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Photographs of Peter Shaffer, Peter Firth, and Anthony Hopkins.

Early typescript fragments with emendations in Shaffer's hand. Title from Peter Shaffer's notes on folder cover.

Death of Isabella Grote (forwarded to George Grote)

Writes on the death of Henry Sidgwick, and expresses his, Lady Acton's and others' sympathies on her 'dreadful loss'. Declares that he has lost 'the best of friends and colleagues...' Refers to the sympathy and admiration he felt for Henry in relation the manner in which he bore his illness. Reports that [Andrew?] Forsyth spent an hour discussing things with Sidgwick at Jebb's, 'and had no idea till long after that anything was wrong.' States that they were not aware of the gravity of the situation until three weeks earlier, when he met Nora with Arthur J. Balfour.

Viability of sending missionaries to Cape Town.

Enquires whether Robert knows of the Hulsean scholarships for sons of Cheshire clergy, advice on expenditure

List of books - accounts, exit and redit books etc - with Wren Library reference numbers assigned to each. MS pencil note at top, '(Most) 1932 now in Muniment Room (behind Clock)'. Pencil annotations state which books remain in the Library, with the initials 'AH' [Arthur Halcrow?]. MS pencil note at bottom: 'Most of these volumes are stored in the Tower muniment room (behind clock). Nov. 1932 C.B.H. [Cecil Baldwin Hurry]'.

Draft for book, identified by Isaac Todhunter as drafts of pp. 12-17, 33-36, 38, 42-44, 177-180, and 320-397.

Typescript photocopy. A memoir of his life as a teacher, as a soldier injured in World War I, and as a student at Emanuel College.

The title on p. 1 is ‘Hymn Tunes | composed by | Alan Gray’. The word ‘Music’ is printed on the cover within decorative borders, suggesting that the booklet was produced commercially, but the ledger-lines inside are hand-ruled. The titles and tunes of the hymns are as follows:

‘O day of rest & gladness’ (Grasmere) (p. 2)
‘Sun of my Soul’ (Upton) (p. 3)
‘Crown him with many crowns’ (Coronation) (p. 4)
‘O Paradise’ (Eden) (p. 5)
‘Sweet Saviour’ (Benison) (p. 6)
‘Thou Judge of quick & dead’ (Judex) (p. 7)
‘Ride on’ (Strenshall) (p. 8)
‘Hark hark my soul’ (Ambleside) (p. 9)
‘A few more years’ (Kelso) (p. 10)
‘Lead kindly light’ (Lux Benigna) (p. 11)
‘I heard the voice’ (Inversnaid) (p. 12)
‘Jesu the very thought is sweet’ (Tarbet) (p. 13)
‘Thou art gone up on high’ (Ascension) (p. 14)
‘I was wandering’ (The True Shepherd) (p. 15)
‘As pants the hart’ (Parkstone) (p. 16)
‘Jerusalem on high’ (Skelton) (p. 17)
‘Art thou weary’ (Rest) (p. 18)
‘The people that in darkness sat’ (Sharow) (p. 19)
‘Who are these’ (Brafferton) (p. 20)
‘I need thee precious Jesu’ (Kirkby Moorside) (p. 21)
‘Let our Choir’ (Ranskill) (p. 22)
‘Heavenly Father send thy blessing’ (Easedale) (p. 23)
‘God that madest earth & heaven’ (Muker) (p. 24)
‘Go to dark Gethsamene [sic]’ (Leyburn) (p. 25)
‘The Day of Resurrection’ (Trinity College Cambridge) (p. 26)
‘Hark the sound’ (Riseholme) (p. 27)
‘O Love who formed’st me to wear’ (St Swithun) (p. 28)
‘Through the day thy love hath spared us’ (Bournemouth) (p. 29)
‘The roseate hues’ (Wimborne) (p. 30)
‘Alleluia sing to Jesus’ (Pentecost) (p. 31)
‘Come thou Holy Spirit come’ (Richmond) (p. 32)
‘Come my soul’ (Morning praise) (p. 33)
‘Thou art coming’ (unnamed tune) (p. 34)

Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and includes letters from friends, including fellow playwrights and others associated with the theatre, as well as members of the public; a small number of the letters concern business matters, relating to production or publication. In addition to heartfelt tributes from members of the public deeply affected by the play there is a letter from the Dean of Trinity John Robinson, which includes a copy of his sermon in Trinity College Chapel Feb. 1974 in which he discussed 'Equus' (item 66), and also a parody of a fan letter, possibly written by Ian McKellan: 'I really liked that [play] about the young man ... who played classical music on his transistor radio and found he couldn't climb the Andes because the lights fused' (item 5). ] In addition, there are four letters from Shaffer to others: to his parents in November 1976 describing the filming of 'Equus' in Canada (item 166), a letter in October 1987 to director Terry Hands about script revisions (item 186), an indignant letter to the director of Théâtre Marigny in Nov. 2008 objecting to the performance of 'Equus' as one act rather than two (item 204), and an undated draft of a much revised letter about theatre critics (item 206).

Programme for 'Mozart' with Irene Bordoni in the title role, book and lyrics by Sacha Guitry.

City Library, Bristol. - Wordsworth had asked him to find a copy of Gilbert's Hurricane for Milnes; now sends one on Wordsworth's behalf which came to Peace by chance; has inserted own book ticket showing a room know to Gilbert and Wordsworth.

Includes: a manuscript account of a tour by yacht on the Norfolk Broads, perhaps by Huia Onslow's governess Helen Moodie; several items from Onslow's time at Eton College, such as a printed programme for an Eton College Scientific Society Conversazione, in which Onslow features as demonstrator and lecturer and two copies of another lecture given by Onslow.

There are also pieces of creative work such as a poem, The Story of the Lost Ice Age, written at Eton for a prize, and a draft of a story, The Sobbing Water. Poems appear too with notes on ascents of the Croda del Lago and lists of books about the Dolomites, showing Onslow's interest in mountaineering. Also present are Onslow's translations of poems from Les Amours de I. du Bellay, by Joachim du Bellay, which according to the memoir published by his wife he was thinking of publishing in 1913-1914.

Two items are posthumous: the order for the memorial service for Onslow held at Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1922, and uncut proofs for first chapter of Huia Onslow: a Memoir by his wife Muriel Onslow, published in 1924.

With carbon copy of reply from R. A. Butler,

Accounts running from January 1829, with gaps that appear after Nov. 1831, with a few entries in 1833 and 1834 and two statements of account for the year in Dec. 1833 and Jan. 1835. Accounts were kept by Club Treasurers Thomas Entwisle, Charles C. Black, Charles Grey, Patrick Parker, Thomas S. Carter, and Thomas Spankie.

The following names are mentioned in the volume:
William English FitzEdward Barnes, Roger Bass, Robert Wilberforce Bird, Christopher Bird, Robert Blane, Charles Bligh, Langton Edward Brown, Gervase Parker Bushe, Hugh Francis ("Cannibal") Carleton, Samuel Crieghton, Alexander Cumine, John Bayley Darvall, William Dobson, Frederick Peere Williams Freeman, John Frere, Edward Frere, Henry Fyshe Gisborne, John Reynolds Goodman, Henry Jevon Greene, Edward Hamersley, Calmady Pollexfen Hamlyn, Benjamin Robert Heath, Arthur Bastard Eastabrooke Holdsworth, William Lister Isaac, William Cunliffe Lister, Douglas Macdonald, Henry Marcus Mangin, William Meyrick, John Newman, Robert Devereux Nicholls, Standish Thomas O'Grady, William Wilberforce Pearson, Lionel Place, John Curwood Pollock, William Henry Rudston Read, John Sansum, Miles Smith, William James Tayler, Benjamin Dann Walsh, Thomas George Wilmer, Frank Wormald, and Charles Valentine Worsley.