037-002015997 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

1. Add MS 49294

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49294
Title:
Scope & Content:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. i+136). 'The Fairy's Dilemma'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49290
Title:
Scope & Content:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. i+184). 1. ff. 13b-111. 'The Grand Duke'. 2. ff. 181b-173b, 169b-160b, 154b-111b passim, 110b, 109b, 108b, reversed. 'The Fortune Hunter'. 3. ff. 173-170b, 160-155b, reversed. Unidentified fragments and synopses.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49291
Title:
Scope & Content:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. i+36). 1. ff. 1-30. 'The Fortune Hunter'. 2. ff. 34b-31b reversed. Unidentified draft.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49293
Title:
Scope & Content:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 35). 1. ff. 1-4. 'Fallen Fairies'. 2. ff. 5-9. Essay, partly autobiographical, on the profession of a dramatist; n.d. Draft. 3. ff. 34b-11b reversed. Unidentified play. Draft.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49295
Title:
Scope & Content:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. i+126). 1. ff. 1b-49. 'Tom Cobb'. 2. ff. 50-61, 124b-62b reversed. 'The Ne'er do weel'; begun 10 June 1877.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49292
Title:
Scope & Content:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. i+326). 1. ff. 2-20. 'Fairy Love', i.e. 'Fallen Fairies'. 2. ff. 21-77. 'Sweethearts'. 3. ff. 78-288 passim, 322b-297b reversed. 'Charity'. 4. ff. 288b-293. 'Topsyturvydom'. 5. ff. 296-294 reversed. 'Tom Cobb'. 6. f. 323b. Unidentified draft. 7. f. 324b. 'The Wedding Mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49296
Title:
Scope & Content:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 15). 1. ff. 1b-12. ['Sharp Practice'?]. Draft. See Add. MS. 49297, ff. 2-19 below. 2. f. 13. Part of an unidentified draft. 3. f. 14b. Part of 'The Fortune Hunter'. Early draft. See Add. MS. 49290, f. 143b.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49297
Title:
Scope & Content:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i+21). 1. ff. 2-19. Part of ['Sharp Practice'?] as in Add. MS. 49296, ff. 2-12 above, but with altered names of characters. On the conjectural title, see f. 4b. 2. ff. 21b-20b reversed. Part of 'The Fortune Hunter'. Draft.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49289
Title:
Scope & Content:: GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 221). 1. ff. 1b-10. 'Foggerty's Fairy'. 2. ff. 11-45, 48-59, 219b-216b reversed. 'Utopia Limited'. 3. ff. 46-47, 60-73b. Unidentified synopses. Ff. 60-73 are partly related to ff. 11-12 and 29-31. 4. ff. 74-78b, 187-215. 'The Grand Duke'. Ff. 74-75 relate to a sub-plot sk...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1836-1952]
Extent:: 1 item