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...
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...
John Gielgud Archive. Materials relating to members of the extended Terry–Gielgud–Lewis family; before 1870–1911. Mostly printed. Includes a story The loch of Romach, by Gielgud’s mother, Kate Terry Gielgud, from the Pall Mall Magazine (October 1895); a feature on his mother’s cousin Phyllis ...
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...
John Gielgud Archive. Chronology of John Gielgud’s own career, 1913–1957, possibly written out by his mother, or more likely his sister, Eleanor. 320 x 150 mm. Hardback lined notebook.
John Gielgud Archive. Annotated chronology of the roles of Kate Terry Lewis (b. 1844, d. 1924), actress, Gielgud’s maternal grandmother, 1850–1867, by Kate Terry Gielgud, her eldest daughter and Gielgud’s mother. Kate Terry was the eldest daughter of Benjamin Terry and Sarah Ballard, strolling p...