[Basil Ashmore, theatre and music director.] Typed Letter Signed to theatre historian W. J. Macqueen-Pope, regarding work on his film on the actor Edmund Kean.

From the Macqueen-Pope papers (see his entry in the Oxford DNB). 1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged and folded three times. Signed ‘Basil Ashmore’. Begins: ‘Dear Mr MacQueen Pope, / Im [sic] sorry to keep bothering you about this film on Kean. Last time I saw you, you said “see me in March”[.] This week you said “leave it until they start in April”[.] / You may remember that I am a director, who has recently worked with Michael Powell on his new film.’ Ashmore is ‘anxious to contact the producer of your Kean film in case I can assist on this. I feel that if I leave it till the start any assistant director’s [sic] will be already fixed’. He is ‘sorry to be such a nuisance’, but is ‘extremely keen [sic] on this subject, and most anxious to have a chance to write to the producer.’ MP’s biography of Kean appeared in the year of his death 1960, and as early as 1943 he was writing to Sir Donald Wolfit about his plans for a play about Kean. Nothing came of that project, and the same appears to be true of the present scheme. Nor is there any record of Ashmore working with the director Michael Powell.