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- 1970-1979 (Creation)
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File 1:
Correspondence dated 1970-1971. Letters are mostly personal but cover a range of topics including personal affairs; research and subjects for books and articles; legal action against the Guardian taken by a friend of Boston's; approach to Dr F R Leavis about an article; articles for the Sunday Times; extended visit to France to write a book; book reviews; details life in Tanzania from Boston's friend; Flat Earth Society; book on humour commissioned by Collins; and reference for Anthony Carson to the Royal Literary Fund.
File 2:
Correspondence dated 1972-1979. Letters refer to a range of topics including grant awarded to Peter Brooke from the Arts Council of Great Britain; lectureship at Sandford University; personal affairs; book reviews; book proposals; typographic errors in publication of An Anatomy of Laughter by Boston; Granada Television Limited and BBC programmes; arrangements with publishers and literary agents; Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; and the Guardian.
Correspondents include Richard Boston, E P Thompson, Iain Macleod, Patrick Moore, Anne Scott-James, Sir Bernard Miles, Anthony Howard, Tony Benn, and John Murray.
Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006), journalist
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- Boston; Richard (1938-2006); journalist, writer (Subject)
- Leavis; Frank Raymond (1895-1978); literary critic, editor, and teacher (Subject)
- Thompson; Edward Palmer (1924-1993); historian, socialist and peace campaigner (Subject)
- Macleod; Iain Norman (1913-1970); politician (Subject)
- Moore; Sir; Patrick (1923-); astronomer (Subject)
- Miles; Bernard James (1907-1991); Baron Miles of Blackfiars in the City of London; actor and theatre director (Subject)
- Howard; Anthony Michell (1934-2010); journalist and broadcaster (Subject)
- Benn; Anthony Neil Wedgwood (1925-2014); politician (Subject)
- Scott-James; Anne; journalist (Subject)
- Brooke; Peter (1907-1973); Author (Subject)