Leonidas Westervelt papers, 1816-1950

Leonidas Westervelt papers, 1816-1950

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1323
Bib ID:
4079459 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Westervelt, Leonidas, 1875-1952
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
4.5 linear feet (9 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection has no restrictions.

The following boxes are located off-site: 2-9. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Description

Summary

Correspondence and manuscripts of Westervelt. Much of the correspondence relates to the production of his own plays. Also, letters from famous actors including William Charles Macready, Augustin Daly, and Charles Kemble; typescript manuscripts of Westervelt's plays, among them "By Right of Sword" and "Rally Round the Flag;" and contracts, photographs, and printed materials.

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection has no restrictions.

The following boxes are located off-site: 2-9. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Leonidas Westervelt papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Westervelt, Mrs. Leonidas. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1960. Accession number--M-60.

Gift of Mrs. Leonidas Westerevelt, 1960, 1961 and Mary S. Rouse, 1965.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/1989.

Processed by Patrick Lawlor.

Revision Description

2010-04-02 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

American playwright, collector of theatrical books and manuscripts.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Autographs (manuscripts)
Photographic prints
Scripts (documents)
Name
Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899
Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854
Macready, William, -1829
Subject
Actors
Book collectors
Drama
Dramatists, American
Theater
Theater -- Production and direction

Series I: Cataloged Correspondence


Box 1

Adams, Maud To Elizabeth Johnson Ward Doremus (Mrs. C. A. Doremus), New York, [n.d.], (1 page a.l.s)


Box 1

Allen, Viola To Elizabeth Johnson Ward Doremus (Mrs. C. A. Doremus) [n.p.], [n.d.], (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Anthony, Luther B. To Leonidas Westervelt Easton, PA, 1 February 1913, (1 page t.l.s)


Box 1

Arliss, George To Leonidas Westervelt London & New York, 24 September 1923 & 22 November 1937, September 1923, November 1937, (2 a.l.s.)


Box 1

Aronson, Rudolph To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 31 January & 20, April 1918, (2 a.l.s.)


Box 1

Babbage, Charles To William Charles Macready London, 3, October 1837, (1 page a.l.s.)

(Written in the third person)


Box 1

Barrie, James M. To Leonidas Westervelt London, 30, October 1897, (1 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Bolton, Reginald Pelham To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 1924-1939, (3 a.l.s. 3 t.l.s.)


Box 1

Breton, Cecil To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 6 December [1904], (1 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Calver, William Louis To Leonidas Westervelt [v.p.], 1930-1939, (9 a.l.s. 3 p.c.s.)


Box 1

Chaillu, P.B. Du To [Leonidas Westervelt] Carmel, 9, July 1855, (1 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Cheatham, Kitty To [Leonidas Westervelt] New York, 12 November [n.y.], (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Clark, James L. To Leonidas Westervelt [n.p.], 7, November 1930, (1 page t.l.s.)


Box 1

Daly, Augustin Photograph inscribed to J. W. Bouton New York, 6, March 1871, (1 photograph)


Box 1

Daly, Augustin To Mr. Deacon New York, 15, January 1891, (1 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Daly, Augustin To Douglas Taylor New York, 31, October 1896, (1 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

de Wolfe, Elsie To H. Alberta Rouse Westervelt (Mrs. Leonidas) New York, [n.d.], (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Dobson, Austin To A. C. Benson London, 28 December 1896, (1 page a.l.s)

(with envelope)


Box 1

Doremus, Bessie W. To Leonidas Westervelt [n.p.] & New York, [n.d.] &, 1934, (3 a.l.s.)


Box 1

Edeson, Robert To Leonidas Westervelt Kansas City, 3 January 1911, (1 page a.l.s)

(With attached photograph)


Box 1

Elliott, Maxine To Elizabeth Johnson Ward Doremus (Mrs. C. A. Doremus), New York, 5, January 1909, (1 page t.l.s.)


Box 1

Farquhar, Gilbert To H. Alberta Rouse Westervelt (Mrs. Leonidas) New York, 14, December 1904, (3 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Fawcett, Edgar To Mr. Mallory New York, [n.d.], (3 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Fawcett, John To Mr. Mathews [London], 1, January 1824, (1 page a.l.s)

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Foote, Maria To Mr. Aubyn London, 20 June 1816, (1 page a.l.s)

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Frohman, Charles To Charles Burnham New York, 8 January 1910 & 25 June 1915, January 1910, June 1915, (2 t.l.s.)


Box 1

Frohman, Charles To Mr. Milliken New York, 23, February 1917, (1 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Frohman, Daniel To Elizabeth Johnson Ward Doremus (Mrs. Charles A.),  New York, 24, December 1898, (1 page t.l.s.)

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Geary, Mary To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 9, September 1904, (1 page t.l.s.)


Box 1

Gillett, William To Mr. Ries [n.p.], [1890], (1 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Gillett, William To Mr. Mallory Boston, 27, February 1918, (3 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Hackett, James K. To Leonidas Westervelt [n.p.], 4, July 1899, (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Harvey, Edward Tutin To William Winter Cincinnati, 20, December 1915, (1 page a.l.s.)

(With envelope)


Box 1

Hodge, William To Mrs. Charles A. Doremus Cohasset, [n.d.], (1 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Kemble, Charles To [?] London, 13, March 1819, (1 page a.l.s.)

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

La Follette, Fola To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 6, November 1911, (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Larrimore, Francine To Leonidas Westervelt [New York], [ca. 1917], (1 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Liston, John To [?] London, 2, February 1828, (1 page a.l.s)

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Littlebury, Joseph To Leonidas Westervelt Worcester, England, 4, October 1922, (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer To Lord Malmesbury [n.p.], 21 July [n.y.], (1 page a.l.s.)

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Macready, William Charles To [?] [n.p.], [n.d.], (1 page a.l.s.)

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Macready, William Charles To Mr. Fenton New York, 20 September [n.y.], (3 page a.l.s)

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Mapes, Victor To Leonidas Westervelt [v.p.], 30 October [n.y.] - 12, May 1898, (3 a.l.s.)


Box 1

Marchmont, Arthur W. To Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas and H. Alberta Rouse Westervelt [v.p.], 4 June 1899 - 12 July 1898, June 1899, July 1898, (6 a.l.s.)


Box 1

Matthews, Brander To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 19, January 1904, (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Middleton, George To Leonidas Westervelt Atlantic City, 24, November 1913, (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Mordant, Edwin To Leonidas Westervelt New York & Hollywood, 3 April 1927 - 16 May 1933 1, April 1927, May 1933, (a.l.s. 3 t.l.s.)


Box 1

Mordant, Grace (Mrs. Edwin) To Leonidas Westervelt Detroit, 14, October 1930, (4 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Morris, Felix To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 20 March 1897 - 13 November 1899, March 1897, November 1899, (3 a.l.s.)


Box 1

Marchmont, Arthur W. To Leonidas Westervelt London, 31 October 1898 & 16 June 1899, October 1898, June 1899, (2 a.l.s.)


Box 1

Maude, Cyril To Leonidas Westervelt London, 11, December 1912, (1 page t.l.s.)


Box 1

Mellen, Ida M. To Leonidas Westervelt New York & Woods Hole, MA, 1925-1943, (5 t.l.s. 6 p.c.s. 1 photograph)


Box 1

Odell, George Clinton Dinsmore To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 7, December 1945, (2 page a.l.s. )

(Removed from Odell Annals of the New York Stage, vol 14)


Box 1

Orsay, Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d' To Leonidas Westervelt [n.p.], [n.d.], (1 page a.l.s. )

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Rawson, Clayton To Leonidas Westervelt Mamaroneck, NY, [n.d.] & 1, April 1940, (2 t.l.s.)


Box 1

Sage, C. Russell To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 14 March 1905 4 page a.l.s. 1 Smith, Albert To [?] London, [n.d.], March 1905, (2 a.l.s.)


Box 1

Spong, Hilda To Elizabeth Johnson Ward Doremus (Mrs. C. A. Doremus) New York, 18, February 1917, (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Stuart, Ralph To Leonidas Westervelt [v.p.], 6 December 1901 - 9 October 1902, December 1901, October 1902, (1 a.l.s. 4 t.l.s.)


Box 1

Talfourd, Thomas Noon To Miss Jones [n.p.], 1836, (1 page a.l.s. )

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Vokes, Rosina (Mrs. Cecil Clay) To [?] Chicago, 5 January [n.y.], (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Wagenencht, Edward To Leonidas Westervelt WA & IL, 25 January 1930 - 25 December 1949, January 1930, December 1949, (6 t.l.s. 1 p.c.s.)


Box 1

Walker, Charlotte To Leonidas Westervelt [n.p.], [n.d.], (2 page a.l.s.)


Box 1

Walsh, Townsend To Leonidas Westervelt New York, 21-27, January 1928, (3 a.l.s.)


Box 1

Wilson, Francis To Leonidas Westervelt Philadelphia, [25 December], 1890, (4 page a.l.s.)

(With envelope)


Box 1

Young, Charles Mayne To Lady Catherine [n.p.], 7, June 1847, (1 page a.l.s)

(Gift of Mary S. Rouse, 1965)


Box 1

Zabriskie, George A. To Leonidas Westervelt NY & FL, 29 April 1942 - 19 July 1950, April 1942, July 1950, (9 a.l.s. 1 t.l.s.)

Series II: Books


Box 2

Books


Box 3

Books

Series III: Printed Materials


Box 4

Printed Materials


Box 5

Printed Materials


Box 6

Printed Materials


Box 7

Printed Materials


Box 8

Printed Materials

Series IV: Books by G. Kunz


Box 5

Inscribed to Westervelt


Box 6

Inscribed to Westervelt

Series V: Contracts and Photographs


Box 7

Contracts and Photographs

Series VI: Manuscripts of Plays


Box 9

Manuscripts of Plays