Sir Herbert Edward Read fonds
| Record No. | SC100 |
| Main Entry | Read, Herbert Edward, Sir, 1893-1968 |
| Title | Sir Herbert Edward Read fonds |
| Dates | 1918-1965 |
| Physical Description | 4 m of textual records. |
| Bio/Admin History | Sir Herbert Edward Read was a poet, art critic and champion of modern art in Britain. He produced approximately 1,150 titles on a broad range of topics. His 80 monographs include: 26 on art and artists; 14 on literary criticism; 13 collections of poetry; 10 on politics, primarily on anarchism; 7 on "belles lettres" and biography; 5 on education, most notably "Education Through Art"; and 5 autobiographies. |
| Scope and Content | The fonds consists primarily of correspondence with many individuals, including Richard Aldington, Wilfred R. Childe, Alex Comfort, Edward Dahlberg, Bonamy and Valentine Dobree, T.S. Eliot, Naum Gabo, Rayner Heppenstall, Barbara Hepworth, David Jones, Jacob Kramer, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Henry Miller, Henry Moore, Frank Morley, Edwin Muir, Ben Nicholson, Alfred R. Orage, Robert Payne, Kathleen Raine, Stephen Spender, Adrian Stokes, Allen Tate, Arthur W. Wheen, George Woodcock and Wilhelm Worringer. Also included are notebooks, worksheets, proofs and mimeographed BBC programs; mostly from the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Title Source | Title based on the contents of the fonds. |
| Finding Aids | Published and unpublished finding aids available to the file level. |
| Online Finding Aids | Inventory to the Sir Herbert Edward Read Fonds (PDF, 511 kB) |
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| Provenance | Read, Herbert Edward, Sir, 1893-1968 |
| Repository | University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections |
| Subject Headings | Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 Authors, English--20th century--Correspondence Childe, Wilfred Rowland, 1890-1952 Comfort, Alex, 1920-2000 Dahlberg, Edward, 1900-1977 Dobree, Bonamy, 1891-1974 Dobree, Valentine Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 English literature--20th century Gabo, Naum, 1890-1977 Heppenstall, Rayner, 1911-1981 Hepworth, Barbara, Dame, 1903-1975 Jones, David, 1895-1974 Kramer, Jacob, 1892-1962 Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 Moore, Henry, 1898-1986 Morley, F. V. (Frank Vigor), 1899-1980 Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 Nicholson, Ben, 1894-1982 Orage, A. R. (Alfred Richard), 1873-1934 Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003 Read, Herbert Edward, Sir, 1893-1968 Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 Stokes, Adrian Durham, 1902-1972 Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 Wheen, A. W. (Arthur Wesley), 1897-1971 Woodcock, George, 1912-1995 Worringer, Wilhelm, 1881-1965 |
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