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McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006

 Person

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

32 letters of Alfred Fairbank to Ruari McLean.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11071
Scope and Contents

On calligraphic and typographic matters especially concerning Jan Tschichold and McLean`s work on him.

Dates: 1947-1977.

32 letters of Reynolds Stone to Ruari McLean (including two to McLean`s wife).

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Identifier: Acc.11072
Scope and Contents

Concern typography and Victorian book design.

Dates: 1944-1977.

Correspondence and papers of Ruari McLean with Cynthia and David Pettiward.

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Identifier: Acc.11466
Scope and Contents

Concerning McLean`s introduction to "The Last Cream Bun" (London, 1984) with drawings by Roger Pettiward, pseudonym Paul Crum.

Dates: 1981-1984.

Designers` Christmas cards received by Ruari McLean.

 Series
Identifier: Dep.362
Dates: 1881, 1938-1982, 1990-2002, and undated.

Eight letters of Joan Hassall to Ruari McLean.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10732
Scope and Contents

Letters concern Hassall`s book illustrations. With typescript list, circa 1953, of her work, compiled by Hassall.

Dates: 1950-1959 and undated.

Four letters, 1988-1989, of Robert (Robin) Lorimer to Ruari McLean.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11429
Scope and Contents

Letters mostly concern Sydney Goodsir Smith.

Includes a typescript address, 1996, by Sir Robert (Robin) Barbour at Lorimer's funeral.

Also includes two letters, 1970-1979, of Edward Bawden, one to Ruari McLean enclosing two sheets of a letterhead with linocut logo by Bawden for Catriona’s wool shop, Rue St. Honore, Paris.

Dates: 1970-1996.

Letter of Joyce Cary to Ruari McLean.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11559
Scope and Contents

Concerns the morality of fighting evil.

Includes transcript of the letter by McLean and signatures of Cary, intended for reproduction in a book.

Dates: 1939.

Letters, 1959-1986, of Richard Pennington, and American associates, to Ruari McLean.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11574
Scope and Contents

Includes 12 letters, 1946-1947, to McLean concerning George Cruickhank, with printed cuttings and engravings.

Dates: 1946-1986.

Letters and papers of Ruari McLean to, from and concerning leading typographers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11491
Scope and Contents

Typographers include: Harry Carter, Matthew Carter, Frederic Warde and Daniel B Updike.

Dates: circa 1983-1994.

Letters of and concerning Harold Hugo.

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Identifier: Acc.11602
Scope and Contents

Includes letters to Ruari McLean and obituaries of Hugo by McLean and others.

Dates: 1960-1985.

Two letters of Ruari McLean to George Bernard Shaw, with Shaw`s replies.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9600
Scope and Contents

Concerning typography.

Dates: 1949.

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Subject
Letters. Correspondence. 13
Correspondence. 2
Christmas cards. 1
Dedications. Documents. 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1