Literary Manuscripts, diaries and correspondence

Item author: Peter Nichols
Item date: 20th century
Grant Value: 25,000
Item cost: 50,000
Item date acquired: 1999
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

The archive of a working playwright, whose best known work A Day in the Death of Joe Egg , 1967, is still in production world wide. The archive includes all Nichols playscripts and screenplays in various drafts, and a large quantity of correspondence with writers, actors, agents, producers, publishers and friends, including many from his agent, Peggy Ramsay. Grant from the Philip Larkin fund