Material relating to Sadler's Wells during the war years. It includes:
- Correspondence with Tyrone Guthrie and others.
- Contracts between Cross and Guthrie, Annual Reports for 1943 and 1944, with a report from Cross as Director of Opera.
- Lists of the management team, with proposed changes.
- Payments to singers.
- Press cuttings about the operas on tour.
- 2 standard equity contracts from 1941.
- Lists of receipts from the Grand Theatre and Opera House in Leeds and the Royal Hippodrome, Preston.
- A programme for the Marriage of Figaro and La Traviata performed at Buxton Opera Festival 14-19 October 1940.
This file also includes material concerning the return to Sadler's Wells in 1945.