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Description: | Manuscript collections contain some correspondence, etc, of playwrights and persons associated with the theatre: substantial amount of material of Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), poet and dramatist; certificate concerning the confinement at Lyons in 1854 of 'M. Augier Jean Baptiste, surnomm? Joannis, homme de lettres' [probably Joanny Augier, dramatist]; letters from Alfred Bate Richards (dramatist) to Henry Lee, 1860s-80s; Charles Roach Smith, letter to James Robinson Planch? (1796-1880), mentions Planch?'s play Amoroso, Speed the Plough by Thomas Morton (1764?-1838) and Smith's father's connection with the latter play, and the erection of a theatre for the marines at Chatham, 1879; 3 autograph letters, 1901-1903 of Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Austrian physician, playwright and novelist; George Bernard Shaw, notes, letters etc., chiefly administrative and relating to relations with the Hearst Press, 1914-1949. There are some comments in letters and diaries about theatrical matters: e.g. anonymous diarist (MS 7114) has quite a lot to say about the London stage in 1821; account by James Patterson of a variety performance at Crystal Palace, 1858/9. Author's own copy of G. J. A. Witkowski's Les m?decins au th??tre de l'Antiquit? au dix-septi?me si?cle (1905) has many additions and corrections by the author, inserted illustrations, cuttings, etc. There are manuscripts of Archibald Pitcairne 'The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation. A Comedie', 1691, and Phanuel Bacon, 'The Oculist. A dramatick entertainment of one act', c.1750.
Archival collections include personal papers of Sir Henry Head (1861-1940), neurologist, including correspondence with Ruth Mayhew, Headmistress of Brighton School for Girls, whom he married in 1940. He wrote poetry and she novels and their friends included Thomas Hardy, Stephen Tennant, and Siegfried Sassoon. Their correspondence discusses literature, theatre, music and art. Records of some societies and associations can include material on fund-raising performances, e.g. there are quite extensive records of theatrical performances and concerns for the National Birthday Trust Fund, 1930s-50s. Plays used as a means for publicising a cause feature in the papers of Marie Stopes (birth control), and the records of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and the Abortion Law Reform Association. The use of drama for educational purposes also features, e.g. material on use of puppet shows by the Harcourt Health Centre, Hong Kong, 1960s, among the records of the Health Visitors' Association. Scripts, programmes, ephemera, photographs relating to amateur pantomimes, concert parties, minstrel shows, and similar entertainments, can be found among the papers of Donald Hunter (1898-1977) and among the Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection. There is material relating to therapeutic use of psychodrama at Northfields Military Hospital during the second World War in S. H. Foulkes' papers.
In the extensive Wellcome Archive, the personal papers of Sir Henry Wellcome include his correspondence with and photographs of his friend the actress Genevieve Ward, a collection of theatre programmes, correspondence on musical and theatrical entertainments, and the archives of Historical Medical Museum contain some correspondence with theatrical societies and the Theatre Museum about artefacts.; Guide to Contemporary Medical Archives (5th Edition) 2001
S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (3 vols) 1964, 1973
R Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 2000
Numerous word-processed handlists and detailed catalogues available within the Library
Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, | Format: | Correspondence Written / typed ephemera Ephemera e.g. daybills & fliers Photographs (miscellaneous) Diaries Photographs (production) Programmes Scrapbooks Photographs (portrait) Playtexts (manuscripts) Documents (personal) | Temporal: | 1600 2000 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | 183 Euston Road, London,,
NW1 2BE | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Format: | Correspondence Written / typed ephemera Ephemera e.g. daybills & fliers Photographs (miscellaneous) Diaries Photographs (production) Programmes Scrapbooks Photographs (portrait) Playtexts (manuscripts) Documents (personal) | Go to resource |
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