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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 ...
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...
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...
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).
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.
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).
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...