MS 4624 John Guest Collection This is a collection of ... · MS 4624 John Guest Collection This is a collection of around 500 personal and business letters from over 100 literary

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MS 4624 John Guest Collection

This is a collection of around 500 personal and business letters from over 100 literary figures. They include 52 letters from Sir John Betjeman 1949-1979; 33 letters from Christopher Fry 1949-1989; 25 letters from Mary Renault 1960-1983, with further letters from her partner Julie Mullard and obituaries; 25 letters from Harold Nicolson 1949-1962; 17 letters from David Storey 1963-1994; 26 letters from Francis King 1950-1957, mainly concerning his British Council service in Greece; 12 letters from L.P. Hartley 1966-1970; 18 letters from William Plomer 1966-1972, mostly concerning the judging of the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry; 12 letters from Joan Hassall c.1954-1987; 12 letters from Laurence Whistler 1955-1986; 14 letters from A.N. Wilson 1979-1988, and 14 letters from Mary Wilson 1969-1986. Other correspondents include Rupert Hart-Davis, Christopher Hibbert, Mollie Hamilton (M.M. Kaye), Irene Handl, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender and Muriel Spark.

c. 1949-1991

MS 4624 A Correspondence

MS 4624 A/1 Richard Adams

CLOSED. Please contact the University Archivist for details

1 folder c.1975-1985

MS 4624 A/2 Lord Alexander of Tunis

With note by John Guest

2 docs c.1956


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MS 4624 A/3 Mark Allen

2 docs c.1982 MS 4624 A/4 Jeffrey Archer

1 doc 1981

MS 4624 A/5 Aman Ashraf

6 docs 1977-1981

MS 4624 A/6 Chiquita Astor

2 docs Undated

MS 4624 A/7 Lord Avon [Anthony Eden]

1 folder 1975

MS 4624 A/8 Michael Ayrton

2 docs 1975

MS 4624 A/9 Nina Bawden

1 folder c.1987

MS 4624 A/10 Walter Baxter

1 doc Undated


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MS 4624 A/11 John Betjeman

1 folder 1960s-1980s

MS 4624 A/12 Lord Birkenhead

1 folder 1958-1975

MS 4624 A/13 Ronald Blythe

1 folder 1979-1986

MS 4624 A/14 Dirk Bogarde

1 doc 1989

MS 4624 A/15 Chris Bonington

1 doc 1977

MS 4624 A/16 Basil Boothroyd

1 doc 1971

MS 4624 A/17 Lucy M. Boston

1 folder c.1977-1986


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MS 4624 A/18 Elizabeth Bowen

3 docs 1949-1968

MS 4624 A/19 John Braine

1 doc 1960

MS 4624 A/20 Arthur Bryant

2 docs 1952

MS 4624 A/21 Dame Clara Butt

2 docs

1924, 1932

MS 4624 A/22 Fr Philip Caraman

4 docs 1963-1977

MS 4624 A/23 Charles Causley

1 doc 1979

MS 4624 A/24 Elizabeth Cavendish

1 doc 1989


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MS 4624 A/25 Hester Chapman

2 docs 1959, 1969

MS 4624 A/26 J.F.G. Chapple

1 doc c.1972 MS 4624 A/27 Richard Church

1 doc 1955

MS 4624 A/28 Clementine Churchill

1 doc 1958

MS 4624 A/29 Sam Clutton

1 doc 1956

MS 4624 A/30 Jilly Cooper

1 folder 1976, 1994

MS 4624 A/31 A.E. Coppard

1 doc 1936

MS 4624 A/32 John Cornwell

1 doc 1989


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MS 4624 A/33 Bishop of Coventry

1 doc 1963

MS 4624 A/34 Noel Coward

2 docs 1964-1965

MS 4624 A/35 Edward Crankshaw

1 doc 1958

MS 4624 A/36 Maurice Cranston

2 docs 1952, 1982

MS 4624 A/37 Michael Croft

1 doc 1954

MS 4624 A/38 Fr. M.C. D'Arcy

1 doc 1952

MS 4624 A/39 Cecil Day Lewis

1 doc 1968


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MS 4624 A/40 Paul Dehn

3 docs 1956-1959

MS 4624 A/41 William Delafield

5 docs c. 1974-1975

MS 4624 A/42 John Van Druten [transcript of letter]

1 doc Undated [pre 1957]

MS 4624 A/43 Maurice Edelman

1 doc 1959

MS 4624 A/44 T.S. Eliot

3 docs 1949, 1956

MS 4624 A/45 James G. Farrell

1 doc 1973

MS 4624 A/46 E.M. Forster

1 doc Undated

MS 4624 A/47 Ernest Frost 1 doc 1952


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MS 4624 A/48 Christopher Fry

1 doc 1949-1989

MS 4624 A/49 Roger Fulford

4 docs c.1949-1980

MS 4624 A/50 Dora Gaitskell

1 doc Undated

MS 4624 A/51 David Garnett

2 docs c.1966

MS 4624 A/52 John Garratt

2 docs 1958

MS 4624 A/53 John Geilgud

2 docs 1963

MS 4624 A/54 Daniel George

1 doc 1950


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MS 4624 A/55 Winifred Gérin

5 docs 1978-1980

MS 4624 A/56 Stella Gibbons

2 docs 1951

MS 4624 A/57 Anthony Godwin

2 docs 1963

MS 4624 A/58 Martin Goff

2 docs 1972, 1995

MS 4624 A/59 Chloe Green

1 doc Undated

MS 4624 A/60 Graham Greene

1 doc 1949

MS 4624 A/61 Vivien Greene

2 docs Undated

MS 4624 A/62 James Guest 2 docs 1956-1957


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MS 4624 A/63 John Guest Includes some letters to unidentified people, list of party

attendees, some notes and articles


MS 4624 A/64 Rosalie Habgood


MS 4624 A/65 Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton

1 doc 1957

MS 4624 A/66 Mollie Hamilton [M.M. Kaye]

1 folder 1977-1987

MS 4624 A/67 Irene Handl

1 folder c. 1974-1986

MS 4624 A/68 Rupert Hart-Davis

1 folder 1982-1983

MS 4624 A/69 L.P. Hartley

1 folder 1966-1970


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MS 4624 A/70 Joan Hassall


MS 4624 A/71 Christopher Hibbert

1 folder 1965-1982

MS 4624 A/72 Tristram Hillier

2 docs 1953

MS 4624 A/73 Harold Hobson

2 docs 1959

MS 4624 A/74 Harry Hoff [William Cooper]

3 docs 1952

MS 4624 A/75 Alan Hollinghurst

3 docs 1988

MS 4624 A/76 Michael Holroyd

1 doc Undated

MS 4624 A/77 Lord Alec Home of the Hirsel 1 folder 1978-1989


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MS 4624 A/78 Lady Elizabeth Home


MS 4624 A/79 Mary Hyams

1 doc 1975

MS 4624 A/80 Robert Rhodes James

1 doc 1964

MS 4624 A/81 Storm Jameson

1 doc 1949

MS 4624 A/82 Elizabeth Jenkins

3 docs 1976, 1985-1986

MS 4624 A/83 C.E.M. Joad

2 docs 1950, 1952

MS 4624 A/84 Ludovic Kennedy

1 doc 1954


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MS 4624 A/85 Moira Kennedy [Shearer]

1 folder 1950s?

MS 4624 A/86 Sir Geoffrey Keynes

1 folder 1967-1982

MS 4624 A/87 Francis King

1 folder 1950-1995

MS 4624 A/88 Nigel Kneale

1 folder 1951

MS 4624 A/89 Tony Lacey

1 doc 1989

MS 4624 A/90 Osbert Lancaster

1 doc 1974

MS 4624 A/91 Susan Lasdun

1 doc 1979

MS 4624 A/92 Rosamund Lehman 2 docs 1956, 1974


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MS 4624 A/93 John Lehman

1 doc 1956

MS 4624 A/94 R.G. Longman

2 docs 1958, 1966

MS 4624 A/95 Walter Lord

Consists of a drawing of an aeroplane by Walter Lord, author

of A Night to Remember

1 doc c. 1927

MS 4624 A/96 Sir Robert Lusty

4 docs 1958-1977

MS 4624 A/97 Rose Macauley

1 doc 1958

MS 4624 A/98 Compton Mackenzie

1 doc 1951

MS 4624 A/99 Edward Marsh

3 docs 1948-1949


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MS 4624 A/100 Kenneth Matthews

1 folder 1976-1986

MS 4624 A/101 Robin Maugham

1 doc 1966

MS 4624 A/102 Gavin Maxwell

1 doc Undated [c.1960s]

MS 4624 A/103 Peter Mayer

2 docs c. 1982

MS 4624 A/104 Nancy Mitford

1 doc 1958

MS 4624 A/105 Charles Morgan

3 docs 1954-1956

MS 4624 A/106 Raymond Mortimer

3 docs 1964-1969

MS 4624 A/107 Lady Diana Mosley 4 docs 1978-1982


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MS 4624 A/108 Iris Murdoch

5 docs c.1962-1979

MS 4624 A/109 Harold Nicholson

1 folder 1958-1990

MS 4624 A/110 Beverley Nicols

1 doc 1953

MS 4624 A/111 John Julius Norwich, The Viscount Norwich

3 docs 1981, 1986

MS 4624 A/112 Ivor Novello

1 doc 1949

MS 4624 A/113 Fr Humphrey Pawsey

1 doc 1956

MS 4624 A/114 Esme Percy

2 docs 1956


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MS 4624 A/115 William Plomer

1 folder 1968-1972

MS 4624 A/116 J.B. Priestley

1 doc Undated

MS 4624 A/117 Alan Pryce-Jones

1 doc Undated

MS 4624 A/118 Raja Rao

1 doc 1957

MS 4624 A/119 J. Redwood-Anderson

1 doc 1956

MS 4624 A/120 Mary Renault [Mary Challans]

1 folder 1960-1983

MS 4624 A/121 Tim Rix

1 doc 1988

MS 4624 A/122 L.T.C. Rolt 3 docs 1954-1955


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MS 4624 A/123 Tim Rose

2 docs 1976-1978

MS 4624 A/124 Liz Rosenberg

1 doc 1960

MS 4624 A/125 A.L. Rowse

1 doc 1978

MS 4624 A/126 William Sansom

1 doc 1967

MS 4624 A/127 Paul Scott

2 docs 1977

MS 4624 A/128 Edward Seago

3 docs c. 1956

MS 4624 A/129 Ronald Searle

1 folder

1952-c.1960


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MS 4624 A/130 Osbert Sitwell

4 docs 1951

MS 4624 A/131 Stevie Smith

1 folder

c.1970-1971

MS 4624 A/132 C.P. Snow

2 docs 1952-1953

MS 4624 A/133 Pamela [Hansford-Johnson] Snow

1 doc 1952-1953

MS 4624 A/134 Muriel Spark

1 folder 1961-1963, 1994

MS 4624 A/135 Stephen Spender

1 folder c.1949-1954

MS 4624 A/136 Howard Spring

1 doc 1949


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MS 4624 A/137 David Storey

1 folder 1963-1994

MS 4624 A/138 A.J.A. Symons [photocopies]

1 folder 1938

MS 4624 A/139 Wilfred Thesiger

2 docs c. 1982

MS 4624 A/140 Anthony Thwaite

1 doc 1981

MS 4624 A/141 Viscount Tonypandy

1 doc 1986, 1991

MS 4624 A/142 Sir Charles Trevelyan

1 doc 1949

MS 4624 A/143 Stephen Tumin

1 doc 1995

MS 4624 A/144 Barry Unsworth 1 folder 1976-1985


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MS 4624 A/145 Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

1 doc 1958

MS 4624 A/146 Doreen Wallace

1 doc Undated

MS 4624 A/147 Auberon Waugh

1 doc 1970

MS 4624 A/148 Evelyn Waugh

5 docs Undated MS 4624 A/149 Dame Rebecca West

1 doc 1958

MS 4624 A/150 Laurence Whistler

1 folder 1955-1986

MS 4624 A/151 Antonia White

1 doc 1951

MS 4624 A/152 Thornton Wilder 6 docs 1966


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MS 4624 A/153 Sir Kyffin Williams

1 doc 1986

MS 4624 A/154 Henry Williamson

1 doc 1969

MS 4624 A/155 A.N. Wilson

1 folder 1981-1988

MS 4624 A/156 Andrew Wilson

1 doc Undated

MS 4624 A/157 Angus Wilson

5 docs 1956-1968

MS 4624 A/158 Harold and Mary Wilson

2 folders 1960s-1980s

MS 4624 A/159 Dom Wulstan

2 docs 1957


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MS 4624 B/1 Index book Compiled by T.F.S. Scott [not complete]

1 doc 1996

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MS 4624 John Guest Collection This is a collection of ... · MS 4624 John Guest Collection This is a collection of around 500 personal and business letters from over 100 literary