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Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1980s
Artist: Noel Rooke
Curator: Justin Howes Collection (1963-2005)
Dimensions:
300 × 210 mm (30 × 21 cm) see description if otherwise
Medium: paper, ink
Object number: MIS.2019.137.M.1-67
DescriptionCorrespondence between JH and Graham Williams of The Florin Press about a proposed book on Noel Rooke:
.1 hand-written note with list of addresses, including Celia Rooke’s 200 x 124mm
.2 hand-written note from Monica Poole to GW sending some text
.3 draft of letter GW to Celia Rooke 8-4-1984: thanking her for Noel Rooke’s woodcuts and engraving blocks. With suggestion of Title Page of book (2 sheets) 280 x 217mm
.4 CR to GW 16-4: happy that a solution has been found for Noel Rooke’s blocks 180 x 135mm
.5 GW to JH 25-6-1984: on the proposal of a small book of Noel Rooke’s wood block prints in Celia Rooke’s collection 280 x 217mm
.6 JH to GW 27-6-1984: responding to invitation to write the introduction 195 x 210mm
.7 JH to GW 5-7-1984: letter sending two essays by Rooke 280 x 217mm
.8 Notes on TMR’s journeys from 1890 onwards (7 sheets)
.9 GW to JH 6-7-1984: reply to above
.10 JH to GW with draft article on Lethaby and Rooke (3 sheets) 150 x 210mm
.11 JH to GW and Nina 7-9-1984: thanking them for a visit there 210 x 150mm
.12 JH to GW and Nina 23-9-1984: JH to GW about the Rooke exhibition 147 x 210mm
.13 hand-written notes on yellow paper on what should go into the book 320 x 205mm
.14 28-10-1984: JH compliments slip about the exhibition 150 x 210mm
.15 GW to JH 5-11-1984: thanking JH for catalogue
.16 GW to JH 4-3-1985: setting deadlines for text
.17 JH to GW 5-3-1985: apologies, JH has been ill 210 x 150mm
.18 Noel Rooke: the father of modern wood-engraving (4 sheets)
.19 JH to GW 16-3-1985: about meeting up 210 x 150mm
.20 JH to GW 21-3-1985: about having met
.21 JH to GW letter to accompany latest draft
.22 JH to GW 1-8-1985: thanking him for a weekend stay
.23 GW to JH 6-8-1985: on Noel Rooke’s position with the ‘Revival’ and sending notes after meeting with John Kingsley Cook 280 x 21mm
.24 Notes after meeting John Kingsley Cook (3 sheets)
.25 note from Keith Hogg to GW sending him material on Noel Rooke 120 x 165mm
.26 Photostats of Noel Rooke entry in register of members of Double Crown Club 1949 and wood engravings in The Imprint April 1913 (2 sheets)
.27 GW to Keith Hogg 7-8-1985: thanking him for the photostats 280 x 215mm
.28 GW to JH 7-8-1985: sending on the Photostats 280 x 215mm
.29 John (Dreyfus?) to GW 7-8-1985: sending copies Ernest Pierce’s notes on Noel Rooke 153 x 203mm
.30 Ernest Pierce’s notes
.31 Celia Rooke to JH 13-8-1985: not been well enough to see him (2 sheets) 210 x 300mm
.32 Celia Rooke to JH: reminiscences about the Rookery and the Bedford Park house in answer to his questions (6 sheets)
.33 JH to GW 25-8-1985: just arrived at Crafts study Centre, sending Noel Rooke’s lecture The Artist in Printing 205 x 210mm
.34 Photocopy of hand-written draft of The Artist in Printing (13 sheets)
.35 GW to John 25-8-1985: thanking him for sending Ernest Pierce’s notes
.36 Hand-written note from John Dreyfus about Cambridge possibly buying Noel Rooke’s papers 195 x 80mm
.37 GW to JH 25-8-1985: sending Ernest Pierce’s notes
.38 GW to JH 30-8-1985: thanking him for Photostats of Celia Rooke’s letters 280 x 215mm
.39 GW to Celia Rooke 30-8-1985: about JH ideas for book and Justin Kingsley Cook (2 sheets) 280 x 215mm
.40 JH to GW 4-9-1985: sending introduction 205 x 210mm
.41 Introduction with many hand-written notes in red and extra slips of paper (19 sheets) 300 x 210; 125 x 75mm
.42 Celia Rooke to GW 5-9-1985: liking JH draft of introduction 177 x 137mm
.43 Roger Loyd (Southern Methodist University Dallas) to GW 3-10-1985: sending him a Noel Rooke woodcut used for a 1928 Christmas card 280 x 215mm
.44 GW to Roger Loyd 22-10-1985: thanking him for the engraving 280 x 215mm
.45 GW to JH: sending him a copy of the engraving 280 x 215mm
.46 Engraving of Madonna nursing her baby with ox and Joseph looking on 264 x 210mm
.47 GW to JH 28-11-1985: now need a plan for the Noel Rooke book
.48 GW to JH 3-1-1986: about most recent draft of book (2 sheets)
.49 JH to GW about ghost writing a book on Irene Wellington (2 sheets)
.50 title page to book
.51 GW foreword to book
.52 GW to JH about with notes on the text (6 sheets)
.53 JH to GW 24-1-1986: responding to notes on the text
.54 JH to GW 6-2-1986: on Rooke and wood engraving, including Rooke’s lecture
.55 Rooke’s lecture given at Leicester Municipal School of Art in 1906 (2 sheets)
.56 Rooke’s Craftsmanship in a machine age with annotations by JH (9 sheets)
.57 GW to JH hand-written on yellow paper responding to MIS.2019.137.54 280 x 215mm
.58 JH to GW on a card illustrated with a Dorothy Larcher printing block 205 x 100mm
.59 card with Barron & Larcher textile 205 x 100mm
.60 JH to GW 16-2-1986: JH has visited Celia Rooke
.61 GW to JH 27-2-1986 pleased about JH’s enthusiasm
.62 JH to GW 1-3-1986: about Save Kent/No Tunnel
.63 GW secretary to JH 5-3-1986 enclosing Save Kent/No Tunnel stickers
.64 JH to GW 30-5-1986: sending around 6500 word text 205 x 210mm
.65 GW to JH sending copy of Gribble letter to Noel Rooke
.66 copy of Gribble letter to Noel Rooke (2 sheets) 11-11-1922
.67: GW to JH 4-6-1986: encouraged by latest text (2 sheets)
.1 hand-written note with list of addresses, including Celia Rooke’s 200 x 124mm
.2 hand-written note from Monica Poole to GW sending some text
.3 draft of letter GW to Celia Rooke 8-4-1984: thanking her for Noel Rooke’s woodcuts and engraving blocks. With suggestion of Title Page of book (2 sheets) 280 x 217mm
.4 CR to GW 16-4: happy that a solution has been found for Noel Rooke’s blocks 180 x 135mm
.5 GW to JH 25-6-1984: on the proposal of a small book of Noel Rooke’s wood block prints in Celia Rooke’s collection 280 x 217mm
.6 JH to GW 27-6-1984: responding to invitation to write the introduction 195 x 210mm
.7 JH to GW 5-7-1984: letter sending two essays by Rooke 280 x 217mm
.8 Notes on TMR’s journeys from 1890 onwards (7 sheets)
.9 GW to JH 6-7-1984: reply to above
.10 JH to GW with draft article on Lethaby and Rooke (3 sheets) 150 x 210mm
.11 JH to GW and Nina 7-9-1984: thanking them for a visit there 210 x 150mm
.12 JH to GW and Nina 23-9-1984: JH to GW about the Rooke exhibition 147 x 210mm
.13 hand-written notes on yellow paper on what should go into the book 320 x 205mm
.14 28-10-1984: JH compliments slip about the exhibition 150 x 210mm
.15 GW to JH 5-11-1984: thanking JH for catalogue
.16 GW to JH 4-3-1985: setting deadlines for text
.17 JH to GW 5-3-1985: apologies, JH has been ill 210 x 150mm
.18 Noel Rooke: the father of modern wood-engraving (4 sheets)
.19 JH to GW 16-3-1985: about meeting up 210 x 150mm
.20 JH to GW 21-3-1985: about having met
.21 JH to GW letter to accompany latest draft
.22 JH to GW 1-8-1985: thanking him for a weekend stay
.23 GW to JH 6-8-1985: on Noel Rooke’s position with the ‘Revival’ and sending notes after meeting with John Kingsley Cook 280 x 21mm
.24 Notes after meeting John Kingsley Cook (3 sheets)
.25 note from Keith Hogg to GW sending him material on Noel Rooke 120 x 165mm
.26 Photostats of Noel Rooke entry in register of members of Double Crown Club 1949 and wood engravings in The Imprint April 1913 (2 sheets)
.27 GW to Keith Hogg 7-8-1985: thanking him for the photostats 280 x 215mm
.28 GW to JH 7-8-1985: sending on the Photostats 280 x 215mm
.29 John (Dreyfus?) to GW 7-8-1985: sending copies Ernest Pierce’s notes on Noel Rooke 153 x 203mm
.30 Ernest Pierce’s notes
.31 Celia Rooke to JH 13-8-1985: not been well enough to see him (2 sheets) 210 x 300mm
.32 Celia Rooke to JH: reminiscences about the Rookery and the Bedford Park house in answer to his questions (6 sheets)
.33 JH to GW 25-8-1985: just arrived at Crafts study Centre, sending Noel Rooke’s lecture The Artist in Printing 205 x 210mm
.34 Photocopy of hand-written draft of The Artist in Printing (13 sheets)
.35 GW to John 25-8-1985: thanking him for sending Ernest Pierce’s notes
.36 Hand-written note from John Dreyfus about Cambridge possibly buying Noel Rooke’s papers 195 x 80mm
.37 GW to JH 25-8-1985: sending Ernest Pierce’s notes
.38 GW to JH 30-8-1985: thanking him for Photostats of Celia Rooke’s letters 280 x 215mm
.39 GW to Celia Rooke 30-8-1985: about JH ideas for book and Justin Kingsley Cook (2 sheets) 280 x 215mm
.40 JH to GW 4-9-1985: sending introduction 205 x 210mm
.41 Introduction with many hand-written notes in red and extra slips of paper (19 sheets) 300 x 210; 125 x 75mm
.42 Celia Rooke to GW 5-9-1985: liking JH draft of introduction 177 x 137mm
.43 Roger Loyd (Southern Methodist University Dallas) to GW 3-10-1985: sending him a Noel Rooke woodcut used for a 1928 Christmas card 280 x 215mm
.44 GW to Roger Loyd 22-10-1985: thanking him for the engraving 280 x 215mm
.45 GW to JH: sending him a copy of the engraving 280 x 215mm
.46 Engraving of Madonna nursing her baby with ox and Joseph looking on 264 x 210mm
.47 GW to JH 28-11-1985: now need a plan for the Noel Rooke book
.48 GW to JH 3-1-1986: about most recent draft of book (2 sheets)
.49 JH to GW about ghost writing a book on Irene Wellington (2 sheets)
.50 title page to book
.51 GW foreword to book
.52 GW to JH about with notes on the text (6 sheets)
.53 JH to GW 24-1-1986: responding to notes on the text
.54 JH to GW 6-2-1986: on Rooke and wood engraving, including Rooke’s lecture
.55 Rooke’s lecture given at Leicester Municipal School of Art in 1906 (2 sheets)
.56 Rooke’s Craftsmanship in a machine age with annotations by JH (9 sheets)
.57 GW to JH hand-written on yellow paper responding to MIS.2019.137.54 280 x 215mm
.58 JH to GW on a card illustrated with a Dorothy Larcher printing block 205 x 100mm
.59 card with Barron & Larcher textile 205 x 100mm
.60 JH to GW 16-2-1986: JH has visited Celia Rooke
.61 GW to JH 27-2-1986 pleased about JH’s enthusiasm
.62 JH to GW 1-3-1986: about Save Kent/No Tunnel
.63 GW secretary to JH 5-3-1986 enclosing Save Kent/No Tunnel stickers
.64 JH to GW 30-5-1986: sending around 6500 word text 205 x 210mm
.65 GW to JH sending copy of Gribble letter to Noel Rooke
.66 copy of Gribble letter to Noel Rooke (2 sheets) 11-11-1922
.67: GW to JH 4-6-1986: encouraged by latest text (2 sheets)
