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Total number of records: 12

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Archives11
Books and printed items1

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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive5
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection5
Brotherton Collection4
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman1

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letter writing12
publishing3
music publishing2
translation2
antisemitism1
art books1
death1
displaced persons1
drawing1
education1

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London, United Kingdom5
Paris, France2
Birmingham, United Kingdom1
Leeds, United Kingdom1
Osaka, Japan1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Bauman, Janina (1926-2009)1
Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017)1
Cowden Clarke, Charles1
La Serre M. De (1600-1665)1
Martin, T.1
Massinger, John1
N. N1
N. N (1770-)1
Novello, Vincent1
Ollier, Charles1

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Archive Item

Cowden Clarke, Charles to Ollier, Charles

28 Oct 1812

Handwritten letter from Charles Cowden Clarke to Charles Ollier, composed of Latin quoations and their English translations, requested by Ollier. Cowden Clarke submits another translation of his for O...

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John [?] to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1960

Typewritten letter from John [?] to Maurice de Sausmarez, noting that he has been working hard on translation jobs while in Paris and asking to rent de Sausmarez's house in the Vaucluse for three mont...

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Payton, Richard to Littleton, Henry

2 Aug 1870

Six handwritten letters from Richard Payton to Henry Littleton, discussing the printing and translation of music to be performed at the Birmingham Musical Festival. With one draft handwritten reply fr...

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Martin, T. to Novello, Vincent

28 Nov 1846

Handwritten letter on behalf of T. Martin to Vincent Novello, requesting his acceptance of a portrait of the late piano and harp maker Johann Andreas Stumpff, with a translation of the lines written u...

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Troutbeck, John to [?]

25 Mar 1876

Handwritten letter from the clergyman, translator and musicologist John Troutbeck to unidentified recipients, likley Novello & Co., noting the extent of the work they have sent him and suggesting a fe...

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Littleton, Henry to Breitkopf & Härtel

Mar 1876

Three handwritten draft letters from Henry Littleton, Director of Novello, Ewer and Co., to the German music publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel, discussing the printing of choral parts for a composi...

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The secretary in fashion, or, An elegant and compendious way of writing all manner of letters

La Serre M. de (1600-1665); N. N (fl. ca. 1770); Massinger, John

1654

"The translator to the reader" signed: J.M. [i.e. John Massinger]. Special t.p. on p. [235]: The complements and elegancy of the French tongve / by N.N. Newly corrected and revised. Added title pa...

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David Herbert to Maurice de Sausmarez

29 May 1964

Typewritten letter from David Herbert, Chief Editor at Studio Vista, to Maurice de Sausmarez, enclosing a finished copy of his book 'Basic Design: The Dynamics of Visual Form' [not enclosed]. Herbert ...

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Correspondence related to reprints

1965-2001

Correspondence from the publishers Studio Vista, The Herbert Press Limited and A&C Black (Publishers) Limited about reprints of the book 'Basic Design: The Dynamics of Visual Form' by Maurice de Sausm...

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Jean Hélion to Maurice de Sausmarez

1969

Three handwritten notes from the French artist Jean Hélion to Maurice de Sausmarez concerning de Sausmarez's request for Hélion to write a reflection on Ben Nicholson's work of the 1930s for the spe...

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James Kirkup to Maurice de Sausmarez

1951-1965

Handwritten and typewritten letters and postcards from the poet and translator James Kirkup to Maurice de Sausmarez and handwritten and typewritten letters from the poet John Betjeman to James Kirkup ...

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Papers of Janina and Zygmunt Bauman

Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017); Bauman, Janina (1926-2009)

1945-2015

Most of the material relates to the professional careers of Zygmunt Bauman and his first wife, Janina Bauman (writer). It includes correspondence (with academics of sociology, philosophy and other dis...

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