Ingaret Giffard Papers
Introduction
Biography
Contents
Arrangement
Related material - here
Bibliography
Catalogue
Reference code: GB-0033-ING
Title: Ingaret Giffard Papers
Dates of creation:
Extent: 3.5 boxes
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Ingaret Giffard (1902-1997)
Language: English

Biography

Ingaret Stella Giffard was born in England in 1902. Following the death of her father in 1908, Ingaret spent many of her childhood years in India before returning to England. In the 1930s, she pursued a moderately successful career as an actress and playwright, with one of her plays, Because We Must, starring Vivien Leigh, Alan Napier, Howard Wyndham, and Bronson Albery, staged at Wyndham's Theatre in 1937. She married the businessman, Jimmy Young, and moved to the Sudan. Following the breakdown of their marriage and subsequent divorce, she married Laurens van der Post in 1949. Ingaret developed a strong interest in Jungian therapy after a course of treatment dramatically improved her mother's mental health and convinced Laurens to move with her to Switzerland, where the couple befriended Carl Jung and others (including Toni Wolff) among his inner circle. Returning to England, she worked as a Jungian analyst. She died on 5 May 1997, five months after the death of her husband.

Contents

Papers of Ingaret Giffard, including draft manuscripts of mostly unpublished plays, novels, autobiographies and interview transcripts; newspaper cuttings mostly on the reception of Because we must; personal papers including correspondence; and photographic material.

Accession details

Purchased by Durham University as part of the Laurens van der Post collection from Lucia van der Post in May 2016, with the support of grants from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Arts Council England/Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund.

Previous custodial history

Previously part of the papers of Laurens van der Post

Conditions of access

Open for consultation.

Copyright and copying

Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Sub-Librarian, Special Collections (e-mail PG.Library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material

Arrangement

The papers are arranged thematically:
A. Draft Manuscripts
1. Playscripts
2. Novels
3. Autobiographies
4. Interview Transcripts
5. Other Works
B. Newspaper Cuttings
C. Personal Papers
D. Photographic Material

Appraisal

The contents of the collection have been fully appraised and duplicates have been removed.

Accruals

No further accruals expected

Related material - here

Laurens van der Post Papers VDP

Bibliography

Giffard, Ingaret, The way things happen (London: William Morrow, 1989)

Catalogue

Draft Manuscripts
Playscripts
ING/A1/1   [?1936] - 5 February 1937
Draft of a playscript by Ingaret Giffard entitled “Because we must: a domestic comedy in three acts”
With printed playbill from Wyndham's Theatre, performed as Because we must: a comedy on 5 February 1937
36, 42, 38 pages 
ING/A1/2   1973
Drafts of a playscript by Ingaret Giffard entitled “For no-one”
Includes letter from Ian and Elise Purvis Publishers to Ingaret
1 file 
ING/A1/3   [mid 20th century]
Draft of a playscript by Ingaret Giffard entitled “The last fence”
Adapted version of the film script “The other side of the river”
48, 36, 12, 44 pages 
ING/A1/4   [mid 20th century]
Draft of a playscript by Ingaret Giffard entitled “Fatal shadows”
With duplicate copy
40, 25, 17, 34 pages 
ING/A1/5   [mid 20th century]
Draft of a playscript by Ingaret Giffard entitled “For always”
With duplicate copy
29, 22, 16, 32, 12, 9 pages 
ING/A1/6   [mid 20th century]
Draft of a playscript by Ingaret Giffard entitled “Intimate stranger”
Variation of “For always”
28, 22, 16, 32, 9 pages 
ING/A1/7   [mid 20th century]
Draft of a playscript by Ingaret Giffard entitled “The moving finger”
37, 31, 37 pages 
Novels
ING/A2/1   March - September 1943
Draft by Ingaret Giffard of a novel entitled “The fire and the rose”
Also includes additional draft of part 1 entitled “The return journey”
321 pages 
ING/A2/2   [mid 20th century]
Draft by Ingaret Giffard of a novel entitled “Marriage between the lines”
321 pages 
Autobiographies
ING/A3/1   [?1980 x 1989]
Draft by “An ordinary woman” (i.e. Ingaret Giffard) entitled “Under Forty”
Probably a precursor to The way things happen
1 file 
ING/A3/2   [1989]
Uncorrected proofs of The way things happen by Ingaret Giffard, published by Chatto & Windus
Includes a few draft typescript pages
1 file 
Interview Transcripts
ING/A4/1   10 April 1955
Transcript of an interview conducted by Ingaret van der Post with Carl Jung
Transcribed from a telodiphone recording
Incomplete
20 pages 
ING/A4/2   8 March 1970
Transcript of a interview conducted by Gene F. Nameche with Ingaret van der Post on her impressions of Toni Wolff and Carl Jung
26 pages 
ING/A4/3   15 December 1978
Transcript of a interview conducted by Suzanne Wagner with Ingaret van der Post
 
Other works
ING/A5/1   [?1942]
Language:  German and English
Typescript draft by Ingaret Giffard-Young entitled “After the war”
An appeal to the German people to end the war
In German with English translation
2 pages 
ING/A5/2   [mid 20th century]
Draft of a film script by Ingaret Giffard entitled “The other side of the river”
Based on Ingaret's play “The last fence”
58 pages 
ING/A5/3   [mid 20th century]
Draft typescript poems [?by Ingaret Giffard] entitled “Siesta”, “Evening”, and “Absence”
3 poems 
Newspaper Cuttings
ING/B1   1913-1952
Cuttings from various newspapers, including the Natal Daily News of articles written by Ingaret, mostly book reviews
1 file 
ING/B2   1931-[?1970]
Cuttings from various newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph on articles about Ingaret
1 file 
ING/B3   January - April 1937
Cuttings from various newspapers, including the Manchester Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Horse and Hound and the Catholic Herald, mostly reviews of Ingaret''s play Because we must, performed at Wyndham's Theatre, London.
1 file 
Personal Papers
ING/C1   10 January 1936 - 29 March 1997
Letters to Ingaret, mostly of a personal nature, from various correspondents including Carl Jung (10 January 1936); Robert Vansittart (Denham Place) mentioning Noel Coward and Clemence Dan (22 November 1941); Jim Douglas-Henry (who later married Elizabeth Jane Howard) (20 November 1958); Sir Ian Horobin (20 December 1971)
Also includes a letter from [?] to Lucia van der Post on Ingaret's declining health
1 file 
ING/C2   [?early 20th century] - [?1980]
Personal items, including her mother's blotter, an address book, 1941 Labour Party membership card, a psychoanalytical report on Ingaret by Alan McGlashan, notes on historical research, and her will
1 file 
ING/C3   10 May 1997 - 6 October 1998
Papers relating to Ingaret's death, including correspondence on her funeral, dispute over the legality of her will, as well as personal accounts of her life
1 file 
Photographic Material
ING/D1/1-79   1914 - 1930
Album of photographs, with some newspaper cuttings:
1 album 
ING/D1/1   [1914 x 1929]
East Farleigh vicarage
1 BW print 
ING/D1/2   [1914 x 1929]
Bernard and [?Madeline] Littlewood with Roger Giffard
1 BW print 
ING/D1/3   [1914 x 1929]
John Tyrwhitt, J. Tilly and R. G. Giffard
1 BW print 
ING/D1/4   1920
M. Littlewood and Thomas Giffard
1 BW print 
ING/D1/5   [1914 x 1929]
HMS Thunder
1 BW print 
ING/D1/6   [1914 x 1929]
Cuttings from a variety of newspapers, mostly on the Giffard family
9 newspaper cuttings 
ING/D1/7   28 August 1919
John and Ingaret's mother on their wedding day
1 BW print 
ING/D1/7a   1919
Ingaret in Glenlyon
1 BW print 
ING/D1/8-10   1923
E. D'Oyly in Srinigar, Kashmir
3 BW print 
ING/D1/11   1923
E. D'Oyly in Rawalpindi
1 BW print 
ING/D1/12-13   1924
Leaving Hobart on the station
2 BW print 
ING/D1/14   1924
Military report on Evelyn D'Oyly
1 report 
ING/D1/15-17   [1914 x 1929]
Hocknorton Lodge, Camberley
3 BW print 
ING/D1/18   [1914 x 1929]
E. D'Oyly with Ingaret and Roger Giffard
1 BW print 
ING/D1/19   1926
E. D'Oyly, Hurst Green
1 BW print 
ING/D1/20-21   [1914 x 1929]
Motor car, Camberley
2 BW print 
ING/D1/22   1925
Dunhead, Camberley
1 BW print 
ING/D1/23   1927
Ingaret in the Range Rover, Camberley
1 BW print 
ING/D1/24   1926
Noster House
1 BW print 
ING/D1/25   1926
Hurst Green
1 BW print 
ING/D1/26   1925
E D'Oyly in Camberley
1 BW print 
ING/D1/27   1925
Ingaret, Ingaret's mother and Miss Hayward
1 BW print 
ING/D1/28   1925
Ingaret, Ingaret's mother and Mr Leberno, Beachy Head
1 BW print 
ING/D1/29   1926
Miss Hayward, Ingaret and [?], Beachy Head
1 BW print 
ING/D1/30   [1914 x 1929]
Bernard and Madeline Littlewood
1 BW print 
ING/D1/31   1926
George and Oliver Holmwood , Hermione, Donald & Ingaret
1 BW print 
ING/D1/32   1926
Leonard and Stella Bradley with Monica
1 BW print 
ING/D1/33-34   [1914 x 1929]
Crete Hill, Surrey
2 BW print 
ING/D1/35   [1914 x 1929]
Ingaret at Hooknorton School
1 BW print 
ING/D1/36-38   [1914 x 1929]
Lu
3 BW print 
ING/D1/39   1915
Ingaret and Roger
1 BW print 
ING/D1/40   1914
Ingaret at Sea View
1 BW print 
ING/D1/41   1915
Ingaret and Roger at Hocknorton School
1 BW print 
ING/D1/42   [1914 x 1929]
Ingaret and Roger at E. Farleigh
1 BW print 
INGD1/43   [1914 x 1929]
Roger, Ingaret and their mother at E. Farleigh vicarage
1 BW print 
ING/D1/44   1919
Roger and Ingaret
1 BW print 
ING/D1/45   1915
Ingaret's mother, Bowden House, Harrow
1 BW print 
ING/D1/46-47   [1914 x 1929]
Ingaret
2 BW prints 
ING/D1/48   1927
John and Ingaret's mother at [?Villen Jusa]
1 BW print 
ING/D1/49   [1927]
Roger, Ingaret's mother and John
1 BW print 
INGD1/50   1927
John, Ingaret's mother and Cynthia [?]
1 BW print 
INGD1/51   1927
Ingaret
1 BW print 
ING/D1/52   1927
John and Ingaret's mother
1 BW print 
ING/D1/53-54   1927
John, Eastbourne
2 BW prints 
ING/D1/55   1927
Eastbourne
1 BW print 
ING/D1/56   1927
Ingaret and her mother
1 BW print 
ING/D1/57-58   1927
Ingaret's mother
2 BW prints 
ING/D1/59   1927
Range Rover
1 BW print 
ING/D1/60-61   1927
John
2 BW prints 
INGD1/62   13 November 1929 - 29 January 1930
Cuttings from Morning Post and Daily Express, the second on the morality of divorce
2 newspaper cuttings 
INGD1/63   1930
Roger Giffard at his wedding
1 BW print 
ING/D1/64-65   1930
Roger, Phyl, Dr Crawford and Robert Cobb at a wedding
2 BW prints 
ING/D1/66   1930
Phyl and Roger
1 BW print 
ING/D1/67-68   1929 & 1930
Roger Giffard
2 BW prints 
ING/D1/69   September 1929
Giffard family at the Schneider Cup
1 BW print 
ING/D1/70   [?1929]
John and [?Ingaret]
1 BW print 
ING/D1/71   [?1929]
Ingaret and Jimmy Young
1 BW print 
ING/D1/72   12 November 1929
Cuttings from The Times and Evening Standard on Ingaret and Jimmy Young's forthcoming marriage
2 newspapers cutting 
ING/D1/73   1930
Cuttings from a variety of [?South African] newspapers on Ingaret
5 newspaper cuttings 
ING/D1/74-79   [?1930]
Uncaptioned family photographs
6 BW prints 
ING/D2   [1930 x 1997]
Ingaret in profile
1 file 
ING/D3   [?1930]
Ingaret and Jimmy Young
1 file 
ING/D4/1-11   March 1910 - [?1997]
Ingaret with others:
2 files 
ING/D4/1   March 1910
Rev A. B. Littlewood, Ingaret Giffard, and Roger Giffard
1 BW print 
ING/D4/2   20 May 1910
Ingaret Giffard, Roger Giffard and Charles Willesmore
1 BW print 
ING/D4/3-6   1910
Ingaret and Roger Giffard
4 BW print 
ING/D4/7   [?1990]
Tom Bedford and Ingaret Giffard
1 colour print 
ING/D4/8-10   [?1990]
Ingaret Giffard and Lesley Glaister
3 colour prints 
ING/D4/11   [?1930 x 1997]
Unidentified photographs, probably friends and acquaintances of Ingaret
1 file 
ING/D5   [?early 20th century]
Ingaret's mother
1 file 
ING/D6   [?early 20th century]
Roger Giffard
1 file 
ING/D7   [?1930]
Jimmy Young
1 file 
ING/D8   [?1930 x 1939]
Photographs of Eritrea and Sudan (mostly unidentified)
1 file 
ING/D9   [?1930 x 1997]
Negatives, mostly duplicates of photographs
1 file