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Cleland, Thomas Maiitland, 1880-1964 (book and type designer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1880 - 1964

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Block letters for block heads, 1961

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B59/64
Scope and Contents

Typescript of 13 pages, some made up from cuttings of Meynell's printed article 'The typography of advertising'. The talk was given to the 'M E C' on 7 February 1961. With this is a typescript (carbon copy) of 3 pages by T. S. Cleland partly on this subject, with annotations by Meynell.

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).
 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

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

T. M. Cleland, 1946-1960

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C1/20
Scope and Contents

Two letters to Meynell (1946, 1952). With this are a typescript extracted from some composition of Cleland, and an invitation to dinner on his eightieth birthday (1960), with draft of a telexed greeting from Meynell.

Dates: 1946-1960
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).