Catalogue description Correspondence between the Revd F Heming Vaughan, Secretary of the Bicentenary Celebrations (1954-1957), at 17 Park Avenue, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Dr Austin Farrer at Trinity College, Oxford, Professor Vivian de Sola Pinto, Chairman of the Bicentenary Celebrations, at Nottingham University, George Goyder, member of the Advisory Committee at 18 Pall Mall, London, Miss Dorothea M Vaughan, Secretary and Treasurer of the Bicentenary Celebrations (1957), Secretary of the Blake Joint Film Committee and the Blake Film Trust Limited, at 108 Hanover Street, Edinburgh and 9 Old Burlington Street, London, R E Plummer of Fladgate and Company, solicitors, 70 Pall Mall, London, Professor Anthony F Blunt, member of the Advisory Committee, Director of the Courtauld Insitute of Art, 20 Portman Square, London, Basil Wright, Director of Realist Film Unit Ltd, 9 Great Chapel Street, London, Guy Brenton, Morse Films, 4 Collingham Place, London, Victor Rienaecker, member of the Advisory Committee, at 52 Westbourne Terrace, London, Miss Margaret Pilkington, Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and Kerrison Preston, concerning Blake's birthplace in Broadwick Street, the production of a Blake Bible for the Bicentenary Celebrations, a film on the subject of Blake's art and Rienaecker's catalogue for an exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

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Agenda and minutes of meetings of the Bicentenary Celebrations Advisory Committee and Joint Film Committee, and of the Council of the Blake Film Trust Limited, 1955-1957.

List of pictures for the Bicentenary Bible, 1955-1956.

First and second annual reports of the Bicentenary Celebrations, 1955 and 1956.

Copy of letter from Raleigh Trevelyan at an unidentified address to F Heming Vaughan concerning the publication of the Blake Bible, 10 Feb 1956

Correspondence between Norman Reid, Deputy Director of the Tate Gallery, Sir John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery, Sir Alec Martin at the National Art Collections Fund, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London, and Kerrison Preston, concerning a possible social event for the Bicentenary at the Tate Gallery, 16 Mar-3 Nov 1956

Correspondence between Victor Gollancz, Sponsor of the Bicentenary Celebrations, at 11 Henrietta Street, and Kerrison Preston, concerning Pinto's edition of "The Divine Vision:Studies in the Art of William Blake". Agreement enclosed, 21 Nov-29 Dec 1956

Correspondence between R E Plummer of Fladgate and Company and Miss Vaughan, concerning the Blake Film Trust Limited, enclosing draft memorandum and articles of association, 21 Jan-7 Mar 1957

Lists of poems and paintings for the Blake film and draft text, 20 May-29 Nov 1957

Newspaper cuttings from "The Times" and "The Daily Telegraph" relating to the Bicentenary exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 4 Jul 1957

Kerrison Preston's article "Blake of Soho", printed in "The Soho Fair Annual", Nov 1957.

Edgar Wind's article "Blake and Reynolds" from "The Listener", 28 Nov 1957.

Reviews of the Blake film from "The Times" and "the Sunday Times", 18 May-15 Nov 1958.

First report of the Council of the Blake Film Trust Ltd, 31 Aug 1958.

Copy of a petition to save Blake's birthplace, Apr 1959 and copy of a letter from the Town Clerk of Westminster City Council to Miss Vaughan concerning the proposed demolition, 9 Jul 1959