbon copy of The Art of Collaboration with brief manuscript amendments, 10ff. The paper relates to Read's work with Bonamy Dobree on The London Book of English Prose and the London Book...

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Dick Brewis

1962

1 signed typescript brief letter to Herbert Read from Dick R. Brewis, 1f, thanking Read for his encouraging note on Brewis' manifesto. A typescript copy, headed 'No 95' and titled 'Manifesto of the ...

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Trinity College, Oxford

10 Oct 1967

This file contains 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Gareth Reeves, Secretary of Trinity College, Oxford, dated 10 Oct 1967, 1f.

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National Council for Civil Liberties

10 Jun 1968

This file contains 1 signed typescript letter, 2 typescript notes and 1 envelope relating to the National Council for Civil Liberties.

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Peter Stuyvesant Foundation

10 Jan - 19 Feb 1968

This file contains 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from M. M. Meerloo of the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, dated 10 Jan 1968, 1f.

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International Conference on Economic Sanctions against South Africa

10 - 31 Aug 1965

This file contains 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Ronald Segal, Convenor of the International Conference on Economic Sanctions against South Africa, dated 10 Aug 1965, 2ff. Read’s c...

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