Noël Coward papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2548

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of song lyrics for Later Than Spring from Coward’s 1961 musical Sail Away and accompanying letter. Song lyrics are an original holograph, while the letter notes the lyrics as being added to the now defunct Ethel Barrymore collection.

Dates

Creation: 1961 - 1962

Creator

Coward, Noël, 1899, 1899-1973 (Person)

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Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

Noël Coward (1899-1973) was an English playwright and actor who achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works, screenplays, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume autobiography. Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during which he starred in many of his own works, as well as those of others.