Photographs of Paul Scofield, Simon Callow, Felicity Kendal, Andrew Cruickshank, Basil Henson, and Nicholas Selby.
Letters, photographs, and printed material relating to the award of the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre in April 1992. Includes letters and faxes of congratulation from those who could not be there: Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Julie Harris, Jessica Tandy Cronyn, Anthony Shaffer, Stephen Sondheim, Milos Forman, Roddy McDowall, Simon Callow, Ian McKellen, Bob Dole, Anthony Hopkins, Sidney Lumet, Michael Blakemore, Robert Lantz, Brian Bedford, David Carradine, and Gerald Schoenfeld.
Concerning Simon Callow's article about him and correcting a statement about the adaptation of 'Amadeus'.
Thanks him for his hospitality in New York; compares London to New York; is moving, wonders if there is anything in Earl's Terrace; will be playing 'Wolty Polty' [Mozart] again on the 27th, is constantly asked for tickets, says there are none.
Encloses a photocopied article on AIDS from 'Here's Health' magazine dated March 1986, with a covering postcard [with an image of Charles Laughton in 'The Private Life of Henry VIII'].
[Sticker at top: Norman A. Punt, F.R.C.S.ed., D.L.O., 1 Conway House, 6 Ormonds Gate SW3 4EU] - A Christmas card, thanking him for his letter; perhaps his [Punt's] hours have made him less perceptive; remembers asking an over-tired Larry [Olivier] to cut [O'Neill's] 'Long Day's Journey' and being challenged by him as to how, which was of course impossible; thinks the first Act [of 'Amadeus'] does drag; Paul [Scofield] is superb, and Simon Callow is a protege of his; is sorry about [Tony's] '[The Case of the Oily] Levantine', notes it is a bit of 'tit for tat'.
Assembly Hall, Edinburgh - Thanks him for his kind words about 'My Life in Pieces'; misses him, and hopes that when he is in New York he will be there; wishes the government were more lenient about non-domiciled status.
[Postcard with image of Callow as Pozzo in 'Waiting for Godot'] - Is glad to hear he is reading 'My Life in Pieces' again and that he will be there soon.
[Postcard with image of Sooty stamp] - Enjoyed the other night; thinks he is on to something with [Tchaikovsky].