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Robert E. Sherwood papers, 1917-1968 (inclusive), 1934-1955 (bulk).

Title: Robert E. Sherwood papers, 1917-1968 (inclusive), 1934-1955 (bulk).

Letters, compositions, and other papers of the American writer Robert E. Sherwood.

ArchivalResource: 78 boxes and 1 oversize vololume (27 linear ft.).

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00564/catalog View

McGinley, Phyllis, 1905-1978. Lillian Hellman Papers, 1904-1984 (bulk 1934-1984).

Title: Lillian Hellman Papers, 1904-1984 (bulk 1934-1984).

The Lillian Hellman papers comprise manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, business records, appointment books, and clippings. Series I includes notes for and multiple drafts of all Hellman's plays and memoirs. Drafts of film scripts, original and adaptations, by Hellman and others, are included in the series, along with articles, interviews, speeches, teaching files, and editorial work. Series II contains Hellman's professional and general correspondence, principally from 1934 to her death. Personal correspondence is largely absent. Correspondents include Leonard Bernstein, Kermit Bloomgarden, Don Congdon, Dashiell Hammett, Max B. Hellman, John Hersey, Stanley M. Isaacs, Diane Johnson, Robert Lantz, Katherine Lederer, Harry Levin, Little, Brown and Company, Archibald MacLeish, Bernard Malamud, John F. Melby, New York Times, R. D. Orlova, Dorothy Parker, Richard Poirier, Herman Shumlin, Margaret Tallichet, Hanna Weinstein, and Richard Wilbur. Series III Other Papers is the largest series and contains Hellman's appointment books from 1956 on, along with an extensive collection of scrapbooks and clippings. Notebooks describing foreign travel between 1944 and 1980 and a group of address books are also present in the series. Series IV, Legal and Financial Papers, includes documents and correspondence concerning Hellman's acquisition and administration of Dashiell Hammett's literary estate, along with materials relating to Hellman's investments, personal taxes, and household expenses. Series V, Works by and Papers of Others, includes short pieces about Lillian Hellman, a small group of materials relating to Dorothy Parker, and a collection of documents on Hellman assembled by various federal government agencies between 1940 and 1975.

ArchivalResource: 157 boxes (68 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78685575 View

John Mason Brown papers, 1922-1967.

Title: John Mason Brown papers

Papers of American author and drama critic John Mason Brown.

ArchivalResource: 144 boxes (36 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00655/catalog View

Tennessee Williams papers, 1932-1983.

Title: Tennessee Williams papers, 1932-1983.

Drafts of plays and other compositions, with smaller runs of correspondence, diaries, photographs, and other papers of American playwright Tennessee Williams.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (20 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01891/catalog View

Paul Green Papers, 1880-1992

Title: Paul Green Papers, 1880-1992

Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was an author, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, and humanitarian. This collection contains material documenting many facets of Green's life and work, material relating to the life and work of his wife, Elizabeth Lay Green, and numerous items relating to members of the Greens' immediate and extended family. Paul Green's work as a dramatist and writer is documented in his professional correspondence files (circa 34,400 items); by extensive files on his including background material, drafts, musical scores, and business records; and by drafts of poems, essays, and novels by Green. Also included are yearly diaries (1917-1980), photographs, tape recordings, and appointment books. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, James Boyd, Erskine Caldwell, William T. Couch, Jonathan Daniels, Donald Davidson, John Ehle, Caroline Gordon, Frank Porter Graham, John Howard Griffin, Tyrone Guthrie, Dubose Heyward, Noel Houston, Langston Hughes, Gerald W. Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Frederick Koch, Lotte Lenya, H. L. Mencken, Howard Odum, Clarence Poe, Carl Sandburg, Betty Smith, Lamar Stringfield, Allen Tate, Kurt Weil, Orson Welles, and Richard Wright, among many others. Green's associations with various theater, cultural, and humanitarian organizations in North Carolina and elsewhere are extensively documented. Correspondence and other materials show his opinions on such issues as lynching, capital punishment, nationalism, communism, race relations, religion, and the Vietnamese, Korean, and First and Second World Wars. Also included are a considerable number of photographs relating to Green's family and to his work, and financial records. symphonic dramas,

ArchivalResource: 195 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 111,500 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03693/ View