CP/1/13 - J.B. Priestley
Reference code
CP/1/13
Level of description
File
Title
J.B. Priestley
Date/s
1966-1990
Quantity & Format
76 items Mixed
Personal name
Priestley, J.B.
Creator
Priestley, J.B.
Scope and content
Contains press cuttings; draft birthday speeches; a dinner menu in honour of Priestley’s Order of Merit; and letters. Some of the letters are from Jacquetta Hawkes (Priestley’s wife) and they continue after Priestley’s death. Much of the correspondence centres around Priestley’s many birthday parties.
A press cutting quotes Priestley at 80 “Being old is like playing a character role. Inside you’re just the same. But you have a lot of stuff clamped onto you”. On his enjoyment of a kind of Indian summer, he says “I tick over nicely. I stick at it. I stay around” (New York Times, 6.4.74).
A 1979 article shows CP with J.B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes outside the Heinemann offices (The Bookseller, 15.9.79).
A press cutting quotes Priestley at 80 “Being old is like playing a character role. Inside you’re just the same. But you have a lot of stuff clamped onto you”. On his enjoyment of a kind of Indian summer, he says “I tick over nicely. I stick at it. I stay around” (New York Times, 6.4.74).
A 1979 article shows CP with J.B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes outside the Heinemann offices (The Bookseller, 15.9.79).
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