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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Achmed Abdullah papers
Creator:
Abdullah, Achmed
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0419
Physical Description:
4.0 Linear Feet
(8 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1900-1945
Abstract: Achmed Abdullah (1881-1945) wrote screenplays, novels, plays and short stories. The collection consists of typescripts of
screenplays, novels, plays, and short stories written by Abdullah.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Achmed Abdullah Papers (Collection 419). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Laura Wilck, agent.
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Processed by K. Landesman, January 1985.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942302923606533
Born Nadir Khan-Romanoffski in Yalta, Crimea, 1881, and educated at Eton, École le Grand, Oxford, and the Sorbonne; he became
a naturalized British subject and served in the British and British-Indian Army; his many writing credits include
Broadway Interlude,
Pagan Love,
Bucking the Tiger,
The Remittance Woman, and
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer; he lived the later years of his life in the U.S.; he died May 12, 1945.
Collection consists of typescripts of screenplays, novels, plays, and short stories related to the career of writer Achmed
Abdullah.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors -- Archives.
Screenwriters -- Archives.
Online resources.