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Total number of records: 656

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Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection656
Herbert Read Collection656
English Literature9

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
anarchism9
art9
art, modern9
english poetry9
modernism (art)9
sculpture, modern9

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hepworth, Barbara Dame (1903-1975)26
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)8
Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974)2
Raine, Kathleen (1908-2003)2
Aarons, Anita1
Adler, Gerhard (1904-)1
Albers, Josef (1888-1976)1
Alley, Rewi (1897-1987)1
Anand, Mulk Raj (1905-2004)1
Argan, Giulio Carlo1

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From earliest1
From 1900637
From 200018

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1999653
Up to latest3

Archive Series

Correspondence: individuals

1922-c.1970

This series contains letters chiefly addressed to Herbert Read, with some letters, carbon copies, and manuscript drafts by Read. Carbon copies of Read's letters were often typed onto the verso of corr...

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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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Anita Aarons

Aarons, Anita

c. 1967

1 typescript letter to Herbert Read from Anita Aarons, on Architecture Canada headed notepaper, 3ff. Herbert Read's response dated 2nd October 1967 is typed onto the verso of the first page. Includes ...

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Herbert A. Alf

28 Jul 1967 - 26 Feb 1968

This file contains 3 signed typescript letters from Herbert A. Alf; 2 addressed to Herbert Read, and 1 to Read's secretary J. Graham. Carbon copy responses from Read and Read's secretary are typed ont...

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Kenneth Clark

Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983)

3 Feb - 21 Mar 1967

This file contains 2 manuscript and 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Kenneth Clark. Clark writes initially on hearing that Read has been ill. He congratulates Read on receiving the Er...

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Sir Alec Clegg

Clegg, Alec (1909-1986)

13 - 18 Jan 1967

This file contains 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Sir Alec Clegg, 1f.Read's draft response is written in pencil on the verso and bottom of the recto. The letter is written on the he...

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Alec Clifton-Taylor

1918 - 1968

This file contains letters to Herbert Read from Alec Clifton-Taylor.

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Alan Clodd

Clodd, Alan

26 Jun 1967 - 4 Feb 1968

This file contains 2 manuscript and 2 signed typescript letters from Alan Clodd, the founder of Enitharmon Press, to Herbert Read. The letters concern a proposed book of tributes to the poet Kathlee...

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Arthur Cloutier

19 Nov - 7 Dec 1963

Two signed typescript letters to Herbert Read from Arthur Cloutier; a carbon copy of Read's response to the first letter in printed on the verso. Cloutier, a previous pupil of Edward Dahlberg, writes...

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Kathleen Coburn

1 May 1958 - 20 May 1968

This file contains 18 manuscript and signed typescript letters, cards and associated material addressed to Herbert Read from Kathleen Coburn, academic and authority on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Some ca...

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Donald Coggan

4 Apr 1968

1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Donald Coggan, during his time as Archbishop of York, 1f. The letter thanks Read for a book on the restoration of the church of St Nicholas at Ghent. ...

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Giulio Cogni

Cogni, Giulio

10 - 31 May 1966

1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Professor Giulio Cogni, 1f. A carbon copy of Read's response is typed on the verso. The letter accompanied a collection of Cogni's essays. Cogni expre...

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