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Finding Aid for Abbey Theatre Records, 1910-1938.

Guide to the Abbey Theatre Records, 1910-1938

Berg Coll MSS Abbey Theatre
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Date Completed:
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Table of Contents

Descriptive Summary Table of Contents

Title
Abbey Theatre Records, 1910-1938
Call Number
Berg Coll MSS Abbey Theatre
Size
72 items
Repository
The New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. New York, New York
Abstract
This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, financial and legal documents, and a portrait.

Administration Information Table of Contents

Source

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Custodial History

Some of the materials were among Ria Mooney's correspondence and with Lady Gregory's correspondence.

Access

Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, (212) 930-0803

Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Biography Table of Contents

The Abbey Theatre in Dublin is an Irish theatrical company, founded in 1904 by William Butler Yeats and Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory. J. M. Synge and Lady Gregory were its first directors. It is devoted to Irish drama.

Scope and Content Note Table of Contents

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, financial and legal documents, and a portrait. The manuscripts and typescripts include stage directions, lists of actors, extracts of reviews of performances, schedules, and other matters related to the Theatre, as well as articles, notes, and reviews by Sean O'Casey, a lecture by Alfred Wareing, and addresses by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge. The correspondence, dating from 1910 to 1928, includes letters from the Theatre to Sean O'Casey, Lady Gregory, and W. B. Yeats, as well as letters relating to the Theatre between various correspondents, including Sara Allgood, Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman, and Bertha June Lucas. The bulk of the collection consists of financial documents, specifically weekly returns dating from 1920 to 1931, financial statements, and lists of checks made out to various payees.

Series Descriptions Table of Contents

   
Correspondence Table of Contents
   
Outgoing Table of Contents
Manuscript box (Gregory)     
Telegram to Lady Gregory 1916 May 19
corr. out
( 1 item )
Enclosed in: Sean O'Casey. Windfalls. Early typescript. On versos of p. 1-3 of rough draft of "The job." Envelope 1     
3 TN to Sean O'Casey 1928 June 9 - 1928 June 30
corr. out
( 3 items )

Signed J. H. Perrin

Manuscript box (Yeats)     
Telegram to William Butler Yeats 1913 Sept. 19
corr. out
( 1 item )

Came with Lady Gregory's papers

   
Incoming Table of Contents
In his: Holograph notebooks. Vol. 3, p. [73]     
Sean O'Casey. AL (draft) to the Abbey Theatre (?) [n.d.]
corr. in
( 1 p. )
Manuscript box (Gregory)     
John D Sinclair. TLS to Abbey Theatre. To W. B. Yeats? 1906 June 20
corr. in
( 1 item )

Came with Lady Gregory's papers

   
Related correspondence Table of Contents
Manuscript box (Allgood)     
Fred J. Harris. 2 TLS to Sara Allgood. Relates to Abbey theatre engagement of Miss Allgood 1922 June 24, 1922 July 13
corr. About
( 2 items )
Manuscript box     
Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman. ALS to [--?]. Relates to the Abbey theatre 1910 Dec. 7
corr. About
( 1 item )
Manuscript box (Allgood)     
Bertha June (Richardson) Lucas. ALS to Sara Allgood. Mentions W. B. Yeats and various Abbey Theatre actors and playwrights [n.d.]
corr. About
( 7 p. )
   
Financial & Legal Documents Table of Contents
   
Financial Documents Table of Contents
Manuscript box (Gregory)     
Financial statement for the year ending Aug. 31, 1912. Typescript [1912]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

Came with Lady Gregory's papers

On verso of first inserted page of: Lady Gregory. [The jester] Holograph outline, undated     
Return for week ending 23rd Nov. [1918?]. Typescript (carbon) [1918?]
financial docs.
( 1 item )

Manuscript box     
Returns for weeks ending Aug. 15, and Oct. 16, 1920 [1920]
financial docs.
( 2 items )

On versos of p. [4] and [6] of: Lady Gregory. [Aristotle's bellows] Songs. Holograph lists.

In: Lady I. A. P. Gregory. [Hugh Lane's life and achievement. London, 1921] Page proof. Following p. 172     
Returns for Sept. 9, 1920 [1920]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

Signed J. H. Perrin

Manuscript box (Gregory)     
Returns for week ending April 16, 1921. Typescript [1921]
financial docs.
( 1 item )

On verso: Lady Gregory's holograph autobiographical notes Removed from: Lady Gregory. Memoirs. 14 holograph notebooks. Vol. 9

Manuscript box. In: Lady Gregory. [Memoirs] Typewritten draft. Folder 17     
Returns for week ending Aug. 26, 1922. Typescript [1922]
financial docs.
( 1 item )

Manuscript box     
Returns for week ending March 26, 1925. Typescript
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

On verso of: Lady Gregory. [On the racecourse] Holograph passage of dialogue, undated. 1 p.

Manuscript box     
Checks drawn, dated Jan. 28, 1926, made out to various payees. Typewritten list n.d.
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

On verso of: Lady I. A. P. Gregory. [Excerpts from her readings] Holograph, undated. 1 p. Mutilated

Manuscript box. In: Lady Gregory. TL (copies) to John Quinn. Jan. 4, 1903-Feb. 6, 1924. On versos of p. 36, 30, 28 of carbon     
Returns for weeks ending May 1, 8, and 15, 1926 [1926]
financial docs.
( 3 items )

Manuscript box     
Return for week ending July 17, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

On verso of p. 2 of typescript of: Lady Gregory. ALS to George William Russell, July 24, 1926

In: Lady Gregory. [Case for the return of Sir Hugh Lane's pictures to Dublin] Earlier typewritten draft     
Returns for weeks ending Aug. 7 and 21, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 2 items )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 31. Carbon. On verso of p. 20     
Returns for week ending Sept. 11, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 31. Carbon. On verso of p. 16     
Returns for week ending Sept. 18, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 31. Carbon. On verso of p. 8     
Returns for week ending Oct. 2, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 31. Carbon. On verso of p. 10     
Returns for week ending Oct. 9, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 31. Carbon. On verso of p. 6     
Returns for week ending Oct. 16, 1926. Typescript (carbon) [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 31. Carbon. On verso of p. 36     
Returns for week ending Oct. 23, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 31. Carbon. On verso of p. 35     
Returns for week ending Oct. 30, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 31. Carbon. On verso of p. 32     
Returns for week ending Nov. 6, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 32. Carbon. On verso of p. 9     
Returns for week ending Dec. 4, 1926. Typescript (carbon) [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 32. Carbon. On verso of p. 40     
Returns for week ending Dec. 18, 1926. Typescript [1926]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

Manuscript box     
Returns for week ending April 2, 1927. Typescript 1927 Apr. 4
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

On verso of: Lady Gregory. AL (draft) to [--?], April 25 [1927] Removed from her: Journal, v. 35, p. 4238

In: Lady Gregory. Figures in clay. Typewritten draft. On verso of p. [27]     
Returns for week ending Aug. 13, 1927. Typescript [1927]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 33. Carbon. On verso of p. 32     
Returns for week ending Feb. 11, 1928. Typescript [1928]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 33. Carbon. On verso of p. 15     
Returns for week ending Feb. 25, 1928. Typescript [1928]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 33. Carbon. On verso of p. 41     
Returns for week ending March 10, 1928. Typescript [1928]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 34. Carbon. On verso of p. 35     
Returns for week ending March 24, 1928. Typescript [1928]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. [Journal] Typescript. Book 35. Carbon. On verso of p. 7     
Returns for week ending April 14, 1928. Typescript [1928]
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

In: Lady Gregory. The volunteer bridge. Typescript. On verso of p. 2     
Returns for week ending Aug. 9, 1930. Typescript [1930]
financial docs.
( 1 item )

Manuscript box     
Lady Gregory. [Abbey theatre. Statement of returns for performances covering July 2, 1930-July 6, 1931] Holograph [1931]
financial docs.
( 3 p. )

Manuscript box (Gregory)     
Returns for unspecified performances. Mutilated n.d.
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

Signed A. Patrick Wilson Came with Lady Gregory's papers

Manuscript box (Gregory)     
[Provision for disposal of trust funds] in event of winding up of company. Typescript with ms. corrections in an unidentified hand n.d.
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

Came with Lady Gregory's papers

Manuscript box (Gregory)     
List of expenses for production of Lady Gregory's Workhouse ward in an unidentified hand. Manuscript n.d.
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

Manuscript box (Gregory)     
Cheques, undated, made out to various payees. Typewritten list n.d.
financial docs.
( 1 p. )

With Lady Gregory's marginal ms. note, "I am asking about this"

   
Legal Documents Table of Contents
Manuscript box (Gregory)     
Charles Prestwich Scott. [Abbey theatre. Typescript of arbitration between A. E. F. Horniman and the directors of the National Theatre Society, relating to the sale of the Abbey theatre, April 29, 1911]. Directors cited are Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats [1911]
legal docs.
( 1 item )

Manuscript box (Colum)     
Agreement between Padraic Colum and the Directors of the Abbey theatre for permission to perform his play Thomas Muskerry 1911 Aug. 17
legal docs.
( 1 p. )

Signed by W. B. Yeats and Padraic Colum

   
Manuscripts & Typescripts Table of Contents
   
Manuscripts Table of Contents
Manuscript box     
The Abbey stage. Holograph measurements in an unidentified hand n.d.
ms.
( 1 p. )

Accompanied by photograph of exterior of Abbey theatre the morning of the fire (1951) Came with Ria Mooney's correspondence

Manuscript box (Gregory)     
List of players and payments essential in the event of a definite offer from Australia, in an unidentified hand. On letterhead of The Little Theatre, The Irish Players [London] n.d.
ms.
( 2 p. )

Came with Lady Gregory's papers

In his: Holograph notebooks. Vol. 7, unnumbered page at back     
Sean O'Casey. [Notes. Abbey Theatre] Plays ... 1929. Holograph. Schedule of Abbey Theatre performances, Jan. - Aug., 1929 [1929]
ms.
( 1 p. )
In his: Holograph notebooks. Vol. 19, p. [84-88]     
Sean O'Casey. [Reviews. Peter Kavanagh; The story of the Abbey theatre. Notes] and holograph draft n.d.
ms.
( 5 p. )
Manuscript box     
Salary list proposed. Play proposed. Manuscript n.d.
ms.
( 2 p. )

With: Lady Gregory. [Abbey theatre] Salaries. Loss, February to June. Holographs, undated. 5 p.

Manuscript box (Gregory)     
Alfred Wareing. The Abbey Theatre's first invasion of Britain. Holograph draft of lecture 1938 Oct. 26 - 1938 Oct. 28
ms.
( 14 p. )

Signed Enclosed in: Alfred Wareing. ALS and 6 TLS to Ethel Allenby. Letter of Oct. 25, 1938

   
Typescripts Table of Contents
Manuscript box (Gregory)     
English reviews (extracts) of Abbey theatre performances in England. Typescript n.d.
typescripts
( 3 p. )

Came with Lady Gregory's papers

Cased     
Sean O'Casey. [Articles. Ireland] Seven typescripts with the author's ms. Corrections n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 7 items )

With: O'Casey v. Abbey. Typescript (photocopy). 39 p. Begun as letter to Ronald Ayling. On verso of p. 12 of "Abbey theatre": Macmillan & co., ltd., London. TLS to Sean O'Casey. July 12, 1934. 1 p.

Manuscript box (Gregory)     
Rules and regulations. Typescript (carbon) with Lady Gregory's ms. note n.d.
typescripts
( 3 p. )

With envelope with Lady Gregory's ms. note: "Abbey fragment from Henderson's desk, given me 1929."

Manuscript box. In: W.B. Yeats. TL (copies) to Lady Gregory. 1897-1910. 19 p. On verso of p. 6     
[Schedule of performances, June 12-17, 1922] Typescript n.d.
typescripts
( 1 p. )
Manuscript box     
Statement for year ending 28th February 1914. Typescript n.d.
typescripts
( 1 p. )

With: Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats. TLS (copy) to the editor of the Irish times. Abbey theatre, Dublin, Sept. 1914

Manuscript box     
W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge (?) [Abbey theatre. Address] Typescript with Lady Gregory's (?) ms. corrections. Address delivered to Abbey company over division of Abbey funds at Sept. 23, 1905, meeting n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 2 p. )
   
Portraits Table of Contents
Cased     
Sara Allgood. Album of photographs. Contains 63 pieces, including Abbey theatre players, Lady Gregory, Lennox Robinson and Sir Roger Casement n.d.
portraits
( 1 v. )

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