Box 9

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, notes, programs, and recordings of performances. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence spanning the 1920s. The collection also contains programs spanning the decades of the Chaucer performances held in the United States and abroad spanning the 1920s and 1930s. The collection contains manuscripts from Brinley’s travel books, notes on manuscripts, as well as notes and sketches of costumes for performances. It also contains...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains correspondence related to Brinley’s work as an interpreter of Chaucer’s poetry, including acquisitions correspondence from the mid-1980s and a background file. It documents the evolution of her performance, and decisions beginning in 1919. It also includes correspondence from the Women’s Club of New Canaan, Connecticut, regarding committee work and applauding Brinley’s commitment to performing. The series also contains letters of support from those who attended the...