Behrman, Samuel Nathaniel, 1893-1973 (playwright and essayist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1893 - 1973
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
File
Journal, 13 Dec. 1926-11 Mar. 1927 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/24
Scope and Contents
The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1926-27-I' and mostly comprises diary entries. These include passages on: /27r. showing American publisher Crosby Gaige the manuscript of [Wilfred] Owen's poems; /34r-34v. a visit from Robert Graves; /43v-44r. 'My Landlord' (about Harold Speed); /44v-45v. anecdotes about poets W.B. Yeats and Wordsworth told to him by Edmund Gosse; /54v-67r. visits to Ruth and Henry Head and to Thomas Hardy at Max Gate; /79r. reflections on his influence on Wilfred...
Dates:
13 Dec. 1926-11 Mar. 1927 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
Conditions Governing Access:
This notebook has been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.
Series
Letter, 16 Feb. 1928
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/99
Scope and Contents
Giving news (of Sam Behrman; is 'sweating away at Memoirs'; visited Weirleigh; re Thomas Hardy's death). With three enclosures.
Dates:
16 Feb. 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Letter and press cutting, 9 Mar. 1927 (year inferred)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/59
Scope and Contents
Giving news (has been feeling bad; was visited by Anzie Wylde; had a letter from Sam Behrman; on meeting E.M. Forster). A press cutting is enclosed.
Dates:
9 Mar. 1927 (year inferred)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Letter to Siegfried Sassoon from Sam [Behrman] (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, California), 5 May 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/264/1
Scope and Contents
Re writing a new film for Garbo, the War, wants news of Hester and George Sassoon, and an anecdote about L.B. Mayer.
Dates:
5 May 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
Letters from Samuel N Behrman, (1893-1973), American playwright, (New York), to Siegfried Sassoon, 1925-1954 (1925; 1939-40; 1954)
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8889/3/9-11
Scope and Contents
Re personal news, appreciation of Siegfried Sassoon's poems, thoughts on politics and World War II. Including photograph (of SB?) dated 1954.
Dates:
1925-1954 (1925; 1939-40; 1954)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Telegrams from Sam. N. Behrman (New York) to Siegfried Sassoon about health of Glen Byam Shaw, 15 Feb. 1928-17 Feb. 1928
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/44-45
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of 1094 letters, postcards and other items known as 'Sassoon's residual correspondence' although it does also include a number of items addressed to other persons particularly to his wife, Hester, and his mother, Theresa Thornycroft.
Dates:
15 Feb. 1928-17 Feb. 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).