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Glad to have news of Dore, after Norway episode

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

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Presenting letters: provenance

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

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

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Thanks for ornamental specimens from Neudörffer's 'Schreibkunst'; he doubts whether Oates, Under-Librarian, could speak loudly enough to 'impress a large audience' [Baltimore Bibliophiles]; thanks for a copy of catalogue of calligraphic exhibition

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Thanks for three catalogues; with note by Filby, listing catalogues: 'Calligraphy', 1963; 'Crime and the Literati', 1962; 'Falconry', 1962

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Sends copy of order of service at Scholfield's memorial service

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Observations on his career at the Bodleian Library and then at Cambridge; members of Cambridge Library staff who have died or moved on; his house at Gifford, East Lothian

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Planned endowment for memorial to A.N.L. Munby in Cambridge University Library; sends copy of Appeal By American Friends; he needs a list of those in U.S.A. likely to be interested, and publicity for appeal

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Circumstances leading to resignation of James Tarris, Yale Librarian; John Blum, Professor of History, is appointed acting Director of Libraries; satisfaction at running of Beinecke Library; the resignation distressed Liebert and he considered resigning; Beinecke is becoming 'completely independent of the University Library in everything but form.' [letter annotated by Carter]

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'Tarris's report is indeed a document of unusual frankness'; it will be hard to find a replacement

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

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Presenting /228-/236; with notes on items

Scope and Contents Thanks for 'two beautiful books'; 'Truly you do belong to a more gracious age than ours'; visit to Oxford for lunch at Merton College; 'Oxford has a long memory and I detected an inclination to dissociate themselves from Wood... they stressed the fact that Wood was never a fellow of the College and was turned out of the common room and expelled from the University... they seemed mincing and worldly and I scarce saw an honest face.'; visit to Golden Cockeril Press and Robert Gibbings; he will...

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Thanks for Newman's 'timely' help; it brought memories of Dorset; 'It was to the late Mrs. Hardy... that I owed my first introducation to you'

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Illness has knocked him back; promotion came just in time: he is forbidden to tutor and supervise

Scope and Contents He cannot look for a setting of Orpheus during Term; knows of no contemporary setting; 'I can't produce settings at the drop of a hat when they don't exist.'; much work at Cambridge - Arts Theatre - City help to music - rebuilding Music School - Cambridge University Music Society; could one of the songs which he proposed long ago be used?; neither needs a male voice; 'I want to indulge you, Dadie, but I can't do so at the expense of abandonig the guiding principles used throughout the scheme...

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Moving to Chair of Music, University of London, creating a new Faculty of Music; he would like to play continuo in proposed recordings; declines editing; Charles Cudworth could choose a young scholar; 'Cambridge did not, perhaps, realize that a Professor of Music here has great responsibilities, but is virtually powerless to act on them.'; his successor 'must be given the chance to do things... including helping researchers.'

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Postpone meeting until October; until his successor is appointed, he has Cambridge lecture courses to do, and researchers to look after; he must prepare syllabuses, etc., for London

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

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Impressed with Johnson's interview with Ruth Worth in 'Globe and Mail'; Sissons' 'Memoirs' may be interesting about teacher training in Ontario; 'Intelligence and a sense of humour' are essential for a teacher

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Shortcomings of teacher-training system in Ontario; appreciative comments on teaching ability of A.E. Miller of Revelstoke

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

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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