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SHAF/B/2/3/8/1-29 · Part · 1958-1960
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

29 ff. of cuttings relating to 'Five Finger Exercise', with ff. 1-13 relating to the London production at the Comedy Theatre, and ff. 14-29 relating to the New York production at the Music Box Theatre.

Material relating to the London production includes two handbills, a programme and 19 cuttings of theatre reviews, including "Changing Fashions in the English Theatre" by John Bowen in 'The Listener', "Eating People is Wrong" by Alan Brien in 'The Spectator', "An Author and Actor" by Harold Hobson in 'The Sunday Times' (July 27 1958), and "Peter Shaffer Calls for Magic and Mystery" by R. B. Marriott in 'The Stage' (July 13, 1958); other cuttings are from the 'Cambridge Daily News', 'Daily Express', 'Daily Mail', 'Daily Telegraph', 'Evening News', 'Financial Times', 'The Illustrated London News', 'New Statesman', 'News of the World', 'The Stage', 'The Star', 'The Times', and 'The Times Literary Supplement'.
Material relating to the New York production includes the cover of 'Playbill' and 11 cuttings of theatre reviews and advertisements for the New York production. The cuttings are taken from 'Life Magazine', 'The New Yorker', and other unidentified newspapers, and include two articles by Brooks Atkinson in 'The New York Times', and Richard Watts Jr.'s 'A Powerful New Play from England' (in an unidentfied newspaper), as well as two articles by Peter Shaffer: "labels aren't for playwrights", in 'Theatre Arts', Feb. 1960, and "The Cannibal Theatre" in the 'Atlantic Monthly'.

SYNG/E/1-3 · Series · Jul 1936-Mar 1937
Part of Papers of Richard Synge

E/1: Headed on first page '[...] July 1936'. Used from the front 7 July - 5 August 1936, paginated 1-54, and at the back for notes on methods.
E/2: Used 5 October 1936 - 16 March 1937, paginated 1-186.
E/3: Manuscript and typescript material found intercalated in E.2. Includes 8pp typescript notes on 'Summary of work commencing 7. vii.36'.

Add. MS a/635/1-3 · Item · 15-26 Oct. [1933]
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

7, Park Parade, Cambridge - In the first letter, he describes his first week at Trinity College, Cambridge, buying a cap and gown, describes the enforcement of cap wearing by Varsity Proctors, other customs, playing Ping-Pong, meeting students from foreign countries, lists sheet music he wants from home, and describes his female Supervisor, D. Hoare of Newnham College. Later he announces he has joined Magpie & Stump, and describes his plans to return to Latymer School for Speech Day.

FRAZ/30/1-3 · Item · [c 1895]
Part of Papers of Sir James Frazer

Two bound albums of 133 photographs of engravings and prints for consideration for inclusion in 'Dancing'. Each photograph is identified and carries codes for whether they were accepted for use or not; with notes in multiple hands[?], one of them that of Lilly Frazer [then Lilly Grove]. With a sheet of paper with a list of different dances in Lilly Frazer's hand.