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Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III of the Montague Summers papers contains off-prints, articles, publishers' prospectuses, playbills and theatre programmes, galley proofs, news clippings and other printed ephemera collected by Summers. A small number of photographs, most intended for use in publication, is included in this series. Of particular note is the extensive collection of theatre programmes and playbills, which includes examples from Summers' own theatre societies that are not listed in d'Arch Smith's...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III of the Montague Summers papers contains off-prints, articles, publishers' prospectuses, playbills and theatre programmes, galley proofs, news clippings and other printed ephemera collected by Summers. A small number of photographs, most intended for use in publication, is included in this series. Of particular note is the extensive collection of theatre programmes and playbills, which includes examples from Summers' own theatre societies that are not listed in d'Arch Smith's...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III of the Montague Summers papers contains off-prints, articles, publishers' prospectuses, playbills and theatre programmes, galley proofs, news clippings and other printed ephemera collected by Summers. A small number of photographs, most intended for use in publication, is included in this series. Of particular note is the extensive collection of theatre programmes and playbills, which includes examples from Summers' own theatre societies that are not listed in d'Arch Smith's...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III of the Montague Summers papers contains off-prints, articles, publishers' prospectuses, playbills and theatre programmes, galley proofs, news clippings and other printed ephemera collected by Summers. A small number of photographs, most intended for use in publication, is included in this series. Of particular note is the extensive collection of theatre programmes and playbills, which includes examples from Summers' own theatre societies that are not listed in d'Arch Smith's...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV, the Stewart Marsh Ellis papers, forms the last series of the Montague Summers papers, consisting of the letters, scrapbooks, and ephemera of the literary biographer S.M. Ellis which came into Summers' possession after the death of Ellis in 1933. There is ample evidence of the shared interests of Ellis and Summers, particularly in Victorian Romantic literature, ghost stories, and in the supernatural, generally, and letters from each as well. The letters in the S.M. Ellis papers...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The playbills and programmes collected by Montague Summers include two significant runs of theatre programmes for production companies associated with Summers, the Incorporated Stage Society and The Phoenix, of which Summers was a founding member. Programmes for these productions include many examples of Summers' "Theatrical History" pieces. The miscellaneous playbills and programs include examples of other productions Summers was involved with, as well as other contemporary plays (including...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III of the Montague Summers papers contains off-prints, articles, publishers' prospectuses, playbills and theatre programmes, galley proofs, news clippings and other printed ephemera collected by Summers. A small number of photographs, most intended for use in publication, is included in this series. Of particular note is the extensive collection of theatre programmes and playbills, which includes examples from Summers' own theatre societies that are not listed in d'Arch Smith's...