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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 49289-49317

1. Add MS 49289-49297

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Add MS 49289-49297
Title:
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.
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:
[1836-1952]
Extent:
9 items

2. Add MS 49298-49306

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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

3. Add MS 49307

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Add MS 49307
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Scope & Content:
GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. 242). Texts of plays; bef. 1884, n.d. Typewritten. 1. ff. 1-4. 'Comedy and Tragedy'. 'Sketch version', first produced 26 Jan. 1884. Single scene with note at end: 'then as in original play'. See Original Plays, III. 2. ff. 5-209. 'Selene', i.e. 'Fallen Fairies'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1884
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 49308

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Add MS 49308
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Scope & Content:
GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XX (ff. 248). Collected plays and libretti of Gilbert. Two imperfect sets of printed proofs, with autograph corrections, of Original Plays by W. S. Gilbert, Fourth Series, 1911. Preceded (f. 1) by a covering letter to Gilbert from Chatto and Windus, 23 May 1911. Viz.:- (a) P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 49309

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Add MS 49309
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Scope & Content:
GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXI (ff. 177). Set of proofs, with pencil corrections, paginated [1]-155, followed (ff. 138-177) by an imperfect set with pencil notes referring to the original edition of The Savoy Stories, ed. E. Gatliff, Melbourne, 1935, evidently for the revised edition, 1950. Printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1935-1950]
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 49310-49317

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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

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