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Gosse, Edmund5
Debney, Jack3
Smithells, Arthur3
Crossley-Holland, Kevin2
Graevius, Johann Georg2
Huet, Pierre Daniel2
Mayer, Gerda2
Read, Herbert2
Thompson, Herbert2
? , Ruby1

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Sender: William II, Emperor of Germany

Recipient: Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia

Letters: 1

Date(s): 7 Feb 1895

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C10: Miscellaneous single letters

Note: Photographic copy.

Sender: Ball, Sir George Joseph

Recipient: Drummond-Wolff, Henry Maxence Cavendish

Letters: 7

Date(s): 15 Jun 1938 - 28 Aug 1951

Location: SC 709/74, 80-82, 85, 173, 174

Note: 1) Acknowledgment of HDW's help in obtaining Rechnitzer's support. 2) Encirclement of Germany. 3) Encouragement to leave for Germany. Photocopy. 4) HDW's visit to Germany. 2 ff. 5) Acknowledgment. 6) Renewed search for missing records. 7) Believes his help could damage HDW's prospects.

Sender: ? , Ruby

Recipient: Read, Herbert

Letters: 2

Date(s): 19 Mar ; 29 May ?

Location: BC MS 20c Herbert Read, box 6

Note: Written from Germany. Filed under D

Sender: Brewster, Harry

Recipient: Read, Herbert

Letters: 2

Date(s): 26 Apr 1966; 17 Jan 1968

Location: BC MS 20c Herbert Read, box 6

Note: Written from Uber Traunstein, Germany (1966) and Corfu (1968)

Sender: Clayton, Henry R. (on behalf of Novello & Co.)

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1 Jan 1915

Location: Inserted at the end of a copy of the score of Elgar's 'Dream of Gerontius' presented to Herbert Thompson by the publishers, Novello & Co. (SC Music E-1 ELG)

Note: Describes the circumstances of the score's production in Germany shortly before the outbreak of the First World War

Sender: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Recipient: Mayer, Gerda

Letters: 2

Date(s): 24 July-2 Aug 1985

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-1-9-1

Note: Carbon copies. Relates to inclusion of Gerda Mayer's poem "Small park in East Germany: 1969" in the anthology


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Liebenam, Lore to Hellewell, Richard Alexander

Liebenam, Lore

4 Apr 1936

Loan of a book for a Handel exhibition in Germany. Attached: (i) an invitation to celebrations at Halle; (ii) press-cutting

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Sender: Mayer, Gerda

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 3 (includes 2 p. c.s)

Date(s): 28 July 1985-14 Oct 1986

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-1-9-1

Note: Concerns inclusion of her poem "Small park in East Germany: 1969" in the anthology. Letter of 28 July 1985 includes a p.c.

Sender: Debney, Jack

Recipient: Binding, Tim at Penguin Books

Letters: 1

Date(s): 4 Nov 1981

Location: BC MS 20C Firebird Author File 33 Jack Debney

Note: Written from West Germany and refers to his story "At Vassilou's" and a whole manuscript. States his pleasure to be included in the Penguin Anthology.

Sender: Debney, Jack

Recipient: Hunter, Sally at Patrick Seale Books Limited

Letters: 1

Date(s): 4 Nov 1981

Location: BC MS 20C Firebird Author File 33 Jack Debney

Note: Written from West Germany and refers to story "At Vassiliou's" and that presumably he will get the contract from Mr Binding. Letter includes an autobiography.

Sender: Macfie, Robert Andrew Scott

Recipient: Winstedt, E.O.

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Aug 1933

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

Note: From Shaws, Lunds, Sedbergh, Yorks. With typescript carbon copy of "Gypsy Persecution in Germany" and other documents (see entry no.1055 in printed catalogue).

Sender: Le Queux, William Tufnell

Recipient: Taylor, Frank James

Letters: 2

Date(s): 14 May 1916

Location: SC MS 585/4-5

Note: 1) A covering note with MS 585/5. 2) His supporting Lord Roberts's views on Germany in 1908; welcomes Barnsley's initiative to provide comforts for the troops.