Letters, telegrams and Christmas cards received by Pat Hollender, actress and writer principally from Noël Coward but also including one from Violet Coward, four from Lorn Loraine and three from Gladys Calthrop.
Warm and affectionate letters from Coward which include mention of television productions and a film with Michael Caine, a reference to 'The Italian Job'. The Christmas cards include some portrait photographs.
Patricia Hollender wrote the plays including 'The Lost Generation' and 'Husbands Don't Count' both of which were produced in London thetares in the 1950s. She was also a stage actress, particularly in the 1930s.
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Purchased from a bookseller in 1999
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This collection was formerly part of the Herbert Schimmel Noel Coward and Ivor Novello collections
