Found among  the papers of the long defunct literary agency Michael Hayes of Cromwell Road S.W.5  - parts of a manuscript memoir by one L.R....

John Heath-Stubbs by  Patrick Swift Coming across a copy of a relatively recent booklet entitled The Guide to Bayswater (Sunrise Press)...

Found in the papers of L.R. Reeve (see  A.J. Balfour  for background on him) this piece on the British astronomer, physicist, and mathematic...

Found in the papers of L.R. Reeve (see A.J. Balfour for background on him) this piece about the Australian writer and educationalist  Sir Fr...

A good piece from the papers of *L.R. Reeve on A.J. Balfour, as a former U.K. Prime Minister he is the highest ranking subject so far (along...

Found among the Reeve* papers this short memoir of Lord Haldane - i.e. Richard Burdon Haldane , 1st Viscount Haldane KT, OM, PC, KC, FRS, FB...

Another jotting from the L.R. Reeve collection on the educationalist the Reverend John  Scott Lidgett  (1854-1953). A marvellous man, descri...

From the Reeve* collection this study of   Sir Frederick Mander  (1883 -1964) headmaster and trade unionist and the General Secretary of the...

From the L.R. Reeve collection - this worthy piece about Caroline Graveson of Goldsmiths’ College. She is commemorated at their library  sit...

I first encountered Ian Hamilton  (1938 – 2001), poet, critic and famously combative editor of The Review , via Geoffrey Grigson. That is, I...

From the L.R. Reeve* collection of short sketches of people he had met - this affectionate piece about psychologist C.W. Valentine  (1879-19...

From the L.R. Reeve* collection of short sketches of people he had met - this affectionate piece about psychologist May Smith O.B.E (1868-19...

From the Reeves* collection, this study of the slightly  neglected writer L.P.Jacks  (Lawrence Pearsall Jacks 1860-1955). His best known boo...

From the Reeve collection.* This is a fascinating character (especially from a bowling point of view) and although manager for Team England ...

Eric Korn (1933-2014) seems to have been a much admired man, if all the many recent tributes in the Letters pages of the TLS to the polymat...

How and where does one begin when describing such an exceptionally experienced public woman as the  Duchess of Atholl ? I* might do worse ...

From the L.R. Reeve* collection of short sketches of people that he had met - this affectionate piece about teacher Florence Hancock. There ...

Sad to hear of the death of the film star Luise Rainer at 104, but as we (often) say in England, she had  'a good innings'. I met he...

Actually, I’ve met him twice. The first was in 1970, not too long after the Book Town of Hay-on Wye had started up. I was 18 and had only...

Found in Words Etc.,: A Miscellany (Wordspress, Haslemere 1973) this piece by author, art teacher, botanist and curator Wilfrid Jasper Wal...