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1. Add MS 88909

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Title:
The Papers of Bob Cobbing
Scope & Content:
The diversity and unity of the collection reflect the closely integrated professional strands of Cobbing's life and work, as poet, publisher and performer of sound poetry. In addition to a representative range of published work and material in draft spanning Cobbing's career, the collection incl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese
Date Range:
1919-2005
Extent:
212 files

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Baptism, Enfield Grammar School, Autograph Album, and Early Writing (School)
Scope & Content:
(1) A single printed page (removed from a parish publication, with advertisements on the verso) listing various baptisms, marriages and burials from the Parish Register [Enfield]. Amongst the baptisms listed: 'Sept. 12 - Robert Walter, s. of Robert James William and Susy Selina Cobbing'. Year no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1937
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Personal Material
Scope & Content:
Personal and family material, including some records of Cobbing's education at Enfield Grammar School and at Bognor Teacher Training College, with examples of subsequent applications for employment as a teacher (and, in later years, applications for poetry fellowships). In his youth, Cobbing wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-2002
Extent:
11 files

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Notebooks (Enfield Wesley Guild and Enfield Youth House Club)
Scope & Content:
(1) Enfield Wesley Guild: notebook with local newspaper cuttings adhered recording meetings and activities (1939-42). (2) Enfield Youth House Club: notebook with local newspaper cuttings adhered recording meetings and activities (1942-43).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1943
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Four Notebooks of Copied Poems
Scope & Content:
Four notebooks containing copied poems. Two notebooks are entitled 'Anthology of Short Poems', the poems numbered consecutively 1-497. A third notebook contains 46 numbered and copied poems. A list of publications listed at the back of the first notebook includes volumes by Emily Dickinson dated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1940-1947
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Weaving Exercises (Bognor Training College)
Scope & Content:
Eight small weaving samples produced by Cobbing during his course of teacher training at Bognor Training College.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1949]
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: 'The Purpose of Art: Personal Study by R W Cobbing' (Bognor Training College)
Scope & Content:
A study by Cobbing completed during his course of teacher training at Bognor Training College. In Cobbing's hand, with numerous reproductions illustrating his argument. Front cover of original binding retained, dated 1 January, 1949.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Correspondence Regarding Employment as a Teacher
Scope & Content:
Various letters from local authorities concerning applications for employment: Borough of Finchley, Borough of Hendon, Hertfordshire County Council, County Borough of West Ham, County Council of Middlesex, London County Council, and Finchley Public Libraries. The file includes two draft autogr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943-1977
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Personal Financial Matters
Scope & Content:
(1) Documents concerning various domestic financial matters: notification of an increase in charges for the supply of water (1975), and of rent (1982), an Inland Revenue Tax Return (1986-87), and some correspondence (1988) relating to the proceeds of the sale of the house of Cobbing's mother. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964-2001
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Bob Cobbing: Divorce Papers
Scope & Content:
(1) A single brief solicitor's letter referring to Byers v Cobbing (Decree Nisi 2 October 1953), and five related personal letters (1949-50). (2) Various papers concerning the dissolution of the marriage of Robert and Kathleen Cobbing, including a certified copy of the Birth Certificate of Kath...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1962
Extent:
1 file