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Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796446 View

Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. Papers, 1915-1958.

Title: Papers, 1915-1958.

Collection consists of the literary manuscripts of Zoe Akins, including plays, screenplays, and stories. Also includes bibliographical material and a report of the Zoë Akins Collection at the Huntington Library (1951). Also contains one piece of correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38128618 View

Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003. Katharine Hepburn papers, 1854-1997 (bulk 1928-1994).

Title: Katharine Hepburn papers, 1854-1997 (bulk 1928-1994).

The Katharine Hepburn papers consist of clippings, contracts, correspondence, financial papers, notebooks, photographs, production materials, programs, scrapbooks, and scripts documenting the theatrical career of the legendary actress from the late 1920s through the mid-1990s.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear feet (65 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184904443 View

Hellman (Florence Marx) Theatrical Diaries

Title: Hellman (Florence Marx) Theatrical Diaries

The diaries contain detailed descriptions and critiques of many plays, concerts and performers, with printed programs and photographs pasted into the volumes. The plays, operas and concerts were performed in theaters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Venice, Paris, London, Berlin, Munich and Vienna. The diaries also discuss automobile trips that the Hellmans took in Europe, current fashions, social life, etc. The diaries cover many well-known actors, singers, dancers, composers, playwrights and members of the British Royal Family including: Zoe Akins, Queen Alexandra, Judith Anderson, Fred Astaire, Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, J.M. Barrie, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Sarah Bernhardt, Jack Buchanan, Billie Burke, Enrico Caruso, Noel Coward, Isadora Duncan, Queen Elizabeth II, Edith Evans, Geraldine Farrar, Lynn Fontanne, John Gielgud, Helen Hayes, Leslie Howard, Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Alfred Lunt, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry Miller, Vaslaw Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Will Rogers and Peggy Wood. All of the volumes are in poor condition with loose covers, pages and bindings, but no pages or text have been lost.

ArchivalResource: 2 Linear Feet (16 volumes)

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Kauser, Alice, ca. 1872-1945. Papers of Alice Kauser, ca. 1895-1940 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Alice Kauser, ca. 1895-1940 (inclusive).

Contains mostly correspondence and some scripts.

ArchivalResource: ca. 5,000 letters (17 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612377100 View

Barrymore, Ethel, 1879-1959. Ethel Barrymore television theater. Ethel Barrymore in "The daughters of Mars" / by Louis Bromfield ; adapted by Zoe Akins.

Title: Ethel Barrymore television theater. Ethel Barrymore in "The daughters of Mars" / by Louis Bromfield ; adapted by Zoe Akins. [1956]

ArchivalResource: 42 [i.e. 38] leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29432921 View

Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34369992 View

Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. Letter, 1938 Dec. 12 [n.p.] to Maurice Browne, Stowmarket [Eng.]

Title: Letter, 1938 Dec. 12 [n.p.] to Maurice Browne, Stowmarket [Eng.]

Relates to business arrangements for a play (not named).

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Typescript signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34365077 View

Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. A Little Miracle : typescript (carbon), [undated].

Title: A Little Miracle : typescript (carbon), [undated].

Typescript copy of a play.

ArchivalResource: 39 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26573763 View

Radcliffe, Zoe Green. Zoë Green Radcliffe papers, 1899-1932.

Title: Zoë Green Radcliffe papers, 1899-1932.

Include letters from Ina D. Coolbrith, R. H. Davis, Boutwell Dunlap, Thomas A. Edison Laboratory, Charles A. Keeler, Henry Kirk, Charmian London, Jack London, Friend W. Richardson, Joseph C. Rowell, George Sterling, William C. Morrow, Madge Morris Wagner, Herman Whitaker, Charles K. McClatchy, B. P. Schulberg and others; an incomplete manuscript of a short story by Zoë Akins; clippings of poems by Mrs. Radcliffe; photographs; and other miscellaneous papers.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.4 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122388950 View

Katharine Hepburn papers, 1854-1997, 1928-1994

Title: Katharine Hepburn papers 1854-1997 1928-1994

The Katharine Hepburn papers consist of correspondence, scripts, photographs, scrapbooks, programs, contracts, financial papers, production materials, notebooks, and clippings documenting the theatrical career of the legendary actress. A few items from radio, television, and motion picture performances are also included. There are also a number of materials from her files relating to the theater, such as books, programs for performing arts events she attended, and memorabilia relating to 19th and early 20th century actors.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear feet; 65 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21820 View

Josephine Barrington Collection. Reprise / by Zoe Akins ; based on the novel "Return Engagement" by Gwen Davenport ; directed by John Holden, 1952 - house program.

Title: Reprise / by Zoe Akins ; based on the novel "Return Engagement" by Gwen Davenport ; directed by John Holden, 1952 - house program. 1952.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/627025397 View

Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. Zoë Akins writings, [ca. 1900-1958].

Title: Zoë Akins writings, [ca. 1900-1958].

Typescript of poems, some with revisions, and typescript of a comedy, A Royal Fandango.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86093740 View

Levien, Sonya, 1898-1960. Papers of Sonya Levien, 1908-1960.

Title: Papers of Sonya Levien, 1908-1960.

The collection consists of screenplays, literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, awards and ephemera. The screenplays, while not consisting of Sonya Levien's total output of seventy films, does cover the entire span of her career. The correspondence does include some personal letters but is mainly business related, including letters relating to the Metropolitan magazine and Carl Hovey as editor and correspondent. There is also material in the collection related to Levien's early involvement with the Sufferage movement, both in America and England, as well as material recounting life in England and surviving the Blitz in World War II. Other correspondents represented in the collection include: Zoe Akins, John Lloyd Balderston, Alice Stone Blackwell, John Collier, Charles T. Copeland, Richard Harding Davis, Clarence Day, Havelock Ellis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Emma Goldman, Herman Hagedorn, Harold Marsh Harwood, Carl Hovey, Fannie Hurst, Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse, Oscar Levant, William Ludwig, Mabel Dodge Luhan, The New Yorker, John O'Hara, E. Sylvia Pankhurst, Frances Perkins, John Reed, Will Rogers, Theodore Roosevelt, Dore Schary, Rose Pastor Stokes, Leopold Stokowski, Booth Tarkington, and Darryl Zanuck.

ArchivalResource: 1,181 pieces.35 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680513047 View

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Letter to Sara Teasdale [manuscript], 1911 May 4.

Title: Letter to Sara Teasdale [manuscript], 1911 May 4.

Cather regrets missing Teasdale, assures her she would love to discuss Teasdale's work, congratulates her on a poem in "Scribner's Magazine," comments on a poem by Olive Tilford Dargan, and promises to visit Teasdale and Zoe Akin.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647890080 View

Björkman, Edwin, 1866-1951. Edwin Björkman papers, 1855-1954 (bulk 1907-1954) [manuscript].

Title: Edwin Björkman papers, 1855-1954 (bulk 1907-1954) [manuscript].

Literary, personal, and business correspondence, chiefly from 1907, writings and collected writings, of Edwin A. Bjorkman. His correspondence is divided into two series: Professional (literary), and Personal. The Professional series includes letters from many significant twentieth century authors, including Zoe Akins, Van Wyck Brooks, James Branch Cabell, Olive Tilford Dargan, John Galsworthy, Francis Grierson, Archibald Henderson, Henry Goddard Leach, William Lyon Phelps, Upton Sinclair, Freeman Tilden, and Allan Eugene Updegraff. Topics include Bjorkman's work as a translator of Swedish literature and drama, his World War I experiences in Sweden as an employee of the British Department of Information and the American Committee on Public Information, and his work in North Carolina as literary editor of the Asheville Times newspaper and, after 1935, as director of the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project. The Personal series consists of correspondence of and writings of Bjorkman's family, including his four wives. The bulk of the papers consists of Bjorkman's writings and collected manuscripts, clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 12,000 items (14.0 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25255408 View

Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. Akins-Jannay Collection, 1920-1992.

Title: Akins-Jannay Collection, 1920-1992.

The collection consists of manuscripts by Zoë Akins, and other Akins family members, a few pieces of correspondence, a photographic album, drawings and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 25 pieces.4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/352893704 View

McEnerney, Genevieve Green Hamilton. Genevieve Green Hamilton McEnerney papers.

Title: Genevieve Green Hamilton McEnerney papers.

Manuscripts of plays and other writings; certificate of her marriage to Garret W. McEnerney; manuscript of a short story by Zoe Akins (Ms.S.); manuscript of a poem by Sara Bard Field (Ms.S.)

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25751029 View

Kane, Gerald John, 1901-1957. Collection of Gerald John Kane - Literary, 1571-1951.

Title: Collection of Gerald John Kane - Literary, 1571-1951.

This collection is what is known as an autograph collection and Kane spent years, not only collecting autographs of famous people on his own, but also acquiring the collections of other autograph seekers. This material spans multiple centuries and formats: from a 15th century manuscript on vellum to a 1951 typewritten letter. The collection includes accounts, letters, photographs, poems, government papers and royal proclamations, signed by, among others, actors and actresses, authors, explorers, kngs, magicians, queens, politicians, scientists, singers, and soldiers. Many of the famous people in this collection are also to be found in other manuscript collections in the Huntington Library. The majority of the material consists of manuscripts, letters and documents written, or signed, by famous people from the 17th-early 20th centuries; some of the material consists of only fragments or signatures, collected for the autograph value only. Among the correspondents are: Lyman Abbott, Zoë Akins, Henry Mills Alden, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell (Duke of Argyll), Charles Babbage, Joanna Baillie, Alice Stone Blackwell, John Bright, Richard Temple Brydges (Duke of Buckingham and Chandos), José Francisco Correia da Serra, Rebecca Harding Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Annie Fields, J.T. Fields, Richard Watson Gilder, W.E. Gladstone, Grace Greenwood, Anna Maria Hall, Samuel Carter Hall, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Irving, Julia Marlowe, Thomas Power O'Connor, Arthur Wellesley Peel (Viscount Peel), Kate Sanborn, Sir Walter Scott, Upton Sinclair, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Queen Victoria, and Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington). The collection also includes a small number of Ecclesiastical and Financial documents, and a larger amount of Legal, Military, and Misc. documents. The documents include accounts, certificates, commissions, Letters Patent, marriage settlements, receipts, special marriage licenses, wills, and warrants. One of the documents is related to Queen Victoria, and others are signed by various kings of France.

ArchivalResource: 1520 pieces.30 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755760425 View

Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. Papers pertaining to "The Enchanted Years" [manuscript], 1919-1922.

Title: Papers pertaining to "The Enchanted Years" [manuscript], 1919-1922.

Collection contains poems published in "The enchanted years," a book of verse dedicated to the centennial of the University of Virginia. Also included are poets' letters to James Southall Wilson and John Calvin Metcalf.

ArchivalResource: 160 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806953 View

Zoë Akins Papers, 1915-1958

Title: Zoë Akins Papers, 1915-1958

Zoë Akins (1886-1958) was born in Missouri and relocated to California in 1928. A playwright, Akins plays enjoyed great popularity in the 1920s and 1930s on Broadway and in screen adaptations. The collection consists of Zoë Akins's literary manuscripts of plays, screenplays, and stories. Also includes bibliographical material and a report of the Zoë Akins Collection at the Huntington Library.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2q2nb05z View

Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. Papers of Zoë Akins, 1907-1951.

Title: Papers of Zoë Akins, 1907-1951.

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Zoë Akins (1886-1958). It includes correspondence with various literary, theatrical and motion picture figures of the first half of the twentieth century. There are also manuscripts of plays, poems, short stories, outlines for plays, and articles. There is also correspondence related to her husband, Hugo Rumbold (d. 1932), and the Rumbold family. The collection also contains various photographs, manuscripts by others, and various business papers (including agreements, accounts, contracts, copyrights, and receipts).

ArchivalResource: ca. 9,000 pieces.148 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228718369 View

Shambaugh family. Papers, 1886-1953.

Title: Papers, 1886-1953.

Papers of Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh (1871-1940), including correspondence, mss. of writings, biography, reports, speeches, lecture notes, photos, and other materials, relating to his career as a political science teacher at State University of Iowa (later University of Iowa), his interest in Iowa history, and his association with State Historical Society of Iowa; and papers of his wife, Bertha M.H. Shambaugh (1871-1953), author, including mss. of Amana (1908), Amana That Was and Amana That Is (1932), and other writings, speeches, 36 vols. of house books (ca. 1902-1941) consisting of notebooks containing Mrs. Shambaugh's records of events in the Shambaugh household, photos, and other materials; together with papers of Alma Hovey, relating to her research and notes made in preparation of the biography of Benjamin F. Shambaugh. Major correspondents include Zoe Akins, Julian P. Boyd, John Drinkwater, Hamlin Garland, Laurence C. Jones, Thomas H. Macbride, and W.W. Waymack.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412553 View