Application to be appointed Civil and session Judge.
Would like to be back in touch with Peter.
Is sure he will get rave reviews; sends best wishes for a great success.
Comments on a play of Peter's that he has read, thinks it would be a better opera.
Would like to meet him.
Programme for the Cambridge Arts Theatre 30 June - 5 July 1958 and the Comedy Theatre from 16 July 1958. Playbill programme dated 18 Apr. 1960.
Inscribed to Peter "with love and grateful thanks" by Bryant.
Typescript draft with emendations in Shaffer's hand. The last page includes five lines of shorthand at the bottom.
Typescript, with emendations in Shaffer's hand throughout, of an early draft of the play. With a title sheet [written later?] in Shaffer's hand, "The Public Eye, A Play in One Act by Peter Shaffer."
Loose sheets with cover page in Shaffer's hand "Royal Hunt M.S.S.," typed pages with revisions in Shaffer's hand throughout. At the front, inside the front card or cover, is a copy of French's Acting Edition of the play with the note on cover "2nd version Done for the Prospect Production (mainly emendations to Pizarro) P.S." with 12 sheets of revisions typed and in Shaffer's hand.
The last quarter of the draft appears to have been turned around and has been left that way as the draft has no pagination. Near the end of the are two sheets of an introduction, and at the beginning of the turned pages is a one page review of "Cosi fan tutte" at Glyndebourne (incomplete). At the front is a card or a cover with a drawing of the sun.
Two programmes for the production at the Old Vic Theatre with Colin Blakely and Robert Stephens, with two cast lists, one of them a duplicated version signed by Kenneth Mackintosh, who played Fray Marcos de Nizza. Accompanied by a programme with a cutting from the New York Herald Tribune from 18 Dec. 1864.
Corrected typescript.
Outline is accompanied by two pages of notes for the film version of 'White Liars,' both in Shaffer's hand, and a set of alternative lyrics to "It's Delovely" written in an unidentified hand.
Thanks him for a wonderful evening - everyone seems to like 'Black Comedy.'
Programme from the Chichester Festival Theatre production featuring Derek Jacobi, Louise Purnell, and Maggie Smith; a programme with cast list from the National Theatre in which 'Black Comedy' was paired with 'Miss Julie' with revisions in Shaffer's hand and featuring the same actors; a programme from the National Theatre in which 'Black Comedy' was paired with 'A Bond Honoured.'
Typescript pages heavily revised by Shaffer in a folder labelled "Shrivings. Act I (Revised)."
Typescript drafts with emendations in Shaffer's hand, one of them directed at Dr Sanford Giffords.
Met with an old friend who had lived in a darkened room for many years after a blow to the head
(It is not clear which letters this envelope formerly contained.)
(London, Derby, Scarborough, Durham, Newcastle, Carlisle, Lakeland, Liverpool, Much Hadham).
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