Papers of Margaret Mynatt and Yvonne Kapp, comprising:
articles, mainly by or about Bertolt Brecht (1952-1982), with associated correspondence; Margaret Mynatt's correspondence with Walter Benjamin [photocopies]; Yvonne Kapp's correspondence with Helene Brecht-Weigel and the Bertolt Brecht Archiv, Berlin; correspondence of Mynatt and Kapp with Phyllis Rosner, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Ilse Warnber [sister of Elisabeth Hauptmann].
Papers of Yvonne Kapp, including minutes and papers of the Czech Refugee Trust Fund, [1938-1940]; correspondence, including letters written under the pseudonym Yvonne Cloud (1939-1941); hand-written copies of poems on the Communist Party; refugee papers selected by Dr Charmian Brinson (1997); 3 volumes of press cuttings on the 'Internment Crisis', (July-September 1940); obituaries of Kapp from The Independent, The Times and The Guardian, (1999).
Papers of Margaret Mynatt includes copies of Mynatt’s letters from London to Walter Benjamin in Paris dating from the mid-1930s; correspondence with Emmy Koenen; obituary of Wilhelm Koenen (1963); correspondence and papers on the death of Elisabeth Hauptmann (1973); photographs of Elisabeth Hauptmann; papers relating to Mynatt's father, John Charles Mynatt (Giovanni Minotti) (1903-1966); photographs of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, and personal photographs of well-known actresses at the time, Carole Neher and Roma Bahn; theatre and concert programmes from the Berliner Ensemble, (1955-1967), and for productions of Brecht's works in London, (1963-1989).