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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81501-81517
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Photograph albums presented to Gielgud on his birthday over a period of 17 years by the celebrated American theatre attorney Arnold Weissberger. Weissberger took the pictures from a privileged position in the stalls at rehearsals and sometimes at previews and first nights, and although they are far from a professional standard, they sometimes constitute the only pictorial record of a Gielgud performance The sequence of albums also includes pictures of the house and g...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1963-1980
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81525 A-B
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Two looseleaf albums of newspaper cuttings relating to the early years of Gielgud’s career; 20th Century. It is not evident who was responsible for their compilation, but that it was a close friend is likely from the witty and knowing placement of a cutting dating from the late 1930s trumpeting the news of Gielgud’s likely marriage to Peggy Ashcroft.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20th Century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81526-81539
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Albums of cuttings, programmes, handbills and other ephemera, and some letters relating to Gielgud’s career; 1922-1938. Although Gielgud himself was probably not responsible for their immediate composition, the books contain a number of programmes and handbills annotated in his hand. 370 x 270 mm., except for Add. 81935, 81938 and 81939, which are quarto in size; quarter-bound, in green, with gold-stamped lines on corners and spine, except for Add. 81539, which is b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1922-1938
Extent:: 14 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81540-81577
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Albums of cuttings, programmes, handbills and other ephemera, and some letters relating to Gielgud’s career; 1939-1985. Compiled by Gielgud’s sister Eleanor, who worked in the box-office at the Globe Theatre in the 1930s and became Gielgud’s secretary in 1946. Although the collection of press cuttings is remarkably full, there is anecdotal evidence to the effect that she took a personal dislike to certain periodicals and refused to keep cuttings from their pages.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1939-1985
Extent:: 38 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81578-81587
Title:: John Gielgud Archive. Files of press cuttings and photocopies, covering Gielgud’s career in his final years; 1985–circa 1999.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1985-c 1999
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81619-81669
Title:: Literary papers and related material of Oscar Wilde. This section has been divided into bound and unbound material. The sections are arranged chronologically, in the order: stage works; poems; epigrams; lectures; essays and articles; transcriptions.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: [1864-1962]
Extent:: 51 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81670-81689
Title:: Literary papers and related material of other writers collected by Mary Eccles, arranged in alphabetical order of author. This section has been divided into bound and unbound material.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: [1889-1999]
Extent:: 20 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81699-81700
Title:: Eccles Bequest. Vols. LXXXI, LXXXII. General correspondence of Oscar Wilde; 1876-1900, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1876-1900
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81724-81726
Title:: Eccles Bequest. Vols. CVI-CVIII; 1884-1891. Correspondence of Edward Heron Allen on varied subjects, including art, music and journalism, the theatre and botany. Letters from Oscar Wilde (previously Add MS 81726, ff. 318-323) have been removed and are now at Add MS 81690. Three volumes. Green half morocco bindings with marbled paper boards.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1884-1891
Extent:: 3 items

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