Papers, [ca. 1910]-1956 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Scrapbooks, scripts, correspondence, poems, invitations, clippings, engagement diary, programs, photos, and phonograph records of Ruth Draper (ca. 1910-1956). Collection includes: scrapbook of letters from admirers, mainly prominent actors, writers, and public officials (2 v.); scrapbook of her Australian and New Zealand tour in 1938; scrapbooks of clippings of articles about her, reviews of her performances, programs, etc. (2 v.); a scrapbook of poems written for her, invitations, citations from colleges, photos, etc.; manuscript "The Art of the Monologue" by E.V. Lucas; playscript of "The Three Fates" by Edward Sheldon [and?] Ruth Draper, 1924-1925; sound recordings of Draper performing many of her best-known monologues (11 discs); a book of poems in Draper's handwriting; and several volumes of scripts of her sketches, some never performed. Letters in the two scrapbooks of correspondence from admirers include Henry Ainley, Winthrop Ames, William Archer, George Arliss, Clement Atlee, Sir Kenneth Barnes, Sir James M. Barrie, James Bridie, Eddie Cantor, Randall Cantor, Noel Coward, Amelia de Alberti, Robin de la Condamine, Olin Downes, Peadric L. Doyle, Edith Evans, Lynn Fontanne, John Gielgud, Basil Gill, Charles L. Graves, Norman Hapgood, Leslie Henson, Dame Myra Hess, Lawrence Housman, Stephen Jack, Henry James, Whitford Kane, William Lawrence, Guy Lestrange, Mackenzie King, George Kin Leung, Sir Oliver Lodge, Percy Lubbock, Olga Lynn (vol. 1); Rose Macaulay, Compton Mackenzie, John Masefield, Margery Maude, A.A. Milne, Gilbert Murray, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir William Osler, H.H. Piehler, Sir S.K. Ratcliffe, Lennox Robinson, Margaret Rutherford, John Sargent, George Bernard Shaw, Ernest H. Shepard, Sir John Simon, Otis Skinner, Walter Starkie, Sir Ronald Storrs, Austin Strong, Laurence Alma Tadema, Dame Ellen Terry, Madge Titherage, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Lord Tweedsmuir, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Irene Vanbrough, Hugh Walpole, Stuart Watson, Edith Wharton, Kate Douglass Wiggin, John D. Williams (vol. 2)