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Undated letter (photocopy) from Siân Phillips while at University College Cardiff, where she read English and Philosophy, to her school and university friend Audrey Watkins.

Letters, cards and telegrams to Siân Phillips and to Siân Phillips and her second husband Peter O'Toole from friends, colleagues and acquaintances, the contents largely relating to Siân Phillips' stage and screen career. Correspondents include novelist Alun Richards (six letters); academic, novelist, sculptor, poet and Anglican priest Moelwyn Merchant (one letter) (annotation by Siân Phillips at head of letter: 'Moelwyn 'coached' Peter [O'Toole] for [the rôle of] Shylock [in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, staged 1960]'); American playwright and screenwriter Tennessee Williams (one letter); actress Patricia Lawrence and her husband, writer and arts administrator Greville Poke (one letter); Australian-born stage and screen actress Marie Löhr (one letter); Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) principal John Fernald (one letter); and theatre director Philip Wiseman (one letter). Some letters annotated in Siân Phillips' hand.

Letters, cards and telegrams to Siân Phillips (together with some to both Siân Phillips and her second husband Peter O'Toole and to Siân Phillips and her third husband Robin Sachs) from friends, colleagues and acquaintances, the contents largely relating to Siân Phillips' stage and screen career. Correspondents include the novelist Alun Richards (six letters); US-born Venetian cook, author and theatre afficionado Herbert F. (Buzz) Bruning, Jr and his then wife Leslie (six letters); playwright and screenwriter Robert Bolt (three letters); poet Laurence Cotterell (three letters); actor and screenwriter Brian Rawlinson (two letters); US screenwriter and author George Baxt (two letters); playwright, screenwriter and actor John Osborne (one telegram) and his fourth wife, actress Jill Bennett (one telegram); actor Peter Cushing (one letter); actress Dame Edith Evans (one letter); and author David Cornwell (John le Carré) (one letter). Some items annotated in Siân Phillips' hand. Of interest is an introductory letter, 1972, from Sara Randall, then of BKM (Personal Agency) Ltd, who, according to Siân Philips' own annotation at the top of the letter, was to serve as her agent for a total of twenty-six years (for Sara Randall/Saraband Associates, see also under Stage productions).

Letters and cards to Siân Phillips from friends, colleagues and acquaintances, the contents largely relating to Siân Phillips' stage and screen career. Correspondents include actor Bryn Ellis and his partner, author William (Bill) Corlett (sixteen letters); novelist and journalist Shirley Conran (eight letters); poet Laurence Cotterell (six letters); US playwright Tina Howe (six letters); US author, playwright and screenwriter Jane Stanton Hitchcock (four letters); US political novelist Richard Condon (four letters); Welsh landscape painter Kyffin Williams (three letters); Welsh stage and screen actor Keith Baxter (two letters); stage and screen actor Ian McKellen (two letters); US composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (one letter); and Czech and US film director, screenwriter, actor and professor Miloš Forman (one letter). One postcard (in French, from actor Edward Duke) is addressed to Siân Phillips' cats Rupert and Barnaby. A few items are annotated by Siân Phillips.

Correspondence not addressed to Siân Phillips nor to members of her family circle, a portion of the letters discussing potential theatrical rôles via Siân Phillips' agent Sara Randall. Of interest is a letter, 1950, from schoolteacher, dramatist and radio broadcaster Isaac (Eic) Davies to 'Huw, [?Gwenda] [and] Branwen', which is annotated in Siân Phillips' hand: 'From Eic Davies (Dir[ector] of Blodeuwedd) my Welsh master', the reference being to Saunders Lewis' 1948 play Blodeuwedd (for Saunders Lewis, see, for example, under Letters to Siân Phillips - undated correspondence, Media productions and General miscellany).

Material relating to the writing of Siân Phillips' two volumes of autobiography, Private Faces (1999) and Public Places (2001), and to a book entitled Siân Phillips' Needlepoint, published in 1987.

Material relating to the writing of Siân Phillips' two- volume autobiography, Private Faces (1999) and Public Places (2001), mainly comprising manuscript and printed drafts of the text, together with printed copies of both volumes. Letters sent to Siân Phillips in response to both volumes are kept in a separate envelope, correspondents including Gwynn Pritchard, then Head of Welsh Broadcasting at BBC Cymru/Wales; novelist and journalist Shirley Conran; novelist Alun Richards; Welsh stage and screen actor Keith Baxter; Dafydd Wigley, then Member of the Welsh Assembly and Member of Parliament for Caernarfon; and Siân Phillips' sister-in-law Pat O'Toole.

Printed book by Siân Phillips entitled Siân Phillips' Needlepoint, published in 1987.

Papers and other material relating to the personal life and professional career of the Welsh actress Siân Phillips, which include material relating to her early education and training and to her subsequent many and varied stage and screen rôles; correspondence from family members and from her myriad friends and colleagues in the world of theatre and film; press articles, etc relating to her stormy marriage to legendary actor Peter O'Toole; notebooks and diaries containing day-to-day schedules and personal reflections; and the copious preparatory material which went into the publication of her two-volume autobiography, Private Faces (1999) and Public Places (2001).

Material donated March 2023, which includes diaries, notebooks and press cuttings, have been amalgamated within the existing archive.

Miscellaneous material relating to Siân Phillips' period of study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, including qualifiying passages; prospectus; student timetable; notes on vocal and postural exercises; annotated scripts; progress reports; list of candidates in a Shakespeare speaking test, autographed by participating students; notice of student productions at the Vanbrugh Theatre; items in Siân Phillips' hand; printed items annotated by Siân Phillips. Some items torn and consequently somewhat fragile.

Two items have been subsequently added to this collection in August 2023: Photocopied record of stage rôles played during 1956-7 by Sian Phillips whilst studying at RADA; together with a printed programme of a RADA production of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, staged at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, 3 December 1957, in which Siân Phillips took the leading rôle.

Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts, scripts and theatrical programmes, relating to stage productions in which Siân Phillips appeared during the 1970s. The items comprise: Lady Windermere's Fan (1972); Epitaph for George Dillon (1972); Alpha Beta (1973); A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square (1974); The Gay Lord Quex (1975); Spine Chiller (1977-8); Gloriana (1978); The Inconstant Couple (1978); A Woman of No Importance (1978); You Never Can Tell (1979).

Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts, scripts and theatrical programmes, relating to stage productions in which Siân Phillips appeared during the 2000s. The items comprise: Llangollen Fringe Festival [2000x2010]; A Ridiculous Trade [2000x2010]; Almost Like Being In Love (2001); Falling In Love Again (2001); Diva At The Donmar (2001); Lettice and Lovage (2001); The Vagina Monologues (2001); My Old Lady (2002); London Concert for Peace (2003); Splendour [2003x2010]; The Dark (2004); The Unexpected Man (2005); Great Expectations (2005); Rockaby (2006); Quartet (2006); Beckett Centenary Festival (2006); Regrets Only (2006-7); Sailing to Byzantium (2006-7); Barbara Cook and Friends (2007); My Heart Stood Still ... (2007); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2008); Calendar Girls (2008-9);

Material relating to the radio productions in which Siân Phillips has participated during the course of her career, from her early contributions during the 1940s and 1950s through to 2020. The King-Emperor (Radio 3, [1983]) featured in the cast Siân Phillips' third husband, actor Robin Sachs. Much of the material is annotated by Siân Phillips and others. The items comprise: Addunedau Fil (1948); Gwaed yr Uchelwyr [1950s]; The Love of Lady Margaret (1972); The Love of Adolphe and Eleanor [1975x1980]; Vivat Rex (1977); Countess Cathleen (1978); Peace Games (1979); A Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (A Chaste Maid in Cheapside) (1979); A Dance to the Music of Time (1980); The Wind of Heaven (1980); London, Look You (1980); The Collections (1980); The Abbess of Crewe (1981); Bequest to the Nation (1981); With Great Pleasure (1982); The Jigsaw Must Fit [1983]; Ghosts (1983); St David's Day Gala (1983); Oedipus [1983]; The King-Emperor [1983]; Hippolytus [1984]; The Other Lake [1984]; Oedipus Rex (1985); Skirmishes (1985); Barnes' People (1986); The Visit (1987); The Mote in the Eye (1987); A Song At Twilight [1987]; A Bullet in the Ballet (1987); Strange Delights (1988); With Passport And Parasol [1988]; The Unbearable Bassington [1990s]; Down Your Way In Dinefwr (1990); The Physicists (1991); Gentleman and Ladies [1992]; Suffer the Little Children (1993); The Sea, The Sea [1993]; Murder on the Orient Express (1993); Cover Her Face [1993]; Offa's Daughter (1993); Bolt (1994); At Bertram's Hotel (1995); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2002); All's Well That Ends Well (2002); The Leopard in Autumn (2002); Under Milk Wood (2003); Patricia, Edith and Arnold (2003); Mind The Gap (2004); Agnes (2007); Teulu Bach Nantoer (2007); Hindenburg (2009); Tridiau yn Chwefror (2011); BBC Symphony Orchestra concerts 2011-12 (2012); Iz (2014); Hide the Moon (2014); Pygmalion (2017); Ode to Saint Cecilia [2017]; The Things We Never Said (2017); Hilda (2018); Yr Eumenides (2018); The Aspern Papers (2018); Hilda (2018); The Macefield Plot (2019); On a Lost Highway (2020); Break of Day (2020);

Press articles relating to the private and professional life of Siân Phillips, most of which also reference her second husband Peter O'Toole, her daughters Kate O'Toole and Pat O'Toole and her third husband Robin Sachs; together with miscellaneous press articles not directly related to Siân Phillips or her family but some of which reference leading figures in the theatrical world, Welsh current affairs or notable Welsh figures. Some items annotated by Siân Phillips.

Press articles directly relating to Siân Phillips' second husband Peter O'Toole and one article directly relating to their daughter Kate O'Toole.

Letters, cards and telegrams, [1951]-2016, to Siân Phillips (with some correspondence addressed to Siân Phillips and her second husband Peter O'Toole and to Siân Phillips and her third husband Robin Sachs) from family members; correspondence from Peter O'Toole and Robin Sachs; correspondence addressed to family members of Siân Phillips, including Peter O'Toole, and a letter from Siân Phillips to her school and university friend Audrey Watkins.

Letter (assumedly) to Robin Sachs ('Dearest R') from author William (Bill) Corlett.

Letters and cards, 1986-2015 and undated, from personal, business and development coach Pat O'Toole to her mother Siân Phillips and to Siân Phillips and her third husband Robin Sachs. One item shows a child's paint-smeared handprint, with, on reverse, in Pat O'Toole's hand, a note purporting to be from Jessica (Jessica Shayle O'Toole, daugher of Pat and granddaughter of Siân Phillips), then aged two and a half.

Letters, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2016 and undated (one letter incomplete), to Sian Phillips from her cousins Gethin Lewis and Gwyn Lewis and their families, and one letter in the hand of Jennifer Lewis, (?) wife of Gethin, but written as though from Siân Phillips' cat Rudi, who had gone to live with Gethin and Jennifer Lewis.

Letters, cards and telegrams, [1953]-2021 and undated, to Siân Phillips, mostly from friends and colleagues in the theatrical world and the media, and also from fans. The material largely references Siân Phillips' acting career, including congratulatory messages on the awards and honours she received. Several of the correspondents appear under more than one decade heading.