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Total number of records: 33

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Herbert Read Collection33
Brotherton Collection30
English Literature6

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anarchism6
art6
art, modern6
english poetry6
modernism (art)6
sculpture, modern6

Top 10: People and organisations

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Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)4
Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974)2
Eliot, T S (1888-1965)2
Albers, Josef (1888-1976)1
Aler, Jan1
Bell, Quentin (1910-1996)1
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)1
Cairns, Huntington (1904-1985)1
Creffield, Dennis (1931-2018)1
D'Harnoncourt, Rene (1901-1968)1

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Valerie Eliot

Eliot, Valerie

7 Jul 1966

1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Valerie Eliot (1f). Valerie Eliot thanks Read for the loan of his letters and for copies of his T.S.E. memoir. She notes for future publications that sh...

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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...

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Hans Jonas

27 Apr 1965

Letter of appreciation addressed to Read, following a lecture by Read on T. S. Eliot at Wesleyan University in April 1965.

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Roger M F Kojecky

3 Sep 1967

Letter addressed to Read requesting gis assistance with a research project on T. S. Eliot. A reply on Read's behalf is written on the reverse.

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John D Margolis

Feb 1966

Two letters addressed to Read, with copy of Read's reply typed on reverse. Margolis asked several questions regarding T. S. Eliot.

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Margaret Storm Jameson

29 Jul 1966 - 31 Jul 1966

Two brief letters addressed to Read from Storm Jameson, written from Cambridge. The first letter concerns her impressions of Read's biography of T.S. Eliot.

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T.S.E. A Memoir

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1966

File titled 'T.S.E'. Contains two typescripts of 'T.S.Eliot: A memoir', 38ff and 31ff, a lecture delivered at the University of York on 31st January 1966. One copy is marked 'early version, confidenti...

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Sidney Keyes

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1967

Typescript carbon copy titled 'Sidney Keyes', 10ff. Possibly a review of, or foreword to Sidney Keyes: A biographical by John Guenther. On the first page Read describes himself and T.S. Eliot as fif...

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John D Lyle

29 May 1967 - 20 Feb 1968

Two letters addressed to Read from Lyle, and copies of Reads replies. Correspondents concerns Read's influences, and description of aesthetics in The Green Child. Read's replies discuss his relationsh...

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Brian Everett

16 May 1967

1 signed typescript letter from Brian Everett to Herbert Read (1f). Everett thanks Read for previous information given and wonders if Read himself or Eliot were influenced by the academic and critic [...

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Andor Foldes

Foldes, Andor (1913-1992)

27 Aug 1966 - 13 Apr 1967

This file contains 1 signed typescript letter and 1 manuscript postcard to Herbert Read from Andor Foldes. In this correpondence, Foldes thanks Read for a copy of his memoir of Eliot, and seeks to arr...

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Arthur Waley

c. Nov 1940

One letter and one sheet of notes addressed to Read from Arthur Waley. Thanks Read for pamphlet (possibly 'The Philosophy of Anarchism') which he compares to T.S. Eliot's East Coker. Includes one page...

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