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 ...
John Gielgud Archive. Materials relating to Ellen Terry, Gielgud’s great-aunt, 1879–circa 1928. Mostly printed. Includes a programme for a performance of Much ado about nothing, at Abbey’s Theater, Broadway and 38th, New York, on 5 March 1894. with Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in the lead rol...