George D. Painter's papers relating to François-René de Chateaubriand
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Includes: an autograph letter by Chateaubriand [no year], purchased by Painter in 1970; correspondence with the Société Chateuabriand and the French Embassy in London relating to a proposal to site a blue plaque on a building occupied by Chateuabriand in London; correspondence of Painter and Pie...
Contains: ‘André Gide’s visit to Oxford, 5-8 June, 1947. (Strictly confidential report written by Enid Starkie)’; reviews of Painter’s André Gide: a critical and biographical study (published in 1951); and a typescript of an article by Painter, ‘Dorothy Bussy and Gide’.
Contains notes, cuttings, and a typewritten introduction. Painter, with R. A. Skelton and T. E. Marston, published The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation in 1965.
Includes a student society poster; a photograph of Painter; biographical details; notes on the chambered cairn tombs at Dyffryn Ardudwy written for Painter's grandsons; papers, including a transcript, relating to Painter’s appearance on BBC Radio 3's Man of Action in 1979; papers relating to the ...
Includes: galley proof of Painter's The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. An introduction on the dream, the dreamer, the artist, and the printer (London: Eugrammia Press, 1963); a prospectus for the Eugrammia Press's 1964 collotype facsimile of Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Apocalypse; a copy of Le d...