| Description | Written from Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, from on board the Kalizma and from Gstaad.
Comprises discussion of: the final work on Staircase; work on the film Anne of the Thousand Days (including his lack of enthusiasm for the film, learning the part, his thoughts on the role and the other actors); being invited to the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon; dealings with journalists; Elizabeth Taylor's state of health; his marriage; the children and their schooling; brother Ivor Jenkins; his feelings of depression and his own health; his purchase of a diamond ring; poetry; acting and actors; Robert ('Tim') Hardy; Emlyn and Brook Williams.
Also discusses his reading, including Ian Fleming, Nathaniel West, Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemingway and biographies of Queen Victoria and Mussolini.
File also includes some letters from the children, a MS note from John Gielgud to Elizabeth Taylor, letter from Jimmy Baldwin to Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, a (scrawled) note from Emlyn Williams and some press cuttings.
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