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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Thr 32

Miscellaneous theatrical papers

Overview

Letters, photographs, and other documents by individuals associated with the theater.

Dates

  • Creation: 1673-1976

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

Includes autograph letters by Samuel Beckett, Charles Dickens, Eugene O'Neill, and George Bernard Shaw, among other actors and playwrights. Also contains photographs of Maxine Elliott and Sir John Gielgud, as well as typescript portions of William Alfred's play Agamemnon, a scene plot of Hamlet directed by Edwin Booth, a lecture by Isadora Duncan, theater lease contracts, playbills, and salary receipts, among other documents.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

Physical Location

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Received from various sources; see individual items for accessions information.

Title
Miscellaneous theatrical papers, 1673-1976: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou01596

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

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