One colour transparency of the model set designed by Barry Kay for Act I, eight black and white photographs of the original production of Anastasia and later revivals, one portrait of Georgina Parkinson as The Tsarina (large, mounted on card)

In Kenneth MacMillan's second season as Artistic Associate, he created a new one-act ballet for the Company, Requiem to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The material in this file includes references to that work and to his one-act version of Anastasia, that was also performed that season. It includes

1. Two copies of a staple bound typed booklet American Ballet Theatre National Tour 1985-1986, giving details of venues, travel arrangements, performances and doctors in each tour city, 16.12.1985-25.8.1986, one annotated with a breakdown of the music and singers for Requiem by Kenneth MacMillan in pencil on the back cover
2. General administrative material including Personnel Contact List, the Company list for the Metropolitan Opera House season, cast lists for Romeo and Juliet in Washington and New York, details of costume fittings, draft programme proposal, itinerary and flight schedule, calendar schedule grid for 1985-1986 season, cast list for Wolf Trap season with covering letter, and 1986 production budget
3. Gala menu for first night of Requiem
4. Correspondence including to Deborah MacMillan concerning her costume jewellery that was copied for Anastasia

This file relates to Kenneth MacMillan's first season as Artistic Associate and includes business and personal material. The file contains

1. Invitations to a photographic exhibition, to fund raising balls celebrating the first performances of Romeo and Juliet, a dinner in honour of Kenneth MacMillan and John Taras, and the National Society of Arts and Letters honouring Mikhail Baryshnikov
2. Three press releases announcing the 45th anniversary season of American Ballet Theatre, the Company premieres of Romeo and Juliet and of Anastasia
3. Office memos covering press and marketing events and some general admin, including comment on a dancer's weight and another's injury, and access to the viewing booth
4. Correspondence including a handwritten letter from Kenneth MacMillan to Deborah MacMillan, a handwritten letter from Princess Margaret expressing her regret at not being able to attend a performance in New York, letters of congratulations on the performances of Romeo and Juliet, a letter to Nora Kaye from Howard Rosenman enclosing a suggested treatment of The Death of Christopher Marlowe, to Kenneth MacMillan inviting him to join Dance Theatre of Harlem's Benefit Committee, to Deborah MacMillan about her theatrical jewellery

The material in this file covers the period when Kenneth MacMillan was Artistic Director of The Royal Ballet from 1970-1977.
Administrative material includes letters from Garrett, Lord Drogheda and Claus Moser, Chairmen of the Royal Opera House Board, John Tooley, John Copley and includes issues that arose with the dancers, with the Ballet Sub Committee and Board of the Royal Opera House, and Kenneth MacMillan's handwritten draft replies.
Letters from individuals include from Michael Benthall, Adrian Boult and Richard Buckle. There is a copy of a letter from Lincoln Kirstein to Richard Buckle about controversies that arose during The Royal Ballet's tour to New York in 1974 concerning Rudolf Nureyev, a telegram from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, material relating to the Silver Jubilee Gala in 1977, the first night of Anastasia in 1971

The material in this file comprises

1. Letter from Lynn Seymour to Kenneth MacMillan apologising for leaving for New York where she has the opportunity to work with Stanley Williams. She looks forward to coming back in full form to work on his 'divine 'ballet'. Undated but presumably written while with MacMillan and the Deutsche Opera Ballet in Berlin
2. Typed letter on Intendanz der Bayerischen Staatsoper headed note paper from Lynn, as Director of the Ballet Company in Munich, to Kenneth, about the possibility of mounting his Anastasia in 1979, 1 Dec 1978
3. One page handwritten letter sending write ups (not included) and reporting their triumph but unclear where and with what company, undated
4. Colour postcard of the interior of the Cuvillies Theatre, Munich from Lynn to Kenneth hoping that he will create something for the ballet company, undated
5. Compliments slip from Dominic Photography with handwritten note from Zoe Dominic to Lynn, explaining that this was the picture that was in the Sunday Times that won the hear of the Art Editor, photo not included, undated

Kenneth MacMillan did not renew his contract as Ballet Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin after 1969. The correspondence in this files includes letters from Gert Reinholm asking for a note to say that their relationship had nothing to do with his decision to leave, 1971-1978, a letter from Igor Kosak asking permission to dance the pas de deux from Concerto 12 Jan 1980, a letter from Gotz Friedrich asking whether Kenneth MacMillan will come and create new choreography for The Sleeping Beauty and a fax asking for permission to reuse the costumes and sets for a new production without MacMillan, 1985, a letter from Steven Scott with details of the fee payable for Anastasia, 1990, correspondence and a contract for Different Drummer, 1991, and a handwritten fax to Peter Schaufuss, Ballet Director, thanking him for releasing Leanne [Benjamin] to dance at a Gala, 1991

This file of correspondence contains letters to and from Kenneth MacMillan during his time as Ballet Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin but is not primarily related to his work there. It includes a letter from Alan King Associates about Anastasia, a bill from a doctor's surgery in Berlin, a letter from Roy Round asking for a contribution to his phone bill in London, a letter from Ballet Prague asking Kenneth MacMillan to view the Company in London, Peter Darrell asking for a dancer, Goran Gentele about the Royal Swedish Ballet staging Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, Good Luck telegrams for the first night of Swan Lake, Arno Jurging expressing regret that Kenneth MacMillan is leaving Berlin

One colour photograph of Song of the Earth, one framed colour photograph of Solitaire [possibly the Hong Kong Ballet] in presentation box with Mikimoto International in gold letter on lid, one colour photograph of the cast of Anastasia on stage, one black and white photocopy of a photograph of Lynn Seymour and Frank Frey in Swan Lake with the Deutsche Oper Ballet, 1969, one black and white photograph possibly of Belinda Hatley and the Royal Ballet School in The Four Seasons on tour in Russia, and one black and white production photograph taken in Germany

Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet of Anastasia for the Deutsche Opera which premiered on 25.6.1967 in Berlin. This became Act III in the three-act version that he created for The Royal Ballet, which premiered at the Royal Opera House, London, on 22.7.1971. This file includes an incomplete version of the Benesh Movement Notation score written by Monica Parker. Material comprises

1. Two page typed cast list for the 1972/73 season, London, with amendments by Kenneth MacMillan in black felt tip pen
2. Carbon copy of two paged typed cast list for performances in New York, 1972
3. Two page typed cast list for the 1974/5 season, London
4. Two pages of score with the cast list (with understudies) in pencil, with some additions in black ink, dated Sept 1971
5. Cover page Anastasia Act I listing the characters for the 3 movements plus 13 pages of score in pencil, pages numbered both sides 1 - 26 in red biro
6. Cover page Anastasia Act I listing dancers and the dances plus 24 pages of score in pencil, pages numbered both sides 1 - 48 in red biro
7. Untitled cover page plus 16 pages of score in pencil with 1st Act -Last Mvt at top of first page, pages numbered 1-37 in red biro
8. Blue folded card containing one page of rehearsal calls folded in half, with initials and numbers on reverse in black ink with Deutsche Oper's in pencil at top of page; five lined pages with numbers in margins and brief descriptions on each page, in black biro. The first page is titled Anastasia - 3rd Act 1st Movement, page 4 is titled 2nd Movement, page 8 is titled 3rd Movement, page 10 ends with Fin. One page of blue card with pencil notes on the front for Act III (tbc), seven pages title 1st Movement, two empty pages, seven further pages, one last page with 1st Movement Anastasia at top, 2nd Mvt and 3rd in margin, all in pencil

Kenneth MacMillan created a three-act version of Anastasia for The Royal Ballet which premiered on 22 Jul 1971 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The material comprises:

1. A copy of French's Acting Edition No.967, The Recognition Scene from Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette, English Adaptation by Guy Bolton
2. A typed letter from John E. Manahan to Vernon Clarke, Manager of The Royal Ballet, 1 Jul 1971. The letter states that his wife, Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, joins him in granting free and unrestricted use of her name to The Royal Ballet for the forthcoming production of Anastasia. On letter head of The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia, USA
3. Telegram to Kenneth MacMillan from Ursula Moreton, with love and best wishes for the first night, 22 Jul 1971
4. Telegram to Kenneth MacMillan from Ninette de Valois, 'Dear Kenneth you know how much I would have a great ballet meet with recognition and success for its Choreographer My Love Madam', 22 Jul 1971
5. Postcard from John Osborne, congratulating MacMillan, 23 Jul 1971
6. Handwritten letter from HRH Princess Margaret, congratulating Dear Kenneth on a really wonderful ballet and hoping he took absolutely no notice of the foully aggressive piece in The Times. On Kensington Palace headed notepaper with hand addressed envelope, 27 Jul 1971
7. Carbon copy of an interview by Rodney Milnes, titled Anastasia, discussing with Kenneth MacMillan the adverse press reaction to the ballet, the complexities of the narrative and cuts that MacMillan proposes to make. (Later published in Harpers & Queen, October 1971).
8. Press cutting of a Tabriz carpet of c. 1914 depicting Tsar Nicholas II, together with the Tsarina Alexander and the Tsarevich, Alexis. From Michael [Oliver] to Kenneth, 15 May 1980