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Charles Morgan letter to Miss Wood

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0698
Abstract

A lengthy, interesting and detailed response, written in Morgan's tiny hand, to a "Miss Wood," offering professional advice for her friend, an aspiring writer, dated August 19, 1931.

Dates: 1931 August 19

Beverley Nichols papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0620
Abstract

The Beverley Nichols papers document the personal and professional activities of prolific twentieth-century English novelist, playwright, journalist, composer, and political activist Beverley Nichols. The collection comprises correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, musical compositions, and photographs primarily dating between 1911 and 1991.

Dates: 1698, 1911-1991, undated; Majority of material found within 1911-1991

Virginia : playscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0303
Abstract

Typescript of Irish author Edna O'Brien's playscript, "Virginia," later published as Virginia: A Play.

Dates: circa 1981

Sean O'Casey letter to Basil Smeed

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0438
Abstract

Letter from Sean O'Casey to Basil Smeed.

Dates: 1960 November 26

Sean O'Casey letter to Bethel Solomons

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0806
Abstract

Autograph card signed from Irish author Sean O'Casey to noted Irish physician Bethel Solomons.

Dates: 1934 March 4

The silver tassie : playscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0169
Abstract

Undated playscript by Irish writer Sean O'Casey.

Dates: undated

Ulick O'Connor papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0137
Abstract

This collection consists of material accumulated over a 25-year period by Ulick O’Connor: biographer, poet, playwright and journalist. O’Connor’s biographies of Brendan Behan and Oliver St. John Gogarty have been recognized internationally as definitive works. A large portion of the collection deals with materials for these books.

Dates: 1904-1976; Majority of material found within 1960-1974

Frank J. Hugh O'Donnell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0136
Abstract

Including letters, essays, poems, and a variety of other materials, the papers provide an overview of the life and work of Irish businessman, politician, and playwright Frank O'Donnell.

Dates: 1911-1974; Majority of material found within 1918-1954

Brian Phelan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0681
Abstract

The Brian Phelan papers document forty years of the literary career of Irish-born playwright and screenwriter Brian Phelan (born 1934). Phelan's adaptations and docudramas focus on Irish characters, the issues of Irish emigration, socialist and feminist themes, and major world events. The collection, which spans from the 1960s to the 2000s, comprises Phelan's working and project files and include correspondence, screenplays, scripts, contracts, photographs, and research.

Dates: 1958-2005; Majority of material found within 1975-2003

My name, shall I tell you my name? : playscript and theater program

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0747
Abstract

Playscript and theater program for Irish playwright Christina Reid's "My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name?" produced by the Yew Theater Company of Ireland.

Dates: circa 1989-1990

Lennox Robinson letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0205
Abstract

Letter from Lennox Robinson to Michael [Scott?] along with one postcard originally laid in Robinson's Plays (1928).

Dates: undated

George Bernard Shaw postcard to Daphne Harwood

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0671
Abstract

George Bernard Shaw postcard to Daphne Harwood. The collection also contains two photographs.

Dates: 1929 July 1

George Bernard Shaw card to Fred Terry and Miriam Michelson, The Duchess Barbara [of Leeds] : playscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0220
Abstract

George Bernard Shaw card laid in a copy of Miriam Michelson's "The Duchess Barbara [of Leeds]."

Dates: 1932 April 20 and undated

Broadway bound : a new comedy : playscript and program

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0813
Abstract

Playscript and program of Broadway Bound by Neil Simon.

Dates: May 1986

Murder by death : screenplay and shooting calls

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0937
Abstract

A mechanically reproduced typescript of the second draft of Neil Simon's screenplay, Murder by Death, which has laid in three shooting call sheets.

Dates: 1975

Sydney Goodsir Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0226
Abstract The Sydney Goodsir Smith Papers date primarily from the late 1950s and early 1960s, an especially nationalist phase in Smith’s literary career. The collection contains several drafts and advance proofs of Smith’s play The Wallace and manuscripts of his long dramatic poems, Gowdsmith in Reekie and The Vision of the Prodigal Son. Also present are seventeen pieces of correspondence and the manuscripts of about...
Dates: 1954-1960

John Millington Synge letter to Fay

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0247
Abstract

Letter from John Millington Synge to Fay.

Dates: undated

Tennessee Williams collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0112
Abstract

The Tennessee Williams collection, spanning the dates 1939-2013, consists of an extensive collection of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, printed material, and ephemera related to American playwright Tennessee Williams.

Dates: 1939-2013

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Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), 1883-1971 7
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 5
Hoffman, Richard Lee 4
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 3
O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964 3
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Herlihy, James Leo 2
Morgan, Charles, 1894-1958 2
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 2
Simon, Neil 2
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Bakrow, Leonard 1
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-2014 1
Barry, Gerald Reid, Sir, 1898- 1
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 1
Behan, Brendan 1
British Broadcasting Company 1
Bullins, Ed 1
Burwell, Basil Beckett, 1911- 1
Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982 1
Columbia Pictures 1
Connon, Bryan. Beverley Nichols: a life 1
Drama League of Dublin 1
Durbridge, Stephen 1
Federation of Irish Industries, Inc. 1
Feldman, Charles K., 1904-1968 1
Gibbon, Monk, 1896-1987 1
Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957 1
Goodman, Jules Eckert, approximately 1877-1962 1
Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 1
Guinan, John, 1874-1945 1
HBO Home Entertainment (Firm) 1
Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 1
Harris, Theodore A. 1
Harwood, Daphne 1
Henley, Beth 1
Herlihy, James Leo--Correspondence 1
Holly, Flora Mae 1
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1
Kegerreis, Robert B., 1876-1951 1
Kornfeld, Lawrence 1
Lemon, Shelia 1
Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.) 1
Mac Liammóir, Micheál, 1899-1978 1
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 1
Mackenzie, Compton, 1883-1972 1
Mamet, David 1
Mayes, Herbert R. (Herbert Raymond), 1900-1987 1
Michelson, Miriam, 1870-1942 1
Mitchell, Edward P. 1
Mitchell, Edward P.--Correspondence 1
Music Corporation of America 1
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre 1
Nichols, Beverley, 1898-1983 1
O'Brien, Edna 1
O'Connor, Ulick 1
O’Donnell, Frank J. Hugh 1
Paul R. Reynolds 1
Phelan, Brian 1
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 1
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Tell-tale heart 1
Raidió Teilifís Éireann 1
Rastar Films, Inc. 1
Reid, Christina, 1942- 1
Robinson, Lennox, 1886-1958 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, 1915-1975 1
St. Nicholas Theater Company (Chicago) 1
Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909 1
Terry, Fred, 1863-1933 1
Wald, Jerry, 1911-1962 1
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) 1
West, Rebecca, 1892-1983--Correspondence 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 1
Wilson, August 1
Wood, Audrey, 1905- 1
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 1
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 1
Yew Theatre Company Ireland 1
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