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Series I: Correspondence, 1909-1951, undated
Series III: Writings, 1898-1935
Series IV: Subject Files, 1908-1948

C. J.Bulliet papers, 1899-1952

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Series I: Correspondence, 1909-1951, undated

Correspondence is divided into catalogued and non-catalogued materials, reflecting the previous arrangement of these materials. Mostly composed of Bulliet's professional correspondence, this series includes letters, notes and telegrams and features correspondence from Edward Albee, John Barrymore, Hamilton Dobbin, Julian Eltinge, Genevieve Hamper, Robert B. Mantell and Vera Zorina. Non-catalogued material is arranged alphabetically by author. Catalogued images can be found in Series V, Visual Materials.

Catalogued


Box 1 Folder 1 Albee, Edward, 1912

Box 1 Folder 2 Armes, William Dallam, 1918

Box 1 Folder 3 Barrymore, John, 1939

Box 1 Folder 4 Boucicault, Ruth, 1910

Box 1 Folder 5 Brady, Mr., Undated, circa, 1910s

Box 1 Folder 6 Bryan, William Jennings, Undated circa 1910s, Undated, 1910s

Box 1 Folder 7 Bulliet, Katherine, 1919

Box 1 Folder 8 Cravens, John William, 1914-1916

Box 1 Folder 9 Derby, George, 1927

Box 1 Folder 10 Eltinge, Julian, 1911-1915

Box 1 Folder 11 Hamper, Charles, 1924

Box 1 Folder 12 Hamper, Genevieve, 1918-1928

Box 1 Folder 13 Henry, Alice, 1922

Box 1 Folder 14 Horton, Edward Everett, Undated

Box 1 Folder 15 Klein, Charles, Undated

Box 1 Folder 16 to 17 Mantell, Robert Bruce, 1914-1928, (2 Folders)

Box 1 Folder 18 Meyer, Annie Nathan, Undated

Box 1 Folder 19 Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, 1940

Box 1 Folder 20 Nicholas, Anna, 1918

Box 1 Folder 21 O' Hara, Maureen, Undated

Box 1 Folder 22 Price, Charles Wilson, 1911

Box 1 Folder 23 Skinner, Constance, Undated

Box 1 Folder 24 Skinner,Otis, Undated

Box 1 Folder 25 Starr, Frances, 1915

Box 1 Folder 26 Treveille, Yvonne de, 1918

Box 1 Folder 27 Walker, Stuart, 1923

Box 1 Folder 28 Zorina, Vera, 1939

Arranged

Box 1 Folder 29 General, 1909-1923

Box 1 Folder 30 A-B, 1909-1946

Box 1 Folder 31 B, 1916-1930

Box 1 Folder 32 C, 1913-1932


Box 2 Folder 1 D, 1919-1929

Box 2 Folder 2 to 4 Dobbin, Hamilton, 1914-1930, (3 Folders)

Box 2 Folder 5 E-G, Undated-1948

Box 2 Folder 6 H-L, 1911-1948

Box 2 Folder 7 Leiber, Fritz, Undated-1919

Box 2 Folder 8 M, 1911-1919

Box 2 Folder 9 Maxwell, John M., 1914-1921


Box 3 Folder 1 N-R, 1910-1940

Box 3 Folder 2 S-W, 1909-1951

Series II: Theatre Productions, 1909-1950

This series is divided into two subseries-- Robert Mantell's theatre productions and productions by other artists.

Subseries II.1: Robert Mantell, 1912-1920

Clarence J. Bulliet acted as the business manager for Robert Mantell's Shakespearean tours across America between 1912 and 1923 and this subseries contains materials pertaining to the production, publicity and logistics of this operation. Much of this subseries is comprises press releases that announced the tour to each town. Following the original arrangement, these have been listed by performer or production, date or theatre. Short production diaries list the dates and locations of the tour and do not provide any commentary on the production or the tour. This subseries also contains press clippings, publicity fliers, programs and some correspondence.

Box 3 Folder 3 General, 1913-1920

Press Releases

Performer or Production, 1910s-1920s

Box 3 Folder 4 Dickson, J.B

Box 3 Folder 5 Hamlet

Box 3 Folder 6 Hamper Genevieve

Box 3 Folder 7 King Lear

Box 3 Folder 8 Leiber, Fritz

Box 3 Folder 9 Louis XI

Box 3 Folder 10 Macbeth

Box 3 Folder 11 Mantell, Robert, (2 Folders)

Box 3 Folder 12 "Miscellaneous"

Box 3 Folder 13 Richard III

Box 3 Folder 14 Richelieu

Box 3 Folder 15 Shakespeare

Date

Box 3 Folder 16 1912

Box 3 Folder 17 1913

Box 3 Folder 18 1914

Box 3 Folder 19 1916

Box 3 Folder 20 1917

Box 3 Folder 21 1920

Theatre, 1910s-1920s

Box 3 Folder 22 Adelphi Theatre-- Philadelphia

Box 3 Folder 23 American Theatre--St. Louis

Box 3 Folder 24 Auditorium

Box 3 Folder 25 Belasco--New York

Box 3 Folder 26 Berchel Theater

Box 3 Folder 27 Boston Opera House

Box 3 Folder 28 Broad Street Theatre

Box 3 Folder 29 Colonial Theatre

Box 3 Folder 30 Cort Theatre--San Francisco

Box 3 Folder 31 Empire Theatre

Box 3 Folder 32 English's Opera House--Indianapolis

Box 3 Folder 33 Ford's Opera House

Box 3 Folder 34 Forty-Fourth Street Theatre--New York City

Box 3 Folder 35 Grand Opera House--Cincinnati

Box 3 Folder 36 Harmanus Bleecker Hall--Albany

Box 3 Folder 37 Hartman Theatre

Box 3 Folder 38 Hollis

Box 3 Folder 39 Jefferson Theatre--St. Louis

Box 3 Folder 40 Lexington Opera House

Box 3 Folder 41 Lyceum Theatre--Rochester

Box 3 Folder 42 Lyric Theatre--Memphis

Box 3 Folder 43 Macaulay's Theatre--Louisville

Box 3 Folder 44 Majestic Theatre--Brooklyn

Box 3 Folder 45 Mason Opera House--New York City

Box 3 Folder 46 Montauk Theatre--Brooklyn


Box 4 Folder 1 Murat Theatre--Indianapolis

Box 4 Folder 2 New Colonial Theatre--Bluefield

Box 4 Folder 3 New Jefferson Theatre--University of Virginia

Box 4 Folder 4 New Lyric Theatre

Box 4 Folder 5 Nixon Theatre--Pittsburgh

Box 4 Folder 6 Olympic Theatre--Chicago

Box 4 Folder 7 Parsons Theatre

Box 4 Folder 8 Princess Theatre--Montreal

Box 4 Folder 9 Providence Opera House

Box 4 Folder 10 Shubert Theatre--Rochester

Box 4 Folder 11 Shubert Majestic--Providence

Box 4 Folder 12 Standard Theatre--New York City

Box 4 Folder 13 Strand Theatre

Box 4 Folder 14 Teck Theatre--Buffalo

Box 4 Folder 15 Tulane Theatre

Box 4 Folder 16 Vendome Theatre--Nashville

Box 4 Folder 17 Wieting Opera House--Syracuse

Box 4 Folder 18 Worcester Theatre

Box 4 Folder 19 Correspondence, 1917-1920

Box 4 Folder 20 Programs, 1918-1919

Box 4 Folder 21 Publicity Fliers, Undated, 1910s-1920

Box 4 Folder 22 Press Clippings, 1910s-1920

Production Diaries


Box 6 Folder 1 to 2 1912, (2 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 3 to 4 1913, (2 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 5 to 6 1914, (2 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 7 to 8 1914-1915, (2 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 9 1915

Box 6 Folder 10 1916-1917

Box 6 Folder 11 1917-1918

Box 6 Folder 12 1920

Subseries II.2: Other Productions, 1909-1950

This small subseries contains press clippings, publicity fliers, programs and special souvenir programs from productions that Bulliet attended, includingThe Blue Bird, Chantecler, Cyrano de Bergerac, Too Hot for ParisandThe Vagabond King.This subseries also contains a souvenir program from D.W. Griffith's filmThe Birth of a Nation,for which Bulliet served as a press representative.


Box 4 Folder 23 General, 1909-1946

Box 4 Folder 24 Actors and Actresses--Press Releases and Clippings, 1909 Undated, 1909, Undated

Box 4 Folder 25 Publicity Fliers, 1909-1950

Box 4 Folder 26 to 27 Programs, 1918-1952 Undated, 1918-1952, Undated, (2 Folders)

Souvenir Books

Box 4 Folder 28 Benefit Actors' Fund, 1926

Box 4 Folder 29 The Birth of a Nation, 1915


Box 5 Folder 1 The Blue Bird, Undated

Box 5 Folder 2 Chantecler, 1911

Box 5 Folder 3 Cyrano de Bergerac, Undated

Box 5 Folder 4 Earl Carroll Vanities, Undated

Box 5 Folder 5 The Eve of Saint Mark, 1942

Box 5 Folder 6 The Grand Guignol Players, 1923

Box 5 Folder 7 Katherine Cornell, A Gallery of Stage Portraits, Undated

Box 5 Folder 8 King Richard II, Undated

Box 5 Folder 9 Life with Father--includes Press Releases, Undated

Box 5 Folder 10 The Press Agents Show, 1930

Box 5 Folder 11 Raquel Miller, Undated

Box 5 Folder 12 La Saison Russe, 1911

Box 5 Folder 13 Theatre Guild, Undated

Box 5 Folder 14 Too Hot for Paris, Undated

Box 5 Folder 15 The Vagabond King, Undated

Box 5 Folder 16 Whitford Kane, Undated

Series III: Writings, 1898-1935

Drafts of Bulliet's press releases, articles, poetry, prose and non-fiction are included within this series. The main work represented here is Robert Mantell's Romance, Bulliet's biography of Mantell: this series contains notes, several drafts, press clippings, correspondence and an edition autographed by Mantell. Drafts of some of Bulliet's other non-fiction and creative writings are also included and this series contains drafts of newspaper articles, poems, plays, short stories and literary notebooks, which served as creative scrapbooks for Bulliet.

Box 5 Folder 17 to 20 Articles--with Notes, Undated-1922, (4 Folders)


Box 7 Folder 9 Articles--Clippings, 1931-1932


Box 12 Articles--Clippings Book, 1909-1910


Box 6 Folder 24 Diary--Personal Appointments, 1908-1912

Box 6 Folder 13 to 21 Literary Notebooks, 1898-1935, (9 Folders)


Box 7 Folder 1 Poems, Undated

Box 7 Folder 2 Plays, Undated

Box 7 Folder 3 Press Releases, 1911 Undated, 1911, Undated

Box 7 Folder 4 Prose, Undated

Robert Mantell's Romance

Box 7 Folder 5 Partial Draft--with Notes, Undated

Box 7 Folder 6 Correspondence and Clippings, 1914-1915

Box 7 Folder 7 Notes, Undated


Box 10 Folder 12 Draft--Handwritten, Undated


Box 11 Folder 1 Draft--Handwritten, Undated

Box 11 Folder 2 Edition--Autographed by Robert Mantell, 1918


Box 7 Folder 8 Sonnets of the Stage, Undated

Series IV: Subject Files, 1908-1948

Bulliet's original arrangement of these subject files is retained for this small series, which includes materials relating to Bulliet's professional and personal life. Personal subject files are primarily clippings and financial documents. Professional subject files include press releases, correspondence and clippings from other projects that Bulliet worked on, including the The Black Stork, The Crisis and the American Negro Music Festival. A small number of printed books and programs that Bulliet kept are included within this series.

Box 7 Folder 11 General, 1917-1948

Box 7 Folder 12 American Negro Music Festival, 1944-1945

Box 7 Folder 13 The Black Stork, 1917


Box 11 Books and Printed Materials

Box 11 Folder 3 Banquet to Fred Block--Booklet--Friar's Club--1929

Box 11 Folder 4 Don't Do That: a book on etiquette--by William Collier, 1909

Box 11 Folder 5 Louis XI--by Henry Irving, Undated

Box 11 Folder 6 Tirana Diabala--by J. Lester Mee, 1946


Box 7 Folder 14 Bulliet Family, 1940

Box 7 Folder 15 Bulliet, CJ--Clippings about, 1926-1929

Box 7 Folder 16 The Crisis, 1916-1917

Box 7 Folder 17 Financial Documents, 1910-1919


Box 6 Folder 22 to 23 Financial Documents, 1918-1919, (2 Folders)


Box 8 Folder 1 Hamper, Genevieve, 1929-1930

Box 8 Folder 2 Lanfang, Mei, Undated

Box 8 Folder 3 Mantell, Robert, Undated-1908

Series V: Visual Materials, 1884-1946

The majority of this series is composed of photographs of actors and production photographs from film and theatre, and a collection of theatrical portraits and subject files. Bulliet had an extensive collection of autographed portraits and much of this series has been cross-indexed in the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Portrait Collection. The series includes catalogued and non-catalogued materials, and retains the earlier arrangement.

Subseries V.1: Catalogued Images, 1910-1937

Included here are previously catalogued portraits and original drawings.

Box 8 Folder 4 Ayoe, Madame--Autographed, 1910

Box 8 Folder 5 Bell, Claire--Autographed, Undated

Box 8 Folder 6 Enters, Anga, 1937

Box 8 Folder 7 Hoffman, Gertrude--Autographed, Undated

Box 8 Folder 8 King, Alexander, 1928

Box 8 Folder 9 Mantell, Robert--Autographed, 1910

Box 8 Folder 10 Meeker, Chris Marie, Undated


Mapcase 14-L-1 Meeker, Chris Marie, Undated


Box 8 Folder 11 Montana, Bull--Autographed, 1923


Mapcase 14-L-1 Riedell, Boris, Undated


Box 8 Folder 12 Sinnott Lillian--Autographed, Undated

Box 8 Folder 13 Snyder, Corydon--with Enclosed Letter, 1926-1927


Mapcase 14-L-1 Sullivan, Margaret, 1936


Box 8 Folder 14 Wall, Bernhardt, 1926

Box 8 Folder 15 Weed, Raphael A, 1915-1918

Subseries V.2: Non-Catalogued Materials, 1884-1946

The non-catalogued materials include an array of portraits of artists and productions, extensive photographs of Robert Bruce Mantell in his Shakespearean roles and Gordon Craig's design for Lady Macbeth's chamber inMacbeth.

Box 8 Folder 16 to 17 General, 1902-1946, undated, (2 Folders)


Mapcase 14-L-1 General--Richard III--Mary Boland, Undated


Box 8 Folder 18 Atlantic City Beauty Contest, 1922


Mapcase 14-L-1 Craig, Gordon--Design for Macbeth-Illustration of Lady Macbeth's Chamber for 1.5--with Notes,, Undated


Box 8 Folder 19 Dobbins, H. H, 1923


Mapcase 14-L-1 Edison, Robert--with wife, Undated


Box 8 Folder 20 Eltinge, Julian, Undated

Box 8 Folder 21 Fashion--Henry Brothers Photographs, Undated


Mapcase 14-L-1 Frohman, Charles--Stars of the 1909-1910 Season, 1909-1910


Box 8 Folder 22 Hamper, Genevieve, Undated


Mapcase 14-L-1 Huara, Helba--with Personal Note, 1929


Box 8 Folder 23 Mantell, Robert--[as Hamlet], Undated


Box 9 Folder 1 Mantell, Robert--as King Lear, Undated


Box 10 Folder 1 to 3 Mantell, Robert, 1884-Undated, (3 Folders)


Mapcase 14-L-1 Mantel Family, Undated


Box 10 Folder 4 Movie Scenes, Undated

Box 10 Folder 5 to 6 News Service Photographs, 1922-1923 Undated, 1922-1923, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 10 Folder 7 Performers, Undated

Box 10 Folder 8 Play Scenes, 1916-1917 Undated, 1916-1917, Undated


Mapcase 14-L-1 Police Department Photo, [1927]


Box 10 Folder 9 Portraits--Autographed, Undated


Box Flat File 273 Portraits--Autographed, Undated


Box 10 Folder 10 Raye, Faye, 1926

Box 10 Folder 11 Universal Pictures--Publicity Stills, Undated

Subseries V.3: Catalogued Theatrical Images and Portraits, undated

The bulk of these materials comprise photographs of actors and productions. The materials in this subseries were catalogued previously and the original arrangement has been preserved.


Box 13 Folder 1 Theatrical Images and Portraits--List of, Undated

Box 13 Folder 2 to 7 Abarbanell, Lina - Clifford, Kathleen, Undated (6 Folders), Undated


Box 14 Folder 1 to 6 Coghlan, Gertrude - Gunning, Louise, Undated (6 Folders), Undated


Box 15 Folder 1 to 4 Hackett, James K. - Lloyd, Alice, Undated (4 Folders), Undated


Box 16 Folder 1 to 5 Loftus, Cecelia - Owen, Margaret, Undated (5 Folders), Undated


Box 17 Folder 1 to 5 Parker, Louis-Napoleon - Sylva, Marguerita, Undated (5 Folders), Undated


Box 18 Folder 1 to 4 Taliaferro, Alice - Zangwell, Israel, Undated (4 Folders), Undated


Box 19 Folder 1 to 4 Actor's Church Alliance--Chicago Chapter - Scenes from Plays--"The Way to the Heart," Undated (4 Folders), Undated