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Title

General and difficult correspondence - L

Shelfmark

MS. le Carré 1016

Summary

Folder 1 comprises:

Correspondence with George Leggett, former MI5 colleague, including regarding family, writing and Leggett's research and fact-checking work for The Honourable Schoolboy, 1968-2007

George Leggett's comments and corrections to various The Honourable Schoolboy drafts, c.1976-1977

George Leggett's diary transcripts and family memoir draft, 1939; 1945; c.2012 [some folios have been closed]

Correspondence with Richard Leggett, George Leggett's son, mostly regarding Richard's diaries and memoir, 2012-2020 (= Closed)

Folder 2 [some folios have been closed] comprises correspondence with:

Erwin Leiser, director, writer and actor, mostly regarding Leiser's films and articles, 1983-1995

Dr Manuel Lichtwitz, mostly regarding Cornwell's 1993 reading at Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, 1992-2001

Folder 3 comprises correspondence with Mikhail Lyubimov, author and former KGB colonel, inlcuding regarding writing, family, politics, adaptations, 1992-2015 (= Closed)