| Description | Correspondence between Ronald Duncan (or his secretary) and miscellaneous correspondents, concerning the formation of an English Theatre Group, The Taw and Torridge Festival, 'Threepenny Opera', 'Billy Budd', 'Ross', the English Stage Company, 'Abelard and Heloise', 'Schubert', 'Townsman', 'Scrutiny', 'Man', 'Torquemada', 'Sloshed', 'Marx Refuted' and the sale of manuscripts, including 'Amo Ergo Sum', among other things.
Correspondents include:
L'Express (Jean-Francois Revel)
Labedz, Leopold
Lascelles, George (Lord Harewood)
Leavis, F. R.
Leeds Playhouse (John Harrison)
Leslie Johns & Associates
Letwin, Shirley
Lewenstein, Oscar
Linlithgow, Marchioness of
Lockyear, Harold
London Library
Lords Gallery (Philip Granville)
Lloyds Bank Ltd
Lyrebird [London] Ltd (Tambimuttu)
The Lascelles correspondence includes a number of postcards sent jointly by George Lascelles and Patricia Tuckwell [see also T - EUL MS 397/14/1/20] and a letter from Alan Ridout to Ronald Duncan which was passed onto George Lascelles. The F. R. Leavis correspondence consists entirely of typescript copies of letters from Leavis to Duncan, including a reference for Duncan written in 1936. The Lockyear correspondence includes a number of poems by Lockyear and Duncan, a story by Duncan titled 'The Hiccup', and chapter fourteen of an autobiography [possibly by Harold Lockyear]
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