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RBO/1/2/4
Title
Letters to Richard Boston, 1980s
Date(s)
- 1980-1989 (Creation)
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1 file
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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
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- Boston; Richard (1938-2006); journalist, writer (Subject)
- Tati; Jacques (1907-1982); filmmaker (Subject)
- Lancaster; Sir; Osbert (1908-1986); cartoonist (Subject)
- Morris; William (1834-1896); designer (Subject)
- Topolski; Feliks (1907-1989); artist (Subject)
- Howard; Anthony Michell (1934-2010); journalist and broadcaster (Subject)
- James; Clive Vivian Leopold (1939-2019); writer and broadcaster (Subject)
- Benn; Anthony Neil Wedgwood (1925-2014); politician (Subject)
- Amis; Sir; Kingsley (1922-1995); author, knight (Subject)
- Hollinghurst; Alan (1954-); author (Subject)
- Grigson; Heather Mabel Jane (1928-1990); cookery correspondent (Subject)
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