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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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- Legal Status:
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- Names:
- Betjeman, John, Knight, poet, 1906-1984
Birkett, William Norman, 1st Baron Birkett, lawyer, 1883-1962
Crow, John, of King's College, London, 1904-1969
Cuthbertson, Ely, bridge player, 1891-1955
Darwin, Bernard Richard Meirion, sportswriter and essayist, son of Sir F Darwin, 1876-1961
Driberg, Thomas Edward Neil, Baron Bradwell, journalist and politician, 1905-1976
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, poet and dramatist, 1888-1965
Eliot, Valerie, née Fletcher, 2nd wife of T S Eliot, 1926-2012
Farjeon, Eleanor, author, 1881-1965
Farjeon, Joan Frances, daughter of Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, 1913-2006
Fothergill, John Rowland, innkeeper and author, 1880-1957
Hamilton, Anthony Walter Patrick, dramatist, 1904-1962
Hare, Humphrey, writer, fl 1949-1965
Heeb, Fritz, Swiss lawyer, 1911-1994
Kavanagh, Henry Edward, writer for radio, 1892-1958
Laidler, Graham, known as 'Pont', cartoonist, 1908-1940
Laidler, May, sister of Graham Laidler, b 1900
Lancaster, Osbert, Knight, artist and writer, 1908-1985
Lejeune, Caroline Alice, film critic, 1897-1975
Lewis, Dominic Bevan Wyndham, alias `Timothy Shy', 1891-1969
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, writer, 1899-1974
Morton, John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael, humorous journalist; alias 'Beachcomber', 1893-1979
Muggeridge, Thomas Malcolm, author and journalist, 1903-1990
Nicolson, Harold George, writer and diplomatist, 1886-1968
Priestley, John Boynton, novelist, playwright and essayist, 1894-1984
Rattigan, Terence Mervyn, Knight, playwright, 1911-1977
Reed, Henry, poet, translator, radio broadcaster, 1914-1986
Squire, John Collings, Knight, Editor `London Mercury', 1884-1958
Thesiger, Virginia Margaret, née Graham, poet, critic and writer, 1910-1993
Turner, Ernest Sackville, journalist, 1909-2006
Ustinov, Peter Alexander, Knight, actor and dramatist, 1921-2004
Wells, Marjorie Stewart, wife of G P Wells, 1901-1962