| Description | This catalogue was compiled by Hinton from the collection of printed and manuscript plays and orchestral scores from the dramatic library of the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, held in the Birmingham Reference Library. It also gives details of the provenance and content of the collection, and explanatory information about the cataloguing process and organisation. It includes loose correspondence between Hinton and H.M.Cashmore, City Librarian of Birmingham Reference Library (2 letters), and Hinton and Allardyce Nicoll, chairman of the Department of Drama at Yale University (7 letters), 1936-1938 about arrangements for listing the collection. It also includes some loose leaves listing some prompt and part copies of plays from the collection |