Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/A/A1/430/6
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/A/A1/430/6
Title
Typescript letter signed to Beaton.
Date(s)
- 31 May 1959 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4p paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Does not feel he can say anything useful until he sees the Diary material itself. Discusses his concept of what a Diary should be. Feels that it is a "historical, personal record of people and events as they seemed at the very moment in which the Diarist recorded them". To rewrite a whole passage seems to him like a "confidence trick". Believes that one should publish a Diary as it stands, or else publish an autobiography. Advises Beaton, if he is set on publication, to ignore reviewers and readers. Wishes Beaton wasn't going away just when they have met up again.