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Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Thr 328
Creator: Crabtree, Lotta, 1847-1924.
Title: Papers,
Date(s): 1866-1937.
Quantity: 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)
Abstract: Scripts and other compositions relating to the musical theater productions of American actress and producer Lotta Crabtree.

Acquisition Information:

Historical Note

Lotta Crabtree was an American actress and theater producer.

Scope and Content

Annotated scripts, prompt copies, musical scores, notes, drawings, and other materials relating to Crabtree's musical theater productions, together with some family genealogies and correspondence.

Container List

• (1) Falconer, Edmund, 1814-1879. Hearts Ease, or What's money without. MS.(various unidentified hands) with numerous annotations and stage directions, (unsigned); [n.p., 1870-1872]. 166f.(270p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production; signed and dated at end by prompter, Charles P. Keller, St. Louis, 1 May 1871.

• (2) Brougham, John, 1810-1880. Little Nell and the marchioness. MS.(hand of prompter Charles P. Keller) with numerous annotations and stage directions (his and various unidentified hands); signed; [St. Louis, 1866-1867]. 100f.(178p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production; includes 2 set designs, signed and dated by J. Schonberg, Wallack's, New York.

• (2a) Brougham, John, 1810-1880. Little Nell and the marchioness. MS. with stage directions (unidentified hand), signed; Boston, 22 Nov 1866. 86s.(105p.)
  Prompter's (George A. Sarvin) dated copy, prepared for the Crabtree, Boston production, Continental theatre.
  Incomplete (3 acts only).

• (2b) Brougham, John, 1810-1880. [Actor's side for Little Nell and the marchioness]. MS.(unidentified hand, unsigned); [n.p., n.d.]. 18s.(19p.)
  Prepared for Lotta Crabtree as Little Nell.

• (2c) Brougham, John, 1810-1880. [Actor's side for Little Nell and the marchioness]. MS.(unidentified hand, unsigned); [n.p., n.d.]. 23s.(45p.)
  Prepared for Lotta Crabtree as Little Nell.

• (2d) Brougham, John, 1810-1880. [Actor's side for Little Nell and the marchioness]. MS.(unidentified hand, unsigned); [n.p., n.d.]. 21s.(42p.)
  Prepared for Lotta Crabtree as Little Nell.

• (2e) Brougham, John, 1810-1880. [Actor's side for Little Nell and the marchioness]. MS.(unidentified hand, unsigned); [n.p., n.d.]. 5s.(5p.)
  Prepared for Lotta Crabtree as Little Nell.

• (2f) Brougham, John, 1810-1880. [Actor's side for Little Nell and the marchioness]. MS.(unidentified hand, unsigned); [n.p., n.d.]. 8s.(8p.)

• (3) Margarittes, Julie de Mattie, a stray. MS.(unidentified hand) with annotations and stage directions (unsigned); [n.p., n.d.]. 94f.(104p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.

• (4) Margarittes, Julie de Mattie's part in Mattie, a stray. MS.(unidentified hand) with annotations and stage directions (unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 41f.(41p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree in the main role.

• (5) Fulton, Albert K. Fleurette. TS.(carbon copy) with MS. stage directions (unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p., 1890?]. 100f.(130p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's productions.

• (6) Fulton, Albert K. Fleurette. TS. with MS. additions, corrections and stage directions (unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p., 1890?]. 105f.(110p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's revised version of the play.

• (7) []. Old London. MS.(hand of B. W. Turner) with stage directions and with insert at end (various unidentified hands), signed; Philadelphia, 1873. 106f.(161p.)
  Prompt copy first prepared for Lotta Crabtree's Walnut street theatre production; stage designs inserted throughout text.
  With unidentified M.L.s. addressed to Mr. [] Daly.

• (8) []. [Part of Dick for Old London]. MS.(unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p., 1873?]. 11s.(31p.)
  Prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.

• (9) []. Adaptation of Lolotte. MS.(unidentified hand) with stage directions (unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 40f.(57p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.

• (10) Kidder, Edward E. Mischief. TS.(unsigned); [New York? n.d.]. 103f.(103p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.

• (11) Sliver, W A. Bright eyes, or The little Bohemian. MS.(unidentified hand) with deletions and stage directions (unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 111f.(118p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production (1874); title changed to Musette.
  Author's pseud.: Frederic T. Marsden.

• (12) []. Clytie. TS.(unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 94f.(94p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.

• (13) []. Clytie. TS.(unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 96f.(96p.)
  Prompt copy also prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.

• (14) Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897. Nitouche. MS.(unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p., n.d]. 32f.(54p.)
  Detailed action plots with diagrams for acts 1-3; prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production, an adaptation of Mam'zelle Nitouche (c. 1884).
  Written with Albert Millaud.

• (15) Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897. Nitouche. MS.(unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p., n.d.]. 62f.(62p.)
  Detailed action plots with diagrams for acts 1 and 2; prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production, an adaptation of Mam'zelle Nitouche (c. 1884).
  Written with Albert Millaud.

• (16) Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897. Mam'zelle Nitouche. MS.(unidentified hand; unsigned); [Paris, 1884?]. 74f.(142p.)
  Prompt copy prepared in French for Lotta Crabtree's production, an adaptation called Nitouche.
  Written with Albert Millaud.

• (17) Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897. Mam'zelle Nitouche. Printed edition in French of action plots with diagrams and with MS. notations, unsigned; Paris, [n.d.]. 30f.(59p.)
  Notations are translations in English for the role of Celestin; prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.
  Written with Albert Millaud.

• (18) Hervé, Florimond Ronger, 1825-1892. Mam'zelle Nitouche. Printed musical score with MS. inserts, revisions, and corrections throughout (unidentified hand) unsigned; London, 1884. 65f.(120p.)
  Conducter's copy for Lotta Crabtree's production, Opera comique, London; inserted MS. notes for Acts 1 and 2.
  With 13 musical scores for various instruments.
  Play by Henri Meilhac and Albert Millaud.

• (19) Belasco, David, 1853-1931. Pawn ticket 210. TS. with MS. revisions, annotations, and stage directions (unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p., 1887?]. 128f.(190p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production (McVicker's theatre, Chicago, Sep 1887).
  Written with Clay Greene.

• (20) []. The doctor. MS. with revisions and corrections (unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 116s.(116p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.

• (21) []. The doctor. Acts I and II. TS. with MS. annotations and stage directions (unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 56f.(57p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production; acts 1 and 2 incorporated.

• (22) []. The doctor. Act II. TS. with MS. revisions, corrections, and stage directions (unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 69f.(70p.)
  Prompt copy prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.

• (23) []. The doctor. Act III. TS. with MS. revisions, corrections, and stage directions (unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 77f.(77p.)
  Prepared for Lotta Crabtree's production.

• (24) Crabtree, George W, 1856-1890. [Log of a trip from New York to South America and back]. A.MS. with sketches and drafts of letters, signed; [on board the] Augvold, 14 Mar-4 May 1877. 56f.(91p.)
  Also used as a diary before the voyage.

• (25) Crabtree, George W, 1856-1890. Original scraps and poems. A.MS. s.; [n.p.,n.d.] 76f.(98p.)
  Notebook includes sketches, dramatic pieces, stories, and also newspaper clippings.

• (26) [Resolution of gratitude to Lotta Crabtree]. MS. D.s. (A.J. Bryant); San Fransisco, 23 Dec 1875. 1s.(1p.)
  Presented by the mayor and city of San Francisco, in recognition of the gift of a public fountain.

• (27) [Certificate of citizenship for John A. Crabtree]. Printed D.s. (Walter Jarvis); New York,27 Dec 1877. 1s.(1p.)

• (28) [Certificate of membership for John A. Crabtree]. Printed D.S. (Frederick [] and Charles T. Burgess); Cheshire, 24 Jul. 1872. 1s.(1p.)
  Admitting Crabtree into the Grand Lodge of Mark; also signed by Crabtree.

• (29) 8 miscellaneous drawings belonging to Lotta Crabtree; 1 folder.

• (30) Donovan, Emma A. 1 letter to Frederic H. Chase; 1937.
  With TS. notes and clippings concerning Lotta Crabtree's death.

• (31) Roberts, Kate L. 1 letter to John Henry Crabtree; 1924.

• (32) 2 typed geneologies of Mary Ann Livesey and John Ashworth Crabtree; 1 folder.

• (33) 2 family trees: the Crabtrees and the Liveseys; 1 folder.

• (34) []. Musette. MS. (unidentified hand; unsigned); [n.p., n.d.]. 4s.(4p.)
  Two chapters of a story in verse.

• (35) [Notebook]. MS. (various unidentified hands; unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.]. 6f.(8p.)
  Cover signed and dated on inside: Louis Livesey May 19th 1875.