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Howard Biggs's diary/notes on his life story. Also includes notes enclosed in the diary, plus transcriptions of part of the diary.

Scope and Contents Black notebook, which had been previously used by another person as for a notebook relating to a business (undated, but c1890s-1910s). Contains Howard Biggs' notes from the 1930s on subscriptions to 'Action', and other accounts information (pp3-10); Biggs' notes from the 1930s, including an OUFA membership lists and accounts information, (pp.21-26); text of Howard Biggs' autobiography, started January 1938, covering the first 10 years of his life (pp 27-138); Biggs' notes on his 'Seekers...

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Howard Biggs' notes on his early life.

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Howard Biggs' notes on "The legion of the seekers after true life".

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Transcription by Frank Love of Howard Biggs' diary from pages 27-138 in the notebook. 2 copies, the second retyped with annotations.

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Letter from J. McEvely sent from Stone House School.

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Letter regarding possible employment as a tractor driver.

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Letter from Stone House School, regarding the difficulties of getting a teaching job, plus transcription by Frank Love.

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Letter from school friend Herbert C. Buck (now a lieutenant in an Indian regiment).

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Letters to Howard Biggs.

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Letter from A.W. Cockburn regarding 18B regulations. NB This letter is quoted in a letter Howard Biggs wrote from Kingwell Court School (ref code: 435/7/1).

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Addressed to Howard Biggs at Weston-Super-Mare, postmarked 11 November 1949.

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Letter from J. R. H. Hutchinson, Conservative MP for Glasgow during the 1940s and 1950s. Postscript concerns his son Peter (who may have been a pupil of Howard Biggs?).

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Letter dated 17 April (no year).

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Letter from Newby, Controller, Third Programme, regarding the broadcast of a short story.

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Undated.

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Howard Biggs' address book. Undated.

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Howard Biggs' notes on the book "Utopias old and new" by Harry Ross. London: Nicholson and Watson, 1938.

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Notes by Howard Biggs.

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Receipt for piano, dated 11/12/1943.