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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Beckwith, Frank | 2 |
| Robertson, Robin At Penguin Books | 2 |
| Romer, Stephen | 2 |
| [Various] | 1 |
| Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, 1st Marquess of Crewe | 1 |
| Gosse, Edmund | 1 |
| Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 | 1 |
| Port, Michael Henry | 1 |
| Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 | 1 |
| Thomas Hield & Sons, Ltd. | 1 |
Sender: Port, Michael Henry
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Aug 1955
Location: SC 622/578
Note: Enquiry about Thomas Taylor and church building.
Sender: Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
Recipient: Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1 Sep 1788
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Melville 1
Note: Requesting that Mr Cunninghame be appointed Comptroller of the Port of Greenoch. A collection of autograph letters, notes, and miscellaneous manuscripts sent to Lord Melville, 1755-1848.
Sender: Robertson, Robin at Penguin Books
Recipient: Romer, Stephen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Jul 1984
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird Author File 55 Stephen Romer
Note: Likes six poems for Firebird 4 - "From the Corner Seat", "Sea-Changes"; "Coming Back", "How Things Continue", "In the Cinque Ports" and "An Afternoon in the Parc Monceau". Robertson expresses hesitation about using work that has already appeared and asks if Romer could let him know whether "From the Corner Seat", "Coming Back" and "In the Cinque Ports" remain intacto. Requests short biographical note. (The six poems were published in Firebird 4 Page 239)
Sender: Thomas Hield & Sons, Ltd.
Recipient: [various]
Letters: 1000
Date(s): Jul 1906 - Jan 1907
Location: SC Thomas Hield & Sons Ltd.: MS 1
Note: Letter book. Copies all outgoing letters, indexed by name of recipient. Most are addressed to concerns in the West Riding, and to ports in England and western and northern Europe. Much detail of trade, insurance, shipping, transport, puchases, sales, stock lots, and their prices. Approx. 1,000 letters.
Sender: Romer, Stephen
Recipient: Robertson, Robin at Penguin Books
Letters: 3
Date(s): 27 May 1984; 17 Jul 1984; 6 Oct 1984
Location: BC MS 20C Firebird Author File 55 Stephen Romer
Note: Sending 40 or so poems in response to Robertson's earlier card. Letter of 17 Jul puts forward a number of couplets and sends two further poems and includes a short biography. Notes that "From the Corner Seat", "In the Cinque Ports" and "Coming Back" remain unpublished and intacto -a reference to Robertson's letter of 9 Jul 1984. Letter of 6 Oct refers to the contract in regard to Firebird 4. File includes two sets of poems, one containing 35, and the other having 6 poems which are the ones referred to by Robertson. Two biographies are included in the file and a card with an address in France.
Sender: Wright, George
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 27
Date(s): [not before 1926] - 15 May 1961
Location: SC 622/1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 59, 123, 124, 137,
142, 171, 174, 230, 243, 267, 291, 320, 321, 350, 352, 792
Note: 1) Examinations; theatre in London. Dated by reference to Sean O'Casey, "Plough and the Stars". 2) His library work and life in Trinidad. 3) His library work; comments on people at Leeds; Geoffrey Woledge; plans for a higher degree. 3 ff. five photographs attached. 4) Personal; local agriculture and sugar processing; West Indians; his proposed research; his father; Richard Offor and Leeds University library. 6 ff. Mainly in pencil. 5) Personal; attempts to get more staff; Geoffrey Woledge; Thomas Vincent Benn. 3 ff. 6) Personal; Leeds University library; G. Woledge. 7) Salaries and employment prospects; R. Offor and his staff at Leeds. 2 ff. 8) Personal; future employment; library staff at Leeds. 2 ff. Address from post-mark. 9) Personal; Guido Giovanni Giannetti. 2 ff. address from post-mark. 10) Personal. 2 ff. 11) Apologies for not meeting. On note paper of Hamburg-Amerika Linie; post-mark, Port of Spain, Trinidad 11 Oct 1929. 12) Apologies for not meeting; sailing back to
Trinidad tomorrow. 13) Birth of a son. 14) About to return to Trinidad; impressions of London; FB's letters. 15) Congratulations on FB's appointment; his own impressions of the Leeds library. 16) FB's move to the Leeds Library; Geoffrey Milne, formerly at Leeds; FB's prospects; life as an expatriate. 17) His position in the Trinidad Trading Co.; proposal to open a bookshop; U.S. influence in the area; the war. TS. 18) Return from Bermuda to Trinidad via New York; the situation in Trinidad; a second-hand bookseller in Port of Spain; stamp collecting. TS. 2 ff. 19) Tests in English language; educational standards in Trinidad; plain English. 20) Bookselling; education; unrest in Trinidad. 21) Return to Trinidad; abeyance of a proposal for a bookshop. TS. 22) G. Woledge; contribution to Offor's testimonial fund; suggested literary work for FB; Trinidadian economy; the local history society. TS. 2 ff. 23) Paul Winterton visiting Trinidad and Tobago to report for "The Economist". TS.
24) Same topic; politics in Trinidad; report on economy of Trinidad; university regulations for doctorates; University of the West Indies TS.; 3 ff.; address inferred. 25) Education for his son in England; question of a doctorate; journalism. 3 ff. 26) His son's education; Leeds doctorate regulations; Paul Winterton. TS.; 2 ff. 27) Personal. TS.
Sender: Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, 1st Marquess of Crewe
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 45
Date(s): 27 Sep 1894 - 7 Mar 1927
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Grant to Walter Pater's sisters; invitation to Dublin; Mr Besant's address; quitting Ireland; London Library and Mrs Harrison; Rhys and Literary Fund; (4 March 1899) thanks for Kipling volume; Du Bellay; Bornier; Glatigny; (13 December 1905 to G. at House of Lords) "nearly thirty years since we first met, when I was an undergraduate"; apology for not sending verses, biographies by his father; thanks for Scotts Grey speech; (5 June 1907) must attend "weary Guildhall banquet"; (17 January 1914) acknowledges receipt for Swinburne papers, Crewe's MSS. of English authors, offers MSS to Gosse; thanks for copy of Swinburne; happy to succeed Redesdale at Red Cross Sale; (24 May 1917) thanks for "Inter Arma", wishes physical hell for German army; (30 September 1917 to G. at Colwyn Bay) cirular to allies; Crewe's "War and Poetry", Rupert Brooke, Maurice Baring; lending to Wise C's copy of Landor's "Fox"; (8 October 1918 to G. at Cloan, Aughterarder) regards to Haldane; thanks for Swinburne,
"Watts-Dunton's shabby part in separating the port from his old friends"; (11 February 1921) sending Masefield's letter; R. Sovs. of lit; honorary professorship offered to Gosse; J.C. Squire's Shelley speech ; (1 December 1922) thanks for congratulation on Paris appointment; (7 March 1926) asks G. to add his name to Council for British Institute at Paris. [Pencil note: unable to accept invitation to meet Princess of Wales at tea. n.d.].