Manuscripts

-----. [Notes for changes to a screenplay]?, A. MS. (4 p.), ([before 1958 Oct.])

Description: Partly in pencil.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1878-1959.
Call number: ZA 774.
Creator: Akins, Zoë (1886-1958)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Zoë Akins, March 1952.; Gift of Zoë Akins, July 1952.; Acquired from Estate of Zoë Akins, May 1961.; Gift of Henry O'Neil. January 1978.; Purchased from Walter R. Benjamin, January 1982.; Gift of Occidental College Library, December 1986.; Gift of R.E. Evans,

[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. [Notes for a screenplay?], A. MS. (28 p.), ([ca. 1945?])

Manuscripts

Partly in pencil.

ZA 351.

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-----. [Notes about John Keats and John Milton], A. MS. (7 p.), ([before 1958 Oct.])

Manuscripts

Partly in pencil; with envelope. Also enclosed: notes about Christian II (1481-1559), (1 p.).

ZA 773.

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[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. "His light is not turned out:" [untitled poem: early draft], A. MS. (1 p.), ([ca. 1935?])

Manuscripts

Partly in pencil; with bottom right corner torn away.

ZA 190.

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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]. [Lists of plays, screenplays, and stories], A. MS., carbon copy & MS. (typewritten: 48 p.), ([before 1958 Oct.])

Manuscripts

Some lists with autograph corrections and annotations; some lists include status of rights and press comments.

ZA 272.

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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. "No Regrets:" [screenplay], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 149 p.), ([ca. 1930?])

Manuscripts

With A.N.S. on title page; with original paper covers. Also enclosed: autograph notes, in pencil, about the screenplay; written in an unknown hand (3 p.).

ZA 346.

-----. [Notes for changes to a screenplay]?, A. MS. (4 p.), ([before 1958 Oct.])

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