Item 24 - Letter from Mal Diamond

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SHAF/A/1/D/24

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Letter from Mal Diamond

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  • 20 July [1948] (Creation)

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1 sheet, 1 env.

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Shaffer, Sir Peter Levin (1926-2016), knight, playwright
(1926-2016)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Is happy they will see each other soon in Cornwall, notes they both feel despair, Peter from isolation, Mal from overinvolvement; discusses matters of luggage, money owed for their Paris venture; thought his comments on 'Lord Jim' brilliant, still dismayed by his self-effacingness.

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      Return address on envelope: Highfield Hall, University College, Southampton. Addressed to Peter Shaffer Esq, Windyridge, Ryders Ave, Westgate-On-Sea, Kent

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