Add MS 88881/4/53

Ronald Harwood Papers. Vol. ccxxxix.

Contents:

1. Letter thanking Harwood for his contributions to the Cheltenham festival of Literature for 1968; 1968. Signed.

2. 'Notes for lecture: "Writers and television", 5 November 1968, Central School of Speech & Drama'; 1968. With autograph amendments.

3. Letters from the Associates' Committee relating to a talk on screenwriting; 1968. Signed.

4. Letter thanking Harwood for his contributions to the Cheltenham festival of Literature of 1969; 1069 Signed.

5. Notes of four lectures on Judaism; [1969], n.d. Autograph and typewritten.

6. The case of the Jewish tightropewalker'; 1972. Originally entitled 'The Jewish love affair with Mammon'. Two typewritten versions and two covering letters from John Murray of The Cornhill Magazine, where it was published.

7. Observations on the Cheltenham Festival of 1975; 1975. Autograph.

8. 'Time and the novelist – Graham Greene interviewed'; 1975. Printed cutting of an interview given by Graham Greene to Harwood, in The Listener, 4 Dec. 1975.

9. 'The land God made in anger'; [1979]. On Namibia. Photocopy of a typewritten version and a marked up printer's copy for publication in Geo.

10. 'The Dresser in Moscow'; 1982. Autograph.

11. 'Sonnet'; 1982. On Lady Antonia Fraser's presence on the tennis court.

12. A short history of the English theatre; n.d. Key points for a similar lecture, possibly one given at the Playhouse Theatre, Oxford, 26 Oct. 1983; [1983?]. Two copies, one with autograph amendments.

13. Comment: King's College London (KQC) newsletter, no. 3 (Feb. 1985), including a report of Harwood's reading from the magazine Adam; 1985.

14. Invitation to chair the judging panel for the second Mobil Playwriting Competition, with associated papers; 1987.

15. Notes on Sir Laurence Olivier written for 'Olivier: in celebration', edited by Garry O'Connor, with a letter from O'Connor asking for the contribution; [1987]. Autograph.

16. Training a light into the dark corners of human rights abuse'; 1988. Printed cutting of an article in The Independent, 22 Dec. 1988.

17. 'Full of sound and fury, signifying what?'; [1989]. A pair of articles by Howard Brenton and Harwood discussing whether the theatre should engage with politics. Printed cutting from The Independent.

18. Article on state subsidy of the theatre; [1991]. Photocopy of an article in an unidentified periodical.

19. 'A Major discussion or Two knights aboard Klementine: a farce by Ronald Harwood, to be serialised daily in the Daily Mirror'; circa 1992. A jeu d'esprit.

20. 'Llewellyn Rees'; 1994. Fax reproducing a supplementary note by Harwood on Rees's obituary, published in The Independent, 11 Jan. 1994.

21. 'A short history of the English theatre';[1996?]. Key points for a lecture, (further texts of the lecture are on the CD-ROM at Add MS 88881/7). With autograph amendments.