Manuscripts

Vivian-Young; ephemera

Description: Contains letters, printed material, programs, menus, circulars, newspaper and magazine clippings.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1860-1891.
Call number: mssHD
Creator: Hollingshead, John(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of February 1939.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Contains letters, telegram, bills, and printed material.

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Contains letters, poem, manuscripts, and license for plays.

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A collection containing letters, manuscripts, and ephemera related to John Hollingshead. The letters are mostly addressed to John Hollingshead from 1860 to 1891, concerning the management of the Gaiety Theatre. The material in this collection was originally mounted in two volumes and was later removed by Huntington staff; the material still retains some glue and evidence of removal. Some items in the collection were trimmed down, with loss of text, by the original owner. Correspondents in the collection include, among others, Dion Boucicault, John B. Buckstone, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Charles W. Dilke, William S. Gilbert, Henry Irving, Blanchard Jerrold, Ellen Kean, Francis Knollys, James Macaulay, Florence Marryat, Westland Marston, Charles Mathews, James R. Planché, Charles Reade, Eyre Massey Shaw, Alexander Strahan, Algernon Swinburne, Anthony Trollope, James Whistler, Oscar Wilde, and Edmund Yates.

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Ephemera

Visual Materials

Box contains Kelmscott Press related stationery, programs, notices, certificate samples, and other ephemera. Also included are invitations and programs to memorials for John Keats and for William Morris. Majority of the items are circulars and order forms announcing publications printed by Kelmscott Press. The circulars and order forms are organized by date when known.

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Ephemera

Manuscripts

The ephemera consists of programs, lecture announcements, pamphlets, magazines, publicity, clippings and other printed material. This material was originally removed from the collection and placed in the Rare Book Department, Ephemeral File; it was returned to the collection in 2021.

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Vivian-Young; ephemera

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