Finding aid for the Noël Coward papers 2548
Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
2022 April
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Noël Coward papers
Creator:
Coward, Noël, 1899, 1899-1973
Identifier/Call Number: 2548
Physical Description:
0.21 Linear Feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1961-1962
Abstract: Collection consists of song lyrics for Later Than Spring from Coward's 1961 musical
Sail Away and accompanying letter.
Language of Material:
English.
Container: 1
Collection consists of song lyrics for Later Than Spring from Coward's 1961 musical
Sail Away and accompanying letter. Song lyrics are an original holograph, while the letter notes the lyrics as being added to the now
defunct Ethel Barrymore collection.
Noël Coward (1899-1973) was an English playwright and actor who achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more
than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit have remained
in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works,
screenplays, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel
Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume autobiography. Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during which
he starred in many of his own works, as well as those of others.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library
at cin@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred to USC in 1962 from Cole Lesley, Noël Coward's aide.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Noël Coward papers, Collection no. 2548, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Letters
lyricists
Musical theater -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Plays (performed works)
playwrights
Coward, Noël, 1899, 1899-1973 -- Archives