Archival Material from the Collection of Ernest Marsh, Collector, Writer, Lecturer and Generous Lender and Donator to numerous museums including the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum. The Martin Brothers 5 typescripts, some with ms. additions for his article The Martin Brothers, Studio Potters of London and Southall, Middlesex, in Apollo magazine; and another inscribed part II, part ms; together with an ms letter from Marsh to the editor of Apollo regarding the articles and hoping that his exceeding both the word count and the number of illustrations will be tolerated. Typescript with ms additions for his lecture on the Martins at the Central Library, Fulham, May 9th 1929. Ms In pencil on the Martins. Ms in pencil, seemingly a draft for an article or autobiography on Marsh's relationship with the Martins including the description of a firing (includes a pencil washing list!). Photocopy typescript of the Frank Knight Collection of Martinware at Southall District Library. Original photographs of various pots, some with ms. descriptions, in a re-used addressed envelope. A rare Martin Brothers printed and folded Brochure with quotes from magazines about their work: '… it is no exaggeration to say that no more interesting and, in its own line, superior pottery has ever been turned out in England'. The Pall Mall Gazette, January 23rd 1897. A Brochure, also rare, with a three page article by Sidney Greenslade (the brothers' patron), the slate-grey cover with a photograph of the brothers in their studio. Apollo, October and November 1944, illustrated articles by Marsh on the Martins. Miscellaneous press cuttings, auction catalogues, magazine articles etc., mostly on the Martin Brothers. Other works Typescript of article on collecting (mainly Chinese). Apollo, May 1925, seven-page, illustrated article on Reginald Wells. Shoji Hamada. Invitation cards for an exhibition at The Little Gallery, London, SW1 (probably 1942 or 1943) together with photographs of pots by him and Kawai (in addressed envelope) together with a five-page ms draft of Three Modern Japanese Potters, Shoji Hamada, Kanjiro Kawai and Kenkichi Tomimoto, together with two, five-page typescripts for the article and a three-page extract on Kawai with ms corrections and additions. W.Staite Murray; Studio Potter of Bray, Berkshire. Typed six-page article (two copies). Nora Braden. A fascinating four-page autograph, signed, letter to Marsh from Cobwebs - West Hoathley - Sussex, 22.2.43, which touches on, inter alia, the war and her fear of not getting a job when it ends, apologising for only having five photographs left of her work for Marsh's Apollo article and pleading for them back, not having made pots for six years and being refused a licence by the Board of Trade to make more; a meeting with W.B.Honey at the V&A, her cv and more; together with: a five-page letter to Marsh (numbered x-3) from Katherine PBouverie (so signed)The Mill, Coleshill, Swindon, Wilts, Jan. 19.43, regarding Marsh's article for Apollo and mentioning her year with Bernard Leach at St Ives in 1924, followed by Norah Braden; a three page Autograph Letter to Marsh from Katherine PBouverie, dated Jan. 31.43 largely about the same article and photographs, s.a.e.;together with Miss K.Pleydell-Bouverie and Miss D.K.N. Braden, Studio Potters of Coleshill, Wiltshire, ink four-page ms, apparently an early (first?) draft for his article, together with a typed, seven-page article (three copies) one inscribed by Marsh in pencil 'First Draft', presumably from the ms. Interestingly, Marsh sets out on page one in confident style, but by the end is making numerous crossings-out, substitutions and marginalia. 'A Short Talk on Modern Pottery' six-page ink ms draft (first?) with numerous corrections, together with two eight-page, typed copies. The Fremlington Pottery 1889, typescript, five pages, 2 copies. Charles & Nell Vyse. Studio Potters of Chelsea, six-page typescript with ms corrections. Draft pencil ms on the Etchers Art, five pp.