Manuscript plays, letters and photographs of performances

Item author: Rutherford Mayne (Samuel Waddell)
Item date: 20th century
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 5,000
Item date acquired: 1994
Item institution: Linen Hall Library
Town/City: Belfast
County: Antrim

The archive contains letters from Lady Gregory, WB Yeats, Lennox Robinson and GB Shaw. There are also unknown stage sets by Ulster artists Harry Morrow and William Conor. The archive sheds new light on the beginning of the modern theatrical tradition in Northern Ireland

Item Provenance
Maynes nephew and niece, Flan and Mary Campbell