Guide to the Aldridge Collection

Container list

  Ira Aldridge material

Correspondence (13pp.) [ Box 1  Folder 1 ] Ira Aldridge – typescripts transcribed from letters (8) [ Box 1  Folder 1 ] Annie Binn to Aldridge [ Box 1  Folder 1 ] Mr. & Mrs. Dease (dinner invitation) [ Box 1  Folder 1 ] Rosa Hennebert to Aldridge [ Box 1  Folder 1 ] R.H. Gibbons & Co. To Aldridge [ Box 1  Folder 1 ] Honors and citations (9pp.) [ Box 1  Folder 2 ] Hapsburg Court, 1853. Kazan, 1865. [ Box 1  Folder 2 ] St. Petersburg. Czar Alexander Nicoliav, January 9, 1859. [ Box 1  Folder 2 ] Documents (copies) [ Box 1  Folder 3 ] Marriage certificates (2pp.) - Aldridge & Margaret Gill, 1825; Aldridge & Countess Amanda Von Brandt, 1865. [ Box 1  Folder 3 ] Verification of birth & death of Rachael Margaret Frederika Aldridge (1p.) [ Box 1  Folder 3 ] Deaths of Ira Aldridge's parents (4pp.) Lurana Aldridge, 1817; Daniel Aldridge, 1840. [ Box 1  Folder 3 ] Death certificates (9pp.) Margaret Aldridge, 1864; Amanda Aldridge, 1915; Lurana Aldridge, 1932; Ira Aldridge (Polish and English), August 8, 1867. [ Box 1  Folder 3 ] Memorial by Ira Aldridge for certificate of naturalization in England, 1863 (4pp.) [ Box 1  Folder 3 ] Performance place-list (1p. holograph) [ Box 1  Folder 4 ] Contemporary newspaper clippings (16pp.) [ Box 1  Folder 5 ] Posthumous newspaper clippings (31pp.); copies of clippings on Aldridge's death (7pp.) [ Box 1  Folder 6 ] Photocopy of photo of the restored gravesite for Ira Aldridge in Lodz, Poland. [ Box 1  Folder 6 ] Belt used by Aldridge as Othello [ Box 1  Folder 7 ] Photographs (24pp.) Aldridge in various roles (21); Roscius; Othello (signed lithograph) [ Box 1  Folder 8 ] Photographs (24pp.) Ira Aldridge (mounted; retouched) [ Box 1  Folder 8 ] Tintype photo of Ira F. And Ira D. Aldridge [ Box 1  Folder 9 ] Constitution for Poland and Russia, 1863, inscribed to Aldridge (29pp.) [ Box 1  Folder 10 ] Property deeds (2) [ Box 1  Folder 11 ] Personal estate materials: will in Vivian Dalrymple's handwriting; letter to Mrs. Aldridge from S. May (4pp.); insurance policies (10pp. oversize) [ Box 1  Folder 12 ] Letters to Mrs. Aldridge (4pp.); A. Boeker; H. Reeck (?) [ Box 1  Folder 13 ] Ira Aldridge miscellaneous clippings and photograph (19pp.) [ Box 1  Folder 14 ] Facsimile score, Possum up a Gum Tree, composed by Amanda Ira Aldridge; also published as A South Carolina Negro Air. [ Box 1  Folder 15 ] Amanda Aldridge's scrapbook with photographs, etc. re: Ira Aldridge (44pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 1 ] Cyril B. Andrews, “Black Ebony” manuscript (151pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 2 ] Cyril B. Andrews, “Ira Aldridge: the African Roscius” notes and mss. with Ida Shepley's Checkers magazine article (15pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 3 ] Ira Aldridge organizations; Charlotte Marshall “In Memorium” (3pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 4 ] Owen Mortimer, “Mr. Aldridge of the Theatre…;” with notes (34pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 5 ] Edward Scobie's notes from interviews with Aldridge family (171pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 6 ]   Aldridge articles (see box 4 for additional articles) [ Box 2  Folder 7 ] Dr. McCune Smith, typescript of Anglo-African Magazine article (11pp.) Owen Mortimer, “Ira Aldridge, Shakespearean Actor,” Crisis, April, 1955 (17pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 7 ] Stanislaw Dabrowski, “Othello on the Lodz Stage in the 19th Century,” (excerpts, 1947-1948; 3pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 7 ] Eugene Szwankowski, “Ira Aldridge in Poland,” 1953 (2pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 7 ] Dr. Bernth Lindfors, “Ira Aldridge: Shakespearean Tragedian” (7pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 7 ] Miscellaneous brief articles and clippings re: Aldridge (4pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 7 ]

  Materials on Slavery

Bills (2) on the registry and manumission of slaves (20pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 8 ] George III. Act to prevent slave importation (2pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 9 ] Page from The Pictorial Times, 1846 (1p.) [ Box 2  Folder 9 ] The Anti-Slavery Reporter (9 issues, 64pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 10 ] Miscellaneous correspondence re: Ira Aldridge and Amanda Aldridge (copies, 5pp.) [ Box 2  Folder 11 ]

  Amanda Aldridge materials

Programs, reviews, clippings; autobiographical statement in Amanda's hand [ Box 3  Folder 1 ] (34pp.) [ Box 3  Folder 1 ] Portrait of Amanda Aldridge by Nellie M.H. Edmunds (1p.) [ Box 3  Folder 2 ] Photographs [ Box 3  Folder 3 – 5 ] Obituary; posthumous article; prayerbook used at Amanda's burial (13pp.) [ Box 3  Folder 6 ] Clippings and reviews of Amanda's students; advertisement for Amanda's teaching with list of her pupils (26pp.) [ Box 3  Folder 7 ] Jenny Lind material (49pp.) [ Box 3  Folder 8 ] Articles on the death of Dr. Phillips (2pp.) [ Box 3  Folder 9 ] Amanda's Schumann songbook (104pp.) [ Box 3  Folder 10 ] S. De Mensenkamp –signed photo (1p.) [ Box 3  Folder 11 ] Fred Aldridge material (6pp.) Includes copy of the score for Luranah by Ira F. Aldridge. [ Box 3  Folder 12 ] Luranah Aldridge material (74pp.) [ Box 3  Folder 13 ] Montague Ring (pseud.) piano-vocal scores, programs (48pp.) The Bride 1910; Mirette; serenade 1934; Supplication 1914; Blue Days of June 1915; Little Rose in My Hair 1917; At Cupid's Ball 1923; Summah Is de Lovin' Time 1925. [ Box 3  Folder 14 ] Carl Henschel, Lullaby autograph mss. (4pp.) [ Box 3  Folder 15 ] M.B. Bridgetower, Diatonica Harmonica mss. (5pp.) [ Box 3  Folder 15 ]

  Correspondence

Amanda Aldridge to Cyril B. Andrews, 1940 (5pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 1 ] Amanda Aldridge with Vivian Dalrymple, 1950-1952(6pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 2 ] Amanda Aldridge with Vivian Dalrymple, 1953 (20pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 3 ] Amanda Aldridge with Vivian Dalrymple, Jan - June, 1954 (47pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 4 ] Amanda Aldridge with Vivian Dalrymple, July - Dec, 1954 (37pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 5 ] Amanda Aldridge with Vivian Dalrymple, 1955 (20pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 6 ] Amanda Aldridge correspondence from music publishers and admirers, 1901-1955 (17pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 7 ] Marian Anderson to A. Aldridge, 1928-1931 (11pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 8 ] Cyril B. Andrews correspondence, 1934-1949 (35pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 9 ] Vivian Dalrymple to A. Aldridge, 1954 (8pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 10 ] Vivian Dalrymple with Gregory, Rowcliffe & Co., 1956 (3pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 10 ] Vincent D'Indy to A. Aldridge, n.d. (1p.) [ Box 4  Folder 11 ] Charlotte Marshall poem to “Miss Ira Aldridge” (1p.) [ Box 4  Folder 11 ] Roland Hayes to A. Aldridge, 1919-1922 (38pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 12 ] Michel Kovatchevitch corr., 1939-1954 (8pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 13 ] Letter to M.K. from A.A. (?) re: photograph sent by father at her birth, n.d. (2pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 13 ] Michel Kovatchevitch and Vivian Dalrymple corr., 1956-1957 (39pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 14 ]   Owen Mortimer correspondence [ Box 4  Folder 15 ] Owen Mortimer correspondence to A. Aldridge, 1953 (3pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 15 ] Owen Mortimer correspondence to Vivian Dalrymple, 1953 (2pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 15 ] Owen Mortimer correspondence to Edward Scobie, 1954 (2pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 15 ] Owen Mortimer correspondence with A. Aldridge, 1953-1955 (48pp. copies) [ Box 4  Folder 15 ] Paul Robeson correspondence with A. Aldridge, 1920s? (2pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 16 ] Arthur Schomberg correspondence, 1935-1938 (17pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 17 ] Edward Scobie correspondence, 1951-1956 (18pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 18 ] Mildred Stock correspondence to A. Aldridge, 1953-1955 (2pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 19 ] Mildred Stock correspondence to to Edward Scobie, 1953-1956 (18pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 19 ] Mildred Stock correspondence to Owen Mortimer, 1955-1959 (14pp. copies) [ Box 4  Folder 19 ] R.H. Thomas correspondence re: Ira Aldridge, 1934 (1p.) [ Box 4  Folder 20 ] Eva Wagner correspondence & photos sent to A. A., 1896-1897 (7pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 21 ] Miscellaneous correspondence with Amanda Aldridge, 1888-1955 (34pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 22 ]   Owen Mortimer biography of Ira Aldridge [ Box 4  Folder 23 ] Press release for Speak of me as I Am: the Story of Ira Aldridge press release [ Box 4  Folder 23 ] Press clippings re: Ira Aldridge's death (copies) [ Box 4  Folder 23 ] Notes re: Aldridge research [ Box 4  Folder 23 ] Prospectus of Aldridge biography by Mortimer [ Box 4  Folder 23 ] Re: Owen Mortimer's biography: Speak of me as I Am: The Story of Ira Aldridge, photocopy, 22pp. [ Box 4  Folder 23 ] Barry Smith, “Black Man on a White Stage,” review of Mortimer's biography, published in Our Alma Mater, Christmas, 1996; appended with notes by Mortimer [ Box 4  Folder 23 ]   Owen Mortimer articles (copies with signed presentations by Mortimer) [ Box 4  Folder 24 ] Owen Mortimer, “The Soviet Union Honors Ira Aldridge,” 1958, with note and copies of corr. by O.M., 1958, 1993 (11pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 24 ] O.M., “Research on Ira Aldridge: A Journey of Discovery in Theatre History,” 1959, 27pp. [ Box 4  Folder 24 ] O.M., “Now Join Our Hands: Ira Aldridge's Entreaty,” 1995 (16pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 24 ] O.M., trans., Uta Sadji, “Ira Aldridge - African Actor on German Stages,” Etudes Germano-Africaines, no. 91, 1991, pp. 91 - 95. (9pp. - 2 copies) [ Box 4  Folder 24 ] O.M., “Journey's End: Ira Aldridge and Poland,” 1996 (7pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 24 ] O.M., “Ira Aldridge, Knight of Saxony, 1807-1867,” 1996 (7pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 24 ] O.M., “Theophile Gautier on Ira Aldridge, 1858,” 1997 (8pp.) [ Box 4  Folder 24 ]   Mortimer correspondence re: Aldridge articles Fountain Peyton to O.M., 1950 (1p.) with Fountain Peyton, “Ira Frederick Aldridge,” 1917 (13pp. copy) [ Box 4  Folder 25 ] Marie Trommer to O.M., 1952 (4pp.) with Marie Trommer, “Ira Aldridge, American Negro Tragedian and Taras Shevchenko, Poet of the Ukraine" [ Box 4  Folder 25 ] Marie Trommer to O.M., 1952 (4pp.) with Marie Trommer, “Ira Aldridge, Story of a Friendship,” 1939 (9pp. copy) [ Box 4  Folder 25 ] Owen Mortimer miscellaneous correspondence, copies [ Box 4  Folder 25 ]   Bernth Lindfors, miscellaneous articles on Aldridge [ Box 4  Folder 26 ] “ The Signifying Flunkey: Ira Aldridge as Mungo” ( 1993) [ Box 4  Folder 26 ] “ ‘Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice’: New Biographical Information on Ira Aldridge” ( 1994) [ Box 4  Folder 26 ] “ Ira Aldridge, ‘The African Roscius’” ( 1996) [ Box 4  Folder 26 ] “ The Perils of Playing the Provinces,” ( 1997) [ Box 4  Folder 26 ]   Miscellaneous maps and photographs [ Box 5  Folder 1 ] Map with Aldridge tours marked; map of Russian Empire [ Box 5  Folder 1 ] 19 photographic reproductions of Aldridge, family members [ Box 5  Folder 1 ] 1 photographic reproduction of King Leopold of Belgium [ Box 5  Folder 1 ] Owen Mortimer, Queen Victoria's African Actor. Wangaratta, Victoria, 1999. (82pp.) [ Box 5  Folder 2 ] Dr. Gregory Haines, Book review of Queen Victoria's African Actor by Owen Mortimer, 3pp. (2 copies), with two letters from O.M. to R. Maylone, December, 1999 (4pp.) [ Box 5  Folder 2 ] Owen Mortimer, Six talks on Ira Aldridge in the U.S.A., 1949-1959 [ Box 5  Folder 3 ] Press clippings, publicity cards and notices [ Box 5  Folder 3 ] O.M., “Research on Ira Aldridge: A Journey of Discovery in Theatre History,” Typescript photocopy, 1959 (18pp.); includes copies of corr. Between O.M. and Mildred Stock, erratum by O.M., and prospectus of O.M.'s biography of Aldridge. [ Box 5  Folder 3 ]   Owen Mortimer miscellaneous [ Box 5  Folder 4 ] Fact sheet on Ira Daniel Aldridge (2pp.) [ Box 5  Folder 4 ] Printout from O.M. website on Ira Aldridge (4pp.) [ Box 5  Folder 4 ] Owen Mortimer resume [ Box 5  Folder 4 ] List of photocopies given to McCormick Library of Special Collections [ Box 5  Folder 4 ] Last will and testament of O.M., 1999, photocopy [ Box 5  Folder 4 ] O.M., “Regarding Owen Mortimer's biography: Speak of Me as I Am: The Story of Ira Aldridge” [ Box 5  Folder 4 ] Robin Scott Peters. The African Tragedian. Performed October 7, 2000, University of Hawaii at Manoa. (18pp. copy) With correspondence to and from Owen Mortimer (5pp. copies); publicity photograph, program, and copies of Peters' correspondence and reviews (3pp.) [ Box 5  Folder 5 ] Barry Smith, “Black Man on a White Stage,” review of Owen Mortimer's biography, Speak of Me as I Am (12pp.) ; Mortimer's correspondence with Barry (3pp.); Copy of correspondence with Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney (3pp. copy) [ Box 5  Folder 6 ] Ira Aldridge exhibit, Wangaratta City Library, Victoria, Australia, July 2000. Photographs of exhibit (2) and photocopies of publicity (3pp.) [ Box 5  Folder 7 ]