Items

• Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States
  Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States, features autographs of many of the 'players' including 'Aideen O'Connor', 'F.J. McCormick', 'Arthur Shields', 'Barry Fitzgerald', 'Denis O'Dea' and 'Frolie Mulhearn'. (2 copies)
• Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States
  Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States, features autographs of many of the 'players' including 'Aideen O'Connor', 'F.J. McCormick', 'Arthur Shields', 'Barry Fitzgerald', 'Denis O'Dea' and 'Frolie Mulhearn'. (2 copies)
• Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States
  Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States, features autographs of many of the 'players' including 'Aideen O'Connor', 'F.J. McCormick', 'Arthur Shields', 'Barry Fitzgerald', 'Denis O'Dea' and 'Frolie Mulhearn'. (2 copies)
• Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States
  Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States, features autographs of many of the 'players' including 'Aideen O'Connor', 'F.J. McCormick', 'Arthur Shields', 'Barry Fitzgerald', 'Denis O'Dea' and 'Frolie Mulhearn'. (2 copies)
• Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States.
  Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States, features autographs of many of the 'players' including 'Aideen O'Connor', 'F.J. McCormick', 'Arthur Shields', 'Barry Fitzgerald', 'Denis O'Dea' and 'Frolie Mulhearn'. (2 copies)
• Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States.
  Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States, features autographs of many of the 'players' including 'Aideen O'Connor', 'F.J. McCormick', 'Arthur Shields', 'Barry Fitzgerald', 'Denis O'Dea' and 'Frolie Mulhearn'. (2 copies)
• Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States
  Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States, features autographs of many of the 'players' including 'Aideen O'Connor', 'F.J. McCormick', 'Arthur Shields', 'Barry Fitzgerald', 'Denis O'Dea' and 'Frolie Mulhearn'. (2 copies)
• Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States
  Guide to the Abbey Players 1934-1935 tour of the United States, features autographs of many of the 'players' including 'Aideen O'Connor', 'F.J. McCormick', 'Arthur Shields', 'Barry Fitzgerald', 'Denis O'Dea' and 'Frolie Mulhearn'. (2 copies)
• Letter from W.B. Yeats, The Waldorf Astoria, New York addressed to Arthur Shields.
  Letter from W.B. Yeats, The Waldorf Astoria, New York addressed to Arthur Shields. Yeats writes that he was of the strong opinion 'that it would be better as far as possible to drop "Words upon the Window Pane" out of our American repertory' because Yeats felt that American audience didn't have sufficient knowledge of Swift's works.
• Proposed and temporary itinerary for the 1932-1933 Abbey tour of North America.
  Proposed and temporary itinerary for the 1932-1933 Abbey tour of North America. Covers the period from 10 October 1932 to 10 May 1933. 2 identical copies.
• Map of the Untied States rail road network issued by The New York Central Lines and American Express
  Map of the Untied States rail road network issued by The New York Central Lines and American Express. Includes pencil marking showing the transcontinental route taken by the Abbey tour party in 1931-1932.
• Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932
  Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932. The leaflet announces the tour as the 'First American Tour in Seventeen Years' and features photographs of several of the Abbey actors, including Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, F.J. McCormick and Eileen Crowe; the leaflet also lists some of the plays in the company's repertoire, this list includes St.John Ervine's 'John Ferguson', Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars' and Lennox Robinson's 'The Far-Off Hills' (3 copies)
• Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932
  Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932. The leaflet announces the tour as the 'First American Tour in Seventeen Years' and features photographs of several of the Abbey actors, including Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, F.J. McCormick and Eileen Crowe; the leaflet also lists some of the plays in the company's repertoire, this list includes St.John Ervine's 'John Ferguson', Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars' and Lennox Robinson's 'The Far-Off Hills' (3 copies)
• Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932
  Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932. The leaflet announces the tour as the 'First American Tour in Seventeen Years' and features photographs of several of the Abbey actors, including Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, F.J. McCormick and Eileen Crowe; the leaflet also lists some of the plays in the company's repertoire, this list includes St.John Ervine's 'John Ferguson', Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars' and Lennox Robinson's 'The Far-Off Hills' (3 copies)
• Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932.
  Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932. The leaflet announces the tour as the 'First American Tour in Seventeen Years' and features photographs of several of the Abbey actors, including Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, F.J. McCormick and Eileen Crowe; the leaflet also lists some of the plays in the company's repertoire, this list includes St.John Ervine's 'John Ferguson', Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars' and Lennox Robinson's 'The Far-Off Hills' (3 copies).
• Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932
  Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932. The leaflet announces the tour as the 'First American Tour in Seventeen Years' and features photographs of several of the Abbey actors, including Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, F.J. McCormick and Eileen Crowe; the leaflet also lists some of the plays in the company's repertoire, this list includes St.John Ervine's 'John Ferguson', Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars' and Lennox Robinson's 'The Far-Off Hills' (3 copies).
• Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932
  Publicity leaflet announcing The Abbey tour of North America in 1931-1932. The leaflet announces the tour as the 'First American Tour in Seventeen Years' and features photographs of several of the Abbey actors, including Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, F.J. McCormick and Eileen Crowe; the leaflet also lists some of the plays in the company's repertoire, this list includes St.John Ervine's 'John Ferguson', Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars' and Lennox Robinson's 'The Far-Off Hills' (3 copies)
• Reproduction of a drawing of Ballydonal House
  Reproduction of a drawing of Ballydonal House - Presumably connected with Lennox Robinson's play 'The Big House'
• Cutting of a cartoon by Grace Vandeleur Plunkett
  Cutting of a cartoon by Grace Vandeleur Plunkett featuring members of the Abbey Company, including Lennox Robinson, Arthur Shields and Barry Fitzgerald.
• Letter from George Yeats, 82 Merrion Square, Dublin addressed to Arthur Shields
  Letter from George Yeats, 82 Merrion Square, Dublin addressed to Arthur Shields; Yeats writes that 'it was decided at the last committee meeting of the D.D.L. that Henry IV should be repeated on the evening of Sunday 10th (for the entertainment of the visitors to the Tailteann Games). She also writes that 'the league lost over £49 less on its productions last year than the year before, an this is very largely thanks to you.'
• Drawings of Arthur Shields by 'Milt Marx' for a production of Playboy of the Western World.
  Drawings of Arthur Shields by 'Milt Marx' for a production of Playboy of the Western World.
• Drawing of Arthur Shields with signature 'Cracowski' 1920
  Drawing of Arthur Shields with signature 'Cracowski' 1920
• Drawing of Arthur Shields by John Rushell
  Drawing of Arthur Shields by John Rushell, sighed 'Paris July 20th '20'
• Programme for Ambassadors Theatre, London's production of 'The White-Headed Boy'
  Programme for Ambassadors Theatre, London's production of 'The White-Headed Boy' signed by some of the player's including Arthur Shields, Arthur Sinclair and Sara Allgood. Programme stapled into a cover promoting 'Warriors' Day' - 'The Entertainment World's Tribute to Ex-Service Men'. Also enclosed is a leaflet promoting upcoming performances of Abbey associated plays in the Ambassadors Theatre, explaining that the survival of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin is under threat because of 'the curfew, and the other incidents of the state of siege at present existing in Dublin.'
• Programme for Ambassadors Theatre, London's production of 'The White-Headed Boy'
  Programme for Ambassadors Theatre, London's production of 'The White-Headed Boy' signed by some of the player's including Arthur Shields, Arthur Sinclair and Sara Allgood. Programme stapled into a cover promoting 'Warriors' Day' - 'The Entertainment World's Tribute to Ex-Service Men'. Also enclosed is a leaflet promoting upcoming performances of Abbey associated plays in the Ambassadors Theatre, explaining that the survival of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin is under threat because of 'the curfew, and the other incidents of the state of siege at present existing in Dublin.'