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MS. 6681 Photogr. 3

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Title

Photographs

Shelfmark

MS. 6681 Photogr. 3

Summary

Comprises black and white photographic prints of:

C. Day-Lewis at desk, 6 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, n.d. [post 1968]. Photographer Central Press Photos Ltd, London. [2 photographs]

C. Day-Lewis receiving Honorary Doctorate at the University of Hull ('Philip Larkin gives the oration Bottom L.H.C. in Mortar Board'), 2 May 1970. Photographer Hull Daily Mail.

C. Day-Lewis at the University of Hull at the receipt of his Honorary Doctorate, 2 May 1970. Photographer Hull Daily Mail.

Clay bust of C. Day-Lewis ('C. composing a poem') by Kathleen Schwarzenberg ('after 1st was destroyed by a whirlwind in the Cortile at Ngolino in Tuscany while C. was convalescing'), May 1970. Photographer not known [signature illegible]. [2 photographs]

C. Day-Lewis and Joyce Grenfell, Sep 1970. Photographer Don Smith, Radio Times copyright.

C. Day-Lewis and the The Observer children's poetry competition winners, 1970. Photographer [ The Observer].

C. Day-Lewis, n.d. [c.1972]. Photographer not given [BBC copyright]

C. Day-Lewis, Jill Balcon and Marius Goring, 6 Crooms Hill, Greenwich during filming of A Lasting Joy, 10 Feb 1972. Photographer not stated [BBC copyright].

Jill Balcon, 6 Crooms Hill, Greenwich for a Radio Times article before the posthumous broadcast of A Lasting Joy [empty chair to left], Jun 1972. Photograph copyright Radio Times. With accompanying note from Joyce Edwards [Jun 1972].

'Roosting' bird [Great Tit] on bookshelf [including C. Day-Lewis, The Poetic Image, published 1947], n.d. Photographer unknown. [5 photographs]

Date

1968-1972

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box

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Collection contents

Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon

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