Eighteen undated letters (most without envelopes) and one card, from Bakewell's parents (and Susan, sister), probably all addressed to her at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Letters received from various friends. The file includes 16 letters with envelopes and 1 postcard (1950-51) from Terry Flitcroft, together with a newspaper cutting [1979] reporting his death in the crash of a light aircraft into the sea near Nice airport. For background, see Bakewell, The Cent...
Joan Bakewell: Varsity (Undergraduate Newspaper, Cambridge)
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Copies of Varsity newspaper with the following dates: 1953: 9 May, 30 May, 10 October, 17 October, 24 October, 7 November, 21 November, 28 November. For 23 May 1953 (reporting on Mark Boxer), see Add MS 89161/1/45. 1954: 23 January, 6 February (including article on 'Red Hot Mummer' Jane Llewelly...
(1). Reviews of Bakewell, The Complete Traveller (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1977). (2). 'Holiday' (BBC, 1975-77), and undated an holiday article published in High Life. (3). Press reports (1977) about a successful claim by Bakewell in the Small Claims Court (Bloomsbury and Marylebone): hire car break...
1. Magazine cutting (Night&Day, 19 July 1998) of a feature on Bakewell at her 'serene, rose-clad cottage in Suffolk', incorporating a colour photograph. The photograph is one of five colour photographs (A-E) taken on the same occasion, showing Bakewell in the front garden of the cottage, whi...
1. Two letters (with envelopes) from J. P. Hallam to Rose Bland (18 July and 16 August 1918). Refer to examination results and employment prospects. With a brief note of recent date by Joan Bakewell identifying Hallam as 'Mum's mentor'. 2. Three letters (1922, with envelopes) from Ted Bland, un...
Undated typescript (25 sheets) entitled 'Poste Restante' ('a half hour play for television'). A revised version of this play, for radio, re-titled Keeping in Touch, was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 22 April 2017. In an interview published in the The Telegraph (25 March 2017), Bakewell states her...
Joan Bakewell: Photographs of John Rowlands (father)
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Various photographs of John Rowlands, comprising: as a baby (1904), as a young man (1919); wedding day (1928); 6 small photographs taken abroad (work related); 2 colour photographs (1950) annotated 'Dad's birthplace'; portrait [c. 1950]; unidentified negative; 5 black and white photographs on car...