Annie Schletter papers 1757-1937

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Annie Schletter papers 1757-1937

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Correspondence, writings, printed ephemera, and photographs related to Annie Schletter and her family. Correspondence consists of letters to Annie Schletter, Pauline Schletter, Percy Schletter, and others, including Adrian Boult and Rosetta Phillips. Letters to Annie Schletter, many brief notes, largely relate to theater in London. Her correspondents include Margot Asquith, Adrian Boult, Ernest Coquelin, F. Paolo Tosti, Oscar Wilde, and Charles Wyndham. Correspondence also includes two letters from Georgina Weldon to Pauline Schletter, one written from Halloway Gaol and another enclosing 12 photographs taken in South Africa. Writings include several manuscript poems addressed to Rosetta Phillips, a typescript poem, "National Rat Week," by Osbert Sitwell, and a typescript essay by Margot Asquith describing a visit to Spain. Printed ephemera includes theater programs for performances at the Reform Club, Savoy Theatre, Windsor Castle, and other venues, as well as an invitation and prayer from "Her Majesty's Jubilee Thanksgiving Service." Photographs include portraits of Anthony Asquith, H. H. Asquith, Margot Asquith, Pamela Lytton, and F. Paolo Tosti.

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Lytton, Pamela.

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Phillips, Rosetta.

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Boult, Adrian, 1889-1983

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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult (1889-1983) was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was not called up due to ill health, but served as an Orderly Officer training troops in Cheshire and North Wales before working as a translator for MI5 and as an assistant to Frederick Marquis, later Lord Woolton, at the War Office. He later became a musician and conductor. From the guide to the Sir Adrian Boult papers, 1977, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Epithet: CH, co...

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x00005f Irish writer, poet, and playwright. From the description of Collection, 1851-1957 (bulk 1877-1957). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122625016 Irish poet, dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Wyndham, Charles, 1837-1919

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English actor and theater manager. From the description of Letters, ca. 1897-1900, to son Howard Wyndham. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019039 English actor-manager. From the description of Better late than never : autograph sentiment signed : [London, n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584377 Epithet: actor-manager, pseudonym of Charles Culverwell Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catal...

Lytton, Pamela.

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Schletter, Percy, 1855-1922.

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Schletter, Pauline, b. 1851.

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Asquith, Anthony, 1902-1968

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Epithet: Equerry to the Prince of Wales British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x0002a0 1937-1968 president, Association of Cinematographic Technicians; governor of the British Film Institute. Epithet: film director British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x0000f9 ...

Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969

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Viola Garvin, literary editor of the Observer 1926-1942, and daughter of James Louis Garvin, editor of the Observer 1908-1942. From the description of Letter, 1940 October 21, Renishaw Hall, N. Sheffield to Viola Garvin. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 37429151 English poet and satirist. From the description of Letter : Cyprus, to Maurice [Baring], 1935 Feb. 15. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). Wor...

Asquith, H.H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928

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First Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Statesman, and Prime Minister. From the description of Letters, 1902-1919. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41417274 Earl of Oxford and Asquith. British M.P.; served as Home Secretary, 1892-1895; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1905-1908; Secretary of State for War, 1914; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, 1908-1916. From the description of Papers, 1912-1939. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19108896...

Boult, Adrian, Sir, 1889-

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Phillips, Rosetta.

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Schletter, Annie, 1858-1944.

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Annie Schletter (1858-1944) was an English actress active in London during World War I. She was the sister of Pauline Schletter (b. 1851), a translator. Percy Schletter (1855-1922), a colonel in The King's Liverpool Regiment, was also related, probably their brother. From the guide to the Annie Schletter papers, 1757-1937, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Annie Schletter was an English actress active in London theater during World War I. From the descr...

Coquelin, Ernest

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Ernest Coquelin was an actor at the Comédie Française, born in 1848. He used the name Coquelin Cadet to avoid being confused with his older brother, also a successful actor at the same theater. He died in 1909. From the description of Letters to Gabriel Ferrier, 1882-1906. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81666615 Coquelin Cadet was an actor at the Comédie Française. He used the name Coquelin Cadet to avoid the confusion with his older brother, Constant Co...

Weldon, Georgina, 1837-1914

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Georgina Weldon was active in numerous artistic and political causes, and was a vocal supporter of the reform of England's Lunacy Laws. From the description of Letters, 1878-1885. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235173513 English soprano. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 30 January 1871, to Mr. [Henry F.?] Chorley, 1871 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270679107 ...

Asquith, Margot, 1864-1945

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British author. From the guide to the Margot Asquith autograph and photograph, 1926, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) 1894 married Herbert Asquith. Epithet: née Tennant, political hostess and diarist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x00008d ...

Tosti, Sir Paolo, 1846-1916

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Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed : 92 Finchley Road, N.W., [London], to Arthur Sullivan, 1891 Feb. 2 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125573 Italian song composer and singing teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 15 December 1908, to an unidentified recipient. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677806 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 26 D...