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Add MS 89408/1/98
- Record Id:
- 040-003467735
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003463667
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088585928.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89408/1/98
- Title:
- Margaret Forster: Daphne du Maurier Fan Letters
- Scope & Content:
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Letters from fans sending congratulations and comments to Margaret Forster on her book and/or the documentary The Loving Spirit (1993), including:
- Bunny Austin, 5, 8, 12 and 24 Mar 1993.
- Henrietta Stepleton-Bretherton, friend of Daphne, 12 Mar 1993.
- Christian (Kits) Browning, 20 Apr 1993.
- Canon Denys Browning, relative of Daphne, 9 Mar and 29 Apr 1993.
- Elizabeth Divine, Daphne's friend, 7 Mar 1993.
- Piers Dudgeon, undated.
- Margaret Eglesfield, nanny for Daphne's children, 12 Mar and 6 Apr 1993.
- Lady Antonia Fraser, Easter Monday 1993.
- Pat Frere, friend of Daphne, 19 Mar and 12 Apr 1993.
- Bridget Graham, friend of Daphne, 5, 20 Mar and 2 Apr 1993.
- Anne Wolrige Gordon, 2- Apr 1993.
- Terry Jones, Daphne's nurse, 11 Apr 1993.
- Garth Lean, 7, 15, 20 Mar and 7 Apr 1993.
- Maureen Luschwitz, Daphne's friend, 5 Mar 1993.
- Oriel Malet, 26 Feb-20 Mar 1993.
- Oliver Millar, 12 Mar 1993.
- David Montgomery, 7 Mar 1993.
- John Prescott, Daphne's friend, 5 Mar 1993.
- Enone Rashleigh (later Richardson), Daphne's friend, 8 Mar 1993.
- Veronica Rashleigh, of Garden Cottage, Menabilly, 6 and 15 Mar 1993.
- Margaret Robertson, Daphne's nurse, 11 Mar 1993.
- Esther Rowe, Daphne's housekeeper, 29 Feb, 5, 8, 13 and 17 Mar 1993.
- A.L. Rowse, enclosing a copy of his book The Sayings of Shakespeare, 12 Mar 1993.
- Dorothy Sheppard, Daphne's maid, 5 Mar 1993.
- Virginia Surtees, 22 Mar 1993.
- Kate Symondson, friend of Daphne, 12 and 19 Mar 1993.
- Angela Thorne, 23 Apr 1993.
- David Tree (Parsons), 19 Apr 1993, including a photocopy of a letter from Daphne du Maurier to David's mother Viola Tree regarding Gerald du Maurier's death.
- Stephanie Walmsley, wife of Leo Walmsley, 13 Apr 1993.
- Gertrud Watson, typist, Mar 1993.
- Graham Watson, 14 Apr 1993.
- John Williams, son of Evie Williams, Gertrude Lawrence's secretary, 9 Mar 1993.
- Lady Wolfenden, 25 Mar 1993.
- Marie-Therese de Zulueta, 'Pooch', Daphne's grandchild, 8 Mar 1993.
- Paul de Zulueta, Daphne's grandchild, 30 Mar 1993.
The file also includes a letter from Peter Feversham sending Margaret Fortser copies of photographs of the French finishing school that Daphne du Maurier attended from his mother's photographic album of the time - his mother attended the same school, 2003.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003463667
036-003463742
037-003464411
038-003467780
040-003467735 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89408 : Margaret Forster Archive
Add MS 89408/1 : Margaret Forster: Works
Add MS 89408/1/59-118 : Margaret Forster: Biographies and Non-fiction
Add MS 89408/1/97-102 : Margaret Forster: Daphne du Maurier
Add MS 89408/1/98 : Margaret Forster: Daphne du Maurier Fan Letters - Hierarchy:
- 032-003463667[0001]/036-003463742[0002]/037-003464411[0005]/038-003467780[0002]/040-003467735
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89408
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1993
- End Date:
- 1993
- Date Range:
- 1993
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Found at the time of cataloguing inside a folder labelled by Margaret Forster 'Letters about D. du M. book (fan letters)'
- Names:
- Austin, Henry Wilfred, tennis player, 1906-2000
Dudgeon, Piers, writer, fl 1997-2019
Duncombe, Charles Anthony Peter, 6th Baron Feversham, writer, 1945-2009
Fraser, Antonia, author, b 1932
Gordon, Anne, née Howard, writer and judge, b 1936
Lean, Garth, writer, 1912-1993
Millar, Oliver Nicholas, Knight, art historian, 1923-2007
Montgomery, David Bernard, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, politician and businessman, b 1928
Rowse, Alfred Leslie, historian and writer, 1903-1997,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121305821
Surtees, Virginia, art historian, 1917-2017
Tree, David, actor, 1915-2009
Vaughan, Auriel Rosemary Malet, writer, 1923-2014
Walmsley, Leo, writer, 1892-1966
Watson, Graham, literary agent, 1913-2002
le Mesurier, Eileen, née Spilsbury; wife of John, Baron Wolfenden, 1908-2004