Scope and Contents Wire-bound album of 33 offprints of advertisements for the General Post Office. 'F. M. originated and designed & copy-wrote this series at Mather & Crowther' - inscription on front cover.It is also inscribed: 'Advertisements designed and written by F.M. for Post Office - except first four which have typographer's name printed at foot' (viz. James Shand, Oliver Simon, J. H. Mason, Ashley Havenden). A leaf of original artwork for one of the advertisments, and a tear-sheet from...

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Correspondents include Stanley Baldwin, A. W. Ellis, John Holroyd-Reece, Paul Johnston, Douglas Leighton, J. Ramsay MacDonald, George Macy, Curtis Moffat, C. H. Norman, Quentin Pope, Oliver Simon, and John de la Valette. With the correspondence are a typescript costing of publications for 1935, and a typescript (carbon copy) memorandum from W. C. Heaton and Company Certified Public Accountants to George Macy re: Nonesuch Press dated 29 July 1935.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include Kenneth Bloomfield, the British Council (R. H. L. Goffin), Will Carter, Case Western Reserve University (Lauren R. Moffett), Cassell & Company (Desmond Flower, H. Ryder), Eustace Chadwick, L. W. Feltham, Folio Society Ltd (Charles Ede), Janet H. Fyfe, Alan Glover, Milner Gray, H. W. Wilson Company, Michael Hornby, W. H. Hoult, Hunt, Barnard and Company Ltd (G. W. Hynes), Donald S. Klopfer, Lancaster County Library (James H. Dearden), Robert Leighton, George F....

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The letters concern a proposed article by Steinberg for Signature, never published.

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Morison's letters include one original typescript transcription. With these is a copy of a letter from Walter Diethelm to Morison; a photographic print of a Double Crown Club announcement lettered by Morison; and a letter from Ruth Simon to Morison (1955).

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The letters concern Carter's comments on Monotype Fournier in his book Fournier on typefounding (1930). With the letters is a letter from Morison conveying the letters to Oliver Simon, marked by Howe 'passed by Simon to Ellic Howe'.

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

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The collection contains papers of the company and personal papers of Oliver Simon, Herbert Simon, and Basil Harley. These include correspondence; papers relating to specific printing jobs and to types, paper, printing processes, etc.; business papers; and specimens of printing.

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Letters after publication from Thomas Balston, Sydney Cockerell, Philip Gaskell, Joan Hassall, Frederic G. Melcher, Ulrich Middeldorf, Ellis Minns, Owne Morshead, Carl Purlington Rollins, S. H. De Roos, A. F. Scholfield, Oliver Simon, Earl Spencer, and Jan Tschichold.

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Correspondence with Oliver Simon (1953-4) and with Herbert Simon (1969-70). The latter mostly concerns information for Meynell's memoirs. With the letters are printed announcements of Simon's retirement from Curwen Press (1970) and death (1974).

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A few items include drafts or carbon copies of letters from Howe.

Scope and Contents This item preserves Meynell's chronological file. An autograph ms. document of 2 pages at the beginning of the sequence captioned 'Double Crown Club occasions' lists meetings with Meynell in the chair or having some other connection to him. Besides menus, the sequence includes correspondence with T. Balston (1926), Christopher Bradshaw (1964), Will Carter (1961), Douglas Cleverdon (1964), E. M. O. R. Dickey (1945), R. B. Fishenden (1945), Ellic Howe (1946), Lynton Lamb (1954), Hans Schmoller...

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Typescript of 12 pages (carbon copy): a talk given to the Double Crown Club on 26 Apr. 1956. With the typescript are papers used by Meynell in this talk: a set of 12 letters (some transcripts) to and from Meynell, Oliver and Herbert Simon; and a typescript biography of Simon (2 pages, a carbon copy) by Meynell and dated 19 May 1949.

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Copy of Signature 5 (Mar. 1937) containing the review on pp. 44-52. With this are letters from Oliver Simon to Meynell, and from Rauri McLean to the editor of Signature.

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Letters after publication from Lewis Allen, Paul A. Bennett, Harry Carter, Michael Clapham, Sydney Cockerell, John F. Fulton, Robert Harling, Philip Hofer, André Jammes, Jan van Krimpen, Will Lockwood, Melvin Loos, Francis Meynell, Ulrich Middeldorf, Harry J. Owens, Eugene P. Pattberg, David Pottinger, Carl Purlington Rollins, Rudolph Ruzicka, Stuart C. Sherman, Oliver Simon, Simon Nowell Smith, Paul Standard, S. H. Steinberg, and Jan Tschichold.