Add MS 88915/1/27/4

Correspondence regarding:

• 'Bingo'
• 'The Bundle' and 'The Woman'
• 'Early Morning'
• opera (including work for Hans Werner Henze)
• 'Human Cannon'
• 'Lear' (includes typewritten introduction to 'Lear' text and programme notes for Liverpool Playhouse production)
• 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'

Correspondents: Oscar Lewenstein, Hollywood Television Theatre, Goodman Theatre Center, Leo Kerz, Edward Bond, Center Theatre Group, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Dramatic Publishing Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Theatre [RSC], Hill & Wang, Toby Cole, Lawrence Fineberg, B Schott's Söhne Musikverlag, Royal Opera House, Schott Music Publisher, Harrison Parrott, Royal Court, Gabriele Schultz, Summer Centre Theatre University of Toronto, Center Theatre Group, Elspeth Cochrane, Western Australian Theatre Company, R C Lawson, Belgrade Theatre, University of Wisconsin, Aarne Neeme and Blanche Marvin.

Includes out-letters to Northcott Theatre, Hans Werner Henze and Peter Hall.

Copy letters:

• between Edward Bond and B Schott's Söhne Musikverlag
• between Edward bond and John Worthen
• between Peter Hall at the National Theatre and Edward Bond
• from Methuen to Edward Bond
• from Edward Bond to Robert Brustein at Yale Repertory Theatre
• from John Lithgow to Edward Bond

Also includes:

• contract between Yale University and Edward Bond for an option on 'Lear'
• dustjacket for Edward Bond, Lear [New York: Hill & Wang, 1972]
• typewritten draft programme note for Liverpool Playhouse production of 'Lear', with revisions [4 leaves]
• typewritten draft introduction to 'Lear', with revisions [8 leaves]