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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

Deborah and Kenneth MacMillan invested in two shows with Avenue Productions, Carmen Jones and Noel and Gertie. The correspondence in this file includes notes from Zoe Dominic, photographer, acting for and on behalf of Avenue Productions, an agreement and weekly accounts

Six rehearsal photographs for Agon, with Kenneth MacMillan, Ninette de Valois, Maryon Lane, Anya Linden, Annette Page, Pirmin Trecu, Leslie Edwards and others, in The Royal Ballet rehearsal studios at the Royal Ballet Upper School, Talgarth Road, London

Three rehearsal and five production photographs, five photographs with Kenneth Rowell in the Paint Frame at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, working on the backcloth, and one outside the door to the Paint Frame

Contact sheets of the final dress rehearsal, one photograph each of Kenneth MacMillan with Richard Rodney Bennett looking at the score in the rehearsal studio and of a curtain call on the first night, and two of the first night reception at the Royal Opera House showing Deborah MacMillan

Eight rehearsal photographs, one including Sidney Nolan, and nine production photographs. The one by Clive Boursnell has an autograph note to Kenneth MacMillan on the reverse. Two photographs of [Kenneth MacMillan or Sidney Nolan] standing on stage looking at the backcloth (large)

Photographs showing Kenneth MacMillan in the wings with Hilda Gaunt, pianist with the Sadler's Wells Ballet, rehearsing Svetlana Beriosova and Donald MacLeary in Diversions, 1961, resting on a barre during rehearsals for Images of Love, 1964, rehearsing Lynn Seymour, 1980, with John Lanchbery and Richard Rodney Bennett during rehearsals for Diversions 1961, with Svetlana Beriosova, in rehearsal studio with Georgina Parkinson behind him (large)

Two photographs of the set designs by James Goddard, three rehearsal photographs (one large) and three production photographs (one large)

One colour transparency of a costume design by Nicholas Georgiadis for The Wife, 17 photographs of the first production of The Invitation including Lynn Seymour, Christopher Gable, Desmond Doyle and Anne Heaton, (one large) and one photograph of Kenneth MacMillan rehearsing Elizabeth Anderton and Desmond Doyle (large)