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Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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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With autograph corrections. Also enclosed: typewritten copy of a variant draft with the title: "For Helen With Sympathy," (1 p.).
ZA 138.
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With autograph corrections. Also enclosed: three typewritten and carbon copies, one with autograph corrections (3 p.).
ZA 343.
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Also enclosed: typewritten, carbon copy (8 p.).
ZA 516.
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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 2116.
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Note: early draft; with autograph corrections and postscript. Also enclosed: typewritten, carbon copy of second page, without autograph corrections and postscript (1 p.).
ZA 1638.