Add MS 89083/1/1/5

Seventeen communications, including two from Goldstein to Pinter.

• 1. 7 January 1973. 7 Hanover Terrace, Regents Park, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Typed letter (1 sheet). Pleased to receive Goldstein's letter. 'I think the load I dropped was far too heavy. I'm glad we're both relieved to forget it.' Recorded Monologue for television a week or so ago ('Henry Woolf played the role'). Very pleased. Busy filming The Homecoming (dir. Peter Hall). Suggests that Goldstein makes contact with Peter James who is going over to direct Old Times (Melbourne).
• 2. 12 February 1973. 7 Hanover Terrace, Regents Park, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Typed letter (1 sheet). Goldstein has met Peter James, and Pinter would like to know what Goldstein thinks of the production. Pinter has just finished shooting The Homecoming ('going to be terrific'). Pinter preparing to direct his first film, Butley (by Simon Gray). 'Lillee bowling Boycott middle stump at Lords was a sight and a half'.
• 3. 3 August 1975. 28 Taylor St., East Brighton, Victoria, Australia. Goldstein to Pinter. Typed letter (4 sheets, photocopy). Moved by having seen Melbourne University productions of The Dwarfs and The Caretaker.
• 4. 11 November 1975. Pinter to Goldstein. Telegram: 'Thanks for kind message I'm okay promise will write shortly all my love Harold'.
• 5. Christmas Day 1975. 33 Launceston Place, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'The year, as you might guess, has been total upheaval. Apart from the private pain, the public horror has been unimaginable. I can't go into it. I am now living at the above address with Antonia.'
• 6. 24 March 1976. 33 Launceston Place, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I like your poems. I send one of mine & one of Daniel's (under his new name - Brand). He's got a scholarship to Magdalen, Oxford & is in great shape.' (No poems with letter).
• 7. [November 1976]. London. Pinter (indirectly) to Goldstein, forwarded by 'Sheila' [Hughes, Personal Assistant]: 'Harold wanted you to see this'. Enclosed: 'Antonia Fraser presents "No Man's Homecoming" / a newish play by Harold Pinter' (4 sheets photocopy typescript, with envelope and brief forwarding note).
• 8. 19 November 1977. 52 Campden Hill Square, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I did send you a change of address card. Antonia & I are here & are happy. But things pretty rough elsewhere.' Looking forwards to seeing Goldstein at Christmas but no room for him to stay ('Antonia has six children & as it's Christmas...').
• 9. 20 November [1977]. [52 Campden Hill Square, London.] Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Just heard that Joe Brearley has died. I'm - so upset.'
• 10. 27 November 1978. 52 Campden Hill Square, London. Pinter to Goldstein, Moishe [Morris Wernick] and Henry [Woolf]. Typed letter (2 sheets, carbon - 'I'm going to toss a coin to see who gets the second carbon'). A letter in which Pinter updates his friends on domestic matters, reporting that Vivien is to move out of Hanover Terrace to Blackheath Common, and that a rift has developed between himself and son Daniel. Betrayal 'opened a couple of weeks ago to generally bad notices'. Pinter is just about to start the screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Woman.
• 11. 27 October 1979. 52 Campden Hill Square, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Just finishing screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Woman. Has recently found a play he wrote in 1959, The Hothouse ('I put it in a drawer, showed it to almost nobody'), which he will direct next April at the Hampstead Theatre Club.
• 12. 16 December 1979. 52 Campden Hill Square, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
• 13. 18 November 1982. 52 Campden Hill Square, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Thanks for all you said about Vivien. I feel very strange & can't say more at the moment.'
• 14. 3 July 1984. 2/78 Chaleyer St., Rose Bay, New South Wales. Goldstein to Pinter. Typed letter (1 sheet).
• 15. 27 July 1986. 52 Campden Hill Square, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter.
• 16. 11 September [1989?]. 52 Campden Hill Square, London. Pinter to Goldstein. Autograph letter (1 sheet). The year of the letter has been added by Goldstein.
• 17. Bespoke Christmas card (no date) from 'Harold & Antonia', incorporating a colour photograph of a Mercedes convertible with a tabby cat sat on the roof.