Letter

  • Reference
    • GB 133 DON/227
  • Dates of Creation
    • 18 Dec [1952]

Scope and Content

Letter from RD to his mother, reporting that: he has recorded the commentary for a pre-Coronation colour film called Royal heritage; he is narrator for the Christmas Day Commonwealth broadcast, leading up to the Queen's first world broadcast; he has been asked to lead the Old Vic company in a Special Coronation Shakespeare production (Henry VIII) in May; and he is to star in T.S. Eliot's Murder in the cathedral at the Old Vic before May 1953.

Dated at: 23 Three Kings Yard. Holograph.