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Brotherton Collection2

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Ransome, Arthur5
[Members of the Gypsy Lore Society]1
Baron, Alec1
Bax, Clifford1
Bithell, Jethro1
Borthwick, Oliver Andrew1
Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, Henry1
Cohen, Henry, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead1
Dainty, Dorothy1
Francis, Henry James1

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Sender: Lewis & Lewis

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 2

Date(s): 19 Jul 1904 (twice)

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence

Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Morrison, H P

Letters: 1

Date(s): 10 Jan 1948

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C13 : Nelson 7B

Note: Draft on reverse of AR's letter to Thomas Nelson & Sons, 10 Jan 1948

Sender: Offor, Richard

Recipient: Mortimer, Russell Stanley & Jean

Letters: 2

Date(s): 30 Jul 1947; 1 n.d. [Dec 1948 ?]

Location: SC MS 647/11, 13

Note: 1) Personal. 2) Christmas greetings; notes on mutual acquaintances. Probably dated December 1948.

Sender: Knollys, Francis, 1st Viscount Knollys

Recipient: Borthwick, Oliver Andrew

Letters: 5

Date(s): 19 Jan 1900 - 1 Feb 1905

Location: MS Dep 1990/1/1945-1949

Note: 1948, attached: pseudonymous letter to J.N. Dunn, dated Paris 25

Feb 1900.


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Cohen, Henry, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead to Pickles, William Norman

Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, Henry

n.d.

Refers to Pickles's Cutter Lecture. Presumably dated after its

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Gawsworth, John to Masefield, John

Gawsworth, John

1 May 1943 - 22 November 1948

The 1943 letter is a draft or copy. The 1948 letter is represented by two separate drafts (counted as separate letters)

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Sender: Lewenstein, Oscar

Recipient: Baron, Alec

Letters: 2

Date(s): 22 Sept 1947; 3 Oct 1947

Location: BC MS 20c Theatre, Baron / 3; BC MS 20c Theatre, Baron / 21

Note: Regarding organising a Unity Theatre Summer School in Malvern in 1948; regarding Unity Theatres in Leeds and Glasgow

Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Usborne, Richard

Letters: 2

Date(s): 19 Oct 1948, 21 Oct 1948

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: Usborne's draft biographical note and AR's own version are together with the letter dated 21 Oct 1948. Recipient was assistant editor at 'Strand'

Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Thomas Nelson & Sons

Letters: 8

Date(s): 14 Jan 1935 - 29 Nov 1961

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C13 : Nelson 2, 5, 7A, 12A, 12B, 16, 33, 132

Note: Letter of 14 Jan 1935 (2) agreeing Royalties on 'Old Peter's Tales'. Letter dated 10 Jan 1948 (7A) has draft letter to H P Morrison on reverse. Letter dated 10 Jan 1948 (33) is a photocopy, attached to Allan Ramsay's letter to ER, 11 Oct 1968. Letter dated 10 Jan 1948 (132) is a photocopy, together with a phtoocopy of TC and EC Jack's agreement on publishing 'Old Peter's Russian Tales', 21 Dec [year illegible]. Letters dated 4 & 5 Nov 1961 (12A & B) appear to be drafts. Letter of 29 Nov 1961 (16) is a carbon copy

Sender: Bax, Clifford

Recipient: Gosse, Philip

Letters: 12

Date(s): [18 Mar 1933] - 7 Apr 1948; 5 n.d.

Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In envelope "DR PHILIP GOSSE, A (box "LETTERS ... presented by Dr Philip Gosse"

Note: One of the letters - 2 (April) 1948 - is dated in error "2.i. 48". Of the five undated letters, one is headed "Sunday" and another "December the 2nd". Not in printed catalogue.

Sender: Wilson, John G.

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 2

Date(s): 13 Jul 1944; 22 Mar 1948

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C5

Note: Attached to letter of 22 March is a TS of a speech given by A.R. to the Booksellers' Provident Institution on 15 March 1948, of which Wilson was Vice-president. There are also three cuttings from publishers' trade journals.

Sender: Francis, Henry James

Recipient: [Members of the Gypsy Lore Society]

Letters: 1

Date(s): Sep 1948

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: Signed holograph manuscript copy for a notice to members of the Gypsy Lore Society concerning the financial affairs of the Society. ff.2. 260*203mm. "September 1948". On the Society's notepaper (Treasurer, 17 Stoneygate Road, Leicester).