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Batey, Charles Edward, b 1893 (printer to Oxford University)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: b 1893

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence, 1950-1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/E4/1
Scope and Contents

The correspondents are George Macy, Oxford University Press (Charles Batey, Vivian Ridler), Shenval Press (James Shand), and René Ben Sussan.

Dates: 1950-1953
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, 1944-1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B20/1
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include the editors, Charles Batey, Rupert Hart-Davis, Vita Sackville-West (who wrote the introduction to the volume), Reynolds Stone, and the publisher Jonathan Cape. At the end of the sequence are letters of thanks from recipients of presentation copies. The correspondence includes each editor's choices of essays and poems for inclusion.

Dates: 1944-1950
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, 1954-1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/E12/1
Scope and Contents

Most of the letters are between Meynell and Bror Zachrisson. Other correspondents include Charles Batey, Harry Carter, Brooke Crutchley, Alan Dodson, Ealing School of Art (T. E. Lightfoot), Desmond Flower, Frank Francis, F. C. Friend, Donald Gardner, T. C. Hart, Douglas Jerrold, John Ryder, Hans Schmoller, Walter Tracy, With the letters is a note by Meynell explaining his reasons for not contributing to the collection

Dates: 1954-1959
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 about loans of books to the exhibition 'Modern books and writers' at the National Book League Apr.-Sept. 1951 and the British Council travelling exhibition 'British Books of our times', 1950-1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/F16/1
Scope and Contents Correspondents include John Baker, David Bland, the British Council (Ruth Atkinson), John Carter, Dennis Cohen, J. Compton, Desmond Flower, Golden Cockerell Press, Joan Hassall, Robert Leighton, National Book League (Elizabeth Edmondston), Oxford University Press (Charles Batey, Geoffrey Cumberledge, Patricia Faulkner), J. M. Richards, Michael Sadleir, Charles J. Sawyer, Martin Secker, James Shand, and Aubrey West. With the letters is a printed programme of book exhibitions for the Festival...
Dates: 1950-1951
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).
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Lansdell, John, 1962-1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9827/A/39
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of correspondence with Charles Batey and Beatrice Warde.

Dates: 1962-1963
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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Other correspondents (B), 1936-1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C1/13
Scope and Contents

These are: Christian Barman, Charles Batey, Mrs. Bedaux, Leonard Beaumont, Jack Beddington, Jack Bickel, Rae Biemiller, Billy Birkett, Michael Birkett, Norman Birkett, Basil Blackwell, Douglas Percy Bliss, Christopher Bradshaw, C. E. Brendon, British Soviet Friendship Society (Colin Williams), Benjamin Britten, Dora Brody, Lady Brook, Anthony E. Brooks, I. W. Burch, Philip A. Burgoyne, and C. W. Byford.

Dates: 1936-1967
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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Two men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge, by Brooke Crutchley, 1968-1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9824/A/8
Scope and Contents Folder 1 = correspondence before publication with Ernest Ingham Folder 2 = correspondence before and after publication with Walter Lewis's family (chiefly N. P. Lewis, Joan Smith) Folder 3 = correspondence before publication with others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent; including letters from Gladys E. Alexander, E. G. Benn, G. V. Carey, C. E. Carrington, Bruce Dickins, Ruth Gollancz, C. W. Hobson, R. J. L. Kingsford, D. Last, F. R. Mansbridge, Francis Meynell, E. S. Pearson,...
Dates: 1968-1969
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).