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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

Letters are mostly personal but cover a range of topics and include Osbert Lancaster; book proposal on Cezanne, Zola and Aix; Findhorn community in Scotland; Morandi exhibition; fan mail; interviews; William Golding's poems; J E Maxwell-Hyslop; Gavin Ewart; Flat Earth Society; Starkness at Noon by Boston; and This Thing of Darkness short story by Kit Wright.

Correspondents include Alan Rusbridger, Faber and Faber Limited Publishers, Wendy Cope, Lionel Grigson, Edward Upward, Miles Kington, Alan Bennett, Tom Bussman, BBC South* and Kit Wright.
Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist

File 1:
Undated or partially dated cards and postcards covering a range of topics including Christmas and New Year greetings; Birthdays; Quarto; teaching in Paris; articles by Boston; Peter Strausfeld; Bussman's Prayer book; Spain; and Jacques Tati.

File 2:
Undated or partially dated letters, mostly personal in content but cover a range of topics including Peace News; fan letters and responses to articles by Boston; Vietnam; book sales in the West Midlands; Rarebit/Rabbit; Concorde; General Post Office deliveries in Scotland; book reviews; research on JE Maxwell-Hyslop; Dirk Kinnane Spotter Club; Peace News; Tanzania; International Legends of the Fifties Music Society; Peter Sedgwick; articles for the Guardian; and the Harper Wood Studentship.

Correspondences include Wendy Cope, Margot Ewart, Richard Boston, Posy Simmonds, David Rock, Liam Hudson, H. Bussman, Miles Kington (Literary Editor at Punch), William Golding, Hugo Young, and Michael Foot.
Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist
Creator: DS/UK/122