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Press cuttings. Information artifacts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.

Found in 2179 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Courtney, with related papers., 1890-1898.

 File
Identifier: MS.40283
Scope and Contents The letters are mostly to John Murray III and to John Murray IV and mainly concern Courtney’s role as editor of “Murray’s Magazine”. They are arranged chronologically.Folios 1-21. Letters concerning the appointment of William Courtney as the editor of “Murray’s Magazine”. Letter, 9 February 1890, of Courtney to Edward Arnold confirming his interest in taking over the editorship of “Murray’s Magazine”. Folios 1-2.Draft of a letter, 13 February...
Dates: 1890-1898.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William FitzPatrick., 1887-June 1888.

 File
Identifier: MS.40407
Scope and Contents Letters, 1887-June 1888, of William FitzPatrick to John Murray III and John Murray IV, with related letters and papers. They concern FitzPatrick’s work “Correspondence of Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator”, published by the Murrays. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1887: folios 1-45; (1)1888, January-June: folios 46-150. (2)1. Includes letter, 28 December 1887, of Maurice FitzGerald to William FitzPatrick: folios 40-41;copies,...
Dates: 1887-June 1888.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William FitzPatrick., July 1888-1890.

 File
Identifier: MS.40408
Scope and Contents Letters, July 1888-1890 and uncertain dates, of William FitzPatrick to John Murray IV, a few to John Murray III, with related letters and papers. They concern FitzPatrick’s work “Correspondence of Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator”, published by the Murrays. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1888, July-December: folios 1-62; (1)?1888: folios 63-72.1889: folios 73-93; ?1889: folio 94.1890: folios 95-98....
Dates: July 1888-1890.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Forsyth., 1847-1879.

 File
Identifier: MS.40417
Scope and Contents The letters are to John Murray III. They concern mostly the preparation and publication of various works by William Forsyth, including:“Hortensius: or, The Advocate. An historical essay” (1849);“History of the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena; from the letters and journals of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, and official documents not before made public” (1853);“Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero” (1864);“The novels and novelists of the...
Dates: 1847-1879.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Gowers., 1893-1908 and undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.40473
Scope and Contents The letters are to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. They concern various matters including: publications on medicine; articles published in, or to be considered for, the “Quarterly Review”;talk of the Athenaeum Club. Also detailed are Gowers’s suggestions for the revision of the 1885 edition of “A handbook for travellers in North Wales”.The letters are arranged chronologically.1893-1894: folios 1-34;1895: folios 35-70;1896-1898: folios 71-102...
Dates: 1893-1908 and undated.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Knight., 1887-1890.

 File
Identifier: MS.40660
Scope and Contents Letters, 1887-1890, of William Knight to John Murray III and John Murray IV, with related letters and papers. They concern his work “Principal Shairp and his friends” published by the Murrays, and his proposals for, and the beginning of, work on the University extension manuals series, of which he was editor and a contributor. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1887: folios 1-6;1888: folios 7-45; (1)1889: folios 46-57;1890: folios...
Dates: 1887-1890.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Knight., 1892-1894.

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Identifier: MS.40662
Scope and Contents

Letters, 1892-1894, of William Knight to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray, with related letters and papers. They concern his editorship of, and his own contribution to, the University extension manuals series. The letters are arranged in chronological order.

1892: folios 1-77;

1893: folios 78-163; (1)

1894: folios 164-192.

1. Includes letter, 5 April 1893, of William O’Connor Morris to William Knight: folios 103-104.

Dates: 1892-1894.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Lilly., 1880-1919.

 File
Identifier: MS.40698
Scope and Contents The letters are to John Murray III, John Murray IV and to Hallam Murray. They are arranged chronologically.1880, 1882: folios 1-7;1892: folios 8-99 [Notes 1-2];1893-1896, 1898-1899: folios 100-168;1900-1901, 1919: folios 169-183.Related papers.Correspondence and papers, 1913-1918, concerning “The life of Viscount Llandaff”, by William Lilly. The papers are arranged chronologically.Opinion, [? 1913], by an...
Dates: 1880-1919.

Letters to Violet Jacobs, 1911-1944, undated, and newspaper cuttings, 1915-1936, chiefly of reviews of her work., 1911-1944, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27416
Scope and Contents

The letters are chiefly appreciations of Violet Jacob’s poetry, and the writers include Charles Murray and John Buchan (folio 1). The newspaper cuttings begin on folio 96.

Dates: 1911-1944, undated.

Letters to Willa Muir., 1931-1961, undated.

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Identifier: MS.19674
Scope and Contents

With miscellaneous press-cuttings 1931-1961, undated.

Dates: 1931-1961, undated.

'Letters Written on Board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland and at Saint Helena' (London: R. Ackermann, 1816), by William Warden., 1816.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50262
Scope and Contents

Inscribed on the half title, 'To Mr John Warden, the gift of his son Alexander Warden. Febry. 1817'.

Also included is a newspaper cutting (folio i)from the 'Times', July 14 1930, 'On this day', which prints a letter, 1816, concerning Napoleon and St Helena.

Dates: 1816.

Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.

 File
Identifier: MS.14958
Scope and Contents

Includes some cuttings and proofs.

Dates: Early 20th century.

Literary and personal papers, 1909-1953, of Joyce Anstruther Placzek, known as 'Jan Struther', with related papers, 1954-2010, including printed material and press cuttings.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13220/1-49
Scope and Contents Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates: 1909-2010.

Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13217
Scope and Contents The archive contains the complete literary papers of Christopher Rush to date (2010), relating to all his creative writing, published and unpublished. This includes manuscript notebooks and drafts, typescripts, and literary correspondence relating to `Peace Comes Dropping Slow` (1983), `A Resurrection of a Kind` (1984), `A Twelvemonth and a Day` (1985), `Into the Ebb` (1989), `Last Lesson of the Afternoon: a satire` (1994), `To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold` (2005),...
Dates: 1962-2010.

Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13458
Scope and Contents

Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.

Dates: Circa 1966-2013.