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Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco1
Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco (1853-1908)1
Gregory, Eric Craven (1888-1959)1
Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious Character)1
Hoboken, Eva Van1

Archive File

Letters: Herbert Read to Margaret Read (undated)

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1931-1968

This file contains undated letters sent to Margaret Read by Herbert Read.

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Gulliver's travels

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Williams, Sir Harold Herbert (1880-1964)

1926

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An English farmhouse and its neighbourhood

Grigson, Geoffrey (1905-1985)

1948

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Miscellaneous sales figures

1918 - 1977

Undated sales figures. Possibly to University and College campuses in the United States of America.

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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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Lustra of Ezra Pound

Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Li, Bai (701-762); Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco (1853-1908)

1916

Poems, reprinted, in part, from various periodicals. "Cathay, for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the professors Mori a...

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Review (1983)

National Art-Collections Fund (Great Britain); Art Fund

1983-

"An illustrated account of the works of art acquired by museums and galleries in Great Britain and the Commonwealth in... with the assistance of the NACF." Includes Annual report, Annual review, and...

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Review (1986)

National Art-Collections Fund (Great Britain); Art Fund

1983-

"An illustrated account of the works of art acquired by museums and galleries in Great Britain and the Commonwealth in... with the assistance of the NACF." Includes Annual report, Annual review, and...

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Some imagist poets : an anthology (1916)

1915-16

Reprinted in part from various periodicals. First English edition, first published in Boston and New York. Cf. Roberts, A bibl. of D.H. Lawrence, B4 (1st ed.). Poems by Richard Aldington, H. D., J...

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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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Eranos

Hoboken, Eva van

6 Oct 1957 - 9 Mar 1968

This file contains correspondence and associated material, in English and German, related to the intellectual discussion group Eranos. Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Read from Olga Froe...

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City University of New York (incl. City College)

16 Oct - 14 Dec 1967

This file contains 2 signed typescript letters, 1 with carbon copy response on verso, relating to the City University of New York, including the City College of the City University of New York. The ...

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