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Add MS 89510/4/14
- Record Id:
- 040-004374204
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004290473
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166903518.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89510/4/14
- Title:
- Service sheets for funerals and memorials
- Scope & Content:
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Fourteen service sheets for funerals and memorials attended by Lady Richardson.
This folder includes booklets for memorial services for the following people, listed in chronological order of the date of the service: T S Eliot, Laurence Olivier, Ruskin Spear, Peggy Ashcroft, Monsignor John McDonald, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen Watford, Peter Graves, Rosalie Nugent, Robert Louis Anstruther Harris, and Georg Solti.
Some of the booklets include annotations by Lady Richardson, often highlighting readings she might want at her funeral, and including a short description of T S Eliot's Mass of Thanksgiving. This folder also includes Lady Richardson's seat ticket for the Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Laurence Olivier at Westminster Abbey.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004290473
036-004365271
040-004374204 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89510 : Ralph Richardson archive
Add MS 89510/4 : Ralph Richardson's personal papers and war records
Add MS 89510/4/14 : Service sheets for funerals and memorials - Hierarchy:
- 032-004290473[0004]/036-004365271[0014]/040-004374204
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89510
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1988
- End Date:
- 1998
- Date Range:
- 1988-1998
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily, actress, known as Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991
Davies, Gwen, actress, 1891-1992
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, poet and dramatist, 1888-1965
Graves, Peter George Wellesley, 8th Baron Graves, of Gravesend, actor, 1911-1994
Harris, Robert Louis Anstruther, actor, 1900-1995
Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier of Brighton, actor and director, 1907-1989
Solti, Georg, Knight, conductor, 1912-1997,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121204297
Spear, Ruskin, painter and art teacher, 1911-1990
Watford, Gwendoline, actress, 1927-1994