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Total number of records: 144

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Brotherton Collection90
Herbert Read Collection85
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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture10
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History2
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)14
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)14
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)6
Du Fresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-16686
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792)6
Cochin, Charles-Nicolas (1715-1790)3
Royal College of Art (Great Britain)3
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)3
Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867)2
Chipiez, Charles2

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Archive File

Bibliography notes: E.M. Forster note

Forster, E M (1879-1970)

1944

This file contains 1 manuscript note from E.M Forster, in which he quotes from Christopher Isherwood's Mr Norris Changes Trains. The quotation begins 'Remorse is not for the elderly.' The note is date...

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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...

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Associated notes

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1931 - 1962

This file contains papers associated with the correspondence and relationship of Herbert and Margaret Read. It includes: 1932 receipt for a grand piano which Read had installed in his house at Tip...

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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 ...

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Notes: bibliography

c.1914-1968

Files of loose notes, typescripts, correspondence and printed material titled 'Bibliography' prior to arrival at Special Collections. Files include newspaper and journal clippings and printed materia...

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Notes: Originality

c.1912-1968

Beige file divider with Originality written in red ballpoint pen on front. Inside the divider is a manuscript list of slides in pencil.

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Biibliography notes: ms and ts

c.1930 - 1950

This file contains manuscript and typescript pages chiefly of quotations from and notes on books including: Dali, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali; Maitra, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Sri Aur...

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Notebook 3: Notes notebook

c.1914-1968

Hardback notebook with 'notes' repeated over the cover. Coleridge is written on the fly leaf and the book contains notes on Coleridge, including Coleridge's journal The Friend, and Schelling.

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Notes: Padgett, Castleford and District

c.1914-1968

This file contains manuscript notes (2ff) on 'Castleford and District in the Olden Time', b Lorenzo Padgett (1904).

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Notes: Gould, Aristotle and the Irrational

c. 1963

Manuscript notes in Read's hand with page references on Thomas Gould, Aristotle and the Irrational, Arion, II, 2 (1963) pp. 55-74.

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Notes: Untitled black folder

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); Gabo, Naum (1890-1977)

1919-1967

Diverse manuscript and typescript notes, excerpts from books, printed material and newspaper clippings collected together in an untitled black folder prior to arrival in Special Collections. Subjects ...

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Bibliography notes: printed material

1934 - 1949

Printed articles found in file of notes headed 'Bibliography'. The majority of articles are from the 1940s, but 1, 'Where is your Vorticist', by Wyndham Lewis, published in Architectural Review, is da...

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