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Mcguire, William (1917-)4
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)2
Nicholson, William, 1872-19492
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)2
Adler, Gerhard (1904-)1
Armitage, Kenneth1
Armitage, Kenneth (1916-2002)1
Armitage, Kenneth, 1916-20021
Art Institute of Chicago1
Bell, Robert Anning, 1863-19331

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William Miller

1967

This file contains a letter from William Miller, previously associate editor of the religion department at Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Miller writes to read as a book publishing consultant and urges R...

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William Read

1933

This file contains 2 manuscript letters to Herbert Read from his younger brother William. The first thanks Read for sending him a copy of The Innocent Eye, and compares some of his own experiences at ...

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William Nicholson

Nicholson, Sir William (1872-1949); Nichols, Robert Malise Bowyer (1893-1944); De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)

1948

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Ernest William Read

1 Jan 1941

1 manuscript letter to Herbert Read from his uncle Ernest William Read, who writes to say how much he has enjoyed Annals of Innocence and Experience, and compares his own boarding school life with his...

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Benedict William Read

Read, Benedict (1945-2016)

1964-1966

This file contains 2 manuscript letters from Benedict Read to his parents while he was at Queen's College, Oxford. One includes an adaptation of a Horace Ode, which Benedict Read was revising at the ...

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William Prior Read

14 Nov 1926

1 manuscript letter from W[illiam] P[rior] Read to Herbert Read. William Prior Read was not a relation to Read, but became a mentor to him, after Herbert Read's brother had been apprenticed to him. He...

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Kenneth Armitage, S. W. Hayter, William Scott

Armitage, Kenneth (1916-2002); Hayter, Stanley William (1901-1988); Scott, William (1913-1989); British Council; Musée national d'art moderne

1958

At head of title: Musée national d'art moderne.

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Pioneers of the modern movement : from William Morris to Walter Gropius

Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus (1902-1983)

1936

Bibliographical references in "Notes"(p. [209]-225).

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Masterpieces of art : in memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958, representing his achievements during fifty years of service in American museums

Byrnes, James B; North Carolina Museum of Art

[1959]

Catalogue of a memorial exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, April 6 - May 17, 1959. Acknowledgments and preface by James B. Byrnes. Cover title: W.R. Valentiner memorial exhib...

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Bollingen Series: Max Raphael

Cohen, Robert S; Schaefer, Claude; McGuire, William (1917-)

c.1963 - 1968

Drafts, correspondence and planning material relating to Max Raphael's 'The Demands of Art'. Read had written the introduction to the English translation of the text, published in the Bollingen Series...

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Bollingen Series: Jung Correspondence

McGuire, William (1917-); Fordham, Michael (1905-); Adler, Gerhard (1904-); Franklin, Norman

c.1964 - 1967

Substantial series of correspondence and associated material concerning Read's work on the Bollingen Series Collected Jung. The files cover discussions on the translation of texts into English, decisi...

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Notebook 4: Pink notebook

c.1914-1968

Pink notebook, covered by the Faber Library list. Read has written his address onto the 2nd page. 3 The Mall, Parkhill Road has been crossed out and Broom House, Seer Green written below. The Reads mo...

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