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Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

Title: Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

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: 9.5 boxes (4.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01427/catalog View

Albert and Marie Sterner letters received

Title: Albert and Marie Sterner letters received

Letters to the Sterners, primarily regarding art and cultural matters.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ac638fd2-f3ba-45c7-965b-087ac4350c8a View

Fonds Edward Gordon Craig

Title: Fonds Edward Gordon Craig

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http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ead.html?id=FRBNFEAD000004234 View

Chapin, Harold, 1886-1915. Harold Chapin letters, 1910-1934 (bulk 1915).

Title: Harold Chapin letters, 1910-1934 (bulk 1915).

The collection contains letters from Harold Chapin to his wife Calypso before and during World War I and letters to Calypso expressing condolences upon his death in 1915. Among the correspondents are musician Henry Ainsley, drama critic and playwright William Archer, playwright J.M. Barrie, Chapin's actress mother Alice Chapin Browning, actress Sybil Thorndike Casson, playwright Jerome K. Jerome, actor/manager Gerald du Maurier, and actor/director/playwright Conal O'Riordan. Chapin writes to his wife about theatrical matters, play productions and tours in Scotland, and from the front during the war describing the conditions there. Gerald Du Maurier and William Archer agree to work with Sidney Dark on a memorial production of Chapin's work.

ArchivalResource: 0.24 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38371954 View

Lyston Lyle Scrapbook Collection, 1904-1915

Title: Lyston Lyle Scrapbook Collection 1904-1915

ArchivalResource: 5 volumes (2 boxes)

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb71-thm/348 View

Elkins, Kate Felton. Kate Felton Elkins collection, 1775-1927.

Title: Kate Felton Elkins collection, 1775-1927.

Miscellaneous scrapbooks on musical, theatrical, and literary subjects. The collection includes letters, programs, playbills, clippings, printed articles, prints, and photographs. One bound volume, DRAMATIC, has twentieth century letters written to Felton Elkins.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122447808 View

Du Maurier Family Papers, 1816-1988

Title: Du Maurier Family Papers 1816-1988

ArchivalResource: 18 small boxes and 14 loose items

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb29-eulms207 View

Compton, Virginia Bateman, 1853-1940. Virginia Bateman Compton letters received and playbill, 1888-1925.

Title: Virginia Bateman Compton letters received and playbill, 1888-1925.

The collection consists of eleven items, including: ten letters and cards to Mrs. Compton from various theatre personalities, 1916-1925, responding to her invitation to attend the Theatre Girls' Club; includes responses from Dion Boucicault, Sir George Alexander, J. Forbes-Robertson, Gerald Du Maurier, Gladys Cooper, Lily Elsie, Lilian Braithwaite, Madge Kendal, Mary Moore, and Lilian Baylis. Also, playbill from the Prince's in Manchester, listing shows for 19 March 1888 through 23 March 1888, featuring the Compton Comedy Company, with Miss Virginia Bateman (Mrs Edward Compton) appearing in each production. Printed by A. Ireland and Co.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61856323 View

Photographs of theatrical performers, 1862-1982.

Title: Photographs of theatrical performers, 1862-1982.

Collection of theatrical performers depicted in photographs, cartes-de-visites, cabinet photographs, photographic postcards, stereographs, copy prints, photogravures, and photomechanical prints.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02223/catalog View

Du Maurier, Gerald, Sir, 1873-1934,. Typescript letter signed from Gerald Du Maurier, Wyndham's Theatre, London, to S.N. Hueffer [manuscript], 1912 February 21.

Title: Typescript letter signed from Gerald Du Maurier, Wyndham's Theatre, London, to S.N. Hueffer [manuscript], 1912 February 21.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281701320 View

Theater and opera scrapbooks, 1902-1918.

Title: Theater and opera scrapbooks, 1902-1918.

Scrapbooks containing programs, publicity photographs, newspaper illustrations, and reviews of plays, operas, and vaudeville performed in London, with a few from Brussels. Included are stills or programs from performances of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, The Winter's Tale, King Henry VIII, Twelfth Night, and Midsummer Night's Dream; Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado and The Yeomen of the Guard; Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme; J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Rosalind, and other plays; G.B. Shaw's Pygmalion, John Bull's Other Island, Overruled, Fanny's First Play, and Androcles and the Lion; Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband; and lesser-known plays by Seymour Hicks, George Edwardes, Edward Knoblauch, and others, as well as several plays produced by Granville Barker. Actors pictured include Ellen Terry, Lewis Waller, Sir Henry Irving, Ellaline Terriss, Fred Terry, Winifred Emery, Ernest Mainwaring, Gerald Du Maurier, and Annette Kellerman. Theaters featured include the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; the Garrick Theatre; the Theatre Royal, Haymarket; the Savoy Theatre; and the Playhouse. Operas include Verdi's Otello and Rigoletto; Puccini's Madama Butterfly; Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila; Rossini's Barber of Seville; Richard Strauss's Salome; and Wagner's Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. Singers shown include Luisa Tetrazzini, Dame Nellie Melba, Ema Destinnova, John McCormack, and Giovanni Zenatello. Theaters featured include the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. : ill. ; 32-41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63906283 View

Ivor Novello papers, 1911-1956.

Title: Ivor Novello papers, 1911-1956.

Chiefly letters to Welsh actor and composer Ivor Novello from friends andfans; also contains correspondence concerning Novello or his estate, to or from SirEdward Marsh, Christopher Hassall, Fred Allen, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02177/catalog 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