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Summary Information
Access Restrictions
Biographical Note
Arrangement/Organization
Scope and Content Note
Indexing Terms
Administrative Information
Content List
Collection

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Gawsworth mss

Papers, 1932,1953-1962, of Percy H. Muir at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

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Summary Information

Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University

1200 E. Seventh St.

Bloomington, IN 47405-5500

Phone: 812-855-2452

Fax: 812-855-3143

Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly 

Creator:
Muir, Percy H. (Percy Horace), 1894-1979.

Extent:
26 items

Title:
Gawsworth mss., 1932 , 1953-1962   

Collection No.:
LMC 2368

Extent:
26 items

Language:
Materials are in English

Abstract:
The Gawsworth mss. consist of letters and cards from British bookseller Percival Horace Muir, 1894-1979 to poet John Gawsworth, the pseudonym used by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, 1912-1970.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

British bookseller, antiquarian book dealer, author, bibliographer. Percival Horace Muir was the founder and first president, 1945-1947, of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association. He was also the first president of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), 1948-1950.

Arrangement/Organization

Collection is arranged chronologically.

Scope and Content Note

The Gawsworth mss. consist of letters and cards from British bookseller Percival Horace Muir, 1894-1979 to poet John Gawsworth, the pseudonym used by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, 1912-1970. The two earliest items relate to Gawsworth's bibliographical work Ten Contemporaries. The remaining letters focus on Muir's payments or offers of payment for books and manuscripts scouted by Gawsworth to sell to Muir for the book trade. There is one letter in the file not to Gawsworth but to a patron of his named W.R. Hipwell, 19 February 1955.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT , the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

Names

  • Muir, Percy H. (Percy Horace), 1894-1979 --Correspondence.
  • Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970 --Correspondence.
  • Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970 --Ten contemporaries.
  • Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970.

Topics

  • Authors, English --20th century --Correspondence.
  • Booksellers and bookselling --Great Britain.

Titles

  • Ten Contemporaries.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information:
Purchase. 2002

Usage Restrictions:
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with the permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library

Preferred Citation:
[item], Gawsworth mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

 
Collection  

  Folder 1
Muir, Percival Horace, 1894-1979 to Gawsworth, John
 
1932, Apr. 15 ; 1932   

 
1953   

 
Jan. 18   

 
Jan. 30    (postcard)
 
Mar. 3   

 
Apr. 5   

 
Apr. 9   

 
May 16   

 
May 30   

 
June 3   

 
July 10   

 
Sept. 9   

 
Oct. 19   

 
Oct. 26   

 
Dec. 7    (postcard)
 
Dec. 16   

 
Dec. 28   

 
1954, Jan. 14   

 
1955   

 
Feb. 19 , Muir, Percival Horace, 1894-1979 to Hipwell, W. R.  

 
Feb. 23   

 
1960, Nov. 16   

 
1962   

 
Apr. 19   

 
Apr. 24   

 
Nov. 6