Contains pamphlets, programmes, cuttings, and photographs relating to the 800th anniversary of Exeter Cathedral. Commemorative events included the performance of Bottomley’s Acts of St Peter.
Also contains a letter to Prof. Claude Colleer Abbott discussing the correspondence. Abbott edited some of Bottomley's literary works and correspondence in the 1950s.
Bound in soft calf, containing cuttings of personal interest or relating to the Bottomley family, including some of Alfred Bottomley’s own letters to the press, and Gordon Bottomley’s schooldays. Includes: a small collection of mounted postcards with illustrations of various Welsh views; engraved...
Also contains a letter to Prof. Claude Colleer Abbott discussing the correspondence, and a note on the correspondence by Abbott. Abbott edited some of Bottomley's literary works and correspondence in the 1950s.
Photographs and negatives, in wallets and loose, of British churches, including pictures taken in connection with Bottomley’s work for the Central Council for the Care of Churches photographic survey. Also includes an envelope of topographical and architectural photographs and postcards, mainly o...
Contains cuttings relating to the publication of Lyric Plays (1932) and cuttings, programmes and photographs relating to the performances of the plays included within it: Marsaili’s Weeping; Culbin Sands; Suilven and The Eagle; Kirkconnel Lea; and The Woman from the Voe.
Printed ephemera of Gordon Bottomley relating to literature - miscellaneous criticism, books and publishing
Scope & Content:
(1) Criticism. A short collection of cuttings of articles and letters by the critic Arthur Symons, and other miscellaneous critical essays and reviews. Includes a copy of The Abinger Chronicle, vol. 1, no. 10 (Sep/Oct 1940).(2) Books and publishing. Contains preview handbills for private press p...