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Sender: Abercrombie, Catherine
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 26 Nov [1938]
Location: BC Abercrombie: condolences
Sender: Acomb, Henry Waldo
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Oct 1936
Location: SC MS 436/298
Note: On the opening of the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
TS.
Sender: Blackburn, Elizabeth
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 26 Sep 1940
Location: SC MS 436/357
Note: Gift of a book; acknowledgs his help. Extracted from A Grant,
"The Grey shrines of England" (1927).
Sender: Blanc, Michel
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Apr 1959
Location: SC MS 436/124
Note: On the meaning of the word "antistes".
Sender: Ford, Margaret Rawlinson
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 16 Jun 1932
Location: SC MS 436/28
Note: Offers some Buddhist books from Ceylon to Leeds University
Library. Date corrected from 15 June.
Sender: Guppy, Henry
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Oct 1936
Location: SC MS 436/299
Note: On the opening of the Brotherton Library. 2 ff.
Sender: Holdsworth, Harold
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 3
Date(s): 13 Jul 1940 - 17 Mar 1942
Location: SC MS 436/32-34
Note: 1) His recent voyage to South Africa; impressions of Cape Town
University Library and of the country generally. 4 ff. Addressed
"Dear All" (i.e. Dr Offor and his staff). 2) The library in
the Univerisity of Cape Town; the situation generally in South
Africa. 6 ff. TS. 3) The University library and other
library matters; Adrian Whitworth; the war. Attached: photography of a public library in Bechuanaland.
Sender: Lascelles, Arthur
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Oct 1936
Location: SC MS 436/296
Note: On attending the opening of the Brotherton Library. 2 ff.
Sender: Lumb, George Denison
Recipient: Offor, Richard
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Oct 1936
Location: SC MS 436/297
Note: The Brotherton Collection; a recommendation for acquisition.
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Mortimer, Russell Stanley & Jean
Letters: 2
Date(s): 30 Jul 1947; 1 n.d. [Dec 1948 ?]
Location: SC MS 647/11, 13
Note: 1) Personal. 2) Christmas greetings; notes on mutual acquaintances. Probably dated December 1948.
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Mortimer, Jean
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Apr 1961
Location: SC MS 647/20
Note: His O B E; Easter; Society of Friends; trouble in South Africa.
Sender: Offor, Richard
Recipient: Mortimer, Russell Stanley
Letters: 15
Date(s): Dec 1945 - 12 Oct 1949
Location: SC MS 647/1-10, 12, 14-16, 18
Note: 1) Activity at Leeds; personal. Picture post-card; post-mark imperfect. 2) Staff and work at Leeds; death of Mortimer's father. 3) The Dales; people at Leeds; Woolley Hall papers; presidency of the Thoresby Society; salary scales; missing books. 2 ff. 4) Salaries; applications for deputy librarianhsip; J W Scott and S Roberts. Typescript. 5) Boyhood reminiscences; Chichester; Leeds Anglo-French collection; an archidiaconal visitation; Lake district and gipsy fair at Appleby applications for deputy librarianship; salaries and other staff matters; U G C viisitation; prayer. 3 ff. 6) Difficulty in filling a post. Typescript. 7) Congratulations on Mortimer's master's thesis; librarianship at Bristol University. Typescript. 8) Secretarial problems; appointment to Bristol; his family and relations; loss of staff from the University and library at Leeds. 9) Visit to Wharfedale and the Rector of Bolton Abbey; cathedrals; shortage of staff in the library; attitude of the
Vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. 10) Memories of Stoke Newington; recent lectures at Leeds; personal; gloomy outlook. 2 ff. 11) Will act as referee for him in his application; J Tolson; Professor Barbier. 12) A gift of books for Univ. Coll. of the West Indies; Professor Spaul and Professor Barbier. Typescript. 13) Further about gift of books. Typescript. 14) Personal. Typescript. 15) Staff in the Brotherton Library. Typescript.