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1. Two copies of the Order of Service for the funeral of Kenneth MacMillan at St Paul's Church, Hammersmith, on 6 Nov 1992
2. Handwritten letter from Clement Crisp to Deborah MacMillan with a typed copy of his eulogy, Remembering Kenneth MacMillan, in which he records first seeing him in The Sleeping Beauty at the Royal Opera House in 1946, following his career as a dancer and then choreographer
3. Handwritten letter from Monica Mason to Deborah MacMillan with a typed copy of her words for Kenneth.
4. Typed copy of the Eulogy spoken by John Sainsbury remembering his career, but also the holiday on Corfu in 1991 when Kenneth, Deborah and Charlotte MacMillan joined John and Anya Sainsbury and their family

Kenneth MacMillan worked with Granada Television on several projects including broadcasts of his ballets. The material in this file includes:

1. A silver coloured folder containing three pages from the Granada Music Catalogue listing Gloria, Isadora and The Seven Deadly Sins, and five pages of Programme Information on a broadcast of two ballets by Frederick Ashton and the series of programmes Man and Music
2. The majority of correspondence in the file is from Denis Foreman and subjects include explaining the difficulties of having Kenneth MacMillan direct his own ballets for television 28 Feb 1980, Isadora, Let's Make a Ballet piece with Jack Gold 13 Aug 1981, the reasons for not recording Rite of Spring and the disappointment of not being able to capture Monica Mason's performance 27 Nov 1981, suggesting Kenneth MacMillan mount a 25 minute ballet on Sherlock Holmes using Margaret Dale's original choreography for The Great Detective 23 May 1984. There is a letter from Zanna Northam thanking Kenneth MacMillan for agreeing to be interviewed for a film on Christopher Gable, 19 Jan 1989
3. Press Release announcing Two Nights with Kenneth MacMillan, A Lot of Happiness and Isadora, broadcast on 15 and 16 Dec 1981
4. Two pages of photocopies of reviews of the broadcast of Gloria, 13 and 14 Nov 1982, with covering handwritten note from H [Helen McMurray]

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)