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Sender: Abercrombie, Catherine
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 26 Nov [1938]
Location: BC Abercrombie: condolences
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Mortimer, Russell Stanley & Jean
Letters: 2
Date(s): 30 Jul 1947; 1 n.d. [Dec 1948 ?]
Location: SC MS 647/11, 13
Note: 1) Personal. 2) Christmas greetings; notes on mutual acquaintances. Probably dated December 1948.
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Mortimer, Jean
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Apr 1961
Location: SC MS 647/20
Note: His O B E; Easter; Society of Friends; trouble in South Africa.
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Mortimer, Russell Stanley
Letters: 15
Date(s): Dec 1945 - 12 Oct 1949
Location: SC MS 647/1-10, 12, 14-16, 18
Note: 1) Activity at Leeds; personal. Picture post-card; post-mark imperfect. 2) Staff and work at Leeds; death of Mortimer's father. 3) The Dales; people at Leeds; Woolley Hall papers; presidency of the Thoresby Society; salary scales; missing books. 2 ff. 4) Salaries; applications for deputy librarianhsip; J W Scott and S Roberts. Typescript. 5) Boyhood reminiscences; Chichester; Leeds Anglo-French collection; an archidiaconal visitation; Lake district and gipsy fair at Appleby applications for deputy librarianship; salaries and other staff matters; U G C viisitation; prayer. 3 ff. 6) Difficulty in filling a post. Typescript. 7) Congratulations on Mortimer's master's thesis; librarianship at Bristol University. Typescript. 8) Secretarial problems; appointment to Bristol; his family and relations; loss of staff from the University and library at Leeds. 9) Visit to Wharfedale and the Rector of Bolton Abbey; cathedrals; shortage of staff in the library; attitude of the
Vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. 10) Memories of Stoke Newington; recent lectures at Leeds; personal; gloomy outlook. 2 ff. 11) Will act as referee for him in his application; J Tolson; Professor Barbier. 12) A gift of books for Univ. Coll. of the West Indies; Professor Spaul and Professor Barbier. Typescript. 13) Further about gift of books. Typescript. 14) Personal. Typescript. 15) Staff in the Brotherton Library. Typescript.
Sender: Gott, Beryl Katherine (nee Robins)
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 4
Date(s): 1 Nov 1929 - 13 Mar 1935
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/11/1, 3-5
Note: 1) On points concerning the history of Gott's firm. 2 pp. 2)
About Benjamin Gott, the younger. 3 pp. 3) Enclosing papers of
the Ewart family. 2 pp. 4) Enclosing family papers. 2 pp. Sender is wife of Francis Gott; recipient is Librarian of the University of Leeds.
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Gott, Beryl Katherine (nee Robins)
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Jan 1935
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/11/55
Note: On Benjamin Gott's connection with William Wilberforce and William Pitt. 1 p. Recipient is wife of Francis Gott.
Sender: Schofield, Snowden
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 28 Oct 1929
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/14/6
Note: Answering an enquiry about Gott's Yard in Guildford Street. 1 p.
Sender: Theaker, William Stuart
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 Feb 1930
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/14/8
Note: Enclosing the letter from J.H. Milner about the Wormald family. 1 p.
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Theaker, William Stuart
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 Feb 1930
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/14/9
Note: Thanks him for his letter. 1 p. Carbon copy of typescript, unsigned.
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Milner, James Henry
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 Feb 1930
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/14/10
Note: Replying to his letter on the Wormalds. 1 pp. Carbon copy of
typescript, unsigned.
Sender: Wormald, Captain William Francis
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Feb [19]30
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/14/11
Note: Giving details of his family's history. 3 pp.
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Wormald, Captain William Francis
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Feb 1930
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/14/12
Note: On the history of the Wormald family. 1 p. Carbon copy of typescript, unsigned.