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Drury Lane Theatre. Order from Drury Lane Theatre concerning tickets [manuscript], 1722 September 22.

Title: Order from Drury Lane Theatre concerning tickets [manuscript], 1722 September 22.

Sir Richard Steele, Mr. Wilks, Mr. Booth, and Mr. Cibber to be allowed 12 tickets each every week to give to their friends to see plays gratis. Signed by Cibber, Booth, and Wilks.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713393424 View

Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757. Colley Cibber letter to Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington, 1747 June 29.

Title: Colley Cibber letter to Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington, 1747 June 29.

Cibber writes to Pilkington encouraging her to write her memoirs and refers to his own Character and conduct of Cicero considered [1747].

ArchivalResource: 3 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37290455 View

Aston, Tony, ca. 1682-ca. 1753. A transcript of A brief supplement to Colley Cibber, Esq., his lives of the late famous actors and actresses ... by Tony Aston [manuscript], ca. 1800.

Title: A transcript of A brief supplement to Colley Cibber, Esq., his lives of the late famous actors and actresses ... by Tony Aston [manuscript], ca. 1800.

ArchivalResource: 14 leaves ; 21 x 14 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233984338 View

Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Title: Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Letters and a few manuscripts of prominent literary figures, statesmen, and politicians from the United States and Europe collected by American professor of English Albert Stephens Borgman.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00677/catalog View

Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Der blinde Knabe. Aus dem Englischen / von Craigher.

Title: Der blinde Knabe. Aus dem Englischen / von Craigher. [1825 Apr.?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (3 p.) ; 24 x 30.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270569263 View

Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01782/catalog View

Carents, William, 17th/18th cent. Order to pay Edward Laughlin from William Carents [manuscript], 17th or 18th century.

Title: Order to pay Edward Laughlin from William Carents [manuscript], 17th or 18th century.

£20 for the great scene room at Drury Lane. Signed by C. Cibber, B. Booth, and Robert Wilks.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713393451 View

Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899,. Autograph letters signed from Augustin Daly, New York, to various people [manuscript], ca. 1888-1889.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Augustin Daly, New York, to various people [manuscript], ca. 1888-1889.

Correspondents: Mr. Blackwall and Laurence Hutton. (p. 147) Memorandum to Blackwall directs him to make up only 6 books with the prints of Woffington and Cibber [presumably a reference to Daly's Woffington, a tribute] and return all remaining sheets and remainders. (p. 150) to Hutton asks him to arrange a meeting to discuss the "Saturday supper business," possibly a reference to the supper for Booth which took place on March 30, 1889.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281643266 View

Drury Lane Theatre. Bills and receipts of Drury Lane Theatre [manuscript], 1713/14-1716.

Title: Bills and receipts of Drury Lane Theatre [manuscript], 1713/14-1716.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230416034 View

Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823. Autograph manuscript of Kemble's parts in 34 plays in the hand of John Philip Kemble [manuscript], 1783-1805.

Title: Autograph manuscript of Kemble's parts in 34 plays in the hand of John Philip Kemble [manuscript], 1783-1805.

On all but nine of the parts he has noted the theater at which the production opened (23 Drury Lane, 1 Covent Garden, 1 Haymarket); with the date of first performance (23 Nov. 1783 to 29 May 1799) on 22 he has noted the date of first performance (Nov. 23, 1783, to May 29, 1799); on five he has noted the date of a second production at Covent Garden (Nov. 17, 1803, to Oct. 25, 1805). Ten are Shakespeare plays: T.a.11 Macbeth (D.L. Mar. 31, 1785), T.a.13 Richard III (no theater or date), T.a.17 King Lear (D.L. Jan. 21, 1788), T.a. 23 Coriolanus (no theater or date), T.a.25 King John (D.L. Dec. 10, 1783), T.a.30 Merchant of Venice (D.L. Jan. 22, 1784), T.a.34 Much ado about nothing (D.L. Apr. 30, 1788), T.a.35 Measure for measure (D.L., no date), T.a.38 Henry V (no theater or date), T.a.39 As you like it (D.L. Feb. 14, 1799; C.G. Oct. 25, 1805). Two others are Elizabethan plays: Massinger's Roman Actor (T.a.29) and Fletcher's Rule a wife (T.a.20). The remaining 22 are Restoration or 18th-century plays: Mrs. Centlivre's The wonder (T.a.40), Colman's Mountaineers (T.a.18), Congreve's Double dealer (T.a.8), Love for love (T.a.24) and Mourning bride, (T.a.31), Cumberland's Wheel of fortune (T.a.16), Greatheed's The regent (T.a.33), Hartson's Countess of Salisbury (T.a.36), Kotzebue's The Stranger (T.a.37) and Pizzarro (T.a.41), Lee's Alexander the great (T.a.10) and Theodosius (T.a.26), Moore's The Gamester (T.a.28) Murphy's Grecian daughter (T.a.27), Otway's Venice preserved (T.a.12), Philip's Distressed mother (T.a.21), Rowe's Fair penitent (T.a.32) and Tamerlane (T.a.22), Southerne's Isabella, or, The fatal marriage, adapted by Garrick (T.a.19), Vanbrugh and Cibber's Provoked husband (T.a.14), Wycherley's Plain dealer (T.a.9) and Young's The revenge (T.a.15).

ArchivalResource: 34 v. ; 22.5 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263097794 View

Wharton, Betty,. Betty Wharton collection of theatrical autographs, 1707-1869.

Title: Betty Wharton collection of theatrical autographs, 1707-1869.

Includes theatrical letters, particularly from the 18th- and 19th-century English stage, collected by Wharton. Correspondence includes letters of Colley Cibber, Robert William Elliston, John Fawcett, David Garrick, Dorothy Jordan, Adelaide Kemble, Frances Anne Kemble, John Philip Kemble, and Charles Mathews, among others. Also includes manuscript and printed documents and signed printed tickets.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122565289 View

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letter signed : [London], to the Earl of Orrery, [1743 Jan. 13].

Title: Autograph letter signed : [London], to the Earl of Orrery, [1743 Jan. 13].

Regarding the controversy of a Doctor of Divinity having been unexpectedly awarded to Mr. Warburton and the ensuing revocation due to the dissent of others involved; asking on behalf of Dr. King if he would have Lord Arran [also known as the Duke of Ormonde] send a recommendation, in hopes of renewing the process; indicating that he and Lady O. are missed in England and describing this sentiment at length; discussing various health issues; mentioning his strong opinion of Cibber.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.), bound ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700521240 View

Philbrick, Norman, 1913-. Irving/Terry/Craig collection, 1715-1984.

Title: Irving/Terry/Craig collection, 1715-1984.

Part of the Norman D. and Geraldine Womack Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, the collection contains the archives of Sir Henry Irving, Dame Ellen Terry and Edward Gordon Craig, and is rich in sources for the study of dramatic arts and theater history. It includes diaries, scapbooks, typescripts, manuscripts, photographs, newspaper clippings, letters written by prominent theatrical and literary figures, theater programs, playbills, prospectuses, proofs, theatrical designs, and original wood engravings by Craig, notably his illustrations for the Cranach Press edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet published in 1930. The collection also contains books and journals on dramatic arts and theater history, including the journal The mask; 2 sound cassettes of the reminiscences of Terry, Irving and Craig, and second copies of both; and 1 gold-colored medal with the inscription "200th anniversary of the Stratford Jubilee, 1769-1969."

ArchivalResource: 38 linear ft.430 v. ; 14-42 cm.4 sound cassettes : analog, 1 7/8 ips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52006581 View

Miscellaneous theatrical papers

Title: Miscellaneous theatrical papers

Letters, photographs, and other documents by individuals associated with the theater.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01596/catalog View

Autograph File, C

Title: Autograph File, C

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (29 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01426/catalog View

Waller family. Papers, 1737-1912.

Title: Papers, 1737-1912.

Papers associated with Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), lawyer and judge. Included are appointments (1737-1743) of Benjamin Waller to offices in James City and Gloucester Counties, Virginia, and in the House of Burgesses; a deed (1743) between Benjamin Waller and Mann Page for Williamsburg land; poems to Waller from Henry Wood and Colley Cibber, Jr.; and insurance policies for the property of the George Backnall family in Norfolk, Virginia. Also includes a printed sermon, preached by Reverend John Camm, on the death of William Nelson (1772); and a plan of Richard Blow's home, with genealogical information on the Blow family.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. and 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25236432 View

Free Library of Philadelphia Collection of Literary Manuscripts, 1666-1990

Title: Free Library of Philadelphia Collection of Literary Manuscripts 1666-1990

This collection contains letters, manuscript fragments, autographs, and other documents by famous authors. The material dates from 1666 to 1990. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by the authors to various friends with some letters to editors or critics. There is an even mix of American and European authors present.

ArchivalResource: 23 Linear feet

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/FLP_FLPRBDLITERARY View

Lowe, Robert William, 1853-1902,. Autograph letters signed and intialled to R.W. Lowe from various correspondents [manuscript], 1888-1890?

Title: Autograph letters signed and intialled to R.W. Lowe from various correspondents [manuscript], 1888-1890?

Correspondents: George Reid, A.W., Miss Bouverie, and [Edward H. Dixon?]. (1), from Dixon at 150 Oxford Street, indicates that, if Percy Fitzgerald, who had access to the archives of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, did not cite them in his chapter on Cibber and Cappell [sic], it must be that he did not find anything in them to cite. (2), from George Reid and on card of the St. James Theatre, requests a voucher for a dress circle seat for a new play by W.S. Gilbert. (3), from A.W. and on letterhead of Walden, Cobham, Surrey, mentions a performance of Ravenswood at the Lyceum. Also, a clipping describing the "disagreeable incident" at this performance, which is referenced in the letter.

ArchivalResource: 4 items ; 88 x 114 mm to 178 x 113 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435496225 View

Drury Lane Theatre. Bill for printing playbills [manuscript], 1713/14 January-February.

Title: Bill for printing playbills [manuscript], 1713/14 January-February.

Signed by B. Booth, C. Cibber, and Robert Wilks.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/708059458 View

The life of Edmund Kean : from published and original sources, extra-illustrated

Title: The life of Edmund Kean : from published and original sources ,extra-illustrated,

Original drawings, autograph letters, playbills, and portraits inserted into FrederickWilliam Hawkins, (London: Tinsley Brothers,1869). The life of Edmund Kean

ArchivalResource: 14 v.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01540/catalog View

Watkins, Anne. [Collection of poetry], [circa 1730].

Title: [Collection of poetry], [circa 1730].

Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of copies of verse extracts from Paradise Lost by John Milton and New Year's Ode by Colley Cibber, and four poems by Stephen Duck: The Shunamite; The Thresher's Labour; On Poverty; and a verse epistle to Alured Clarke. At one end of the volume is a series of verses with the heading "Commendment in young beginners is very commendable," and signed "Anne Watkins. January."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (56 p.) ; 20 x 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702175255 View

Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757. Don Lewis in Fops fortune : for Mr. Miller, December [unreadable] 30: 1736?-7.

Title: Don Lewis in Fops fortune : for Mr. Miller, December [unreadable] 30: 1736?-7. 1736?

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (unpaged) ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33430444 View

Garrick, David, 1717-1779,. Collection of autograph letters signed (some incomplete) from David Garrick, Merton, Burlington House, London and Southampton St., London, to the Countess of Burlington [manuscript], 1749 July 18-November 4.

Title: Collection of autograph letters signed (some incomplete) from David Garrick, Merton, Burlington House, London and Southampton St., London, to the Countess of Burlington [manuscript], 1749 July 18-November 4.

No. 29 criticizes [Colley] Cibber; no. 33 apologizes for his frequent references to Shakespeare; no. 37 mentions the opening night of Drury Lane and his intention of making his first appearance in Benedict the married man; no. 42 his playing of Lothario; and several the controversy aroused by the French players. No. 36 contains a postscript of Mrs. Garrick's. No. 27 quotes Mr. Moore's lines to Mrs. Garrick beginning Fine binding! and but little in't!

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244113884 View

Rich, John, 1682?-1761. Autograph note signed from John Rich to Mr. R. Wilks, Mr. B. Booth or Mr. C. Cibber, managers of Drury Lane Theatre [manuscript], 1723 May 20.

Title: Autograph note signed from John Rich to Mr. R. Wilks, Mr. B. Booth or Mr. C. Cibber, managers of Drury Lane Theatre [manuscript], 1723 May 20.

Mr. Chapman and Mr. Merrival to be entertained as actors at the Theatre Royal in Lincolns Inn Fields. Witnessed by Thomas Wood and John Giles.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706489353 View