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This file contains correspondence from members of The Royal Ballet and Royal Opera House management and technical teams relating to the staging of his works by The Royal Ballet. It includes letters from David Webster, John Tooley, Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, John Field, John Copley and Adrian Grater. There are two contracts from the Royal Opera House for Kenneth MacMillan to create a work and to mount Concerto for The Royal Ballet, Ninette de Valois talks about working in Turkey and on seeing the film of Romeo and Juliet, Frederick Ashton sends congratulations on Concerto, thanks for performing Scenes de Ballet in Berlin, casting for Song of the Earth. There is a strongly worded letter from Kenneth MacMillan to Ninette de Valois complaining about 'the disastrous performances of my ballets in Edinburgh', tendering his resignation and enclosing press cuttings, 24 Aug 1960

An invitation and programme for a performance by The Royal Ballet in the presence of The Prime Minister [Margaret Thatcher] and Mr Denis Thatcher at the British National Day at Expo 86 in Canada, 12 Jul 1986; a programme, three tickets and a menu card for Raise the Roof Ball at the Royal Opera House, organised by members of The Royal Ballet, 21 Dec 1987; an invitation and decorative folder for British National Day as part of World Expo 88 in Australia, 5 Aug 1988

Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet The Poltroon for The Royal Ballet New Group in 1972. These photographs show Kenneth MacMillan rehearsing Brenda Last and Kerrison Cooke in the rehearsal studio (large)

The Royal Ballet production premiered at the Royal Opera House on 5 Mar 1975. Material comprises the printed record sleeve notes for a recording of Verdi's Complete Ballet Music by Decca, with handwritten notes by Kenneth MacMillan for The Four Seasons, including dancers' names (large)
There are nine greetings telegrams to Kenneth MacMillan wishing him good luck for the first night, including from John Neumeier, Peter and Sonya Wright, Romayne Grigorova, friends and colleagues at the Royal Opera House

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)

Kenneth MacMillan had been a pupil at the Sadler's Wells, later The Royal Ballet School from 1945 to 1946.
The material in this file comprises a handwritten letter from Sherilyn Kennedy and the Concerto cast, thanking him for letting them perform his ballet, letters from Directors Michael Wood, James Monahan, Merle Park and Norman Morrice. There is an invitation to a Garden Party at White Lodge to celebrate the 80th birthday of Ninette de Valois, n.d but 1978, and a three page Director's Report to the Governors of The Royal Ballet, 30 Mar 1981

The Royal Opera House commissioned Nigel Gosling (Alexander Bland) to write a history of The Royal Ballet as part of the celebrations for the Company's 50th anniversary. This file contains a letter from Nigel Gosling to Kenneth MacMillan asking some specific questions, 21 Jan 1980, and a letter from Ken Davison enclosing pages from the book and asking for comments which has pencil notes by Deborah MacMillan on it expressing Kenneth MacMillan's concerns, 6 Feb 1980. The 35 pages of Gosling's text have some corrections by Ken Davison, and question marks in pencil and a couple of one word comments by Kenneth MacMillan in the margins

This file contains:

1. One interdepartmental communication giving details of the journalists travelling with the Company
2. Map of Japan
3. Four typed pages of the performance and travel schedule, 17 Apr - 25 May 1975
4. Brown paper envelope for room key for the New Otani Hotel and Tower, Tokyo
5. 10 typed pages of details for the tour, listing hotels, theatre, transport and restaurants, and also highlighting any potential issues

A typed daily performance and travel schedule for the tour, with a covering typed note, 16 Apr - 20 Jun 1983

This file contains

1. one card wallet from Pall Mall Travel enclosing tickets for the QEII sailing from Southampton to New York, a postcard and embarkation notice, and an invoice from the Royal Opera House for travel costs
2. Daily programmes for activities on board, 22 - 26 May 1972
3. Passenger list for the sailing from New York to Southampton. The list includes Mr Kenneth MacMillan and Miss Deborah Williams
4. A luggage sticker for Deborah Williams, 8 Jun 1972
5. Nine menus for meals on board the Paquebot 'France', Transatlantique French Line sailing from New York to Southampton, one for breakfast, one each for lunch on 8 and 12 Jun, and for lunch and dinner on 9, 10 and 11 Jun 1972, including the Captain's Dinner on 11 Jun. Large with coloured illustration on front cover