| Description | Includes unlisted material:
Box 29
Miscellaneous correspondence (1933 - 1955) - including
From Aunt Emma (1940s);
Letter from Barry Jackson addressed to [composer] William Walton, Ashby St Ledgers [Northamptonshire] (07 December 1945) asking if he wants to read a libretto found, 'at Elgar's request', on Ben Jonson's difficult play 'The Devil Is An Ass'. Jackson ends letter: 'you will probably find my share of the work extremely sketchy, as given a rough outline, I have a conviction that any creative work connected with opera, lies in the hands of the composer',
Letter from Sadler's Wells (09 November 1940) to Jackson expressing regret at the loss of the Rep's wardrobe store due to enemy action and offering to help if they can;
Correspondence concerning Gustav Eckstein's play 'Hohusai' (1934 - 1935), including letter from Mrs Patrick Campbell;
Letter from Cairnborrow Lodge, Glass, Aberdeenshire concerning death of Sir Frederick Bridge?
File on the Intimate Theatre Group - including memorandum and articles of association (1949) [Jackson was a subscriber and advisory panel member] and two letters to Jackson concerning weather causing problems with its portable theatre.
File on 'Tonight At 8.30' - including telegram from author Noel Coward wishing cast success, and design for poster/advert for 'Tonight At 8.30' and 'Pygmalion' [for Rep appearance at Ravinia Festival, Chicago, 1970].
Correspondence (with drawings) concerning children's design competition for 'Toad Of Toad Hall' (Christmas 1969 production).
Correspondence with Tom English (1956) concerning the loan of photographs of the 1951 production of 'Wild Duck' for use by World Theatre magazine.
Ordnance Survey map of Birmingham showing Town Hall/Ladywood area (1969) - used for location of New Rep?
Birmingham Repertory New Playgoers' Society minute book (31 August 1960 - 23 August 1978) [damaged spine].
Birmingham Repertory New Playgoers' Society minute book (10 October 1978 - 07 December 1980) [wound up December 1980].
Employment statements of various staff (1964) with details of salary, pay, holiday [produced following Contracts of Employment Act 1963].
Volume of handwritten A - Z list of actors including some contact details.
'Dinner & Show' book (1971 - 1972) - details of vouchers/tickets bought?
Loose ledger pages showing details of salaries, national insurance etc for staff by production (1968).
Cost of materials by production (1969 - 1970) including costs for wardrobe, scenery, props, labout etc.
Volume with label 'Brum Studio at The Birmingham Rep late night folk Fridays 10.30' - lists of names [of people who attended?].
Box 30
Album of watercolour and pencil sketches by Jackson.
Report on record of repairs to Old Rep stage 2005 by Rodney Melville & Partners - including introduction, historical development of theatre, description of work, appendices (including list of plans at Birmingham Central Library/Archives), photos of work done.
Playbill for 05 February 1872 at Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham [in poor condition and rolled up].
Handwritten list of musical instruments and groupings - with note that this is example of Gustav Holst's handwriting.
Plan showing proposed house for Mr H.F. Dixon, Kenilworth Road by Frederick G. Cundall, Leamington Spa, architect.
File of material relating to visit to Switzerland (1925) - including brochures, guides, photos, postcards, souvenirs.
Plans of various venues including -
Schouwburg Stad, Arnhem (with booklet);
Royal Opera House stage, Covent Garden (1954);
Noordschouwburg, Rotterdam (1955 and 1957) - with photos;
Stadttheater, Lubeck (1939).
Christmas cards sent to Mr Morrell and Miss (Bunty) Morrell, 1943 [Miss Morrell appeared in 'Alas Regardless' at The Rep 23 January 1940].
Newscuttings concerning George Bernard Shaw.
Laura Knight pencil drawing of 'Lily & Pig' [Lili was Barry Jackson's dog].
Envelope of newscuttings (1955) concerning the RAF Escaping Society and visit by French girls to families in the West Midlands (1955).
Correspondence to Bache Matthews including - card from John Galsworthy (21 December 1911) addressed to Matthews (The Pilgrim Players, 51 John Bright Street, Birmingham) enclosing receipt for cheque for £1.19.0 (for 'The Silver Box'); typed letter from George Bernard Shaw's secretary (05 August 1924) asking if Shaw could have the additional dialogue for 'Back To Methuselah!' as he does not have a copy; envelope addressed to Matthews in Shaw's handwriting (05 May 1923); letter from [writer] Beatrice Chase enclosing postcards of her and her bookshop in Dartmoor; letter from Shakespeare Head Press (1912) concerning sending copies of Yeats' 'Deirdre'.
Poster for The Mediaeval Norwich Grocers' play of 'Paradyse' and 'The Sacrifice Of Isaac' by The Norwich Players (08 September 1923?).
Weekly summary of takings for 'The Rivals' at St James' Theatre (week ending 03 July 1948).
Receipt for 'Ascent Of F6' from Boosey & Hawkes hire library (28 June 1938) sent to Anthony Barrie, Princes Theatre, Manchester [Rep production there 04 July 1938 - 09 July 1938].
Typed Matthews notes on drama and education [for talk or article?].
Typed notes on 'Hamlet' played in 20th century costume.
Handwritten notes on 'As You Like It' at The Rep.
Typed [partial] notes on regional theatre and the decline of commercial theatres.
John Drinkwater poems (typed or handwritten) mounted on card - 'Stoke Pogis churchyard', 'Ad Lanchestrem - 3485', 'Memory's Immortalities' (July 1907), 'Song To Beauty'.
Review of religious plays by Sir John Ervine in The Observer (13 November 1921).
Correspondence to Tom Woods, Stage Manager, Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue - including letter from Paul Shelving (30 November 1932) via Cherbourg (on SS Leviathan) that mentions flowers for use on stage and a reminder that the scenery needs to be fire-proofed [for production of 'The Farmer's Wife'?]; letter from George Devine (03 January 1932) sending playbill for Old Vic/Sadlers Wells 1932 - 1933 season and mentioning 'The Merchant Of Venice'; letter from Bob Russell (31 December 1932) apologising that he is unable to finish his run in a production because of an operation.
Diary of William Pryde (1967), including sketches, poems and correspondence to publishers concerning his attempts to get his poem 'Polka Dots Of Life' published; also with pamphlet 'York' (including poems) [Bill Pryde worked for The Rep 1970s - 1980s and also worked in television as well as theatre before becoming an artist and print-maker]. |