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TitleLKE General 5: Herbert Corner 1
DescriptionMany long letters, manuscript reports, and occasional poetry written by Herbert Corner, an electrician with heart disability, living in Darlington, Durham. Corner's letters discuss Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (Goldie) and his humanist philosophy. Dickinson had been one of Leonard Elmhirst's instructors at Cambridge University. Letters also discuss war, peace, politics including socialism and communism; economics and reports by PEP; the Dartington Hall experiment; the Dartington Hall Trust Sickness and Benevolence Fund; literature, the arts, especially painting and the performing arts, Shakespeare, and music performances. Letters in 1939 discuss the war, and describe a meeting with E M Forster, Dickinson's biographer.
Date1934-1957
SubjectPerforming arts
Politics
Dartington Hall experiment
Humanism
FormatManuscript
Person_CodeDS/UK/1064
DS/UK/1066
DS/UK/1065
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CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/1064Corner; Herbert
DS/UK/1066Dickinson; Goldsworthy Lowes (1862-1932); Goldie1862-1932
DS/UK/1065Dartington Hall Trust; Sickness and Benevolence Fund; 1937-19971937-1997
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