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Includes correspondence from Reynolds Stone, Herbert Simon and others about John Commander (1954).

Scope and Contents Meynell's correspondents include the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Public Libraries, Bournemouth Arts Club (Margaret Joliffe), Bristol College of Technology (Bernard Rogers), City of Birmingham School of Printing (Leonard Jay), John Dreyfus, London Caledonian Press Ltd, Oyster Press (Stuart Rose), Printing Review (C. W. Cousland), Publishers' Circular, Royal College of Art, Royal Society of Arts, Herbert Simon, Mrs Percy Smith, Sylvan Press Ltd (Charles Rosner), Alan G....

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The correspondence is chiefly between Francis and Alix Meynell and Kenneth Day, Basil Harley, and Herbert Simon. Interfiled with the letters are minutes of editorial meetings.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include Henry R. Ball, Eustace Chadwick, Douglas Cleverdon, Alan Glover, Stephen Gooden, G. B. Harrison, Joan Hassall, Alison Lane, Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company (Robert Leighton), Agnes Miller-Parker, Ian T. Morrison, Max Reinhardt, Spalding & Hodge Ltd, Herbert Simon, Stellar Press Ltd (W. J. Hummerstone), Reynolds Stone, and George Timpson . With the letters is a memorandum from Meynell (to Max Reinhardt?) dated 5 Nov. 1952 setting out the contents and plan of...

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The correspondents are the George Macy Companies (Helen Macy, Max Stein), the Curwen Press (Herbert Simon), Desmond Flower, and David J. Way.

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The correspondents are The George Macy Companies (Helen Macy, Max Stein), the Curwen Press (Herbert Simon), and René Ben Sussan.

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The correspondents are The George Macy Companies (Helen Macy, Max Stein) and the Curwen Press (Herbert Simon). Some letters are to and from Pamela Hayman.

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Correspondents include the George Macy Companies (Max Stein), the Curwen Press (Herbert Simon), John Dreyfus, and the Hale Paper Company (F. T. Jackson).

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Correspondents include the Bodley Head (Max Reinhardt and others), Joan M. Burslem, New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, The Dickensian (Michael Slater), Hale Paper Company Ltd (Sandy Jackson), Nick Roughead, Herbert Simon

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with others about orders for imported paper. Meynell's correspondents include Arthur Millbourn & Co. Ltd, Bernett Paper Ltd, the Board of Trade (R. M. Noel), Chiswick Press (Adam Maitland), Curwen Press (Herbert Simon), Globe Express Ltd, Grosvenor, Chater & Co. Ltd, Hollingworth (Turkey Mill) Ltd, Joh. Enschedé en Zonen (Jan Van Krimpen), Portals Ltd, Spalding & Hodge Ltd, Spicers Ltd, W. S. Hodgkinson & Co. Ltd, and Wolvercote Paper Mill. Some...

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The correspondents are Curwen Press (Herbert Simon), Douglas Cockerell & Son (Sydney M. Cockerell), G. & J. Kitcat Ltd, Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co. (Robert Leighton), Stellar Press (W. J. Hummerstone), Winterbottom Book Cloth Company.

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Folder 1 = correspondence. Meynell's correspondents include George Argent (1937), John Arlott (1953), Herbert Farjeon (1930), David Garnett (1930), Colin Hardie (1949), M. J. Hawkins (1958), Michael Hornby (1930-1944), Eric Partridge (ca. 1949), Herbert Simon (1949, 1968), J. C. Squire (1927), Stanley Unwin (1929), Pelham Warner (1952) Folder 2 = Notes, printed ephemera, and clippings.

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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.

Scope and Contents Folder 1 = letters before publication from Trevor Jones and John Dreyfus, the latter enclosing a letter from R. C. H. Briggs to him, and photocopies of legal papers in the case of Walker v. Cobden-Sanderson. Also with these is a photograph of Walker and Cobden-Sanderson, and a copy marked for reproduction Folder 2 = letters after publication from Lewis Allen, British Library, Colin Franklin, David Gentleman, Philip Hofer, Michael Hornby, Jonah Jones, Geoffrey Keynes, Lynton Lamb, Giovanni...

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents The correspondents include G. W. Armitage, John Betjeman, Gabrielle Blyth, British Council (Renée Haynes), J. Bryan, Patrick Cahill, Philip Comyns Carr, Alan Chappelow, Viscount Devonport, Archie Douglas, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd (Mervyn Horder), Juliet Duff, Reginald Dyson, Janet M. Glover, Rupert Hart-Davis, Monica Herring, Eleanor Jebb, Reginald Jebb, Hugh Macintosh, George Macy, Françoise Martin, Harold Nicolson, Francis Oppenheimer, A. D. Peters, Max Reinhardt, Leonard Russell,...

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Correspondence with Tom Ingram and Herbert Simon; layout by Meynell; and specimens of the printed label.

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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.