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Add MS 88951/3
- Record Id:
- 040-001000889
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000981388
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001202.0x0002dd
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88951/3
- Title:
- Correspondence of Simon Tarquin Olivier
- Scope & Content:
- Correspondence of Simon Tarquin Olivier, almost entirely letters written to him, including 19 from Vivien Leigh, his step-mother (1950-1967), 1 from Eva Moore, his grandmother (1949), 1 from Clement Freud (c. 1959), 8 from David Lloyd-James (1959-1963), 2 from Noel Coward (1961, 1964), 1 from Hamish Hamilton (1963), 1 from Gertrude Hartley, mother of Vivien Leigh (1962) 1 from Pamela Frankau (1964?), 1 from Alfred Drake (1971), 1 letter and 1 card from Joan Plowright, Lady Olivier of Brighton, his step-mother (1974, 1980), 1 from Julie-Kate Olivier, his half-sister (1974), 1 from Tamsin Olivier, his half-sister (1974), photocopy of letter to Anne Edwards, biographer of Vivien Leigh, with answers to questions she had asked (1976), 1 from Emlyn Williams (1976), 1 from Cole Lesley (1977), 1 from Laurence J. Olivier and Tarquin Olivier's draft reply, relating to the similarly of names and rainwater problems at Tarquin Olivier's house (1980), 1 from Shirley Luke, secretary to Laurence Olivier (1983), 1 from Derek Walker-Smith, Baron Broxbourne (1984), 1 from Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase (n.d.), 1 from Kenneth [Cox?] enclosing letters written c. 1946 from Margaret Sullavan and from Tarquin Olivier to Margaret Sullavan's children, Brooke, Bridget and Bill.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000981388
040-001000889 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88951 : Supplementary Olivier papers
Add MS 88951/3 : Correspondence of Simon Tarquin Olivier - Hierarchy:
- 032-000981388[0003]/040-001000889
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88951
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 67 letters and cards and 3 notes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1950
- End Date:
- 1984
- Date Range:
- 1950-1984
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1898-1972
Coward, Noël Peirce, Knight, playwright and composer, 1899-1973
Drake, Alfred, né Alfred Capurro; actor and singer, 1914-1992
Edwards, Anne, biographer, b 1927
Frankau, Pamela, novelist, 1908-1967
Freud, Clement Raphael, Knight, restaurateur, journalist, and politician, 1924-2009
Hamilton, Hamish, publisher, 1900-1988
Hartley, Gertrude, Mother of Vivien Leigh, fl 1913-1972
Jack, Eva, née Moore; actress; wife of Harry Esmond Jack, al. H. V. Esmond, 1868-1955
James, David, 1934-2009
Leigh, Vivien Mary, actress, 1913-1967
Lesley, Cole, secretary to Sir Noel Coward, fl 1977
Luke, Shirley, Secretary to Baron Olivier of Brighton, fl 1983
Olivier, Julie-Kate, b 1966
Olivier, Laurence J, surveyor, b 1933
Olivier, Simon Tarquin, b 1936
Olivier, Tamsin Agnes, b 1963
Plowright, Joan Ann, actress, b 1929
Smith, Derek Colclough, Baron Broxbourne, 1910-1992
Sullavan, Bill, 1942-2008
Sullavan, Bridget, 1939-1960
Sullavan, Brooke, b 1937
Sullavan, Margaret, actress, 1909-1960
Williams, George Emlyn, actor and playwright, 1905-1987