Manuscripts
[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. [Names, addresses & sketch], A. MS. (7 p.), ([before 1958 Oct.])
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[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. [Notes on labor unions and laborers], A. MS. (4 p.), ([before 1958 Oct.])
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 352.
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[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. [The Human Element: play: various drafts and discarded pages], MS. (typewritten: 50 p.), ([before 1958 Oct.])
Manuscripts
With autograph note and corrections. Note: includes typewritten, carbon copies and autograph pages.
ZA 200.
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Bourda, Josephine. 1 letter to Zoë Akins, 1886-1958, A.L.S. (1 p.), ([1935, Apr.])
Manuscripts
Note: in French; with envelope. Willa Cather's cook, this letter originally with Willa Cather letters now cataloged separately.
ZA 2835.
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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. 1 telegram to -----, contem. copy (telegram: 1 p.), ([ca. 1932?])
Manuscripts
Note: early draft, with autograph corrections and signature.
ZA 2529.
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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. 1 telegram to -----, contem. copy (telegram: 1 p.), ([ca. 1932?])
Manuscripts
Note: early draft, with autograph corrections and signature. Removed to Oversize Box 165.
ZA 2529.
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[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. [List of poems], A. MS. (3 p.), ([before 1958 Oct.])
Manuscripts
Also enclosed: list of Akins' poems, compiled by Gertrude Ruhnka (?), (6 p.).
ZA 271.