Frances White Emerson correspondence with Geoffrey Keynes, 1919-1944.

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Frances White Emerson correspondence with Geoffrey Keynes, 1919-1944.

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Autograph manuscript and typescript correspondence primarily between Sir Geoffrey Keynes and Frances White Emerson. Also with letters from Sir Frederick George Kenyon, William Augustus White, and Margaret Elizabeth Keynes. Letters concern the donation, reproduction, and publication of William Blake manuscripts from the collection of William Augustus White, later owned by his daughter, Frances White Emerson. Mentions the Nonesuch Press, British Museum, Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, the Rosenbach Company, and many other subjects. Personal topics include health, various trips, family concerns, memberships in clubs, and many other matters.

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Nonesuch Press.

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Keynes, Margaret Elizabeth

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British Museum.

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Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts. The British Library, established in 1973, is now responsible for manuscript collections previously held by the library of the British Museum. From the guide to the Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts, 20th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...

Rosenbach Company

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The Rosenbach Company offered books, manuscripts, and entire collections for sale through their published catalogues and through typed lists and descriptions with more limited circulation. From the description of Collation files, [ca. 1903-ca. 1953]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122581004 ...

Fogg Art Museum.

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The Index of American Design was a project of the research division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration which produced approximately 20,000 reproductions (photographs and original drawings) and classifications of a wide variety of American art, paintings, sculptures, handicrafts, and folk art. From the description of Records relating to Index of American Design Exhibition, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122404372 Founded in 1891, through the...

Emerson, Frances White, 1860-1957.

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William Augustus White (1843-1927) was an American investment banker, book collector, and a great collector of William Blake and of Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights. Upon his death in 1927, his daughter, Frances White Emerson (1860-1957), inherited his collection. Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (1887-1982) was a British surgeon and literary scholar, and was the brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes. Geoffrey Keynes published on and collected materials of William Blake. It was this intere...

Blake, William, 1757-1827

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Epithet: poet, engraver, artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0001f1 The original manuscript was acquired in 1847 by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It is now, British Library. Add. 49460. From the description of Rossetti manuscript : [stats], 1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612881103 English artist, poet and mystic. From the description of Au...

Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir, 1863-1952

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Sir Frederic George Kenyon, British paleographer, biblical and classical scholar, and director of the British Museum. From the description of Sir Frederic George Kenyon manuscript material : 2 items, 1902-1907 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 506582796 ...

Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982

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Epithet: surgeon and bibliophile British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00009b ...

White, William Augustus, 1843-1927

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White was the senior partner in a firm of New York City investment bankers, who began serious book collecting in 1885. He collected works by William Blake, Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights and created important collections of Shakespeare and Americana. From the description of Library accession books, manuscript, 1863-1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612236412 Epithet: of Brooklyn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Des...