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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49353 A-D
Title:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LXV A-D. Four albums of photographs of Gilbert's houses, etc.
Scope & Content:: Architecture: Photographs of Sir W. S. Gilbert's houses at Harrington Gardens and Grim's Dyke: 19th-20th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1884-1890]
Extent:: 4 items

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