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Note regarding payment

One [unrelated] note regarding payment to M. Michel Droit of Le Figaro Litteraire.

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Correspondence regarding Naum Gabo

3 - 28 Jan 1966

This file contains 3 signed typescript letters on The Arts Council of Great Britain headed paper. The letters regard Read's Introduction to a Naum Gabo exhibition catalogue and are from Joanna Drew (A...

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Regard sur le passé

Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944); Galerie René Drouin

1946

Published at the time of the exhibition of 40 paintings by Kandinsky, organised by the Galerie René Drouin from 13th March to 13th April 1946.

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Notes regarding the dynamics of the self

Adler, Gerhard (1904-1988)

Reprinted from the British journal of medical psychology. v.24, pt.2, 1951.

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Correspondence regarding P.A. Tomory

13 Jan 1965 - 16 Jan 1965

This file contains 1 letter to Herbert Read, from Mary Swainson, Research Secretary at the British Academy, regarding P.A. Tomory.

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Letters on the duties of Protestants with regard to popery

Dixon, James (1788-1871)

1840

"Second thousand".

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Regards sur Ben Nicholson = Views on Ben Nicholson

Musée national d'art moderne

1955

English and French. Exhibition held in Paris at the Musée national d'art moderne.

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