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Box 2

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Summer’s Lease, Being a First Volume of Autobiography, 1965

 File — Box: 2, Folder: F8
Scope and Contents

Typescript manuscript (carbon). Includes paper wrapper of the literary agency Curtis Brown, Ltd., London. The first four chapters of this copy appear to be the carbons for the typescript above; however, this copy also includes chapters 5-8. Noted and dated “Hamish Hamilton – Sept. 30th 1965” on the paper cover.

Dates: 1965

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1952-1964

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: F9
Scope and Contents Correspondence between JR and Lord Beaverbrook, the newspaper publisher (London Daily Express, London Sunday Express, and Evening Standard), British statesman, and art collector. The correspondence is primarily related to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, established in Fredericton, New Brunswick, September 16, 1959, as a gift from Lord Beaverbrook. Beaverbrook’s collection largely comprises paintings by...
Dates: 1952-1964

Beaverbrook Gallery materials

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: F10
Scope and Contents

Beaverbrook Art Gallery collection list (n.d.); Lord B’s BBC television address 14 May 1952, typescript; JR’s short essay on the Beaverbrook Gallery, typescript; “Fredericton Art Gallery” list of paintings, typescript; “Figures in a Landscape,” by Charles Conder, photograph; invitation card for the Gallery’s opening; news clipping.