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Illustrated Books Collection F-2/GIA

1927

"Five hundred and fifty copies have been printed, of which five hundred are for sale. The twelve illustrations, ten in lithography and two hand-coloured, have been made by Mr. Fernand Giauque": coloph...

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INDEX/LETTERS/24581

29 May 1937

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Leeds Russian Archive 2511

1966, c1948

"Notes [by Prince D. S. Mirsky]": p. 277-304.

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INDEX/LETTERS/3235

9 Jan 1924

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INDEX/LETTERS/3398

[Feb 1894]

Headed "Monday". See also the letter from A.H.F. Boughey to Gosse dated 18 February 1894. Not in printed catalogue.

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INDEX/LETTERS/3399

9 Apr 1894 - 12 Mar 1925

Maurice Baring entered the Diplomatic Sevice in 1898, and was attache to the British Embassy in Paris, and later in Copenhagen and Rome. He was also employed in the Foreign Office, but resigned in 1904. He was war correspondent for "The Morning Post" and "The Times", and served in the Great War. He has written many books of stories, essays, plays, and poetry, including accounts of his travels and also a number of translations. Very intimate correspondence. Life at Florence, Lady Minto, Princess Beatrice, the Asquiths, Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Vernon Lee, Maurice Barres, D'Annunzio; French hostility during the South African War; Sarah Bernhardt in "Hamlet" at Paris; Donne's poems; Stevenson, Kipling, Ibsen; Hervieu; quotations from Andre Chenier, reading Gorki in Russian; Eddy March; Manchuria during the Russo-Japan war, dislike of the Japanese; verse from "Elysium" with sketch-map of High Holborn and Gray's Inn; praise of Gosse's book; life at St. Petersburg; Denmark; Sarah

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INDEX/LETTERS/3400

12 Aug 1925

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INDEX/LETTERS/3401

7 Sep 1929

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Leeds Russian Archive 4397

1920

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BC Gen/BAR

[ca. 1920?]

A collection of poems in various languages, so lettered on spine, made up of excerpts from various anthologies bound together, with additional cuttings of poems pasted in.