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Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and Basil Smallpeice
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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...
‘File of correspondence from donors of food parcels from abroad’
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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 ...
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and friends in Germany
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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...
Papers relating to the Society for Theatre Research
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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...
Correspondence of Dorothy L. Sayers and Vyvyan Holland
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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,...