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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

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

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

Letters are mostly personal but cover a range of topics and include Vole; Quarto; play for Granada Television Limited; proof reading of The C O Jones Compendium of Practical Jokes; Jacques Tati; Osbert Lancaster; writing for the Observer; William Morris; British Rail Western Region; Macallan whisky bottle; Flat Earth Society; heights of presidents of the United States of America; regulations for collection for charity; and Anatomy of Laughter book by Boston.

Correspondents include Feliks Topolski, Anthony Howard, Clive James, Richard Boston, Tony Benn, Jane Grigson, Kingsley Amis, and Alan Hollinghurst.
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

9.5 x 11" (vintage)
1979 (vintage)
nd, 9.5 x 11.5" (vintage)
10 x 10" (vintage)
10 x 10" (vintage)
8 x 10"

Documents relating to cartoonist Osbert Lancaster. Includes original and copies of correspondence to Lancaster from various individuals including Max Beerbohm, Lord Beaverbrook, Harold Macmillan, Kim Philby, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, John Betjeman, Anne Scott-James, David Cecil, Steven Runciman.

Also includes newspaper cuttings; cards depicting images by Lancaster; notes from various resources; photographs of Lancaster; transcript of an interview with Lady Violet and Anthony Powell; and correspondence to Richard Boston regarding his biography on Lancaster. Correspondents include Anne Scott-James, Posy Simmonds, John Mortimer, Richard Boston, Hugo Dickens, Penelope Betjeman, and Clive James.
Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist