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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49289-49297
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vols. I-IX. Notebooks containing drafts and synopses, some very fragmentary, of Gilbert's plays and libretti. Mostly autograph. Much of this material was radically altered or discarded before the plays, etc., took their final form. Some of the notebooks contain drawings of characters, stage sets, etc. Nine volumes.
Scope & Content:: Drama: Drafts and synopses of plays and libretti by Sir W. S. Gilbert: 19th-20th cent: Partly typewritten and pressed copies: Mostly autograph.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49298-49306
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vols. X-XVIII. Drafts and synopses of plays and libretti, etc.; bef. 1873-1911, n.d. Mostly autograph. These drafts are much more complete and closer to the final published versions than those in Add. MSS. 49289-49297. Nine volumes.
Scope & Content:: Drama: Drafts and synopses of plays and libretti by Sir W. S. Gilbert: 19th-20th cent: Partly typewritten and pressed copies: Mostly autograph.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1873-1911
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49310-49317
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vols. XXII-XXIX. Prompt or author's copies, partly privately printed, of plays and libretti. Printed. Many include autograph notes giving property-plots, plans of sets and stage directions, with occasional corrections. Add. MSS. 49310-49313, 49315 comprise proofs mounted in notebooks. Eight volumes.
Scope & Content:: Drama: Prompt copies of plays, etc., by Sir W. S. Gilbert: 19th-20th cent: Printed.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century-20th century
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49319 A-B
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXXI A, B (ff. 30, 18). Two sketch-books containing pencil drawings; n.d. Published for the most part in The 'Bab' Ballads. By W. S. Gilbert, ed. with revised illustrations, 1898.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49320 A-B
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXXII A, B (ff. 8, 56). Two sketch-books containing pencil drawings;
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1872-1892]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49330-49332
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vols. XLII-XLIV. General correspondence; 1866-1911, n.d. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1866-1911
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49336-49337
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vols. XLVIII, XLIX. Correspondence and papers of Gilbert, alphabetically arranged, relating to his knighthood; 1907. Telegrams and postcards have not been indexed.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1907
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49341-49344
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vols. LIII-LVI. Letters of sympathy, etc., to Lady Gilbert and others on her husband's death on 29 May 1911. Alphabetically arranged. Four volumes.
Scope & Content:: Lucy Agnes Gilbert, wife of Sir W S Gilbert: Messages of sympathy, etc., to, on death of her husband: 1911.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1911
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49350 A-B
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LXII A, B. Scenes from plays and operas; 1904, n.d. Two box-cases.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1904
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49351 A-F
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LXIII A-F. Individual artistes in costume in plays and operas; 1881-1899, n.d. Six box-cases.
Scope & Content:: D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Art. Photographs: Art. Portraits: Actors and actresses in productions of W. S. Gilbert's works: 1881-1904, n.d: Photogr. Art. Photographs: Drama ENGLISH: Costume: Sets and costumes of plays and operas by Sir W. S. Gilbert: 19th-20th cent: Photogr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1881-1899
Extent:: 6 items

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