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Blue W H Smith notebook with drafts of scenes from 'Bezique' and 'Black Comedy' and a bit of a memoir of his own life.

Is very sorry not to be able to play Miss Furnival and Baroness Lemberg, reluctantly returns his scripts, as she finds they tend to be in short supply.

c/o 11 Cranley Gardens, Flat 7, London - Photocopy of a thank you note for a weekend written in the form of a review of a play.

Autograph hunter.

The Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor, 21 Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3UJ - Describes the Society and invites him to join; with membership form and booklet.

Hopes he is not bored at Westgate; was 'picked up' by a man in London on her way to St Ives, describes people on the train, and bohemian types in St Ives itself.

Concerns 11 Cranley Gardens SW7; encloses a report from C. Crocker of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Environmental Services concerning the works required.

Bound typescript draft, with marks in pencil to mark excisions, and a few additions in PS's hand. 'Production copy' written on front free endpaper in PS's hand.

Duplicated playscript with emendations in Shaffer's hand, and various pages replacing earlier pages and some scenes missing, with Peter Shaffer's signature at top left of the first page.

Photographs taken by Angus McBean for the Festival Theatre, most of them with captions identifying the actors: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Rod Beacham, Peter Cellier, Lewis Fiander, Mike Gambon, Roy Holder, Robert Lang, Gerald McNally, Dan Meaden, James Mellor, Christopher Timothy, and Michael Turner.

In a letter from Peter to Johnson he explains that he wrote 'The Woman In the Wardrobe' under a pseudonym because he and Anthony [Shaffer] wanted to write two more together under that name; provides a riddle to guess the pseudonym they used. This is accompanied by fax transmission sheet. The reply from Johnson apologises for misattributing 'The Woman in the Wardrobe' to Anthony Shaffer, and for getting the type of work wrong: a detective novel and not a play, and notes that Shaffer has not revealed what happened at the end, prolonging his 'agony'; thanks him for kind remarks about his column.

Typescript pages with many revisions throughout beginning with a preliminary playscript lacking the opening of the play with unnumbered pages, with an envelope labelled and signed by Shaffer, "Black Comedy Original Manuscript 1965." The typescript is accompanied by more incomplete playscript pages, with edits for typed or published versions, and an alternative ending for theatres lacking a trap-door. Includes one sheet of a "Note" to appear at the front of the playscript for 'The White Liars.'

Obituary from The Times, 10 June 1969; additional tribute by L. J. Mordell, ibid., 19 June 1969.

Early typescript draft with extensive revisions in Shaffer's hand throughout in a folder labelled, "Original manuscript before being typed out."

43 Norroy Road, Putney, S.W. - Wants to know 'whether calculations can be made bearing upon the enormous difference between the entropies of organic mechanic systems (the plant and animal kingdoms), and naturally formed inorganic systems' or expressed another way, wants 'to get at some calculations showing how organic mechanical systems utilize quantities of energy which are inevitably permitted to dissipate in naturally formed inorganic systems'. Addressed to 'H. Mordie, Esq': presumably a misreading for [Helen] Moodie, who must have replied on Onslow's behalf to the advert in the Athenaeum mentioned by Donovan.

62-67 Norfolk House, Norfolk Street Strand, London — MacElwee asks for particulars of Onslow's research.

Map originally produced in 1933 with the lower right quadrant showing where the dams were found.

Includes draft letter in French.

Pontefract. - Seeking more suitable employment for Henry Smith, a Pontefract draper's assistant; Smith is a keen antiquary and has produced lithographs of Roman pavements at Aldborough; copies will be sent to Milnes.

[Date given as 10/2 1850, so possibly 2 Oct. 1850].