Sean O'Casey letters

This material is held atSenate House Library Archives, University of London

  • Reference
    • GB 96 AL362
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1st May 1937 - 1st Dec 1957
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 14 items

Scope and Content

14 letters to Peter Newmark. Topics covered include: literary critics and criticism; the Communist Party; the Roman Catholic Church; plays and playwrights; and the writing of O'Casey's works and their publication and performance in Britain, Ireland and the USA. Individuals mentioned include: James Evershed Agate, Samuel Beckett, Ugo Betti, T S Eliot, Jean Giraudoux, Eugène Ionesco, Eugene O'Neill, George Orwell, John Osborne, Terence Rattigan, Jean-Paul Sartre, W B Yeats.

Arrangement

See hard copy catalogue.

Access Information

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Other Finding Aids

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Special Collections Reading Room. An item-level catalogue is attached to the catalogue on the Senate House Library catalogue, see: https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110031728.