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Black Swan, York. - Recommends Mr Noble for Governorship of York Castle; own incarceration there; domestic news. Adds postscript: will send a work of his nephew [William?]’s; flood at Ferrybridge; cordial reception by R. P. Milnes.

Correspondence re research, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1957.

Accounts for the balls held on 19 June 1891, 16 June 1892 (with notes for Rylands' successor), 14 June 1893, 14 June 1894, 12 June 1895, 15 June 1896, 16 June 1897, 14 June 1898, 13 June 1899, 11 June 1900, and 11 June 1901. The accounts consist of names of attendees with the name of Trinity member providing the voucher, with cost of tickets per party. A summary of expenses appears at the end of each year's list. The Honorary Secretaries were Arthur G. Johnson, William P. Rylands, Stuart Downs, Herbert W. D. Goff, Lightly S. Simpson, Harold G. Brown and Herbert A. Game, Gerard A. Crane, Gerald W. Sharpe, Lucius F. Crane, and Eric S. Hervey.

Two letters are laid in loose: one dated c 1914 from Pelham Foster to W. W. Rouse Ball in which he states he is returning the Ball books and that he saw R. S. Shove in London, who had been wounded in the war; the other from H. W. D. Goff to someone who has agreed to be Ball Steward dated 10 Feb. 1893.

Report of speech by M. S. D. Butler, article on Charles Sorley, article on hereditary genius citing Butler family, funeral service sheet of John Perceval Butler, Christmas card to Montagu Butler.

On changed order of Parliamentary Questions. With copy of letter from Edward Heath to Ernest Davies, 3 Apr. 1959.

Including response to Richard Monckton Milnes’s Letter to Lord Lansdowne (pub. 1849) on the events of 1848

Letters to: Emma Blackburne, née Hesketh; his sister Amelia Jane Milnes; his wife Hon. Henrietta Maria Milnes; his mother Rachael Milnes; his brother Richard Rodes Milnes; his sister-in-law Hon. Frances Jane Monckton; his nephew and son-in-law George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway; his daughter Henrietta Eliza Monckton-Arundell; John [Thornton, his cousin?]; Mary [Anne Waddington, his sister?].

Correspondence of general political nature including letter of congratulations on maiden speech, letters re preservation of Thaxted windmill and future of Bishop's Stortford School, letter from Winston Churchill in reply to one from RAB sympathising with his illness, copy letter to Samuel Hoare re Indian Constitution

On the Wayfarers Trust

On Voluntary Service Overseas.

Appeal on behalf of Sail Training Association

Contains school exercises from 1905. Very few entries are dated, but they probably continue for about 2 years.

Contains account of experiment and notes on results. A letter from M.L. Oliphant, 9 March 1934, re proton yield from the bombardment of heavy hydrogen with heavy hydrogen is tucked into the back of the folder.

Nearly 1300 letters arranged alphabetically by surname, with letters received on the announcement of his knighthood in a separate file at the end, followed by a file of letters from unidentified correspondents. Other correspondence relating directly to various plays may be found in the Works series under the title of the play. Shaffer did not use email but printed emails provided by friends and agents may be found in the collection. Denis Zaphiro's letters are the earliest dated letters, beginning in 1944; some of them are addressed to both Peter and Tony Shaffer.

Correspondents include members of the Shaffer family, and friends from St Paul's School: James Mossman, Jerrold Weinstein and Denis Zaphiro, Trinity College friends Mal Diamond, Donald Friedman, Raymond Leppard, Richard Mayne (also at St Paul's with Shaffer), and Leopold de Rothschild. Shaffer's letters to his parents, and also to Jerrold Weinstein appear in the archive, as they were passed to Shaffer following the deaths of his parents and after Weinstein's early death. There are also letters from Shaffer's long time partner Robert Leonard, as well as colleagues from the theatre and performance arts including Leonard Bernstein, Simon Callow, John Dexter, Peter Firth, Paul Giovanni, John Gielgud, Peter Hall, Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith, Harold Pinter, Stephen Sondheim, Victor Spinetti, and Tom Stoppard.

Two letters include parts of letters written by Peter Shaffer: a letter from Elizabeth Cavendish, 29th September 1974 (C42) and a typed letter from Costas Gianakaris 27 Sept. 2014 (G6) which includes the draft of a love letter[?] on the back of the second sheet.

Records the purchase of 4 and a half yards and a quarter from Obadiah Wickes and Daniel Radford at 'the 3 Nunns & Hare in Cheapside' for 1 pound 17 shillings.

Letter from N. K. Adam on electric effects at surfaces.