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Add MS 88921/2/12
- Record Id:
- 040-001612027
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000178515
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x000043
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88921/2/12
- Title:
- Phyllis Bottome: Letters to the Press Concerning the Ministry of Information, and Other Matters
- Scope & Content:
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With original file-front entitled 'Letters on Censorship of Ministry of Information and to the Press on a Variety of Topics'. The file contains the following letters:
24 February 1940. Letter headed 'A Plea for Fair Play for English Lecturers' and annotated at the top of the first page indicating the letter not published on the advice of Ferris Greenslet of Houghton Mifflin Co. Three sheets, carbon typescript.
16 July 1943. Annotated 'published in Picture Post'. Three sheets carbon typescript, signed.
3 February 1945. Letter of resignation from West Cornwall M.O.I. Committee. One sheet carbon typescript.
Without date, to the Editor, The St Ives Times, beginning: 'We shall know that we can afford to admit practising Marxists to teach our children when those within the Iron Curtain allow the same facility to practising Democrats'. Two sheets, typescript with corrections and signature.
Cutting of letter from Phyllis Bottome published in The St Ives Times (3 November 1950) concerning the proposal of the Council to demolish the studio of Sven Berlin to replace it with a public toilet. With an autograph letter from Berlin to Bottome (dated, or mis-dated, 2 November 1950) thanking her for her intervention.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000178515
036-000178521
040-001612027 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88921 : Phyllis Bottome Papers
Add MS 88921/2 : Files Created by Phyllis Bottome, Relating to Specific 'Causes' and Public Issues
Add MS 88921/2/12 : Phyllis Bottome: Letters to the Press Concerning the Ministry of Information, and Other Matters - Hierarchy:
- 032-000178515[0002]/036-000178521[0012]/040-001612027
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88921
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1940
- End Date:
- 1950
- Date Range:
- 1940-1950
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)