Partie 3 - Reference Material and Correspondence

Four handwritten letters, two handwritten lists, 98 photocopies of typed pages, 12 typed pages, 13 pages of carbon copy of typed pages, six typed letters, 15 pages of printed music manuscript, one printed booklet and one postcard

This file includes reference materials, pre-production correspondence and some post-production material. It comprises:

1. Three typed pages of biography and two b/w photographs of two ballroom dancers, Peter Maxwell and Vicki Regan
2. Photocopies of reference images of America in the 1920s, plus one page about Kuhle Wampe oder Wem Gehort die Welt? the film worked on by Bertolt Brecht, Germany 1931.
3. One page typed letter from Helen McMurray to Kenneth MacMillan, researcher, enclosing the Auden translation and a plain prose crib from Berlitz Translations, 20.8.1982
4. One handwritten and two typed letters from Helen McMurray to Kenneth MacMillan, enclosing handwritten rehearsal schedule 22.9.1982, timings and some press cuttings 25.11.1982 and draft submission to Equity re Lesley Browne 26.11.1982
5. One typed letter from Steve Hawes, Producer, to Kenneth MacMillan, enclosing information on what was happening in Germany and to the Brechts in the months leading up to the first performance of the Seven Deadlies in Paris, 26.1.1983
6. One handwritten letter from Christopher Logue to Kenneth MacMillan, enclosing copies of correspondence with Granada Television re Logue's commission to prepare a new translation of The Seven Deadly Sins, with a photocopy of his translation of the Prologue, 2.6.1983
7. One typed letter from Steve Hawes to Kenneth MacMillan with photocopy of biography of Kenneth MacMillan for ITV's Handbook, 13.6.1983
8. One typed letter from Denis Forman, Chairman of Granada Television, 22.6.1983
9. Photocopies of six pages of script with 15 pages of printed music and a covering note from Steve Hawes, asking for Kenneth MacMillan's opinion, undated
10. One handwritten letter from Helen McMurray to Kenneth MacMillan enclosing photocopies of press reviews June 1983-April 1984, letter dated 1.5.1984
11. Eight page soft-back booklet with extending covers produced by Granada Television, containing colour reproductions of some of the costume designs by Yolanda Sonnabend, cast list and production credits, brief background and selected biographies, with a handwritten compliments slip from Helen McMurray, undated
12. One handwritten postcard from Michael Leonard (surname illegible) congratulating Kenneth MacMillan on the new work, undated