Augustus Thomas wrote popular plays, such as and , during the 1890s and the first fifteen years of the twentieth century. In all, he wrote or adapted more than 100 plays, though not all were published. Thomas also was a leader in dramatic organizations and an active participant in the Democratic Party and in debates about political questions of his day. He was married to Lisle Colby Thomas. Alabama Arizona The collection contains manuscript versions of seventy-five of Augustus Thomas's plays. Other materials include professional correspondence, chiefly concerning plays, actors, and other topics relating to the theater and publishing, and one letter, 1924, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Thomas, asking his advice as a delegate of the Democratic National Convention; personal correspondence consisting mainly of letters from Thomas to his son Luke Thomas, September 1910-June 1914, and chiefly concerning daily activities and the health of family members; speeches, eulogies, essays, and other miscellaneous writings; clippings of Augustus Thomas's cartoons; articles about his career; numerous reviews of his plays; telegrams sent to Lisle Colby Thomas on her husband's death; a typescript copy of her ; a sketch book with drawings and personal messages addressed to Thomas from various artists, including Frederic Remington; the program from a 1909 Lambs Club fund-raising event; and a copy of the privately published honeymoon diary of Augustus Thomas's daughter, Glory Thomas Elliott, describing her trip to England and France in 1924. There are also a 35mm black-and-white sound film, circa 1919-1930, of Augustus Thomas and the actor Francis Wilson conversing in Clearwater, Fla., and related film notes, 1974, by Ronald Davis. A Well-known Playwright's Wife
