Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw
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
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. (Person)
- Burgunder, Bernard F. (Person)
- Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940. (Person)
- Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946. (Person)
- Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932. (Person)
- Halls, Robert James, 1873-1932. (Person)
- Hopkins, Tighe, 1856-1919. (Person)
- Jackson, Ann Elder. (Person)
- Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929. (Person)
- Lawrence, Gertrude. (Person)
- Jones, Henry Arthur. (Person)
- Laurence, Dan H. (Person)
- Lawrence, Gertrude. (Person)
- Loewenstein, Fritz Erwin, 1901- (Person)
- O\'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964. (Person)
- Patch, Blanche, 1878- (Person)
- Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964. (Person)
- Perugini, Kate, 1839-1929. (Person)
- Shaw, Charlotte Frances, 1857-1943. (Person)
- Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976. (Person)
- Thring, George Herbert, 1859-1941. (Person)
- Tunney, Gene. (Person)
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. (Person)
- Winsten, Clare, 1894-1989. (Person)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Restrictions on use:
Researchers may view one folder at a time.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
British playwright; literary, art, and music critic; lecturer and essayist; and socialist. One of the founders of the Fabian Society, precursor of England's Socialist Party.
Extent
53.8 cubic feet. (53.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
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.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Manuscripts
Box 1-7
A - Ad
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
An - B
C - F
Diaries
G - I
J - P
Q - Z
Series II. Documents
Box 8
Series III. Envelopes annotated by Shaw
Box 9
Series IV. Outgoing Correspondence
Box 10-18, 112-114
Undated-1907
1908-1915
1916-1920
1921-1930
Dodd, Meade, & Co.
1931-1937
1938-1943
1944-1950
E. M. Wheeler
Ann Elder [Jackson]
Series V. Manuscripts and Correspondence to and by others
Boxes 19-32, 115-116
A - B
Campbell
Campbell 1939 - D
Cockerell, Sir Sydney To Judy Musters
E - K
Healy, George H. To Bernard F. Burgunder
L - Pas
Laurence, Dan H.
Mushlin, M. Harry to Bernard F. Burgunder
Musters, Judy to Ann Carr Jackson
Patterson, Jane
Pat - Shav
Shaw - Sz
T - Z
Watt, W. P.
Series VI. Miscellaneous Printed Material
Boxes 33-37
A - H
Collected Letters
I - S
T - Z, and letters
Works - Reviews, etc.
Series VII. Reviews on G.B. Shaw
Boxes 38-39
Series VIII. Miscellaneous Printed Material by others
Boxes 40-42, 44-48
A - C
D - I
J - L
M - Pa
Pb - R
S - Shaw Festival
Shaw Society - Z
Series IX. Statuettes
Boxes 43
Series X. Photographs of Shaw and Others
Boxes 49-53
Photographs of Shaw
A - F
G - M
N - Z
Series XI. Photographs of Shaw's plays
Boxes 54-56
A - C
D - O
P - Z
Series XII. Shaviana
Boxes 57-64
General Shaviana
Shaviana Hat
Printed Shaviana
A - Shaw (F)
Shaw (G - Z)
Laing Collection Clippings
Series XIII. Playbills, Posters, Pressbooks
Boxes 65 and Mapcase Folders
Series XIV. Theater Programs
Boxes 66-73
A - B
C
D - G
H - Maj
Mak - Mz)
O - Sa
Sb - Z
Miscellaneous
Series XV. Arts Theatre Club Photographs
Boxes 74-96, 111-111B
Arts Theatre Club Photographs (8x10)
Unidentified, A
B
Ca - Cn
Co - Cz
D
E
F
G
Ha - Hob
Hoc - Hz
I
J - L
Maa - Mas
Mat - Mz
N - O
P - Q
R
Sa - Sh
Si - Sz
Ta - Tra
Trb - Tz
U - V
W - Z
Arts Theatre Club Photographs (8x14)
Unidentified, A - B
C - G
H - J
K - L
M - N
O - R
S
T
U - Z
Arts Theatre Club Photographs (11x17)
A - C
D - G
H - L
M - Q
R - S
T - Z
Arts Theatre Club Photographs (oversized)
Series XVI. Miscellany Media
Boxes 117-120
Series XVII. Museum items
Boxes 122, 124 and MU items
SEPARATED MATERIAL
Bound Manuscripts - cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
- Bd.Ms.1, AM Address Book. c. 1920-1950
- Bd.Ms.2 +, TM Alps and Balkans [Later known as Arms and the Man]. 1894
- Bd.Ms.3 +++, Androcles and the Lion Costume and Properties Drawings. 1912
- Bd.Ms.4 +, Arms and the Man scriptbook for Captain Bluntschli. 1894
- Bd.Ms.5 ++, TM & Proofs The Artstruck Englishman. 1917
- Bd.Ms.6 +, Shaw Scrapbook. 1904-1913
- Bd.Ms.7 ++, Candida items. March 1895
- Bd.Ms.8 +, TM Caesar and Cleopatra Prologue. 1912
- Bd.Ms.9 +, TM[copy] Chance-Medley. 1936
- Bd.Ms.10 +, Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings. 1913
- Bd.Ms.11 +, Miscellaneous Clippings File. 1884-1944
- Bd.Ms.12, Shaw's Dublin Testimonial. 1878
- Bd.Ms.13 ++, Elgar, Edward T[printed]M of The Severn Suite. 1931
- Bd.Ms.14 ++, Shaw. AM Evans, An Appreciation. 1903
- Bd.Ms.15 ++, Farleigh, John D[woodcuts] The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. 1932
- Bd.Ms.16 ++, Ewens, Eric TM Shaw's First Play. September 1965
- Bd.Ms.17-18 +, Books From Shaw's Library. October 1970
- Bd.Ms.19 ++, Shaw TM & Printed Geneva. 1938
- Bd.Ms.20, Shaw AM Getting Married. 1907-1908
- Bd.Ms.21, Shaw's Glass Photo. c. 1920
- Bd.Ms.22 ++, Shaw TM How to Become a Musical Critic. 1960
- Bd.Ms.23, Shaw Printed M How to Become a Musical Critic. 1960
- Bd.Ms.24 +, Shaw's Music Reviews. 1960
- Bd.Ms.25 ++, D Inventory & Valuation of Property at 10 Adelphi Terrace W.C., London. 1908
- Bd.Ms.26 +, Shaw TL & AL to Lord Kennet of the Dene.c. 1922
- Bd.Ms.27 ++, Shaw AM[fragment] The Irrational Knot. 1886
- Bd.Ms.28 +, Shaw TL[carbon] to Charlotte (Payne-Townshend) Shaw. 1896-1934
- Bd.Ms.29, "Leonora" A[note] to Shaw. July 1878
- Bd.Ms.30-31 ++, Shaw AM[fragment] Love Among the Artists. 1900
- Bd.Ms.32 ++, Shaw D Man and Superman. June-July 1903
- Bd.Ms.33 +, "Masks and Faces" Picture Play Scrapbook. 1917
- Bd.Ms.34 ++, Scrapbook of Shaw Clippings. 1892-1895
- Bd.Ms.35 ++, Shaw Printed Music in London. 1891-1894
- Bd.Ms.36 ++, Shaw AM Musical Themes from Wagner. c. 1885
- Bd.Ms.37 ++, Shaw TMS Conscientious Objectors. May 1916
- Bd.Ms.38, O'Connor, Mrs. T. P. AM & Printed "Bernard Shaw's Superman Manuscript". April 1929
- Bd.Ms.39, Shaw AM Political Science Lecture Note. April 11, 1933
- Bd.Ms.40 +, Shaw AM Honour to J. T. Grein Speech. 1928
- Bd.Ms.41 ++, Shaw TL[carbon] to Molly Tompkins. 1921-1940
- Bd.Ms.42 +, Gene Tunney Letters. 1929-1940
- Bd.Ms.43 ++, TM The Upanishads. Undated
- Bd.Ms.44 +, Burgunder, Bernard F. AM & TM Desiderata Lists. Undated
- Bd.Ms.45 +, Wells, Geoffrey H. Printed Bibliography of the Books and Pamphlets of George Bernard Shaw. 1928
- Bd.Ms.46 ++, Bernard Shaw manuscript fragments of "Widowers' houses". 1884-1892
- Bd.Ms.47 +, Shaw A[shorthand]M The Worst Journey in the World Postscript. 1948
- Bd.Ms.48 +, Shaw TM The Garden of Eden [In the Beginning]. 1918
- Bd.Ms.49 +, Deruelle, Marcel TM G.B. Shaw als Dramaturg. 1922
- Bd.Ms.50 ++, Motoring Papers and Pictures. 1908-1939
- Bd.Ms.51 ++, Letter to Lee Keedick. December 30, 1918
Physical Description
Manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, broadsides, microfilms, videocassettes, audio cassettes, posters, and other materials.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Ana GuimarãesLucy Burgess
- Date completed:
- January 2008
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez, March 2006 Evan Fay Earle, March 2007, January 2008 Ana Guimarães, 2007 Lucy Burgess, Nov.-Dec.2007, January, 2008.
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, November 2018
- Art criticism -- England.
- Arts Theatre Club (London, England)
- Authors and theater.
- Authors, English.
- Authors, Irish.
- Busts (figures)
- Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Drama -- England -- History -- Sources.
- English literature -- 20th century.
- English literature -- History and criticism.
- Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946.
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.
- Irish literature.
- Jackson, Ann Elder.
- Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929.
- Lawrence, Gertrude.
- Loewenstein, Fritz Erwin, 1901-
- Modernism (Literature).
- Musical criticism -- England.
- O\'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964.
- Patch, Blanche.
- Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964.
- Photographs.
- Portraits.
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Shaw, Charlotte Frances, 1857-1943.
- Socialism -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources.
- Socialism and theater.
- St. Pancras Library
- Theater -- England -- History -- 20th century.
- Theater -- Production and direction.
- Theatrical posters.
- Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976.
- Thring, George Herbert.
- Tunney, Gene, 1897-1978.
- Wells, H. G. (Henry George), 1866-1946.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Ana Guimarães, 2006-07 Lucy Burgess, 2007.
- Date
- January 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu