Notebook 35 (red Silvine Students notebook, 49 pages plus 2 loose pages) marked 'München Bük', with notes and drafts of sketches mainly for the Munich Show, Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, and Another Monty Python Record. Headlines include: 'The Munich Agreement', 'Munich Again', 'Great Tourist...
Notebook 37 (red Silvine Students notebook, 46 pages plus 13 loose pages) marked 'Monty Python III', with notes and draft of sketches mainly for series 3 of Monty Python Flying Circus. Sketches include: 'Njorl's Saga', 'Spot the Loony'. Headlines include: 'Lavatory Cleaner', 'Invest in Malden', '...
Notebook 45 (red Silvine Students notebook, 41 pages) marked 'Python's Second Film (unused), autumn 1972-spring 1973. Christening. Hamlet (Private Dick). Coffee Ordering Sketch. Vicar Christening. Sgt. Squitters etc. etc.' with holograph notes and draft of script and sketches, mainly for Monty Py...
Notebook 3 (Strakers, Ludgate students notebook, 70 pages) with holograph notes and drafts of sketches, mainly for The Frost Report. Headlines include: 'The National Heckling Party', 'The Class War', 'News', 'Light Entertainment', 'Non-News', 'Frost Report on Love', 'Frost Report on Law', 'Report...
Michael Palin Notebooks 51 and 52: Monty Python Flying Circus
Scope & Content:
Notebooks and loose notebook pages (originally includes in a burgundy folder labelled 'Python Series Four) with notes and draft of sketches for series 4 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, as follows: Notebook 51 (red Silvine Students notebook, 22 pages plus 20 loose pages) marked 'Mr Neutron/Cabba...
Notebook 5 (The Baberton Spiral notebook, 38 pages) with holograph notes and drafts of sketches, mainly for The Frost Report. Headlines include: 'Frost Report on Parliament', 'Countryside', 'Frost Report on Industry', 'Industry Quickies', 'Frost Report on Music and the Arts', 'Frost Report on Cul...
Michael Palin Archive: Al Levinson 'Rue Britannia'
Scope & Content:
Script of 'Rue Britannia', novel by Al Levinson and cover letter to publishers Farrar Strauss & Giroux and photocopies of press cuttings about Levinson's cycle of novels Fish Tales (some published by Palin under the imprint of his publishing house Singford Ltd).