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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 83077-83113

1. Add MS 83077

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. i (ff. 174). ‘Ariadne’; n.d. Two typewritten drafts, one incomplete, with autograph revisions. Unperformed ‘Classical Motley’ based on the legend of the Minotaur. Eleanor Farjeon also wrote a prose version of the same legend, published as Ariadne and the Bull (1945).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1917-1973]
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 83078

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. ii (ff. 54). ‘Ballad of Bride’; n.d. Typewritten draft with autograph revisions. Unperformed play set in Ireland in the fifth and sixth centuries.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1917-1973]
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 83079-83080

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. iii-iv. ‘Cyprin Chase or The Carp’; 21 Aug. 1963, 1 Sept. 1963, n.d. Typewritten. An unperformed ‘Fantasy with Music by Eleanor Farjeon and Clifton Parker’. For the novel that was adapted from the stage work, see Add. 83116-83117. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1963
Extent:
2 items

4. Add MS 83081

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. v (ff. 155). ‘Dover-Calais: A Light Comedy in Three Acts by Eleanor Farjeon and Julius Berstl’; 18 July 1939-22 Jan. 1940, n.d. Typewritten. Freely adapted by Eleanor Farjeon from Berstl’s 1926 play ‘Dover-Calais: Lustspiel in drei Aufzügen’. 1. ff. 1-147. Draf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1940
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 83082-83083

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. vi-vii. ‘Dumas Gives a Party’; 6 Sept. 1932-28 Sept. 1939, n.d. Mostly typewritten. Unproduced play drawn from the memoirs of Alexandre Dumas père. The play was never staged, partly because another play on the life of Dumas by Jules Goodman was staged at the same time at the New Theatre, London. While initial work on the play was carried out in the 1930s, Eleanor Farjeon’s diary records that she attended a meeting about the play at the Old Vic Theatre on 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1932-28 Sep 1939
Extent:
2 items

6. Add MS 83084-83085

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. viii-ix. ‘An Elephant in Arcady’; 27 Sept. 1938-17 Feb. 1939, n.d. Mostly typewritten. First performed at the Kingsway Theatre, London, on 5 Oct. 1938. Book and lyrics by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon with music chosen by Eleanor and adapted by Ernest Irving. The vocal score was published as An Elephant in Arcady (1938) and was prepared before the Kingsway production. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1938-17 Feb 1939
Extent:
2 items

7. Add MS 83086-83087

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. x-xi. ‘The Fan’; n.d. Typewritten. Translated by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon from the play by Carlo Goldini and published in Four Comedies by Carlo Goldini, ed. Clifford Bax (1922). The play was performed at the Highbury Little Theatre during the 1942/1943 season. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1943
Extent:
2 items

8. Add MS 83088-83089

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xii-xiii. ‘The Garden-Room’; [circa. 1950]. Typewritten. Unproduced play set in a fictional representation of Eleanor Farjeon’s own home in Hampstead: the Garden Room was a converted shed at the back of the house at 20 Perrins Walk where Eleanor used to work (see Morning Has Broken, p. 260). The fall of John Callaway in the play resembles the fatal fall of George Earle in 1949. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1955]
Extent:
2 items

9. Add MS 83090

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. xiv (ff. 191). ‘The Glass Slipper’; 27 Aug. 1943, [1943/1944]. Mostly typewritten. Play based on the fairytale Cinderella, written by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon with music by Clifton Parker. The play was commissioned and produced by Robert Donat at the St. Jame...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943-1944
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 83091-83092

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Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xv-xvi. ‘The Great Alexis’ or ‘The Chef’; [circa 1941]-31 March 1951. Mostly typewritten. Unproduced ‘Musical Drama in Three Acts’ based on events in the life of the French chef Alexis Soyer, with music by Otto Lampel. On 31 March 1951, Eleanor Farjeon wrote that one and a half Acts had been written (see, Add. 83091) but, despite a synopsis and some draft pages for Act Three, the work was never completed. For photocopies of letters from Eleanor Farjeon to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1941]-31 Mar 1951
Extent:
2 items

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