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Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)3
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974)1
Garnier, Francois1
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1
Stow, John1

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Letters from R A S Macfie to George Hall.

29/Jun/1909 - 26/Jan/1910

4 ALSs (29 June, 5 and 15 October 1909, 26 January 1910) from R A S Macfie to George Hall. 2 pp. + 2 pp. + 1 p. + 2 pp.

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Essays and talks:

Mid-Late 20th Century

Address to the Society of Civil Service Authors. TS, 19pp. Catechists and Commissars: the Church at El Salvador. TS, 14pp. Herbert Read. Various TS drafts, 20pp. On the Third Day: talk. TS, 19pp. ...

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IZVESTIYA VSEROSSIISKOGO TSENTRAL'NOGO ISPOLNITEL'NOGO KOMITETA SOVETOV

19 July 1918

IZVESTIYA VSEROSSIISKOGO TSENTRAL'NOGO ISPOLNITEL'NOGO KOMITETA SOVETOV ... (Moscow). No.151 (415), 19 July 1918, pp.3-4. Includes text of Constitution (Fundamental Law) of R S Fs.R adopted at 5th All...

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“Society for the Spread of Sticklebacks in Sussex”

1934

a Typescript bulletin No. 2, 1932; 10 pp b Typescript autograph letter from R.L. Marston (The Fishing Gazette) to E.G. Boulenger, President of the Zoological Society of London; dated 5 January ...

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Articles about Wassily Kandinsky

1970-1979

Comprises a) Photocopied pp.186-99 of an unidentified publication, headed "1V The transition to the Twentieth Century". Note on front: "German Painting - Finke, Thames and Hudson" b) Photocopied p...

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Documents

1600-1899

Twenty-two documents labelled "County Papers", including accounts, orders of sessions, and printed pamphlet "Practice of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in the West Riding" (pp. 49)...

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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...

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A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands
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A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands

17--

Original pagination to the end of the text only; pp.81-2 missing and a hiatus in the text. Thumb index, ff.1-5, extended from front fly-leaf; ff.54 to end, blank. Dated 1769 on f.35r. Signatures: 'Mar...

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Histoire de Hedouard Second Roy d'Angleterre, [by John Stow; translated by François Garnier]

Stow, John

1628

Contains the history of the reigns of Ethelbert and Edward II, extracted from Stow's 'Annals' and translated into French by François Garnier. See John Stow's 'The annales of England', 1601. There are...

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A scrapbook of press-cuttings and other documents on economic affairs, mainly social credit, collected by Bonamy Dobrée

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

c.1933 - 1935

Contents include: (1) [Bonamy Dobrée], 'Draft of a "ten minute address"', n.d., typescript carbon (ff. 41-5); (2) Clifford Hugh Douglas, 'Breakdown of the employment system', London: New Age Press, n...

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Museums

1966-1973

This file contains items relating to museums and related institutions, including Bryce Nelson's article on S. Dillon Ripley's plans for recreating a slum at the Smithsonian Institution, extracted from...

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Dada and Laban's 1929 Festzug in Vienna

a) Photocopied pp.1-16 landscape style of an article in German "Festwochen in Wien Johann-Strauss-Jahr 1929 2-16 June Vorprogramm" b) Typed translation of part of pages 8 and 9 of a) above headed "F...

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