The late Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the English libretto for Les Misérables, felt he was not given enough credit for transforming the original French musical into the hugely popular English-language version, letters have revealed.
They were found in the archive of Kretzmer, who died in 2020 aged 95, after it was donated to Cambridge University Library.
A letter that Kretzmer wrote to theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh in 1987 referenced "unpleasant actions taken by others to downgrade my credit and contribution".
"I think it will clarify matters if I spell out, for the first and I hope only time, the straight and verifiable facts about the authorship of the English version of Les Miserables," he wrote.
"Not many people have had the opportunity to compare my English version, page for page, with the original Paris libretto.
