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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

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

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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'

Scope and Contents He has found copies of A & E and 'Aurelia'; nowadays, he understands, he is 'a poseur and backnumber' but has 'not given up hope of being among the English poets when I die'; he hopes to amend and republish 'a selection of my early work' and get fairer treatment; a few among his war poems that he still likes - examples; how they could be set to music; hopes the selection will rank with Darley's 'Nepeuthe' and pastorals of 'some of the lesser but still glorious Elizabethans'; encloses...

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Glad he is progressing with full score of violin concerto; he should let Arthur Caterall have violin part 'so that he can get himself inside the work'

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He has not done piano reduction of cello concerto: cannot get it from Raya G. 'who is playing it rather often'; published copy should be ready by summer

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He does not have score and parts of Bloch's 'Schelemo': can only get them from publishers on hire

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Can Giles recommend a modern book on historical development of language in relation to thought?; he is interested in tracing 'gradual growth of the power of abstraction and generalization as attested by the increase in the creation and use of more and more abstract and general terms'; he has only Max Müller's and Sayce's works; Rouse has got Frazer to do Apollodorus, not Herodotus, for Loeb; death of Frazer's stepdaughter in Paris

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Thanks for Giles's help at lectures; 'We really think that it has done something to promote a friendly feeling among anthropologists'; he hopes the feeling was not marred by 'the controversial tone of my friend Marett's lecture.'; the large number of guests meant that Frazer could not give them all the attention he should have done

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Health; college news; summer arrangements for their house; the 'Oxford Magazine' on the fight for borrowing from the Bodleian; Madan made a successful speech [ending lost]

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Postcard from Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria, where Ramsay went to visit Wittgenstein and to work on translation of 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'; 'LW explains his book to me from 2-7 every day. It is most illuminating... we seem to get on at about a page an hour... he says that his mind is no longer flexible and he can never write another book'; he teaches in a village school, is very poor, and 'regarded by most of his colleagues as a little mad.'

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Glad Askew liked his book: the only one he has published so far; a critical study of 'Anton Chekhov' soon to appear; he is writing a novel 'A house of polyglots'; assessment of Russian writers - Manin, Schiriak, Nikolai Leshkov, Kuprin, Andreiev, Bunin, Remizov, etc.