| Description | Includes unlisted material:
Box 27
Ledger with handwritten notes of contents of office e.g. items in Barry Jackson's bookcase - private office, wardrobe cupboard, Stage Manager's Office. At back is list of miscellaneous music & operatic music;
File (plus album) on visit to Russia in 1937 for Soviet Theatre Festival - includes programmes, photographs, and Barry Jackson sketches of a church, of two women roadsweepers, and a policeman on traffic duty in Leningrad;
File on Barry Jackson's wartime service - including maps, booklets, menus for 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire regiment reunion dinners (1935 - 1938);
File of paperwork and correspondence concerning preparing Jackson's will (1914);
File on the Pilgrim Players - including invoices, receipts, handwritten list of plays in order of writing and in order of production, agreement concerning the production of 'The Importance Of Being Earnest' at the New Theatre Royal (Worcester) on 10 December 1912, lists and receipts concerning old prints and drawings (bought by Jackson);
File of miscellaneous items including typed note to Jackson with letter written by Peter Ustinov printed in The Daily Telegraph about play 'The Rivals' and Edith Evans, part of cast list for production of 'You Never Can Tell' at King's Heath Institute (05 December 1906) with handwritten note that this was 'the first Shaw play Sir Barry ever saw';
File of horoscopes for Sir Barry Jackson;
File of family history and genealogy correspondence and family trees (on Jackson and Spreadborough families) - includes letters to and from Sir Barry Jackson and other family members, with details typed from family bible giving details of Jackson's parents and siblings, copy of Jackson's parents marriage certificate (1861), copy of Jackson's baptism certificate (20 September 1883 at Edgbaston parish church [actually born 06 September 1879]), letter from Mollie Jackson (1957) with various family certificates, pencil sketch by Jackson's father of scene in Pontresina [Switzerland] (June 1887). File also includes items relating to Jackson's First World War service such as letter to Lieutenant Barry V Jackson RNVR appointing him temporary Lieutenant RNVR of HMS President under the Director of Naval Equipment (Dazzle Scheme) [camouflage] with appointment taking effect 27 February 1918. With typed copy notes concerning gratuity form completed September 1919;
File of material relating to supply of water supply to house in Malvern;
File of correspondence and telegrams concerning presentation of bust to Jackson 1959;
File of correspondence concerning Jackson's knighthood (06 July 1925) including Imperial Society of Knights Batchelor certificate.
Box 22
Files relating to talks, etc., including 'Barnstorming' |