Scope and Contents A file containing a small bundle of material relating to Roger Law's primary and secondary school education. The items present are: a primary school project book (RL/Pre-/1143) about various explorers, such as Marco Polo and Sir Francis Drake, and exploration, which is illustrated on the cover and throughout by Law; a certificate of attendance from Littleport County Primary School, awarded for the year 1952; an annual report on Law's academic performance and behaviour at Littleport County...

Scope and Contents A file, split into two sub-folders, containing a number of birthday and Christmas cards made and sent by Roger Law (and his wife, Deirdre) to his family. The following items are present: a Christmas card with a lino cut print design of Father Christmas at a dinner table, with the print hand-coloured with wax crayons (RL/Pre-/1027); a Christmas card with a woodcut print design that resembles (to a certain degree) the face of a French-suite playing card (RL/Pre-/1131); and a number of...

Scope and Contents A file holding three manuscript letters written by Roger Law and addressed to his mother-in-law, Jean. Two of the letters pre-date Law's marriage to Deirdre Amsden, with one containing Law's thanks for the gift of a thesaurus and the other enquiring into Jean's health; the latter has drawings in pen (RL/Pre-/1125 and 1126). The other letter is from circa 1967 and its contents focus on the definition of what is and what is not 'camp,' with this subject appearing to have been the topic of a...

Scope and Contents A file containing two manuscript letters: one from Deirdre Amsden to her parents, and the other from Roger Law to his parents and brother. Both of these letters were sent while the couple were holidaying in Brittany with Richard Fletcher and his family. Amsden informs her parents that they are staying with the Fletchers for another week, before providing an account of their activities and a description of the house they are staying in. Law gives details on a sailing trip, a visit to an art...

Scope and Contents A file containing two manuscript letters: one from British illustrator, Julian Allen, and the other from his partner, Joan Steiner; sent together from the United States during the Thanksgiving season. Allen's letter is addressed to both Roger Law and Deirdre Amsden, and also Peter Fluck and his wife Ann, and includes some of the following topics: plans for Christmas; a story about individuals taking money from an intelligence agency; Muhammad Ali's The Rumble in the...

Scope and Contents A file containing a small number of political-based items, which feature illustrations by Roger Law. The following items are present: two copies of a four-page leaflet that has 16 drawings by Law, titled, Welcome to Annual Conference, which was published by Young Socialists in Cambridge to illustrate 'Democracy in Action,' and was likely handed out at a Labour Party conference in either 1960 or 1961 (RL/Pre-/824 (b)); two copies of an earlier version of the ...

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A 31-page typescript copy of a play script written by Jan Carew, titled, No Gown for Peter. Carew incorporated into the play the experiences of Roger Law and Peter Fluck, who both waited tables at Trinity College, while studying at Cambridge School of Art.

Carew shared a house with Law, Fluck, their respective wives, and Richard Fletcher and his family at the beginning of the 1960s.