MS 685 02 01 07

MS 685 02 01 07

E.G. Craig papers - separately acquired material: Papers relating to Guido Morris (The Latin Press) and Edward Gordon Craig, collected by Stanley Scott

File

1936-1958

7 items

Containing:
A printed letter from Guido Morris and the Latin Press to Edward Gordon Craig, dated July 1936, discussing the aims of the Latin Press and requesting permission to reprint items from ‘The Mask’
A copy of ‘Loquela Mirabilis’ Vol.1, no. 1&2. 1936. No.2 contains woodcuts by Edward Gordon Craig
A copy of ‘Loquela Mirabilis’ Vol.2, no.1. 1937, containing a piece written by Edward Gordon Craig entitled ‘A Plea for Two Theatres’
A printed copy of typed letters from Guido Morris to Edward Gordon Craig, annotated with autograph replies from Craig. Dated 21 March-1 April 1946 (10pp.). The letters concern the idea to publish a chronology of the life of Edward Gordon Craig. Craig annotations are often giving approval and disapproval of Morris’s suggestions, and make further suggestions himself.
An autograph letter from Guido Morris to Stanley Smith dated 6 July 1955. Regarding a letter with Edward Gordon Craig’s annotations that Morris is selling to Smith. A typed and annotated transcript of the letter is also enclosed, as well as copies of woodcuts by Eric Gill, which are also mentioned in the letter.
A typed letters from Guido Morris to Alan Hancox, dated 13 March 1956, regarding various editions of ‘The Mask’ and enclosing his typed letter to Craig, with Craig’s annotations
A typescript precis of 37 letters to Guido Morris from Edward Gordon Craig sent between 1946 and 1954. The precis was compiled in 1958 and the subject of the letters include his ideas about the theatre, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, and life in France
The file also contains an enclosure for a letter to Alan Hancox to Edward Gordon, dated 1956, which includes a letter dated 1936. However, the contents were marked as missing in 2004