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SHAF/A/1/Z/1 · Item · 1944-1945
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Letters tipped into a paper-bound notebook labelled ‘Letters Book I’ on front:
Undated, ‘My dear Peter. What a pleasant surprise!’ 4 sheets. A lengthy narrative describes how Peter's gift reminds him of climbing Moricelli in Italy and finding shells thereread more

Letter from Denis Zaphiro
SHAF/A/1/Z/11 · Item · [27 Jan. 1946]
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

79 Brook Green, London, W.6. - Comments on Peter's interaction with men who suffer under the Profit Machine; has done well in the Army, his training was accelerated and he is going to Sandhurst; hopes to see him.

Letter from Denis Zaphiro
SHAF/A/1/Z/13 · Item · [23 Feb. 1946]
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

RMC Sandhurst - Discusses the Army, sinecures, patriotism, bonding, discipline, subordination at the price of a spirit of independence and inquiry.

Letter from Denis Zaphiro
SHAF/A/1/Z/14 · Item · [5 July 1946]
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

No. 1 Infantry Training Centre, Brentwood Barracks, Brentwood - Reacts to the photo of Peter dressed as a Bevin Boy: "melancholy, shy and charmingly out of touch with the rough background"; reflects on the soldiers under him, town bred, "precocious andread more

Letter from Denis Zaphiro
SHAF/A/1/Z/17 · Item · [24 Aug.? 1946]
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

GBD. Almaya, Officers Mess, Cairo, MEF - Is waiting for an assignment, hopefully to Abyssinia as a captain; describes his journey there; describes the Egyptians, the land, the sun, the paradoxical luxury of Cairo.

SHAF/A/1/Z/18 · Item · [1946?]
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

c/o Mme M. L. Duchêne, 10 Rue Ch. Bonnet, Geneva, Switzerland - Has arrived after a journey by jeep over mountains; has received Peter's poem ["The Worm"?], and discusses it in detail: the sin of diffusion, suggests pruning and more sensual use ofread more

Letter from Denis Zaphiro
SHAF/A/1/Z/19 · Item · 10 May [1947?]
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

169 Transit Camp, Khartoum - A pleasure to hear from Peter after the 'Great Silence'; is now in North Abyssinia in a job meant for an older man, has matured, feels successful, and loves his life and the Sudanese, hunts and fishes, flies all over Africaread more

SHAF/A/1/Z/2 · Item · 2 Sept. 1944
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Is back from a spell of time farming in Gloucestershire, enjoyed it but is also glad to return to town; received some enormous letters from Jerry [Weinstein] while there. Discusses the difference between Classic and Romantic drama that Peter had begun inread more

Letter from Denis Zaphiro
SHAF/A/1/Z/3 · Item · 9 Dec. 1944
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Brook Green - Has received his disconsolate letter; warns him that he will not really get to know these new people, and that there is a principle of evil amongst many people; they will be different than those people he's found at home and at public school.

Letter from Denis Zaphiro
SHAF/A/1/Z/4 · Item · 14 Jan. 1945
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Brook Green, W.6. - Enlarges on Peter's suggestion about non-utilitarian aesthetes, proposes Peter should make it immoral for the aesthetes to be useless, and suggests running an experiment on a private island; discusses Chopin, "Don't Take it to Heart", and laziness.

Letter from Denis Zaphiro
SHAF/A/1/Z/5 · Item · [13 May 1945]
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Gallowgate Camp, Yorkshire - Draws a distinction between a person with a utility of purpose rather than of action; finds his new life fulfills his need for physical triumphs; disagrees with him on Lawrence and Millais; discusses the idea of how one wouldread more

Letter from Denis Zaphiro
SHAF/A/1/Z/7 · Item · [10 Aug. 1945]
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Gallowgate Camp, Yorkshire - Will be reassigned to Kent, describes what he will miss about Yorkshire; discusses Eisenstein's The film sense; cannot answer his question about film greatness and asks what distinguishes one work of art from another; doesread more