Florence Ryerson papers

The collection contains biographical information about Ryerson, and the Willard family, including her father Charles Dwight Willard, as well as correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, clippings, photographs, publicity, and literary papers by Florence Ryerson. There are 40 volumes of diaries from 1926 to 1964, with a diary from 1918. In the diaries, Ryerson glued in photographs, clippings, and other ephemera, and wrote about her personal and professional life including her writing, scripts, costumes, and other aspects of theater and motion pictures.