Notebooks, typescripts and loose diary entries
- Beaton/D/3/6
- File
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Includes notebooks, loose-leaf diary entries, and playscripts.
Notebooks, typescripts and loose diary entries
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Includes notebooks, loose-leaf diary entries, and playscripts.
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Includes photostats of short stories, playscripts, and red notebook.
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Includes material from Beaton's diaries, playscripts and a programme. Also contains the musical score for 'My Fair Lady'.
Programmes, catalogues, typescripts and notebooks
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Includes programmes, notebooks, letters, and exhibition catalogues. Also contains a filmscript for 'The Parisians'.
Playscripts and Field Notebooks
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Includes the unpublished typescripts of four plays by Beaton, and three wartime notebooks.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.
Travel / taste / miscellaneous
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Articles and essays on various subjects, including travel, taste, and miscellaneous. All articles and essays are written by Beaton, unless stated otherwise.
Design / theatre / films / fashion / photography
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Articles and essays on various subjects, including design, theatre, films, fashion, and photography. All articles and essays are written by Beaton, unless stated otherwise.
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Typescript collection of Beaton's pen portraits. All items are written by Beaton unless stated otherwise.
Part of Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton
Correspondence relating to Beaton's play "The Gainsborough Girls" also known as "Landscape with Figures"