Bundle of correspondence

With Fabia Drake (Mrs Maxwell Turner), actress, director and playwright; and some correspondence with RD's agents Christopher Mann Management Ltd relating to Drake. Topics covered include: Drake's play Set to Partners which RD feels unable to comment on; Drake's work on directing RD's productions of Much Ado About Nothing and Ustinov's The Man Behind the Statue in 1946, including discussions about casting, rehearsals, and Drake's fees (/9-16); RD's new film [Lease of Life] in 1954 and his disappointment over not being able to do Willie Mossop [in David Lean's film of Hobson's Choice]; the work of Komis [Theodore Komisarjevsky] (/21).

Manuscript and typescript.

Many of Drake's letters are undated, and those which are impossible to place from internal evidence are at the end of the bundle.

Further correspondence with Drake is included in FRD1/8/1.