MS 124
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Treadwell, Sophie, 1885-1970 |
| Collection Name: | Sophie Treadwell papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1905-1969 |
| Bulk Dates: | (bulk 1905-1969) |
| Physical Description: | 11.25 Linear Feet |
| Abstract: | Collection of typescript manuscripts, both published and unpublished; chiefly plays, but also novels, articles, stories, and television scripts. Several versions of each play are present. Also included is correspondence, copyrights, lectures, clippings, photographs of Treadwell, and travel diaries. |
| Collection Number: | MS 124 |
| Language: | Materials are in English |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
American journalist, playwright, and author.
Collection of typescript manuscripts, both published and unpublished; chiefly plays, but also novels, articles, stories, and television scripts. Several versions of each play are present. Also included is correspondence, copyrights, lectures, clippings, photographs of Treadwell, and travel diaries. Correspondents include friends, literary agents, producers, actors, actresses, and scene designers. Ephemera consists of travel brochures, postcards, a few watercolors, and two etchings of Austrian buildings. Most of the manuscripts in this collection were undated. Whenever a copyright date could be located, it was used, even though the particular play or novel might obviously have been written several years earlier. In general, correspondence - including that with producer Arthur Hopkins - has been place with related manuscripts whenever possible. Exceptions have been made in the case of the various literary agents who handled a variety of scripts, and in the segregation of extensive correspondence with certain individuals. Files in Box 1 have many references to separately-boxed plays and novels. Most materials are English with a small amount in Spanish and German. La Cachucha Guess Again His Luck John Doane A Man's Own Mrs. Wayne (later titled The Eye of the Beholder) Sympathy (the first Sophie Treadwell play produced) To Him Who Waits Deep Waters Mora Laurite Sauce and the Goose Mother Lode Tracks' End Bill and a Hatbox (2-part story published in Live Stories, August and September, 1919) The Career of Liltha Zane (a synopsis). Joan's Job (a synopsis).
There are no restrictions on this collection.
Copyright of the Treadwell works is assigned to the Diocese of Tucson. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Related material can be found in: Sophie Treadwell papers (MS 318). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Sophie Treadwell papers (MS 124). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Processed by University of Arizona Special Collections staff.
| Series I: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Items, 1928-1969 | |||||||||||
| Suberies 1: Correspondence; Copyright, 1928-1969 | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 1 | Correspondence: Lawyer M. L. Malevinsky (regarding various plays; for legal matters, see following file)., 1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence: Agent Adrienne Morrison, Pinker & Son., 1931-1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence: Agent Miriam Howell., 1947-1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence: Agent Helen Harvey., 1951-1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence: Agent Phyllis Anderson., 1952-1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence: Agent John Gibbs Agency., 1953 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence: Agent Leah Salisbury., 1953-1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Correspondence: Agent Lucy Kroll., 1954-1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Correspondence: Terese Hayden., 1943, 1953-1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Correspondence: Zita Johann., 1928-1937? | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Correspondence: Robert Edmond Jones., 1937-1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Correspondence: Alexander Koiransky., 1928?-1953? | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Correspondence: Abby Mann, etc., 1951-1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Correspondence: Donald Oenslager., 1937-1953 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Correspondence: Lawrence Langner, Theresa Helburn, Theatre Guild. (Includes correspondence regarding television versions of various plays)., 1945, 1953-1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Correspondence: Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Correspondence: Miscellaneous., | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Correspondence: Book Orders and Subscriptions., 1963-1969 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Correspondence: Property in California., | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Correspondence: Property in California, "The Beverly Dream.", 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Copyrights., | |||||||||
| Subseries 2: Articles, Trips, Miscellaneous, 1924-1949 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Miscellaneous Personal Items, including Photographs., | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Articles on Mexico for New York Herald Tribune., 1924 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Articles on Mexico for New York Herald Tribune., 1943 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Articles on Mexico for New York Herald Tribune., 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Mexico (Miscellaneous Material)., | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Mexico (Miscellaneous Publications)., | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | "The Log of a Chrysler." (Automobile trips in Europe, U. S. and Mexico)., 1929-1931 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Far East Trip. (Diary, Notes, etc.)., 1936-1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Far East Trip. (Travel Brochures, etc.: India, Egypt, Ceylon)., 1936-1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Far East Trip. (Travel Brochures, etc.: China, Japan)., 1936-1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Notes on Modjeska., | |||||||||
| 2 | 12 | Lectures for Koiranski., | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | Russian Theory of Acting. (Notes, clippings)., | |||||||||
| Subseries 3: Personal Interest Clippings. (Topics as listed by Sophie Treadwell), 1964, no date | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Architecture., | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Books., | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Crime., | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Man., | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Morals., | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Movies., | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | The Negro., | |||||||||
| 3 | 8 | People., | |||||||||
| 3 | 9 | Philosophy and Religion., | |||||||||
| 3 | 10 | Poems., | |||||||||
| 3 | 11 | Politics., | |||||||||
| 3 | 12 | Schools., | |||||||||
| 3 | 13 | Theatre., | |||||||||
| 3 | 14 | Tucson, Arizona., | |||||||||
| 3 | 15 | U.S.A., | |||||||||
| 3 | 16 | Woman., | |||||||||
| 3 | 17 | Zoology., | |||||||||
| 3 | 18 | Miscellaneous., | |||||||||
| 3 | 19 | Wien., 1964 | |||||||||
| 3 | 20 | World Affairs. (Including Nazism, Russia, Isolation, Lindberg)., | |||||||||
| 3 | 21 | Notes on Sutter., | |||||||||
| Subseries 4: Early Manuscripts; etc., 1906, no date | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | University of California Notebooks. (Poetry, Miscellaneous fragments, etc.)., 1906 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Plays: untitled, unfinished, fragments., | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Story: "Letters from 'A' to 'B'.", | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Stories: various., | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | Notes, clippings, etc. on K. Jaspers, Monakow, and psychology., | |||||||||
| Series II: Plays, 1905-1967 | |||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Plays: Early, 1905-1918 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Le Grand Prix. ("my first play")., ca. 1905 | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Constance Darrow., 1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | The Right Man., 1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 4-5 | The Settlement. (4 versions; also called Limelight)., 1911 | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | Madame Bluff., 1918 | |||||||||
| 5 | 7 | The Answer., 1918? | |||||||||
| 5 | 8 | One-act Play: Trance., 1918 | |||||||||
| 5 | 9 | One-act Plays., | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| La Cachucha | |||||||||||
| Guess Again | |||||||||||
| His Luck | |||||||||||
| John Doane | |||||||||||
| A Man's Own | |||||||||||
| Mrs. Wayne (later titled The Eye of the Beholder) | |||||||||||
| Sympathy (the first Sophie Treadwell play produced) | |||||||||||
| To Him Who Waits | |||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Plays: Edgar Allen Poe , 1919-1962 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1-2 | Poe (4 acts, 6 scenes, 2 versions)., | |||||||||
| 6 | 3 | Nepenthe (4 acts, 5 scenes)., | |||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Poe (3 acts, 5 scenes)., | |||||||||
| 6 | 5-6 | Edgar Allen Poe (3 acts, 5 scenes, 2 versions)., | |||||||||
| 6 | 7 | Plumes in the Dust (3 acts, 6 scenes)., | |||||||||
| 6 | 8 | Correspondence (includes John Barrymore, Guthrie McClintic, Eugene O'Neill, Kenneth Macgowan)., 1919-1962 | |||||||||
| 6 | 9 | Clippings., | |||||||||
| Subseries 3: Plays: Rights and Gringo , 1921-1941 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 1-6 | Rights and later versions with titles, The King Passes, Mary Beaton, Love and Principle, Rights., 1921, 1938, 1941 | |||||||||
| 7 | 7-9 | Gringo (various versions)., 1922 | |||||||||
| 7 | 10 | Gringo (correspondence, box office statements, etc.)., 1922-1923, 1937 | |||||||||
| Subseries 4: Plays: Various, 1918-1925 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | Philomel , | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Loney Lee (later version of Philomel)., 1923 | |||||||||
| 8 | 3 | O' Nightingale (later version of Loney Lee)., 1923 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Laughter (a play about Chaplin's youth)., 1922? | |||||||||
| 8 | 5 | Claws., 1918 | |||||||||
| 8 | 6 | Old Rose (later version of Claws)., 1921 | |||||||||
| 8 | 7 | Love Lady (later version of Old Rose)., 1924 | |||||||||
| 8 | 8-9 | You Can't Have Everything (2 versions)., 1925 | |||||||||
| 8 | 10 | Many Mansions (2 versions)., 1925 | |||||||||
| Subseries 5: Play: Lone Valley , 1926-1933 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Inheritance (1st version of Lone Valley)., | |||||||||
| 9 | 2-3 | Better to Marry (2nd and 3rd versions)., | |||||||||
| 9 | 4 | Deliverance (4th version)., | |||||||||
| 9 | 5 | Wild Honey (5th version)., | |||||||||
| 9 | 6 | Set Free (6th version)., | |||||||||
| 9 | 7 | Bound (7th version)., | |||||||||
| 9 | 8-10 | Lone Valley (8th, 9th & 10th versions), | |||||||||
| 9 | 11 | Correspondence, etc., (includes letter from Katherine Hepburn)., | |||||||||
| Subseries 6: Play: Machinal , 1928-1964 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 1 | Correspondence., 1928-1964 | |||||||||
| 10 | 2 | Correspondence (foreign rights and productions)., 1928-1963 | |||||||||
| 10 | 3 | Clippings and Miscellaneous Items., | |||||||||
| Subseries 7: Play: Machinal , 1928-1961 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 11 | 1-8 | Various versions, including the 1961 production in New York., | |||||||||
| Subseries 8: Plays: Ladies Leave and Million Dollar Gate , 1929-1930 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 1 | Ladies Leave (2 versions)., 1929 | |||||||||
| 12 | 2-5 | Million Dollar Gate (4 versions)., 1930 | |||||||||
| Subseries 9: Plays: For Saxophone , 1934 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 1-8 | Various versions., | |||||||||
| 13 | 9 | Correspondence., | |||||||||
| 13 | 10 | German version., | |||||||||
| Subseries 10: Plays: Various, 1930-1936 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 1 | The Island (3 versions)., 1930 | |||||||||
| 14 | 2 | Andrew Well's Lady., 1931 | |||||||||
| 14 | 3 | The Last Are First (1st version of Promised Land, includes letter from Thomas Mitchell)., 1933 | |||||||||
| 14 | 4 | Promised Land (2 versions, includes letters from Paul Muni and Theresa Helburn)., 1933? | |||||||||
| 14 | 5-6 | Three (2 versions)., 1936 | |||||||||
| Subseries 11: Play: Hope for a Harvest , 1938-1953 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 15 | 1 | Correspondence (includes letters from Frederic March, Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner)., 1941-1953 | |||||||||
| 15 | 2 | Contracts, Sketches, etc., | |||||||||
| 15 | 3 | Notes during re-write., | |||||||||
| 15 | 4 | Box office statements., 1941 | |||||||||
| 15 | 5 | Clippings., | |||||||||
| 15 | 6 | Source material., | |||||||||
| 15 | 7-10 | Various versions., no date | |||||||||
| Subseries 12: Play: Hope for a Harvest , 1938-1941 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 16 | 1-9 | Various dated and/or indentified versions., 1938-1941 | |||||||||
| Subseries 13: Play: Highway , 1942-1955 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 17 | 1 | Correspondence (includes letters from Margaret Webster, Lawrence Langner, Howard Lindsay, Theresa Helburn, Marc Connelly, Eliott Nugent)., 1942-1955 | |||||||||
| 17 | 2-9 | Various versions (including television scripts)., | |||||||||
| Subseries 14: Play: The Last Border , 1943-1946 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 18 | 1 | Correspondence (includes letters from Florence Eldridge, Katharine Cornell, Margaret Webster, Alfred Lunt, Helen Hayes, Lawrence Langner)., 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 18 | 2-12 | Various versions with changing titles: Madrid 7, The Watched Door, Borderline, The Last Border., 1945-1946 | |||||||||
| Subseries 15: Plays: The Last Border and A String of Pearls , 1943-1953 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 19 | 1-3 | The Last Border (various versions)., 1947 | |||||||||
| 19 | 4 | The Last Border (German version)., | |||||||||
| 19 | 5 | A String of Pearls: Correspondence., 1951-1953 | |||||||||
| 19 | 6-10 | A String of Pearls (various versions)., 1943?-1950 | |||||||||
| Subseries 16: Plays: Judgement in the Morning, Garry, The Siren , 1951-1954 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 20 | 1 | Judgement in the Morning: Correspondence (includes letters from Louis Calhern, Alfred Lunt, Billy Rose, Theresa Helburn)., 1951-1954 | |||||||||
| 20 | 2-7 | Judgement in the Morning (various versions, with changing titles: Don't Leave Me, I was Like That in a Way, I was Like That, Judgement in the Morning)., 1952 | |||||||||
| 20 | 8 | In Loving Lost (early version of Garry)., | |||||||||
| 20 | 9-10 | Garry (also version as cut for television)., 1954 | |||||||||
| 20 | 11 | The Siren., 1953 | |||||||||
| Subseries 17: Play: Woman With Lilies , 1948-1968 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 21 | 1 | Correspondence., 1956-1968 | |||||||||
| 21 | 2 | Background, notes, etc., | |||||||||
| 21 | 3 | Sauce for the Goose (early version of Woman With Lilies)., | |||||||||
| 21 | 4 | Take My Ear (early version of Woman With Lilies)., 1950 | |||||||||
| 21 | 5 | Siempre (early version of Woman With Lilies)., 1954 | |||||||||
| 21 | 6-8 | Woman With Lilies (3 undated versions, including one identifiedas "original version for U. A." - University of Arizona)., | |||||||||
| Subseries 18: Play: Woman With Lilies , 1967 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 22 | 1-3 | Now He Doesn't Want to Play (3 versions, including copy of Peter Marroney's copy as performed in Tucson, Arizona, July 26-29, 1967)., | |||||||||
| 22 | 4 | Woman With Lilies (copy made after "the Tucson debacle")., | |||||||||
| 22 | 5 | Woman With Lilies (last version)., December 15, 1967 | |||||||||
| 22 | 6 | Woman With Lilies (various endings, fragments, re-writes)., | |||||||||
| Series III: Novels and Other Writings, 1906-1968 | |||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Novels: Lusita and Hope for a Harvest , 1930s-1948 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 23 | 1 | Lusita., 1930s | |||||||||
| 23 | 2 | Hope for a Harvest: Correspondence., 1939-1948 | |||||||||
| 23 | 3 | Hope for a Harvest (fragments, "pages from original")., | |||||||||
| 23 | 4-5 | Hope for a Harvest (2 incomplete versions)., | |||||||||
| 23 | Hope for a Harvest (final typescript)., | ||||||||||
| Subseries 2: Novel: One Fierce Hour and Sweet , 1957-1964 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 24 | 1 | One Fierce Hour and Sweet: Correspondence., 1957-1964 | |||||||||
| 24 | 2-4 | One Fierce Hour and Sweet (3 versions, including 2 with first title: Deep Well Center)., | |||||||||
| 24 | 5 | One Fierce Hour and Sweet: Reviews., | |||||||||
| Subseries 3: Novels: By Line and The Great Name Story , 1959-1966 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 1-2 | Outlines only., | |||||||||
| 25 | 3 | The Great Name Story: Correspondence., 1959-1966 | |||||||||
| 25 | 4-5 | The Hill and the Bay (fragments of an early version of The Great Name Story)., 1961? | |||||||||
| 25 | 6-9 | The Great Name Story (chapters 1-47 of the Abbott Magness version, also some fragments)., 1965? | |||||||||
| Subseries 4: Novel: The Great Name Story , 1968? | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 26 | 1-2 | The Great Name Story (2nd version, chapter 1-26)., | |||||||||
| 26 | 3-4 | The Great Name Story (Anna Magness version, miscellaneous notes, outlines beginning chapters, etc.)., 1968? | |||||||||
| Subseries 5: Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1919-1948 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 27 | 1 | Work for United Artists: New York Nights and Blind Raftery., 1929 | |||||||||
| 27 | 2 | Play: Actress (incomplete)., | |||||||||
| 27 | 3 | Play: Untitled (outline and notes only, folder is marked "San Salvador")., | |||||||||
| 27 | 4 | Television Dramas: The Gorgeous Innocent and Natalie, Inc. (also titled Women are Terrible)., | |||||||||
| 27 | 5 | Novel: Rio Bravo (incomplete)., | |||||||||
| 27 | 6 | Novel: About a young girl in New York and Mexico (incomplete)., | |||||||||
| 27 | 7 | Story: "Heaven on Earth.", 1948 | |||||||||
| 27 | 8 | Early Scenarios:, | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Deep Waters | |||||||||||
| Mora | |||||||||||
| Laurite | |||||||||||
| Sauce and the Goose | |||||||||||
| Mother Lode | |||||||||||
| Tracks' End | |||||||||||
| 27 | 9 | Scenarios with William High., | |||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Bill and a Hatbox (2-part story published in Live Stories, August and September, 1919) | |||||||||||
| The Career of Liltha Zane (a synopsis). | |||||||||||
| Joan's Job (a synopsis). | |||||||||||
| 27 | 10 | Collaborations with Gilda (unidentified)., | |||||||||
| 27 | 11 | Miscellaneous stories, "ideas," and fragments., | |||||||||