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1. Add MS 89150

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Add MS 89150
Title:
Derek Granger Papers
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to the official biography of Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier of Brighton, commissioned by the Olivier family to Derek Granger. Granger assembled from the Olivier papers, before they were acquired by the British Library (Add MS 79766-80750), a number of photocop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-2011
Extent:
7 series (37 files)

2. Add MS 89150/1

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Add MS 89150/1
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Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to the proposal and announcement of the commission to Derek Granger to write the authorised biography of Laurence Olivier. Indexed selectively. Includes: Granger’s typewritten draft of part of the prospectus for the biography. [1994] ‘Laurence Olivier: the life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1994-2000
Extent:
1 file

3. Add MS 89150/2

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Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the transfer of responsibility for writing the authorised biography to Terry Coleman, and the possibilities of repayment of the advance made to Granger. Correspondents include: Michael Sissons, of Peters, Fraser and Dunlop, Terry Coleman, Ion Trewin, Granger. Also incl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2002-2006
Extent:
1 file

4. Add MS 89150/3

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Scope & Content:
Numbered files. Photocopies, mostly letters, many with manuscript notes by Granger attached indicating the content of the letters and some manuscript letters being re-typed by Granger. The originals of these letters, many of them there inserted between slips of papers written by Granger and bear...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956-2000
Extent:
18 files

5. Add MS 89150/3/1

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Add MS 89150/3/1
Title:
School stuff (All Saints, Central), early contracts, Barker biography
Scope & Content:
File includes: Essay by Olivier on ‘Christmas atmosphere’. Letter from Olivier to R.W. Smith on his school performances. 1950. Letter to Olivier from Evelyn Light, his former dance teacher. 1951. Correspondence of Olivier and Charles B. Dunham. 1952. Dramatic Certificate of Central School of Sp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996-2000
Extent:
1 file

6. Add MS 89150/3/1-11

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Add MS 89150/3/1-11
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Scope & Content:
Copied letters and other documents arranged by Granger by subject.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-2000
Extent:
11 files

7. Add MS 89150/3/2

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Add MS 89150/3/2
Title:
1940s theatre
Scope & Content:
File includes: Correspondence between Max Gordon, Garson Kanin and Olivier relating to acting in Kanin’s ‘Born Yesterday’. 1946.Correspondence between Olivier, Isabel and Thornton Wilder, Anthony Hodgetts and Hugh Beaumont relating to acting in Wilder’s ‘The Skin of our teeth’. 1945-1946.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996-2000
Extent:
1 file

8. Add MS 89150/3/3

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Add MS 89150/3/3
Title:
Peter Hall, RSC/NT all dates, LO archive 49
Scope & Content:
File includes: Correspondence of Olivier and Peter Hall. 1959-1969. Some has been re-typed. Letter from Olivier to Sir Fordham Flower. 1962. Letter from Peter Brook to Sir Fordham Flower. 1962 4 letters from Joan Plowright to Peter Hall. 1963-1964. Re-typed letter from Peggy Ashcroft to Peter H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996-2000
Extent:
1 file

9. Add MS 89150/3/4

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Add MS 89150/3/4
Title:
Vivien Leigh, LO archive 53/53C
Scope & Content:
File includes: Letters from Sunny Lash to Olivier. 1939. With a reference for Sunny Lash given by Olivier and Vivien Leigh in 1949. Correspondence between Olivier and Vivien Leigh. 1943-1953. Correspondence relating to Vivien Leigh’s illnesses, both from doctors and from well-wishers, include S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996-2000
Extent:
1 file

10. Add MS 89150/3/5

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Add MS 89150/3/5
Title:
Australia 1948 Old Vic Tour. LO archive 16. Garrick Club
Scope & Content:
File includes: Photocopies of signed programmes, the originals of some being at Add MS 89150/7. Correspondence relating to the tour of Olivier, Ralph Richardson, George Chamberlain, Michael Redington, Elsie Beyer, Cecil Tennant, Stephen Thomas, Vivien Leigh. Programme and correspondence relatin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996-2000
Extent:
1 file