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- 1947-2007 (Creation)
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9 files
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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
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- Boston; Richard (1938-2006); journalist, writer (Subject)
- Lancaster; Sir; Osbert (1908-1986); cartoonist (Subject)
- Beaverbrook; William Maxwell Aitken (1879-1964); 1st Baron of Beaverbrook, New Brunswick, and Cherkley, Surrey; politician (Subject)
- Macmillan; Maurice Harold (1894-1986); 1st Earl of Stockton; politician (Subject)
- Philby; Harold Adrian Russell (1912-1988); journalist and spy (Subject)
- Waugh; Evelyn Arthur St John (1903-1966); writer (Subject)
- Powell; Anthony Dymoke (1905-2000); author (Subject)
- Betjeman; Sir; John (1906-1984); poet, writer on architecture and broadcaster (Subject)
- Scott-James; Anne; journalist (Subject)
- Cecil; Lord; Edward Christian David Gascoyne (1902-1986); author (Subject)
- Runciman; Sir; James Cochran Stevenson Runciman (1903-2000); knight, writer and academic (Subject)
- Simmonds; Posy (1945-); illustrator and cartoonist (Subject)
- James; Clive Vivian Leopold (1939-2019); writer and broadcaster (Subject)
- Beerbohm; Max (1872-1956); essayist, caricaturist (Subject)
- Mortimer; Sir; John Clifford (1923-2009); barrister and writer (Subject)
- Betjeman; Penelope (1910-1986); Author (Subject)