D'Oyly Carte: Tour Reports by Stanley Knight (Business Manager)
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Memoranda prepared by Stanley Knight (Business Manager), reporting on the Company on tour. Reports addressed to 'Head Office'. The reports were sent from UK, American and Canadian locations, as follows: 6 Sep 1968, from The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton. 14 Sep 1968, from Theatre Royal, Nottingha...
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: US and Canadian Press Cuttings 1950-59
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Three scrapbooks: (1). Cuttings from Boston newspapers (Oct 1950). (2). Cuttings from Chicago newspapers (Dec 1950 - Jan 1951). (3). Cuttings from Toronto newspapers (Jan 1951).
D'Oyly Carte Family Papers: Pedigree of the D'Oyly Family
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(1). 'Pedigree of the D'Oyly Family'. A family tree of the D'Oyly descendants, from Peregrine D'Oyly (mid 17th century) to 1980s (2 x A3 sheets). Together with further notes (1 sheet) identifying descendants of the Sampson family beginning with John Sampson (14th century). (2). 'Family tree' tr...
D'Oyly Carte Family Papers: Two Business Letters to Helen Carte
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(1). 30 May 1901. Stanley, Woodhouse & Hedderwick to the Worcester Buildings Limited, Savoy Theatre. 'We are instructed on behalf of the Executrix of the late Mr Richard D'Oyly Carte to state that she is willing to sell to the Worcester Buildings Limited all the shares now held by the late Ri...
D'Oyly Carte Family Papers: Bridget D'Oyly Carte (Investment Income)
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(1). Share Certificates for Savoy Theatre Ltd and Savoy Hotel Ltd (1949-69). (2). Investment Income (1959-60) and value of estate. (3). Employers' Liability Policies and investment correspondence (1978-79). Includes a list of documents in the possession of Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (1962).
D'Oyly Carte Family Papers: Bridget D'Oyly Carte (Miscellaneous Correspondence)
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(1). 29 Feb 1944. Letter to Bridget D'Oyly Carte (at Coleton, Fishacre) from Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd., 1a King Street, St. James's, London, S.W.1. With receipt attached (£9.9.0) for purchase of 'Three Fools' by Cecil Collins. 'We regret we have no invoice to render with it, as we have been b...
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Sketches and Drawings of Principal Members of Cast
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(1). Six painted colour sketches [c. 1949] by Joy M. Stanley, of Walsall. Including Martyn Green as 'The Duke of Plaza-Toro', as 'Point' and as 'Bunthorne'; and Darrell Fancourt as 'Pooh-Bah', and as 'The Grand Inquisitor'. (2). Nine pencil drawings [1980s] each signed 'Kell', of principals in ...