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The Jean Potter Memorial Arnold Bennett Archive

The Jean Potter Memorial
item 1 burslem endowed school

The Burslem Endowed School Minute Book 1872

First edition of Journalism for Women

First edition of Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide
(London and New York: John Lane/Bodley Head: 1898)

Night on the Riviera

‘Night on the Riviera’, T.P.’s Weekly (1907).

Front cover Royalty Theatre souvenir programme for Milestones

Front cover Royalty Theatre souvenir programme for Milestones (5th March 1913); The Play Pictorial: “Milestones” vol. 25, no. 149 (1914), pp. 22-23

Wounded Allies’ Relief Committee Circular letter

Circular letter on behalf of the Wounded Allies’ Relief Committee for fundraiser to be held at Caledonian Market dated May 1916  

Introductory Note to Marie Carmichael Stopes Wise Parenthood

‘Introductory Note’ to Marie Carmichael Stopes, Wise Parenthood,
12th edn (London: G. P. Putnam, 1923)

Letter from niece Mary Kennerley to her mother

Letter from niece Mary Kennerley to her mother; 
​letters and postcards from a series of 27 from Bennett to Mary between 1922 and 1930.

Article Sitwells The Adelphi vol. I, no. 3

Article ‘Sitwells’, The Adelphi vol. I, no. 3 (August 1923), pp. 236-238.

Serial extract of Piccadilly in The Film Weekly

Serial extract of Piccadilly in T.P. Weekly no. 8 (December 10, 1928) and Piccadilly: Story of the Film (Readers’ Publishing Company, 1930).

Letters to Cecil Hopkinson from a series of nine

Letters from Arnold Bennett to Cecil Hopkinson from a series of nine letters
and miscellaneous handwritten notes

Photograph of Bennett in the Bystander

[i] Photograph of Bennett - Bystander July 1929;
[ii] caricature - Daily Sketch Dec 2 1930;
[iii] Horoscope - Magazine Programme 837

Evening Sentinel (March 28, 1931)

[i] Evening Sentinel (March 28, 1931);
[ii] Evening Sentinel (May 10, 1932)

newspaper clipping from the Times Law Report

[i] newspaper clipping from the Times ‘Law Report’,
[ii] Sotheby’s Catalogue of Sale (25/5/36],
[iii] newspaper clipping‘The Sale Room’

Pages from a scrapbook kept by Bennetts niece Ruth

Pages from a scrapbook kept by Bennett’s niece Ruth including:
family portraits, newspaper reports & an original letter from Marguerite to Ruth