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'Heil Cinderella' is a pantomime written by Cecil Beaton and John Sutro, and performed at the Michael Herbert Hall, Wilton, in the season 1939-1940. Beaton starred in the production, alongside Olga Lynn, as one of the ugly sisters. Includes typescript copies of Acts II and III; also includes photographs from the show, printed in 'The Bystander' [10 January 1940].

Typescript playscript; some additional pencil annotation suggests that the play may have been performed at Ashcombe, Beaton's country house. The names of those performing have also been written alongside the cast list, including Beaton and the fashion model, Olga Lynn (1882-1961).

Typescript short story, written by Beaton.

Includes notebooks, loose-leaf diary entries, and playscripts.

Contains handwritten copies of poems and quotations, including those written by Emily Dickinson, Michael Drayton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Herrick, Rupert Broke, D. H. Lawrence, Walter de la Mare, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Shakespeare, Richard Lovelace, Rene Descartes, Nietzsche, William Congreve, Andrewe Marvell, Proust, W.H. Davies, Alexander Pope, John Keats, W. B. Yeats. Also includes food recipes and several photographs. Some inserted pieces are loose-leaf. A separate folder of material has been created to preserve the material originally inserted at the front of the book. This folder includes: 1/ A handwritten copy of the poems, "Pain has an element of blank" and "For such ecstatic instant" by Emily Dickinson; 2/ Typscript passages from the book of Isaiah, entitled "In the Orchard at Bulbridge"; read by Iris Tree for the scattering of Simon Fleet's ashes at Bulbridge House, Wilton, Salisbury [13 January 1967]; 3/ Assorted typescript and handwritten recipes, some sent to Beaton, others written by Beaton himself 4/ Handwritten notes concerning T.E. Lawrence; 5/ Handwritten copies of poems by Emily Dickinson, including "Not with a club the heart is broken"; "This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies"; "I'm sorry for the Dead today"; "The murmur of a bee"; "She slept beneath a tree"; "The show is not the show"; "The overtakelessness of those who have accomplished Death"; "The heart asks pleasure first"; 6/ Handwritten poem, "La Dame aux Camelias was a professional failure"; 7/ Two typescript religious clippings, including John Donne and St Francis of Assisi; 8/ Newspaper clipping; small extract from a first-person narrative, describing an outing to buy flowers the morning after a Zeppelin attack.

Contains miscellaneous notes.

Contains miscellaneous notes. A large number of pages appear to have been cut out.

Contains handwritten, untitled draft of a play.

Contains four notebooks.

Alphabetically-indexed notebook, containing pen portraits.