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Sender: Ayres, Lawrence
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): [13 Mar 1974]
Location: SC MS 470/273.1
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Forwarding a
coloured lithograph entitled "Darien". MS. Date from verso of
lithograph; lithograph attached.
Sender: Baker, Charles Henry Collins
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 Dec 1941
Location: SC MS 470/1.3
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Miscellaneous
points on Blake. MS.
Sender: Barber, Giles Gaudard
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Jun 1968
Location: SC MS 470/43
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Colonel Moss'
papers in the Bodleian. TS. f.1 of a longer letter; sender's
name from reference.
Sender: Barton, Guy
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Oct 1970
Location: SC MS 470/173
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Edmund Morse
collection. MS. 2 ff.
Sender: Beattie, William
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Dec 1969
Location: SC MS 470/123
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. An exhibition and its catalogue; Lessing Rosenwald; his own retirement from librarianship. TS.
Sender: [Belle, Anne]
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Jun 1968
Location: SC MS 470/41
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Personal. TS. ff. 1 and 2 of a longer letter.
Sender: Bentley, Gerald Eades, junior
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 Feb 1965 - 20 May 1972
Location: SC MS 470/8, 10, 11, 76, 97, 112.1, 135, 199, 223, 234, 253
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. 1) Completion of his study of Flaxman; thanks for help. TS. 2) Work on Flaxman; value of material owned by Colonel Moss and by RT; proposed revision of RT's edition of Gilchrist. TS. 3) His "Blake records". TS. 4) Joseph Johnson's journal; Blake's finances; R.C. Jackson's collection; Stedman's journal. TS. 5) The house occupied by Thomas Butts in 1789; coloured print "Night Thoughts"; list of locations of books containing commercial engravings by Blake. TS. 9 ff. 6) Enquires whether RT has received his previous letter; Gilchrist. TS. 7) Printing techniques; possibility of RT lecturing at Toronto; proposed visit to England; possibility of an 18th-century STC. TS. 8) Seeking a meeting with RT in London. TS. 9) Comments on RT's "William Blake the Artist"; personal. TS. 10) Hotten "forgeries". TS (photocopy). 11) Revision of his "Blake Bibliography". TS.
Sender: Bindman, David
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 14
Date(s): 1 Sep 1970 - 16 May 1973
Location: SC MS 470/152, 160, 174, 204, 210, 217, 240, 248, 254, 267, 269, 273, 275, 278
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. 1) Replies to questions on Blake; E.J. Shaw Collection. TS. 2 ff. Annotated by RT in pencil. 2) On working with Geoffrey Keynes. TS. 3) Possible visit to RT in Mallorca; proposed Keynes Festschrift; Keynes' character; catalogue of Blakes in the Fitzwilliam Museum. TS. Date from context. 4) Drawings by Fuseli mentioned by John Linnel. TS. 5) Personal. TS. 6) Sale of Lady Melchett's Blake collection; his own thesis; RT's book. MS. 7) His Ph.D. thesis and examiners; sketch by Kate Greenaway; suggestions for a book on Blake; Tatham family in South Africa. TS. 8) Contacting Paul Grinke; offer of accommodation to RT; summer course at Berkeley. TS. 9) Offers to meet RT on his arrival in London. MS. 10) Request to borrow caste of a copper plate for "America"; loss in post of a "Beggar's Opera" print. TS (unsigned; MS post-script by his secretary). 11) Receipt of an electrotype; Kerrison Preston. TS. 12) Enclosing
(MS 470/272); arrangement to have a plate copied in Cambridge. MS. Date inferred from context. 13) Thanks for help on "Jerusalem" plate; progress with his own book; a Blake sold at Christie's; RT's financial position; Arnold Fawcus. MS. 2 ff. 14) Plate marks; visit from Morton Paley; "Beggar's Opera". TS.
Sender: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Recipient: Bindman, David
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 Jul 1971
Location: SC MS 470/203
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Blake and Fuseli. TS (carbon copy). First folio of a longer letter.
Sender: Blackwell, Julian
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 27 Sep 1968
Location: SC MS 470/94
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Purchase of
books; arrangements for payment. TS.
Sender: Bliss, Carey S.
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 2
Date(s): 30 Aug 1968 - 19 Sep 1968
Location: SC MS 470/72, 88
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. 1) Quotation for various types of copying from Blake material. TS. 2) Forwarding xerox copies; description of two copies of Blake's "Night Thoughts"; Huntington's Blake catalogue.
Sender: Bogen, Nancy
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 2
Date(s): 14 Sep 1968 - 22 Sep [1968]
Location: SC MS 470/85, 90
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. 1) Personal; forwarding copies of articles; an 18th-century etching press; student enrollment. TS. 2 ff. 2) Personal; her article in "The Personalist"; topics for a seminar; Spanish postal service; meeting with Gert Schiff. TS.
Sender: Bond, William Henry
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Oct 1970
Location: SC MS 470/169
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Blakes in
Fogg Art Museum and Houghton Library. TS.
Sender: Brander, Kristine
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Oct 1970
Location: SC MS 470/176
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Photographs of works by Fuseli and John Brown; Blakes in the Crawford Collection. TS.
Sender: Broomhead, Peter
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Oct 1970
Location: SC MS 470/170
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Photograph of
a drawing, "Lot and his Daughters". TS.
Sender: Butlin, Martin
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 17
Date(s): 6 Nov 1964 - 22 Feb 1973
Location: SC MS 470/5, 30, 86, 140, 154, 161, 163, 171, 183, 189, 201,
208, 220, 225, 231, 268, 271
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. 1) A copy of Blake's "Moloch". MS. 2) Blake's "Songs"; RT's catalogue. TS. 3) Dante prints in Tate Gallery; copies of Jackson articles. TS. Unsigned but corrected by hand. 4) Version's of the "The Good farmer"; Paul Mellon. TS. 5) Possibility of Blake material at Rousham; Blake's use of tempera and oil. TS. 6) A drawing from Shirly Woolmer; Blakes at Claughton Hall, Lancs. (Esmond Morse Collection); reproduction of certain varnished Blakes. TS. 7) Locations of Blake colour prints; Fogg Museum's "Dante" drawings. 8) Photograph of the Woolmer Blake; Butlin and Geoffrey Keynes. 9) Miscellaneous points about Blake. TS. 2 ff. 10) Drawing of a Urizen-like figure in a collection at Philadelphia; "Good Farmer" drawings. TS. 11) Dimensions of certain Blake works. TS. 12) RT's work on Fuseli; fee for using reproductions; queries about two Blake drawings once of RT's possession. TS. 2 ff. 13) Thanks for a copy of
RT's "William Blake the artist" and for its dedication;
International Bibliophile Congress. TS. 14) Hogarth and Blake
exhibitions, and a dinner. TS. Signed on his behalf. 15)
Catalogue of the Blake-Gray exhibition. TS. 16) Miscellaneous: a xerox copy of RT's Blake catalogue. 17) His forthcoming catalogue; Miro. TS.
Sender: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Recipient: Butlin, Martin
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Dec 1964
Location: SC MS 470/7
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. RT's catalogue of Blake's works; Geoffrey Keynes; Blake's "Moloch". TS (carbon copy).
Sender: Byington, Robert H.
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1 Oct 1968
Location: SC MS 470/99
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Thanks for
information about Seed; anecdotes and legend about the Butts
family. TS. 2 ff.
Sender: Cahoon, Herbert
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 16 Jan 1970
Location: SC MS 470/127
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Acknowledges
receipt of an offprint; activity in the Library. TS. Sender is of the Pierpoint Morgan Library.
Sender: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Recipient: Cairns, Huntington
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1 Jul 1965
Location: SC MS 470/13
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Thanks for
assistance; Geoffrey Keynes; Lessing Rosenwald, investigation of
Blake's techniques; help from Joan Miro; rights in his edition
of Gilchrist. TS (carbon copy).
Sender: Cairns, Huntington
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 2
Date(s): 27 Aug 1965 - 20 Oct 1965
Location: SC MS 470/14, 16
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. 1) A MS to be shown to Rosenwald; fish nomenclature; personal; Robert Graves. TS. 2) A misunderstanding with Rosenwald. TS.
Sender: Charles, Rollo
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 2
Date(s): 1 Dec 1970 - 24 Apr 1972
Location: SC MS 470/192, 247
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. 1) Photocopy of a map in G. Cumberland's "Hafod". TS. 2 ff. (f. 2 comprises the photocopy). 2) Smith's "Hafod"; Welsh Christian names; a copy of "New Order"; reference to Major H.J. Lloyd-Johnes. TS.
Sender: Charlton, R. Ian H.
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1 Aug 1968
Location: SC MS 470/54
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Availability
of colour microfilms of Blake material. TS. 3 ff.
Sender: Coleman, Earle E.
Recipient: Todd, Ruthven Campbell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Nov 1970
Location: SC MS 470/188.1
Note: Closed to the general public until at least 2011. Photocopies
and payment; a possible contributor to the Keynes Festschrift.
TS.