Miscellaneous material, as follows: essays written at Dulwich College, and at the University of Cambridge; miscellaneous rough notes on writing fiction (c. 1990); material concerning fishing; material concerning fishing with Ted Hughes.
Papers of Maeve Gilmore and the Mervyn Peake Estate
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Predominantly relating to the work of Mervyn Peake, but also concerning Maeve's own painting and writing. The correspondence includes personal letters to Maeve from her friends and family, including letters from Mervyn. The majority of this material dates from the late 1950s to Maeve's death in 1...
The records of Punch cover a wide variety of its operations in the 20th century, chiefly from the 1950s onwards. Records relating to finances, advertising, syndication, exhibitions, and contributors are included, as well as a series relating to the Punch table, a series relating to Punch publica...
The records of Bradbury and Evans and of Bradbury, Agnew and Co.
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The records span the 19th and 20th centuries and comprise business records, letter books, and papers relating to contributors and the companies' publications, both Punch and other titles.
R G G Price's papers comprise his personal archive of research notes, writings, diaries, and correspondence. Price was a long-standing contributor to Punch.
Contains personal papers, postcards, cuttings, photographs, and greetings cards. Abbott edited some of Gordon Bottomley's literary works and correspondence in the 1950s.
Posthumous papers relating to Sir Frank and Lady Katrina Francis
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Contains papers collected by Frank Francis’s wife, Lady Katrina ('Kitty') (d 1991), and their daughter, Jane Francis (d 2010) following, and chiefly relating to, Francis’s death on 15 Sep 1988. Also contains a file of condolence letters, collected by Jane alone, on the death of Lady Katrina, and ...