Scope and Contents Folder 1 = Letters after publication from Greer Allen, Lewis Allen, Ernest Barker, Max Caflisch, Sydney Cockerell, Gaylord Donnelley, Alvin Eisenman, Alfred Fairbank, Evan Gill, Robert Harling, Walter Harrap, Joan Hassall, John Hayward, Ellic Howe, André Jammes, Thomas Jones, George Macy, Giovanni Mardersteig, Francis Meynell, Percy Muir, Roger Mynors, J. B. Oldham, G. W. Ovink, Stanley Pargellis, Vivian Ridler, Carl Purlington Rollins, Rudolph Ruzicka, John Sparrow, Paul Standard, Francis...

Scope and Contents Correspondence; notes on this item by Sebastian Carter; showings of the type (1935-1995); trial settings of Spenser, Epithalamium in this type (marked 'Ephithalamium - project'). Correspondents include Arnold Bank, Joseph Blumenthal, Christopher Bradshaw, Jackson Burke, Harry Carter, John Carter, Douglas Cleverdon, Marshall Davidson, Franz Hess (only copies of letters from Will Carter to him), Charles W. Hobson, John Holroyd-Reece, Ernest Ingham, Roger Levenson, Matt. P. Loman, Giovanni...

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Folders 1-2 = correspondence. This includes a pamphlet The shelter in Bedlam (by Warde; 1937) inscribed to Meynell. A separate envelope contains compositions of Beatrice Warde, mainly small items published by the Monotype Corporation. With these are an unidentified fragment of typescript by her; obituaries; and letters to Meynell about her from James Moran (1960) and John Dreyfus (1969).

Scope and Contents Folder 1 = correspondence. Interfiled are a postcard map of her house 'Pomfrets' by Leo Wyatt and a tear-sheet of an article about her retirement (1960). Some of the later letters are annual Christmas letters, partly duplicated and partly ms. Folder 2 = clippings and tear-sheets of obituaries; announcement and order of service for her memorial service with typescript of the 'bidding' by Jack Matson (1969); and correspondence with James Moran about the appeal for a Beatrice Warde memorial...

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Correspondents include A. W. Bain & Co., American Printer (Edmund G. Gress), Dulau and Company Ltd (Leslie Chaundy), R. F. Eberhart, Henry Hansen, J. E. Pouterman, John Holroyd-Reece, Rudolph Koch, William MacCance, Philobiblion, Lord Ponsonby, Frank C. Reilly, Ward Ritchie, Fernand Roches, Jacob Schwartz, Mark Thompson, Stanley Unwin, and Beatrice Warde.

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Letters from Steinberg are typescript carbon copies or ms. drafts. Letters to him are original ms. or typescript.

Scope and Contents All the letters are from Warde to Morison except those in folder 3. Many undated letters have been dated by Nicolas Barker. A few remaining undated are in folder 13. Folder 1 = 1925-1927, including a letter (photocopy) of Morison to an unidentified correspondent, probably Warde, enclosing part of a type-specimen of Fournier. The letter of 25 Mar. 1925 is reproduced in Barker, plate 4b Folder 2 = 1942, the letter of 20 June 1942 enclosing tear-sheets from magazines Folder 3 = letters from...

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Letter relating to Kenneth Day, The typography of press advertisement (Benn, 1956). With these letters are a printed advertisement for Meynell's original book with this title (1929 ) and transcripts of letters from Beatrice Warde to Kenneth Day.

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Includes a letter from Beatrice Warde to Carter (1936), correspondence between Meynell and Vivian Ridler (1968), and notes of a conversation with Carter taken by Alix Meynell in connection with Meynell's memoirs.

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Includes copies of correspondence with Charles Batey and Beatrice Warde.

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Except for items 1, 28, and 36, all the correspondence is from others to Simon.

Scope and Contents Letters collected by Will Carter, including letters from well-known correspondents, and from writers of good italic hands. Correspondents include John Marsden, G. L. McKay, Francis Meynell, Francis Minns, the Monotype Corporation (John C. Tarr; enclosing specimens of series 499 Sachfenwald), Stanley Morison (with carbon copy of Will Carter's reply), Owen Morshead, David Parsley, Raef Payne, Richard Pennington, John Peters, Ejnar Philip, Roger Powell (to John Dreyfus), Edward Price, Lloyd and...

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Ca. 50 photographs including: photographs of Morison alone taken by Warde; miscellaneous photographs of Warde and her house; and 2 prints of the engraving of her by Eric Gill dated 1929. Some of the photographs are colour slides. Others, including 3 photographs of Morison taken in a studio in the Strand in 1925 or 1927, have ms. covering notes in her hand.

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Correspondents include Arthur Woollacott & Rappings Ltd, Carl Friedmann, Max Reinhardt, Monotype Corporation (P. C. Allen, Beatrice Warde), Herbert Rees, and The Times (W. J. Haley).

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Meynell's correspondents include Louis M. Hacker, Oxford University Press (John Brown), Helen Macy, W. R. Phillips, Random House (Bennett Cerf, Charles Antin, Donald Klopfer), Max Reinhardt, W. Harvie Service, and Beatrice Warde.

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Beatrice Warde's papers were not kept together at her death, and this collection is miscellaneous. It contains chiefly her letters to her family (although not those published in Bombed but unbeaten (1941)); material relating to Stanley Morison; and various compositions by her.

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Offprints, a tear-sheet, pamphlets, and her book The type specimen of Jean Jannon 1621 (1927), amounting to 14 different publications (some in the name of Paul Beaujon). With these is an issue of Barnard College Alumnae (April 1937) including an article about her; and the cloth spine lettered 'B.W.' of the box from which most of these were removed.

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Meynell's correspondents include Strickland Gibson, Holbrook Jackson, Geoffrey Keynes, Robert Leighton, and Beatrice Warde,

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Original draft typescript of 1 page marked 'Dec 1955 and March 1 '56'; typescripts (original with ms. alterations and carbon copy) of 10 pages; correspondence with the English-Speaking Union (Frank Darvall) The talk was given at a meeting also addressed by Beatrice Warde on 1 Mar. 1956.

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Two letters from Beatrice Warde (July 1964 and Apr. 1965).