Copies of chapters 1-7 and the introduction, with edits. Each chapter headed with a letter of the alphabet and word counts on front page. Introduction - Stage Directions (D) 1. The Lady with the Ground Floor Flat (E) 2. Button Boots (F) 3. The Rain Machine (G) 4. Quintessence of Dust (H) 5. Sport...
Photos and notes relating to 'Blessings in Disguise'
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Notebook with autograph notes on chapter titles, Sybil Thorndike and quotes from various texts. 11 photograph prints, one of a painting of Alec Guinness, a profile image of the bronze head of Alec Guinness by Elizabeth Frink, a black and white still of Alec Guinness in the 1956 film The Swan with...
Typed and autograph drafts of speeches, articles and readings.
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Autograph copy, photocopy and typed copy of a speech for John Gielgud's 90th birthday, 1994. Typed speech about Sir Laurence Olivier in 1963. Autograph and typed version of notes about books he has read, for the Sunday Telegraph, undated. Typed account of T.S. Eliot, undated. Typed proposal for a...
Edited typed draft of 'Blessings In Disguise' with letter from publisher
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Includes a letter from the publisher Hamish Hamilton Limited, with a copy of chapter 'Sportin' Instincts' (I) with edits marked. A autograph page listing the chapters and word counts. Title page, showing 'Towards the Pebble Shore' as provisional title. (A) Dedication page (B) Contents page (...
Address on Shakespeare by Alec Guinness for drama students
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Autograph draft of Guinness' talk for drama students titled 'A Cough and a Spit', one autograph page of notes on Shakespeare, one carbon copy typed version of the talk and a typed full version with some edits. Undated.
Typed script 'The Traitor Hero' arranged by Alec Guinness
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Typed script of ‘The Traitor Hero’ arranged by Alec Guinness from Coleridge's translation of two plays by Schiller, The Piccolomini and the Death of Wallenstein.
First draft autograph script of 'Quickly the Elephant' by Alec Guinness
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First draft autograph script of Quickly the Elephant by Alec Guinness, in a pad of paper. Incomplete, only two pages. (decided the name 14 Aug 1970) Mr quickly and the elephant manuscript draft, four pages of autograph draft. Script is a collection of lines from Shakespeare's plays, from ...