Tynan Archive. Articles on a variety of subjects, mostly (but not all) theatre-related, some written for the London edition of Harpers Bazaar, and most annotated; n.d. Includes MS notes and printed versions of some of the articles, cut out from the magazines concerned. Printed and typewritten, w...
Tynan Archive. (ff. 200.) Original manuscript of Show people, including title and copyright pages and the first three profiles (Sir Ralph Richardson, Tom Stoppard and Jimmy Carson); 1979. Typewritten with MS additions in red pencil and brown ink.
Tynan Archive. (ff. 136.) Original manuscript of Show people, comprising the last two profiles (Mel Brooks and Louise Brooks); 1979. The Louise Brooks text is supplied by photocopies of the galley proofs for the New Yorker edition of the profile. Typewritten and photocopies, with MS addition...
Tynan Archive. Essay notes and working schedules; including notes on and quotations from many writers from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, but mostly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and focussing particularly on the metaphysical poets, Gray, and extensive notes on Samuel...
Tynan Archive. Research materials and transcripts of Tynan's interview of Orson Welles for a Playboy feature; n.d. The transcript includes notes of page references for various subjects and a key to these notes, while the research materials include a list of articles on Wellles and typewritten dr...
Tynan Archive. Final drafts of eight essays on a variety of subjects: 'Shakespeare’s early comedies', 'Four metaphysical poets', 'Alexander Pope', 'Johnson as critic', 'Lyrical Ballads', 'William Cowper', 'Othello and Anthony and Cleopatra', 'Troilus, All’s Well and Measure for Measure' and 'Sha...
Tynan Archive. Oxford notebooks, numbered 1-7 in Tynan's hand on 'post-it' notes attached to the volumes. They contain lecture notes on many aspects of English literature and language, and include doodles and some written sketches, for example of a play rehearsal.
Tynan Archive. Oxford essays, many marked with comments by his tutors C. S. Lewis and J. A. Bennett, some extensively; n.d. Some of the essays show Tynan’s final amendments, often in mauve ink. The essays are individually paginated, and there are notes from Tynan on two essays that they lack the...