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Letter from Jonathan Williams [Literary Agency], 2 Mews, 10 Sandycove Avenue West, Sandycove, county Dublin, attaching a corrected version of Chapters 1 and 2 of The Keeper of Absalom’s Island (for which see P31/1/1/3/1/1-2) and suggesting a meeting to discuss prospective publishers for the text.

Programme of a matinee performance by the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included Theme Classique; Prelude; The New Hat; Serenade; A Study in Plastic Movement; Once Upon a Time; Suite de Danses; When the Cat’s Away; Pas de Trois; Russian Court Dance; When Philidda Flouts Him; Ballet Suite from Carmen; Holiday; Prelude Oriental and Fedelma.

Programme of performances by Sara Payne Ballet at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included The Scarecrow; Lusmore; Dances; Faust; Doomed Cuchullan; Table d’Hote Or…; A Fiddler’s Story and The Snow Queen.

Programme of performances of Molière’s classic comédie-ballet Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The dancers included Sara Payne, who was also responsible for the choreography.

Programme of performances of ballet directed by Sara Payne at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included Act II of Casse Noisette; Russian Court Dance; Mairin de Barra/ Thankye Ma’am Says Dan; Waltz from Les Sylphides; Czardas; Tarantelle; Van Dieman’s Land; Pas Seul; Silent Noon; Waltz; A Fiddler’s Story; Ich Grolle Nicht and Liebeslieder.

Scrapbook containing reviews and other press cuttings relating to Sara Payne and the Payne School of Dance and Mime, providing a detailed insight into the early years of ballet in Ireland. One of the items is loose.

Yeats, William Butler. Four Plays for Dancers. London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1921. Lacking dust jacket. Signed on the inside by Sara Payne, and by the original owner of the book, Abbey Theatre actor Joseph O’Neill. The pages contain handwritten annotations for possible movement and sound direction, and the players’ cues for the play At the Hawks Well.