Jonathan Dodd collection of Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim, and Tennessee Williams
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1411
Content Description
The collection contains drafts and print editions of scripts, scores, and other writings by American playwrights Edward Albee and Tennessee Williams, and musical theater writer and composer Stephen Sondheim. Also included is correspondence, contracts, and other materials related to the publication of Sondheim’s and Williams’s works; photographs; printed materials, such as playbills, souvenir programs, periodicals, and clippings; and notes and inventories related to the collection.
Dates
- 1928 - 2015
- Majority of material found within ( 1954-2015)
Creator
- Dodd, Jonathan (Collector)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Jonathan Dodd Collection of Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim, and Tennessee Williams is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2018, and gift of Mrs. Lyell Dodd, 2018.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into three series: I. Edward Albee, 1960-2014. II. Stephen Sondheim, 1954-2015. III. Tennessee Williams, 1928-2015.
Extent
17.34 Linear Feet (27 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The collection contains drafts and print editions of scripts, scores, and other writings by American playwrights Edward Albee and Tennessee Williams, and musical theater writer and composer Stephen Sondheim. Also included is correspondence, contracts, and other materials related to the publication of Sondheim’s and Williams’s works; photographs; printed materials, such as playbills, souvenir programs, periodicals, and clippings; and notes and inventories related to the collection.
Jonathan Dodd (1936-2017)
Jonathan Dodd (1936-2017) was an American publisher and book collector. Born in Boston in 1936, Dodd spent the majority of his life moving between Connecticut and Rhode Island. After graduating from Yale University in 1958, he joined the publishing house Dodd, Mead, & Company, founded by his great-great grandfather, Moses W. Dodd, in 1839. Dodd eventually assumed the role of president of the company prior to its closure in 1990. He died on January 3, 2017, in Westerly, Rhode Island.
Separated Materials
Printed material received with the collection was removed for separate cataloging and can be accessed by searching the library’s online catalog.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing. This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Albee, Edward, 1928-2016
- Authors, American -- 20th century
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Composers -- United States
- Dodd, Jonathan
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Dramatists, American -- 20th Century
- Librettos (documents for music)
- Musical theater -- United States
- Musicals -- United States
- Photographs
- Playbills
- Printed ephemera
- Publishers and publishing -- United States
- Scripts (documents)
- Sheet music
- Sondheim, Stephen
- Theater -- United States -- 20th century
- Theater -- United States -- 21st century
- Theater programs
- Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
Creator
- Dodd, Jonathan (Collector)
- Title
- Guide to the Jonathan Dodd Collection of Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim, and Tennessee Williams
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Emma Gronbeck
- Date
- October 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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