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Howe, Ellic Paul, 1910-1991 (author)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1910 - 1991

Biography

Ellic Howe (1910-1991) was a printer, scholar of printing history (in which field he was an associate of Stanley Morison), wartime forger, and historian of the occult.

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

 File

A tally of types, by Stanley Morison, 1953-1976

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9824/A/5
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...
Dates: 1953-1976
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).
 File

Correspondence between Morison and Ellic Howe, 1937-1960

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/D/139
Scope and Contents

One letter of 1937 is an original typescript enclosing stats (one with letters pasted on) of a page from a writing book.

Dates: 1937-1960
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 with others (H), 1940

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9824/C/15
Scope and Contents

These are: G. V. Hanmer , J. Gilbert Hare, Robert Harling, B. H. Liddell Hart, R. A. Hellewell, Erwin Holzer, Marianne Hooper, C. St. J. Hornby, The Housing Centre, A. J. P. Howard, Ellic Howe (with a list of his loans in the hand of Beatrice Warde).

Dates: 1940
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).
 Series

Files on individual people

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9815/A
Scope and Contents John Dreyfus's files consisting principally of correspondence, but also clippings, examples of printing (if the person was a printer or engraver), compositions by the person, and in some cases Dreyfus's research notes and compositions relating to the person. Some files have the name of a press or other corporate body rather than a person. The contents of this series are as follows: Box 1 = Abacus Typographers, Olive F. Abbott, George Abrams, Elmer Adler, Alexander Alexieff, Greer Allen,...
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).
 File

Letter from Ellic Howe to Henry Steinberg, 1945

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9819/A/7
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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

Dates: 1945
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).
 File

Letters from various correspondents (G-H) to Oliver Simon, 1936-1954

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9853/A1/12
Scope and Contents

The letters are from David Garnett (undated), J. L. Garvin (1923), Douglas Grant (1954), Hamish Hamilton (1945-1948, mostly referring to the Novel Library, printed at the Curwen Press), Ellic Howe (1936-1948).

Dates: 1936-1954
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).
 File

Letters relating to the 'album party' on 11 October, 1961

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/F18/7
Scope and Contents

The writers include Nicolas Barker, A. W. Bell, Christopher Bradshaw, Harry Carter, John Carter, Will Carter, William Cox, Brooke Crutchley, John Fairleigh, Elisabeth Friedlander, David Garnett, Joan Hassall, John Hayward, Ashley Havinden, Ellic Howe, Geoffrey Keynes, Lynton Lamb, Rauri McLean, Vivian Ridler, John Ryder, Hans Schmoller, Herbert Simon, John Simpson, and John Westwood. A few others are unidentified.

Dates: 1961
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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Menus and correspondence, 1925-1976

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/F6/1
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...
Dates: 1925-1976
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).
 File

Other correspondents (H), 1915-1972

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C1/50
Scope and Contents

They are: John Hadfield, Desmond Harmsworth, Wilfred Harrison, Rupert Hart-Davis, H. W. Häusermann, Godfrey Hayman, Ambrose Heal, Maurice Healy, G. Bruno Hicks, Laura Z. Hobson, Ralph Hodgson, C. G. Hookway, and Ellic Howe.

Dates: 1915-1972
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).
 Fonds

Papers of Ellic Howe

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9820
Scope and Contents

This collection of papers was given by Ellic Howe to Cambridge University Press in 1952 (see his letter to John Dreyfus, item B/1). All but a few items (now series B) are letters to him on various aspects of typography and printing history.

Dates: 1930-1984
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Series

Papers relating to the gift of Baskerville's punches to Cambridge University, 1936-1992

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9824/B
Scope and Contents

The punches were presented by Charles Peignot on 12 Mar. 1953. This series also includes correspondence and other papers relating to earlier research on the punches especially by John Dreyfus.

Dates: 1936-1992
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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