Ffeil / File GB/4 - Letters to Siân Phillips - 1980s

Letters and cards to Siân Phillips 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 US-born Venetian cook, author and theatre afficionado Herbert F. (Buzz) Bruning, Jr and his then wife Leslie (fourteen letters); actor Bryn Ellis and his partner, author William (Bill) Corlett (including one 'spoof' letter addressed to 'Ms Marchal') (ten letters), together with one letter (annotated by Siân Phillips) solely from William Corlett; novelist Alun Richards (five letters); US screenwriter and author George Baxt (five letters); poet Laurence Cotterell (four letters); ballet dancer and choreographer Anton Dolin (three letters); academic, novelist, sculptor, poet and Anglican priest Moelwyn Merchant (three letters); US actress Annette Bening (three letters); Welsh stage and screen actor Keith Baxter (three letters); theatre actor and director Frith Banbury (two letters); US playwright Mart Crowley (two letters); Welsh writer, dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams (two letters); author and screenwriter Lynda la Plante (two letters); novelist and journalist Shirley Conran (two letters); George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy (two letters); child model and actress and interior designer Joyce Buck (two letters); Welsh writer, dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams (one letter); and Professor Gwyn Jones, University College Cardiff (one letter). Some letters annotated in Siân Phillips' hand. One letter incomplete.