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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)

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 at http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-09852-00001-00024/1. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.
 Series

Letter, 16 Feb. 1928

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)

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

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)

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 — Box: MS Add.9375/1-259: Box 1

Telegrams from Sam. N. Behrman (New York) to Siegfried Sassoon about health of Glen Byam Shaw, 15 Feb. 1928-17 Feb. 1928

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).