Letter from Michael Redgrave, to Walter Alford, London [manuscript] : autograph manuscript signed, 1948 July 8.
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Letter from Michael Redgrave, to Walter Alford, London [manuscript] : autograph manuscript signed, 1948 July 8.
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Great Britain -- England.
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FAST ACC 270965 (flat)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Gladys Brooks Acquisitions Endowment Fund. From dealer's description: "Three autograph letters by Michael Redgrave with excellent theatrical and personal content. These come with three original photographs taken by Michael Redgrave. The letters were written to Redgrave's friend and American press agent Walter Alford. Redgrave is candid about his bisexuality and discusses his family and his work in the theatre and films at length. In the first letter, dated July 8, 1948 and handwritten, Redgrave writes: "... each evening Susie & Anne and Bob [Michell, whom he had recently met, and who would become his longtime companion] and I met at the Roof Bar at the St. Regis and sat drinking long gins and tonics and Planters' Punches... on the Q. E. I went to the gym the first morning and found to my horror but not much to my surprise that I was nearly a stone overweight.. I was sad at leaving Bob with so uncertain a future, for both of us, especially for him. Last time I knew--or rather hoped and believed--I was coming back in the play and it set a sort of date. But we mustn't grumble, for we have been unbelievably lucky and wonderfully happy most of the time and that time will surely come again... "" Ordered from Michael Morrison, D 9280, 2019-02-01, email quote.
Folger accession
270965