Muir mss. II

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Muir mss. II

1892-1981

Consists of the correspondence and business papers of Elkin Mathews, firm, booksellers, as well as manuscripts and personal papers of Percival Horace Muir, 1894 - 1979, bookseller and author.

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Newman, Ernest

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Music critic, author. From the description of Papers, 1900-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490535 English writer on music. From the description of Autograph letters signed (16) and typewritten letters signed (4), dated : Liverpool, Birmingham, London [and n.p.], 1900-1921, to Grant Richards, 1900-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582901 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Brimingham, 17 and 24 March 1917, to C. Cop...

Childs, J. Rives (James Rives), 1893-1987

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James Rives Childs was born February 6, 1893 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended the Virginia Military Institute before graduating from Randolph-Macon College in 1912, then earned a master of arts from Harvard University in 1915. He served the United States Army during World War I as a cryptoanalyst and radio intelligence liaison in France. After the war he joined the American Relief Administration in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1923 he joined the United States Foreign Service, e...

McLean, Ruari.

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Amman, Jost, 1539-1591

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Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967

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English typographer, author, and lecturer. From the description of Letter, 1958. (Ohio University). WorldCat record id: 13048845 British printer, typographer and writer. From the description of Letter, 1939. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78489119 English typographer and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Holbrook Jackson, 1923 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613086 ...

Neuberg, Victor E.

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Newbery, John

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Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x00007e ...

Shaw, J.M.

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Taubert, Sigfred

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Schauer, Georg Kurt, 1899-

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Thwaite, Mary Florence

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Davis, Rupert Hart.

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Hofstätter, Hans Hellmut, 1928-

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McGrath, Daniel F. (Daniel Francis), 1935-

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Wegehaupt, Heinz

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Arnold Rood.

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Abbey, J. R.

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Fletcher, Ifan Kyrle, 1905-1969

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Ifan Kyrle Fletcher and Constance A. Kyrle Fletcher were bookdealers in London. From the description of Ifan Kyrle Fletcherl letters, 1926-1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 495526578 ...

Muir, Percy H. (Percy Horace), 1894-1979

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Born in London on December 17, 1894, Percy Muir began his career as a bookseller in 1920. He joined the London antiquarian booksellers Elkin Mathews in 1930, and would remain with that firm until his death in Norfolk on November 24, 1979. Muir was an influential figure among booksellers and book collectors around the world. As president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association in Britain from 1945-1947, Muir chaired the first conference of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (I...

Bentley, Eric, 1916-....

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Eric Russell Bentley (1916- ) was an American editor, translator and professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University. From the description of Eric Bentley papers, ca. 1960-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517495 From the guide to the Eric Bentley papers, ca. 1960-1964, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Eric Bentley, theater critic and dramatist. From the description of Eric Bentley letters to Mary Douglas Di...

Wendt, Bernhard, 1902-1986

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Humphries, Charles (Countertenor)

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Tooley, R. V.

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Spielmann, Percy Edwin, 1881-

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Epithet: chemist; son of M. H. Spielmann British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x00013e Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur D672 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x000199 ...

King, A. Hyatt (Alec Hyatt), 1911-1994

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Alec Hyatt King (1911-1994) was a noted bibliographer, musicologist, and author of more than forty articles and books. He began his career at the British Museum at the age of twenty-three and continued his employment there until his retirement in 1977. He served as superintendent of the Music Room 1944-1958 and was named deputy keeper of the Department of Printed Books in the British Museum in 1959. His research specialties included Mozart, Handel, music printing, music sales catalogs, and music...

Uden, Grant

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Epithet: calligrapher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0001d6 ...

Wagner, Richard, 1966-

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Roscoe, S. Newbery–Carnan–Power:

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Sendak, Maurice

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Maurice Sendak was born June 10, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. He began his art career as a cartoonist and display artist, and in the 1940s he started to illustrate children's books. Sendak illustrated many well-known author's books in the early years of his career, including Meindart De Jong, Ruth Krause, Charlotte Zolotow, and Janice Udry; he also illustrated Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear series. In the 1950s he began to write children's picture books. Throughout his long career he has c...

Hamilton, Sinclair

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Deval, Laurie E.

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