Manuscript Division des Division manuscrits ROBERTSON DAVIES MG 30, D 362 Finding Aid No. 1763 / Instrument de recherche no 1763 Prepared in 1988 and revised between 1991 and 1998 by staff of the Social and Cultural Archives Service. Revised in 2008 by staff of the Literary Arts Section. Préparé en 1988 et revisé entre 1991 et 1998 par le personnel du service des Archives sociales et culturelles. Revisé en 2008 par le personnel de la section des Arts Littéraires. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS MANUSCRIPTS - DRAMA Children of the Moon......................................................1 The Emperor's New Clothes.................................................1 Granny’s First Play ........................................................1 Harlequin Up the Spout ....................................................1 The Man Who Had No Personality ...........................................1 Meat Market........................................................... 1,2 Miscellaneous............................................................2 The Peeled Eye...........................................................2 Playwright's Plight........................................................2 Three Gypsies............................................................2 Prologue to the Good Natur'd Man ...........................................2 Nativity Play.............................................................2 Overlaid ................................................................3 Eros at Breakfast .........................................................3 Fortune, My Foe........................................................ 3,4 Hope Deferred ...........................................................4 The Voice of the People....................................................4 At My Heart's Core ..................................................... 4,5 A Masque of Aesop .......................................................5 The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus.................................................5 A Jig for the Gypsy ..................................................... 5,6 Hunting Stuart ...........................................................6 Bartholomew Fair....................................................... 6,7 The Merry Wives of Windsor ...............................................7 A Masque of Mr. Punch....................................................7 Charlottetown Prologue .................................................. 7,8 Christmas Dance Show . 8 The Pageant of the Rival Holidays............................................8 The Centennial Play..................................................... 8,9 Pretty Polly Oliver, Ph.D. or A Maiden in Massey...............................9 General Confession ......................................................10 King Phoenix ........................................................ 10,11 Brothers in the Black Art..................................................11 Question Time ..........................................................11 Pontiac and the Green Man ................................................12 Prologue to the Critic .....................................................12 Additional Material . 62,63,101,102 Additional Material, third series . 122,123 Additional Material,fourth series . iii .130,131 LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS - SHORT STORIES Miscellaneous...........................................................12 "Mr. Pagnini Complies"................................................ 12,13 "A Christmas Carol Reharmonized" .........................................13 The Harper of the Stones..................................................13 High Spirits .......................................................13,14,15 Additional Material. 63,64,102,103 Additional Material,third series. ... 131 LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS - SKETCHES The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks...........................................15 The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks.......................................15 Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack.......................................... 15,16 Additional Material. 64,92,103,104,118 Additional Material,third series. 131 LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS - NOVELS Tempest-Tost.....................................................16,17,104 Leaven of Malice.................................................... 17,104 Love and Libel. 17,18 A Mixture of Frailties ............................................ 19,64,65,104 Fifth Business.................................................. 19,20,65,104 The Manticore ..........................................................20 World of Wonders .............................................. 20,21,65,104 Deptford Trilogy. 21,22,104 The Rebel Angels.................................................... 22,104 What's Bred in the Bone.................................... 22,23,65,91,104,105 The Lyre of Orpheus ..........................................23,24,65,66,105 The Cornish Trilogy. 24 "A Forest of Feathers". 24 Manuscript Notebook on Novels and Plays. 24,25 Murther and Walking Spirits. 66,67,105 The Cunning Man. 67,68,105 Additional Material, third series. 131,132 LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS - ESSAYS, ADDRESSES AND ARTICLES Renown at Stratford......................................................25 Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded ..........................................25 Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd .........................................25 A Voice from the Attic ..............................................25,26,106 The Revels History of Drama in English, Vol. VI (1750-1880) ................. 26,27 iv One Half of Robertson Davies..............................................27 The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies........................................27 The Well-Tempered Critic .................................................27 The Mirror of Nature .................................................. 27,28 Subject: Stephen Leacock ........................................ 28,29,70,106 Subject: Shakespeare and Stratford Festival.......................... 29,30,70,106 New York Times Reviews.................................................30 Saturday Night Articles ............................................... 31,106 Toronto Star Articles ............................................ 31,70,71,106 Peterborough Examiner Articles .......................................31,69,70 University of Toronto Quarterly Reviews.....................................31 The Globe and Mail Articles ............................................ 32,69 Miscellaneous Articles and Reviews . 32,33,34,35,36,37,71,72,73,92,107,108,109,110,111 University Convocation Addresses ................................. 37,38,73,111 Miscellaneous Addresses. 38,39,40,41,73,74,112,113,114 C.B.C. Commentaries and Reviews. 68,69,114 Additional Material, third series. 123,124,125 Additional Material,fourth series. 132,133,134 Additional Material,fifth series . 152 MANUSCRIPTS AND CORRESPONDENCE-THESIS. 122 CORRESPONDENCE Personal ...............................................................42 Business ..........................................................42,59,91 Business - Requests . 59,60,61,62 Additional. 96,97,98,99,100,101 Additional Material,third series. 121,122 Additional Material, fourth series. 126,127,128,129,130 Personal(Additional) sub-series . 130 Business (Additional) sub-series . 137,138,139,140,147 Additional Material,fifth series . 142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151 BUSINESS AND PERSONAL FILES-WINDHOVER . 140,141,142,143,144,145,146 LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS - POETRY .........................................64 Additional Material Series. 132 SIR JOHN MARTIN-HARVEY COLLECTION Personal Correspondence ..............................74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,92 Productions. ..................................... 81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,93 Speeches and Articles .................................................. 89,92 Book of Martin Harvey. 90,93 General Theatre Material.......................................... 90,91,93,94 Sir Henry Irving Material............................................... 91,93 Family and Posthumous Material............................................91 MEMORABILIA. 92,118,119 Additional Material. 126 Additional Material,second series. 134,135,147 Travel Memorabilia . 152,153 Family Memorabilia . 153 POCKET NOTEBOOKS. 94 Additional Material Series. 136 DIARIES. 94,95,96 Additional Material. 119,120,121 Additional Material, second series . 163,164,165,166,167 TEACHING NOTES.........................................................114 CLIPPINGS. 114,115,116,117,119 Additional Material. 125, 126 Additional Material, second series. 135,136,146,147 SCRAPBOOKS. 117,118,119 Additional . 167,168 PHOTOGRAPHS Additional Material Series . 168,169,170 INVITATIONS AND EVENTS . 152 THEATRICAL FILES : CORRESPONDENCE , PHOTOGRAPHS, CLIPPINGS, SCRIPTS AND PROGRAMMES . i 154,155,156,157,158 BOOKS, PLAYS AND LIBRETTI SUBJECT FILES . 158,159,160,161,162,163 ii ROBERTSON DAVIES MG 30, D 362 Container File File Title Date LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS - DRAMA Children of the Moon 1 1 Original ts. script n.d. The Emperor's New Clothes 1 2 Carbon ts. script n.d. Granny’s First Play 1 3 Ms. draft; carbon ts. of revised script; original ts. with ms. n.d. revisions Harlequin Up the Spout 1 4 Original ts. with ms. revisions labelled "material for the n.d. OUDS smoker" (removed from TEMPEST-TOST notebook) The Man Who Had No Personality 1 5 Notebook containing ms. script; also ms. scenario and script n.d. for an untitled play Meat Market 2 ROBERTSON DAVIES FONDS