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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81621
Title:: Oscar Wilde, typescript of Act I of Lady Windermere's Fan, with autograph corrections
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Eccles Bequest. Vol. III. Typescript of Act I of Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windermere's Fan, with extensive autograph corrections and additions. It was first produced on 20 February 1892 at St. James's Theatre, London, by George Alexander. Its Broadway premiere...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1891]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81622
Title:: Oscar Wilde, notebook containing ideas and dialogues for A Woman of No Importance
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Eccles Bequest. Vol. IV. Sketchbook containing draft notes including plot lines, dialogues and lists of characters for Oscar Wilde's play, A Woman of No Importance, a comedy examining the morals of Victorian English upper class society. It was first produced b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1891-1892]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81624
Title:: Eccles Bequest. Vol. VI. Oscar Wilde, typescript of The Importance of Being Earnest, with autograph revisions and corrections
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Eccles Bequest. Vol. VI. 'The Importance of Being Earnest' Original four act version; 1894. Partly typewritten with extensive autograph revisions and corrections. From the Prescott Collection.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1894
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81626
Title:: Eccles Bequest. Vol. VIII. Photographs of early productions of The Importance of Being Earnest
Scope & Content:: Album containing sixty photographs of two early productions of Oscar Wilde''s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895 and 1909, with eleven small photographic portraits of Oscar Wilde. The album belonged to Edith Craig, and her bookplate designed by her brother Gordon has been attached ne...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1895-1909
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81643
Title:: Oscar Wilde, 'A Note on Shakespeare', with printed copy of The Nineteenth Century (May 1885)
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXV. Autograph draft titled 'A Note on Shakespeare', with corrections. The note, on two sides of a single folio, contains a draft of the first few paragraphs of Wilde's article titled, 'Shakespeare and Stage Costume' for The Nineteenth Cen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1885]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 82458
Title:: Keyes Papers. Vol. lxxxvi. Papers on the limitations and use of submarines; 1914-1917, n.d.
Scope & Content:: Keyes Papers. Vol. lxxxvi. Papers on the limitations and use of submarines; 1914-1917, n.d. Partly printed. Contains papers and memoranda by Keyes, Adm. Beatty, Cdr Little, Adm. de Robeck, Capt. Haggard, and Adm. Jellicoe on: the offensive role of submarines against German U-boats in the Atlanti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1914-1917
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 82459
Title:: Keyes Papers. Vol. lxxxvii. Reports on co-operation between seaplanes and submarines; 1914-1915.
Scope & Content:: Keyes Papers. Vol. lxxxvii. Reports on co-operation between seaplanes and submarines; 1914-1915. Contains orders for, and reports on, attacks on Cuxhaven and the Heligoland Bight by Keyes and H. F. Oliver, and individual pilots’ reports on specific actions. Also contains a chart of the attacks, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1914-1915
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 82460
Title:: Keyes Papers. Vol. lxxxviii. War orders, disposition, and organisation; 1914-1915.
Scope & Content:: Keyes Papers. Vol. lxxxviii. War orders, disposition, and organisation; 1914-1915. Partly French. Orders from Keyes, Vice-Adm. Sturdee, Capt. Waistell, and Cdr Sommerville. Contains instructions for the commanding officer of a French submarine squadron and Capt. Little’s report on relations with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1914-1915
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 82461
Title:: Keyes Papers. Vols. lxxxix. Submarines: reports by Commodore (S); 31 July – 29 Oct. 1914.
Scope & Content:: Vol. lxxxix. 31 July – 29 Oct. 1914.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 31 Jul 1914-29 Oct 1914
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 82462
Title:: Keyes Papers. Vol. xc. Submarines: reports by Commodore (S); 1 Nov. 1914 – 2 Feb. 1915.
Scope & Content:: Vol. xc. 1 Nov. 1914 – 2 Feb. 1915.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Nov 1914-2 Feb 1915
Extent:: 1 item

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