Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/A/A3/4
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Title
Date(s)
- February 1956-January 1965 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
21 items paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes typescript and manuscript letters to Eileen Hose directly, or on behalf of Beaton, from miscellaneous correspondents, including the American writer, Waldemar Hansen; the fashion advertising and public relations manager, Eleanor Lambert (1903-2003); Patrick O'Higgins, assistant to the American business magnate, Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965); and the Royal Photographic Society. Also includes a letter from Beaton to 'George', dated January 1959; an annotated loose-leaf memo slip, with the typescript letterhead of George E. Vigouroux, Jr. (Artistic Director of Palm Beach Galleries, Florida, from 1960); and two undated typescript newspaper clippings. The first clipping, an article written by Francis D. Perkins c.1957, is titled: "Love Story Written for Opera 'Vanessa'" and provides an overview of Samuel Barber's new four-act opera ahead of its premiere at the New York Metropolitan Opera in January 1958. The second clipping comprises a short report of a vernissage of Beaton's theatre sketches at the Sagittarius Gallery, New York.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Letters arranged according chronologically rather than alphabetically in order to preserve the original arrangement.