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Folders 1-2 = correspondence. This includes a pamphlet The shelter in Bedlam (by Warde; 1937) inscribed to Meynell. A separate envelope contains compositions of Beatrice Warde, mainly small items published by the Monotype Corporation. With these are an unidentified fragment of typescript by her; obituaries; and letters to Meynell about her from James Moran (1960) and John Dreyfus (1969).

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Muir's correspondents are Eleanor Corey, Desmond Flower, and Bryan Gentry.

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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).

Scope and Contents Correspondents include Alfred Reginald Allen, M. F. Ashley-Montagu, Van G. Borcoman, Melbert B. Cary, Chatto and Windus, John Dreyfus, David Garnett, A. S. B. Glover, Vivian Holman, St. John Hornby, Paul Johnston, Elbert Lenrow, George Macy (an original typescript letter from Meynell), Curtis Moffat, Barry Neame, Stephen Potter (with a typescript memorandum of 8 pages captioned 'Nonesuch texts and manuals'), Gerard Proost, and Arthur Waugh. With the letters is a programme for a revue 'The...

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The main correspondence is with John Dreyfus. With it are photographic prints and layouts by Meynell.

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Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.

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Typescript, galley proof, and correspondence.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Except where noted, the letters are original letters to Percy Muir and carbon copies of letters from him. The title of the item is the name of the correspondent. Some of the correspondents were Muir's collaborators (including John Carter, John Dreyfus, H. A. Feisenberger, John Lansdell, Jack Matson, Howard M. Nixon, David Randall, S. H. Steinberg). Most of the others were prospective lenders to the exhibition. Except for item 87, the letters generally cover the time before the exhibition...

Scope and Contents Edward Johnston designed four types for the Cranach Press of Count Harry Kessler: 1. 2-line Brevier italic lower case (1912-1913) 2. 8-, 10- and 12-point blackletter (1912-1930) 3. 16-point Greek (1929-1930, abortive) 4. 2-line Brevier italic capitals (1930-1931). This collection contains papers arising from all four of these projects, as well as from some earlier design work by Johnston for Kessler starting in 1904. These papers also cover Stanley Morison's purchase of the punches for...

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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Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with customers, 1945-1948. Correspondents include: Godfrey Carter, John Carter, E. J. Cooper, Phillippa Heywood, Mary Isabel Know, Margaret Leask, S. Lydall, Yvonne McHarg, Diana Murray, Betty C. Thomson. Arranged alphabetically. Rubbings taken from wood, mostly breadboards with inscriptions around the circumference, 1938-1960 and undated. The inscriptions also include a breadboard for John Dreyfus and an alphabet for Philip Hofer. Photographs of inscriptions; layout of an...

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Most of this series comes from Hutt's 'people' files, which along with correspondence included clippings and other papers about the person.

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Drawing of title-page spread; announcement of a lecture by Dreyfus (1989); letter from Dreyfus; copy of the printed book with errata slip.

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Letter to Tom [?].

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The collection largely comprises letters addressed to Sassoon although there are few other recipients such as Glen Byam Shaw and Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, Siegfried Sassoon's mother. There are also some postcards; draft and unpublished copies of poems; bills; and other related papers.

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These are: Richard De La Mare, Geoffrey Dowding, Ruth Draper, John Dreyfus, Andrew Duncan, Joseph R. Dunlap, L. Dyer.

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The collection contains miscellaneous papers related to typography.

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The punches were presented by Charles Peignot on 12 Mar. 1953. This series also includes correspondence and other papers relating to earlier research on the punches especially by John Dreyfus.

Scope and Contents Copy (typescript and manuscript), marked 'first draft'; copy (typescript, some photocopies), marked 'setting copy'; artwork; layout; paper samples; galley proof, marked; paste-up from galley proof and illustrations; correspondence with Sebastian Carter. Correspondents include Douglas Cleverdon, John Dreyfus, A. R. Dufty, Colin Franklin, Ted Kenney, Paul Needham, Norton Bridge Bookbinders Ltd (Peter Norton), Pierpont Morgan Library (C. A. Ryskamp), University of California, Berkeley (Anthony...

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Drawings, photographs, and stats of various alphabetical letters, mostly undated; Correspondence and memoranda on Monotype Octavian (1955-1964); Correspondence on Monophoto Octavian (1975-1976). Correspondents include Max Caflisch, David Kindersley, Ronald Mansbridge, Rauri McLean, Monotype Corporation (John Dreyfus, J. Goulding, Alan Jones, William Morgan, Doris Weller), Vivian Ridler, Hans Schmoller.

Scope and Contents The Vine Press was the private press of John Peters (1917-1989) and Peter Foster (1919-2010) in the village of Hemingford Grey near Cambridge. From 1957 to 1963 the Press produced six books and a few ephemera. The business was run by Peters, and the archive consists mostly of his files. These cover all the books and prospectuses, and most of the ephemera, with trial settings, layouts, proofs, and much correspondence with authors and suppliers; as well as almost all the wood-engraved blocks,...