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GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 221). 1. ff. 1b-10. 'Foggerty's Fairy'. 2. ff. 11-45, 48-59, 219b-216b reversed. 'Utopia Limited'. 3. ff. 46-47, 60-73b. Unidentified synopses. Ff. 60-73 are partly related to ff. 11-12 and 29-31. 4. ff. 74-78b, 187-215. 'The Grand Duke'. Ff. 74-75 relate to a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1836-1952]
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 49289-49297

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GILBERT PAPERS. Vols. I-IX. Notebooks containing drafts and synopses, some very fragmentary, of Gilbert's plays and libretti. Mostly autograph. Much of this material was radically altered or discarded before the plays, etc., took their final form. Some of the notebooks contain drawings of characters, stage sets, etc. Nine volumes.
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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:
[1836-1952]
Extent:
9 items

3. Add MS 49289-49317

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A. PLAYS AND LIBRETTI
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1865-1911]
Extent:
29 items

4. Add MS 49289-49353

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Correspondence and papers of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (b. 1836, d. 1911); 1836-1952, n.d. Acquired from the executors of Gilbert's adopted daughter, Nancy McIntosh, the singer. Another considerable portion of the Gilbert archive, from the same source, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Used by Hesketh Pearson in Gilbert: His Life and Strife, 1957. See also B.M.Q., xxi, pp. 67-69, and The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan, ed. R. Allen, 1958. Sixty-five vols. Classified as foll...
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, dramatist: Correspondence and papers: 19th-20th cent. Drama: Correspondence and papers of Sir W. S. Gilbert: 19th-20th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1836-1952
Extent:
77 items

5. Add MS 49290

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GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. i+184). 1. ff. 13b-111. 'The Grand Duke'. 2. ff. 181b-173b, 169b-160b, 154b-111b passim, 110b, 109b, 108b, reversed. 'The Fortune Hunter'. 3. ff. 173-170b, 160-155b, reversed. Unidentified fragments and synopses.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1836-1952]
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 49291

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GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. i+36). 1. ff. 1-30. 'The Fortune Hunter'. 2. ff. 34b-31b reversed. Unidentified draft.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1836-1952]
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 49292

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GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. i+326). 1. ff. 2-20. 'Fairy Love', i.e. 'Fallen Fairies'. 2. ff. 21-77. 'Sweethearts'. 3. ff. 78-288 passim, 322b-297b reversed. 'Charity'. 4. ff. 288b-293. 'Topsyturvydom'. 5. ff. 296-294 reversed. 'Tom Cobb'. 6. f. 323b. Unidentified draft. 7. f. 324b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1836-1952]
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 49293

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GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 35). 1. ff. 1-4. 'Fallen Fairies'. 2. ff. 5-9. Essay, partly autobiographical, on the profession of a dramatist; n.d. Draft. 3. ff. 34b-11b reversed. Unidentified play. Draft.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1836-1952]
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 49294

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GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. i+136). 'The Fairy's Dilemma'.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1836-1952]
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 49295

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GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. i+126). 1. ff. 1b-49. 'Tom Cobb'. 2. ff. 50-61, 124b-62b reversed. 'The Ne'er do weel'; begun 10 June 1877.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1836-1952]
Extent:
1 item