Item 18-35 - Notebooks containing miscellaneous scene drafts

18 vols.

Notebooks, all but one undated (item 24 carries note "April '96" on front), some with general pointers to the act or scene being revised, many others with no indication. Most notebooks are only partially used, with many blank pages. Some notebooks include other notes, drafts of letters, including a draft of [Desert Island Disc?] music choices (item 18), a draft of some writing about Laurence Olivier in Richard III (item 23), research notes (items 24 and 25), a draft of some reminiscences (item 26), an unfinished draft of a letter to Alexander Poznansky praising his biography of Tchaikovsky (item 30).

Two of the notebooks are closed to researchers at this time.