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1. Three School Reports from Great Yarmouth Grammar School giving results in various subjects plus details of detentions for unsatisfactory work and unsatisfactory conduct, two for Form 3L, 20 Oct 1942 and 10 Nov 1942, one for Form 4L, 10th Nov
2. Form letter from the Clerk to the Governors of Great Yarmouth Grammar School Foundation confirming a grant of £3.0.0 per annum for Kenneth MacMillan, 12 Sep 1942
3. Photocopied pages from two issues of The Chronicle, the magazine of Great Yarmouth Grammar School. Issue No 24, July 1943 includes Kenneth Macmillan (sic) achievements in Athletic Sports, 1941, Swimming Sports and the School Concert. Issue No 26, July 1945 includes Kenneth Macmillan achievements in the High Jump, winner of the Junior Art and Junior French Reading Prize, and 'a rather unusual achievement is the winning of a Scholarship in Ballet at Sadler's Wells'
4. Two letters from Headmaster of Great Yarmouth High School, Michael Leigh:
   8 Feb 1983 asking if Mr MacMillan will consider returning to Yarmouth in order to officially launch the new drama
   Studio at the School.
   25 Jul 1984 asking if Sir Kenneth will consider being voted President of the St George's Arts Centre in Great
   Yarmouth.
5. Printed form from St George's Arts Centre informing members of an Extraordinary General Meeting. With handwritten note on the form from Valerie Jordan, Membership Secretary, reminding Kenneth MacMillan that he used to be in her father, E.T.Bowles's troup at the Empire Theatre, Great Yarmouth
6. Typed reminiscences from Victor Stowers, former school fellow of Kenneth MacMillan:
   Forty Years On - Evacuation 1940-1944 describing leaving Great Yarmouth Grammar School for
   Nottinghamshire, the arrangements for fostering, continuing school work and returning in 1944. Typed on two
   sides of a single sheet
   Untitled reminiscences of meeting Kenneth MacMillan for the first time, their experiences during evacuation,
   school years and Kenneth MacMillan's dancing. Four typed pages, dated May 1997
7. Handwritten letter from Madge Jelley who knew Kenneth MacMillan and Victor Stowers when they were evacuated to Mr and Mrs Selby, friends of her parents. Enclosing photographs of Victor Stowers, Mr and Mrs Selby and Mrs Jelley's mother, Emily Butler

The score for Mayerling was commissioned by Kenneth MacMillan from John/Jack Lanchbery, who used arrangements of music by Franz Liszt. This file comprises of

1. One handwritten airmail letter to Iris Law, Administrative Assistant at The Royal Ballet, about starting work on the score. 8 Nov 1976
2. One typed and four handwritten letters from Jack Lanchbery to Kenneth MacMillan, plus one telegram and one photocopy of a letter in the Royal Opera House Archives, discussing the score, its state of preparation, and changes and cuts requested by Kenneth MacMillan. The final letter discusses cuts for when the ballet tours to America and the request for a new song
3. One page of a handwritten list of Extracts Agreed, in an unidentified hand
4. One page of a handwritten letter from Bernadette [Greevy] to Kenneth MacMillan expressing regret that her song needs to be cut, with alternative suggestions, 28 Mar 1978

This Library series contains printed material collected by Kenneth and Deborah MacMillan. The material primarily documents the life and career of Kenneth MacMillan, with some material that has been collected for research and personal interest.
Additional material collected by Deborah MacMillan, includes books on ballet from the Ursula Moreton Library that were purchased from a book seller.
Books have been added to the RAD Library, except where they duplicated existing copies, and can be found through the RAD Library Catalogue. Books with dedications have been retained. A list of Books in the Kenneth MacMillan archive collection can be found:
Programmes and periodicals have been retained where they did not duplicate existing holdings in the RAD Library so the extent of the Archive was originally greater than is recorded here.
Press cuttings include interviews with and articles on Kenneth MacMillan, previews and reviews of the ballets and plays he worked on, obituaries and tributes following his death.
This series also contains commercial recordings of vinyl records of music used by Kenneth MacMillan for his ballets.

The material in this series includes three albums of cuttings, possibly created by Kenneth MacMillan, plus files of loose cuttings collected by Kenneth and Deborah MacMillan, some forwarded to them by the authors or by ballet company press officers. The material comprises original cuttings and photocopies and are from daily newspapers, weekend supplements, academic journals and subject periodicals

One note book with ENGLISH - MACMILLAN handwritten on the spine and THE BALLET A PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDING on the front cover. The contents include illustrations from magazines and periodicals, with the dancers' names sometimes handwritten on the page but no credits or dates for the cuttings. The cuttings cover British and European ballet companies from the 1900s to the 1930s, including Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Adeline Genee, Phyllis Bedells, the Markova-Dolin Company and the Vic-Wells Ballet

One photograph album of press cuttings including two pages of cuttings for performances of The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella by Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1951, and then exclusively for ballets by Kenneth MacMillan from Somnambulism to House of Birds. The album includes programmes for the first performances of Somnambulism and Laiderette by the Sadler's Wells Choreographic Group, three telegrams for the first night of The Great Detective and a flyer for the first performance by Ballet Rambert of Laiderette at Sadler's Wells Theatre.

This album contains a one-page typed scenario for Le Baiser de la fee, programmes for Danses concertantes and House of Birds at Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1955, the first night of Noctambules at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1954, American Ballet Theatre in Winter's Eve at the Teatro Nacional de San Carlo, Lisbon, in 1957 and in Journey at the Phoenix Theatre in 1957. There is an invitation to the American premiere of Winter's Eve at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 1957, and two flyers for Sadler's Wells Theatre, London and the Gaumont Theatre, Southampton in 1955. Correspondence comprises two letters from Kenneth Clark, one handwritten to Kenneth MacMillan enclosing a copy of a typed letter to the Observer newspaper, complaining about Richard Buckle's review of House of Birds, a typed letter from Norman Tucker, Director of Sadler's Wells Theatre commissioning a new work from MacMillan 2 Sep 1954, an autograph letter from Margot Fonteyn on Panamanian Embassy, London headed notepaper, sending her and Tito's congratulations on House of Birds 17 July, and a typed letter on Royal Opera House headed notepaper, praising his ballet, 'Madame was very pleased with the whole evening', from Jane [?], n.d.