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Contains: verse epigraph, "You who can hear the victims crying...", by 'J. R. B' [J. R. M. Butler?]; the story of the play, by J. T. S[heppard]; photograph of 'The Provost of King's' [Sheppard]; photograph of P. A. S. Hadley; brief essay, "The Antigone of Sophocles"; dramatis personae; note on "The Performance at Athens in 1937", by G. M. Young; list of orchestra members; photograph of Geoffrey Wright; photograph of Camille Prior; production team; Greek Play Committee; list of Greek Plays performed at Cambridge still in print; material relating to Cambridge Arts Theatre,

86 Chesterton Road, Cambridge. - Is going to stay with Desmond [MacCarthy] at Garrick's Villa this weekend; asks if it would suit Bessie for him to come straight on to them on Monday. Dorothy thanks Bessie for the invitation, but she cannot get away since their American friends may be arriving at any time. Tim has finished his three years at Trinity and is now a Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts; he will be living in London next year to attend the Royal College of Music. His teacher Patrick Hadley, Mary Fletcher's friend, is now Professor of Music at Cambridge, in succession to Dent.

King's College, Cambridge. - 'Paddy Hadley, the composer' has 'taken a few liberties' with Trevelyan's translation when working it into the music for Sheppard's production of the "Antigone"; quotes Hadley on the alterations he has made. Hadley and the printers are keen Trevelyan should know this, and therefore Sheppard is writing to inform him, but he has assured them Trevelyan will not be angry. Natural that Hadley, since he is writing modern music, has taken 'much greater liberties with the metrical schemes' than Trevelyan.