Reference No:

U DPR/15/38

Dates:

unknown

Description:

Includes photocopies of published letters by Raymond Chandler, Dalton Trumbo and George Orwell; annotated copies of ‘Peace Through Strength’ by Jack Levison; typed lecture script given to the Hull Literary Club entitled ‘Northern Voices: Leonard Barras, Barry Hines, Mike Haywood’ by [Alan Plater]; typed draft script entitled ‘Contribution to ‘Northern Accent’ by Benedict Nightingale’; copy of a poem ‘Shouting under Street Lamps’ by Johnny Macdonald; an essay entitled ‘The Thin Seam’ by Sid Chaplin; typed notes relating to party games entitled ‘Lets Have a Party’ by Alan Plater; script for ‘Orpheus Playground’ by Len Rush; a typed obituary for Peter Wilson, architect; typed notes entitled ‘Lines to Hull’ by Alan Plater; typed copy of a letter to Warner Brothers by Groucho Marx; prose entitled ‘Billy Peak’ by Barry Hines with handwritten annotations; typed poems with annotations entitled ‘Somebody up There Likes Me, But Not All That Much’, ‘Silly Poems’, and ‘My Favourite Silly Poem’ by Alan Plater; typed draft speeches entitled ‘Coarse Acting Competition: Illustrated Lecture to the Social Club’ by Alan Plater; typed song entitled ‘In the Night there is a Garden’ by Alex Glasgow; annotated draft script entitled ‘Alan Plater Anthology: Number Two’; typed chapter of ‘Puckoon’ by Spike Milligan; typed prose ‘He’s Happy Enough’ by Norman Smithson; typed poems ‘They May Never Pass This Way Again’, ‘Georgina’, ‘Fenners’ and ‘A Russian Norfolk’ by Jack Sharratt; typed short story ‘The Human Element’ by Stan Barstow, and a typed poem ‘From a Manhattan Tomb’ by Ogden Nash.

Format:

Archive Item

Extent:

1 file

Language:

Access Conditions:

Access will be granted to any accredited reader

Repository:

Hull University Archives

Collection:

Papers of Alan Plater