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Add MS 88987/2/104
- Record Id:
- 040-002339080
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225976
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000606.0x0003c4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88987/2/104
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Correspondence of Reinhardt and Potter with publishers (not indexed) and individuals, filed approximately alphabetically by Reinhardt, from whom permission was sought to include material in the anthology Sense of humour edited by Stephen Potter. Correspondents include: Sir Norman Birkett, Patrick Hamilton, John Crow, Tom Driberg, Bernard Darwin, Ely Cuthbertson, T. S. Eliot (to him, subsequent correspondence being with Valerie Fletcher, afterwards Eliot, then his secretary), John Fothergill, Joan Farjeon, Eleanor Farjeon (to her), Virginia Graham (Mrs Thesiger), Humphrey Hare, John Boynton Priestley, D. B. Wyndham Lewis, Ted Kavanagh, Eric Linklater, Osbert Lancaster, John Betjeman (to him), Sir Harold Nicolson, C. A. Lejeune, J. B. Morton (‘Beachcomber’), May Laidler (relating to the work of her brother, Graham Laidler, the cartoonist known as 'Pont'), Malcolm Muggeridge (to him), Mary Herring, secretary to Terence Rattigan (who is addressed as G W 63, and responds by addressing Potter as No 1), Terence Rattigan (to him, addressed as 6), Henry Read (to him), Sir John Squire (to him, the reply was from his secretary), E. S. Turner, Sir Peter Ustinov, Mrs G. P. (Marjorie) Wells.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225976
036-002237930
037-002339078
040-002339080 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88987 : Max Reinhardt papers
Add MS 88987/2 : Correspondence, papers, contracts and press cuttings relating to individual authors published by Max Reinhardt as director of…
Add MS 88987/2/103-104 : Correspondence relating to the anthology Sense of humour, compiled by Stephen Potter and published by Max Reinhardt Ltd…
Add MS 88987/2/104 : Correspondence of Reinhardt and Potter with publishers (not indexed) and individuals, filed approximately alphabetically… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225976[0003]/036-002237930[0029]/037-002339078[0002]/040-002339080
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88987
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1953
- End Date:
- 1954
- Date Range:
- 1953-1954
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
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- Legal Status:
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- Names:
- Betjeman, John, Knight, poet, 1906-1984 (Recipient)
Birkett, William Norman, 1st Baron Birkett, lawyer, 1883-1962 (Correspondent)
Crow, John, of King's College, London, 1904-1969 (Correspondent)
Cuthbertson, Ely, bridge player, 1891-1955 (Correspondent)
Darwin, Bernard Richard Meirion, sportswriter and essayist, son of Sir F Darwin, 1876-1961 (Correspondent)
Driberg, Thomas Edward Neil, Baron Bradwell, journalist and politician, 1905-1976 (Correspondent)
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, poet and dramatist, 1888-1965 (Recipient)
Eliot, Valerie, née Fletcher, 2nd wife of T S Eliot, 1926-2012 (Correspondent)
Farjeon, Eleanor, author, 1881-1965 (Recipient)
Farjeon, Joan Frances, daughter of Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, 1913-2006 (Correspondent)
Fothergill, John Rowland, innkeeper and author, 1880-1957 (Correspondent)
Hamilton, Anthony Walter Patrick, dramatist, 1904-1962 (Correspondent)
Hare, Humphrey, writer, fl 1949-1965 (Correspondent)
Heeb, Fritz, Swiss lawyer, 1911-1994 (Correspondent)
Kavanagh, Henry Edward, writer for radio, 1892-1958 (Correspondent)
Laidler, Graham, known as 'Pont', cartoonist, 1908-1940 (Subject)
Laidler, May, sister of Graham Laidler, b 1900 (Correspondent)
Lancaster, Osbert, Knight, artist and writer, 1908-1985 (Correspondent)
Lejeune, Caroline Alice, film critic, 1897-1975 (Correspondent)
Lewis, Dominic Bevan Wyndham, alias `Timothy Shy', 1891-1969 (Correspondent)
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, writer, 1899-1974 (Correspondent)
Morton, John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael, humorous journalist; alias 'Beachcomber', 1893-1979 (Correspondent)
Muggeridge, Thomas Malcolm, author and journalist, 1903-1990 (Recipient)
Nicolson, Harold George, writer and diplomatist, 1886-1968 (Correspondent)
Priestley, John Boynton, novelist, playwright and essayist, 1894-1984 (Correspondent)
Rattigan, Terence Mervyn, Knight, playwright, 1911-1977 (Recipient)
Reed, Henry, poet, translator, radio broadcaster, 1914-1986 (Recipient)
Squire, John Collings, Knight, Editor `London Mercury', 1884-1958 (Correspondent)
Thesiger, Virginia Margaret, née Graham, poet, critic and writer, 1910-1993 (Recipient)
Turner, Ernest Sackville, journalist, 1909-2006 (Correspondent)
Ustinov, Peter Alexander, Knight, actor and dramatist, 1921-2004 (Recipient)
Wells, Marjorie Stewart, wife of G P Wells, 1901-1962 (Correspondent)