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Diaries, 1990 - 1999, and calendar, 1997, of Siân Phillips, most of the diaries having been printed for that purpose, with one or two being notebooks used as diaries. The contents largely relate to Siân Phillips' personal, domestic and family affairs and to her professional life. One notebook (used as a diary) contains a draft piece about Sally Phillips (née Thomas), possibly in preparation for inclusion in Siân Phillips' first volume of autobiography, Private Faces (1999) (see under Published books). Two items contain inserts of correspondence, notes, etc.

Undated poem in Welsh addressed to Siân Phillips' mother Sally Phillips on the family's removing from Alltwen in the Swansea Valley to Cwmllynfell, a village now situated within Neath Port Talbot county borough (note in Siân Phillips' hand reads 'To my mother - Sally Phillips a poem written by ? in Alltwen village and given to her when she left Alltwen to go to live in Cwmllynfell'); letter (incomplete), 1962, to Siân Phillips' mother Sally Phillips from Joan Inkin, a former schoolmistress of Siân Phillips, sending condolences on the death of Sally Phillips' husband David Phillips, father of Siân Phillips (letter annotated by Siân Phillips: 'Joan Inkin after Daddy's Death'); and an undated poem in Welsh by J. Meirion Evans, signed 'Meirion', addressed to Sally Phillips on what appears to have been her eightieth birthday (l. 12 reads: 'Aeth pedwar ugain mlynedd, do, yn rhwydd' (= Eighty years have easily slipped by), which would date the poem to around 1983).

Letters and gift tag, all undated (day and month only noted), to Siân Phillips and to Siân Phillips and Peter O'Toole from Sally Phillips, mother of Siân Phillips, mostly discussing family matters. One letter and the gift tag are annotated, respectively, 'From my Mother' and 'My mother' in Siân Phillips' hand.

Letters and postcard, 1969, 1977, 1978 and 1983 (postmark), to Siân Phillips' second husband Peter O'Toole. The material comprises: telegram [incomplete] (?possibly from director Herbert Ross) to Peter O'Toole relating to the successful preview of the film Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), in which O'Toole played the title rôle; letter from Robert Powell, headmaster of Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset during the filming there of Goodbye Mr Chips; letter from novelist Alun Richards; letter from US film producer Jules Buck; letter from a correspondent signing herself 'M. [treble clef] O.' (most likely a Mexican woman named Anna, who became O'Toole's mistress and was renamed by him 'Malinche'); postcard from a woman named 'Kate', possibly another mistress of O'Toole's; and letter from Siân Phillips' mother Sally Phillips. The letters signed 'M. [treble clef] O.' and 'Kate' are annotated by Siân Phillips.

Undated note from Peter O'Toole to 'John', most likely actor and theatre director John Gielgud, with whom O'Toole starred in the 1979 film adaptation of Gore Vidal's original screenplay 'Caligula', the media response to which is referenced in O'Toole's note.

Postcard, 1977, from Peter O'Toole to his younger daughter, Pat (Patricia) O'Toole.

Copy of death certificate of Siân Phillips' mother Sally Phillips, 11 February 1985; and printed order of Sally Phillips' funeral service, 19 February 1985.