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One colour photograph of Kenneth MacMillan and Peter Wright in a mount dedicated 'Darling Kenneth Souvenir of your first triumphant visit to Rio, love Margot [Fonteyn]. Rio 1973'. Two black and white photographs of Margot Fonteyn receiving an award, in costume for The Sleeping Beauty, in South America, one colour photograph of an open air theatre, five colour photographs date stamped 12 May 1975 in the Far East, one colour photograph of John Tooley and Charlotte MacMillan eating, five colour photographs of Kenneth MacMillan and Peter Wright with Japanese women in kimonos, in Japan, one black and white photograph of Antoinette Sibley and HRH Princess Margaret at a dinner in New York

Photograph of the first performance of Valley of Shadows

Photographs in the rehearsal studio and one production photograph

The correspondence in this file is from Ninette de Valois to Kenneth MacMillan, January to October 1957. It covers the period when MacMillan was working with American Ballet Theatre as well as appearing with The Royal Ballet in Cinderella and creating new works for both companies. De Valois writes about the difficulties of making this work, sends encouragement following adverse press criticism, taking Solitaire on the US tour and casting, the difficulties of obtaining the music rights for Le Baiser de la fee, discussion with [Humphrey] Searle about possible composers, 4 Jan 1957-20 Oct 1957, n.d.

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