Papers and correspondence of Herbert Read. ca. 1914-1968.

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Papers and correspondence of Herbert Read. ca. 1914-1968.

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1) manuscript of Read's novel 'The Green Child'; 2) manuscript of Read's play 'The Parliament of Women: a drama in three acts', 1960; 3) manuscripts of Read's non-fiction monographs: 'Arp', 1968, 'Art and Alienation: the role of the artist in society', 1967, 'The Beautiful and the Sublime: An Introduction to the Visual Arts' (renamed afterwards?); 'Creative Humanism' (renamed afterwards?); 'The Redemption of the Robot: my encounter with education through art', 1966; 4) typescripts and manuscripts of various essays, articles, speeches, and lectures by Read; 5) manuscripts and typescripts of Read's poetry; 6) Read's correspondence (mainly from 1965 to 1968) with W.H. Auden, Ian Bevan, André Breton, Basil Bunting, Edward Dahlberg, Valentine and Bonamy Dobrée, T.S. Eliot, Ruth Francken, Graham Greene, Michael Hamburger, Jean Hélion, Rayner Heppenstall, Barbara Hepworth, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Carl Jung, G. Wilson Knight, Oskar Kokoschka, Pierre Matisse, Henry Miller, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore, Roland Penrose, Kathleen Raine, and thousands of other individuals and institutions (in many cases carbon copies of Read's part of the correspondence also survives); 7) photographs and slides of art work, sometimes accompanied by related correspondence with artists; 8) personal photographs; and 9) miscellaneous material including personal items (domestic and financial records, passports, pocket diaries) and Lady Margaret Read's material including manuscript music, plans and programmes related to the Hovingham Hall Festival.

100+ boxes; manuscript, typescript, printed.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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SNAC Resource ID: 7326530

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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