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Total number of records: 7

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Herbert Read Collection7
Brotherton Collection5

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Nicholson, Ben (1894-1982)1
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1
Tambimuttu (1915-1983)1

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McGraw-Hill

1968

1 letter from the art department at McGraw-Hill requesting a transparency of an original painting by a chimpanzee in Herbert Read's collection. The picture is for Art, Artists and Art Education by Ken...

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Contemporary British Art

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); Nicholson, Ben (1894-1982)

1962 - 1963

Typescripts, correspondence, exhibition catalogues and associated material relating to a new edition of Contemporary British Art published by Penguin in 1964. The file contains a heavily annotated c...

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Reconstruir

Jun - Jul 1967

This file contains 1 typescript letter, in Spanish, to Herbert Read from the Editors of Reconstruir, dated Jun 1967, 1f.

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Fellowship of Reconciliation

8 Dec 1964 - 8 Jan 1965

This file contains 2 signed typescript letters, 1 with Herbert Read’s carbon copy response typed on verso, to Herbert Read from Raphael Gould, Director of Development at the Fellowship of Reconcilia...

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Rossana Biagi

1961 - 1966

This file includes 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from the artist and poet Rossana Biagi, in Italian. Also included are Italian newspaper cuttings, an exhibition catalogue including a wo...

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Poetry London - New York

Tambimuttu (1915-1983)

c. 1964

This file contains 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Tambimuttu, Editor of Poetry London - New York, c. 1964, 1f.

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Darlington Sculpture Competition

19 Dec 1967 - 11 Jun 1968

This file contains 6 signed typescript letters, 1 carbon copy letter, 2 typescript booklets and 1 typescript note relating to the Darlington Sculpture Competition. The file includes 2 signed typesc...

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