| Level | Fonds |
| Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure) | MS501 |
| Title | Play scripts relating to Noël Coward |
| Extent | 3 items |
| Date | [c 1911-c 1950] |
| Description | A collection of three typescripts of plays relating to Noël Coward comprising bound typescript copies of 'South Sea Bubble' and Lila Field's 'The Goldfish'. Also includes loose typescript sheets of Noël Coward's 'Hands Across the Sea', signed by the author. |
| Access Conditions | Access to all registered readers |
| 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 (email: special-collections@bham.ac.uk). Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult.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 catalogue of this collection is available on the online archive catalogue. Click on the Finding Number to display the summary contents list of the catalogue and to view the full catalogue, or view the catalogue as a PDF file by clicking in the document field below. A paper copy of this catalogue is also available for consultation in the Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections Department. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Administrative History | Items /1 and /2 carry the bookplate of Herbert Schimmel. Schimmel was a New York collector, mainly interested in Art Nouveau and the artist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec. His nephew, Paul Schimmel, is a renound curator of modern art.
Item /1 carries the label of John (Jack) C. Wilson (1899-1961). Wilson was a producer and director. He was in a relationship with Noël Coward during the 1920s and was also Coward's manager from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s. In 1934, Wilson, Coward, Lynn Fontaine and Alfred Lunt established Transatlantic Productions, with exclusive production rights to Coward's plays in the United States.
Sources: Philip Hoare, Noël Coward: a biography 1995; International Art and Culture http://sfaq.us/2013/09/paul-schimmel/; Guide to the John C. Wilson Theater Collection on Noël Coward GEN MSS 608 http://drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=beinecke:coward&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes |
| Custodial History | This item was formerly part of the Herbert Schimmel Noël Coward and Ivor Novello collections. Its wrapper bears the bookplate of Herbert Schimmel |
| Acquisition | Purchased from Bertram Rota, Catalogue 291, 1999, lot 414 |
| Archival Note | Papers arranged and described by Beth Cutts, January 2017, in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; and in-house cataloguing guidelines. |
| Related Material | Archive collections relating to Noël Coward, and held at the Cadbury Research Library, include:
Noël Coward Collection: papers, 1911-2000. Finding Number: COW;
Papers relating to Noël Coward: papers, [20th century]. Finding Number: MS69;
Material relating to Lila Field's 'The Goldfish': papers, 1911. Finding Number: MS158;
Correspondence sent to Claude Ray relating to Noël Coward: papers, [mid-20th century]. Finding Number: MS188;
Papers of Gladys Calthrop: correspondence, 1927-1979. Finding Number: MS201;
Noël Coward Theatre Programmes: programmes, 1913-1991. Finding Number: MS491;
Gladys Calthrop costume drawings: framed drawings, 1934. Finding Number: MS492;
Noël Coward Posters: posters, 1968-1986. Finding Number: MS497;
Noël Coward and Ivor Novello Cuttings: newspaper and magazine cuttings, 1943-1996. Finding Number: MS498;
Patricia Hollender Collection: correspondence, 1951-1978. Finding Number: MS500;
Play scripts relating to Noël Coward: scripts, [c 1911-c 1950]. Finding Number: MS501;
Images of Noël Coward: images, [1920s-1970s]. Finding Number: MS502;
Noël Coward's 'Present Laughter', typescript for radio adaptation: script, [1956]. Finding Number: MS788;
Photographs of Noël Coward and friends, [1920s-1930s]. Finding Number: MS987. |