Admires the play.
Concerning the U.S. rights to 'Equus;' Alan Schwartz and Peter Shaffer are cc'ed.
Copy of contract signed by Peter Shaffer with Gillham Road Productions, Inc. for a Hallmark Hall of Fame film.
Material relating to the Hallmark Hall of Fame film proposal, with cover letter for the edited version dated 28 March 2002 (edited version not present), Shaffer's reaction to the script, and a typescript fax from Peter Shaffer with cover letter to Cameron Johann with emendations to the shortened film script with two versions of the opening scene, but expressing misgivings that more cuts will work and doubts about the entire project.
Typescript notes on a possible screenplay after a meeting with Shaffer, unsigned, and a photocopy of a memorandum with proposed scene breakdowns, with Shaffer's comments.
Lord Crewe offering the Aldine Thucydides, 1502 (now N.5.94 in the library collections).
Includes correspondence from E. Everett re his retirement as Thomson's personal assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory, 6 December 1930, 5 October 1931. Also includes an obituary of Everett from Nature written by Thomson, 18 November 1933.
Includes correspondence from T.E. Lawrence re the Lees Knowles Lectureship.
Five letters from Buckingham Palace re arrangements for visit of Prince Albert [the future George VI] to Cambridge. Some letters addressed to Lady Thomson.
Includes a draft of a letter by Thomson to Ernest Rutherford dated 23 Mar. 1919 about his plans for the Cavendish Laboratory, written on the verso of a letter from a student, G. A. Newgass.
Includes two letters written to Henry Montagu Butler, master of Trinity just before Thomson, and another letter written by Butler in 1917.
Includes correspondence from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, re Thomson's Hodgkins Medal, February and September 1903.
Much revised letter comparing Brantley and Isherwood unfavourably to Walter Kerr.
Manuscript and typescript pages with emendations in Shaffer's hand.
Trinity College, Cambridge, England, CB2 1TQ - They met on the Frost programme, and Shaffer gave them tickets for 'The Royal Hunt of the Sun'; writes to say he has seen 'Equus' twice and read it more than that; took Donald Swann and his wife, whose comments provoked a reaction in his secretary, has made it the basis of a sermon; invites him to Trinity in the Easter term to dine and speak informally. Accompanied by an extract from the letter to John Robinson from Donald Swann, a reaction to 'Equus' and Donald Swann's criticism by Stella Haughton, and a copy of the sermon Robinson preached, headed "A Statement of Christian Faith, (1) The Human Condition."
Press coverage of three productions: the travelling production by the American Theatre Productions in 1976, the Teatro México production in 1997, and the Théâtre Marigny in Paris in 2008.
Hunters End, New Road, Norton-sub-Hamdon Somerset - Admires the play, and encloses a copy of "A Dray Horse" by T. H. White, a friend of his many years ago.
70 Eaton Square, London, SW1 - Thanks him for the tickets, admires the play, was thrilled to see Gregory Peck at the play.
Mead Cottage, Mellis Nr Eye, East Suffolk - Enjoyed the play, was the guest of Rosamond Lehmann, was impressed by the company: Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, and George Cukor.
White Lodge, 23 Bellevue Road, Wandsworth Common, London SW17 7EB - Asks him to tell Peter the play is brilliant and profound.
Centre International de Recherche Theatrale - Was in New York and tried to discover his number, is happy the play is going well, let him know if there are plans to travel to Europe.
150 East 77th Street, New York, N. Y. 10021 - Thanks him for the play, "Bravo! Bravo!"
'Equus' knocked him out on every level, and thanks Peter for the experience.
Doubleday - Thanks him for the tickets and wishes to pass to Shaffer his admiration of the play.
Thanks him for the tickets.