Add MS 89422/2/7

Ten typed (some photocopied) and autograph letters, and a single postcard, as follows:

• (1). 27 Oct 1957, Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. Typed (2 photocopy sheets). Informs Pinter of his marriage ('for over a year') to Vivien [Merchant]: 'My wife is expecting a baby in February'. Pinter has 'written three plays this year', and The Dwarfs 'was finished a year ago'. Waiting for Godot 'is a masterly piece of work'. Henry Woolf is 'touring Ireland with McMaster, as I did six years ago!!'
• (2). 6 Feb 1964, Ambrose Place, Worthing. Typed (2 photocopy sheets). Pinter is just about to embark on a film scipt of The Go-Between, and will be acting in Sartre's Huis Clos (BBC Television). Then he will direct The Birthday Party at the Aldwych Theatre.
• (3).9 Jun 1964, Worthing. Typed (1 sheet). Invitation from 'Vivien and Harold' to a party at 51 Gt. Cumberland Place, 18 June, after the first night of The Birthday Party. 'Hope you can come to the play too, but regret have no influence at all with seats!'
• (4). Sunday 4 Oct [1964], Worthing. Typed (2 photocopy sheets). Refers to Pinter's unhappy attendance at the 'Clove Club', the association for former pupils of Hackney Downs School: 'The evening, I must be quite frank, depressed me somewhat'.
• (5). 25 Feb 1967, 5th Avenue, New York. Typed (1 photocopy sheet). 'New York is quite freezing. Makes it even more difficult to like it. Sick of the smiling faces which warmly greet me and slap me on the back. Ever been slapped by a smiling face?'
• (6). 1 Jul 1972, Hanover Terrace, Regents Park. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'I'm engaged in the most difficult task of my life, which will make your eyelids waggle, perhaps in disapproval. I'm writing a screenplay of "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu".' Pinter has 'written about 100 pages of a first draft'.
• (7). 14 Apr [1973?], Hanover Terrace. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Brearley has informed Pinter about his relationship with Mara Loytved-Hardegg.
• (8). 20 Feb 1974, Hanover Terrace. Typed letter (1 sheet). Pinter is writing a screenplay of The Last Tycoon, and Vivien 'opened last night in The Maids, playing Madame'. 'Hope you and Mara are as good as always. It was very good to meet her.'
• (9). 9 Oct 1974, Hanover Terrace. Typed letter(1 sheet). 'It was wonderful for us to have the cottage in Hampshire during the summer. It was so peaceful, and I wrote a play there. Here it is [...]. To begin with, I felt echoes of previous work, but instead of stopping, I said to myself Bollocks and plunged on [...]. We shall do it at the National next Spring with John Gielgud as Spooner [...]'. For the typescript of No Man's Land, originally enclosed with this letter and inscribed to 'Joe & Mara', see Add MS 89422/5/3.
• (10). 'Jan 21' [1976?], Launceston Place, London. 'Very much hope to see you in the Spring.'
• (11). Undated postcard (Constable, 'Dedham Vale') inscribed 'love Harold'.