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Total number of records: 3045
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016) | 121 |
| Wood, Joseph (1750-1821) | 102 |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin | 85 |
| Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977) | 75 |
| Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn | 75 |
| Ransome, Arthur | 46 |
| Silkin, Jon (1930-1997) | 23 |
| Coburn, Kathleen | 13 |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) | 13 |
| Christensen, Merton | 12 |
Count of Earliest date
Notebook 1: Blue notebook
c.1914-1968
Small blue notebook. Contains notes and sketches of stained glass and objects under the headings of place names including: Basel, Zurich, Lincoln and Great Bricett. Approximately one third of the note...
Notebook 11: Patterned notebook
c.1914-1968
Small notebook with hardback patterned binding. Manuscript notes on 5 pages. This includes a draft of a poem titled From the Platform (3ff).
Notebook 13: Blue notebook
c.1966 -1968
Blue lined notebook. Manuscript drafts of The Disintegration of Art (34ff) and Pragmatic Anarchism (30ff), later published as My Anarchism, the fifth chapter of The Cult of Sincerity (1968).
Notebook 14: Grey notebook
c.1914-1968
Grey lined notebook, with Herbert Read, Stonegrave, York written on fly leaf. Contains manuscript drafts with the following titles: Art as a Unifying Principle in Education (Presidential address ...
Notebook 15: Black notebook
1916 - 1920
Black lined notebook. On the paste down is written: A James, 11th [illeg], Yorkshire Regiment, 1916. Musketry Notes. This has 'cancelled written through' and beneath is written H.E. Read. Pages hav...
Notebook 16: Beige notebook
c.1914-1968
Beige lined notebook with General written on textured cover. Detailed notes with page references for a large number of books, from Milton and Ben Johnson to twentieth century authors including Wittgen...
Notebook 17: Blue notebook
1931
Blue notebook, with 'Herbert Read 1931' written on the fly leaf and 'Similitudes' on third page. Contains fair, manuscript and printed copies of some poems published in Poems 1914-1934 (1935). Some po...
Notebook 2: Beige notebook
c.1931
Small beige notebook with hessian weave cover. Read's address has been written onto the flyleaf. Broom House has been crossed out and The University of Edinburgh written afterwards, suggesting the boo...
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.
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...
Notebook 5: Brown notebook
1919 -1968
Brown unlined notebook. Read has written his address on the inside cover as Victoria and Albert Museum (where Read worked 1922-1931). The book contains notes and sketches on stained glass and other ob...
Notebook 8: Black notebook
c.1912 - 1915
Black unlined notebook. On the first page is written Herbert Read. Note Book. The book is filled with notes and quotations from various writers including: Nietzsche, Henry James, Shaw, Art by Clive...