Elstree's Studios' intriguing original reader's report for Excellent Women. 2pp. Typed on rectos only. Dated 20th March 1952.
 
Elstree Studios' original reader's report for Barbara Pym's Excellent Women. The report summarises the plot, and then gives a thoughtful conclusion: "This is very charming. Almost too charming. There are some patches of whimsy which need the pruning shears. But it is very plesant [sic] entertainment. "This is a most distinguished bit of work. It's [sic] accuracy of observation, restraint, and fidelity to life is astonishing. But because there is no suggestion of a plot and the story itself is so very ordinary I don't feel this is at all film material." Film production companies have been basing themselves at Elstree since 1914, and in most cases, their archives have been dispersed, lost or destroyed. This unique and hitherto unknown document from surviving ABPC reader reports has not been seen since its composition seventy years ago and has never before been offered for sale.