Manuscripts

Zoe Akins letter to Alexander Humphreys Woollcott

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: Post 1958.
Call number: mssHM 46100
Creator: Akins, Zoë (1886-1958)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Walter R Benjamin Autographs, 1978.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Woollcott, Alexander, (1887-1943,)

Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. 4 letters to Alexander Woollcott, 1887-1943, (1921-[1935]), New York (N.Y.)

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.

ZA 2504-2507.

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Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943. 2 letters to Zoë Akins, 1886-1958, (1935-1936), New York (N.Y.)

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ZA 7117-7118.

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[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. "Mr. Woollcott:" [letter to an editor]?, carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 6 p.), ([ca. 1927])

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With autograph corrections. Note: written in response to Woollcott's unfavorable review of "Thou Desperate Pilot."

ZA 301.

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Letters of Alexander Woollcott

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304738

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Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943. 1 letter to Jobyna Howland, L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1935, Apr. 9), New York (N.Y.)

Manuscripts

ZA 7119.

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Lambie, Louise Humphrey, d. 1942. 1 letter to Zoë Akins, 1886-1958, A.L.S. (2 p.), ([1935]), Cleveland (Ohio)

Manuscripts

ZA 5038.

Zoe Akins letter to Alexander Humphreys Woollcott

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