Archive of manuscripts and typescripts and a considerable part of the holograph diary kept on his visit to Tangier

Item author: Joe Orton
Item date: 1950 - 90
Grant Value: 8,000
Item cost: 60,000
Item date acquired: 1998
Item institution: Leicester University
Town/City: Leicester
County: Leicestershire

Collection contains 8 unpublished plays and novels written either by Orton or by Orton and Halliwell, as well as Ortons own typescripts of all his published plays, and annotated production scripts; Edna Welthorps letters and carbon copies of Ortons replies. There are also large numbers of press cuttings and personal memorablilia. Grant from the Philip Larkin Fund

Item Provenance
Family collection