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32 letters of Alfred Fairbank to Ruari McLean.

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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.

Correspondence of Ruari McLean and Robin Lorimer.

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Identifier: Acc.11370
Scope and Contents

Concerns the design of W L Lorimer`s "New Testament in Scots", including related papers and proofs.

Dates: 1982-1983.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Identifier: Acc.9600
Scope and Contents

Concerning typography.

Dates: 1949.

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  • Names: McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 X

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Letters. Correspondence. 13
Correspondence. 5
Biographies. 2
Typescripts. 2
Bibles. 1
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Names
Lorimer, Robert Lewis Campbell, publisher, 1918-1996 2
McLean, Antonia Maxwell, wife of Ruari, typographer and author, née Carlisle, 1919-1995 2
Barbour, Sir Robert Alexander Stewart, Knight, Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Aberdeen, b 1921 1
Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989 (English printmaker, graphic designer, and illustrator) 1
Betjeman, John, Sir (poet) 1
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Carter, Harry, writer and typographer, 1901-1982 1
Carter, Matthew, typography designer, b 1937 1
Cary, Arthur Joyce Lunel, novelist, 1888-1957 1
Cruikshank, George, caricaturist, 1792-1878 1
Davidson, Victoria, artist, 1915-1999 1
Dixey, Harold Giles, Assistant Master, Dragon School, Oxford, 1893-1974 1
Duval, Kulgin Dalby, bookseller, d 2016 1
Fairbank, Alfred John, calligrapher, 1895-1982 1
Fawcett, Benjamin, engraver and colour printer, 1808-1893 1
Fletcher, David, literary agent, David Fletcher Associates, fl 1979-2001 1
Hamilton, Colin H, bookseller, fl 1964-1974 1
Hassall, Joan, artist and wood-engraver, 1906-1988 1
Hugo, Everett Harold, President of the Meriden Gravure Company, printers, d 1985 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
Lorimer, William Laughton, Professor of Greek, University of St Andrews, 1885-1967 1
Mackay, Colin, poet, 1951-2003 1
Maxwell, William, Director, R and R Clark Ltd, printers, 1873-1957 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006: transcriber 1
Murison, David D, lexicographer, 1914-1997 1
Pettiward, Cynthia, correspondent of Ruari McLean, typographer and author, fl 1981-1984 1
Pettiward, Daniel, correspondent of Ruari McLean, typographer and author, fl 1981-1984 1
Pettiward, Roger Gamelyn, artist, pseudonym Paul Crum, 1906-1942 1
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 1
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950: recipient 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Stone, Alan Reynolds (engraver and letter cutter) (1909-1979) 1
Tschichold, Jan, typographer and writer, formerly Johannes Tzschichhold, 1902-1974 1
Updike, Daniel Berkley, printer, 1860-1941 1
Warde, Frederic, typographer, 1894-1939 1
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