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Typescript revised and MS in Shaffer's hand about a couple named George and Bessie Mansfield who are in a Magistrate's Court and explain that they re-enact the execution of historical figures.

Elaborate frame in the form of a pendant drawn around this photograph, linking it to the other three on the page.

Three green ring bound Pukka Pad notebooks containing drafts of Shaffer's memoir written in the form of a play, with a few other miscellaneous scenes from plays which may be related.

Draft in Shaffer's hand with corrected and final versions in typescript. Includes notes on Alec McCowen, Anthony Perkins, Marian Seldes, and John Wood.

Typescript draft of a transcript of an interview with IW, possibly Irving Wardle.

Drafts of Peter's tribute to de Rothschild accompanied by the tribute printed in the programme of the Memorial Concert at Cadogan Hall, accompanied by a ticket for the concert.

Speech at the Festival at which Shaffer was awarded the Donald Seawell Lifetime Achievement award.

A notebook containing drafts of speeches about Tennessee Williams.

Draft typescript with emendations in Shaffer's hand, accompanied by two pages of earlier drafts.

Draft and reading copy of a speech, in which Shaffer shares memories of John Gielgud and reads aloud from some Gielgud letters to Lillian Gish from her papers at the library.

Partial typescript draft of a speech with a photocopy of the reading copy, which includes his recollections of working at the New York Public Library and an encounter with George Arents, and a later story of working with arts patron Suzy Bassani.

Photocopy of a typescript draft meant for faxing and a typescript letter to John F. Andrews, Shakespeare Guild. The tribute was read aloud by Diana Rigg at the Folger Shakespeare Library's 65th anniversary "Muse of Fire" celebration.

Typescript draft, with two pages of a later typescript draft.

Four copies of draft typescripts of an unidentified tribute gathering, two of them with emendations in Shaffer's hand. Accompanied by a draft of a 70th birthday tribute, with two copies, one of them an enlarged reading copy.

Notes on Troutbeck case towards the front of the volume. [This case, in which Sir Frederick Pollock acted for the claimants, was heard in the 1830s, and so the book may have been begun then, and only later used for mathematical notes].

Dates given for Pollock's mathematical notes run from 17 Dec. 1857 to 1 Mar. 1858. They include proofs under the heading 'a remarkable property of the odd squares is that any two adjoining ones may be represented thus...', p. 202-

Also present are notes on French vocabulary (p 256), and verse (pp 404-411).

Lecture given at the Shakespeare-Tagen in Weimar 20 Apr. 1995.

Typescript draft of the Oxford speech altered for another speech a year later.

Photocopy of a typescript draft with emendations, accompanied by a computer printout of the Velis's obituary in The New York Times originally dated 7 Oct. 1994 but printed out later.

Typescript with emendations in Shaffer's hand, a lecture at Oxford as Professor of Contemporary Drama.

Teal Lion Brand exercise notebook.

Two drafts: one a photocopy of a typescript with emendations, the other a later typescript draft. The lecture includes an introduction of Arthur Miller, Shaffer's successor to the professorship.

Talk given at St. Catherine's College, Oxford while Shaffer was Professor of Contemporary Drama. Six drafts, five of them typescripts, with occasional emendations, a final typeset copy, accompanied by a one-page fragment.

One of three lectures given while Professor of Contemporary Drama at Oxford University. Multiple typescript drafts, some incomplete, some heavily emended in Shaffer's hand.

Transcript of Shaffer's address on the occasion of receiving the 1992 William Inge Award for lifetime achievement at the 1992 William Inge Festival in Independence, Kansas.

Typescript drafts with emendations in Shaffer's hand given 25 May 1989 with the printed commemorative programme with a copy of the speeches on the day. Accompanied by two typescript drafts with emendations in Shaffer's hand: speech with Hamburg 1987 semi-erased and Colorado written at the top instead, and another undated draft of a speech given at an unidentified location.