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RADZIWILL, Caroline Lee Bouvier (1933-2019). Archive consisting of an autograph manuscript notebook titled on cover “Lectures in Omaha & Dallas Women’s Club”; autograph and typescript notes concerning the same and a series of Kodachrome slides used for the lectures, [no place,] October 1982. Spiral-bound notebook, 8 x 5 in., with 34 pages bearing her holograph notes; typescript, four pages, 11 x 8.5 in., with extensive holograph emendations and corrections; 6 note cards (6 x 4 in.) in pencil and ink; eight envelopes with ink notations; 20 Kodachrome slides and slide carousel, with box labelled in her hand: “SLIDES - LECTURES OCT ‘82”. Lee Radziwill lectures on interior design . An important archive concerning her philosophy of design which she shared via a talk with slides for several audiences in 1982. Her heavily edited notes cover a good deal of ground, but her time in Great Britain looms large in her presentation: “Without question, the 20 years from 1955 to 1976 when I lived in England had a significant and profound effect on me." She was enamored by effortless "grace and charm of the way people" lived "in the most casual manner imaginable". She recounts her efforts to restore and decorate her Oxfordshire home, Turville, and touches upon elements of landscaping, interior lighting design, and perhaps most importantly, what those elements say about its owner: "The house is one's soul. It reveals the life of the people, the children, the animals, what they are interested in, what they care and don't care about."