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Photographs of The Paris Opera Ballet in Metaboles, The Four Seasons and Song of the Earth, and one photograph of Kenneth MacMillan rehearsing dancers

Barry Kay provided the designs for the new production of The Four Seasons mounted by Kenneth MacMillan for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1978. These two pages of drawings in pen and ink are for the characters that announce the seasons. Summer is led by Pan with three dwarf attendants, two centaurs and a child centaur; Autumn is led by Pomone with a child attendant, six attendants drawing Bacchus on a canon and three grotesque children; Winter is led by Diana with two cherubs, four attendants carrying a male dancer as a lion in a cage with a further four attendants helping to carry the cage; Spring is led by Venus with six attendants and Cupid.

One script for Partly Furnished by Barry L HIllman. The typed booklet contains quoted from reviews of the performance at the Dublin Festival in 1971, one page of notes and 14 pages of script

Printed music score for Passacaglia Variations on a Ground for unaccompanied Violin by Richard Tony Arnell, with handwritten dedication on cover, Happy Christmas! to Ken from Tony Dec '60, published and copyright by Hinrichsen Edition Ltd., London and New York, 1960

Kenneth MacMillan created the pas de deux Pavane for The Royal Ballet which premiered on 13 Jan 1973 at the Royal Opera House, London. The material comprises

1. One handwritten note to Kenneth MacMillan from Anthony Crickmay, photographer, thanking him for Pavane. Undated
2. One typed letter from John Percival, dance critic at The Times, on TheTimes Newspapers Ltd letterheaded notepaper, to Kenneth MacMillan apologising for the dismissive reference to Pavane in Saturday's paper and explaining that his review had been cut. With envelope. 17 Feb 1980