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.
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. 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. 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.
John Gielgud Archive. Scripts for stage plays. Typewritten, except where stated, with extensive MS annotations in ink, ballpoint pen, and pencil by Gielgud himself. Average size 280 x 220 mm.
John Gielgud Archive. Scripts for films. Typewritten, except where stated, with extensive MS annotations in ink, ballpoint pen, and pencil by Gielgud himself, and partly imperfect. Gielgud prepared his scripts by folding over the corners of pages or folding the entire page in half, and appears on several occasions to have discarded the portions of the script in which he was not involved.