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Total number of records: 117

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Objects3

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Brotherton Collection117
English Literature117
Herbert Read Collection116
Leeds Poetry1

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anarchism116
art116
art, modern116
english poetry116
modernism (art)116
sculpture, modern116
art criticism1
art, modern 20th century jamaica1
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)1
diaries1

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Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)12
Mcguire, William (1917-)4
Francis, Sam (1923-1994)2
Hull, R F C (1913-1974)2
Kellogg, Rhoda2
Linnenkamp, Rolf2
Rainbird, George (1905-1986)2
Raine, Kathleen (1908-2003)2
Read, Benedict (1945-2016)2
Read, Lady Margaret Ludwig (1905-1996)2

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The Egoist

1916-1919

This file contains 15 issues of The Egoist, edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver, with T.S. Eliot acting as Assistant Editor and Dora Marsden as Contributing Editor. Excerpts from James Joyce's Ulysses appea...

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Yorkshire Regiment shoulder patches

c.1915-1919

4 shoulder patches of the Yorkshire Regiment (The Green Howards), 10th battalion.

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Cards and letters to and from Herbert Read

1914-1933

This file contains cards and letters to and from Herbert Read written during and after the First World War. The file includes: 1 postcard, with photograph of soliders including Read on recto, sent...

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Mentioned in Dispatches certficate

1 Mar 1919

Mentioned in Dispatches certificate dated 1 March 1919.

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America

1944 - 1950

This file contains correspondence and associated material related to rights and permissions of Herbert Read's books published in America.

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Book contracts and agreements A

1929 - 1970

This file contains originals and copies of UK and overseas book contracts, agreements, and some associated correspondence relating to the following books by Herbert Read. Some agreements were made pos...

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Argentina and Venezuela

Squirru, Rafael F; Neumann, Hans; Forner, Raquel (1902-)

c.1962 - 1965

File of correspondence concerning a visit to Argentina and Venezuela made by Read in 1962. Read had been invited to serve as president of the jury at the I Bienal America de Arte [1st Latin American A...

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Bollingen Series: Blake and Tradition

Raine, Kathleen (1908-2003)

c.1914-1968

Files include one letter from Kathleen Raine to Read, and associated correspondence with the Bollingen Foundation concerning problems with the book. There are also photocopied annotated typescripts of...

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Bollingen Series: Coleridge

Franklin, Colin; Coburn, Kathleen; Hull, R F C (1913-1974)

c.1966-1968

Correspondence concerning Read's work on 'The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge', the first volume of which was published in 1962. Files chiefly concern negotiations with representatives o...

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Bollingen Series: Max Raphael

Cohen, Robert S; Schaefer, Claude; McGuire, William (1917-)

c.1963 - 1968

Drafts, correspondence and planning material relating to Max Raphael's 'The Demands of Art'. Read had written the introduction to the English translation of the text, published in the Bollingen Series...

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Bollingen Series: Unamuno

Kerrigan, Anthony; McGuire, William (1917-)

c.1965 - 1968

Correspondence, notes, press cuttings and associated material relating to Read's input on the development of the Bollingen Series 'Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno' , files cover the selection of p...

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Kindlers Malerei Lexicon

Darracott, Joseph (1934-); Bihalji-Merin, Oto (1904-1993)

c.1959 - 1962

Correspondence and associated material concerning Read's work on the Malerei Lexicon.

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