Book excerpt: Includes autograph manuscript written by Sterne during the rehearsal of Hamlet directed by Gielgud that Sterne later published as John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in Hamlet; a journal of rehearsals. Also includes the second revision of a typewritten manuscript with corrections by the publishing editor. Also contains a letter from Sterne to the Harvard Theatre Collection curator Helen Delano Willard and two letters from Gielgud to British actor Richard Burton.