[Papers] / collected by Allan Wilkie and Frediswyede Hunter-Watts. 1878-1970.

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[Papers] / collected by Allan Wilkie and Frediswyede Hunter-Watts. 1878-1970.

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The papers include memoirs, correspondence, photographs, programmes and daybills, notes, and unpublished works, including the typescript of the unpublished autobiography All the world my stage: the reminiscences of a Shakespearean actor-manager in five continents by Wilkie. Also includes the promptbooks of the Allan Wilkie Shakespearean Company (printed playtexts with mss annotations, stage directions, excisions et.); realia (personal items of Wilkie and Hunter-Watts and items used as part of costume or props in stage performance); talks by Allan Wilkie, including the tour with talk 'Round the world with Shakespeare'); scrapbooks of press cuttings (chiefly re Allan Wilkie Company productions); original mss. cast lists; and, personal and family documents.

5 boxes ; various sizes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7041887

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