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Correspondence, manuscripts, and miscellany relating to the presentation of poems at a Shakespeare's Birthday Concert on 23 April 1972, by a number of British poets including W.H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Robert Graves, and Stephen Spender. The collection consists primarily of correspondence with the poets involved; several manuscripts of poems both presented at and eliminated from the program; some business correspondence of the Globe Playhouse Trust and Calder and Boyars, Ltd., Publishers; and Hampton's notes.
Series II: Uncataloged Folders
Uncatalogued correspondence includes letters of Sam Wanamaker, Frank O. M. Smith, Jeni Couzyn, Christopher Warner, Rodney Natkiel, John Caler, and Marion Boyars.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Christopher Hampton papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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W.H. Auden letters are also available on microfilm MN# 91-2095 and MN# 91-20095A (on one reel).
Source of acquisition--335366. Date of acquisition--1974. Accession number--M-74.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.
2020-04-08 EAD document created by CCR.
British playwright. Hampton organized Shakespeare's Birthday Concert, 23 April 1972 which was sponsored by the Globe Playhouse Trust. He also edited the published version, POEMS FOR SHAKESPEARE (London, 1972).
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