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Friedlander, Elizabeth, 1903-1984 (designer)

 Person

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Advertising, 1955

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/D14/19
Scope and Contents

Copy and layouts for short advertisements; printed cards to solicit pre-publication orders; proofs of a showcard for W. H. Smith; and correspondence. The letters include one from Elizabeth Friedlander

Dates: 1955
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9813, Papers of Francis Meynell / The Nonesuch Press / The week-end book: a new edition (1955)
 File

Artwork for patterned papers by Elizabeth Friedlander, 1946-1950 (Dates from the versos of some of the artwork.)

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9853/C2/20
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1946-1950 (Dates from the versos of some of the artwork.)
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9853, Curwen Press Papers / Papers relating to types, paper, printing processes, design and illustration / Decorated paper
 File

Elisabeth Friedlander, 1941-1971

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C1/34
Scope and Contents

This includes calligraphic compositions by her inscribed to Meynell. With these are specimens of the typeface 'Elizabeth'. In a separate small envelope are designs by her and specimens of Meynell's writing paper '19 Cliveden Place'.

Dates: 1941-1971
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9813, Papers of Francis Meynell / Correspondence / Correspondence with individuals
 Series

Files on individual people

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9815, Papers of John Dreyfus
 File

La vera maniera del scriver corsivo cancellaresco, by Giovanni Francesco Cresci, 1954 (The date is estimated.)

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B33/2
Scope and Contents

Typescript Italian text so captioned, with ms. interlinear English translation in the hand of Elizabeth Friedlander; with some further notes by her.

Dates: 1954 (The date is estimated.)
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9813, Papers of Francis Meynell / Compositions by Francis Meynell / Cresci
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Letters of congratulation to Francis Meynell, 1961

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/F18/5
Scope and Contents The correspondents are Joan Allen, Michael Balcon, Alan Barlow, Nora Barlow, R. D. Best, Philip A. Burgoyne, Noel Carrington, John Carter, Bradbury Clarke, Will Carter, Hugh Casson, Barbara Coulter, Fenner Brockway, George Earle, Elisabeth Friedlander, John Gloag, R. Y. Goodden, Maggie Hobson, G. Wren Howard, Ernest Ingham, Donald S. Klopfer, John Langdon-Davies, Clem Leslie, Cynthia Lloyd, Madeline Lucas, Florence Eldridge March, Giovanni Mardersteig, Rauri McLean, Sarah Meynell, Thomas...
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9813, Papers of Francis Meynell / Other occupations, projects, and activities / Seventieth birthday celebrations
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Letters relating to the 'album party' on 11 October, 1961

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9813, Papers of Francis Meynell / Other occupations, projects, and activities / Seventieth birthday celebrations
 File

The Elizabeth Friedländer manuscript, 1984

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9820/B/5
Scope and Contents

Ms. memorandum (photocopy) so titled, by Howe, dated 7 Nov. 1984. It concerns Elizabeth Friedländer, her wartime work for Howe's unit, and a manuscript copy of an 18th-century French writing manual written by her for Howe. With this is a photocopy of 4 pages of the manuscript.

Dates: 1984
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9820, Papers of Ellic Howe / Other papers
 File

Trial settings, 1949

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/E1/2
Scope and Contents

With the pages is a photographic print of the alphabet of ornamental initials by Elizabeth Friedlander.

Dates: 1949
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9813, Papers of Francis Meynell / Typographical and other design / John Brown's Body, by Stephen Vincent Benét (Limited Editions Club 1948)

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