Documents relating to property occupied by Ralph Richardson and Meriel Forbes. This file contains: a tenancy agreement for a flat at No.32 Bernard Street dated 26 Jan 1927 a letter to Ralph, dated 16 Oct 1942, regarding tenancy of a property at 1 Harriet Walk a letter to Ralph from Kit Nichols...
Issues of family newspapers, as well as other flyers and short stories, created by Ralph Richardson as a teenager. This folder includes: several issues of The Scribe, the new name for The One Man Show, a typed newspaper containing poems and a short story entitled On the Recordone issue of the We...
A collection of loose pen and pencil sketches drawn by Ralph Richardson as a teenager. These sketches mostly depict figures, some of which seem to be characters from plays.
Undated photographs of Meriel Forbes, Lady Richardson
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Undated photographs depicting Meriel Forbes at home and on holiday, including photographs depicting Ralph and Meriel landing in Madrid, with Connie Cummings, holding a lion cub, and two passport photographs.
Photographs depicting Ralph on set or behind the scenes of unidentified productions. These images were probably taken to raise publicity for upcoming shows and films. This folder includes: one photograph of Ralph sitting in a chair four photographs of Ralph getting on his motorbike in London w...
A large black and white photograph, attached to mount board, depicting Ralph seated in a chair and wearing a suit. The reverse of the mount board is annotated with a signature and the date: 1980.
Two envelopes of photographs mostly depicting a pet ferret. This folder contains eight colour photographs depicting Meriel holding the ferret, their pet pug dog and Ralph sitting in a chair; and six black and white photographs depicting the ferret next to a pipe in the ground. This folder also c...
Eight green pocket appointment diaries used by Ralph Richardson to record daily events. These volumes mostly contain the names of the plays or theatres Ralph was performing in on the days of the diary, with further notes and sketches in the memos. The first volume for 1922 is missing most of t...