The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, broadsides, microfilms, videocassettes, audio cassettes, posters, and other materials by and about Shaw, covering all aspects of his varied literary, critical, personal, and political activities. Includes 2122 manuscripts by or about Shaw; 832 letters by Shaw; 2580 photographs, including some 2400 of productions of Shaw's plays at the Arts Theatre Club in London, 70 photographs of Shaw himself and 14 taken by Shaw; and a large collection of theater programs for productions of Shaw's plays through 1990, reviews of his plays, newspaper clippings which include articles on his many speeches and lectures, and proofs and rehearsal copies of his plays. Also, recordings of some of Shaw's radio broadcasts, and a 1962 BBC broadcast of Blanche Patch remembering Shaw. Also included are a bronze cast of a bust of Shaw by Clare Winsten, 1946, together with a letter from Shaw to her husband Stephen suggesting her as the artist for the bust (June 13, 1946), and related photographs, letters, and other materials concerning the bust's appearance at the opening of the St. Pancras Library and Shaw Theatre in 1971.
Correspondents include: Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Lady Gregory, Hesketh Pearson, Blanche Patch, Charlotte Payne-Townshend Shaw (his wife), Harley Granville-Barker, Henry Arthur Jones, Gertrude Lawrence, F.E. Loewenstein, Sean O'Casey, Dame Sybil Thorndike, George Herbert Thring, Gene Tunney, H.G. Wells, Dan H. Laurence, and Bernard F. Burgunder. Also included are a 1903 letter to Charles Dickens's daughter Kate Perugini, concerning her father's literary stature, and an 1889 letter to Tighe Hopkins in which Shaw predicts the future of his own writing career.
Additional materials relating to Ann Elder Jackson. Includes autograph letters, notes and postcards from George Bernard Shaw to Ms. Jackson. Subjects include travel plans, rehearsal schedules, and diary engagements in addition to detailed instructions for Elder as his secretary.
Dates
- [ca. 1810]-1990.
Creator
- From the Collection: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. (Person)
- From the Collection: Burgunder, Bernard F. (Person)
- From the Collection: Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940. (Person)
- From the Collection: Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946. (Person)
- From the Collection: Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932. (Person)
- From the Collection: Halls, Robert James, 1873-1932. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hopkins, Tighe, 1856-1919. (Person)
- From the Collection: Jackson, Ann Elder. (Person)
- From the Collection: Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929. (Person)
- From the Collection: Lawrence, Gertrude. (Person)
- From the Collection: Jones, Henry Arthur. (Person)
- From the Collection: Laurence, Dan H. (Person)
- From the Collection: Lawrence, Gertrude. (Person)
- From the Collection: Loewenstein, Fritz Erwin, 1901- (Person)
- From the Collection: O\'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964. (Person)
- From the Collection: Patch, Blanche, 1878- (Person)
- From the Collection: Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964. (Person)
- From the Collection: Perugini, Kate, 1839-1929. (Person)
- From the Collection: Shaw, Charlotte Frances, 1857-1943. (Person)
- From the Collection: Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976. (Person)
- From the Collection: Thring, George Herbert, 1859-1941. (Person)
- From the Collection: Tunney, Gene. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. (Person)
- From the Collection: Winsten, Clare, 1894-1989. (Person)
- From the Collection: British Broadcasting Corporation (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
53.8 cubic feet. (53.8 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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