Alexander M. Drummond papers
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, news clippings, scripts, programs, playbills, lecture notes, theater notes, photographs, recordings and other memorabilia relating to various aspects of the field of Speech and Drama.
Includes charcoal drawing of Professor Drummond by Christian Midjo.
Includes correspondence from Eugene O'Neill, Oscar Hammerstein II, George Bernard Shaw and Hendrik Van Loon.
Correspondence, etc. with the Speech Association of America relating to graduate research, 1947.
Text of speeches given by Dean Paul M. O'Leary, President Deane W. Malott, Professor Herbert A. Wichelns and Professor Drummond at a testimonial dinner for Drummond, May 14, 1952.
Dates
- 1917-1956.
Creator
- Drummond, A. M. (Alexander Magnus), 1884-1956. (Person)
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944. (Person)
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. (Person)
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960. (Person)
- O\'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of Speech and Drama, Cornell University.
Organized the Cornell Dramatic Club and was its Director from 1912-1947. Wrote original plays and a monograph on play production.
Extent
19.2 cubic feet. (19.2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, news clippings, scripts, programs, playbills, lecture notes, theater notes, photographs, recordings and other memorabilia relating to various aspects of the field of Speech and Drama.
SEPARATED MATERIAL
- Kingsley, Sidney. Men in White. Signed by the author.
- The Playground. v.13, no.2,4,9 (1919)
- The New Yorker. October 2, 1954.
- Hatch, Emily Gilchriest, 1897-. On the road to market. Trivandrum : Keston House, 1938.
- The Public Speaking Review. Public Speaking Conference of New England and the North Atlantic States.
- The Speech Teacher. v.5, no.3 (September 1956).
- World premieres : monthly bulletin of the International Theatre Institute. International Theatre Institute. v.1, no.3-6 (1949-1950).
Physical Description
Correspondence, news clippings, scripts, programs, playbills, lecture notes, theater notes, photographs, recordings and other memorabilia.
General
Selected correspondence available on microfilm.
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- September 2010
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)