BIB_ID
441496
Accession number
MA 13112.78
Creator
Balston, Thomas, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1949 May 21
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20 x 13 cm
Notes
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing him that he is planning "an exhibition of English books with modern wood-engravings for the National Book League", asking Hughes-Stanton to identify the books of his he would like to see included in the exhibit, and enclosing a list of his books which he suspects may be incomplete, and asking Hughes-Stanton to let him now of any further titles he has not included; mentioning that he has two books by Hughes-Stanton and asking to borrow additional titles, stating that the exhibition catalog will need an account of the modern wood engraving movement, and proposing that they meet to discuss it; mentioning that he is "getting up a Gertler Memorial Exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery."
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