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Worktown Collection (1937-40)
Box 43: Assorted short reports (2)
43/A Public Library
- Observer account
- "Public Library", ms, 2pp, AVW, 15.2.38
43/B The Bolton Citizen
The Bolton Citizen, 2.38, published by the Bolton Labour Party
43/C The Pleids Society and newspaper survey
"The Pleids Society and Intellectuals in Bolton", ts, 12pp, about the intellectual life in Bolton
Untitled document, ms, 99pp, 17.1.48-2.2.48, 99 replies to a newspaper questionnaire survey
43/D Political publications
Booklet: International Policy and Defence, National Council of Labour, Leicester Co-operative Printing Society Ltd
Booklet: Tomorrow, 8.38, Vol 1, No 3, The London and Norwich Press, Ltd., and the Liberal Publication Department
Booklet: The Liberal News, 8.38. No 3, Metchim & Son, Ltd., and the Liberal Publication Department
43/E BBC radio programme
Letter from Guy Burgess to THH, ts, 1p, 4.8.38, about arrangements for the broadcast and commenting on the submitted script
"What the painter thinks about the public - what the public thinks about his painting", ms, 31pp, THH, synopsis for radio programme
Newspaper cuttings (3)
43/F Art exhibitions
- Observer accounts
- "Mere Hall Park and Museum", ms, 1p, 9.4.[?], [PJ],
visit to the art gallery
- "Moss Bank Pastel Exhibition", ms, 10pp, 7.6.[?], WH
- "Conversation with official at Mere Hall Art Gallery", ms, 4pp, 9.7.38, DMH, programme attached
- "Art Exhibition at Bolton Art School", ms, 6pp, 14.7.[?], WH
- "Inventory of Pictures in Mere Hall Museum", ms, 5pp, 1.8.[?], WH, illustrated
- "Mere Hall Art Gallery", ms, 1p, 28.8.38, WH
- Index cards (4), ms, references to art gallery, museum and picture shop
- "Moss Bank Pastel Exhibition", ms, 10pp, 7.6.[?], WH
43/G Paintings and painters
Index cards (15), ms/ts, references to painters and paintings
Black and white photographs (8), of paintings by Hastings, "Nuns on Hampstead Heath"; fresco, "Hop pickers"; Cezanne, portrait of a man; Roland Penrose, "The balance of weaknesses", "Sunday Friendship" and "The Pilot"; Stephen Bone, "Port of London"; and a portrait of a woman
Untitled document, ms, 1p, list of paintings in photographs
"Choice Reproductions selected by the Committee of The Print Academy, catalogue and order form, T. Bromley & Son Ltd., Fine Art Dealers, Booksellers, Stationers, etc.
"How I look at Modern Painting", article by Anthony Blunt, The Listener, 14.7.38
Four pages torn from art magazines
Untitled document, ms, 4pp, 30.7.[?], WH chart with comments on paintings
Paper folder containing
"Quid Adeamus? Continuity of Ideas", ts, 1p, comments from Dr. Longstaff, Michael Spender, Tom Harrisson, H.P. Smolka and G.W. Young
Untitled document, ms/ts, 12pp, [WH], people's comments about paintings
Untitled document, ms, 1p, chart with comments about paintings