John Gielgud Archive. Letters relating to specific performances; 1934–1940. 1. The Maitlands, by Ronald Mackenzie; 1934. 2. Hamlet, at the New Theatre; 1934. 3. Noah, by André Obey; 1935. 4. Romeo & Juliet; 1935–1936. 5. The seagull, by Anton Chekhov; 1937. 6. Richard II; 1938. 7. Thr...
John Gielgud Archive. 1. Letters to John Gielgud from (a) Dame Edith Sitwell; 1946–1962; (b) A. L. Rouse; 1963; and (c) John Masefield; 1964, n.d. 2. Miscellaneous letters to John Gielgud; 1938–1999. 3. Letters of members of the Terry family; 1874–1931, n.d. Partly copies.
John Gielgud Archive. Letters from John Gielgud; 1924–1986. 1. To Mrs Mary Silverstein; 1979-1984. Includes letters from Gielgud’s partner, Martin Hensler, to Mrs Silverstein and her husband. The Silversteins had been near-neighbours of Gielgud and Hensler at Wotton Underwood for several yea...
John Gielgud Archive. Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Elizabeth Bergner, with incomplete text of Shaw’s St Joan annotated by the author; 1938. Copy, circa 1986. Shaw begins neutrally with 'Ayliff has given me this book to study your proposed alterations to the text', but proceeds to fill t...
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...
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 ...