Guide to the Theater collection,
1844-1965
Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Steven Mandeville-Gamble
Department of Special Collections
Green Library
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-1022
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
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The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Theater collection,
1844-1965
Collection number: M0154
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Patricia J. Palmer
- Date:
- 1966 May
- Encoded by:
- Steven Mandeville-Gamble
© 2000 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Theater collection,
Date (inclusive): 1844-1965
Collection number: Special Collections M0154
Creator:
Extent:
.5 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Sources varied.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], Theater collection, M0154, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Scope and Content
Playscripts and letters (handwritten, typed, and some photocopies) from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Represented
are playwrights, actors, and directors. Includes original material by Thomas W. Robertson and Joseph M. Field.
Access Terms
Barrett, Ed.
Cukor, George Dewey, 1899-
DeCroisset, Francis de, Madame.
Everpoint, 1810-1856.
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968.
Gish, Lillian, 1896-
Head, Sydney W.
Jessel, George Albert, 1898-
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Lawrence, Marjorie Kahl.
Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Princess.
Leblanc, Maurice, 1864-1941.
Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968.
Macready, William Charles.
Manners, J. Hartley.
Nichols, Dudley, 1895-
Rathbone, Basil.
Robertson, T. W. (Thomas William), 1829-1871.
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1848-1928.
Geary Theater (San Francisco, Calif.)
Theater.
Scripts.
Box 1, Folder 1
Around the world in 80 days / by
Jules Verne
Physical Description: Typescript of play.
Box 1, Folder 2
Around the world in 80 days / by
Jules Verne
Physical Description: Handwritten playscript, Act 3 missing.
Biography/Organization History
Arranged exclusively for John Murray, Metropolitan Theatre. Dramatized by Frank G. Campbell, Sept. 28, 1879
Box 1, Folder 3
Arsene Lupin : play / by
Francis DeCroisset & Maurice LeBlanc
Physical Description: Handwritten playscript in English.
Box 1, Folder 4
Diamond Dick.
Physical Description: Handwritten playscript.
Box 1, Folder 5
Down in our village : original playscript / by
Thomas W. Robertson
Physical Description: 1 bound v. + als
Box 1, Folder 6
Hearts and Diamonds / by
Ed Barrett
Physical Description: Handwritten playscript.
Box 1, Folder 7
Job and his children / by
J.M. Field,copyist
C.H. Morton. Property of W.H. Chippendale. Mobile Theatre,
Jan. 1853
Physical Description: Original handwritten ms.
Box 1, Folder 8
Soldiers in the Dark / by
Cpl. Sidney W. Head.
Physical Description: Mimeograph playscript with ms. corrections & additions.
Box 1, Folder 9
The way : Christ and Evolution / by
Princess Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich (nee Eleanor Calhoun).; forward by D.S. Jordan
Physical Description: Page or galley proofs of play.
Gift of David Starr Jordan.
Box 1, Folder 10
Early San Francisco Theater documents relating with the Geary Theater and the
Pirates of Penzance .
Box 1, Folder 11
Cukor, George. TLS to Sam Stark,
1965 Apr. 20
Box 1, Folder 12
Ferber, Edna. TLS to Jerome Kern,
1933 June 2
Box 1, Folder 13
Gish, Lillian. TLS to Mrs. Perara,
1950 Dec. 2
Box 1, Folder 14
Jessel, George. TLS to Sam Stark,
1961 Apr. 3
Box 1, Folder 14a
Lawrence, Marjorie. TLS to Nathan Van Patten,
1950 Feb. 23
Box 1, Folder 15
Lindsay, Howard. TLS to Miss Perara,
1940 Nov. 22
Box 1, Folder 16
Macready, William Charles. ALS to Sir,
1844 Apr. 25
ALS to Queen of Roumania,
1922 Apr. 28
Found in J. Hartley Manner's
Peg O' My Heart PR4974.M15 918a.
Dedication to Queen of Roumania,
n.d.
Physical Description: ADS
Found in J. Hartley Manner's
Peg O' My Heart PR4974.M15 918a.
Nibert. TLS to J. Hartley Manners,
1923 Mar. 21
Found in J. Hartley Manner's
Peg O' My Heart PR4974.M15 918a.
Box 1, Folder 18
Nichols, Dudley. Xerox copy of TLS to Irving,
n.d. Feb. 3
Box 1, Folder 19
Rathbone, Basil. ALS to Mrs. Perara,
1950 Oct. 28
ALS to Dear Old Nannie [i.e. Anna Held],
1889 Dec. 22
ALS to Dear Old Nannie [i.e. Anna Held],
1890 May 2
Terry, Minnie. ANS to John Jarvall with 2 tickets to the National Trust Ellen Terry Museum,
1962 July 18
