Part of a collection of correspondence between Sir Herbert Read and Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (a pacifist and one of the leading British composers of the 20th century). In this letter Tippett discusses his involvement with the Freedom Defence Committee that Read chaired (and George Orwell and E.M. Forster were also members).

In Collection:

• Herbert Read Collection

Creator

• Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998

Contributor

• Read, Herbert, 1893-1968

Subject

• Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998
• Literature, Modern
• Authors
• Authors, English
• Gay composers
• Composers
• Modernism (Literature)
• Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
• Pacifists
• Freedom Defence Committee

Language

• eng

Date created

• December 30, 1948

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 1 page

Geographic Coverage

• Great Britain

Additional physical characteristics

• Handwritten, signed.

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Herbert Read Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• letters (correspondence)
• correspondence

Archival item identifier

• File: 7.11

Fonds title

• Sir Herbert Read fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC100

Is referenced by

• Special Collections finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/sir-herbert-edward-read-fonds

Date digitized

• July 20, 2022

Technical note

• Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/y6p3-zv46

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