| Level | Fonds |
| Finding Number (Click this to use the hierarchy browser to access the full catalogue) | US27 |
| Title | Papers of John Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll |
| Extent | 480 items in 2 boxes |
| Date | 1920s-1960s |
| Description | Correspondence to John Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll, mostly written to him while Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Birmingham, and Director of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon. As an eminent scholar of English drama, Nicoll numbered many actors, theatre producers and dramatists and their letters form a large proportion of this collection. Correspondents include Gordon Bottomley, Edward Gordon Craig, Christopher Fry, Sir Barry Jackson and Laura Knight. A number of letters are written to both Nicoll and his first wife, Josephine or solely to Josephine Nicoll. |
| Arrangement | The collection is arranged alphabetically by correspondent |
| Access Conditions | Access to all registered researchers. |
| Copyright | Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance in writing from the Director of Special Collections. Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material. |
| Language | English |
| Finding Aids | A paper catalogue to file and item level is available in the Special Collections Department. This catalogue is available in electronic format on the Access to Archives (A2A) Website at: http://www.a2a.org.uk/ (follow link in URL field below) and as a pdf file: file: to view this, click on the link in the document field below. |
| Document | US27.pdf |
| Access Status | Open |
| Administrative History | John Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll (1894-1976) was Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Birmingham, 1945-1961and Director of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon from its establishment by him in 1951. Nicoll was an internationally renowned authority on the history of English drama and was a prolific writer on this subject and on the theory of drama, publishing some thirty books between 1922 and 1973. He was married twice; his first wife, Josephine Calina, a Polish refugee, died in 1962.
Reference: The University of Birmingham, Research Libraries Bulletin (Number 1. Winter 1994). |
| Acquisition | The collection was deposited by Nicoll's second wife in 1992/1993. |
| Archival Note | This collection level description is based on the record created by Caroline Hughes, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick for the Archives HUB, a JISC-funded service. Amended December 2002 |
| Related Material | University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department also holds the archives of the University of Birmingham and archives of other former staff, officials and students. |
| URL | http://www.a2a.org.uk/ |