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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81299 A-E
Title:: Notebooks containing extracts from Eleanor Hallam’s journals together with two of her Commonplace Books; 1834-1836.
Scope & Content:: Eleanor Hallam, sister of A H Hallam: Commonplace books.: 1834-1836: English, French and Spanish. Eleanor Hallam, sister of A H Hallam: Extracts from three journals of Eleanor Hallam: circa 1837-circa 1840: Copies. includes: f. 13v Sir Franklin Lushington, magistrate: Reverend W. Bryant: Ex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1834-1836
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81301 A-D
Title:: Hallam Papers. Vol. ix a-d. Personal journals of Julia Maria Frances Lennard (née Hallam); 1838-1850.
Scope & Content:: Julia M. F. Lennard, née Hallam; sister of A H Hallam: Journals: 1846-1850.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1838-1850
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81302 A-C
Title:: Hallam Papers. Vol. x a-c. Further personal journals of Julia Maria Frances Lennard (née Hallam); [1832?]-1876.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1832?]-1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81303 A-B
Title:: Hallam Papers. Vols. xi a, b. Notebook and memoir of Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam; 1843, 1850.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1843-1850
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81306-81310
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Letters from John Gielgud to his mother and father, Kate and Frank Gielgud; 1910–1956. The overwhelming number of letters are addressed to Kate Gielgud; in his early days on tour in the English provinces, Gielgud would write to her at least once or twice a week.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1910-1956
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81311-81313
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Letters to John Gielgud from friends, fellow actors, and members of the public, relating to specific performances; 1930–1940.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1930-1940
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81318-81321
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. 'Plays I have seen'; detailed contemporary records of visits to the theatre, 1891–1903, with late additions from 1950 and 1955, by Kate Terry Gielgud (b. 1868, d. 1958), Gielgud’s mother. Partly fair copies. Most of the reviews were originally written as letters to a Mrs Holtz, who was, according to Gielgud’s sister Eleanor, the mother of Kate’s oldest friend and a permanent invalid unable herself to go to the theatre. A selection of the reviews, including those of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1891-1955
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81322-81323
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Albums of theatre programmes, pictorial cuttings from theatre periodicals, and postcards; 1899–1910. Both albums bear the name of a Hilda L. Milford, but in a very different hand in each case. It is just possible that the albums may have been compiled, or at the least begun, by the 'elderly American lady' referred to by Kate Terry Gielgud in her autobiography (Max Reinhardt, 1953) who went to live with her mother, Kate Terry Lewis, after she was widowed in November 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1899-1910
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81324-81325
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Two scrapbooks, containing theatrical and general cuttings, together with handwritten copies of verse and prose excerpts, in the manner of a commonplace-book, pasted into two volumes of Epithalamia Oxoniensia; 1813-1817. Mostly printed. 81325 has the heraldic bookplate of Sir Henry Irving, the greatest actor of his day and the first to be knighted, and the stage partner for twenty years of Ellen Terry, Gielgud’s great-aunt. There is nothing to confirm that the volum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1813-1817
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81329 A-C
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Documents relating to the 'New Mars Theatre', the elaborate toy theatre given to John Gielgud at Christmas 1911, and operated by Gielgud at his childhood home in Gledhow Gardens, Kensington, with the help of his older brother Val and his sister Eleanor; 1913–1919.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1913-1919
Extent:: 1 item

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