Authors

Natasha Lyandres¹;  ¹ University of Notre Dame, USA, United States

Discussion

The paper will explore the content and provenance of the Huntly Carter Papers, which were acquired by the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries as part of the Herbert P. J. Marshall Collection. The author will focus on the history of this important acquisition, tracing the collection’s journey from the 1930s London, where Carter (c. 1868-1942) and Marshall (1906-199) played leading roles in the Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth and the USSR (SCR) and the Unity Theatre, to the United States, to where Marshall relocated along with his enormous archive and library in the 1960s after his appointment as founding Director of Center for Soviet and East European Studies at the Southern Illinois University. The paper will also examine the circumstances that led to the Papers' eventual acquisition by the University of Notre Dame in the early 1990s, and describe their scope and organization. Special attention will be paid to the scholarly significance of the Papers as valuable primary sources for studying early Soviet theater, cinema and literature, as well as European and British avant-garde culture.