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Title:
Sir Alec Guinness Archive
Scope & Content:
The archive contains material relating to the life and work of Sir Alec Guinness including diaries, corrrespondence, scripts performed by Alec Guinness, manuscripts for plays, memoirs, stories and articles he wrote, awards and certificates, programmes, press cuttings and ephemera. There is also s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-2003
Extent:

42 boxes

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Title:
Diaries and Journals
Scope & Content:
Alec Guinness kept autograph diaries, sporadically from 1945 up until his death. From 1962-2000 he filled in a short entry in a pocket diary for nearly every single day. He also kept journals which were filled in less often but often consisted of longer entries with anecdotes and memories recorde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-2000
Extent:
73 files

3. Add MS 89015/1/1

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Title:
Small Daily Diaries
Scope & Content:
Small pocket diaries kept by Alec Guinness between 1960-2000. There are short prose autograph entries for every day of the year. Each entry begins with Guinness's geographical location. They often contain comments on weather, activities of the day (commonly eg visits to mass) and evening, comme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-2000
Extent:
41 files

4. Add MS 89015/1/1/1

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Title:
Autograph diary
Scope & Content:
Tan bound 'Surrey Desk Diary'. First entry is dated 31st December 1959 and last entry is dated 31st December 1960. There are financial notes, addresses and telephone numbers in the back pages. Early in the year Alec Guinness filmed Tunes of Glory (1960). Rehearsals began for Ross by Terence Ra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 89015/1/1/2

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Title:
Autograph diary
Scope & Content:
Black bound 'Surrey Desk Diary'. There are financial notes, telephone numbers and addresses in the back pages, along with some notes on meditiation. First entry is dated 1st January 1961 and entries continue until 18th February, from here onwards entries are very fitful and sparse, often only no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1961
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Pocket diary
Scope & Content:
Mauve leatherette cover, Asprey’s Diary. Includes a quote inside front cover. During this year Alec Guinness travelled extensively outside of the UK, for tax reasons. He travelled between London and Seville Jan-Mar, filming interiors of Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Then filming moved to Almeria ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Pocket diary
Scope & Content:
Green leatherette Asprey’s Diary. Cash account and memoranda pages have bank account and financial details noted. From 1st Jan – 22nd March, Alec Guinness was in Madrid and Segovia the filming of The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). Still in tax exile, he then travelled to San Sebastian, Ascain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1963
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Autograph diary
Scope & Content:
Blue hardback Letts Diary. With a photograph of a priest. Alec Guinness started the year in Toronto and was in New York from 18 Jan – 12 Sept 1964 for the run of Dylan. He experienced a religious crisis while he was in New York and Merula visited him there on 5 August 1964. On the 22 September...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 89015/1/1/6

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Title:
Pocket diary
Scope & Content:
Orange/brown leatherette Asprey’s Diary. Entry in every day of the year. Cash account and memoranda pages have bank account and financial details noted. Quotations (mostly bible/spiritual) are written out in back pages. Alec Guinness spent much of this year in Petersfield and London. He went t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 89015/1/1/7

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Title:
Pocket diary
Scope & Content:
Black leatherette Asprey’s dairy. Cash account pages at back have addresses and quotations noted. Name, address and personal details written in front pages. Alec Guinness remanined based in UK, for the majority of the year. He had a role on the London stage in Incident at Vichy, during January...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1966
Extent:
1 volume