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Sender: Vale, Hazel (nee Lewis)
Recipient: Ransome, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Dec 1958
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C5
Note: Informing of the birth of A.R.'s great-granddaughter on 10 December 1958. Sender is A.R.'s granddaughter.
Sender: Ransome, Arthur
Recipient: Stokes, Richard Rapier
Letters: 4
Date(s): 27 Feb 1941; 10 Dec 1946; 30 May 1950; 20 Oct 1954
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6
Note: Attached to 10 Dec 1946 is a TS of A.R.'s views on the "Misuse of Wireless".
Sender: Gnosspelius, Janet B.
Recipient: Ransome, Evgenia
Letters: 10
Date(s): 31 Aug 1967 - 5 Jan 1971; 1 n.d. [c. 1962/3]
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C11
Note: With letter 10 Sep 1987 is "rough draft" of A.R.'s about the origins of "Swallows and Amazons".
Sender: Ransome, Gordon
Recipient: Ransome, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 23 May 1949
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2; with Graham-Vivian correspondence
Note: A.R.'s draft reply on reverse, 10 June 1949. Enclosing duplicated letter from the Harveian Librarian, Royal College of Physicians.
Sender: Woledge, Geoffrey
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 14
Date(s): 2 Jul 1939 - 17 May 1966
Location: SC 622/159, 164, 187, 198, 201, 210, 220, 258, 260, 264, 266,
496, 640, 1056
Note: 1) A staff appointment; unsuitability of George Ormande Randle; G.W.'s own M.A. work. 2) J.H. Jones' proposed book on the coal
mining industry; the war and life in Ulster; galley proofs of
Bertram Samuel Page and G.W. "Manual of University and College
Library Practice"; reflections on his 39th birthday. Partly TS. 3) J.J. Graneek; congratulates FB on being short-listed; dispersal of L.S.E. Library; personal. 4) Housing situation in London; possibility of FB seeking a job in London; GW's preference for a provincial centre; personal; R.S. Mortimer; work at LSE; Professor Le Patourel; Miss Matheson. 2 ff. 5) Will act as referee for FB's application for librarianship at Durham; the library at Durham. 6) Enclosing papers; note on John Francis Bray. TS. 7) Marjorie Plant and FB as candidates for a post in Bristol. 8) FB's contribution to the Offor "Festschrift"; GW's paper on the Leeds charter. Partly TS. 9) FB's contribution to the Offor "Festschrift"; A.C.F. Beales. TS. 2 ff. 10) FB's contribution to the Offor "Festschrift"; purchase of a house. TS and MS. 11) Offor "Festschrift"; FB's proposed Yorkshire bibliography; GW and librarianship at Leeds University. 2 ff. 12) Seeks information for a student about Wensleydale; proposed
research by W. Guttsman. 13) FB's chapter in "History of Christianity in Yorkshire"; personal. 14) Personal; retirement to Leeds.
Sender: Kaufman, Paul
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 30
Date(s): 1 Apr 1965 - 10 Feb 1970
Location: SC 622/970, 972, 973, 975, 976, 985, 996, 1003, 1006, 1007,
1009, 1015, 1017, 1018, 1023, 1026, 1032, 1048, 1053, 1054,
1065, 1069, 1076, 1099, 1105, 1143, 1188, 1204, 1205, 1208
Note: 1) Forwarding some items; his work. 2) Seeks information on Westminster Library. TS. 3) Catalogues; A.N. Jeffares; Owen Lattimore. 4) Dissertation by M.C. Park on Joseph Priestley
(University of Pensylvania); Thomas Kelly (Liverpool); visit to London in September. 5) Recent earthquake; his research; Coleridge and library readers; Dr W.M. Dickie. 6) His work; honours for The Beetles; R. Irwin. 7) Status and occupation of subscribers to the Liverpool Library in 1760. TS. Attached, photocopy of part of a list of subscribers. 8) Thanks for information on Liverpool; question about John Binns of Leeds. TS. 9) Forwarding a copy of the thesis by Mary C. Park on Priestley. 10) Reference to John Binns; question about S.J. Pratt, "Family Secrets". TS. 11) Further on S.J. Pratt; his work on Coleridge; offprints. 12) His research; Irish libraries. 13) His work; value of FB's article on subscription libraries. TS. 14) Female members of subscription libraries. Date from postmark. 15) Query about Dr. Beddoes. 16) Forwarding a copy of a letter from Mario M. Witt, dated Florence, 30 August 1965, about libraries in Italy. 2 ff. Witt's letter attached. 17) Annotation on a
photocopy of a letter from Donald T. Gibbs to PK dated 8 Nov 1965, about Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island. 18) Enquiry about Francis Rawdon, 1st Marquis of Hastings. TS. notes by FB. 19) Enquiries about circulating library in Beverley TS.; some notes by FB on verso. 20) Work of Thomas Kelly; no publisher in England will take his "Community Library". 21) Forwarding a copy of his draft review of Charles Parish "History of the Birmingham Library". 5 ff., including the copy. 22) Personal. 23) His "Community Libraries"; personal 24) Picture postcard of Biblioteca Central of Universidad Nacional de Mexico; place from post-mark. 25) Personal; Attached: photocopy of his review of C. Parish "History of the Birmingham Library". 26) Seeks eludication of an author's initial. TS. 27) FB's history of the Leeds Library; his own writing. TS. 28) His collected papers; work on community libraries for John Horden at Leeds and his projected "Bibliographica". TS. 29) FB's award
of the degree of M.Phil; John Horden; Westminster libraries. 30) Inter-library loans; Anglo-French studies.
Sender: Wright, George
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 27
Date(s): [not before 1926] - 15 May 1961
Location: SC 622/1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 59, 123, 124, 137,
142, 171, 174, 230, 243, 267, 291, 320, 321, 350, 352, 792
Note: 1) Examinations; theatre in London. Dated by reference to Sean O'Casey, "Plough and the Stars". 2) His library work and life in Trinidad. 3) His library work; comments on people at Leeds; Geoffrey Woledge; plans for a higher degree. 3 ff. five photographs attached. 4) Personal; local agriculture and sugar processing; West Indians; his proposed research; his father; Richard Offor and Leeds University library. 6 ff. Mainly in pencil. 5) Personal; attempts to get more staff; Geoffrey Woledge; Thomas Vincent Benn. 3 ff. 6) Personal; Leeds University library; G. Woledge. 7) Salaries and employment prospects; R. Offor and his staff at Leeds. 2 ff. 8) Personal; future employment; library staff at Leeds. 2 ff. Address from post-mark. 9) Personal; Guido Giovanni Giannetti. 2 ff. address from post-mark. 10) Personal. 2 ff. 11) Apologies for not meeting. On note paper of Hamburg-Amerika Linie; post-mark, Port of Spain, Trinidad 11 Oct 1929. 12) Apologies for not meeting; sailing back to
Trinidad tomorrow. 13) Birth of a son. 14) About to return to Trinidad; impressions of London; FB's letters. 15) Congratulations on FB's appointment; his own impressions of the Leeds library. 16) FB's move to the Leeds Library; Geoffrey Milne, formerly at Leeds; FB's prospects; life as an expatriate. 17) His position in the Trinidad Trading Co.; proposal to open a bookshop; U.S. influence in the area; the war. TS. 18) Return from Bermuda to Trinidad via New York; the situation in Trinidad; a second-hand bookseller in Port of Spain; stamp collecting. TS. 2 ff. 19) Tests in English language; educational standards in Trinidad; plain English. 20) Bookselling; education; unrest in Trinidad. 21) Return to Trinidad; abeyance of a proposal for a bookshop. TS. 22) G. Woledge; contribution to Offor's testimonial fund; suggested literary work for FB; Trinidadian economy; the local history society. TS. 2 ff. 23) Paul Winterton visiting Trinidad and Tobago to report for "The Economist". TS.
24) Same topic; politics in Trinidad; report on economy of Trinidad; university regulations for doctorates; University of the West Indies TS.; 3 ff.; address inferred. 25) Education for his son in England; question of a doctorate; journalism. 3 ff. 26) His son's education; Leeds doctorate regulations; Paul Winterton. TS.; 2 ff. 27) Personal. TS.