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Total number of records: 64

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The Empty Landscape

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

2 typescript carbon copies of a prose piece titled 'The Empty Landscape', regarding landscape in painting and quoting from Baudelaire and Kierkegaard.

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The empty box

Nicholson, Simon; Open University. Art and Environment Course Team

1976

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An elegy written in an empty assembly-room

Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)

1756

Anon., By R.O. Cambridge. A parody on Pope's epistle of Eloisa to Abelard.

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Leisure and the Arts: atrophied muscles and empty art

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1964

Galley proofs for Read's article 'Leisure and the Arts: atrophied muscles and empty art in 1984', 2ff. For the New Scientist (67), 14 May 1964.

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Title: Grandoso

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 67

Contents: Satirical epigram in which the author responds to the empty promises of his supposed patron by offering him a feast of empty dishes. Revised.

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Constantine, David to Hamburger, Michael

Constantine, David

8 Jan. 1976 - 19 March 1994

Also: 2 envelopes, empty.

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Title: Human life

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 168- ?

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: On the folly and emptiness of the pomp and vanity of human life

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“Funeral of Thomas Hardy, January 1928, Letters”

1866-1920

Empty envelope; inscribed in E.W.Gosse’s hand

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Title: Upon Nothing

Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester

Date(s): 167- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Witty satire on the primacy of nothing or emptiness in cosmology, and of

meaninglessness in worldly affairs

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CDs

2000s

Unidentified CD in case and empty CD case labelled 'WYP Sadler'

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Correspondence course for Labanotation

1950-1959

Three covered copies of "Lernt Tanzschrift Durch Briefkurse". Copy 1 includes four photocopied typed pages headed "Erster Unterrichtsbrief" with notations and music sheet and an empty envelope. Copy 2...

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Notebook

2007

Green A4 hardback notebook. Largely empty. Contains unidentified drafts. Daybook.

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