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DATA PROTECTION NOTICE: This collection contains sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information the collection will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete, the collection will be open for access with sensitive information closed for 75 years from its date of creation. The majority of the papers of Douglas Percy Bliss consist of general and personal correspondence divided by year with a number of individual subject files from 1946-1964. Notable correspondents include the young Alasdair Gray, Edward Bawden, John Betjeman, Nikolaus Pevsner, Anthony Blunt, Robert Stewart, Joan Eardley, Gilbert Spencer and many other figures of the 1950s and 1960s art world in both London and Scotland. Series as follows: DIR/12/1: Correspondence files of Douglas Percy Bliss, 1946-1971 DIR/12/2: Working Papers of Douglas Percy Bliss, 1946-1964 DIR/12/3: Desk Diaries of Douglas Percy Bliss, 1947-1953

Includes

• a selection of Christmas cards and other ephemera collected by Conrad McKenna, a former student and staff member at The Glasgow School of Art, plus typed and handwritten materials used by McKenna to deliver teaching at The Glasgow School of Art
• correspondence between Conrad McKenna and The Glasgow School of Art and members of staff, and correspondence and printed ephemera regarding The San Gimignano Summer School.

The cards and ephemera have been created by former Glasgow School of Art staff and students and friends of Conrad McKenna, including Gordon Huntly, Rosalind Bliss, Michael Moulder, Peter Sumsion, Michael Healey, Mark Severin and James Cosgrove.

This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.