Earl Mesnier Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS SC SM-13

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains Shaw Society membership cards; an exhibition schedule from the City Art Museum, St. Louis, of the Mesnier-Zeltman Collection of Sketches [and] Shaw drawings, 1953; letters to Mesnier discussing collecting Shaviana; and brochures, meeting announcements, programs, tracts, and newsletters produced by the Shaw Society, 1956-1961.

Dates

Creation: 1950-1961

Creator

Mesnier, Earl (Earl R.), 1907-1960 (Person)

Language of Materials

Material in English

Access Restrictions

To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Tuesday through Thursday, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.

Copyright

Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Biographical Note

Earl R. Mesnier was born to Theophile Charles and Nellie (Gray) Mesnier in St. Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1907. Although he worked as a postal clerk, Mesnier was a serious collector of Shaviana (material by and about playwright, critic, and essayist George Bernard Shaw) and at one time co-owned the Black Girl Collection of letters, drawings, sketches, and John Farleigh prints for Shaw's book Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1953). Earl Mesnier died in St. Louis, Missouri of cancer on December 29, 1960.