RUTLAND BOUGHTON MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VII (ff. iii+180). 'Bethlehem', choral drama in two acts; 1915. Full score. Libretto adapted by the composer from the Coventry Nativity Play. First performed at Street, 28 Dec. 1915. Published 1920. Folio.
RUTLAND BOUGHTON MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. VIII, IX. 'Alcestis', 'a choral-drama adapted from the play of Euripides – Englished by Gilbert Murray – Musicked by Rutland Boughton' (50967 A, f. 1), in two acts; 1920-1922. First performed at the Glastonbury Festival, 26 Aug. 1922.
RUTLAND BOUGHTON MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VIII A, B . Vocal score; Shapwick, Glastonbury, autumn 1920 (50967 A, f. 39b), 3 June 1922 (50967 B, f. 66b). Published 1923. Folio. Blue cloth bindings.
RUTLAND BOUGHTON MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. IX A, B. Full scores. Original version (50968 A), 17 July 1922 (f. 150b), with references in red ink to the additional instruments added in the revised version (composer's note, f. 1). 'To Sarah, Roger and John Bright Clark' (ibid.). Revised full score (Act I, 50968 B; Act II, 50968 C) made after the first London performance by the British National Opera Company, Covent Garden, Jan. 1924.