Admires the play.
Gives thanks that she is a part of the play.
Is sorry to have left the party but was not prepared for the stunning impact of the extraordinary play and production.
EQUUS, The EQUUS Company, 275 Central Park West New York New York 10024 - Is proud to be associated with such a fine work.
Sends his love.
Western Union Telegram - Sends his congratulations, would love to hear from him when things are quieter.
Wishes Shaffer good luck.
Sends a photograph of Peter, notes that it may be the first time Tom Stoppard has been cropped out of anything. (Photo not present.)
Admires the play.
The Connaught, London - Is excited by the play, comments on Hopkins as fine in the role, makes some suggestions for changes in transfer to the States.
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."