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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 88909 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

31. Add MS 88909/28

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Hendon Poetry Society
Scope & Content:
Two exercise books containing Minutes to the Hendon Poetry Society (1950-58), including details of members and attendance - with some additional sheets loosely inserted (programme for 1951-52, and 1956). A third exercise book (entitled 'Enjoyment of Poetry') containing related notes on poets and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1950-1958
Extent:
1 file

32. Add MS 88909/29

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Hendon Writers' Circle and Hendon Writers' Group
Scope & Content:
Minutes of Meetings of the Hendon Writers' Circle (1952-57), and of Meetings of the Writers' Group (1957-58). Also, a double-page mock-up (1954) from a Hendon Arts Together publication that includes a one-page announcement of AND magazine: 'And now, in 1954, the magazine AND..., a magazine whic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1952-1958
Extent:
1 file

33. Add MS 88909/30

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Two Notebooks on Painting and Poetry, and Newspaper Cuttings Concerning William Gear
Scope & Content:
(1) Two notebooks entitled 'The Nature of Painting' and 'The Nature of Poetry', both containing copied passages from various authors. (2) A small album of newspaper cuttings concerning the purchase by the Arts Council of the painting 'Autumn Landscape' by William Gear. The purchase provoked som...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-c 1955
Extent:
1 file

34. Add MS 88909/31

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Finchley Society of Arts (Constitution and Bulletins)
Scope & Content:
The Constitution of Finchley Society of Arts, with Bulletins spanning 1960-64. With five small booklets advertising lectures, films and music events at Finchley Public Library (1961-65, with gaps), including The Lively Arts 'planned and run for the Library Committee by Mr R Cobbing' (1964 and 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1964
Extent:
1 file

35. Add MS 88909/32

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Finchley Society of Arts (Press Cuttings)
Scope & Content:
Exercise book with local newspaper cuttings adhered. Includes cuttings referring to the 'Brent Lodge campaign' (Spike Milligan, Margaret Thatcher). Almost all pages used.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1963
Extent:
1 file

36. Add MS 88909/33

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: 'What a London Borough Could Do' (Standing Committee on the Arts)
Scope & Content:
(1) Exercise book with Cobbing's notes relating to a meeting (or meetings) of a sub-committee of the Standing Committee on the Arts. Towards the back of the book are three typescript sheets pasted in relating to a meeting on 26 February, 1963 ('What a London Borough Could Do') listing various mu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1969
Extent:
1 file

37. Add MS 88909/34

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Letters Sent
Scope & Content:
Various letters sent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1967-2002
Extent:
3 files

38. Add MS 88909/34-40

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Correspondence
Scope & Content:
Wide-ranging correspondence reflecting Cobbing's integrated practice as poet, performer and publisher. In addition to the files of letters sent by Cobbing, there are also very occasionally copies of his letters within the files of letters received.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1960-2002
Extent:
61 files

39. Add MS 88909/34/1

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Letters Sent 1967-1979
Scope & Content:
1967-69: Draft letter (3 June, 1967) to John Calder, in Cobbing's hand, concerning unwarranted delay in the publication of John Cage, Silence, invoking 'censorship through copyright restrictions'; Cobbing to Joe Berke (7 July, 1968 - two open duplicated copies), resigning as Co-ordinator of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1967-1979
Extent:
1 file

40. Add MS 88909/34/2

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Letters Sent 1979-1989
Scope & Content:
Draft and copy letters: (1) correspondence (1979-81) concerning missing exhibition materials, Modern British Poetry Conference, 1974; (2) to Nicki Singer (6 January, 1981) concerning plans for ALP 15th anniversary; (3) to Jo [ ] (9 December, 1981) concerning monies received by various poets for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1979-1989
Extent:
1 file