| Description | Comprising letters, telegrams and cards to Daphne du Maurier from family, friends, acqaintances and fans, congratulating her on her elevation to Dame Commander of the British Empire.
Notable correspondents include:
R. Armstrong [pen friend]
'Bun' [Bunny Austin, tennis player]
Elizabeth Barber of The Society of Authors
Peter Bessell MP
Douglas Black [President of Doubleday & Company]
Christopher Bonham-Carter [Royal Navy officer and Treasurer to the Duke of Edinburgh]
Harry Brittain [journalist and politician]
[?] Christie
Gladys Cooper [actor]
C.M.F. ['Peter'] Deakin [British Army Officer]
Lady 'Marie-Lou' [Mary Louise] de Zulueta
'Frankie' [Frances] Donaldson [writer] (also includes further letters from Donaldson, 1967-1979)
'Doug' [Douglas] Fairbanks [actor]
Victor [Ferrier Noel-Paton, soldier and businessman]
Angela Fox [actor]
'Bob' [Robin] Fox [actor
'Pat' [Patricia] Frere [Reeves, daughter of writer Edgar Wallace]
Alec Guiness [actor]
Sheila Hodges [Daphne du Maurier's editor]
Glyn Hughes [writer?]
Lord [Philip] Inman [politician]
'Alec' [Alexander Henry Maxwell Hyslop, naval officer]
Brian Johnston [cousin of Frederick 'Boy' Browning]
'Nico' [Nicholas Llewelyn Davies, cousin of Daphne du Maurier]
Ken McCormick [editor at Doubleday & Company]
Louis 'Dickie' Mountbatten [1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]
'Tim' [Timothy] Nugent
'Larry' [Lawrence] Olivier [actor]
Leonée Ormond [writer of 'George du Maurier' (also includes further letters from Ormond, 1966-1969)
'Jim' [James] Orr [private secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh]
Foy Quiller-Couch [friend of Daphne and daughter of Arthur Quiller-Couch]
Stella [Isaacs, Marchioness of] Reading
Peter Scott [ornithologist]
'Tom' [Thomas Upcher, owner of Sheringham Hall]
Clara Coltman Vyvyan [writer]
Graham Watson [literary agent at Curtis Brown Ltd.]
John Wolfenden [educationalist]
Hugh Wontner [hotelier and politician]
Also includes one letter inviting Daphne du Maurier to the official opening of the Browning Barracks in Aldershot, dated February 1968, and a photocopy of Daphne du Maurier's DBE certificate. |