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Cake upon the waters
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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. "Cake Upon the Waters:" sample copy, ([ca. 1919])
Manuscripts
Pages are blank, with a few pencilled lists and drawings by Akins.
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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. "Cake Upon the Waters:" [synopsis of the magazine novelette], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 6 p.), ([ca. 1919?])
Manuscripts
Note: based upon the Akins' play: "Kitty's Claws," the novelette was later published in book form by The Century Co.
ZA 49.
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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. "Cake Upon the Waters:" [treatment for a screenplay: early draft], MS. S. (typewritten: 5 p.), (1957, Nov. 25)
Manuscripts
With autograph note and corrections. Note: based upon the Akins' play: "Kitty's Claws," the novelette was later published in book form by The Century Co.
ZA 50.
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Contracts & Agreements: "By the Waters of Paradise," 1 piece, (1952, Apr.)
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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[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. [Wine Into Water: short story], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 14 p.), ([ca. 1945?])
Manuscripts
With autograph corrections. Note: final page stained.
ZA 633.
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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. "The Bitter Waters:" [teleplay: script], carbon copy (MS., typewritten:42 p.), (1956, May 4)
Manuscripts
With original cover.
ZA 42.