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231. Add MS 88984/7/7

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Title:
Correspondence and papers relating to a competition to design the Poetry Book Society’s device
Scope & Content:
The 1954 competition was open to students of any art school in the country which had special calligraphic and typographic sections. The original competition was won jointly by Jill Hardcastle of Coventry School of Art and Gary Lawrence of West Sussex College of Arts and Crafts. The prize money (£...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954, 1963
Extent:
1 folder

232. Add MS 88984/6/27-28

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Title:
Direction and administration
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence and papers relating to the planning, organisation, management, and content of the festival.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-1964
Extent:
2 files

233. Add MS 88984/6/39

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Title:
Direction and administration
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence and papers relating to the planning, organisation, management, and content of the Festival. Includes budgets, proposed programmes, and a report on the Festival. Also includes correspondence with the organisers of the Commonwealth Arts Festival.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1963-1966
Extent:
1 folder

234. Add MS 88984/5/1-28

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Title:
Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendation correspondence
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence, chiefly with publishers but also containing correspondence with poets and selectors, relating to submissions for the quarterly Choice and Recommendation. Some years’ files are missing one or more quarter’s papers. Some files also contain copy submitted by the authors of e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1953-1958, 1964-1992
Extent:
28 files

235. Add MS 88984/6/1-26

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Title:
Festival of Poetry 1961 ‘Poetry at the Mermaid’
Scope & Content:
Contains papers relating to the organisation, running, and content of the Festival. The Festival was directed by John Wain.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1959-1968
Extent:
26 files

236. Add MS 88984/8/13

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Title:
Papers relating to the publication of books of Bulletin contributions
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence relating to Christopher Hassall’s suggestion that poets’ original contributions to the Bulletin be collected in an anthology. The later correspondence relates to Kraus-Thomson Organization Ltd’s approach to reprint Bulletins 1-55, covering 1954-1967, in a single volume. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956-1958, 1968-1970
Extent:
1 folder

237. Add MS 88984/8/50

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Title:
Poetry Book Society facsimile holograph poems series
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence relating to the genesis of the idea and its evolution from a greetings card into a booklet, correspondence with poets inviting them to contribute and with the poets who agreed to do so, and correspondence with Poetry Book Society management and printers. Also contains holo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956-1959
Extent:
1 folder

238. Add MS 88984/6/5

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Title:
Contract letters
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence with festival staff and proforma contract letters sent to participants in the festival setting out the event they were being invited to participate in and their fee. These contract letters are arranged alphabetically by participant. Some letters have been signed by the par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1961
Extent:
1 folder

239. Add MS 88984/6/12

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Title:
Festival timetable
Scope & Content:
Contains timetables and programmes of events. Includes a guest list for the opening night.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1961
Extent:
1 folder

240. Add MS 88984/6/60

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Title:
Advertising
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence and papers relating to advertising for the festival. Includes press releases, proofs of adverts, advertising budgets, lists of newspapers to be approached for advertising space and features, and bookshops to be approached for the display of poster. Includes a letter to Sid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1969-1970
Extent:
1 folder