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Arcadia : play : draft

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Description: Early draft of the play Arcadia consisting of the author's auotgraph revisions in pencil and ink written on a photocopied typescript draft. Also: copy of the program for the play from the Royal National Theatre.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1992.
Call number: mssHM 55661
Creator: Stoppard, Tom(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Tom Stoppard, January 1993.
Dimensions: 30 cm +
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Girls at play

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An original typescript draft of Paul Theroux's third novel, "Girls at play," with holographic corrections in Theroux's hand. The novel, set in East Africa, concerns the ambitions of three white women teachers at a girls' school. The novel was represented by literary agent H. N. Swanson and published in 1969 by The Bodley Head in the United Kingdom and by Houghton Mifflin Company in the United States. This draft appears to be that used by Houghton Mifflin.

mssHM 83627

Arcadia : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-180; f. 180v blank. [Philip Sidney] Arcadia. Incipit: //To maike so great thoughe vndeserued judgmente of me. And even so. Explicit: may awake some other spirit, to exercise his penn in that, wherwith myne ys already dulled. Finis. The Last booke or Acte. English. J. Robertson, ed., Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia) (Oxford 1973) 14-417, here lacking the first 6 leaves; HM 162 mentioned by Robertson, p. xliv, and cited in the critical apparatus as As. See also B. Dobell, "Sidney's Arcadia" in the Athenaeum, 7 September 1907, p. 272, where this manuscript is first identified as the Old Arcadia. B. Dobell, "New Light upon Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia," Quarterly Review 211 (1909) 74-100, esp. p. 80. R. W. Zandvoort, Sidney's Arcadia: A Comparison between the Two Versions (Amsterdam 1929), this manuscript described on p. 13, with a plate of f. 122 as frontispiece. W. A. Ringler, Jr., "Master Drant's Rules," Philological Quarterly 29 (1950) 70-74 (call number given erroneously as HM 116). W. A. Ringler, Jr., ed., The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford 1962), this manuscript with details of the text described on p. 528.

mssHM 162

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Melcena Burns Denny plays

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This small group consists mainly of materials dealing with the production of two plays by Melcena Burns Denny (1876–1974). There are multiple copies of each of these plays, but each has slight variations. "Black Bart, The Lone Robber of Calaveras," was performed at California's First Theatre by the Troupers of the Gold Coast in 1946 and 1952, then at the Balboa Park Puppet Theatre in San Diego by the Junior Theatre Summer Work Shop in 1950, and finally in 1961 by the Triangle Club at the three-day Apple Festival in Julian, California. Included are scripts of her play and an essay written by Denny about Black Bart (born 1829). Her other play, "Lola Montez, The Spider Dancer," was performed at California's First Theatre in 1948 and 1949 by the Troupers of the Gold Coast; and included are scripts of the play, an incomplete short story about Lola Montez (1818-1861), song lyrics, and the music written by Edward C. Hopkins.

mssHM 65643-65679

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Alan Ayckbourn letter to New Victoria Theatre Appeals Team, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England

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This letter accompanies the autograph draft of Ayckbourn's play, A trip to Scarborough [HM 53486], donated to New Victoria Theatre for a fund-raising auction

mssHM 53485

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Independence : poem, early draft

Manuscripts

Manuscript (holograph) of an early draft of "Independence," a poem in 4 stanzas of 4 lines each. On the reverse: 2 stanzas of verse (in pencil).

mssHM 13186

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Sir Walter Raleigh : first draft

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Manuscript (holograph), partly in pencil, of the first lecture draft of an essay on Sir Walter Raleigh, incomplete, with notes. Some pages are cut or torn.

mssHM 935

Arcadia : play : draft

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