John Gielgud Archive. 'Never a cross word: a sketch in the style of Harold Pinter'; n.d. Witty pastiche of Pinter’s style written for performance by Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. Two photocopies. Gielgud’s alterations and additions to the original text can still be clearly seen on the copies.
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. Materials relating to members of the extended Terry–Gielgud–Lewis family; before 1870–1911. Mostly printed. Includes a story The loch of Romach, by Gielgud’s mother, Kate Terry Gielgud, from the Pall Mall Magazine (October 1895); a feature on his mother’s cousin Phyllis ...
John Gielgud Archive. Miscellaneous lecture scripts, including 'Directing the classics', given before an audience at the Sanders Theater at Harvard; 20 March 1963.