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.
Papers relating to the Festival souvenir programme
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence and papers chiefly relating to advertising in the Festival souvenir programme, printing costs, and layout and content such as poets’ biographies. Includes correspondence with the participating poets, and some proofs and mock-ups.
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 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 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...