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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 89510 Language English Name Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily, actress, known as Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991

1. Add MS 89510/1/1

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Title:
Letters from Lindsay Anderson, Peggy Ashcroft, and Hugh Beaumont
Scope & Content:
Letters to Sir Ralph Richardson and Meriel Forbes from Lindsay Anderson, film director, Peggy Ashcroft, actress, and Hugh 'Binkie' Beaumont, theatre manager. These letters discuss plays and social events.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1973
Extent:
1 folder

2. Add MS 89510/2/1

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Title:
Letters of condolence on the death of Sir Ralph Richardson
Scope & Content:
Letters and cards to Meriel Forbes offering sympathy and condolences on the death of Sir Ralph Richardson. Senders include: Peggy Ashcroft, Sheila Attenborough, Keith Baxter, Marie-Alice de Beaumonlais, Claire Bloom, Diana Boddington, William Boettger, Christopher Bullock, Tony Bushell, Sarah ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1983-1984
Extent:
1 folder

3. Add MS 89510/2/2

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Title:
Letters to Meriel Forbes: A-B
Scope & Content:
Letters and cards to Meriel Forbes from friends and colleagues with surnames beginning with A and B. Senders include: Marillyn Abrams, Marian Aitkin, Gene Allen, John Amlin, Lindsay Anderson, Vera Ashby, Peggy Ashcroft, Joan Astley, Sheila and Richard Attenborough, H W Austen (Bunny), Enid Bag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1999
Extent:
1 folder

4. Add MS 89510/4/14

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Title:
Service sheets for funerals and memorials
Scope & Content:
Fourteen service sheets for funerals and memorials attended by Lady Richardson. This folder includes booklets for memorial services for the following people, listed in chronological order of the date of the service: T S Eliot, Laurence Olivier, Ruskin Spear, Peggy Ashcroft, Monsignor John McDo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1988-1998
Extent:
1 folder

5. Add MS 89510/15/35

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Title:
Photographs of Ralph Richardson in 'Inner Voices', 'Six Centuries of Verse', and 'Wagner'
Scope & Content:
Black and white photographs depicting Ralph in costume on stage, on television, and in film performing in various roles. This folder contains: one photograph depicting Ralph with Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud during a break of filming Six Centuries of Verse for television in 1983 five photogr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1983
Extent:
1 folder (8 photographs)

6. Add MS 89510/15/48

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Title:
Photograph album depicting Ralph Richardson in "Lloyd George Knew my Father"
Scope & Content:
An album of colour photographs taken and compiled by L Arnold Weissberger depicting Ralph Richardson on stage as General Boothryod with other cast members, including Peggy Ashcroft, in Lloyd George Knew My Father in 1972. This album also includes a slip of paper with a note from Arnold, Anna, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1972
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 89510/20/1

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Title:
Ralph Richardson's Telephone Index
Scope & Content:
An example of The Bates Manufacturing Company patented Telephone Index constructed out of a brown metal and containing a spool of paper annotated with an alphabetical list of the telephone numbers of Ralph Richardson's colleagues and friends. Many of the contacts have been typed but some have als...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 box