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Drinkwater, John, (1882-1937), playwright, poet and actor

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Surname: Drinkwater
Forenames: John
Gender: Male
Date: 1882-1937
Biography: ODNB link for Drinkwater, John (1882-1937), playwright poet and actor
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P160361 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P8487 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for John Drinkwater
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1907-59: corresp, literary MSS and papers
Dickinson College Library
See NUC MS 73-436
2
1912-34: literary MSS
Waltham Forest Archives
NRA 30762 Waltham misc
3
corresp and literary MSS
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
See Creative century exhibition catalogue 1964
4
MSS of poems
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
NRA 13212 Drinkwater
5
papers
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
6
1916: memoir of Rupert Brooke
Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre
NRA 16440 Brooke
7
1914-22: corresp (1 vol)
Rutgers University Libraries
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
8
1921-37: corresp mainly with his second wife
British Library, Manuscript Collections
9
1913-20: letters (23) to Sir Edmund Gosse
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
NRA 9840 Gosse
10
1916-28: letters to Allan Monkhouse
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
11
1918-35: letters to Royal Society of Literature
Royal Society of Literature
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
12
1921-37: corresp with Society of Authors
British Library, Manuscript Collections
13
1913-31: letters to Percy Withers
Oxford University: Somerville College
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
14
MS of The Plea
British Library, Manuscript Collections
15
MS of Laying the Devil
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
NRA 18661 Osborn coll
16
1912-20: letters and literary papers
Indiana University: Lilly Library
See information from website
17
1912-1934: letters to Ivor Barnard
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
See Annual Return 2004
18
1909-1918: autograph MS poems
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Return 2016
19
1927: autograph manuscript of 'Laying the Devil'
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Return 2022