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Weaver, John V. A. (John Van Alstyne), 1893-1938. John V. A. Weaver papers, 1914, undated.

Title: John V. A. Weaver papers, 1914, undated.

John V. A. Weaver was a poet, novelist, and screenwriter; his works were produced both on stage and in film. After graduating from Hamilton College in 1914, Weaver went to work in the newspaper industry - first with the Chicago Daily News and later with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle - and then later worked for Paramount. Weaver married American actress Peggy Wood in 1924. The John V. A. Weaver papers contain notes, typescripts, and miscellaneous other writings pertaining to Weaver's literary works, including The Girl and the Gob and Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, and his "Anthology of Poems, Phrases, etc. that were Especially Well Liked by Myself." Also included are a notebook kept by Weaver while at Hamilton College in 1914, typescripts of The Grand Tour and Bernard Shaw-A Roaring Lamb, and his death mask.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/710983766 View

Frank T. Wood papers, 1930-1993.

Title: Frank T. Wood papers, 1930-1993.

Correspondence, photographs, topical files, and other material of a Syracuse, New York social welfare leader; also includes family papers and photographs.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM04865.xml View

Romney Brent papers, 1934-1975 (bulk dates 1969-1975

Title: Romney Brent papers 1934-1975 (bulk dates 1969-1975

The Romney Brent papers document his career and contain correspondence, photographs and two scrapbooks. The collection is incomplete in that it contains only correspondence from his later years and photographs and scrapbooks from his early career. Correspondents include: Ilka Chase, Helen Hayes, Lillebil Ibsen, Alfred Lunt, Armina Marshall, Mary Martin, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emlyn Williams and Peggy Wood. There is a large gap in the materials for the 1940s and 1950s. Some production photographs were separated to the Theatre Collection photo files. The photographs remaining in the collection are special appearances, the State Department sponsored tours and personal photographs.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21451 View

Papers concerning the Broadway play Eugenia, 1956-1958.

Title: Papers concerning the Broadway play Eugenia, 1956-1958.

Scripts, investors' correspondence, publicity materials, and financial records for a short-lived Broadway play based on Henry James's and starring Tallulah Bankhead. Europeans

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02305/catalog View

Rosenberg, Manuel, 1897-1967. Drawings & Sketches, ca.1920-1950.

Title: Drawings & Sketches, ca.1920-1950.

A collection of more than 300 drawings and sketches.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (ca. 300 items in 2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122377034 View

Hellman (Florence Marx) Theatrical Diaries

Title: Hellman (Florence Marx) Theatrical Diaries

The diaries contain detailed descriptions and critiques of many plays, concerts and performers, with printed programs and photographs pasted into the volumes. The plays, operas and concerts were performed in theaters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Venice, Paris, London, Berlin, Munich and Vienna. The diaries also discuss automobile trips that the Hellmans took in Europe, current fashions, social life, etc. The diaries cover many well-known actors, singers, dancers, composers, playwrights and members of the British Royal Family including: Zoe Akins, Queen Alexandra, Judith Anderson, Fred Astaire, Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, J.M. Barrie, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Sarah Bernhardt, Jack Buchanan, Billie Burke, Enrico Caruso, Noel Coward, Isadora Duncan, Queen Elizabeth II, Edith Evans, Geraldine Farrar, Lynn Fontanne, John Gielgud, Helen Hayes, Leslie Howard, Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Alfred Lunt, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry Miller, Vaslaw Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Will Rogers and Peggy Wood. All of the volumes are in poor condition with loose covers, pages and bindings, but no pages or text have been lost.

ArchivalResource: 2 Linear Feet (16 volumes)

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8t15b0b/ View

Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959. Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 25 October 1937, to Peggy Wood, 1937 Oct. 25.

Title: Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 25 October 1937, to Peggy Wood, 1937 Oct. 25.

Apologizing for using as the title of his play [The Star-wagon] one that she had already used [Wood's Star-wagon was published in 1936], saying that he found out too late to change it, mentioning John Farrar, McClintic, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270873947 View

George Middleton papers

Title: George Middleton papers

Correspondence, speeches, lectures, literary manuscripts including books and plays, articles, subject file, research material, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Middleton's career as a playwright, author, and copyright specialist at the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Subjects include the protection of foreign and domestic playwrights' monetary and literary rights in the publication and production of their works, Robert M. La Follette's 1924 presidential campaign, Middleton's marriage to Fola La Follette, and his relationships with members of the theatrical, literary, and political communities. Includes material pertaining to Middleton's collaborations with David Belasco and Guy Bolton and to his association with the Dramatists Guild, Dutch Treat Club, and the Players Club. Includes drafts of his autobiography, These Things Are Mine (1947), and correspondence of Fola La Follette and other La Follette and Middleton family members. Other correspondents include J.M. Barrie, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Cecil B. DeMille, John Dos Passos, Eleanora Duse, Anatole France, Felix Frankfurter, Hamlin Garland, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, Sinclair Lewis, David Eli Lilienthal, Percy MacKaye, Don Marquis, John Masefield, Edgar Lee Masters, H.L. Mencken, Gerald P. Nye, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, Richard Rodgers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bernard Shaw, Lincoln Steffens, Booth Tarkington, P.G. Wodehouse, and Peggy Wood.

ArchivalResource: 15,000 items ; 85 containers plus 8 oversize ; 36.6 linear feet

https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010268 View

Wood, Peggy, 1892-1978. Typed letter signed : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1956 May 16.

Title: Typed letter signed : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1956 May 16.

Thanking him for praise of her work, saying that he understands her "losing fight with the powers that be," and asking that he write letters to Frank Stanton, President of CBS, Sylvester Weaver, top man at NBC, and to the president of ABC, to reiterate his comment to her that program directors have "done their best to debauch the public taste by filling up all the plays about nitwits, perverts and psychotics."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270868285 View

Noel Coward collection of papers, 1919-1972

Title: Noel Coward collection of papers 1919-1972

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by the author, and legal documents.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19236 View

Morehouse, Ward, 1898-1966. Miss Quis : a play / by Ward Morehouse and Peggy Wood.

Title: Miss Quis : a play / by Ward Morehouse and Peggy Wood. [1937]

ArchivalResource: 36, 44, 34 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46787437 View

Ward Morehouse papers, 1877-1966, 1924-1966

Title: Ward Morehouse papers 1877-1966 1924-1966

Ward Morehouse, journalist and playwright. The papers include correspondence, interviews, writings articles and ephemera documenting his career in the theater world.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21501 View

Theatrical letters sent to Herbert I. Jackson, 1898-1944.

Title: Theatrical letters sent to Herbert I. Jackson, 1898-1944.

Letters sent to American Herbert I. Jackson from actors, actresses and otherpersons involved in the theater.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02058/catalog View

Little Orchestra Society concert recordings collection [sound recording], 1947-1957

Title: Little Orchestra Society concert recordings collection [sound recording] 1947-1957

The collection consists of concert recordings, made for Mr. Scherman, from late 1947 to late 1957.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20440 View

Cotsworth, Staats, 1908-1979. Staats Cotsworth drawings, 194-.

Title: Staats Cotsworth drawings, 194-.

Two drawings: one is a negative line cut ad for the radio program, Crime Photographer, and the other is a pen and ink drawing with the caption, "Who are we neutral against?" inscribed to the actress "Peggy Wood with love and admiration, Staats."

ArchivalResource: 2 drawings : b&w ; 29 cm. x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/726938582 View

Robert Benney research materials, 1926-1978

Title: Robert Benney research materials 1926-1978

The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of photographs, and clippings of Benney's work depicting New York stage performers in their roles. Many photographs and clippings depict entire stage scenes, and, in addition to stage actors, there are photographs and clippings of musicians, dancers, comics, and radio personalities, and a small number of items relating to films of the period.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21610 View

Wood, Peggy, 1892-. Letter, 1962, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letter, 1962, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155879857 View

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Noel Coward collection of papers, 1919-1972.

Title: Noel Coward collection of papers, 1919-1972.

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by the author, and legal documents.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122686834 View

Personality files, [ca. 1800]-1986, 1900-1986 (bulk)

Title: Personality files, [ca. 1800]-1986, 1900-1986 (bulk)

Extensive collection containing a diverse range of material about thousands of theatrical and musical personalities who have appeared in New York City during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Collection covers all the important and many of the lesser known personalities and includes personal correspondence, portrait engravings or lithographs, photographs, biographical data, clippings, articles, programs, playbills, original sheet music, and sheet music covers. Also, drawings, playscripts, scrapbooks, fan letters, manuscripts of biographies, sketches, texts of speeches, and personal items. lithographs, biographical material collected from temporary periodicals, and sheet music.

ArchivalResource: 550 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155489900 View

John V. A. Weaver papers, 1914, undated

Title: John V. A. Weaver papers 1914, undated

John V. A. Weaver was a poet, novelist, and screenwriter; his works were produced both on stage and in film. After graduating from Hamilton College in 1914, Weaver went to work in the newspaper industry - first with the Chicago Daily News and later with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle - and then later worked for Paramount. Weaver married American actress Peggy Wood in 1924. The John V. A. Weaver papers contain notes, typescripts, and miscellaneous other writings pertaining to Weaver's literary works, including The Girl and the Gob and Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, and his "Anthology of Poems, Phrases, etc. that were Especially Well Liked by Myself." Also included are a notebook kept by Weaver while at Hamilton College in 1914, typescripts of The Grand Tour and Bernard Shaw-A Roaring Lamb, and his death mask

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3248 View

Lucille Lortel papers

Title: Lucille Lortel papers

The papers of Lucille Lortel relate the details of her life and career from teen years to her death in 1999, and include correspondence, production files, scripts, programs, production photographs, personal and family photographs, organization files, clippings, memorabilia, and scrapbooks. Lucille Lortel's life spanned the twentieth century, so in addition to providing details of her family and personal life her papers encompass many aspects of the theatrical history of her era. Lortel is credited with fostering the Off-Broadway movement and providing a forum for avant-garde and experimental work at her Theatre de Lys. Lortel's productions at the White Barn and the ANTA Matinee Series at the Theatre de Lys brought works by Jean Genet, Sean O'Casey, Athol Fugard, and others to a wider audience. Many of these productions are represented in the collection by correspondence, programs, photographs and clippings. Over the years Lortel also worked closely with several non-profit theaters as a donor and mentor. Her affiliations with Circle in the Square, Circle Repertory Company, Goodspeed Opera House, Yale Repertory Theatre, and other companies are documented in the organization files.

ArchivalResource: 49.61 linear feet; 37 vols. (150 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21631 View

Records, 1940-1946.

Title: Records, 1940-1946.

Charter and bylaws, minutes, journals and ledgers, children's travel arrangements, working files, and preliminary and general correspondence of the British Actors Orphanage Fund. Correspondents include Noel Coward, Dame May Whitty, Boris Karloff, Maurice Evans, Cole Porter, Peggy Wood, Margaret Webster, and the Fund's attorney Lloyd V. Almirall.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155507913 View

John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Title: John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Collection of twentieth century motion picture memorabilia collected by John Eldon Thayer.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes (35 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02025/catalog View

George Middleton papers, 1872-1970 (bulk 1911-1958)

Title: George Middleton papers

Playwright, author, and copyright specialist. Correspondence, literary manuscripts, subject files, and research material and documenting Middleton's career as a playwright, author, and copyright specialist at the Department of Justice. Also includes correspondence relating to the La Follette and Middleton families.

ArchivalResource: 15,000 items ; 85 containers plus 8 oversize ; 36.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010268 View

Weaver, John V. A. (John Van Alstyne), 1893-1938. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1930, n.d.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1930, n.d.

Consists of two letters and a telegram, all from 1930, to Mrs. Paul F. Taylor of Philadelphia; an undated photograph clipped from the gravure section of a newspaper, showing Weaver at home in London with his family; and a publisher's release dated 4 September 1930 from Alfred A. Knopf, describing Weaver's life and career. The occasion for the press release was the publication of Weaver's book of poetry, Turning Point (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1930).

ArchivalResource: 5 items (7 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155886951 View