Tynan Archive. Papers relating to questions arising from preliminary and background research, and first drafts of key passges for biography; before 1987. Partly typewritten and photocopies, all with MS additions.
Tynan Archive. Research files relating to persons who were major influences in Tynan's life and career. In some cases, the material in this group may be represented in a slightly different form in the 'Interviews' section (Add. 88238-88305) and / or in the correspondence files (Add. 87728-87735), with copies in roughly chronological order at Add. 88387-88415. Mostly photocopies.
Tynan Archive. Research material relating to Tynan's work in television and radio, mostly for the BBC. For the notorious 'That Word incident, which occurred during the live transmission of BBC-3, a late-night satirical review programme, see Add. 88070-88079.
Tynan Archive. Letters from Tynan; mid 1940s-1980, n.d. Copies. The arrangement in this section reflects the state in which the individuals ections of letters were found in the files, so that there has been no attempt to interfile the letters from overlapping chronological sections, or to sort the letters into strict order within the sections as they stand.
Tynan Archive. 'Blues' and 'Greens'; the reference collection of Tynan's newspaper and magazine journalism (the 'Blues') , and of articles and press comment about him (the 'Greens') collected and formerly kept in fifty-five volumes of uniform size by Kathleen Tynan and her researchers. Because most of the copies here are copies of copies, the clarity of print is not uniformly good, but thanks to the arrangement by the researchers it is frequently easier to find an original cutting here tha...