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Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888,. Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, New York, to E. Riggs [manuscript], 19th century Monday 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, New York, to E. Riggs [manuscript], 19th century Monday 13.

Wallack instructs Riggs to take the 12 o'clock boat tomorrow, from the Battery to Staten Island and get off at the 1st landing. If the weather is bad it's "no go." Addressed from 13 W. 30th St.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 15 x 12 cm.

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Fawcett, Edgar, 1847-1904. Letter [188-? Apr. 3 [New York] to Arthur Wallack [n.p.]

Title: Letter [188-? Apr. 3 [New York] to Arthur Wallack [n.p.]

Regrets Wallack and his wife cannot see "Ocean view" at Mrs. [no forename] Stebbins's, this being the play [no forename] Edwards was to get [John Lester] Wallack to read.

ArchivalResource: [3] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

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Golden Family Collection, 1795-1996

Title: Golden Family Collection 1795-1996

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Townsend, John D., Mrs.,. Autograph letter signed from Mrs. John D. Townsend to Augustin Daly and Albert M. Palmer [manuscript], 1887 December 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Mrs. John D. Townsend to Augustin Daly and Albert M. Palmer [manuscript], 1887 December 7.

Mrs. Townsend plans a testimonial on behalf of Lester Wallack.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Wallack, Arthur J., 1848 or 9-1940,. Autograph letters signed from Arthur Wallack, Tompkinsville, to William Winter, New York [manuscript], 1915.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Arthur Wallack, Tompkinsville, to William Winter, New York [manuscript], 1915.

(1) Wallack writes that he has been unable to find the letter of O'Brien; he encloses letters of his father (Lester Wallack) which may interest Winter. (2) Regarding letters from the Duke of Beaufort to Wallack's grandfather (James William Wallack); also gives some brief information on a few family members. Both letters have accompanying envelopes addressed to Winter at 46 3rd. St., New Brighton, Staten Island. The envelope accompanying (1) has a note written on the back: "From my father's journal," followed by a brief description of a visit to Wallack's Theatre and talking with Arthur Wallack on the boat to the island.

ArchivalResource: 2 items ; 17 x 13 cm.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Papers of William Dean Howells [manuscript], 1866-1919.

Title: Papers of William Dean Howells [manuscript], 1866-1919.

The papers of William Dean Howells,1866-1919, include reviews, stories, and poems, letters, and portraits. Manuscripts include poems "The thorn," "The pilot's story," Thanksgiving," "John Brown," "To Francis Wilson," "Presentiments," and an untitled sonnet to Dorothy Dudley; short stories "At third hand," and "Captain Dunlevy's last trip"; reviews of work by Brand Whitlock, J.M. LeMoine, essays on Rudyard Kipling, John Fiske, and American and English literature; quotation, and page proofs of "A retrospect of Lowell." Topics in the correspondence include editorial work for Harpers, Century, and Atlantic Monthly, advice on writing, translation and publication, his own writing including divorce as a theme, proofreading, lecture tours particularly a westen one in 1899, and his family. He also mentions rumors concerning the visit of the Russian fleet during the Civil War, the Boston fire of 1872, the panic of 1873, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the Century Club, Italian travel, 1883, the Authors Club, an accusation of anti-Catholicism, World War I, socialism, stage productions of his work, Iowa College (Grinnell), and the Pratt Institute. Significant correspondents include Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, James B. Pond, Arthur George Sedgwick, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Additional correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, Charlotte Fiske Bates, Sylvester Baxter, Alexander Black, Francis E. Bliss, H.C. Bunner, Madison Cawein, Julius Chambers, Frank Gaylor Cook, George William Curtis, Charles Anderson Dana, Mary Mapes Dodge, Annie Fields, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Jeanette L. Gilder, Edmund Gosse, Harper & Brothers, Lee F. Hartman, Nina R. Herzog, Aurelia Howells, Thomas A. Janvier, Elizabeth Jordan, Frederick T. Leigh, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, S.S. McClure, and Henry Loomis Nelson. Also Charles Eliot Norton, John B. O'Reilly, James R. Osgood, Grant Overton, William Morton Payne, Harry Thurston Peck, John J. Piatt, Cuyler Reynolds, William H. Rideing, Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs, John Codman Ropes, M. E. W. Sherwood, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Swinton, Celia Thaxter, Benjamin H. Ticknor, Ross Turner, George E. Waring, John F. Weir, Brand Whitlock, Gilson Willets, and James Grant Wilson. People mentioned include Jane Addams, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Baily Aldrich, Irving Bachellor, Charles W. Balestier, Lawrence Barrett, Ole Bull, Francis Marion Crawford, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick A. Duneka, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gugleilmo Ferrero, John Galsworthy, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Ripley Hitchcock, Henry James, Robert Underwood Johnson, James Russell Lowell, Brander Matthews, George H. Mifflin, Henry Codman Potter, H. W. Preston, Horace E. Scudder, Richard Henry Stoddard, Turgenev, Mark Twain, Lester Wallack, and John F. Weir. Portraits include 6 pencil sketches of Howells enhanced with black and white ink and marked with printer's measurements for publication in an unidentified book or magazine article together with another portrait clipped from a magazine.

ArchivalResource: 342 items.

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Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888. Lester Wallack papers, circa 1826-1912

Title: Lester Wallack papers

Consists of letters from Bret Harte, Julia Marlowe, and others to Wallack and family members, 1826-1912; photographs; notes concerning a benefit performance held for Wallack in 1888; and clippings.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet

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Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888,. Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack to Hannah Ridley, Brighton [manuscript], 1839 January 10 Thursday.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack to Hannah Ridley, Brighton [manuscript], 1839 January 10 Thursday.

Discusses theatre business and how hard his father [James William Wallack] has been working. Signed from John. Acquisition information identifies correspondent as John Johnstone Wallack (i.e. Lester Wallack). Following Wallack's letter to Ridley is another short letter, on the same leaf, addressed to "Dear dear little Charley" and signed from "his devoted brother Jack." Recipient is likely Charles Saville Wallack. Includes integral address leaf addressed to Mrs. Ridley, 5 Cannon Place, Brighton, Sussex. Initials "J.J.W." and "Per packet steam ship "Royal William" Jan. 16th" written on address leaf.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 25 x 20 cm.

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Richmond, Clifford A. Autograph letter signed from Clifford Richmond, Easthampton, Massachusetts, to William Winter [manuscript], 1901 May 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Clifford Richmond, Easthampton, Massachusetts, to William Winter [manuscript], 1901 May 20.

Richmond requests the date of Winter's review of the Daly production of "All for her," a play which Richmond alleges was his mother's dramatization of A tale of two cities. On leaf 2v, Winter's draft response indicating that "All for her" was produced by Lester Wallack, not Daly, and that the play was written by Palgrave Simpson and Herman Merivale.

ArchivalResource: 1 bifolium ; 22 x 14 cm.

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The Robert Cushman Butler Collection of Theatrical Illustrations

Title: The Robert Cushman Butler Collection of Theatrical Illustrations

Engravings, lithographs, manuscripts, music covers, books and other printed materials primarily relating to 18th and 19th century English and American theatre..

ArchivalResource: 3 containers; 60 oversize folders; 15 linear feet; Approximate 3,000 items

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Crawford, Jack Randall, b. 1878. Crawford Theater collection, 1663-1992 (inclusive).

Title: Crawford Theater collection, 1663-1992 (inclusive).

The collection consists of playbills and programs, photographs in a variety of formats, engravings, posters, clippings, and other printed material which document the performing arts in the United States and throughout the world from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Material relating to dramatic performance forms the nucleus of the collection, but dance, opera, motion picture, circus, radio, and television performances are also represented.

ArchivalResource: 464 linear ft.

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Henderson, W. J. (William James), 1855-1937,. Autograph letter signed W.J. Henderson, New York, to William Winter [manuscript], 1915 November 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed W.J. Henderson, New York, to William Winter [manuscript], 1915 November 7.

Thanks Winter for an inscribed copy of Vagrant memories. Also mentions some of his recollections of the theatre, his father William Henderson, Matilda Heron, Miss Rehan and Lester Wallack.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888. Autograph letter signed, dated : Turnham Green, 27 May 1828, to his father, James Wallack, 1828 May 27.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Turnham Green, 27 May 1828, to his father, James Wallack, 1828 May 27.

Saying that his vacation begins on 20 June, when he hopes to see all the family, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p., with integral address leaf) ; (8vo)

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Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888. Lester Wallack papers, 1827-1902.

Title: Lester Wallack papers, 1827-1902.

A collection of letters primarily addressed to 19th-century stage actor Lester Wallack, including letters Wallack wrote to his parents from boarding school and later on his sons, portraits, financial information; menus from a social club's dinners, and an annotated copy of the published script, The veteran; or, France and Algeria: a drama, in six tableaux, with cast of characters, stage business, costumes, relative positions, & c., & c., as performed at Wallack's Theater.

ArchivalResource: 36 items.

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Gilbert, John, 1810-1889,. Autograph letters signed from John Gilbert to various people, 1871-1889.

Title: Autograph letters signed from John Gilbert to various people, 1871-1889.

Correspondents: J.H. Brown, F.S. Walton, and William Winter. (1) encloses 2 playbills of recent performances of School for scandal, May, 1888, and a program for the Lester Wallack testimonial, May 21, 1888; (2-5) concern an engraving of Gilbert as Falstaff; (8) mentions the recovery of Edwin Booth.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

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Fisher, Clara, 1811-1898. Essay by Clara Fisher Maeder [manuscript], 1897.

Title: Essay by Clara Fisher Maeder [manuscript], 1897.

Discourse occasioned by reading Lester Wallack's Memories of fifty years. May be incomplete. Includes description from sales catalog.

ArchivalResource: 12 leaves ; 19 x 9 cm.

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Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888. The veteran ; or, France and Algeria : a drama, in six tableaux, with cast of characters, stage business, costumes, relative positions, & c., & c., as performed at Wallack's Theater : annotated script, 1859.

Title: The veteran ; or, France and Algeria : a drama, in six tableaux, with cast of characters, stage business, costumes, relative positions, & c., & c., as performed at Wallack's Theater : annotated script, 1859.

A notebook containing handwritten notes regarding the scenery, properties, characters and dialogue of the play, plus a published copy of the script that has been tipped in, which also includes some minor revisions.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (68 leaves)

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Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888,. Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, Philadelphia, to an unidentified recipient [mansucript] 1880 September 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, Philadelphia, to an unidentified recipient [mansucript] 1880 September 25.

Wallack is in the midst of costume sketching and thanks the recipient for the map.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 20 x 13 cm.

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Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888. Henry Bergh letters, 1866-1884.

Title: Henry Bergh letters, 1866-1884.

Seven autograph letters (one accompanied by envelope), signed, by Henry Burgh, and one portrait engraving autographed by Burgh. All letters are written on A.S.P.C.A. stationary and most concern the A.S.P.C.A. or cases of animal cruelty. They are addressed to Orange County, N.Y. justice of the peace John Burt; New York state senator Augustus R. Elwood; the editor of the New York Tribune; actor Lester Wallack; and writer Henry Sedley. Bergh at times expresses dismay and frustration with the progress of his causes, in particular decrying the New York City Board of Aldermen and Assemblyman Denis Burns. Of particular interest are two letters: the first, dated December 11, 1866, protesting the regular feeding of live animals to a snake at Barnum's museum; and the second, dated November 7, 1881, requesting that Wallack find a position for "a beautiful young lady, of my acquaintance, who has already had much experience in playing elsewhere" at his new theater, which opened in 1882.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (8 items)

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Winter, William, 1836-1917,. List compiled by William Winter of some of the characters in which Lester Wallack acted [manuscript], ca. 1900.

Title: List compiled by William Winter of some of the characters in which Lester Wallack acted [manuscript], ca. 1900.

ArchivalResource: 4 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233649841 View

Crawford Theater collection, 1663-1992

Title: Crawford Theater collection 1663-1992

The collection consists of playbills and programs, photographs in a variety of formats, engravings, posters, clippings, and other printed material which document the performing arts in the United States and throughout the world from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Material relating to dramatic performance forms the nucleus of the collection, but dance, opera, motion picture, circus, radio, and television performances are also represented.

ArchivalResource: 468.5 linear feet (827 boxes, 3 folios)

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Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905,. Autograph letters signed and telegrams from Sir Henry Irving to various recipients [manuscript], 1860-1904.

Title: Autograph letters signed and telegrams from Sir Henry Irving to various recipients [manuscript], 1860-1904.

Some items undated. Some of the letters are in the hands of Abraham Stoker and Louis Austin. Correspondents include: John Copeland Buckstone, Lady Gertrude (Blood) Campbell, Wm. Boyd Carpenter, Luigi Palma Di Cesnola, Hugh Boswell Chapman, Henry Savile Clarke, Viscountess Isabel (Chetwynd) Poole Combermere, Edward Compton, Augustin Daly, Frederick Gard Fleay, Charles Edward Flower, Lord Ronald Charles Gower, James Wyllie Guild, Lady Mary Anne (MacDowell) Hardy, William Heinemann, Henry Herman, Mrs. Hill, John William Jarvis, William Ramage Lawson, Justin M'Carthy, Allan Marquand, Francis Albert Marshall, Sarah (Edwards) Nast, Thomas Nast, Howard Paul, Edmund Routledge, George Routledge, George Shea, Daniel Edgar Sickles, Thomas Robert Slicer, George Alfred Stringer, Howard Malcolm Ticknor, Samuel Timmins, John Lawrence Toole, Edmund Hart Turpin, John Lester Wallack, Lewis Waller, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth (Campbell) Winter, William Winter and others.

ArchivalResource: 222 items.

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Squire Bancroft letter book, 1836-1922

Title: Squire Bancroft letter book 1836-1922

Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager, played hundreds of roles in a theatrical career which spanned over fifty years, and brought him into contact with most of the leading English theatrical figures of his day. Born May 14, 1861, of well-to-do means, Squire Bancroft was educated privately in England and France. He made his stage debut in 1861 at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, toured the provinces, then made his London debut in 1865 at the Prince of Wales Theatre as Jack Crawley in A WINNING HAZARD, under the management of H. J. Byron and prominent actress Marie Wilton (1839-1921). He married Miss Wilton in 1867, and joined her in theatrical management. Over the next eighteen years, in addition to his management duties, Squire Bancroft played many leading roles in contemporary plays as well as works by Shakespeare and Sheridan. He retired from management in 1885, but continued acting until 1918; he also wrote three books, one in collaboration with his wife. Sir Squire Bancroft died on April 19, 1926, at the age of 84. Squire Bancroft's letter book consists of autograph documents (notes and brief letters) and clipped autographs, written by prominent 19th century theatrical figures, including William C. Macready, Charlotte Cushman, Lester Wallack, Junius Brutus Booth, Tommaso Salvini, Laura Keane, Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and others. Some notes are addressed to Marie Bancroft.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 lf. (1 letter book)

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Fechter, Charles, 1824-1879,. Autograph letters signed from Charles Fechter, London, Boston and Quakerstown, Pa., to various recipients, 1849-1877.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Charles Fechter, London, Boston and Quakerstown, Pa., to various recipients, 1849-1877.

Most discuss his roles or manuscripts; some reflect his rather intemperate disposition. Recipients: Mr. Arrault, Henry Edwards, [Louis Francois?] Faille, Paul Fechter, Gurney, [Charles Kean], John [McCullough?], M. Thibaudeau, A. Thiry, [Lester Wallack?], [R.H.] Wyndham, and unidentified persons, among them a Paris theater manager, ca. 1867-1868.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

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Coghlan, Rose. Letter to Lester Wallack, n.d.

Title: Letter to Lester Wallack, n.d.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

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Worcester Dramatic Museum. Papers, 1732-1995.

Title: Papers, 1732-1995.

A collection of letters, manuscripts, and documents of prominent actors, actresses, and theatrical managers. Many of these are single, unrelated items. The largest body of correspondence is from the American actress, Charlotte Cushman (14 letters). Another figure of major interest is William Charles Macready, partly because of Miss Cushman's relationship to him (she toured with him for several years) and also as there are several of his letters. Sir Henry Irving, Edwin Forrest and James Mowatt are each represented by a few letters. A group of 8 unsigned letters may have been written by the famous singer, actress, and manager, Eliza Vestris. One box contains manuscripts of Samuel Coit, Charlotte Cushman, Clyde Fitch, Wallace Gould, Henry von Heiseler, E.H. Sothern, and Lester Wallack. Six boxes contain Augustin Daly's check stubs and bank books for Daly's Theatre, New York, for 1872-1899. (For additional Augustin Daly business records, see description sheets for Daly's Theatre Collection, X810.128/D15, & the Dramatic Library Collection shelf list). GEOFFROY: 86 letters removed from the Charles Michel Geoffroy, NOUVELLE GALERIE DES ARTISTES DRAMATIQUES, which contains his engravings of theatrical personalities. 15 of these letters are to Lʹeon Monval, stage director of the Paris Gymnase Dramatique, 1832-1852, and were transferred to the Dram. Mus.\Monval Coll. This is a collection of letters, 1828-1892, from performers, authors, directors, and those seeking boxes for the evening's entertainment. Among these are Jacques Offenbach, Pauline Viardot, Delestre Poirson, Marguerite George, Mlle Person, Rachel Fʹelix, and Edouard Plouvier. GILBERT: Misc. autographs and photographs collected by Anne J. Gilbert (Mrs George Henry). IRELAND: 494 autograph letters, manuscripts, and documents concerning the New York and London theater world, 1750-1899, from Ireland's own collection, which were bound in William Hartman Woodin's extra-illustrated copy of Ireland's RECORDS OF THE NEW YORK STAGE. The other items bound in this set (portraits, original drawings, playbills, views of theaters and localities referred to) are still bound in the set (in the Dramatic Museum book collection). MONVAL: 315 letters to Lʹeon Monval (see also GEOFFROY above). MOORE: 8 letters & telegrams, along with photographs, clippings, programs, and other printed materials relating to the American operatic and film star, Grace Moore, collected by June Lord-Wood, an admirer and music student.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear ft (ca.4,500 items in 29 boxes, 2 flat folders, & 3 cartons).

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Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888,. Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack to William Winter [manuscript], 19th century December 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack to William Winter [manuscript], 19th century December 7.

Thanks Winter for his kindness and writes that he is "really proud of the approbation you so flatteringly express of my professional existing."

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

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John Lawrence Toole autograph collection, 1750-1903 and undated.

Title: John Lawrence Toole autograph collection, 1750-1903 and undated.

Autograph album and correspondence of English actor and theatrical manager John Lawrence Toole.

ArchivalResource: 3 volumes (.33 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00710/catalog View

Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888,. Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, St. Louis, Missouri, to William Winter [manuscript], 19th century May 18.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, St. Louis, Missouri, to William Winter [manuscript], 19th century May 18.

Wallack has been received warmly in St. Louis; he starts for Chicago this evening, where he will be for two weeks.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As you like it.

Title: As you like it. [1880?]

ArchivalResource: 62 leaves ; 22 cm.

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Howard, Bronson, 1842-1908. Bronson Howard playscripts, 1866-1892.

Title: Bronson Howard playscripts, 1866-1892.

Collection consists of autograph playscripts for six plays: Diamonds; Farm-of-the-Glen, or, the Civilized Indian; Girls of the Period; Hearts, or, Love and Flirtation; Home and Club; and Lillian's Last Love. There are three drafts of Hearts, one inscribed "Sent to Lester Wallack, 1866. Returned by Arthur Wallack, 1892," and incomplete drafts of Diamonds (lacking Act II), Hearts (lacking Acts III-V), and Lillian's Last Love (lacking Acts I-III). Farm-of-the-Glen, corrected, includes "original songs" by English poet Henry S. Leigh.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear feet (1 box)

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Wilkie Collins, 1867 Dec. 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Wilkie Collins, 1867 Dec. 24.

Criticizing Collins' dramatic version of No Thoroughfare, which Dickens had just received. Noting that it is "done with great pains and skill," but it is too long and though "its fate will have been decided before [Collins] gets this letter, [Dickens] greatly doubts its success." Discussing specific points, and wondering why Collins has left "the whole thing" to Dickens' "sole discretion," asking "is not the play coming out, the day after tomorrow???" Mentioning that many pirated dramatic versions of No Thoroughfare are already being offered, and discussing [the theater manager] Wallack's plans, should their version be poorly received.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465216997 View

Bancroft, Squire, 1841-1926. Squire Bancroft letter book, 1836-1922.

Title: Squire Bancroft letter book, 1836-1922.

Squire Bancroft's letter book consists of autograph documents (notes and brief letters) and clipped autographs, written by prominent 19th century theatrical figures, including William C. Macready, Charlotte Cushman, Lester Wallack, Junius Brutus Booth, Tommaso Salvini, Laura Keane, Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and others. Some notes are addressed to Marie Bancroft.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 lf. (1 letter book).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122606868 View

Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907. Letters to Lester Wallack and Mrs. Brickstone, 1888-1889.

Title: Letters to Lester Wallack and Mrs. Brickstone, 1888-1889.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478883 View

Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888,. Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, Stamford, Connecticut, to William Floyd [manuscript], 19th century September 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, Stamford, Connecticut, to William Floyd [manuscript], 19th century September 13.

Brief letter concerning a manuscript Wallack wishes Floyd to read and plans to rehearse Rosedale.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 21 x 14 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/492270742 View

'The romance of a poor young man', drama in two acts by Lester Wallack. Licence sent 21 November 1860 for performance at the Queen's on 24 November. First produced at Wallack's, New York, 24 January, 1860. Signed C. J. James. Cues underlined in r...

Title: 'The romance of a poor young man', drama in two acts by Lester Wallack. Licence sent 21 November 1860 for performance at the Queen's on 24 November. First produced at Wallack's, New York, 24 January, 1860. Signed C. J. James. Cues underlined in r... 21 Nov 1860

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888. Letters, programs, and playbills, 1853-1888.

Title: Letters, programs, and playbills, 1853-1888.

ArchivalResource: 12 items (10 leaves, 2 volumes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478941 View

Prints Collection, 1669-1906 (bulk 1775-1825).

Title: Prints Collection, 1669-1906 (bulk 1775-1825).

The Prints Collection consists of ca. 8,000 prints, the great majority of which depict British and American theatrical performers in character or in personal portraits. Most of the collection, located in the Individuals series, consists of prints of ca. 2,400 Britons and Americans. Portrayed in busts, half- to full-length portraits, scenes from plays, or caricatures are actors, playrights and composers, dancers, theatrical managers, popular performers, and concert artists; and, to a lesser extent, poets and novelists, European royalty, members of the British peerage, statesmen, religious and military leaders, and medical doctors. The Theatrical Prints series contains ca. 100 prints which do not depict a particular person but have a dramatic theme. About three quarters of these prints depict scenes from plays in which the actors are not identified; many are idealized representations of characters and settings. The remainder of the prints pertain to a variety of theatrical subjects ranging from wax museums to religious processions, with more material pertaining to the commedia dell'arte than to any other topic. The Works of Art and Miscellany series consists of ca. 60 landscapes, romanticized or idealized scenes, and assorted images, including invertible pictures of faces in which a second face can be seen when the print is viewed upside down.

ArchivalResource: 8,000 items in 54 document boxes, 7 oversize boxes (33.38 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122530444 View

Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888. Letter to Rowe. [s.l.] [18--] Mar. 21.

Title: Letter to Rowe. [s.l.] [18--] Mar. 21.

Offering a criticism of Rowe's play "Beauty"; Wallack declining to produce it in its present form.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/308228115 View

Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888. Correspondence to Wallack family, 1827-1879.

Title: Correspondence to Wallack family, 1827-1879.

Includes letters Wallack wrote as a child to his parents from boarding school and later to his own his sons. The boarding school letters are signed using Wallack's birth name John Johnstone Wallack. Lester was taken as his stage name.

ArchivalResource: 9 items (10 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236184124 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Wilkie Collins, 1867 Dec. 2 and 3.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Wilkie Collins, 1867 Dec. 2 and 3.

Discussing particulars relating to getting No Thoroughfare staged in the United States, mentioning that the "right of playing it in America can be secured by assigning the MS to an American Citizen." Proposing to arrange with [Lester] Wallack to have it produced in New York, and asking Collins to arrange with the "Star-actor" Lawrence Barrett [who first approached Collins and Dickens about this; see MA 93.135)] to take it to other American cities, noting that he is "a responsible man pecuniarily." Also mentioning that Dickens met with "one of the most knowing Managers in New York" [Henry David Palmer], and that his readings are going very well. With a postscript dated the following day (December 3), noting that the reading was "a most tremendous success last night" and that "the whole City is perfectly mad about it today."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 c cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465216914 View

Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905. Letters and playbill, 1883-1894.

Title: Letters and playbill, 1883-1894.

13 letters, with recipients including Lester Wallack and James R. Osgood, and one oversize playbill.

ArchivalResource: 14 items (14 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478867 View

Charlotte Cushman Papers, 1823-1941, (bulk 1861-1875)

Title: Charlotte Cushman Papers 1823-1941 (bulk 1861-1875)

Actress. Correspondence; biographical and genealogical material; annotated scripts and texts of plays, poetry, and readings; newspaper clippings; reviews; and souvenir programs relating chiefly to Cushman's career in the theater.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items; 21 containers plus 1 oversize; 5.5 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008027 View

Theatrical scrapbook, 1849-1889?

Title: Theatrical scrapbook, 1849-1889?

A collection of clippings from American, English, and British colonial newspapers, relating to the theater. Includes portraits of actors, actresses, theatrical managers, singers, and composers, such as Lillie Langtry, Lester Wallack, Virginia Dreher, Christine Nilsson, Richard Stahl, and others. Some manuscript leaves of notes bound in. The clippings relate chiefly to appearances of the Lanergan Dramatic Company.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. : ports. ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64750035 View

Davenport, Fanny, 1850-1898. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1882.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1882.

Letter to John Lester Wallack [?], requested a copy of his play Adrienne, so that she might include it in her repertoire; also requesting seats or a box to see The Silver King.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155885559 View

Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888,. Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, New York, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1865 February 8.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Lester Wallack, New York, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1865 February 8.

Concerns purchasing a site for his theatre. Letter addressed "Dear Sir." Addressed from 263 W. 23rd St.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/416501220 View

Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899,. Autograph letters signed from Augustin Daly to William Winter [manuscript], 1869-1898.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Augustin Daly to William Winter [manuscript], 1869-1898.

(3) and (14) refer to editions of Winter's book on Ada Rehan which are being privately printed by Daly. (10) Mentions the great loss to Daly personally and also to his theatre by the death of the actor, James Lewis. Also includes an announcement of the Wallack testimonial held in 1888.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434080508 View

Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888. Printed menu card complimentary to Lester Wallack, for dinner at the Lotos club [manuscript], 1887 December 17.

Title: Printed menu card complimentary to Lester Wallack, for dinner at the Lotos club [manuscript], 1887 December 17.

The menu has dishes named after plays of Shakespeare and others. Signed "Lester Wallack to his dear friend "Willie." Endorsed by William Winter. The verso has notes relating to events that took place at the dinner, including anecdotes Wallack gave on his family and his father having been the first to wear a grey wig as Shylock, Byron's comment on Dunlap's Life of Cooke, "the parts [Cooke] played and the pints he swallowed," and Wallack liking to play the part of Harry Denton in The road to ruin. Signed "J.W." Likely William Jefferson Winter.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 19 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428977312 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

Miscellaneous documents relating to Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1838-1948.

Title: Miscellaneous documents relating to Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1838-1948.

Miscellaneous letters, documents, and memorabilia to and about Abraham Lincoln concerning his family, political career, assassination, and aspects of the American Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes + 1 pf box; 1 linear ft.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01971/catalog View

Prints Collection TXRC02-A1., 1669-1906 (bulk 1775-1825)

Title: Prints Collection 1669-1906 (bulk 1775-1825)

The collection consists of ca. 8,000 prints, the greatmajority of which depict British and American theatrical performers in character orin personal portraits.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00152/00152p1-P.html View

Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888,. Autograph letters signed from Lester Wallack, New York, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1873-1888.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Lester Wallack, New York, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1873-1888.

Includes 45 autograph letters signed, 2 telegrams, 1 program. Letters comment briefly on many theatrical enterprises, several handled jointly with Daly. (48) is a program from the performance of "Hamlet" given by Daly and A. M. Palmer in Wallack's honor. Some items undated.

ArchivalResource: 48 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230422163 View

Burnside, Jean, 19th cent. Autograph letters signed from Jean Burnside Allen, New York, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1888 November 3.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Jean Burnside Allen, New York, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1888 November 3.

(1) Invites Daly to a private viewing of a terra cotta bust of Lester Wallack.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244111548 View