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Table of contents

box 1, folder 1

Patents, petitions, grants and other documents from the Patent Office and Lord Chamberlain's office and other archives in London, relating to the theaters, patentees, managers, actors, etc., transcriptions of Vol. I - Tudors and Stuarts

box 1, volume 2 (vol.)

Patents, etc. 1920, 1921, 1810, 1832, 1843, 1843

Scope and Contents

Transcriptions of Vol. II, includes correspondence with and notes for Lucy Drucker, transcriber, and holograph transcriptions and appendices - chron. list of important facts connected with history of theatrical monopoly, copies of various theatrical patents and licences, Parliamentary legislation regulating plays and players, copies of plans for proposed new theatres, copies of petitions and other docs. re: Council proceedings, of for a third theater, copies of docs. illustrative of struggle between and misc., alphabetical list of minor theaters established in London prior to bibliography

box 1, folder 3

Miscellaneous Notes - The Minor Theaters

box 2, folder 1

Reports of Select Committees 1832, 1853, 1866, 1892, 1909

box 2, folder 2

Miscellany 1844 - 1873, 1921

Scope and Contents

list of Lords Chamberlain and Examiners, bibliography of censored plays, laws regulating theater and drama in England, state of the London stage at various periods censorship considered by critics, etc., censorship - examples of absurdities, Archer notes - Shaw's criticism - Cibber notes, censorship in France, 19th century stage in England, Strictures by Zangwill, Filin, Fortnightly Review, TLS J.M. Stillman

box 2, folder 3

18th Century - Manners, Coronation of George II, Chapter from The Struggle - Little Theater & G.F., Goodman's Field Theater, Revolt of 1733, censored plays

box 2, folder 4

19th Century - Notes - Lenten controversy, censored plays, clippings, censorship in France

box 3, folder 1

Censored Plays - newspaper clips. and some notes. ALS Frank E. Bryant 1909

box 3, folder 2

The Struggle for a Free Stage in London

Physical Description: 2 ptd., unbound, uncut copies.

box 3, folder 3

The Victorian Era - notes and misc. notes on Thackeray's works. Tennyson, Browning (Lounsbury); Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Yellowplush Correspondence, Christmas Books, Sketch Books, Esmond, Newcomes

box 3, folder 4

Early Writings of W. Makepeace Thackeray, I and II

box 3, folder 5

Early Writings of W. Makepeace Thackeray, II, III, IV and V. Notes by Watson Nicholson from contemporary sources

box 4, folder 1

Thomas Betterton and His Colleagues, I. A Study of the Restoration and Post-Restoration Stage and Drama. Notes and copies of - Patent Rolls Docs. from Ld. Chamberlain's Office (1639 - 1664), (1660 - 1685)

box 4, folder 2

Thomas Betterton and His Colleagues, II. Short study on actors and managers

Physical Description: (typescript)

box 4, folder 3

The Restoration and Post-Restoration Drama, Thomas Betterton and his Colleagues, III - Sheridaniana

Physical Description: (notes)

box 5, folder 1

Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year and Anthony Aston, Stroller and Adventurer original notes. ALS E. Carter, A.S. Salley, Jr. TLS Oscar Wegelin

box 5, folder 2

Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year and Anthony Aston, Stroller and Adventurer original mss (1919) (1920)

box 5, volume 3 (vol.)

A Diary of the Plague Year

Physical Description: 2 bound copies of earlier version (bound together), typescript with corrections, some mss.

box 5, folder 4

Essays - Literary and otherwise - by Watson Nicholson. Use of the Iliad and Odyssey in Lit. Classes. Aims and methods, aims and scope of English Lit. in Secondary Schools, Science and Rhetoric, Analysis of Structure of Silas Marner, Critical discussion of Bulwer's Pelham, Christopher Marlowe, Dryden's Prefaces, Massachusetts New (currency) Emission: An Episode in American Colonial Finance, Russian Diplomacy as a Factor in the Downfall of Napoleon, Russian Diplomacy vs. Napoleonism in War of 1812

Scope and Contents note

- includes reprints, typescripts (some with ms. corrections).

box 6, folder 1

Nicholsoniana - Unpublished mss. by Watson Nicholson. Who was Thackeray before Vanity Fair?, Early Writings of Wm. Makepeace Thackeray, Contemporary Estimate of William Makepeace Thackeray, Debit and Credit Account of Jack Wilton, Side Glances at Dramatic Censorship in England, True History of A Grunenwald Romance, or the Confessions of a Neb (short story), Wm. Lyon Phelps, An Appreciation

Scope and Contents note

- typescript with ms. corrections, one holograph ms.

box 6, folder 2

Evolution of the Master of the Revels - Notes I, Revels to 1610

Physical Description: - ms. notes, clips.

box 6, folder 3

Evolution of the Master of the Revels - Notes II, (Commonwealth, etc.)

box 7, folder 1

Evolution of the Master of the Revels - Notes III, Restoration

box 7, folder 2

Evolution of the Master of the Revels - Notes IV 1611 - 1640.

box 7, folder 3

Evolution of the Master of the Revels - Notes V, Sir Henry Herbert regime. - Evolution of the Master of the Revels - Mss., original mss., unpublished, incomplete. 1st of a planned three vol. History of the Censorship of the English Stage

box 7, folder 4

Evolution of the Masters of the Revels - Chapters I and II, two versions

Physical Description: typescript with ms. corrections.

box 7, folder 5

Evolution of the Masters of the Revels - Chapters III - VI

Physical Description: typescript with ms. corrections.

box 7, folder 6

Evolution of the Masters of the Revels - Chapters VII and VIII, manuscript - holograph. Chapter X, holograph notes (no Chapter IX)

Physical Description: typescript with ms. corrections,

Scope and Contents note

- TLS [F.R. Lounsbury?].

Box 8, Folder 1

Evolution of the Masters of the Revels - Chapters VII and VIII, manuscript - holograph. Chapter X, holograph notes (no Chapter IX)

box 8, folder 2

Lincoln Notes and Lecture

box 8, folder 3

Notes for Lectures on English Lit (Yale The 17th century, Poets, Elizabethan Prose Writers) 1901-1908

box 8, folder 4

Miscellaneous Printed Material and Photo - theater programs, syllabus, articles

Physical Description: (2)

box 8, folder 5

Periander, Tyrant of Corinth - bound, unpublished play by Mrs. Nicholson

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