Includes works by A. Hugh Fisher, Thomas Sturge Moore, Lascelles Abercrombie, Caroline Wilson, Thomas O'Kelly, and W. S. Howie. Includes manuscript, typewritten, and presentation copies.
Also contains letters from Philip Gosse, Teresa Gosse, and Ellen Gosse. Also contains notes relating to Prof. Claude Colleer Abbott lending the letters to the Brotherton Library for consultation by Dr Paul Mattheisen.
Correspondence relating to the performance of The Acts of St. Peter in Exeter Cathedral
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Contains correspondence of The Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, Dean of Exeter, A. H. Thompson, Archdeacon of Exeter, and W. Arnold Riley, Hon. Organising Secretary of the Festival Week of Service, Music and Religious Drama.
With a letter (1918) to Peach from Frank Pick; a letter (1929) from Joan Fletcher to 'Mrs Peach' [Mabel, née Walton, Peach's second wife - the letter is endorsed by Margaret Hawkes, Peach's daughter, "letter... to my step-mother"], for Bottomley's correspondence with Ben and Joan Fletcher, see Ad...
Printed ephemera relating to performances of King Lear's Wife
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Contains an album [Gordon Bottomley's own?] of photographs, programmes, sketches for costumes and sets, music, and printed ephemera relating to performances of King Lear’s Wife. Also includes a note of daily takings during the play's run at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1915.
Original artwork, engravings, woodcuts, etc, by Bottomley’s other artist friends: Clinton Balmer (including silverpoint portraits of Bottomley, and with a silverpoint portrait of Balmer by W. Alison Martin); Edwin Balmer; Constance G. Copeman; M. W. Dodd; A. Hugh Fisher; B. J. Fletcher; Reginald ...