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1. Add MS 83100-83101

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xxiv-xxv. ‘Madame Récamier’; [circa 1933]-5 June 1973, n.d. Mostly typewritten. Unperformed play about the life of Madame Récamier, who hosted a renowned Parisian salon under the First Empire and the Restoration. Eleanor Farjeon sent the play to Robert Donat, who produced ‘The Glass Slipper’, on 29 Sept. 1943, explaining that it had been ‘wanted by more than one promising actress ten years ago’, but it was declined on the grounds that it would be too expens...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1933]-5 Jun 1973
Extent:
2 items

2. Add MS 83107-83109

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xxxi-xxxiii. ‘These Two: A Team Play’; [circa 1942]-14 Feb. 1962, n.d. Mostly typewritten. Unproduced play about a husband and wife, each played by six actors at different stages of their life. Three volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1942]-14 Feb 1962
Extent:
3 items

3. Add MS 83111-83112

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xxxv-xxxvi. ‘Watteau’; 23 July 1933, 6 Aug. 1937, n.d. Mostly typewritten. Unproduced operetta about Eleanor Farjeon’s favourite artist set in 1712. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1937
Extent:
2 items

4. Add MS 83088-83089

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xii-xiii. ‘The Garden-Room’; [circa. 1950]. Typewritten. Unproduced play set in a fictional representation of Eleanor Farjeon’s own home in Hampstead: the Garden Room was a converted shed at the back of the house at 20 Perrins Walk where Eleanor used to work (see Morning Has Broken, p. 260). The fall of John Callaway in the play resembles the fatal fall of George Earle in 1949. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1955]
Extent:
2 items

5. Add MS 83091-83092

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xv-xvi. ‘The Great Alexis’ or ‘The Chef’; [circa 1941]-31 March 1951. Mostly typewritten. Unproduced ‘Musical Drama in Three Acts’ based on events in the life of the French chef Alexis Soyer, with music by Otto Lampel. On 31 March 1951, Eleanor Farjeon wrote that one and a half Acts had been written (see, Add. 83091) but, despite a synopsis and some draft pages for Act Three, the work was never completed. For photocopies of letters from Eleanor Farjeon to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1941]-31 Mar 1951
Extent:
2 items

6. Add MS 83116-83117

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xl-xli. ‘Cyprin Chase or The Carp’; n.d. Mostly autograph. Unpublished novel, originally begun as a short ghost story in the 1930s, subsequently developed as an operetta and then as a prose version. For the stage version, from which some of the direct speech in the novel is taken, see Add. 83079-83080. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
2 items

7. Add MS 83126-83127

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Title:
Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. l-li. ‘Queens’ Scrapbook’;[1964] -17 Feb. 1965. Mostly typewritten with autograph revisions. An anthology of short texts and poems about fictional and historical Queens, collected and edited by Eleanor Farjeon and William Mayne. Arranged in the order of final publication, with texts not included placed at the end. Two extracts from the published edition, ‘Vashista’ and ‘Henry VIII’, are missing. Published as The Hamish Hamilton Book of Queens (1965), whic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1964]-17 Feb 1965
Extent:
2 items

8. Add MS 83104-83105

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xxviii-xxix. ‘The Silver Curlew’; 22 Dec. 1949, n.d . Mostly typewritten. Play based on the Norfolk version of Rumplestiltskin with music by Clifton Parker. First performed at the Liverpool Playhouse on 22 Dec. 1948 and at the Arts Theatre, London, in Dec. 1949. In the London production, the part of King Nollekens was played by Denys Blakelock; for correspondence with Denys Blakelock, see Add. 83131. For the copy of the play submitted to the Lord Chamberl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1949
Extent:
2 items

9. Add MS 83079-83080

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Title:
Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. iii-iv. ‘Cyprin Chase or The Carp’; 21 Aug. 1963, 1 Sept. 1963, n.d. Typewritten. An unperformed ‘Fantasy with Music by Eleanor Farjeon and Clifton Parker’. For the novel that was adapted from the stage work, see Add. 83116-83117. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1963
Extent:
2 items

10. Add MS 83082-83083

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Title:
Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. vi-vii. ‘Dumas Gives a Party’; 6 Sept. 1932-28 Sept. 1939, n.d. Mostly typewritten. Unproduced play drawn from the memoirs of Alexandre Dumas père. The play was never staged, partly because another play on the life of Dumas by Jules Goodman was staged at the same time at the New Theatre, London. While initial work on the play was carried out in the 1930s, Eleanor Farjeon’s diary records that she attended a meeting about the play at the Old Vic Theatre on 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1932-28 Sep 1939
Extent:
2 items

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