Rattigan Papers. Vol. ccxxxv. 'A prayer for my son', n.d. Autograph. '1st treatment' for a film scenario; no further evidence of work on the script has been discovered. ff. 45. 320 x 198mm.
Rattigan Papers. Vol. ccxxxvii (ff. 15). Miscellaneous fragments of unfinished and/or unidentified plays, n.d. Partly autograph, partly typewritten. Includes: three leaves of a playlet centred on a rehearsal of 'Macbeth' in 1606; two leaves of scene of Man and Woman complaining of a holiday in B...
Rattigan Papers. Vol. ccxxxviii (ff. 254). 1. ff. 1-21. Short story 'Life and soul', circa 1929. 2. f. 22. 'Modern drama', [1930]. Printed. A cutting from The Harrovian, vol. 43, no. 1 (1 Mar. 1930), p. 23. 3. f. 23. 'Travel and travel books' and 'Transfiguration', [1930]. Printed. A cutting ...
Rattigan Papers. Vols. ccxxxviii-ccxlii. Articles, speeches, broadcast scripts and published letters written by Rattigan, with related correspondence, circa 1929-[1973]. Five volumes.
Rattigan Papers. Vol. ccxxxix (ff. 329). 1. ff. 1-16. 'The mechanics of writing plays, [1949]. Partly autograph, partly typewritten, including copies. Two different papers on the same theme. 2. ff. 17-20. Paper on working for the cinema with Anatole de Grunwald and Anthony Asquith, circa 1949....
Rattigan Papers. Vol. ccxl (ff. 244). 1. ff. 1-22. 'Aunt Edna waits for Godot', 1955. Partly autograph, partly typewritten, including copies, partly printed galley proof, and a cutting of the published article. Some versions are incomplete. Published in New Statesman and Nation, vol. 50, no. 12...
Rattigan Papers. Vol. ccxli (ff. 168). 1. ff. 1-13. 'A letter from Aunt Edna', 1963. Partly autograph, partly typewritten copy, partly printed. Article for The Daily Telegraph, 21 June 1963, with a cutting of that article and also of a letter from R. A. Sisson in the issue of 14 June 1963 whic...
Rattigan Papers. vol. ccxlii (ff. 365). 1. ff. 1-235. 'Ninety years on', [1964]. Partly autograph, partly typewritten, including copies, partly printed. Script of a televised tribute to Sir Winston Churchill on his ninetieth birthday, narrated by Sir Noël Coward, and shown on BBC Television, 2...