| Description | This file includes: Letter on 'Odeon Theatre de France Renaud-Barrault' headed paper, [signature unclear] dated 22 September 1968; letter and draft article from Vera Lustig, 1986; letter from Lotte Lenya Weill-Detwiler, 20 May 1966; long letter in ink on frail paper 'Sept 15' includes line ' I met ? when I first went to the school of art, about 1896,' from Beatrice Glenavy, mostly about Cissie Sinclair, Samuel Beckett's aunt. Beatrice Glenavy sees her as a model for Hamm in Endgame, and refers to Jocelyn Herbert as 'doing a decor for a play', presumably Endgame in 1958; letters from Hans Schalla and Helga Siemmers-Schalla inviting JH to design King John at the Bochum Schauspielhaus; draft letter from JH to Matthew [Evans?] with comments about policy of the Royal Court Theatre, undated; first draft to Matthew Evans? on subject of his retirement; copy of a letter sent to Vera Russell by ? Langton, mentions Michel Saint-Denis' book Training for the Theatre', Suria Saint-Denis, and Laurence Olivier's Confessions.
Also contains 65 cards and postcards. They are from Jeremy Hutchinson , Carole Hyman?, Harold Pinter & Antonia Fraser, Soutra Gilmour, John Gielgud, Richard Eyre, 'Ken' & Christopher Hampton (mentions preview and opening of Savages), Chantah?, 'Bill' (possibly Gaskill, mentions Lulu), 'Ken', Dick Chopping, Gordon Dickerson (mentions square Rounds), Christine Smith, Alan Bennett, Edward Beckett, Tom Stoppard, David & Barbara Storey, Nicholas Wright, David Wirrilow. Nan Munro, Ilona (possibly Ilona Sekacz), 'Ruth' Tony Harrison, 'Harry & Derek', 'Maria, 'John', Gerry, Anne & Andrew? . Other cards signed with initials: H.S., K.S., J.W.
There are two cards are from 'David', 'Bill' (Possibly Bill Gaskill), Jenny Carey, 'Angela' (Conner or Baddeley), Sam Richards and Ron Eyre. There are three cards from Ariane Gastambide, Philip Hedley and there are four cards signed with 'A.'. There are three postcards in Italian and one in Spanish. Nine cards have a name that is either absent or difficult to identify.
Two letters from George Devine both mentioning the Andrews Farm. From 1962. |