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Michael Holroyd (Augustus John) Research Papers, Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957
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Correspondence with Percy Wyndham Lewis

The file comprises photocopies of correspondence, [?1905]-[1951], together with a cutting entitled 'Damning and blasting - Michael Holroyd writes about the volcanic relationship between Wyndham Lewis and Augustus John', The Listener, July 1972. [On 30 November 1972 he gave the Don Carlos Coloma Memorial Lecture, 'Damn and "Blast"! The Friendship of Wyndham Lewis and Augustus John', to the Royal Society of Literature which was later published in his Unreceived opinions (London, 1973)]. Also included is an explanatory leaflet 'Blast' produced for an exhibition of Wyndham Lewis's work in art and literature at the University of Lancaster, 1979.

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957

Sir William Rothenstein

The file comprises a transcript from The Nation, 1910, entitled 'The art of William Rothenstein' by Roger Fry and an article 'Fifty years of painting: Sir William Rothenstein's Exhibition' originally written by Wyndham Lewis for the London Mercury in 1938, together with photocopies of Roger Fry's article 'Children's drawings', Burlington Magazine, 1917, and an obituary for Boris Anrep, 'Artist in mosaic', from The Times, [1969].

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957