McLean, Ruari, 1917-2006 (typographic designer)
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Akke Kumelin, 1957-1961
The correspondence is with Rudolph C. Ellsworth, Anthony Bell, and Rauri McLean. With the letters are 2 different typescripts about Kumelin, one by Alf Liedholm (1957), the other undated and unidentified.
Correspondence, 1930-1971
Correspondence after 1925 about the Press. Meynell's correspondents include Nicolas Barker, Glanvill Benn, Harry Carter, International Printers Ltd (T. C. Hart), Philip James (with a proof of his article about the Pelican Press in Signature), Cecil Liddell, Rauri McLean, James Moran, the National Library of Scotland, and George Sims.
Correspondence with readers (K-O), 1971-1972
These include Donald S. Klopfer, Nathalie Krebs, James Laver, Kenneth Lindsay, Kathleen Lines, Margaret Lintolt (?), Helen Macy, Jonathan Macy, George Malaby, Lowell B. Mason, Rauri McLean, Katherine Thaw Meyer, Benedict Meynell, Rosemary Meynell, Ashley Montagu, Raymond Mortimer, Valentine Newmark, F. S. Osborn.
Files on individual people
General correspondence 1944-7, 1944-1947
Correspondents include the Board of Trade (R. F. Kahn, G. L. Watkinson), Harry Carter, Will Carter, F. C. Hooper, The Labour Party (Michael Young), the Mayor of Ipswich, Rauri McLean, Stuart Rose, Norman Scorgie, and C. C. Wood. With the letters is a printed pamphlet 'Specimens showing various types recommended by the Committee on standard page-dimensions and type-sizes' (1946).
Letters from Ruari McLean to Brooke Crutchley, 1984-1985
With these is 1 original letter from Crutchley to McLean.
Letters of congratulation to Francis Meynell, 1961
Letters relating to the 'album party' on 11 October, 1961
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.
Other papers, 1936-1994
The collection contains miscellaneous papers related to typography.
Rauri McLean, 1948-1973
The letters include Christmas cards (1970) and a change of address card (1973). Interfiled are a galley proof of a book review by Hutt for Motif (1958) and a letter from John Bell to Hutt (1961).
Review of An essay on typography, by Eric Gill, 1937
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.
Ruari McLean, 1949-1973
With the letters is a clipping (ca. 1960).