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Two dance certificates awarded to Kenneth MacMillan at the Derbyshire Dance Festival, June 1944

One autograph manuscript for Right Shall Tiumph! (sic) a Play Written and Produced by K. MacMillan, 19 Aug 1941.
Written in pencil on lined accounting paper. Cover and nine pages of text, with list on reverse of cover

11 pages of notes by Kenneth MacMillan for ballets. Pages are taken from a filofax, from diaries and one uses a Company List for American Ballet Theatre. The pages contain rows of , numbers and descriptions of movements, some with names of dancers. In pencil, biro and felt pen
Two pages of notation score paper with handwritten notes, some in Kenneth MacMillan's hand, pencil and blue felt pen (large)
One envelope with lists of dancers' names for 3 movements on reverse, in pencil
One page photocopied from an encyclopedia with the entry for moon worship outlined in pink marker pen

One page from Complete Book of the Great Ballets giving the plot of The Miraculous Mandarin, with details of the first performance by New York City Ballet in 1951
One typed letter from Iris [Law} on Royal Opera House headed notepaper, enclosing a scenario that Sir Fred[erick Ashton] was forwarding, a play be Middleton, 18 Dec 1964, but scenario not included
One page from The Star newspaper, 26 Jun 1958. One side has the story of Pocahontoas - Princess Broken Heart, the other reviews for recent film releases including Ice Cold in Alex

Five pages of Very Preliminary Notes for Lost Boys/ or Lost Boy, by Andrew Birkin, author of J.M.Barrie and The Lost Boys, a BBC docudrama broadcast in 1978. The notes outline the possible action and characters, and end with Notes on the Notes

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

Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet Le Baiser de la fee for The Royal Ballet which premiered on 12 Apr 1960 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The material comprises:

1. A handwritten letter from Ninette de Valois with some suggestions for improvements, particularly to the Svetlana Beriosova role as the fairy. Undated
2. Telegram from Leo Lerman in New York to Kenneth MacMillan at the King's Theatre, Glasgow. 'Baiser Marvelous as Ever', 29 Sep 1960