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Theatrical Autographs Collection

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

The collection consists of letters and autographs of over 120 English, American, and a few European actors, actresses, playwrights, theatrical managers, directors, critics, and others connected with the theater from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Included are letters of Maud Adams, Margaret Anglin, Lawrence Barrett, Daniel Frohman, Olive Logan, and the Sotherns of the United States; George Arliss, Sir Gerald Du Maurier, Harley Granville-Barker, John M. Morton, Viola Tree, and Benjamin Webster of England; and Jacques Copeau of France. In addition, there are two autograph albums. There is also an alphabetical card file (in two boxes) that contains original autographs of theatrical performers and/or index entries to the locations of their autographs in other theater collections in the Manuscripts Division.

Arranged alphabetically.

The collection was created from different accessions relationg to the same subject.

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Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.

No material was separated during processing.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

List of Autographs, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence: A-M, 1868-1956. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence: N-Z, 1898-1955. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Adams, Maude, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Anderson, Mary Antoinette, 1888-1926. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Anderson, Maxwell, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Anglin, Margaret Mary, 1917. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Arliss, George, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Barrett, Lawrence, 1878-1879. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Bennett, Enoch Arnold, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Brown, John Mason, 1948. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Copeau, Jacques, 1917-1927. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Coyne, Joseph Sterling, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1835-1869. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Drew, Louisa, 1896. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Fariqoule, Louis (Romains, Jules), 1926. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Fonda, Henry, 1938. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Frohman, Daniel, 1917. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Granville-Barker, Harley, 1924-1926. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Hardwicke, Sir Cederic Webster, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Hawtrey, Sir Charles Henry, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Janauschek, Franziska Magdalena Romance, 1884-1896. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Jerome, Jerome Klapka, 1890-1891. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Kean, Charles John, 1836-1848. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Kendal, Dame Madge, 1889. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lacy, Thomas Hailes, 1870. 1 folder.
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1 folder

LaVerne, Lucille, 1926. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lind, Johanna Maria Goldschmidt, 1879. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Logan, Olive, 1871. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Morton, John Maddison, 1862-1870. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Murray, Dominick, 1872. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Rehan, Ada, 1893. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Robbins, Elizabeth, 1927. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Robson, Mary (Brown), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Skinner, Otis, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Wallack, James William, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Ward, Dame Genevieve, 1882-1907. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Webster, Benjamin Nottingham, 1845-1868. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph Book I, 1867-1870. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph Book II, 1878-1879. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Card File: A - Mc, 1920s. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Card File: N - Z, 1920s. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

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