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Travel
c, 1930s - 1968
Series documenting Read's extensive international travels. Files are grouped by country/countries visited, and often document multiple trips. The files cover lecture tours, British Council visits and ...
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...
United States
Cairns, Huntington (1904-1985); Wight, Frederick Stallknecht (1902-1986); Naumburg, Margaret (1890-); Albers, Josef (1888-1976); Rockefeller, Blanchette Hooker (1902-1992); D'Harnoncourt, Rene (1901-1968); Francis, Sam (1923-1994); Kellogg, Rhoda
c.1948 - 1968
Substantial series of correspondence concerning Read's various visits to the United States, beginning with a lecture tour in 1948, followed by a fellowship at Harvard as Charles Eliot Norton Professor...
Travel notes
c.1960s
File containing one small notebook and loose notes, presumably removed from a notebook documenting itineraries and contacts, mainly for European travel during the mid 1960s. Notes presumably in Read's...
China
Payne, Robert (1911-1983); Gray, Basil (1904-1989)
c.1959 - 1961
Files concerning a visit made by Read to China in September - October 1959. He went at the invitation of the Chinese Department for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, the purpose of the visit ...
France
c.1914-1968
Loose notes containing manuscript journal entries made by Read describing a trip to France between 13 May and 3 June 1928.
Germany
c.1963 - 1964
Correspondence, notes, press cuttings and associated material concerning two visits made by Read to Germany. The first visit, to Munich in January 1963, was arranged by Inter Nationes organisation. Re...
Japan
Read, Piers Paul (1941-); Read, Lady Margaret Ludwig (1905-1996); Idemitsu, Sazō (1885-1981); Francis, Sam (1923-1994)
c.11963 - 1965
Material concerning a visit made by Herbert and Piers Paul Read to Japan in 1965, and broader correspondence concerning publication of Read's works in Japan. Files include correspondence and one bo...
New Zealand and Australia
Mountford, Charles P (1890-1976); Aarons, Anita; Burke, Joseph; Munz, Peter (1921-); Kellogg, Rhoda
c.1962 - 1968
Substantial file containing correspondence and associated material regarding a lecture tour in New Zealand and Australia in April - May 1963, where Read had also been a visitor at the Australian Unesc...
Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]
c. 1960 - 1962
Correspondence between Read and Frank McEwen regarding Read's proposed attendance at the First Biennial International Congress of African Culture held at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (then the Rho...
Romania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary
Brezianu, Barbu (1909-)
c. 1965 - 1967
File concerning a proposed visit to Romania as part of a tour of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania in 1967. The file includes correspondence with members of the British Council and the Romanian Emba...