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Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
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Letter to Beaton

Manuscript letter from Cole Lesley, personal secretary of Noël Coward (1899-1973), in which Lesley writes that he has just arrived home from an extraordinary party, with just the right sort of friends at this particular time. Beaton will be a great support to both Lesley and Coward's partner, Graham Payn (1918-2005), tomorrow and Lesley expresses heartfelt thanks to him for that. To be surrounded by friends at such a low point means much to him and he feels happier and better thanks to Beaton. [This letter is dated several months after the death of Noël Coward in March 1973).

Lesley, Cole (fl 1973-1979)

Playscripts and Field Notebooks

Includes the unpublished typescripts of four plays by Beaton, and three wartime notebooks. Between 1940 and 1945, Beaton was comissioned by the British Ministry of Information to document the Second World War at home and abroad. Beaton's wartime work comprises seven thousand photographs, which are now held by the Imperial War Museum. In addition to photographing London during the Blitz, Beaton travelled through North Africa, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria. He left for India in 1943, and visited China in 1944.

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