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Box 1

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

Series 1

 Series — Box: 1
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This archive contains notes, photographs, books, manuscripts, play programs, and other materials collected by Muriel St. Clare Byrne relating to Dorothy L. Sayers.Some letters were removed from the archive and are now stored in the Dorothy L. Sayers Papers. See DLS Papers folders: 185a-187. Three books, listed at the end of the contents listing, have been removed and placed in the Wade book collection. The books, while remaining part of the archive,...
Dates: Created: ca. 1913-1978; Other: Majority of material found in 1937-1958

Sayers, Dorothy L. THE MYSTERIOUS ENGLISH. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1940, ca. 1940

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents

Proofs corrected by DLS. 22 pp.

Dates: Created: ca. 1940

Sayers, Dorothy L., "Dante's View of the Cosmos.", February 23, 1951

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents

Weekly Evening Meeting, AS (initialed) inscription by DLS. 13 pp.

Dates: Created: February 23, 1951

Inserts from AN ACCOUNT OF LORD MORTIMER WIMSEY, THE HERMIT OF THE WASH . . . by A Clergy-of the Church of England.  Bristol: M. Bryan, 1816., 1937

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents

A TLS (dated December 23, 1937) with handwritten note from DLS to MSCB, and a pencil sketch of a man's portrait. Book now stored in book collection (see listling following the contents listing). 2 pp.

Dates: Created: 1937

Programs from various plays by Sayers, 1951-1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents

Including: The Man Born to be King (The Theater Centre at 44a Loudoun Road, London, April 20-25, 1954), The Emperor Constantine (The Playhouse Theater, Colchester, Colchester Festival 1951), Busman’s Honeymoon (co-authored by Muriel St. Clare Byrne, Victoria Palace, n.d.), and Zeal of Thy House (Westminster Theatre, n.d.). 25 pp.

Dates: Created: 1951-1954

Several cards between Muriel, Dorothy, and others, 1937-1949

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents

20pp.

Dates: Created: 1937-1949

Illustrations related to the works of Dorothy L. Sayers, n.d.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents

3 pp.

Dates: Created: n.d.

Miscellaneous notes by Muriel St. Clare Byrne, handwritten, ca. 1966

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9
Scope and Contents

6 pp.

Dates: Created: ca. 1966

Photographs of Sayers, family members, and friends, ca. 1913-1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: Folder 10
Scope and Contents

Some subjects are unidentified. All original photographs have been removed and are now stored in the Sayers photo collection. They can be retrieved by the Wade archival staff upon request. Scans of the originals reside in the archive; photo collection call number listed at the end of each description. 23pp.

Dates: Created: ca. 1913-1975

Various articles related to Dorothy L. Sayers and her works, ca.1919-1972

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: Folder 11
Scope and Contents

27pp.

Dates: Created: ca.1919-1972

Saint Anne's House, Soho, Report, October 1957

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: Folder 13
Scope and Contents

13pp.

Dates: Created: October 1957

Four small published booklets from Helen Simpson, n.d.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: Folder 14
Scope and Contents

13pp.

Dates: Created: n.d.

Miscellaneous pieces, 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: Folder 15
Scope and Contents

7pp.

Dates: Created: 1954

Muriel St. Clare Byrne Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Wade-A-69
Abstract

This archive contains notes, photographs, books, manuscripts, play programs, and other materials collected by Muriel St. Clare Byrne relating to Dorothy L. Sayers.

Dates: Created: ca. 1913-1978; Other: Majority of material found in 1937-1958