K.Two letters from Sir John Betjeman to Clifford J. Beese of Egham, Surrey. 27 Feb. 1958 and 5 Aug. 1960. Typewritten, signed. The letters thank him for his watercolour of a west country church. Betjeman refers to his acquaintance with Baillie Scott... 1960
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Surrey History Society (active 1960)
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Betjeman, John, 1906-1984
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John Betjeman was a poet, journalist, free-lance writer, architectural commentator, broadcaster, and television personality who was popular in England in the 1960s and 1970s and was active in the campaigning for the preservation of churches, buildings and landscape. He was knighted in 1969 and became poet laureate in 1972. During his time at Oxford University, Betjeman's active social life included writers such as Evelyn Waugh, Bryan Guiness, Graham Greene, and W.H. Auden. He married Penelope Ch...
Beese, Clifford J, active 1960, of Egham Surrey
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