Scope and Contents Folder 1 = Letters after publication from Greer Allen, Lewis Allen, Ernest Barker, Max Caflisch, Sydney Cockerell, Gaylord Donnelley, Alvin Eisenman, Alfred Fairbank, Evan Gill, Robert Harling, Walter Harrap, Joan Hassall, John Hayward, Ellic Howe, André Jammes, Thomas Jones, George Macy, Giovanni Mardersteig, Francis Meynell, Percy Muir, Roger Mynors, J. B. Oldham, G. W. Ovink, Stanley Pargellis, Vivian Ridler, Carl Purlington Rollins, Rudolph Ruzicka, John Sparrow, Paul Standard, Francis...

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Letters from Alfred Fairbank [1-13] to J.C.T. Oates, 1958-63, [14] to Bruce Dickins, 1962

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Interfiled are a letter to Meynell from John Maud and a letter from John Hayward to Fairbank.

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This series contains original letters to Barker and typescript carbon copies or photocopies of letters from him. Much of the correspondence is with authors and prospective authors. A few letters relate to Barker's investment in the Collector Ltd. Interfiled with Barker's correspondence are some letters to and from others on the editorial staff, including David McKitterick, John Commander, and chiefly Joan Stevenson (1966-ca. 1979). Some letters to and from her include proofs of articles.

Scope and Contents Photostats of italic hands from the following institutions and MSS: British Library Lansdowne 2-3, 7-8, 10-12, 15-21, 23-25, 27-28, 30, 34, 36, 39, 42, 45, 50, 54, 61-63, 69, 82, 87, 98, 104; Harleian 417, 6350, 6986; Cotton Faust. C III, VII, Vesp. F III, Calig. C III, Royal Appendix 87, Royal 16 C IX, Royal 18 A LXI, Add. MSS 19400, 35840; Public Record Office, SP 1/37, 42, 10/4, 6, 11/9, 12, 12/2, 6, 7, 10, 17, 19, 20, 22, 32, 35, 38, 40, 42-44, 46, 48-49, 67, 69/6, 71, 73-74, 77, 80, 83,...

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Copy (mostly typescript, including carbons, partly autograph manuscript) for a book by Will Carter with this title, including table of contents; dummy of 'experimental pages'; proofs of title 'Chancery italics' with various notes on italic writing books and showings of italic types; correspondence, some letters enclosing further specimens of type. Correspondents include Alfred Fairbank, Frederick. W. Goudy, Stanley Morison, Paul Standard. The book was never published.

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Chiefly letters of thanks to Meynell for presentation copies. Among the writers are John Arlott, Sydney Cockerell, Alfred Fairbank, Rupert Hart-Davies, Richard De la Mare, and Osbert Sitwell.

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,...

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Morison's letters were generally dictated to his secretary and typed with a carbon copy. For the most part, it is these carbon copies that make up his outgoing correspondence in this series. (Where his original letters or photocopies of them are included, this fact is noted.) Letters to and from Morison are interfiled in one chronological sequence. Some short compositions by a particular correspondent are included in this series alongside that person's correspondence.

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His copy of Newberry Tagliente not worth a review, 'it is a poor and expensive copy of an interesting edition.'

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The letters are from the Double Crown Club (Hans Schmoller, 1955), John Dreyfus (1955), Evelyn Dunbar (ca. 1933), Alfred Fairbank, Newman Flower (1932), Desmond Flower (1931-1949).

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Knew Edward Johnston; designed a printing type for Eric Gill; heard her talk on Radio Brighton

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Scope and Contents Letters collected by Will Carter, including letters from well-known correspondents, and from writers of good italic hands. Correspondents include Diana Albemarle, Anthony Barnes (to Sebastian Carter?), David H. Bates, Fernand Baudin, Paul A. Bennett, John Howard Benson, Nicolas Bentley, Reynard Biemiller, Diana Bloomfield, Wilfred Blunt, Max Caflisch, Maruice Card, Jerry Cinamon, Warren Chappell, Sybil Cholmondeley, Douglas Cockerell (to John Dreyfus), Sydney Cockerell, Dennis M. Cohen, John...

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Correspondence with the Society (Alfred Fairbank, Anna Hornby), and an exchange of letters between George Miller and Pamela Hayman. With the correspondence are the agenda for the inaugural meeting and draft rules of the Society. Meynell's folder was marked 'Resigned from the Committee & elected Vice-President April 1958'.

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Letters after publication from Noel Carrington, Alfred Fairbank, Ernest Ingham, Giovanni Mardersteig, G. W. Ovink, John Sparrow, Paul Standard, and James M. Wells.