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1. Add MS 81322-81323

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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899-1910
Extent:
2 items

2. Add MS 81324-81325

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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1813-1817
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 81318-81321

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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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1891-1955
Extent:
4 items

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