Alexander M. Drummond papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-24-435

Abstract

Correspondence, news clippings, scripts, programs, playbills, lecture notes, theater notes, photographs, recordings and other memorabilia relating to various aspects of the field of Speech and Drama.

Dates

1917-1956.

Creator

Drummond, A. M. (Alexander Magnus), 1884-1956. (Person)
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944. (Person)
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. (Person)
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960. (Person)
O\'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Speech and Drama, Cornell University.

Organized the Cornell Dramatic Club and was its Director from 1912-1947. Wrote original plays and a monograph on play production.

Extent

19.2 cubic feet. (19.2 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

SERIES LIST

Series I. Biographical

Series II. Correspondence

Series III. Plays and Writings

Series IV. Teaching and Professorship

Series V. Photographs and Glass Slides

Series VI. Clippings

Series VII. Scripts

Series VIII. Programs

Series IX. Oversized Items

Series X. Audio

Series XI. Miscellaneous

RELATED MATERIALS

Includes collection #14-24-1143. See also Walter Stainton papers. #14-24-573.

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Kingsley, Sidney. Men in White. Signed by the author.
The Playground. v.13, no.2,4,9 (1919)
The New Yorker. October 2, 1954.
Hatch, Emily Gilchriest, 1897-. On the road to market. Trivandrum : Keston House, 1938.
The Public Speaking Review. Public Speaking Conference of New England and the North Atlantic States.
The Speech Teacher. v.5, no.3 (September 1956).
World premieres : monthly bulletin of the International Theatre Institute. International Theatre Institute. v.1, no.3-6 (1949-1950).

Physical Description

Correspondence, news clippings, scripts, programs, playbills, lecture notes, theater notes, photographs, recordings and other memorabilia.

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
Date completed:: December 1966September 2010
EAD encoding:: Evan Earle, September 2010
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, September 2018