GILBERT AND SULLIVAN

Part 1: The Correspondence, Diaries, Literary Manuscripts and Prompt Copies of W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) from the British Library, London

Contents of Reels

REEL 1

A. PLAYS AND LIBRETTI

Add Ms 49289. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 221).

Add Ms 49290. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. i+184).
Add Ms 49291. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. i+36).

REEL 2

Add Ms 49292. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. i+326).
Add Ms 49293. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 35).
Add Ms 49294. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. i+136).

REEL 3

Add Ms 49295. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. i+126).

Add Ms 49296. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 15).
Add Ms 49297. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i+21).
Add Ms 49298. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. X (ff. 126).
Add Ms 49299. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XI (ff. 263).

Add Ms 49300. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XII (ff. 99).

REEL 4

Add Ms 49301. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XIII (ff. 132).

Add Ms 49302. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XIV (ff. 133).

Add Ms 49303. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XV (ff. 50).
Add Ms 49304. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XVI (ff. ii+69).

Add Ms 49305. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XVII (ff. 33).
Add Ms 49306. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XVIII (ff. 133).

REEL 5

Add Ms 49307. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. 242).

Add Ms 49308. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XX (ff. 248).

REEL 6

Add Ms 49310. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXII (ff. 85).

Add Ms 49311. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXIII (ff. 123).

Add Ms 49312. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXIV (ff. 157).

Add Ms 49313. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXV (ff. ii+136).

REEL 7

Add Ms 49314. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXVI (ff. 135).

Add Ms 49315. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXVII (ff. 108).
Add Ms 49316. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXVIII (ff. 211).

Add Ms 49317. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXIX (ff. 184).

REEL 8

B. MUSIC

Add Ms 49318. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXX (ff. 79).

C. SKETCH-BOOKS AND DRAWINGS

Add Ms 49319, A, B. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXXI A, B (ff. 30, 18).

Add Ms 49320, A, B. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXXII A, B (ff. 8, 56).

Add Ms 49321. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXXIII (ff. 58).

REEL 9

D. DIARIES

Add Ms 49322. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXXIV (ff. 262). 1878.

Add Ms 49323. Vol. XXXV (ff. 226). 29 Dec. 1904-1905.

REEL 10

Add Ms 49324. Vol. XXXVI (ff. 220). 1906.

Add Ms 49325. Vol. XXXVII (ff. i+222). 1907.

Add Ms 49326. Vol. XXXVIII (ff. 222). 1908.

REEL 11

Add Ms 49327. Vol. XXXIX (ff. 224). 1909.

Add Ms 49328. Vol. XL (ff. 222). 1910.

Add Ms 49329. Vol. XLI (ff. i+221). Jan.-28 May 1911.

REEL 12

E. CORRESPONDENCE

Add Ms 49330. Vol. XLII (ff. 164). 1866-1874, n.d.

Add Ms 49331. Vol. XLIII (ff. 236). 1875-1880, n.d.

REEL 13

Add Ms 49332. Vol. XLIV (ff. 258). 1881-1911, n.d.

Add Ms 49333. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XLV (ff. 238).

REEL 14

Add Ms 49334. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XLVI (ff. 285).
Add Ms 49335. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XLVII (ff. 199).

REEL 15

Add Ms 49336. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XLVIII (ff. 154).
Add Ms 49337. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XLIX (ff. 206).

REEL 16

Add Ms 49338. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. L (ff. 1-377, 378-792).

REEL 17

Add Ms 49339. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LI (ff. 425).

REEL 18

Add Ms 49340. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LII (ff. i+87).

Add Ms 49345. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LVII (ff. 151).

F. MISCELLANEA

Add Ms 49346. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LVIII (ff. 77).

Add Ms 49347 A. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LIX A (ff. 22).

Add Ms 49347 B. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LIX B (ff. 22).

Add Ms 49348. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LX (ff. 171).

Add Ms 49349. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LXI (ff. i-79).

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G. PHOTOGRAPHS

Add Ms 49350 A, B. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LXII A, B.

Add Ms 49351 A-F. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LXIII A-F.

Add Ms 49352. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LXIV (ff. 24).

Add Ms 49353 A-B. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. LXV A-B

Materials excluded from this microfilm edition

49309. GILBERT PAPERS. Vol. XXI (ff. 177). Set of proofs, with pencil corrections, paginated [1]-155, followed (ff. 138-177) by an imperfect set with pencil notes referring to the original edition of The Savoy Stories, ed. E. Gatliff, Melbourne, 1935, evidently for the revised edition, 1950. Printed.

49341-49344. GILBERT PAPERS. Vols. LIII-LVI. Letters of sympathy, etc., to Lady Gilbert and others on her husband's death on 29 May 1911. Alphabetically arranged. Four volumes.

Related material of interest at the British Library

53777-53779. SULLIVAN MANUSCRIPTS: scores of the comic operas 'Patience' and 'The Gondoliers' by Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, to Libretti by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert; 1881, 1889. The papers of W. S. Gilbert are Add. 49289-49353. The scores are discussed in P. M. Cadell, 'Patience and The Gondoliers', BMQ (1967-1968)

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