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D.W. Harding

1967-1977

Letters from Harding to Francis Berry. Mainly discussing each other's personal and family lives.

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D.W. Harding

Harding, D W

2 Dec 1958

This file contains 1 letter to Herbert Read from D.W. Harding. Harding thanks Read for his letter and acknowledges that he had not realised Read's role in enabling the work of [Trigant?] Burrow to ...

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The Fables of Æsop paraphras'd in verse : and adorn'd with sculpture

Ogilby, John (1600-1676); Aesop; Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-1677)

1651

The engravings are by Wenceslaus Hollar; portrait of John Ogilby as one of the frontispieces.

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Jackson, W. D. to Ross, Alan

23 July 1988 - 2 July 1991

Relating to London Magazine Editions; Observer / Arvon Competition; Heine; Ashley Brown; [T. S.] Eliot; Donald Davie; PNR ["Poetry Nation Review"]; Mussolini; Arthur Edward Cyril Parker; enclosures no...

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Walker, D. W. to Ross, Alan

18/01/1983

On behalf of National Westminister Bank PLC. Exchange between Ross and Ned Rorem on the letter.

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E. W. Nay

Haftmann, Werner

[c1960]

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Title: A satyr upon the W-----d [Wakefield (index)] ladies

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Lighthearted satire on the beauty and amorous conquests of ladies from

northern England, specifically Wakefield. Cf BCMSV 840, 841.

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Title: The satyr upon the W-----d ladies revers'd [do, by another hand (index)]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Lighthearted account of the beauty and amorous conquests of ladies from

northern England, specifically Wakefield, reworking BCMSV 839 in a more

complimentary manner. Cf also BCMSV 840.

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Dotage. A poem, inscrib'd to a gentleman within a few years of his grand-climacterick

J. W

1728

A dissuasion in verse against late marriage.

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W. B. Yeats : the critical heritage

Jeffares, A Norman (1920-2005)

1977

Bibliography: pages 437-439.

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W.H. Auden : the critical heritage

Haffenden, John (1945-)

1983

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