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Correspondence and papers regarding all aspects of Bone's contact with the Department and Ministry of Information, and the Imperial War Museum, including both his own works and his involvement, as a member of the Art Sub-Committee, with the acquisition of works by other artists; exhibition plans, and the Muirhead Bone Fund.
The Muirhead Bone Fund was set up by Bone to use his share in the proceeds of sales of reproductions of his work, to purchase works for the IWM.
The files include many letters from Bone and various lists of works. Other artists mentioned include Henry Rushbury, John Wheatley, Philip Wilson Steer, John Singer Sargent, Henry Tonks, Thomas Derrick, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Stanley Spencer, Eric Gill, Adrian Hill, J D Fergusson, Jacob Epstein, William Rothenstein and Eric Kennington, among others.
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