Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4617

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.)

Additional Description

Abstract

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

RELATED MATERIALS

A large collection of books by and about Shaw (ca. 2530 titles) is also housed in the repository. Related materials located in collection 7901, Victor Gollancz Ltd. publisher's files.

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