Dan Laurence papers, circa 1950-2006.
Collection Number: 4662
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Dan Laurence papers, circa 1950-2006.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4662
Abstract:
Collection consists mainly of typewritten transcripts of letters by George Bernard
Shaw, eventually published in the edition of Shaw's collected letters edited by Dan
Laurence. With the transcripts are some notes, photocopies and microfilm of Shaw letters
and manuscripts, and page proofs and galley proofs for the Collected letters. Also
included is Dan Laurence's personal correspondence from 2002-2006.
Creator:
Laurence, Dan H.
Quanitities:
31.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Dan H. Laurence was born Daniel Hyman Goldstein on March 28, 1920, in the Bronx. He
changed his name in 1946. A noted scholar, editor, and bibliographer who taught at
a number of different universities over the course of his career, Laurence devoted
most of his professional life to the works of George Bernard Shaw. He compiled a two-volume
bibliography of Shaw's works, and edited Shaw's collected letters, collected plays,
music criticism, prefaces, and unpublished writings. Laurence died on February 5,
2008, in San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 87.
Collection consists mainly of typewritten transcripts of letters by Bernard Shaw,
eventually published in the edition of Shaw's collected letters edited by Dan Laurence.
With the transcripts are some notes, photocopies and microfilm of Shaw letters and
manuscripts, and page proofs and galley proofs for the Collected letters. Also included
is Dan Laurence's personal correspondence from 2002-2006.
Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw, #4617.
Related books formerly owned by Dan Laurence are cataloged individually.
Photocopies and microfilm may not be quoted or reproduced without permission of the
holder of the originals.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Dan Laurence Papers, #4662. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- : Correspondence.
Laurence, Dan H.
Subjects:
Editing.
Editors.
Form and Genre Terms:
Manuscripts for publication.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Typewritten transcripts and photocopies of letters by Bernard Shaw
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NOTE: Dates in this series are the dates of the original letters, not the dates when
the transcripts were made.
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| Box 1 |
Transcripts of letters, with one photograph of some of the originals
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1874-1890 | |
| Box 2 |
Transcripts of letters
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1891-1896 | |
| Box 3 |
Transcripts of letters
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1897-June 1900 | |
| Box 4 |
Transcripts of letters
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July 1900-1902 | |
| Box 5 |
Transcripts of letters
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1903 | |
| Box 6 |
Transcripts of letters
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1904-June 1905 | |
| Box 7 |
Transcripts of letters
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July 1905-1906 | |
| Box 8 |
Transcripts of letters
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1907 | |
| Box 9 |
Transcripts of letters
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January-August 1908 | |
| Box 10 |
Transcripts of letters
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September 1908-1909 | |
| Box 11 |
Transcripts of letters
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1910-March 1911 | |
| Box 12 |
Transcripts of letters
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April-December 1911 | |
| Box 13 |
Transcripts of letters
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1912 | |
| Box 14 |
Transcripts of letters
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1913 | |
| Box 15 |
Transcripts of letters
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1914-1915 | |
| Box 16 |
Transcripts of letters
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1916-June 1917 | |
| Box 17 |
Transcripts of letters
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July 1917-1918 | |
| Box 18 |
Transcripts of letters
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1919-1920 | |
| Box 19 |
Transcripts of letters
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1921-1922 | |
| Box 20 |
Transcripts of letters
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1923-1924 | |
| Box 21 |
Transcripts of letters
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1925-1927 | |
| Box 22 |
Transcripts of letters
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1928-1930 | |
| Box 23 |
Transcripts of letters
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1931-1933 | |
| Box 24 |
Transcripts of letters
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1934-1936 | |
| Box 25 |
Transcripts of letters
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1937-1939 | |
| Box 26 |
Transcripts of letters
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1940-1942 | |
| Box 27 |
Transcripts of letters
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1943-1945 | |
| Box 28 |
Transcripts of letters
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1946-1948 | |
| Box 29 |
Transcripts of letters
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1949-1950 | |
| Box 31 |
Transcripts of letters (undated); transcripts of letters to Augustin Hamon; letters
from Charlotte Shaw
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Undated, 1909-1914, 1901?-1907 | |
| Box 32 |
Transcripts of letters
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1940-1950 | |
| Box 39 |
Transcripts of letters, unsorted
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Various dates | |
| Box 40 |
Transcripts of letters for Collected Letters volume 3
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1911-1925 | |
| Box 41 |
Transcripts of letters for Collected Letters, unsorted
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Various dates | |
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Series II. Galleys, page proofs, and research materials for Collected Letters
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| Box 30 |
Page proofs for Collected Letters, volume 4 (1926-1950)
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| Box 33 |
Page proofs for Collected Letters, volume 1 (1874-1897); notes
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| Box 30 |
Page proofs for Collected Letters, volume 4 (1926-1950)
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| Box 34 |
Galleys, typescript, etc. for Collected Letters, volume 2 (1898-1910); miscellaneous
transcripts and photocopies of correspondence for various volumes of the work
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| Box 35 |
Galleys, typescript, etc. for Collected Letters, volume 4 (1926-1950)
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| Box 36 |
Microfilm of: Shaw's address book, manuscripts (Passion Play, Gadfly, etc.), and letters
held at various libraries and museums
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| Box 37 |
Film negatives of Shaw's correspondence with Augustin and Henriette Hamon; microfilm
of Shaw diaries; typewritten transcripts of Shaw's letters to Marie Stopes, 1916-1949;
notes on the book Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats Letters, edited by Clifford
Bax (London, 1946), with the book
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| Box 38 |
Notes, page proofs, and typewritten transcripts of letters for Collected Letters,
volume 2 (1898-1910)
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Series III. Dan Laurence personal correspondence
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| Box 42 |
Letters to and from Dan Laurence
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2002-2006 | |