urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00599 Terence Rattigan: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham Harry Ransom Center, 2011 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 12 May 2011 Finding aid written in English. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Rattigan, Terence, 1911-1977 Terence Rattigan Collection 1960-1963, undated 1 box (.42 linear feet) Includes manuscripts for First Episode and The V.I.P.s by the English playwright Terence Rattigan. English Manuscript Collection MS-3406 Access:

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Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

 Container List Works: 1.1 First episode (play), by Rattigan and Philip Heimann, carbon typescript with heavy handwritten revisions and annotations in various hands, 132 pages, undated. Production copy. 1.2-3 The V.I.P.s. (screenplay), handwritten manuscript / original version with revisions and signed note, 288 pages, April 1960. Note dated October 1963. Explanatory Note Concerning Manuscript Collections Cataloged in the Card Catalog

Prior to 1990 when archival cataloging procedures were adopted at the Ransom Center, all manuscript collections were described in a card catalog.

Organization of Collections:

Manuscripts for each author collection were organized into four categories: Works: manuscripts by the author, arranged alphabetically by title; Letters: the author's outgoing correspondence, arranged alphabetically by recipient name; Recipient: the author's incoming correspondence, arranged alphabetically by the author of the letter; and Miscellaneous: all other manuscripts and correspondence, arranged alphabetically by creator.

Materials that did not fit into these categories, such as art, photographs, books, and near-print materials such as newspaper clippings, were dispersed to other Ransom Center collections for cataloging and storage.

Abbreviations Used in Descriptions:

The symbols below were used in combinations. For example ALS means autograph letter signed; Tccms means typed carbon copy manuscript, etc.

A = autograph (i.e., handwritten) T = typed S = signed I = initialed Ms = manuscript Mss = manuscripts L = letter FL = form letter N = note D = document C = card PC = post card cc = carbon copy p = page pp = pages l = leaf ll = leaves nd = no date inc d = incomplete date