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Mcgrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)55
Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian Seymour3
Yates, Dora E.3
Starkie, Walter Fitzwilliam2
Jenkinson, A. Stephen2
Payne, Charles F. (Calling Himself Anselo Kamomeskro)1
Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest1
Palmer, Herbert Edward1
Rieber-Mohn, Hjordis1
National Council For Civil Liberties1

Sender: Alford, Violet

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 20 Dec 1942

Location: BC Romany Collection (Miscellaneous)

Note: Inserted in Violet Alford and Rodney Gallop's "The Traditional Dance" (1935). Mentions and comments on Walter Starkie's "Raggle-taggle" and "Spanish Raggle-taggle". States that there is a little on Flamenco and gypsy dancing in "The Traditional Dance" by Alford and Gallop. Thanks her for an address, etc.

Sender: Baerlein, Henry

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 30 Nov 1944

Location: BC Romany, inserted in "Sunrise on Ruthenia"

Note: Enclosing a copy of his book "Sunrise on Ruthenia".

Sender: Bartlett, Donald Mackenzie Maynard, Archdeacon of Richmond

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 4 Apr 1944

Location: BC Romany Collection (Comprehensive Studies)

Note: Pasted in at front of "Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society", 3rd series, vol.13, no. 2 (unbound copy). Enclosing a copy of his article "Two Recent Gypsy Funerals".

Sender: Brown, Ivor John Carnegie

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 9 Feb [1951]

Location: BC Romany, pasted in at end of Brown's "Winter in London"

Note: Covering letter sent with presentation copy of his "Winter in London".

Sender: Darbishire, Helen

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 30 Apr 1950

Location: BC Gen WOR/D inserted in "The Poet Wordsworth" by Darbishire

Note: States that she will be proud to present a copy of her book on Wordsworth through Mrs Phillips to the Brotherton Collection.

Sender: Eaglestone, A.A.

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 30 Nov 1949

Location: BC Yorkshire, H-She-0.5, pasted on the end cover of the pamphlet "Ebenezer Elliott"

Note: Enclosing a copy of "Ebenezer Elliott (the corn-law rhymer): A Commemorative Brochure Issued Jointly by the Sheffield City Libraries and the Rotherham Public Library", in which pamphlet letter is pasted on the end cover.

Sender: Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian Seymour

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 3 Dec 1944

Location: BC Romany Collection (History and Social Questions)

Note: Pasted inside the back cover of B.S. Vesey-Fitzgerald "Gypsies of Britain". Thanks her for her letter expressing enjoyment of his book. He would be grateful for a copy of her "Gypsy Dorelia", etc.

Sender: Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian Seymour

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 2 Jul 1956

Location: BC Romany Collection (Miscellaneous)

Note: Inserted in Sir W. Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England", (1795). Addressed to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe. Presenting a volume of Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England", (1795), bearing George Borrow's signature. Octavo, 1p. of 2.

Sender: Flekstad, Kaspar

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 8 Apr 1958

Location: BC Romany, inserted in Flekstad's "Omstreifere og Sigynere" (1949)

Note: Thanks for letter received; discusses his writings on gypsies. Folio, 1p.

Sender: Gowlad, Thomas Stockton

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 9 Nov 1934

Location: BC Yorkshire H-Rip-1, inserted in "Manors and Liberties of Ripon"

Note: Letter accompanying gift copy of his "Manors and Liberties of Ripon".

Sender: Jacob, Naomi

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 12 Dec [1941]

Location: BC Romany Collection (Literature), pasted inside the back cover of "The Loaded Stick"

Note: Pasted inside the back cover of Jacob's "The Loaded Stick", (c.1941). States that the character Jael, in her novel "The Loaded Stick", was not drawn from life but entirely from the author's imagination. Regrets that it is now too late for review copies to be sent out. Typewritten. Signed for Naomi Jacob by C.P.

Sender: Mackay, Norman Douglas

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1 Nov 1954

Location: BC Romany Collection (Travel and Topography)

Note: Pasted in at end of Mackay's "Aberfeldy Past and Present", (1954). Thanks for her letter of congratulations on his book "Aberfeldy Past and Present". His views on the tinkers.

Sender: Smith, Eleanor Furneaux, Lady

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 23 Jun [1943?]

Location: BC Romany Collection (Literature)

Note: Pasted inside the back cover of Eleanor Smith's "Caravan" (1943). Thanks Mrs Phillips for her letter expressing the pleasure she derived from reading Lady Eleanor's novel "Caravan".

Sender: Spencer, James R.

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 8 Dec 1937

Location: BC Romany Collection (Gypsy Life)

Note: Pasted in at end of Spencer's "The Northern Pageant" (1937). Thanks her for a parcel, and states that he has pleasure in enclosing a copy of his book "The Northern Pageant" published that week. Typewritten.

Sender: Sutcliffe, Mabel (nee Cottrell)

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 12 Feb 1933

Location: BC

Note: Resenting a portrait of Halliwell Sutcliffe, which it accompanies.

Sender: Vincent, Halen Venetis, Viscountess D'Abernon (nee Duncombe)

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 18 Jun 1946

Location: BC Gen, inserted in Vincent's "Red Cross and Berlin Embassy"

Note: Reply to a letter asking if she would sign a copy of her "Red Cross and Berlin Embassy" for the Brotherton Library.

Sender: Vincent, Helen, Viscountess D'Abernon (nee Duncombe)

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 18 Jun 1946

Location: BC Gen, inserted in Vincent's "Red Cross and Berlin Embassy"

Note: Reply to a letter asking if she would sign a copy of her "Red Cross and Berlin Embassy" for the Brotherton Library.

Sender: Ackerlery, Frederick George

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 5

Date(s): 13 Jan 1938 - 29 Dec 1941

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Mitton Vicarage, Whalley, Blackburn. pp.6, 26*21 cm. Typed and signed.

Sender: Aktiebolaget Svensk Filmindustri, Stockholm

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 6

Date(s): 18 Jan 1952 - 13 Mar 1952

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Colquhoun House, Broadwick Street, London, W1. pp.8, 27*21 cm. Typed, and signed by C.L.O. Cattermoul. Accompanied by the carbon copy of a letter from Mrs McGrigor Phillips' secretary to Mr Cattermoul, 1 March 1952.

Sender: Bairacli, Levy

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1958

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: Postcard. See entry no.1192 in printed catalogue.

Sender: Yates, Dora E.

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 5

Date(s): 17 May 1949 - 12 May 1950

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: Five autograph letters and a postcard. With documents relating to Borrow manuscript fragments. See entry no.1089 in printed catalogue.

Sender: Cook, Davidson

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 3

Date(s): 27 Mar 1940 - 9 Apr 1940

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From 30 Kensington Road, Barnsley. pp.3, 26*21cm. Typed and signed. The first letter is accompanied by a list of Gypsy items offered, pp.4, 34*21cm.

Sender: Cooper, Barbara

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 4 May 1954

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: No address given. Picture postcard of Dame Laura Knight, "Gaudy Beggars".

Sender: Cresswell, Margaret

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 11 Nov 1942

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Crackenthorpe Hall, near Appleby, Westmorland. pp.2, 17*11cm. Presenting a brass case (see entry no.1204 in printed catalogue).

Sender: Downing, Emily

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 9 Jun 1940

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From 37 Pontefract Road, Castleford. pp.2, 22*18cm. Referring to Emily Downing's pen and ink composition, "The Gypsies" (c.1940?), (see entry no.1142 in the printed catalogue).

Sender: Dyke, Watson

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 2 May 1940

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Rockhill, Carperby, Leyburn, Yorks. pp.3, 23*17cm.

Sender: Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian Seymour

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 24 Jun 1956

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Murrayfield, Farnham, Surrey. pp.2, 18*14cm.

Sender: Gillespie, John

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 22 Jul 1938

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From: c/o Housing Dept., Municipal Bldgs., Greenock. p.1, 20*12cm.

Sender: Jenkinson, A. Stephen

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Apr 1941

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Pudds Cross, Bovingdon, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. pp.2, 25.

Sender: Jenkinson, A. Stephen

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Apr 1941

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Pudds Cross, Bovingdon, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. pp.2, 25*20cm. Typed and signed, with manuscript additions.

Sender: John, Augustus Edwin

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 9 Jun 1956

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Fryern Court, Fordingbridge, Hants. pp.2, 18*13cm.

Sender: Kirkup, James

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1928

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: See entry no.1192 in printed catalogue.

Sender: Lawson, Frederick

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 Dec 1936

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Castle Bolton, Redmire, Yorks. pp.3, 23*17cm. With envelope.

Sender: Mermillod, Hermance

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 3

Date(s): 11 Jul 1938 - 24 Feb 1940

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From 40 rue Doree, Montargis, Loiret. pp. 8, 19*15cm; pp.2, 27*21cm. The first two letters are written mostly in French, on double sheets of blue paper; the last letter is mostly in English, on a single sheet of white paper.

Sender: Rieber-Mohn, Hjordis

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 28 Sep 1954

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From det Offentlige Bibliotek, Bergen. p.1, 15*21cm. Typed and signed.

Sender: National Council for Civil Liberties

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 9 Feb 1940

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From 37 Great James St., Bedford Row, London WC1. pp.1, 25*20cm. Typed, and signed by the Secretary, Ronald Kidd.

Sender: Naviasky, Philip

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 4

Date(s): 19 Nov 1936 - 13 Dec 1936

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From 51 Mexborough Drive, Chapeltown Road, Leeds 7. pp.10, 18*13cm. Double sheets of blue paper. Accompanied by two press cuttings concerning Naviasky's return from Spain and his exhibition of paintings in Leeds.

Sender: Palmer, Herbert Edward

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 17 Feb 1953

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From 22 Batchwood View, St. Albans. pp.2, 18*11cm.

Sender: Payne, Charles F. (calling himself Anselo Kamomeskro)

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 5

Date(s): 4 Mar 1950 - 11 Aug 1950

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From 3 St. Cyprian's St., Tooting, London SW17, and 10 Hawthorn Cottages, Appledore, Ashford, Kent. pp.14, various sizes.

Sender: Sarginson, Thomas

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 11 Nov 1939

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald, 14-15 King Street, Penrith. pp. 2, 25*20cm. Typed and signed.

Sender: Sergeant, Howard

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 11 Dec 1950

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From 155 Croxted Road, W. Dulwich, London, SE21. p.1, 21*13cm. On editorial notepaper headed "Outposts". Accompanied by (i) a manuscript copy of the writer's poem "Sandcastle Days" and (ii) a profile of the writer by Margaret Sharp, including a photograph and the above poem, extracted from "Yorkshire Life", vol.2, no.5

Sender: Spur, Endre (aft. Andre DeSpur)

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 3

Date(s): 21 Jun 1938 - 10 Dec 1959

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Budapest IV., Petofi Sandor-utca 2; Roma, via Tacchini 19; and 4616 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh 13, Penna. pp.5, 29*23cm., etc. The first letter is handwritten and has an envelope with address corrected to Zrinyi-utca 1; the remainder are typed and signed. Accompanied by (i) an official postcard from Dr Spur as member of the organising committee of the Congress of Gypsiologists to Mrs Phillips, 15 August 1937, from Budapest, and (ii) a memorandum on Dr Spur by Mrs Phillips, manuscript, 18 March 1950.

Sender: Starkie, Walter Fitzwilliam

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 3 Mar 1950

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Instituto Britanico en Espana, Calle de Almagro 5, Madrid. p.1, 27*21cm. Typed and signed. With envelope.

Sender: Thompson, Thomas William

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 21 Oct 1931

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From 4, The Pastures, Repton, Derby. pp.2, 20*13cm. On a double sheet of headed notepaper of the Gypsy Lore Society.

Sender: George Vajna & Co

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 20 Sep 1938

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Budapest, 28 Vaczi-utca. p.1, 29*23cm. Typed and signed. Signature illegible. Sender is firm of publishers and booksellers.

Sender: Weybright, Victor & Rogers, Selma D. & Lewis, Read

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 27 Mar 1939

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From Foreign Language Information Service Inc., 222 Fourth Avenue, New York City. pp.2, 28*21cm. Duplicated, and signed by the writers as fund trustees of the Committe on Gypsy Problems of the Welfare Council of New York City. With enclosure: "Who Can Tell the Gypsies' Fortune?" by Victor Weybright, reprinted from "Survey Graphic", March 1938, pp.4, 28*22cm.

Sender: Williams, E.A. (known as Gipsy Williams)

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 6

Date(s): Apr 1940

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: See entry no.1192 in printed catalogue.

Sender: Yates, Dora E.

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Jan 1951

Location: BC Romany Collection (Letters, not in Books)

Note: From The Library, University of Liverpool. pp.2, 20*13cm. On headed notepaper of the Gypsy Lore Society. Accompanied by two manuscript copies of Mr Phillips' note entitled "Somerset Gypsies", initialled and dated at Glastonbury, 27 January 1951; one copy is pasted on the back of a cardboard notice, stencilled: "NO GIPSIES SERVED HERE".

Sender: Starkie, Walter Fitzwilliam

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 13 Nov 1953

Location: BC Romany Collection (Gypsy Life)

Note: Pasted in Starkie's "In Sara's Tents" (1953).

Sender: Yates, Dora E.

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 10 Dec 1943

Location: BC Romany Collection (Literature)

Note: Postcard sent to accompany Jane Findlater's "A Green-grass Widow, and Other Stories" (1925) in which it is pasted.

Sender: Cresswell, Primrose

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 2 May 1941

Location: BC Romany Collection (Literature)

Note: Inserted in Geneva Stephenson's "Spring Journey", (1939).

Sender: Fairfax-Blakeborough, Richard

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 Nov 1956

Location: BC Romany Collection (Typescripts, excluding letters)

Note: Presenting a copy of Blakeborough's "Topcliffe Fair", a typescript copy of broadcast, "Letter from the North Riding" in "The Northcountry-man", BBC Home Service, 16 November 1956.

Sender: Fairfax-Blakeborough, John

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 5 Dec 1963

Location: BC Romany

Sender: Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 7 Jun 1959

Location: BC Gen, Brooke. Inserted into R.C. Brooke's "Hommage a Rupert Brooke" (1931)

Sender: Tranter, Nigel Godwin

Recipient: McGrigor Phillips, Mrs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Jan 1963

Location: BC Gen, q. TRANTER. Inserted in typescript copy of his "The Man Behind the Curtain"