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Ronald Harwood Papers. Vol. ccxcv. Papers and correspondence relating to honours and awards conferred on Harwood; 1974-2003.

Contents:

1. Letter from the Royal Society of Literature notifying Harwood of the award of the Society's Literature award, with a schedule of the presentation ceremony; 1974. Signed and printed.

2. Letter from the Royal Society of Literature offering Harwood a fellowship of the Society; 1974. Signed.

3. Programme and invitation cards of the 56th annual awards presentation ('Oscars')of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, nominating Harwood's 'The Dresser' for best screenplay from another medium and best picture of the year; [1984] Printed.

4. Three menus from the Garrick Club for dinners held in honour of Harwood; 1984-1995. Printed and signed by many of the diners.

5. Correspondence with the French Embassy in London, relating to the offer of the honour of Chevalier dans l'Ordre National des Arts et Lettres; 1996. Signed and photocopy.

6. Letter from the Secretary for Appointments of the United Kingdom Government offering Harwood the appointment of Companion of the Order of the British Empire, with details of the ward and presentation ceremony and letters of congratulation from many friends; 1998, 1999. Letters were received from: David Fingleton, Noam Semel and others, Diana Franklin, Timothy Richards, Roderick Gilchrist, Jane Gardam, Sir Paul Wright, Peter Sallis, Christopher Luscombe, Wilfred Beckerman, Lady Antonia Fraser, Prunella Scales and Timothy West, Jackie Rosenfeld, Harriet Graham, Michael Howard, Claus Moser (Baron Moser), Patrick Garland, Tom G. Rosenthal, R. David Bloomberg, Andrew Welch, Anthony Branch, Megan Reece, Jane Rayne (Lady Rayne), Pamela Hasted, Peter Ainsworth, Braham Murray, James Barber, Adrian Noble, Silvia Rodgers, Caryl Phillips, Charles Swallow, Gareth Johnson, Dame Eileen Atkins, Viscount Ullswater on behalf of H.R.H. the Princess Margaret, John D. A. Levy, Martyn Goff, Len and Eva Hermans, Chris Smith (Baron Smith of Finsbury), Anna Stapleton, Sir Pater Hall, Mark Le Fanu, Michael Birkett (Baron Birkett), Diane Lever (Lady Lever of Manchester), William Waldegrave (Baron Waldegrave of North Hill), John Wakeham (Baron Wakeham), Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, Sir Sydney Lipworth, John Davies, Richard Szpiro, Gerald Halperin, Kenneth Baker (Baron Baker of Dorking), Richard Attenborough (Baron Attenborough), Gerard Noel, Alastair Niven, Martin Harvey, of the Garrick Club, John Whitney, Robert S. Fowler, Elizabeth Paterson, Francis King, Ed Victor, Harry Faktor, Anant Singh, Max Ulfane, Clare Deutsch, Fr Dunstan Adams, Lionel Bowman, David Suchet, many friends at Balliol College, Oxford, Malte Hartmann, Sir Donald Sinden and Jack Watling, Moris Farhi, Gilly Vincent, Gerald and Claudine Halperin, Michael Codron, Iain and Charlotte Spitz, Sir David Davies, Vera Dubin, Equity, Maurice Keen, Brian Siberell, Janine Ulfane, Sir Derek Hornby, Margaret Battiston, Octavius Blanck, Simon and Victoria Gray, Maria and David Shurrock, Eden Davies and other unidentified correspondents.

7. Menu from the Garrick Club for a dinner held in honour of Harwood's receiving the C.B.E.; 1999. Printed.

8. Letter from the Montenegrin P.E.N. Centre awarding Ronald the Ljubisa award; 2000. The certificate of the award is at Add MS 88881/6/30. Fax.

9. Letter from Keele University offering Harwood an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters; 2002. Signed.

10. Award certificate for best screenplay of 2002 for 'The Pianist' from National Society of Film Critics; 2002. Printed.

11. Letter from the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking awarding Harwood the Founders' Award for his screenplay of 'The Pianist'; 2003. Fax.

12. Letters from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences notifying Harwood of the nomination of his screenplay of 'The Pianist' for an Academy Award in the Adapted Screenplay category, with letters of congratulation following his winning the award; 2003. Letters were received from: Patrick Marber, Aleksander Kwaśniewski (President of Poland), Sir Michael Pakenham (British Ambassador to Poland), Tessa Blackstone (Baroness Blackstone), Anthony Sher, Ian Burlingham, Lauren Bacall, Edward Harris, Jeffrey Archer (Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare), Tessa Jowell, Michael Howard, Barbara Amiel (Lady Black of Crossharbour), Maureen Lipman, Dame Eileen Atkins.

Lady Antonia Fraser, afterwards Pinter; author: Letters to R. Harwood: 1969-1996: Signed.