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Writings File, 1922-1968 (continued)
Rough draft
Corrected typescript
As printed in New Theatre and Film Magazine (January 1938)
BOX 43 1936, The Crime of the Century [PFS and CGS]
Rough drafts
(2 folders)
Corrected typescript
Later typescript
1937, The Doctors [PFS and CGS], one-act play
Rough drafts
(2 folders)
Corrected typescript
BOX 44 Director's copy
Final acting script
1937, Hannibal Had Elephants [PFS and CGS], typescript
1938, Kate Larsen [PFS and CGS], one-act play
1939, notes on brief plays [CGS]
1939, Second Honeymoon [CGS], one-act play, rough draft and typescript
1939, Boys Will Be Boys [CGS], one-act play, rough draft and typescript
1939, Kilowatt [CGS], one-act play, corrected typescript
1939, Ernie [CGS], one-act play, corrected and final typescripts
1939, Night and the Road Before Them [CGS], blackout
1939, untitled one-act political play [PFS], rough draft and typescript
1940, Michael [PFS and CGS]
Rough drafts
(2 folders)
BOX 45 Corrected typescript
Ribbon typescript
1948-1950, The Girdle of Venus [PFS and CGS]
Typescript
Ribbon copy
BOX 46 Press notices, background, etc.
1927, The Belt
Background
Press notices
1930, Midnight, press notices
1931, 1931—, press notices
1931-1933, 1931—, press notices, background
1932-1934, press notices, miscellany
1934-1936, Blood on the Moon, press notices
1935, background of the "Revolting Playwrights," Theatre Guild picketed by PFS and Virgil Ceddes, new dramatists' organizations
1937-1938, Give All Thy Terrors to the Wind, photographs, miscellany
1938-1939, The Doctors, press notices
BOX 47 Miscellany
1920s, thoughts on producers [PFS], playlet, "Same to You"
1929-1956, agreements
1938, Kate Larsen [PFS and CGS], printed in One Act Play Magazine (June-July 1938)
1940, Ernie [CGS], printed in One Act Play Magazine and Theatre Review (Jan. 1940)
1940s-1960s, research material for The Girdle of Venus
Undated
Praise for her theatrical agent [CGS]
Fragments
BOX 48 Poems [PFS], other writings
1920s, poems [PFS]
1942-1965, poems [PFS]
1965, To the Dallas Underpass [PFS]
Revisions
(2 folders)
Final version
1920s
Book review [PFS]
Articles and drafts [PFS] on Menckenism
Articles [PFS] on ethics of Pulitzers, newspapers
Articles and drafts [PFS] on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Articles [PFS] for the New York World
Articles [PFS] fragments
[1927], article [CGS] on fashion
1920s, David [CGS], short story
BOX 49 1931-1935, short stories and articles [PFS and CGS]
[1932-1933], article [CGS and Ruth Esther Howe], Little Woman, What Now?
1933
Book project [PFS] Notes on America, with early titles
A Nose for News [PFS], short story
1933-1935, articles [PFS] on current events
1935, articles [PFS] on the Theatre Guild and on Broadway, part of the "Revolting Playwrights" movement
1930s, book reviews [CGS], drafts
1938-1939, articles, short stories [CGS] on Washington, D.C.
1938-1939, Even the Least of These [CGS], short story
BOX 50 1940, articles [PFS] on current events
1941-1942, articles [PFS] on current events
1945-1946, article [PFS] on General Motors strike and 1931---
1946, article [PFS], Porkchoppers and Democracy, multiple versions and correspondence
1946, book project [PFS], “After Truman, What?,” a book proposal
1940s Writings [PFS], miscellaneous
1950s Writings [PFS], miscellaneous
1964-1968, articles [PFS] on mankind's future
Undated, fragments [PFS]
BOX 51 Book projects [PFS]
[1922] “More Stripes Than Stars,” autobiographical novel
Typescript, pages 1-366
(2 folders)
Corrected typescript, pages 1-281 only
BOX 52 1943, “Who Are John L. Lewis?”
Rough drafts
Early typescript
Working carbons
BOX 53 Clean typescript
Corrected typescript; emendations
Research material
BOX 54 Working references
Correspondence
References to United Mine Workers
Research material
Miscellany (research material, near-print, typescript, etc.)
BOX 55 1962, project on fish, fisheries, and the Third World
BOX 56 Manuscript and published items
1920s, article [PFS] on farm cooperative bill
[1932], short story [PFS], The Big Noise
1934, play [PFS], The Town That Turned Back
1936, article [PFS] on baseball
1941, short story [PFS and CGS] “The Washington Story,” with drafts and correspondence
1941-1942, article [PFS] for Life magazine on “Main Street and the Freedom of the Seas"
1945-1947, articles [PFS] for Labor Press Associates' Washington Report
[1952], draft speech [PFS] for James B. Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers
1925-1941, published articles [PFS and CGS], tearsheets, clippings, etc.
1932-1939, published articles [PFS and CGS] in magazines and pamphlets
BOX 57-58 Personal Files, 1963
Material assembled for a testimonial dinner given to Paul Sifton in Washington, D.C., April 23, 1963. Includes a bound volume of presented letters; a larger group of letters not included in the volume; photographs taken at the dinner; notes, remarks, and miscellany. One container has photocopies of letters presented to Sifton.
BOX 57 Testimonial dinner to PFS
Bound volume of presented letters
Letters not included in bound volume
Photographs
Remarks, notes, miscellany
BOX 58 Photocopies of letters sent to PFS
(3 folders)
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