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Two draft copies of a typed script for A Sense of Detachmentby John Osborne. These copies were originally titled The Enemy Vintage and the title has been crossed out and amended to A Sense of Detachment by hand.
Two copies of a typed script for The Picture of Dorian Gray - A Moral Entertainment by John Osborne, adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde. These copies include a typed introduction to the adaptation by John Osborne, dated Sep 1972, and entitled The Torn Down Nest - The Matter of Dorian Gray and...
Two copies of a typed script for Watch It Come Down by John Osborne. One of these copies contains the following handwritten dedication to Jill Bennett from Osborne on the title page "To Jill - The very best of them all! As always with all my admiration and love John". Jill originated the role of...
Three copies of a typed script for Design for Living by Noel Coward. This folder contains one loose copy with typed amendments stuck into the script, and two bound volumes integrating the amendments.
Introductions to published works handwritten by John Osborne on headed paper. This folder includes an introduction to a printing of The Song of Soloman, and an introduction to a printing of A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. This folder also includes the original brown envelope labelled with t...
Three accounts of Berlin, London, and Tripoli on the eve of World War II by Marjorie Radcliffe
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Contains detailed descriptions of German, British, and Libyan society on the eve of World War I. 1. Account of a visit to Berlin, with her husband, for the 11th World Dairy Congress (the 'Milk Conference' as Radcliffe, one of the delegates, calls it), 22-28 Aug 1937. As a delegate Radcliffe is ...
Papers associated with the Victorian and Modernist poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). The collection comprises copies of two poetry collections by Mew, typescript and manuscript drafts of poetry by Mew and Henry Dawson Lowry (1869-1906) and press cuttings relating to Mew and her work.
One copy of The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew (London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916). Contents:The Farmer's Bride, p. 5.Fame, p. 7.The Narrow Door, p. 8.The Fete, p. 9.Beside the Bed, p. 14.In Nunhead Cemetery, p. 15.The Pedlar, p. 18.Pecheresse, p. 19.The Changeling, p. 21.Ken, p. 24.A Quoi Bon D...
One copy of The Rambling Sailor by Charlotte Mew (London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1929). Contents:Introductory Note, p. 7.In the Fields, p. 9.From a Window, p. 10.Not for that City, p. 11.Rooms, p. 12.Monsieur qui Passe, p. 13.Do Dreams Lie Deeper?, p. 14.Domus Caedet Arborem, p. 15.Fin de Fête, p. ...