Photographs of friends of Gordon and Emily Bottomley
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Contains photographs of, amongst others, John Duncan RSA, J. B. Priestley, Alix Egerton, Judith Masefield, Lillah McCarthy, B. J. Fletcher, Lawrence and Cicely Binyon, Margaret Cropper, Allardyce Nicholl, Austin Clarke, and Joan Hamilton. Contains occasional photographs of the Bottomleys.
Contains articles on: art schools and exhibitions (especially at Leicester School of Art, including a programme and associated cuttings relating to the presentation there to Augustus Spencer in March 1900 at which Bottomley spoke); art galleries; photography, and architecture, with associated cu...
Also contains a letter to Prof. Claude Colleer Abbott from Elizabeth Trevelyan, R. C. Trevelyan's wife, discussing the correspondence. Abbott edited some of Bottomley's literary works and correspondence in the 1950s.
Cuttings relating to the Bottomley family and of local interest
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Contains: Family cuttings: John Bottomley (1814-1883, Gordon Bottomley’s grandfather) and John Bottomley junior (Gordon Bottomley’s uncle), with cuttings concerning the murder of Jonas Bottomley (d 1883, Gordon Bottomley’s great uncle); Alfred Bottomley (Gordon Bottomley’s father) and Ann Maria ...
Printed ephemera of Gordon Bottomley relating to poetry - poets
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Miscellaneous poems, some dedicated to Bottomley, biographical notices and some portraits relating to, or by: Lascelles Abercrombie, Matthew Arnold, Jane Barlow, Laurence Binyon, Rupert Brooke, Thomas Edward Brown, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Will Carleton, G. K. Chesterton, Hartley Coleridge, S...
Printed ephemera of Gordon Bottomley relating to the theatre - playwrights
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Contains articles and biographical notices (some portraits). Includes articles on: Bernard Shaw (with cuttings of his, Ellen Terry's, and others’ related essays on performing Shakespeare, and a separate envelope of material relating to the 1929 Malvern Festival of Shaw plays, including a signed c...