Olivier Archive. Vols. CMLIII-CMLIV. Album and loose photographs relating to the film of Hamlet; includes both pictures of Olivier and of other actors and stage settings; 1946-1947.
Olivier Archive. Vol. CMLVI-CMLVII (ff. ). Photographs from Laurence Olivier Productions, mostly of Olivier; 1947-1959. Includes Antigone (at the Old Vic); Venus observed; Caesar and Cleopatra; The sleeping prince; Twelfth night, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus (in the productions from Stratford; with photographs of the company as tourists in Moscow), The entertainer (at the Royal Court Theatre); Coriolanus (also in the Stratford production).
CLAUDIUS JAMES RICH PAPERS. VOL. I, II. Letters from Claudius James Rich and his wife Mary, chiefly to her sister Maitland and the latter’s husband William Erskine, secretary to Sir James Mackintosh in Bombay; 1808-1818. 43 of the letters are from Rich and 143 from his wife. The letters describe their journey to Baghdad, the public events there, Rich’s dealings with the Pashas, their own way of life and the journeys they undertook to Constantinople and into Europe, as also detailed in Ric...
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Mary Rich, wife of Claudius James Rich: Correspondence, etc.,: 1808-1825, n.d.
CEDRIC HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vols. II-XI. Books, mostly texts of plays by George Bernard Shaw, with dedication inscriptions from the author to Hardwicke. Printed, with MS additions. Ten vols. Add. MSS 80802–80806 are in the uniform Constable edition 175 x 125mm.
CEDRIC HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vols. XII-XXXVI. Cuttings albums; 1926–1944. The cuttings relate mainly to Hardwicke's British stage and film appearances. Twenty-five vols. Add. MSS 80813 – 80834 are uniform in size (365 x 280mm.) and appearance (dark blue cloth bindings, with the dates gilt-stamped on the spines).
A. PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE 80838-80890. STERN PAPERS. Vols. I-LIII Typewritten and autograph correspondence between Stern and others, predominantly to Stern. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, and chronologically within each correspondent set. 21 May 1922-2 November 1995.
B. BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE 80891-80902. STERN PAPERS. Vols. LIV-LXV Typewritten and autograph correspondence between Stern and publishers, literary agents, and others, predominantly to Stern. Personal correspondence is included here where either the personal relationship grew out of business correspondence (e.g. Elaine Greene) or the personal correspondence is inextricably bound into business correspondence (e.g. John Lehmann). Arranged alphabetically by organisation, and chronological...