Herbert F. West collection of A. Hugh Fisher 1860-1945 1901-1945

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Herbert F. West collection of A. Hugh Fisher 1860-1945 1901-1945

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The Herbert F. West Collection of A. Hugh Fisher consists of correspondence, writings, clippings, tearsheets, and fine art sent to Herbert West by the artist Alfred Hugh Fisher between 1938 and 1945. It includes over 300 letters from Fisher to West, 1938-1945; autobiographical memoirs by Fisher; volumes of travel journals (in the form of letters to his colleague Halford Mackinder) covering Fisher's work with the Visual Instruction Committee of the British Colonial Office and recording his visits to Australia, Borneo, Canada, China, Fiji, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and Tonga, 1907-1910; various articles, clippings, notes, manuscripts, and ephemera; and a selection of drawings, paintings, and prints by Fisher whose subjects include the home of writer Margaret Leigh, and portraits of his contemporaries Lascelles Abercrombie, Walter de la Mare, T. Sturge Moore, George W. Russell, and W. B. Yeats, among others. Also present is an etching by Hungarian printmaker Gyula (Julius) Komjati, whom Fisher visited in 1932. Although West and Fisher never met in person, their long-distance friendship gave the artist someone to whom he could entrust his work and legacy, a particularly important concern when British citizens were anticipating Germany's impending attack. In addition to describing daily life in wartime Britain, Fisher's letters to West provide further personal history and context for the material West was receiving.

2.54 linear feet (9 boxes)

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Russell, George William, 1867-1935

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Leigh, Margaret, 1894-1973

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Cutler, Jennie La Forge.

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Komjati, Gyula, 1894-1958

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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

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Milton, John, 1608-1674

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Stephens, Frederic George, 1828-1907

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Buday, György (1907-1990).

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De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956

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Walter De la Mare (1873-1956) was a British poet, novelist, short story writer, critic, essayist, anthologist, dramatist, and a prolific writer of children's poetry and fiction. From the description of Papers of Walter De la Mare, 1923-1956. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122584933 Mégroz was the early biographer of de la Mare. From the description of Letter, c. 1923, to R.L. Mégroz. (Unknown). WorldCat record...

Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948

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Fisher, Isabella Read Smith, 1844-1928

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West, Herbert Faulkner, 1898-1974

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Fisher, Lilias Cecile Wyman, 1875-1930

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Fisher, A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh), 1867-1945

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Epithet: artist and writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x00008c ...

Great Britain. Colonial Office. Visual Instruction Committee

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Moore, T. Sturge (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944

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Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938

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Darwin, Erasmus Alvey, 1804-1881.

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Reade, Caleb, 1867-1945

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Whitmore, Elizabeth Manning

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Fisher, Alfred George, d. 1902

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Levy, Oscar, 1867-

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