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Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, d. 1926. Dorothy Stanley letters to Constant Coquelin, 1886-1938.

Title: Dorothy Stanley letters to Constant Coquelin, 1886-1938.

99 letters from Lady Dorothy Tennant Stanley to the actor, Constant Coquelin, discussing affairs of the Comédie-Française, political events, including colonial engagements in Africa, particularly those with which her husband, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, was involved, and her travels. Also included are: 2 letter from Eveleen Myers (Dorothy Stanley's sister) to Coquelin; 2 letters from Dolly Tennant to Coquelin; 13 letters from Gertrude Tennant (Dorothy Stanley's mother) to Coquelin; and 2 letters from D. M. Stanley to a M. Chabert concerning the proposed publication of the Stanley-Coquelin letters.

ArchivalResource: 0.20 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702152151 View

Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899,. Autograph letters and memoranda from Augustin Daly to various recipients [manuscript], 1864-1899.

Title: Autograph letters and memoranda from Augustin Daly to various recipients [manuscript], 1864-1899.

Includes drafts, letters signed and copies. (27) enumerates the terms of a contract between Daly and Agnes Leonard is followed by her signed acceptance, September 1, 1881. (37) bears Sothern's reply. (38) outlines Daly's terms for producing "The Forresters" by Lord Tennyson, September 17, 1891. (40) outlines Daly's views on the need to alter the Internal Revenue tax on theatres ... February 28, 1868. (41) requests Mr. Watson to cancel the lease of the Grand Opera House, April 17, 1874.

ArchivalResource: 46 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435433366 View

Marguerite Noël Willaume Coudet autograph album, 1903-1921.

Title: Marguerite Noël Willaume Coudet autograph album, 1903-1921.

Autograph album of early twentieth-century writers and poets, collected by Marguerite Noël Willaume Coudet.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00654/catalog View

American Vaudeville Museum collection, 1845-2007, (bulk 1910-1940)

Title: American Vaudeville Museum collection 1845-2007 (bulk 1910-1940)

This collection consists of materialsdocumenting vaudeville and other entertainment in the United States,particularly in the 1910s through 1940s. Primary materials such as photographs,scrapbooks and handwritten stage scripts document the careers of particularperformers. There are substantial numbers of sheet music and theatre programs,and a large LP collection. The collection focuses on vaudeville but encompassesother forms and eras of American entertainment as well.

ArchivalResource: 66.8linear feet

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Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897. Critiques Dramatiques, [ca. 1874].

Title: Critiques Dramatiques, [ca. 1874].

Holograph notebook in Daudet's hand containing principally notes for reviews of theatrical performances and published editions of plays. Daudet records his impressions of entertainments written and performed by the leading writers and actors of his day. Among the persons mentioned in the notebook are Sarah Bernhardt, Julia Bartet, Georges Bizet, François Coppée, Constant Coquelin, Alexandre Dumas (fils), Daniel Halévy, Georges Hartmann, Frédéric Lemaître, Henri Meilhac, Nadar, Rachel, Victorien Sardou, Armand Silvestre, and Emile Zola. The notebook also contains various other notes, such as calculations, addresses, and a sketch.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 208 p.) ; 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78530908 View

Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive), 1880-1946 (bulk).

Title: Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive),1880-1946 (bulk).

Letters and other documents of Elizabeth and Sarah Norton, the daughters of Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes and 3 volumes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01318/catalog View

Coquelin, Constant, 1841-1909,. Autograph letters signed from Constant Coquelin to various recipients, 19th-20th century.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Constant Coquelin to various recipients, 19th-20th century.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430501379 View

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie papers, 1894-1909

Title: Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie papers 1894-1909

Correspondence to Ms. Craigie documenting the production of some of her plays, most notably The Ambassador. Included as well are personal correspondence and business correspondence dealing with the publication of her books as well as theatrical productions of her work. The correspondence includes letters from many notable Victorians, including George Alexander, her producer, Henry James, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21301 View

Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, d. 1926. Dorothy Stanley letters to Constant Coquelin, 1886-1938.

Title: Dorothy Stanley letters to Constant Coquelin, 1886-1938.

99 letters from Lady Dorothy Tennant Stanley to the actor, Constant Coquelin, discussing affairs of the Comédie-Française, political events, including colonial engagements in Africa, particularly those with which her husband, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, was involved, and her travels. Also included are: 2 letter from Eveleen Myers (Dorothy Stanley's sister) to Coquelin; 2 letters from Dolly Tennant to Coquelin; 13 letters from Gertrude Tennant (Dorothy Stanley's mother) to Coquelin; and 2 letters from D. M. Stanley to a M. Chabert concerning the proposed publication of the Stanley-Coquelin letters.

ArchivalResource: 0.20 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83786861 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

Béraud, Jean, 1849-1935. Letters and ephemera, [1887-1895].

Title: Letters and ephemera, [1887-1895].

Holographs, signed: 75 letters to the actor Constant Coquelin (l'ainé) and letters to Antonin Proust, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, and the comtesse Potocka. Printed ephemera relating to Béraud is included. The letters were mostly written to Coquelin while he was touring abroad, especially in the United States. Béraud informs Coquelin about performances and actors of the Comédie-Française; talks about his work and the Salon; and discusses the Eiffel Tower, the rise of Boulangism, and anarchism.

ArchivalResource: 86 items : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81971594 View

Sir William Rothenstein correspondence and other papers, 1887-1957.

Title: Sir William Rothenstein correspondence and other papers, 1887-1957.

Letters to English painter Sir William Rothenstein concerning both his professional and personal life as well as compositions by other authors.

ArchivalResource: 66 boxes and 2 volumes (33 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00491/catalog View

Papers concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1894-1933.

Title: Papers concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1894-1933.

Correspondence and manuscripts of French lawyer FernandLabori concerning the Dreyfus Affair and his client Alfred Dreyfus.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01216/catalog View

Maria H. Dehon Polk collection of Constant Coquelin, [ca. 1884]-1934

Title: Maria H. Dehon Polk collection of Constant Coquelin [ca. 1884]-1934

Chiefly letters from Coquelin to Maria H. Dehon, including ALS and manuscript transcriptions, and photographs. Also present are a small amount of other correspondence, writings by Coquelin, including an undated holograph of a work on Moliére's Tartuffe, published in 1884, printed materials concerning the Maison de retraite des vieux comédiens, other ephemera, and clippings. Letters from Coquelin, 1894-1908 and undated, concern his friendship with Dehon, their travels, and Coquelin's performances and tours. The letters discuss the Comédie-Français, the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, the Maison de retraite des vieux comédiens, and friends and colleagues including Ernest Coquelin, Jean Coquelin, Sarah Bernhardt, Geraldine Farrar, Edmond Rostand, Pierre-Marie-René Waldeck Rousseau, and artist Jean-Charles Cazin. Other correspondence includes letters to Dehon from A. Chabert concerning the establishment of a Musée Cazin-Coquelin. Photographs include cabinet photographs and prints, most portraits of Coquelin, including several portraits in costume as Cyrano de Bergerac and other theater roles. Also present are postcards showing views of Pont-aux-Dames and a set of photographs of paintings of Coquelin in various theater roles.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 3; Other Storage Formats: 2 portfolios; Linear Feet: 1.25

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.polkcoq View

Claretie, Jules, 1840-1913. Louis Robin papers, ca. 1890-1935.

Title: Louis Robin papers, ca. 1890-1935.

The collection includes mainly correspondence in French, dated 1898-1935. The letters are handwritten or typed, by actors, playwrights, singers, composers, theatre administrators, mostly from Comédie-Française, addressed to Louis Robin. The correspondence consists of personal and business letters, postcards and telegrams. Included also are photographs of French actors (some autographed), such as Réjane's, Carmen de Raisy, Maurice de Féraudy, thank you notes, programs, newspaper clippings. The correspondents include: Jules Claretie, Justin Clérice, Cadet Coquelin, Constant Coquelin, Paulette Darty, Jeanne DeFava, Marcelle Ragon, Marthe Regnier, Samuel Rousseau, Cecil Sorel, Abel Tarride, Maguy Vama, Hector Dufranne, Edmond Got, Gabrielle Robinne, Gabriel Signoret. Included also in the collection is Maurice de Féraudy's scrapbook inscribed to Louis Robin. The scrapbook contains the actor's letters to Robin, brochures, postcards with short notes, photographs of the actor (some of which autographed) in various costumes and make up as well as a holograph poem "A une bargue" signed by de Féraudy. Included in the scrapbook are also three printed plays in which Féraudy played: "Le fruit défendu" by Camille Doucet, "Souvent homme varie" by Auguste Vacquerie and "L'amiral" by Jacques Normand.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes ; 27 x 32 x 7 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42704617 View

Richet, Charles, 1850-1935. Letters, 1917, undated, France.

Title: Letters, 1917, undated, France.

2 ALS. In 1917 letter, expresses his opinion against the employment of capital punishment. In undated letter to Alfred Capus, writes regarding the Comédie Franc̜ais, the writer Étienne Dolet, and the actor Constant Coquelin.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31775427 View

A.F.R. Lawrence collection of historical spoken word [sound recording], 1900-1970

Title: A.F.R. Lawrence collection of historical spoken word [sound recording] 1900-1970

The collection contains both commercial and noncommercial discs and tapes. The commercial recordings include the complete set of Nation's Forum discs, Benito Mussolini's personal copy, bound and numbered, of his recorded speeches, Victor long play discs from the early 1930's including Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and the Sistine Chapel Choir recordings of the pre-electric era, at least eight or nine sides of which feature Alessandro Moreschi, last of the known castrati.

ArchivalResource: ca; 3400 sound recordings

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20457 View

Coquelin, Constant, 1841-1909. Letters to Ada Rehan, 1894.

Title: Letters to Ada Rehan, 1894.

ArchivalResource: 9 items (9 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63562092 View

Maria H. Dehon Polk collection of Constant Coquelin, [ca. 1884]-1934

Title: Maria H. Dehon Polk collection of Constant Coquelin [ca. 1884]-1934

Chiefly letters from Coquelin to Maria H. Dehon, including ALS and manuscript transcriptions, and photographs. Also present are a small amount of other correspondence, writings by Coquelin, including an undated holograph of a work on Moliére's Tartuffe, published in 1884, printed materials concerning the Maison de retraite des vieux comédiens, other ephemera, and clippings. Letters from Coquelin, 1894-1908 and undated, concern his friendship with Dehon, their travels, and Coquelin's performances and tours. The letters discuss the Comédie-Français, the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, the Maison de retraite des vieux comédiens, and friends and colleagues including Ernest Coquelin, Jean Coquelin, Sarah Bernhardt, Geraldine Farrar, Edmond Rostand, Pierre-Marie-René Waldeck Rousseau, and artist Jean-Charles Cazin. Other correspondence includes letters to Dehon from A. Chabert concerning the establishment of a Musée Cazin-Coquelin. Photographs include cabinet photographs and prints, most portraits of Coquelin, including several portraits in costume as Cyrano de Bergerac and other theater roles. Also present are postcards showing views of Pont-aux-Dames and a set of photographs of paintings of Coquelin in various theater roles.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 3; Other Storage Formats: 2 portfolios; Linear Feet: 1.25

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.polkcoq View

Lawrence, A. F. R. Collection of historical spoken word [sound recording], 1900-1970.

Title: Collection of historical spoken word [sound recording], 1900-1970.

The collection contains both commercial and noncommercial discs and tapes. The commercial recordings include the complete set of Nation's Forum discs, Benito Mussolini's personal copy, bound and numbered, of his recorded speeches, Victor long play discs from the early 1930's including Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and the Sistine Chapel Choir recordings of the pre-electric era, at least eight or nine sides of which feature Alessandro Moreschi, last of the known castrati.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3400 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122485384 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

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

Papers concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1894-1933.

Title: Papers concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1894-1933.

Includes autograph letters to Labori from Georges Clemenceau, Constant Coquelin, Edmond Lajoux, Raymond Poincaré, Joseph Reinach, and Alexandrine E. Zola, among others. Also includes a manuscript in an unidentified hand from Alphonse Bertillon concerning the handwriting in the Bordereau document, an autograph manuscript by Labori of notes for the trial of Emile Zola, and a manuscript in an unidentified hand from Georges Gabriel de Pellieux proving that the Bordereau document was a forgery.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01216 View

Coquelin, Constant, 1841-1909,. Autograph letters signed from Constant-Benoît Coquelin to various people [manuscript], [1889]-1893.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Constant-Benoît Coquelin to various people [manuscript], [1889]-1893.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233982942 View

Alfred Dreyfus correspondence and documents concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1889-1931.

Title: Alfred Dreyfus correspondence and documents concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1889-1931.

Includes autograph letters from Alfred Dreyfus to various correspondents, as well as autograph letters from Fernand Labori to Constant Coquelin, from Marie Georges Picquart to Fernand Labori, from Emile Zola to Fernand Labori. Other correspondents include Maurice Bouchor, Emile Chautemps, Georges Clemenceau, Lucie Dreyfus, Marie Charles Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, Yves Guyot, and Joseph Reinach, among others. Also includes two manuscript copies in unidentified hands of regulations covering Dreyfus's imprisonment, a manuscript log book in various hands of the first year of his imprisonment, a photograph of the prison on Devil's Island, and a photograph portrait, postcard and inscribed carte-de-visite of Alfred Dreyfus. Also contains telegrams, inscribed carte-de-visites, envelopes, and a clipping.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear foot)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01274 View

Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897. Critiques Dramatiques, [ca. 1874].

Title: Critiques Dramatiques, [ca. 1874].

Holograph notebook in Daudet's hand containing principally notes for reviews of theatrical performances and published editions of plays. Daudet records his impressions of entertainments written and performed by the leading writers and actors of his day. Among the persons mentioned in the notebook are Sarah Bernhardt, Julia Bartet, Georges Bizet, François Coppée, Constant Coquelin, Alexandre Dumas (fils), Daniel Halévy, Georges Hartmann, Frédéric Lemaître, Henri Meilhac, Nadar, Rachel, Victorien Sardou, Armand Silvestre, and Emile Zola. The notebook also contains various other notes, such as calculations, addresses, and a sketch.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 208 p.) ; 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702164314 View

Salvini, Tommaso, 1829-1916. Some views on acting [manuscript], ca. 1890 / by Tomasso [sic] Salvini ; translated by Alexander Salvini and Horace Townsend.

Title: Some views on acting [manuscript], ca. 1890 / by Tomasso [sic] Salvini ; translated by Alexander Salvini and Horace Townsend.

Typescript translation of an essay by Tommaso Salvini. Essay concerns whether or not an actor should be moved by the emotions he portrays, and it responds directly to the ideas of Constant Coquelin. Also a clipping "Salvini on dramatic art," from the October 27, 1889 issue of an unidentified New York paper, on similar themes.

ArchivalResource: 9 leaves ; 27 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462080232 View

Coquelin, Constant, 1841-1909. Address by Constant Coquelin [manuscript], 1889 March 30.

Title: Address by Constant Coquelin [manuscript], 1889 March 30.

Given in honor of Edwin Booth, and translated from the French by D.B. [i.e. Dion Boucicault].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230414874 View