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- c1960-c2000 (Creation)
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2 files
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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
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- Boston; Richard (1938-2006); journalist, writer (Subject)
- Tati; Jacques (1907-1982); filmmaker (Subject)
- Cope; Wendy (1945-); poet (Subject)
- Ewart; Gavin (1916-1995); Poet (Subject)
- Simmonds; Posy (1945-); illustrator and cartoonist (Subject)
- Hudson; Liam (1933-2005); Psychologist and author (Subject)
- Kington; Miles; journalist (Subject)
- Foot; Michael Mackintosh (1913-2010); politician and writer (Subject)
- Young; Hugo John Smelter (1938-2003); journalist (Subject)