Olivier Archive. Vols. I-XV. Personal correspondence. British Library arrangement, but based on work done by Derek Granger and his assistants during the time he spent working as Olivier’s official biographer.
The personal and professional archive of Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier of Brighton (1907-1989), actor, director, and theatre administrator. Partly signed and copies.
Olivier Archive. Vol. XVI. (ff. ). Good luck telegrams, and other messages of congratulations to and from Olivier. Mostly drafts. With specimens of personal and office stationery used by Olivier and his staff; 1974-1983.
Olivier Archive. Vol. XVII (ff. ). School reports from All Saints’ Choir School, and from St. Edward’s; later correspondence relating to Olivier’s school and college days, and a copy of The Times for 22 May 1907, the day of Olivier’s birth.
Olivier Archive. Vols. XVII-XIX. Papers relating to Olivier’s time at All Saints’ Margaret St. Choir School; St. Edward”s School, Oxford; and the Central School of Speech Training & Dramatic Art; 1907-1982.
Olivier Archive. Vols. XVIII, XIX. (ff. ). School and college exercise books; the later of the two books is a pocket-size loose-leaf binder containing notes on several Shakespeare plays including Coriolanus
Olivier Archive. Vol. XX (ff. ). 1. ff. Press cuttings relating to Olivier and Vivien Leigh’s life in Hollywood around the time of the outbreak of war; their return to Europe, including coverage of the cockpit fire on their flight from Lisbon to Bristol in January 1941. 2. ff. Corresponde...