TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. liv-lxv. Unnumbered notebooks, containing sketches and notes for musical compositions and drafts of libretti and other writings; 1946-1991. Twelve volumes.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. xxxiv-liii. Numbered notebooks, containing sketches and notes for musical compositions and drafts of libretti, texts and articles; 1939-1969, n.d. The articles were mostly published in Moving into Aquarius (1959, rev. 1974), Music of the Angels (1980) and Tippett on Music (Oxford, 1995). Twenty volumes.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vol. xxxvii. Notebook 9a, mainly pencil, partly ink notes for 'King Priam' and drafts of 'The Composer and his Public', 'Opera since 1900', writings on 'The Midsummer Marriage' and other works; circa 1954 – circa 1958, n.d. Mostly English, partly French and Italian...
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vol. xxxviii. Notebook 10, pencil drafts for synopsis and libretto of 'King Priam', and for various chapters of 'Moving into Aquarius'; circa 1958, 1959? ff. 118. 228 x 172mm.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. liv-lix. Drafts of the libretto, scenarios and notes for 'The Midsummer Marriage', and other writings; 1946 – circa 1951. Mostly pencil, partly ink. Six volumes.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vol. lxiii. Libretto drafts and music sketches for 'The Ice Break', formal outlines for Symphony no. 4, String Quartet no. 4 and a projected piano quintet (ff. 39-41), and other writings; circa 1973– circa 1978. Ink and pencil. ff. i+77. 302 x 215mm.