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Research notes relating to architecture.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Times Literary Supplement Editor, Arthur Crook. Contains cuttings, typescript of article by Crook, photographs, and obituary by Richard Boston.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Typescripts of articles produced by Richard Boston for Punch, Private Eye, Sunday Times Magazine, New Statesman, The Democrat and other publications.
Also includes letter from Anthony Howard regard article by Boston for the New Statesman.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Boston's trip to Cannes to write about the Shell BAFTA Great British Film Rally.

Documents include; itineraries, promotional material, written notes, correspondence, photographs.

Also includes miscellaneous items relating to France, perhaps arranged because of their relation to Cannes, such as a French book review for the Observer, and a letter from about Nice.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Richard Boston's column and book on beer including correspondence and article typescripts.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Boston's trip to Berlin, to write on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin wall.

Documents include; a notebook, a printed draft, sketches of the Karl-Marx-Stadt in Chemnitz.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Boston's trip to Bologna, Italy, to write a profile on writer, Giorgio Bassani, and an article on a campaign to stop Bologna's train station being redeveloped.

Documents include a poster protesting the new building, printed drafts, a written letter from 'A&C International', a Bologna based architecture and urbanism journal, two photographs of the station and a memorial, two contact sheets, a transparency of a front page about the new train station building, notes about organising a meeting with Bassani, two large format photos of Bassani, a draft on Ravenna, notes on Giorgio Morandi.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Book reviews produced by Richard Boston for various publications including the Literary Review, New York Times Book Review, The Oldie, The Observer, Country Life, and Punch.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Typescripts for books and short stories by Richard Boston

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

VHS series entitled "Bostons Tea Party" #1-3 #7-8.

'Boston Tea Party' VHS tapes have various takes of Boston's television proposal on Market Harborough, relation to the Boston Tea Party is unknown.

VHS created by B BC Bristol transfer suite.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Correspondence between Richard Boston and artist Charlie Riddell regarding Boston's Painscale book; typescripts; page layouts and cuttings on the Beaufort Scale.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Section from manuscript for Richard Boston's book on the French film Boudu

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Boston's book on French film Boudu Saved From Drowning, directed by Jean Renoir.

Documents include an Artificial Eye Video information sheet including a piece on Renoir, written by director Francis Truffaut, written notes, an information sheet on Federico Fellini's film Intervista, a clipping from film review mentioning the book.

Also includes a written letter from David Coward on French literature, dated 1989.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Research notes relating to the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre including notes, cuttings and illustrations.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Richard Boston's candidacy in the Parliamentary Election.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Richard Boston's candidacy in the Parliamentary Election. Includes letters confirming validity of nomination; from constituency members and fans; and replies from Richard Boston; and canvassing campaign. Newspaper cuttings. Electoral papers including Register of Electors and Notice of Poll. Promotional material including poems, typescripts for Guardian articles, and campaign poster.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Correspondence, artwork and documents relating to the artist Charlie Riddell. Includes an obituary by Richard Boston from The Guardian.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Richard Boston's book on cheese including correspondence, synopsis of book, article typescripts, cuttings, notes from various resources, photographs, and other information on cheese.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Letters to Richard Boston from staff at Peace News regarding reviews and articles to be written; Sweden; job vacancy with Peace News.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Letters to and from Richard Boston regarding writing arrangements for the New Society; conference in the Netherlands on Literature and Culture; suggested content for reviews.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Letters to and from Richard Boston regarding application for position; appointment as editorial trainee; appointment as Chief Sub-Editor; writing arrangements for the Times Literary Supplement; articles by Boston.

Correspondents include Arthur Crook.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Letters to and from Richard Boston regarding articles written for The Guardian; feedback from readers; writing arrangements and payment of fees; and proposal about programme on pubs following success of Boston on Beer.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Letters to and from Richard Boston and other individuals relating to Vole. Letters cover a range of topics including applications for jobs; fan letters; Dartington Hall Trust; complaints; contributors; suggestions for content of magazine; financial situation; and typesetting of Vole.

Correspondents include Charlie Riddell, Michael Henshaw, Posy Simmonds, Angela Rippon, Peter Shore, and Sybil Marshall.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Correspondence concerning Wheatear Productions Ltd covering a range of subjects including payment of printing debts; transfer of accounting documents; resignation of staff; separating the finances of Quarto from those of Vole and Wheatear Productions Ltd; analysis of income and expenditure for Vole and Quarto; proposed sale of the magazines; financial accounts; report of shareholders' meeting 15 April 1981; take over of Wheatear Productions Ltd by Stone Industrial Publications Ltd.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Letters received by Richard Boston regarding his book Boudu Saved from Drowning.

Includes letters from Michael Palin, David Wilson, and David Meeker thanking Boston for sending them the book.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Personal emails between friends, colleagues and fans. Also includes short excerpts of personal diary prints and a copy of artwork listings from 'Twentieth Century Poets', including Boston's piece 'Craig Raine'.

Correspondence includes;
A strongly worded fax to the editor of the New Statesman correcting a piece written by Craig Raine, claiming that Boston was not paying journalists in his magazine 'Quarto'.
A letter from poet, Kit Wright.
An email from Charlie Ridell, a graphic designer, discussing feeling unwell.
Emails between Simon Gray.
A letter from Bevis Hillier discussing Boston's magazine 'Vole'.
Emails between Peter Graham.
Emails between Jeremy Bugler.
Letter from Shena McKay.
A photo with Boston and Arthur Crook.
Emails between Julian Barnes.
Letters and poems from Gavin Ewart
Recipes from Elisabeth David
Poem by Donald Mcrae
Letter from Walter Junge
Letter from FR Leavis.
Letter to Bernard Williams

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Letters sent to Boston from friend and art critic John Berger. Includes discussion of books to be reviewed; Berger's novels A Painter of Our Time and G; letting of house in France to Boston; New Society; articles; typescript by Berger The Revolutionary Undoing of the World of Things; and Boston's Anatomy of Laughter book.

Some letters are partially dated or undated.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Correspondence between Boston and John Falcke, friends from Regent Polytechnic art school. Letters are mostly personal in content and include discussions of Bologna; Topolski; Maggi Hambling; Osbert Lancaster; Morandi exhibition; holidays; arranging visits to each other; theatre productions; research for work and books e.g. the Thames; other exhibitions; painters; paintings by John Falcke; and poetry; letters from Falcke and his wife to Marie Claud after Boston's death; a letter from Norma, Falcke's wife, after John's death and funeral.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Correspondence between Boston and Simon Gray, friend and playwright. Letters and emails cover a variety of topics including the Harper Wood Studentship; discussion about their respective work; visit to El Palo with photographs; Paris; Sweden; Gray's teaching position in Vancouver; Gray's novel Simple People; typescript of review by Gray of The Love Department by William Trevor; teaching at Queen Mary College, London; reviews; and programmes for plays by Gray Wise Child and Quartermaine's Terms.

Some letters are partially dated or undated.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Correspondence between Boston and Simon Rae, friend and poet. Letters cover a variety of topics including poems by Rae; study of Rabelais by Rae; copy of poem produced for the Weekend Guardian; and photograph of Boston and Rae.

Some letters are partially dated or undated.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Cuttings from the Guardian, some of which contain articles by Richard Boston.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Publications and cuttings of Peace News, some of which contain articles by Richard Boston. Also includes an obituary of Eileen Brock wife of former Peace News editor Hugh Brock.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Publications and cuttings of New Society, some of which contain articles by Richard Boston.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Publications and cuttings of The Times and The Times Literary Supplement, some of which contain articles by Richard Boston. Also includes obituaries for Arthur Crook from The Independent, The Guardian and The Times.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Newspaper and magazine cuttings relating to the Vole publication, and a number of Vole magazines including a dummy issue and first edition. Also includes a Press Summary from the HM Treasury Press Office that mentions the Vole.

Contributors to the magazine include Alan Rusbridger, Richard Mabey, Adam Hopkins, Tony Benn, Richard Boston, John Adams, Richard Ingrams, Melvyn Bragg, Anne Boston, John Piper, Geoffrey Grigson, Osbert Lancaster, Posy Simmonds, Gavin Ewart, Terry Jones, Richard Adams, John Fowles.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Newspaper and magazine cuttings relating to the Quarto publication including issues from No.1 October 1979 to No.31 August 1932, with No.29 missing.

Contributors to the magazine include Anthony Burgess, Craig Raine, Richard Boston, Gavin Ewart, Peter Sedgwick, Liam Hudson, Simon Rae, Osbert Lancaster, Julian Barnes, Christopher Reid, Geoffrey Grigson, Seamus Heaney, Victoria Rothschild, Simon Gray, John Betjeman, Robert McCrum, DAN Jones, Wendy Cope, Kit Wright, Richard North, Andrew Motion, Martin Amis.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Cuttings and publications containing articles by Richard Boston and others. Publications include Punch, The Sun, The Observer, The Times, New Statesman, The Listener, New York Times Book Review, Radio Times, The Telegraph, The Times, The Oldie, The Independent Magazine, Private Eye, The Black Dwarf, Resurgence, Literary Review, New Scientist, Neutrino, Upfront, Squash, The Countryman, The Listener, The Sunday Times, Folio, New Society, Granta. Also includes cuttings books compiled by Boston containing many of his features.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to Boston's trip to Czech Republic to write about Pilsner and the Pilsen-Urquen brewery.

Documents include a notebook, printed typescript and photographs.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Manuscript and typescript diaries covering the following topics and dates:
1951 - Visit to France in 1951
1960 - On a bus in London
1960-1962 (1 volume) - Visiting friends including Christopher Brown; EM Forster; Simon Gray; teaching; Paris; girlfriends; the last half of volume mostly contains notes, short stories, Mr Fang notes, sketches, poems and book lists
1961 - Train journey from Halmstad to Madrid
c1961 - Visit to Berlin
March 1965 - Paris
October 1966 - Work and visiting friends in London
July 1967 - Poetry event
1968 (end of) - Visit to Amsterdam and working in London
1969 - Work; Blue Train journey; stay in Fanghetto, Italy; life in London
1968/69 - Peter Grahan, Peter Lenon, Anne Boston
1970 (2 volumes) - Visit to Ligny, France; visiting friends and family; attending conference in Holland; death of General Charles de Gaulle
1973 (2 volumes) - Visit to Hay-on-Wye; comments on article in the Observer; Hastings; bicycles; notes on pubs, breweries and beer;
1987 - Work and personal matters
1988-1989 - Osbert Lancaster; Guardian work
1989 - Publication of Osbert book; meeting friends including Simon Gray and Simon Rae
June 1989-May 1990 (1 volume) - Cheltenham Literary Festival; Comics Festival; personal matters e.g. health, death of Richard Boston's mother
1991 - Visit to Aix en Provence
1992 - Writing about Biggles, Arthur Taylor
1993-1994 - Visit to France
1994 - Talk of dreams, general events
1995 - Recollections of Clive Goodwin theatrical agent; Black Dwarf magazine; Adrian Mitchell to write obituary of his adopted daughter (daughter of Clive Goodwin)
1996 - Radio interview regarding Guardian article on anarchism; Ian Mayes request for article on Cezanne and Zola; Canary Wharf bombing; John Falcke; articles for the Guardian; visit to France; reprint of Bussman's Prayer in Dodopad by Milly Peak,
1997 - Starkness at Noon; articles for the Guardian; Simon Gray' marriage to Victoria Rothschild; Mohammed al-Fayed and Tiny Rowland; Neil Hamilton
1998 - Reflections on the past and work at the Guardian; Thames research for book; Zola and Dreyfus affair; visit to France
1999 - Personal matters; Guardian; Clive James; Peter Porter at Guardian Fiction Prize party; Guardian Weekend; CAMRA; Jill Dando murder; poet laureate award to Andrew Motion
nd. Losing wallet in London

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Correspondence and other documents relating to the scholar, Dr Arthur Waley and the theft of his research notes, diaries and other materials.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Typescripts of articles produced by Richard Boston for Punch, Private Eye, Sunday Times Magazine, New Statesman, The Democrat and other publications.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Personal papers relating to Richard Boston's education at Rottingdean and Stowe schools, and King's College, Cambridge.

File 1:
Papers from Richard Boston's early school period including July 1952 sports programme and two photographs from Rottingdean School; report books, examination certificate, and 1956 summer term booklet from Stowe School; postcards sent to Boston while a student at Stowe; obituary of Miss ME Johnston Matron at Stowe School; correspondence with school friends from Rottingdean, Simon Curtis and headmaster, JE Maxwell-Hyslop (as known as Hissie) about meeting, includes a poems by Curtis about Rottingdean and others.

File 2:
Papers relating to Richard Boston's education at King's College, Cambridge including essays with annotations and feedback from tutors; information about the Harper-Wood travelling studentship; copies of Broadsheet magazine including reviews by Richard Boston; cuttings from newspaper and magazine publications regarding King's College; copy of Richard Boston's obituary from King's College Annual Report 2009.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Sales, budget and expenditure records.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Appendix to grant application; schedule of payments from the Arts Council of Great Britain; conditions of financial assistance from the Arts Council of Great Britain; payments to contributors by issue; invoices for editorial services from John Ryle.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Invoices; investments by individual investors; monthly expenditure and income figures; fixed costs and income and variable expenditure for average month; liabilities; assets; creditors; summary of account.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Interview conducted with Boston, by Australian television program 'Foreign Correspondent'.
Topics of EU's failing in relation to food are covered.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents, correspondence and notes relating to France. Includes typescripts of articles on France and book Travels Without a Donkey; newspaper cuttings, and research on the Harper Wood Studentship fund.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Documents relating to singer Frankie Laine including correspondence between Frankie Laine and Richard Boston; draft articles; cuttings and copies of articles; concert programme; photograph; and magazines from The International Legends of Fifties Music Society.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Original manuscript of Richard Boston's book From Amorous Causes written c1970 and updated manuscript c1990. Also includes research notes and documents based on the Cheltenham Literary Festival and letters regarding feedback from publishers.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

Correspondence, typescripts and notes relating to a project to produce a book documenting topics from British history written in the style of publications including the Guardian, the Observer, Vogue, and the Sun. The book was compiled by Richard Boston, Hugh Brogan and Martin Walker, and includes a draft chapter of 1066 and typescripts for significant events from the eleventh to eighteenth century. Also includes correspondence from those involved in the project.

Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist