Notebooks, typescripts, and related items created by Kevin McGrath. The Notebooks are complex and attractive objects; beautiful and densely composed containing poetry, observations and correspondence over around 40 years of McGrath's life and work. He lived in France, Greece, and India and there are materials and documents gathered from these times as well as records of work done in those places. The typescripts are of McGrath's poetry and the collection includes small imprint books which McGrath used to approach publishers or to circulate among friends and colleagues (Rosy Cross editions). There are also others of McGrath's publications.
Personal letters to Sharp's birth mother, and letters between Sharp and family and friends. Also letters and emails relating to Sharp's professional life
Dissertation, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, USA, politics, Vice President, Federalists, Democratic-Republicans, Thomas Jefferson, founding fathers
(1) Identity card for AJS Low, 1948, containing 5 £1 notes (2) Seaford College sports certificates, 1948-1949, and copy of ‘The Mercreadian’, school magazine, 1953 (3) Alex’s RAF service book, 1955 (4) Newspaper with item on Alex winning the trophy of the Worthing road safety rally, 1955 (5) Annotated booklet on Austin sports cars [1950s] (6) Alex’s National Insurance card, 1957 (7) News cutting ‘Photographer from Ferring in Blue Nile adventure’, 1967 (8) National Savings certificate book, 1968 (9) Postcard to Alex reminding him to watch ‘Bert Hardy’s World’, 1987 (10) Good Citizenship award, 1991 (11) Devon: copy of 1803 poster advertising lease of Wembury Manor, with printouts of aerial photographs, annotated with its history and bought by Alex in 1996, with badges and perambulation guide of the Royal Forest of Exmoor, plus Alex’s certificate of achievement for walking the Wembury parish boundary walk, 1996-2011 (12) News cutting of article on Harold Robbins, annotated ‘for Alex’, 2007 (13) Davenport map of Acton, Ealing [1950s?] with note by Alex listing places in his life, 21st century (14) Auto-biographical instalments which detail Alex's introduction to photography and background to his major professional assignments, 2021-2022
