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- 1951-1999 (Creation)
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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
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- Boston; Richard (1938-2006); journalist, writer (Subject)
- Forster; Edward Morgan (1879-1970); author (Subject)
- Gray; Simon James Holliday; writer (Subject)
- Gaulle; Charles André Joseph Marie de (1890-1970); Général; president of the French Republic (Subject)
- Lancaster; Sir; Osbert (1908-1986); cartoonist (Subject)
- Rae; Simon; Poet, broadcaster, biographer, playwright (Subject)
- Mayes; Ian; journalist (Subject)
- Cézanne; Paul (1839-1906); painter (Subject)
- Zola; Emile (1840-1902); Novelist, playwright, journalist (Subject)
- Falcke; John; Painter, sculptor, graphic designer, illustrator (Subject)
- Fayed; Mohamed Abdel Moneim (1929-2023); businessman (Subject)
- Rowland; Roland Walter (1917-1998); businessman (Subject)
- Hamilton; Mostyn Neil (1949); politician and broadcaster (Subject)
- Dreyfus; Alfred (1859-1935); general staff officer (Subject)
- James; Clive Vivian Leopold (1939-2019); writer and broadcaster (Subject)
- Porter; Peter Neville Frederick (1929-); freelance writer, poet (Subject)
- Dando; Jill (1961-1999); journalist and television presenter (Subject)
- Motion; Andrew (1952-); poet, novelist, biographer (Subject)
- Rothschild; Victoria; Lecturer (Subject)
- Goodwin; Clive (1932-1978); Actor, writer, literary agent (Subject)