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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

Charming and thoughtful analysis, thanks! (And beautiful descriptions too!)

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Dan Callahan's avatar

Thanks very much, Benjamin--

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Steven Elworth's avatar

Thanks so much. An excellent piece to understand Sir Ralph.

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Valerie Clough's avatar

You have made an excellent job of trying to capture the I untouchable. I was lucky enough to correspond with him as a teenager and derived much strength from his encouragement of my writing.

I was also lucky enough to see him with Sir John Gielgud in No Mans Land at the National Theatre in 1975 when I was 14. It was after that we corresponded. I me him in 1980 and he was so gracious of a young person who was stage struck. His dresser let me ambush him at the stage door and he could not have been more delighted that I had come all the way from Scotland to see him.

Later I was to have met him in London but filming in Scotland held him up and it never happened but the correspondence was wonderful and I shall always treasure it.

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