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Total number of records: 37

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection37
English Literature37
Herbert Read Collection37

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
anarchism37
art37
art, modern37
english poetry37
modernism (art)37
sculpture, modern37

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Forster, E M (1879-1970)1
Gabo, Naum (1890-1977)1
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1
Sheridan, Clare (1885-1970)1

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Earliest dateCount
From 190036
From 20001

Archive Sub-series

Notes and notebooks

c.1912-1968

This series contains the notebooks and notes of Herbert Read, where they were not included in project files prior to deposit at Special Collections. The notebooks have been given a number for ease of ...

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Notebook 1: Blue notebook

c.1914-1968

Small blue notebook. Contains notes and sketches of stained glass and objects under the headings of place names including: Basel, Zurich, Lincoln and Great Bricett. Approximately one third of the note...

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Notebook 10: Brown ringbound notebook

c.1922 - 1931

Small brown ringbound notebook. Read has written his address towards the front, and has given both Broom House and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The book includes: notes on French and Spanish religi...

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Notebook 11: Patterned notebook

c.1914-1968

Small notebook with hardback patterned binding. Manuscript notes on 5 pages. This includes a draft of a poem titled From the Platform (3ff).

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Notebook 12: Large red notebook

c.19166 - 1968

Large red lined notebook. Contains manuscript drafts including: Read's review of Basil Bunting's Briggflatts and The Cult of Sincerity.

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Notebook 13: Blue notebook

c.1966 -1968

Blue lined notebook. Manuscript drafts of The Disintegration of Art (34ff) and Pragmatic Anarchism (30ff), later published as My Anarchism, the fifth chapter of The Cult of Sincerity (1968).

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Notebook 14: Grey notebook

c.1914-1968

Grey lined notebook, with Herbert Read, Stonegrave, York written on fly leaf. Contains manuscript drafts with the following titles: Art as a Unifying Principle in Education (Presidential address ...

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Notebook 15: Black notebook

1916 - 1920

Black lined notebook. On the paste down is written: A James, 11th [illeg], Yorkshire Regiment, 1916. Musketry Notes. This has 'cancelled written through' and beneath is written H.E. Read. Pages hav...

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Notebook 16: Beige notebook

c.1914-1968

Beige lined notebook with General written on textured cover. Detailed notes with page references for a large number of books, from Milton and Ben Johnson to twentieth century authors including Wittgen...

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Notebook 17: Blue notebook

1931

Blue notebook, with 'Herbert Read 1931' written on the fly leaf and 'Similitudes' on third page. Contains fair, manuscript and printed copies of some poems published in Poems 1914-1934 (1935). Some po...

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Notebook 18: Partial black notebook

c.1914-1968

Partial black notebook with loose pages and front cover missing. Contains one page of addresses includingTed Hughes and Kathleen Raine.

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Notebook 19: The Innocent Eye and The End of a War

c.1914-1968

Faun notebook with pencil date 07/04/1932. Address given on the pastedown is Herbert Read, 9 Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh. The notebook contains a manuscript draft of The Innocent Eye beginning at the...

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