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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

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

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

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