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[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. "The Hills Grow Smaller:" [poem], MS. (typewritten: 3 p.), ([ca. 1935?])
Manuscripts
With autograph corrections.
ZA 181.
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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. [The Hills Grow Smaller: poems: first draft], MS. (typewritten: 87 p.), ([1936?])
Manuscripts
With autograph note and corrections. With early title: The Snow-Gardens.
ZA 183.
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[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. The Hills Grow Smaller: [poems: early draft], MS. (typewritten: 60 p.), ([1937])
Manuscripts
With autograph corrections; some pages are carbon copies.
ZA 184.
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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. The Hills Grow Smaller: [poems: dedication and preface: early draft],A. MS. S. (13 p.), ([1937])
Manuscripts
Note: one page is typewritten; also includes the poem entitled, "Tryst." Also enclosed: autograph pages from a variant draft of the preface (4 p.); also autograph draft of the epilogue (1 p.).
ZA 182.
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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. The Hills Grow Smaller: [poems: printed proof sheets], MS. (printed: 25 p.), (1937, Aug. 13-Sep. 3)
Manuscripts
With Akins' autograph corrections and editor's notations.
ZA 185.
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Manuscripts -- Akins, Z.: Happy - Hills. ZA 171 - 183
Manuscripts
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 novels, 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). Correspondents represented in the collection include: Aline Barnsdall, Ethel Barrymore, Carlo Beuf, Billie Burke, Willa Cather, George Cukor, Patterson Greene, Sir Gerald Grove, William Harris, Carl Hovey, Jobyna Howland, Orrick Johns, George S. Kaufman, Alice Kauser, Sonya Levien, Anita Loos, Amy Lowell, W. Somerset Maugham, H.L. Mencken, Harry Moses, Kay Nielsen, George O'Neil, Max Pfeffer, Rosamond Pinchot, Una Pope-Hennessey, William Marion Reedy, Lady Etheldred Rumbold, Sir Horace Rumbold, Hugo Rumbold, David Selznick, Edward Sheldon, Sara Teasdale, Harriet Ware, Edith Wharton, John Hall Wheelock.
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