Theatre and Drama Archive Sources

This guide to archives of the theatre and drama is not intended to be exhaustive. It complements the archives catalogue, which includes a subject search facility and the Theatre Studies gateway.

  • American theatre and opera scrapbooks, 1875-1892, reference MS1088

  • James Baxter letter, 1960, reference MS1119

  • Cecil Crofton scrapbook, 1874-1919, reference MS1009

  • Florence Farr, c1863-1917, references AL 203, AL235, MS333, MS982

  • Garrick Club playbills, 1825-1826, reference MS1001

  • Grieve Family Collection of Theatre designs, 1813-1857, reference MS1007

  • Grieve family correspondence, c1822-1851, reference MS1165

  • Douglas Jerrold / Michael Slater collection, c1824-2008, reference MS1170

  • Henry Arthur Jones papers, 1887-1950, reference MS410

  • Malcolm Morley archive, 1833-1986, reference Morley (see also Malcolm Morley Collection )

  • Sean O’Casey letters, 1937-1957, reference AL362

  • Charles Benjamin Purdon notebooks, 1949-1951, reference MS833

  • William Smoldon papers, c700-c1599, reference MS930

  • Murder of the actor William Terriss in 1897, reference MS811/IV/23