Add MS 88915/1/26/10

General correspondence and enquiries from production companies, publishers, BBC and the British Council. There is also correspondence specifically regarding:

• 'The Banana Tree'
• 'The Last of the Wine'
• 'Idiot's Delight'
• 'Fair Music'
• 'The Drunken Sailor'
• 'The Tiger and the Horse'
• 'The Pretenders'

Correspondents: J Arthur Rank Productions, George G Harrap & Company, BBC, British Council, Weissberger & Frosch, The Century Theatre Keswick, Heinemann Educational Books, McCartney Productions, Franklin R Levy at The Production Co, Robert Bolt, Thames Television, Chelsea Theater Center New York, Tomorrow Entertainment Inc, Grosvenor Entertainments, Marianne de Barde, Ursula Jeans Livesey, Library Theatre Manchester, New Drama Group, H M Tennent Globe Productions, Inland Revenue, Granada Television, Theatre Guild Productions, Theatre Projects, Richard Rodgers, Toby Rowland, Harold Freedman at Brandt & Brandt Dramatic Department, Ronnie Waters, Buckstone Productions, Harlequin Productions, Theatre in the Round, Associated Rediffusion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, Granada TV Network and the National Theatre.

Includes out-letters to Judith Collison, Henry Burke, Barbara Bray, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Tynan, Europa Konyvkiado, Pinewood Studios, Wilfred Avery, Vincent Tilsley, Murray Macdonald at the Royal Court Theatre and Esme Percy.

Copy letters:

• between Robert Bolt and Philip Langner
• from Vincent Tilsley to Robert Bolt
• from Robert Bolt to Associated Rediffusion

Also includes:

• contract between Associated-Rediffusion and Robert O Bolt for 'Last of the Wine'
• BBC authority to broadcast radio play 'Fair Music'
• typescript treatment for 'Idiot's Delight' [24 leaves]