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1. Add MS 89727

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Title:
Correspondence of Dorothy L Sayers
Scope & Content:
Extensive collection of letters received by Dorothy L. Sayers, with copies of many of her replies, covering her entire writing career. Correspondents include Dennis Wheatley, Arthur Machen, John Gawsworth, A. P. Herbert, Violet Vanbrugh, Charles Oppenheimer, Violet Bonham-Carter, Tom Driberg, How...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1957
Extent:
50 files

2. Add MS 89727/1

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Title:
Special correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers
Scope & Content:
x
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1956
Extent:
8 files

3. Add MS 89727/1/1

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Title:
Correspondence with, and invoices from, book sellers
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1955
Extent:
1 folder

4. Add MS 89727/1/2

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Title:
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and Gerald Sayers
Scope & Content:
The correspondence is chiefly of a social nature, discussing meetings, family, and mutual friends, with some discussion of Dorothy’s work and that of Gerald, which included colonial civil service posts in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and later work with the Conservative Party. Gerald was Dorothy’s ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936-1956
Extent:
1 folder

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Title:
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and Carrie Quick
Scope & Content:
The letters discuss the upkeep and condition of Sayers’s London flat and payments for Quick’s services. The letters from 1939-1945 touch on the London blitz and near misses. Quick was Sayers’s London housekeeper/caretaker.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941-1954
Extent:
1 folder

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Title:
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and Basil Smallpeice
Scope & Content:
The letters discuss Sayers visiting the Royal Doulton works where Smallpeice is acting managing director, and the supply of hot water bottles; Sayers’s comments on economic papers written by Smallpeice and others; war production, the economy, and taxation in wartime, and the likely economic land...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1945
Extent:
1 folder

7. Add MS 89727/1/5

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Title:
‘File of correspondence from donors of food parcels from abroad’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence with senders of food parcels in the immediate post-war years. Senders include fans of Sayers’s work and state they are sending the parcels as thanks for the enjoyment her books have given them. Senders were located in Australia, USA, South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada. Despite ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946-1949
Extent:
1 folder

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Title:
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and friends in Germany
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the post-war situation in both Britain and Germany, in particular rationing. Sayers sends parcels of food and clothing to Germany, despite herself being in receipt of food parcels from overseas (see Add MS 89727/1/5). Also contains correspondence with the Save Europe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946-1957
Extent:
1 folder

9. Add MS 89727/1/7

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Title:
Papers relating to the Society for Theatre Research
Scope & Content:
Includes the Society's constitution; annual lecture programmes; short papers; a programme for the Society's International Conference on Theatre History, with an incomplete set of papers presented by the national delegations; subscription details; lists of publications; a programme for the Society...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-1957
Extent:
1 folder

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Title:
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and Vyvyan Holland
Scope & Content:
The correspondence relates to photographs in Sayers’s possession, which she thinks depict Oscar Wilde, Holland’s father, and her father, Henry Sayers, who were contemporaries at Magdalen College, Oxford. Also contains correspondence with T S R Boase, President of Magdalen, and Katharine Mathews,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
1 folder