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Total number of records: 17

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Archives13
Books and printed items4

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Brotherton Collection17
English Literature13
Herbert Read Collection13

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anarchism17
art13
art, modern13
english poetry13
modernism (art)13
sculpture, modern13
communism1
socialism1

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Mcguire, William (1917-)4
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich Kn︠I︡Azʹ (1842-1921)3
Peter Kropotkin3
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)2
Adler, Gerhard (1904-)1
Cohen, Robert S1
De Leon, Daniel (1852-1914)1
Fordham, Michael (1905-)1
Franklin, Norman1
Hammacher, Abraham Marie (1897-2002)1

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From 190015

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William Miller

1967

This file contains a letter from William Miller, previously associate editor of the religion department at Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Miller writes to read as a book publishing consultant and urges R...

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William Read

1933

This file contains 2 manuscript letters to Herbert Read from his younger brother William. The first thanks Read for sending him a copy of The Innocent Eye, and compares some of his own experiences at ...

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Ernest William Read

1 Jan 1941

1 manuscript letter to Herbert Read from his uncle Ernest William Read, who writes to say how much he has enjoyed Annals of Innocence and Experience, and compares his own boarding school life with his...

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Benedict William Read

Read, Benedict (1945-2016)

1964-1966

This file contains 2 manuscript letters from Benedict Read to his parents while he was at Queen's College, Oxford. One includes an adaptation of a Horace Ode, which Benedict Read was revising at the ...

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William Prior Read

14 Nov 1926

1 manuscript letter from W[illiam] P[rior] Read to Herbert Read. William Prior Read was not a relation to Read, but became a mentor to him, after Herbert Read's brother had been apprenticed to him. He...

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The conquest of bread

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich kn︠i︡azʹ (1842-1921)

1913

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Memoirs of a revolutionist

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich kn︠i︡azʹ (1842-1921)

1908

"Published in the Atlantic monthly (September, 1898, to September 1899) under the title: The autobiography of a revolutionist.

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Bollingen Series: Max Raphael

Cohen, Robert S; Schaefer, Claude; McGuire, William (1917-)

c.1963 - 1968

Drafts, correspondence and planning material relating to Max Raphael's 'The Demands of Art'. Read had written the introduction to the English translation of the text, published in the Bollingen Series...

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Bollingen Series: Jung Correspondence

McGuire, William (1917-); Fordham, Michael (1905-); Adler, Gerhard (1904-); Franklin, Norman

c.1964 - 1967

Substantial series of correspondence and associated material concerning Read's work on the Bollingen Series Collected Jung. The files cover discussions on the translation of texts into English, decisi...

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Notebook 4: Pink notebook

c.1914-1968

Pink notebook, covered by the Faber Library list. Read has written his address onto the 2nd page. 3 The Mall, Parkhill Road has been crossed out and Broom House, Seer Green written below. The Reads mo...

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Book reviews: M-Q

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c.1914-1968

This file contains book reviews by Herbert Read. The majority of reviews are carbon copies of typescripts; any manuscripts or corrections are noted in the list below. Publications are by UK and overse...

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Cards and letters to and from Herbert Read

1914-1933

This file contains cards and letters to and from Herbert Read written during and after the First World War. The file includes: 1 postcard, with photograph of soliders including Read on recto, sent...

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