Hornby, Charles Harry St John, 1867-1946 (printer and connoisseur)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1867 - 1946
Biography
Hornby, C. H. St. John (1867-1946) director of W. H. Smith
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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C. H. St. J. Hornby, 1925-1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C1/49
Scope and Contents
Four letters to Meynell.
Dates:
1925-1936
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence 1936, 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/D42/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Alfred Reginald Allen, M. F. Ashley-Montagu, Van G. Borcoman, Melbert B. Cary, Chatto and Windus, John Dreyfus, David Garnett, A. S. B. Glover, Vivian Holman, St. John Hornby, Paul Johnston, Elbert Lenrow, George Macy (an original typescript letter from Meynell), Curtis Moffat, Barry Neame, Stephen Potter (with a typescript memorandum of 8 pages captioned 'Nonesuch texts and manuals'), Gerard Proost, and Arthur Waugh. With the letters is a programme for a revue 'The...
Dates:
1936
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from C. H. St. John Hornby (Chantmarle, Dorchester) to Siegfried Sassoon expressing thanks for Rhymed Ruminations, present life in the country (like boyhood 70 years ago), misses books and objects d'art, now in store, 12 Sep. 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/460
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of 1094 letters, postcards and other items known as 'Sassoon's residual correspondence' although it does also include a number of items addressed to other persons particularly to his wife, Hester, and his mother, Theresa Thornycroft.
Dates:
12 Sep. 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).