Contains proforma contract letters sent to participants in the festival setting out the event they were being invited to participate in and their fee. These contract letters are arranged alphabetically by participant. Some letters have been signed by the participant, indicating their assent.
Contains correspondence with, and relating to, the Royal Court Theatre, the venue for the 1963 festival. Also contains correspondence with stage designers relating to stage sets for the Festival.
Contains correspondence relating to a Festival session on poetry and music. Much of the correspondence relates to commissions to have Robert Graves’s poem ‘Counting the Beats’ set to music. Lennox Berkeley, Nicholas Maw, Richard Arnell, and Humphrey Searle accepted the commission and corresponden...
Contains correspondence and papers relating to a Festival session of specially commissioned dramatic verse. Includes correspondence with Ted Hughes, Christopher Logue, Henry Reed, Vernon Scannell, and Michael Baldwin. Scannell’s and Baldwin’s annotated typescripts are included.
Contains correspondence and papers relating to sessions on: The Rebel in Poetry. American Poetry. Includes correspondence with Robert Lowell concerning his appearance at the Festival, Lowell’s schedule for his time in London, and correspondence with the American Embassy. European Voices. Includ...
Contains correspondence relating to advertisements and advertising schedules, promotion of the festival and distribution of brochures, press conferences, press articles, printing costs and distribution of Festival materials, and other publicity matters. Includes press cuttings, a Festival program...