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Add MS 89510/20/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004534518
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004290473
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181063600.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89510/20/1
- Title:
- Ralph Richardson's Telephone Index
- Scope & Content:
- An example of The Bates Manufacturing Company patented Telephone Index constructed out of a brown metal and containing a spool of paper annotated with an alphabetical list of the telephone numbers of Ralph Richardson's colleagues and friends. Many of the contacts have been typed but some have also been added by hand.
The list includes Peggy Ashcroft, Lindsay Anderson, Ivor Brown, John Gielgud, Peter Hall, Laurence Olivier, JB Priestley, Anthony Quayle, Elizabeth Taylor, and a number of theatres.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004290473
036-004534517
040-004534518 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89510 : Ralph Richardson archive
Add MS 89510/20 : Objects belonging to Ralph Richardson
Add MS 89510/20/1 : Ralph Richardson's Telephone Index - Hierarchy:
- 032-004290473[0020]/036-004534517[0001]/040-004534518
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89510
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1999
- Date Range:
- 20th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Unavailable as awaiting conservation
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- User Conditions:
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anderson, Lindsay Gordon, film director, 1923-1994
Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily, actress, known as Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, writer and theatre critic, 1891-1974
Gielgud, Arthur John, Knight, actor, 1904-2000
Hall, Peter Reginald Frederick, Knight, theatre director, 1930-2017
Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier of Brighton, actor and director, 1907-1989
Priestley, John Boynton, novelist, playwright and essayist, 1894-1984
Quayle, John Anthony, Knight, actor, 1913-1989
Richardson, Ralph David, Knight, actor, 1902-1983
Taylor, Elizabeth Rosemond, actress, 1932-2011