Guestbook 1924-1970.

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Hughes, Herbert, 1882-1937

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Epithet: Colonel CMG British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000975.0x000259 ...

Mason, A.E.W. (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948

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English novelist and dramatist. From the description of A verified conjecture : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript signed of the mystery story, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609636 English spy fiction and espionage writer noted for his use of narrative and characterization. From the description of The Right Thing, 1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461568 From the guide to the The right thing, 1899, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972

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Padraic Colum was a noted playwright, essayist, novelist, poet, and author of books for children. Born on December 8, 1881, in Longford, Ireland, Colum came to the United States in 1914 and died on January 12, 1972, in Enfield, Connecticut. Though Colum worked briefly for a railroad, he became a full-time writer in Dublin, Ireland, in 1901. He was a founder of the Irish National Theatre (later known as the Abbey Theatre), and co-founder and editor for a time of the Irish Review. From...

Ireland, John, 1879-1962

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English composer, pianist, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 5 June 1919, to Mr. Kling [at J. &. W. Chester], 1919 June 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270578522 Epithet: composer and pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x00036a ...

Hess, Myra

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English pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York Apr. 25 1932, to Mrs. Melbert Brinckerhoff [i.e. Mary Flagler] Cary, 1932 Apr. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666224 Epithet: DBE, pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00028c ...

McCormack, John, 1931-

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Baylis, Lilian, 1874-1937

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Backhaus, Wilhelm, 1884-1969

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German pianist. From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p., n.d.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270670859 ...

O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964

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Sean O'Casey was born John Casey on March 30, 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, to Michael and Susan (Archer) Casey, a lower-middle class Protestant family. His father died in 1886. As a child, O'Casey suffered from trachoma, which affected his sight and made it difficult for him to succeed scholastically. He worked periodically throughout his adolescence as a stock boy, a van driver, and railway laborer. During this time, he became interested in Irish working class culture, as well as socialism and labo...

Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, 1891-1974

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Brown was an English author and journalist. From the description of Letter, 1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83722838 Epithet: writer and theatre critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x00027b ...

Agate, James, 1877-1947

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Kiernan, Delia.

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Joyce, Lucia, -1982

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Lucia Anna Joyce, second child and only daughter of Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, was born July 26, 1907, in Trieste, Austria-Hungary. Her early life and education was somewhat unstable as the impoverished Joyce family relocated often. She attended several schools, moving between Trieste and Zurich until 1920, when the family settled and lived in and around Paris. In addition to her formal education, Lucia Joyce studied piano, singing, and drawing. At age f...

Priestley, J.B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984

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J. B. Priestley, playwright. From the description of An inspector calls: typescript, 1994. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122608422 J.B. Priestley, playwright; David Mamet, adapter, not credited here. From the description of Dangerous corner : typescript, 1996, January 4. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122626156 English author J.B. Priestley had a long and prolific career writing in numerous genres, and achieved critical a...

Newmarch, Rosa, 1857-1940

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Joyce, Nora Barnacle, 1884-1951

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Douglas, Sholto, baron Douglas of Kirtleside, 1893-

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Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...

Lynd, Sylvia

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Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell

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Scottish composer, violinist, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Garden Cottages, Maidenshead, Berkshire ; and 15 Regents Park Road, N.W., [London], to Arthur Sullivan, 1886 Dec. 19 and 1889 July 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125470 From the description of Autograph letter signed : 15 Regent's Park Road, N.W., [London], to Herbert T. Sullivan. 1925 Nov. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125495 Scottish composer and conductor....

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991

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Seán O'Faoláin was born John Whelan in County Cork, Ireland; he came from a loyalist family, and initally opposed the Easter Rebellion of 1916, but the excessive force used by the British to suppress the rebellion inspired his sense of Irish nationalism. He took Gaelic lessons and earned a scholarship to University College, Cork, changing his name to the Gaelic form. He studied and worked in America for several years, but was drawn back to Ireland, where he resolved to become a writer. Diverse...

Ogden, C.K. (Charles Kay), 1889-1957

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The library of C.K. Odgen, Great Britain, was purchased for the University of California in 1957. The approximately 74,000 volumes were distributed to various UC campuses, with 6,213 to UC Berkeley. These were distributed in the General Library, including the Moffitt Undergraduate Library and the Rare Books and Special Collections Dept. Some titles determined to be UCB duplicates were transferred subsequently to other UC campuses. From the description of Charles Kay Ogden collection....