Guide to the Milton and Barbara Merlin papers (ARA) PA Mss 168
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series 1: Radio programs: Scripts and related material
Big Town
Dangerous Cargo (story outline)
Steve Goes to Sea (story outline)
Unsung Hero (story outline)
Murder in the Stars (story outline)
Just Troupers (story outline)
The Pied Piper of Big Town (story outline)
Good Neighbor (story outline, Feb. 1941)
Life's a Brass Ring (story outline)
Beyond Good and Evil (story outline)
We Americans (story outline)
The Meanest Man in the World (story outline)
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (story)
Death Weather, by Theodore Dreiser (story outline)
Episode #121 1940 October 09
Freedom of the Press 1941 January 22
Penny Arcade 1941 February 05
Hope in America 1941 February 12
The Heart of a Child 1941 March 26
Death Weather 1941 May 07
Tough Boy 1941 June 18
Dear Santa Claus 1941 December 24
Out of the Mouths of Babes 1942 March 19
My Old Man 1942 April 09
Dangerous Cargo 1942 May 07
Lady in Tangier 1942 May 21
Made in the U.S.A. 1942 June 25
Miscellaneous story ideas
Correspondence, general
Correspondence: Marian Spitzer to Milton Merlin 1941-1942
Correspondence: Milton Merlin to Marian Spitzer 1941-1942
Correspondence: Crane Wilbur 1941
Contracts, Ruthrauff & Ryan 1940
Everything for the Boys
Everything for the Boys (segment) 1944 February 01
Everything for the Boys (segment) 1944 February 22
Everything for the Boys (segment) 1944 February 29
Everything for the Boys (segment) 1944 March 07
Everything for the Boys 1944 March 14
Everything for the Boys 1944 March 21
Everything for the Boys (segment) 1944 March 28
Everything for the Boys 1944 April 04
Everything for the Boys (segment) 1944 April 11
Everything for the Boys 1944 April 18
Everything for the Boys (title page with annotations) 1944 April 25
Everything for the Boys 1944 May 02
Everything for the Boys 1944 May 09
Everything for the Boys 1944 May 16
Everything for the Boys 1944 May 23
Everything for the Boys 1944 May 30
Everything for the Boys (segment) 1944 June 06
Everything for the Boys (segment) 1944 June 13
Everything for the Boys (Correspondence)
Everything for the Boys (Payment receipts)
Everything for the Boys (misc. segments)
Everything for the Boys (photograph of news article about show, Chungking Reporter) 1944 March 06
The Ginny Simms Show
The Ginny Simms Show 1943 October 26
The Ginny Simms Show 1943 December 07
The Ginny Simms Show 1943 December 28
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 January 11
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 January 18
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 January 25
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 February 01
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 February 08
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 February 15
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 February 22
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 February 29
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 March 07
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 March 14
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 March 21
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 March 28
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 April 04
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 May 23
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 May 30
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 September 05
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 September 12
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 September 19
The Ginny Simms Show 1944 September 26
The Ginny Simms Show (Miscellaneous spots)
The Ginny Simms Show (General dramatic auditions, CBS 1944-1945
Boston Blackie
Boston Blackie 1944 June 23
Boston Blackie 1944 June 30
Boston Blackie 1944 July 07
Boston Blackie 1944 July 14
Boston Blackie 1944 July 21
Boston Blackie 1944 July 28
Boston Blackie 1944 August 04
Boston Blackie 1944 August 11
Boston Blackie 1944 August 18
Boston Blackie 1944 August 25
Boston Blackie 1944 September 01
Boston Blackie 1944 September 08
Boston Blackie 1944 September 15
Boston Blackie (story idea)
Boston Blackie (letter from John Sinn, of Frederic W. Ziv Co.) 1944 July 10
Boston Blackie (ratings, from Variety) 1945 August 17
Reunion U.S.A.
Home again Blues 1945 July 09
Home again Blues: Review, Variety 1945 July 11
Walls Come Tumbling down 1945 July 16
The Status Isn't quo 1945 July 24
A Woman's Place 1945 August 13
Beachhead on the Campus 1945 October 01
Peace Has Been Declared 1945 October 15
Peace Has Been Declared (revision) 1945 October 15
Episode/writer list
Publicity (one postcard) 1945 October
Record of payment 1945 August 01
The Man Called X
497 Steps 1944 September 23
Balkan Blackmail 1944 October 14
Evil Sprouts in Brussels 1944 November 04
Lisbon Nibelungenlied 1944 November 18
Pandora's Box, or The Greece Spot, or... 1944 December 02
The Flying Dutchman 1944 December 09
Mr. X Finds Santa Claus 1944 December 23
Mr. X Goes Cuckoo, or Time on my Hands 1944 December 30
X-posed 1945 January 06
Sweet and lowdown, or Melancholy Baby 1945 January 20
What's Past is Prologue, or Liberte, Egalite et Sororite 1945 January 27
Smorgasbord, or The Girl on Drottningsgatan of Norrmalm 1945 February 03
John Doe 1945 February 24
City of Fear 1945 March 03
Wanted for Murder 1945 June 12
The Ghosts of Bohemia 1945 June 19
A Persian Melon 1945 June 26
Prelude to Murder 1945 July 03
Poison 1945 July 10
A Formula for Trouble 1945 July 17
Ochee Chorneya 1945 July 24
The Lorelei 1945 July 31
Carnival in Gascony 1945 August 07
Evil Star 1945 August 14
Congo 1945 September 04
A Fish Story 1946 June 18
Who's who 1946 June 25
The Blue Danube 1946 July 02
Auld Lang Syne, or Straight Scotch (#4) 1946 July 09
Inside Japan, or They'll none of 'em Be Missed (#5) 1946 July 16
Kiss me again, or A Case of Osculation (#6) 1946 July 23
An Island Idyll, or Busman's Holiday (#7) 1946 July 30
Waltzing Matilda (#8) 1946 August 06
The Perils of Pegon (#10) 1946 August 20
Wheat Germ (#11) 1946 August 27
The End of the World (#12) 1946 September 03
X as in Algebra (#13) 1946 September 10
The Root of all Evil (#14) 1946 September 17
(Episode #1) 1947 April 03
Memorandum: Jack Johnstone 1944 October 03
Notes, background material 1945
Publicity (press releases, magazine articles) 1944-1946
This is Hollywood, with Hedda Hopper
Mr. Ace (#17) 1947 January 25
Ramrod (#21) 1947 February 22
Ramrod: memorandum, re: film premiere in Utah 1947 February 19
Ramrod: news clippings re: film premiere in Utah 1947
Sinbad the Sailor (#26) 1947 March 29
Angel and the Badman (#27) 1947 April 05
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (#30) 1947 April 26
Mayerling (#38) 1947 June 21
Contracts: Milton Merlin 1947 February 10
The Adventures of Bill Lance
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 September 28
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 October 05
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 October 12
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 October 26
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 November 02
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 November 16
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 November 23
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 November 30
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 December 07
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 December 21
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1947 December 28
The Adventures of Bill Lance 1948 January 04
The Adventures of Bill Lance (Records of payment)
Mr. President
1 (Theodore Roosevelt) 1947 June 26
2 (Grover Cleveland) 1947 July 03
3 (John Quincy Adams) 1947 July 10
4 (Woodrow Wilson) 1947 July 17
5 (Ulysses S. Grant) 1947 July 24
6 (George Washington) 1947 July 31
7 (Theodore Roosevelt) 1947 August 07
18 (Abraham Lincoln) 1947 October 23
20 (Woodrow Wilson) 1947 November 06
21 (Thomas Jefferson) 1947 November 13
22 (James Monroe) 1947 November 20
23 (George Washington) 1947 November 27
24 (Calvin Coolidge) 1947 December 04
25 (Andrew Jackson) 1947 December 11
27 (James Monroe) 1948 January 04
28 (Abraham Lincoln) 1948 January 11
29 (Ulysses S. Grant) 1948 January 18
30 (Zachary Taylor) 1948 January 25
31 (Andrew Johnson) 1948 February 01
32 (Woodrow Wilson) 1948 February 08
33 (Andrew Jackson) 1948 February 15
34 (John Tyler) 1948 February 22
35 (Abraham Lincoln) 1948 February 29
36 (Warren G. Harding) 1948 March 07
37 (Theodore Roosevelt) 1948 March 14
38 (incomplete) 1948 March 21
39 (George Washington) 1948 March 28
40 (Grover Cleveland) 1948 April 04
41 (James K. Polk) 1948 April 11
42 (Ulysses S. Grant) 1948 April 18
43 (William McKinley) 1948 April 25
44 (Theodore Roosevelt) 1948 May 02
45 (John Adams) 1948 May 09
46 (John Tyler) 1948 May 16
48 (Grover Cleveland) 1948 May 23
49 (Abraham Lincoln) 1948 May 30
50 (John Quincy Adams) 1948 June 06
50 (Andrew Johnson) 1948 June 13
51 (Andrew Jackson) 1948 June 20
52 (George Washington) 1948 June 27
54 (William Howard Taft) 1948 July 18
56 (James Monroe) 1948 August 01
58 (John Adams) 1948 August 08
(Thomas Jefferson) 1948 August 22
Special program (William Howard Taft)
Mr. President (Records of payment)
Mr. President (Production correspondence and memoranda)
Mr. President partial scripts 1947 November 13-1948 July 20
Presenting Charles Boyer
Presenting Charles Boyer (revised segments) 1950 June 20
Presenting Charles Boyer 1950 June 27
Presenting Charles Boyer 1950 July 18
A Mink Is a Mammal and so Is a Lady (draft script)
Presenting Charles Boyer (story outlines)
Halls of Ivy
Casting
Correspondence: Harry Bubeck (program mgr., NBC) 1951-1952
Correspondence: James Gleason (actor) 1952 March 27
Correspondence: Charles Goldring (accountant) 1951-1954
Correspondence: Kay Goodson (secretary to Nat Wolff) 1952 January 04
Correspondence: Charles Henry (Young & Rubicam, Inc.) 1952
Correspondence: Don Quinn (writer) 1951
Correspondence: Clyde Park (emeritus professor, writer) 1951-1952
Correspondence: Melville Shauer (agent for Gale Gordon) 1952 April 17
Correspondence: Nat Wolff (producer) 1950-1953
Correspondence: listeners 1951-1952
Correspondence: miscellaneous talent 1950-1952
Correspondence: unsolicited scripts 1951-1952
Letterhead, Ivy Productions
News clippings 1951-1952
Notes and memoranda
Photographs: Katie Lee (featured in episode #63)
Photographs: Milton Merlin and Ronald Colman
Photographs: Milton & Barbara Merlin, Ronald & Benita Colman, at party, with cake decorated with word Vicky
Plot synopses 1951
Schedules 1951-1952
Story ideas 1951
Tickets to broadcast
Halls of Ivy (#1)
Halls of Ivy (#3) 1950 January 20
Halls of Ivy (#7) 1950 February 17
Halls of Ivy (#8) 1950 February 24
Halls of Ivy (#13) 1950 March 31
Halls of Ivy (#15) 1950 April 14
Halls of Ivy (#16) 1950 April 21
Halls of Ivy (#17) 1950 April 28
Halls of Ivy (#19) 1950 May 10
Halls of Ivy (#21) 1950 May 24
Halls of Ivy (#24) 1950 June 14
Halls of Ivy (#25) 1950 June 21
Halls of Ivy (#29) 1950 September 13
Halls of Ivy 1950 September 20
Halls of Ivy(#33) 1950 October 11
Halls of Ivy (#34) 1950 October 18
Halls of Ivy (#38) 1950 November 15
Halls of Ivy (#40) 1950 November 29
Halls of Ivy 1951 January 15
Halls of Ivy (#48) 1951 January 24
Halls of Ivy (#49) 1951 January 31
Halls of Ivy (#50) 1951 February 07
Halls of Ivy (#51) 1951 February 14
Halls of Ivy (#53) 1951 February 19
Halls of Ivy (#52) 1951 February 21
1951 February 23
taped program 1951 February 26
taped program 1951 February 28
Halls of Ivy 1951 March 05
Halls of Ivy (#55) 1951 March 04
Halls of Ivy 1951 March 19
Halls of Ivy (#59) 1951 April 11
Halls of Ivy (#60) 1951 April 18
Taped program 1951 April 20
Halls in a Day's Work 1951 May 04
Halls of Ivy (#65) 1951 May 23
Summer Solstice 1951 June 04
Halls of Ivy (#67) 1951 June 06
Halls of Ivy (#68) 1951 June 13
Halls of Ivy (#70) 1951 June 27
It Rained in South Dakota 1951 September 15
Halls of Ivy (#71) 1951 October 03
No Fool like A 1951 October 09
Halls of Ivy (#72) 1951 October 10
Halls of Ivy (#73) 1951 October 17
Halls of Ivy (#74) 1951 October 24
Halls of Ivy (#75) 1951 October 31
Halls of Ivy (#76) 1951 November 07
Halls of Ivy (#77) 1951 November 14
Halls of Ivy (#78) 1951 November 21
Halls of Ivy (#79) 1951 November 28
Taped program 1951 November 30
Halls of Ivy (#80) 1951 December 05
Tape #1 (taped program) 1951 December 07
Halls of Ivy (#81) 1951 December 12
Tape #2 (taped program) 1951 December 14
Halls of Ivy (#82) 1951 December 19
Tape #3 (taped program) 1951 December 28
Halls of Ivy (#84) 1952 January 02
Halls of Ivy (#87) 1952 January 23
Halls of Ivy (#88) 1952 January 30
Halls of Ivy (#89) 1952 February 06
Halls of Ivy (#89) 1952 February 13
Halls of Ivy (#90) 1952 February 20
Halls of Ivy (#91) 1952 February 27
Halls of Ivy (#92) 1952 March 05
Taped program 1952 March 07
Halls of Ivy (#93) 1952 March 12
Halls of Ivy (#94) 1952 March 19
Halls of Ivy (#95) 1952 March 26
Halls of Ivy (#96) 1952 April 02
Halls of Ivy (#98) 1952 April 16
Halls of Ivy (French Student) 1952 April 16
Halls of Ivy (#99) 1952 April 23
Halls of Ivy (#100) 1952 April 30
Taped program 1952 May 02
Halls of Ivy (#101) 1952 May 07
Halls of Ivy(#102) 1952 May 14
Halls of Ivy (#103) 1952 May 21
Halls of Ivy (#104) 1952 May 28
Faculty Follies 1952 May 30
Halls of Ivy (#105) 1952 June 04
Taped program 1952 June 06
Halls of Ivy (#106) 1952 June 11
Halls of Ivy (#108) 1952 June 25
First draft scripts
Other Radio Broadcasts
Let's Speak out (local Los Angeles broadcasts, re: books) 1939 November-December
Old Gold Program: Old Man River (outlines and drafts) 1940 August-September
Henry Fonda spot, Victory Committee, Camp Barstow 1942 February 12
Broadcast to Eire 1942
Broadcast to Eire: correspondence 1942 March 13
Russian War Relief: correspondence 1942 July 31
Russian War Relief (untitled scripts) 1942 May 27
Russian War Relief: A Dancer and a Don Cossack (script) 1942 August 27
Free World Theater: article in Radio Life 1943 April 03
Free World Theater: article in Variety 1943 April 29
Free World Theater: correspondence 1943 June 21
Free World Theater: list of people contacted undated
Free World Theater: press releases 1943 January-February
Free World Theater: Something about Joe (script drafts) 1943 July 29
(Lux Radio Theater): Assignment in Brittany (script) 1943 October
Entertainment Industry Emergency Committee: New York-Hollywood Broadcast, (script by Norman Rosten) 1944 May 19
(Entertainment Industry Emergency Committee: New York-Hollywood Broadcast): photo of Paul Muni, Bette Davis 1944 May 19
Entertainment Industry Emergency Committee: New York-Hollywood Broadcast: review, Variety 1944 May 24
Dear Joe Rally, Los Angeles Coliseum (drafts of script) 1944 June 30
The Nebbs: My Son, my Son! (outline, revised script) 1945 September 16
Tribute to Victory, Los Angeles Coliseum (scripts) 1945 October 27
Meet Corliss Archer: (#16) Rock-a-bye baby (scripts) 1946 August 11
AFRA Refresher Course: Still waters, by M. Merlin circa 1946
Supernatural: correspondence from Jack Johnstone, re: adaptation of script 1947 April 09
Supernatural: Jack the Ripper, script adapted by M. Merlin 1947 October 31
Frontier Theatre (pilot script by M. Merlin) 1947 February 06
The Notorious Tariq: story outlines 1947
The Notorious Tariq: correspondence 1947
The Notorious Tariq: drafts of script 1947 April 17
The Notorious Tariq: Adventure in Antibes (pilot script) 1947 August 16
United Nations Appeal for Children: Deliver us from Starvation (broadcast script, with earlier version) 1948 May 08
ABC Salutes The Richfield Reporter: It's a family habit, starring Dick Powell (script by M.Merlin) 1948 September 26
Call me Duke (NBC audition script, by M.&B. Merlin) 1950 March 03
Originals by Benton (audition script) 1950 August 25
Family Theater: Joppe the Juggler, by M. & B. Merlin 1950 December 20
The Marriage (earlier drafts of script) 1952
The Marriage (NBC pilot, starring Jessica Tandy & Hume Cronyn, directed by M. Merlin) 1952 October 21
The Marriage: background information, correspondence 1952
Handel's Messiah, performed by the Southern California Oratorio Society 1952 December 24
Handel's Messiah, performed by the Southern California Oratorio Society, with Ronald Colman 1953 December 24
Handel's Messiah, performed by the Southern California Oratorio Society w. Ronald Colman 1955 December 24
Handel's Messiah, Southern California Oratorio Society: correspondence 1953 November 06
NBC policy concerning submission of ideas 1951
"Tribute to Victory," Los Angeles Coliseum (radio program), news clippings 1945 October
Series 2: Television programs: Scripts and related material
Four Star Theatre
The Lost Silk Hat: television play by Milton Merlin & Ronald Colman 1952 October 23
The Lost Silk Hat: contract 1952 October 15
The Ladies on my Couch: draft of script, notes 1953
The Ladies on my Couch (Ladies on his Mind): television play by M. Merlin 1953 May 21
The Ladies on my Couch: correspondence (1 item) 1954 May 05
Love at Sea (draft of script) 1953 April 23
Love at Sea: television play by Barbara Merlin & Benita Hume 1953 October 15
Love at Sea: shooting schedule 1953 May 11
The Man who Walked out on himself: shooting script 1953 March 26
The Man who Walked out on himself: drafts, segments
The Man who Walked out on himself: contract 1953 January
String of Beads: various drafts of script 1954 January 21
String of Beads: call sheet 1953 September 24
News clippings 1952-1953
Halls of Ivey
Call sheets 1954 April-December
Cast and staff lists
Contracts
Correspondence: William Brown (attorney, friend)
Correspondence: Benita Hume Colman 1954 February
Correspondence: Elizabeth Patterson (actress) 1954 March-April
Correspondence: viewers 1954
Earnings and residuals 1954-1956
Episode list
News clippings 1954-1955
Notes
Press releases
Photograph, publicity
Script schedules
Shooting dates
Shooting schedules
Ticket to preview
Presentation script (titled Script no. 1, or One round to a decision)
The good morrow (title page clipped to carbon copy of script for program #64 of the radio series)
Warren's Novel 1954 March 29
Chinese Student 1955 January 18
Stolen First Edition 1955 March 15
Reappointment 1954 October 19
Dr. Hall's Baby (Professor Hall's Baby) 1954 November 02
Mrs. Whitney's Statue 1954 November 16
Wellmans Come to Dinner 1954 June 08
The Eleventh Commandment 1954 June 17
Dr. Hall's Book (folder 1) 1955 February 01
Dr. Hall's Book (folder 2) 1955 February 01
Hall in the Kitchen 1954 July 01
Cook's Night out 1954 July 01
Mrs. Why 1954 December 21
Professor Warren's Romance 1954 December 28
Mulligatawny Soup 1954 July 26
Professor Barrett's Play 1954 November 23
The Prizefighter (The Prize Fighter) 1954 December 14
Pinkerton Day 1955 January 04
The Astronomer 1954 August 20
The Cocoanut Song (Traffic in Coconuts) 1955 January 11
The Honor Student 1955 May 24
The Track Star 1955 January 25
The Voice of the Ivy Vine (The Voice of Ivy's Vine) 1955 June 07
Professor Grimes 1955 May 10
The Mummynapper (The Mummy Nappers) 1955 February 08
Maxwell's Comet 1955 June 14
Note the Quote 1955 February 15
Maxwell's Comet (revision) 1955 June 14
Dr. Spatzen 1955 June 21
The Old Professor Forgot his Umbrella (The Umbrella Man) 1955 May 17
Dean Huxley 1954 November 11
Dean Huxley (revision) 1954 November 15
Dean Huxley (final) 1954 November 17
Faculty Follies, #1 1955 February 22
Faculty Follies, #2 1955 March 01
Hoodlumism (Holiganism) 1955 June 28
Hoodlumism (revision) 1955 June 28
Faculty Marriage (#31) 1954 December 26
French Exchange Student (#34) 1955 March 22
Changing Professors (Changing of Professors) (#32) 1955 May 31
Professor Warren's Retirement (#25) 1955 March 08
Professor Warren's Retirement (revision) 1955 March 08
Medal of Honor 1955 January 21
Professor Warren's Retirement (final revision) 1955 March 08
Final Examination 1955 January 29
Professor Warren's Retirement (as shot) 1955 March 08
Calhoun Gaddy 1955 March 29
The Oldest Alumnus 1955 April 05
Scandal (first draft and revisions) 1955 April 12
Gangster's Son (The Gangster) 1955 April 19
The Tale of F. Canis Major (F. Canis Minor) 1955 April 26
The Gangster (first draft) 1955 March 11
The Gangster (revision) 1955 March 12
The Gangster (notes and outline) 1955 March
Legrande Foundation (first draft and revision) 1955 March 25
Unidentified script pages
Halls of Ivy, (television show) news clippings 1954-1955
News Clippings: Ronald Colman: Obituaries 1958
C.B.S. Memoranda on Ronald Coleman 1949 January 29
Don Fedderson Productions
The Millionaire 1957-1960 1957-1960
The Millionaire (television show) news clippings 1958 June 03-1960 January 20
The Millionaire News Clippings from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter 1956 October 03-1959 November 05
Tramp Ship 1960 March 22-1961 April 17
Other Programs and Miscellaneous Material
The Stranger: The Man from Idaho 1958 March 07
Town Tamer: The Stranger (script) 1958 April 22
The Quiet Man: The Man from Idaho (script), by Al Ward & story by Frank Gruber 1958 May 14
The Quiet Man: A Duel with Billy (script), by Al C. Ward 1958 December 23
The Quiet Man: Showdown (script), by Al C. Ward 1959 January 06
The Quiet Man: Man from Idaho (script), by Al C. Ward, Peggy Shaw, Lou Shaw, from story by F. Gruber 1959 January 14
The Quiet Man: Man from Idaho (opening scenes) 1959 January 15
My Three Sons: news announcements 1960 March-April
My Three Sons: presentation
My Three Sons: shooting schedules 1960 March-April
Satan's Waitin': notes 1960 July-August
The Man with the Big Thumb: correspondence, re: presentation 1961 August 24
Don Fedderson Productions: actors and actresses
Don Fedderson Productions: Christmas card
Don Fedderson Productions: release and agreement form
Don Fedderson Productions: script submissions 1959 August-1960 June
Don Fedderson Productions: staff phone numbers
Don Fedderson Productions: writers--lists, resumes
The Littlest Hobo 1964-1965
Free Lance Work
The Loretta Young Show: Man's Estate, story by Marian Thompson, screenplay by Barbara Merlin 1954 April 11
The Loretta Young Show: residuals 1962 March-1965 June
Screen Directors Playhouse: The Life of Vernon Hathaway: notes 1955 July 17
Screen Directors Playhouse: The Life of Vernon Hathaway: story outline 1955 July 20
Screen Directors Playhouse: The Life of Vernon Hathaway: shooting segments 1955 September
Screen Directors Playhouse: The Life of Vernon Hathaway: drafts of script, by B. Merlin 1955 November 09
Screen Directors Playhouse: The Life of Vernon Hathaway: script segments 1955 September
Screen Directors Playhouse: The Life of Vernon Hathaway: contract booking notice 1955 July 14
Screen Directors Playhouse: The Life of Vernon Hathaway: record of payment & residuals 1955 August-1963 November
Screen Directors Playhouse: Correspondence 1956 February 16
Lassie (story outlines, one script, notes, contract) 1956
The Donna Reed Show: story outlines 1962 February 21
Kraft Hour of Suspense: The Case against Sergeant Striker, part I: script, by Seeleg Lester 1963 April 30
Kraft Hour of Suspense: The Case against Sergeant Striker, part II: script, by Seeleg Lester 1963 April 30
Bonanza: story ideas 1962 September 25
Bonanza: correspondence with agent and Writers Guild 1962 December-1963 April
Bonanza: Brother David: script 1963 August 14
Bonanza: residuals 1973 October-December
The Breaking Point: The Black Mirror (script) 1963 September 11
The Breaking Point: But my Dear, you Can't Stop the Clock (script) 1963 September 26
The Breaking Point: The Gnu, now almost Extinct (script) 1963 December 16
The Breaking Point: A Garden Is a Lovesome Thing... (story) 1963 October 21
The Breaking Point: A Garden Is a Lovesome Thing... (script) 1963 November 07
The Breaking Point: Glass Flowers never Drop Petals (script, first draft) 1964 March 23
The Breaking Point: Glass Flowers never Drop Petals (script, revised final draft) 1964 March 23
The Breaking Point: Glass Flowers never Drop Petals: Call sheet 1963 November 29
The Breaking Point: Glass Flowers never Drop Petals: shooting schedule 1963 November
The Breaking Point: No Squares in my Family Circle (script, final draft) 1964 February 10
The Breaking Point: No Squares in my family circle (script, revised final draft) 1964 February 10
The Breaking Point: news clippings 1963-1964
The Breaking Point: notes and quotes 1963 October
The Breaking Point: notices of tentative writing credits 1963 October-1965 November
The Breaking Point: record of payment and residuals 1963 December-1988 November
Mr. Novak: He that Mischief Hatcheth... (story outline) 1964 January 06
Mr. Novak: See the Officer (story outline) 1964 February 17
Mr. Novak: See the Officer (script) 1964 March 16
Mr. Novak: Records of payment 1964 January-April
The Fugitive: Story ideas 1964 March
The Fugitive: The Alibi (story idea, three drafts) 1964 March-May
The Fugitive: The Alibi (script, draft) (Man on a String) 1964 September 29
The Fugitive: Residuals 1966-1995
The Wild, Wild, West: Thor in the Giant's Country (story) 1965 May 19
O.K. Crackerby: The Wellecliffe Story (script), by Abe Burrows and Terry Ryan 1965 September 23
O.K. Crackerby: Art for Crackerby's Sake (story), by Barbara & Milton Merlin 1965
My Mother, the Car: Hey Lady, Your Slip Isn't Showing (script segments) 1965 July 26
My Mother, the Car: Hey Lady, Your Slip Isn't Showing (script), by Tom Koch) 1965 December 14
Ben Casey: Where Did all the Roses Go? (script), teleplay by C. Krumholz, A. Dales; from story by Merlins and A. Dales 1966 February 21
Ben Casey: Where Did all the Roses Go?: Payment and royalties 1965 September-1969 June
Ben Casey contract (freelance work) 1965 August 9
Laredo: The Short, Happy Fatherhood of Reese Bennett (script, plus television guide listing) by B. Merlin & Leonard Praskins 1967 January 27
Laredo: The Short, Happy Fatherhood of Reese Bennett: Residuals 1973-1987
Tarzan: Story outlines, miscellaneous 1966 September-1967 April
Tarzan: The Lake that Swallowed the Moon (story outline) 1967 April 11
The Man who never Was: The Girl from Carthage (story) 1966
Dundee and the Culhane: The Fallen Idol (story outline) 1967 August 15
Dundee and the Culhane: The Murderer Stallion (script), by George Kirgo, rev. by M. Merlin 1967 September 27
Dundee and the Culhane: The Dearly Beloved (story outline) 1967 September 14
Dundee and the Culhane: Story outlines, misc. 1967 September
Dundee and the Culhane: Notes 1967
Dundee and the Culhane: Record of payment undated
The Virginian: The Hell Wind (script), by B. Merlin & Leonard Praskins 1968 February 14
I Spy: Get Thee to a Nunnery: Residuals 1967 May-1970 April
Summary Agreement with ABC, CBS, and NBC Covering Freelance Film TV Writers 1956 June 21
Series 3: Presentations and story ideas
Radio
Milton Merlin and Marian Spitzer (Thompson) approximately 1941-1942
Between the Devil and Miss Dare (story outline)
Career Woman (presentation) 1941 May
Cousin Kate (series presentation)
Cousin Kate: letter to Yasha Frank of CBS 1942 March 21
The Curious Case of Dr. Z (story outline)
Dear Santa Claus (radio play)
A Girl in a Million (story) 1941 August 19
I Hear America Singing (series presentation)
Life's a Brass Ring (story outline)
Love from a Stranger (audition script)
Stay up for the Sunrise (script)
A Tale of the Vienna Woods (story outline)
Through a Window (radio play)
Trouble (story outline) 1941 July 23
Two of a Kind (story outline)
Two of a Kind (radio play)
Unsung Hero (story outline)
Milton Merlin, by self or with other writers
Milton Merlin, by himself or with other writers - with dates, arranged chronologically 1940-1954
Doakes and Folks (presentation scripts, minutes of story meeting) 1940 February
The Life Magazine show (audition script) 1945 July 30
Double Bill (presentation, with cover letter) 1946 January 29
Christopher the Great (audition script) 1946 December 10
Kiss me again (audition script) 1946 December 27
Alice in Movieland (presentations, and script) 1947 August
Always alone at Xmas (notes) 1947 May 28
Homicide...Gleason (presentations, w. corresp. 1947 September
Homicide...Gleason (audition script) 1947
Homicide...Gleason (audition script, revisions) 1947
Clancy's Court (notes, story idea) 1949
Paul Henreid Show (notes: story idea) 1949 February 13
Peebles and Squidge (series to star Alan Mowbray: notes, presentation) 1949 April
A Run for your Money; radio play by Milton and Barbara 06-29-1951 Merlin 1951 June 29
Ray Milland Show: Philadelphia Story 1953 July 16
Ray Milland Show: The Dress 1953 August 01
Ray Milland Show: The Exchange Student 1953 August 11
Meet Herbert Marshall (audition script) 1953 October 21
Herbert Marshall's Music Room 1953 August 04
Milton Merlin, by himself or with other writers - without dates, arranged alphabetically by title
Alan Mowbray audition, program untitled
The Adventures of Maurice (radio adaptation by M. Merlin of TV play by Ernest Vajda)
Ain't Gonna Sing no more (story idea) by M. Milton and Alan Mowbray
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (story)
Biography of Abigail Uppington (pres. script, notes)
Bleary Queries (presentation outline)
City Hospital (audition script, by M & B. Merlin)
Destiny: The Assassin (presentation script)
The Devil to Pay (presentation)
Encounter, with Cary Grant (series idea, notes)
The End of the World (audition script)
Has Anybody here Seen Kelly? (present. script) by M. Merlin, Richard Haydn
Her Knight Came Riding through Kansas (pr. script) by M. Merlin and Val Lewton
I'll always Remember (radio play)
Just Married (audition script by M.& B. Merlin)
The Listening Post (sample script pages, form letter) by the Hollywood Radio Writers
One World or none (ca. 1946)
Party Line
Pop Rings the Bell (presentation script) by Byron Morgan and Milton Merlin
Rendezvous (presentation script), by M. Merlin and Barbara Merlin
Sabu in the Jungle (presentation) by M. Merlin and Barbara Merlin
Twilight Song (radio play adapted by M. Merlin from television play by John Larkin)
Who Knows Jack the Ripper (script)
Television
Milton and Barbara Merlin, except where noted - without specific dates, arranged alphabetically 1950s-1970s
The Big Man (presentation) by Johnny Florea and Richard Donovan circa 1960s
Big Valley notion (one page outline of idea)
Calhoun Gaddy (presentation script) circa 1950s
Caught in the Crystal Ball (story outline), by Dory Langdon and Barbara Merlin circa 1950s
The Devil's Trill (story outline)
Four Makes a Trio (presentation)
Halls of Ivy: revisited (set in 1920's)
Heavenly Bodies (presentation) circa 1975
Hollywood Adventures, (presentation), no. 1, Honesty, by Alan Mowbray
The Likely Customer, by Barbara Merlin & Benita Hume circa 1950s
Meet Herbert Marshall (segment of presentation script) circa 1950s
Model Murder (or Murder before Spring)
The Moment (story ideas, a.k.a. The turning point)
Mother Knows Best (story outline) circa 1950s
M.R.: One for the Road (teleplay), by Charles Beaumont, created by Johnny Florea circa 1960s
Old Girl, Young Boy (script), by Dory Langdon circa 1950s
Once upon a College (presentation) circa 1960s
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
The Sultan of San Francisco (story), by Richard Donovan, (idea) by Johnny Florea circa 1960s
Take her up Tenderly (presentation script) circa 1960s-1970s
The Thumb (presentation) circa 1950s
What's Your Verdict (pilot script), by M. Merlin
The World of Lavinia Bliss (presentation) circa 1960s
The Yellow Dress (story outline), by B. Merlin circa 1950s
Your Phone Is Ringing (presentation), by M. & B. Merlin and David Boehm
Milton and Barbara Merlin, except where noted - with dates, arranged chronologically 1950-1967
317 South Elm, a new television series starring Leon Belasco (presentation) 1950 February 25
Mr. Kittredge (notes, presentation script, contract) 1950 March
The Ruby Ring (story treatment), idea by Marian Spitzer Thompson, adapted by B. Merlin 1953 January 15
The Girl in the Wood, with Katie Lee (presentation) 1954 January 15
The Girl in the Wood (promotional material, including photo of Katie Lee) 1905 May 07
The Count of Monte Cristo Finds himself (outline) 1955 October 04
The Count of Monte Cristo Finds himself (draft script) 1955 October 28
The Count of Monte Cristo Finds himself (rev. script) 1955 November 04
The Count of Monte Cristo: contract booking notice 1955 October 11
Emily (story outline), by Pete Barnum 1905 May 08
Emily: contract booking notice 1955 November 07
Emily (presentation script), by M. & B. Merlin 1955 November 20
Emily (presentation script), by M. & B. Merlin 1955 December 26
Emily (presentation script), by M. & B. Merlin 1956 January 03
The Return of Peter Moon (story outline, for pilot to star Bette Davis and Gary Merrill) 1956 January 03
The Return of Peter Moon: contracts 1956 February
Emily (presentation script, rev.) 1956 January 16
The Delightful Imposter (story outline, from notes of meeting at George Burns' house) 1956 February 18
The Delightful Imposter (draft script) 1956 February 24
The Delightful Imposter (pilot script, 1st draft) 1956 April 05
The Delightful Imposter (pilot script, rev.) 1956 April 20
The Delightful Imposter (pilot script, rev.) 1956 May 21
Betsy (pilot script, w. cover letter), by Windsor Lewis (to star Lewis' wife, Barbara Bel Geddes) 1956 August 14
Betsy (story outline), by Barbara Merlin 1956 August 20
The Delightful Imposter/The surprising Mr. Somerset (misc. script pages) 1905 May 09
The Surprising Mr. Somerset (pilot script, draft) 1956 October 02
The Surprising Mr. Somerset (pilot script, rev.) 1956 December 11
A Matter of Timing (story outline), by Dory Langdon and Barbara Merlin 1957 July 15
My Sister Catherine (story outline), by Dory Langdon and Barbara Merlin 1957 July 15
Miscellaneous story outlines, by Dory Langdon and Barbara Merlin 1905 May 10
Adventures in Paradise 1961 July 25
A Mink Is a Mammal, and so Is a Lady (story 28 outlines) 1962 March
Bundle of Joy (presentation, w. story conference notes) 1962 June
McKeever and the Colonel (story outline) 1962 June 11
Native Son (script pages) 1962 June 22
The Wide Country (story outline) 1962 August 13
E.S.P. (pilot script drafts, and notes, folder 1) 1963 May
E.S.P. (pilot script drafts, and notes, folder 2) 1963 May
E.S.P.: correspondence 1905 May 16
Errol Stanley Parker (E.S.P.) Scripts
Holy Mackerel!: the hot rod submarine (presentation script), by the Merlins and Johnny Florea 1963 August 28
Never Let a Friend Go (notes of story conference) 1964 January 26
The Furies and Philip Quist (presentation) 1964 April 17
Kentucky's Kid (story outline) 1964 April 19
My Son, the Banker (presentation, w. list of story ideas contract) by M. & B. Merlin, and Les Hafner 1964 July
Jay Byrd (presentation), by Milton Merlin 1964 October
The Littlest Fairy Godmother (story idea, with character of Mr. Kittredge) 1964 December 29
Sam (presentations) 1965 February
It's Stopped Raining, Mr. Kittredge (story idea) 1965 March
King Arthur in Connecticut (notes) 1965 June 02
Jericho (story idea) 1905 May 19
The Shepherd (presentation) 1905 May 19
The Pig War (story, w. notes) 1966 February
The Creative Impulse--It's Murder (written for Please don't eat the daisies) (story idea) 1966 May 23
The Heat Waves (presentation) 1966 May 23
Projects on abeyance list (list of story ideas and scripts) 1966 August 08
Petting Party (presentation), idea by Herbert Bress, presentation by M. & B. Merlin 1967 November 12
Television story ideas, misc.
"New London", Outline of an Original Screen Story by Milton Merlin and Robert C. Cannom
Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Stage play: Grand Central Station (no author)
The Night of the Cowpoke, by Milton and Barbara Merlin (screenplay)
The Night of the Cowpoke: background material by and about J. Robert Atkinson
A Rainbow with a Run in her Stockings: an original story by Barbara and Milton Merlin circa 1960s
These Tender Mercies, by Barton Yarborough (screenplay) circa 1950s
We Leave Memory: the story of Norton the First, Emperor of the United States, by M.M. & G.E. (outline, partially typed and handwritten)
Your Love and mine, by Milton Merlin (typed story)
A Poco Pan (screenplay and outline) 1964
Miscellaneous presentations: Particular Pictures circa 1970s
Series 4: Personal Papers
Biographical Information
M. S. Merlin to be Manager of Southern California Division of this publication, Pacific Coast Hotel Weekly circa 1930s
Hollywood Writers? Not Seriously, Los Angeles Times (Westside section, p.1) 1983 May 08
Photograph: Milton Merlin circa 1970s
Photographs: Milton Merlin, ca. 1920's-1930's, and unidentified women
Resumes & lists of credits: Milton Merlin, Barbara Merlin
Photograph of Yola Casselle, Milt Merlin and 2 unidentified skiers
Miscellaneous Material circa 1940s
Newspaper Clippings and Business Memoranda 1935 October 12
Newspaper Clippings of Barbara and Milton Merlin 1958 November 19
Individual Income Tax Returns 1938-1943
Organizations
Affiliated Committee for Television
Correspondence 1944-1945
Minutes: Executive Council meetings 1945
Minutes and agendas: Workshop Committee meetings 1944-1945
Minutes and memoranda: Miscellaneous 1944-1945
News clippings 1944
Publications: ACT Bulletin 1944
Publications: ACT Digest 1945
Reports: Education for Television, by William Brockway 1944
Reports: Television: an address given by Sgt. C. Beier
Reports: Television in Hollywood: What it Means... 1945
Statement of aims and purposes (draft)
Authors League of America
Correspondence ad memoranda 1947-1952
Publications: Authors League News 1950-1952
Minutes: Council 1949-1950
Statement: TV Jurisdiction: a Proposal from the Radio Writers Guild 1952
Statement: Statement by Larry Marks...Closing day of ALA Reorganization Conference
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (a.k.a., Hollywood League for Democratic Action)
Correspondence 1937-1940
Membership dues, cards
Minutes: Cultural Commission 1936-1937
Publications: Program of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi...
Publications: A Statement
Publications: Hollywood Now 1939 November 13
Hollywood Writers Mobilization
American Writer's Credo: drafts, printed brochure 1943
Correspondence: general 1942-1946
Correspondence: Communique 1942-1943
Correspondence: Hollywood Quarterly 1945
Correspondence: Thomas Mann
Events: Folk Music Festival (proposed) 1943-1944
Events: Writers Congress, U.C.L.A.: Correspondence 1943
Events: Writers Congress, U.C.L.A.: Papers: Are the muses mute? by Milton Merlin 1943
Events: Writers Congress, U.C.L.A.: Memoranda, minutes 1943
Events: Writers Congress, U.C.L.A.: Printed programs 1943
Events: Writers Congress seminar 1944
Events: Shostakovich War Symphony: Printed program 1942
Memoranda, general circa 1943
Minutes: Conference Committee 1943
Minutes: Continuations and Steering Committee 1943
Minutes: Educational Committee 1943
Minutes: Executive Council 1944-1945
Publications: HWM: Today and Tomorrow (17 pp.) 1945
Publications: HWM Reports... (23 pp.) 1946
Publications: Communique 1942 February-April
Publications: Communique 1942 May-1945 May
Publications: HWM Bulletin (announcing formation) circa 1942
Publications: reprints of Congressional Record in which HWM is mentioned
Reports: Address for the first semi-annual report of HWM 1942
Reports: A tentative draft of the aims, purposes, and future program 1945 November 30
Reports: Report of the Resolutions Committee 1943
Service assignments for period (lists) 1944-1945
Speeches and programs: Outlines, flyers 1942-1943
Statement of the purposes and policies of the HWM 1945
Survey of opinion: sample form
Writings, misc.
Hollywood Writers Mobilization Steering committee (minutes) 1943 March 6
National Television Committee (of the Authors League of America)
Agreements and contracts 1950
Correspondence: general 1948-1952
Correspondence: Oliver Garrett 1949-1950
Correspondence: Oscar Hammerstein II 1948
Meeting minutes: Western Branch 1949-1950
Meeting notes: Eastern Branch 1948-1950
Meeting notes: Grievance Committee 1950
Meeting notes: Western Branch 1948-1950
Membership
Memoranda 1948-1951
Notes: on telephone reports from Oliver Garrett 1950-1951
Notes: handwritten, from various meetings 1950-1951
Reports 1949
National Television Committee (of the Authors League of America) collective bargaining agreement (Television Writers Guild) 1950
Radio Writers Guild (of the Authors League of America)
Agreements and contracts (incl. proposals) 1947-1949
Constitution and by-laws
Contract negotiations: American Association of Advertising Agencies 1946
Correspondence, general 1946-1951
Correspondence, general 1952-1953
Correspondence and memoranda: Erik Barnouw 1949-1952
Correspondence and memoranda: May Bolhower 1951-1952
Correspondence and memoranda: Hector Chevigny 1943-1953
Correspondence and memoranda: Mike Davidson 1949-1952
Correspondence and memoranda: Paul Franklin 1950-1953
Correspondence and memoranda: Hugh Jones 1951
Correspondence and memoranda: Milton J. Kramer 1949
Correspondence and memoranda: Roy Langham 1947-1950
Correspondence and memoranda: Ira Marion 1951-1952
Correspondence and memoranda: Larry Marks 1950-1952
Correspondence and memoranda: Sam Moore 1948-1951
Correspondence and memoranda: Don Quinn 1946
Correspondence and memoranda: James Stabile 1949-1950
Correspondence and memoranda: Sheldon Stark 1949-1952
Financial reports 1946-1952
Legal brief, California Supreme Court, Weitzenkorn v. Lesser 1952
Letterhead, blank (w. names of officers)
Lists: Writers credits 1945-1949
Lists: National Free Lance Market 1946 1951
Membership 1946-1951
Memoranda, general 1942-1950
Memoranda, general 1951-1954
Memoranda: Candidates for elections 1945-1953
Memoranda: from Merlin 1946-1951
Meeting minutes: Eastern Regional Council 1949-1952
Meeting minutes: Western Regional Council 1946-1949
Meeting minutes: Western Regional Council 1950-1952
News clippings
Notes: National Executive Committee meetings 1952
Publications: News from the R.W.G. 1946-1947
Publications: Bulletin from the Radio Writers Guild 1945-1949
Publications: The Radio Writer (R.W.G., Western Region) 1947-1951
Publications: The Scriptwriter (R.W.G., Eastern Region) 1949
Publications: The Radio Writers Guild: What It Is and What It Does (brochure) circa 1940s
Publicity
Reports: to Council, Western Region
Reports: to membership, from Merlin 1948-1952
Resolutions
Screen Writers Guild (of the Authors League of America)
Publications: Guild Bulletin (scattered issues) 1941-1950
Miscellaneous papers 1941-1949
Miscellaneous papers 1950-1953
Writers Guild of America, West
Constitution and by-laws
Correspondence 1964
Memoranda 1953-1956
Publications: WGAw Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1 1954
Residual statements 1956-1995
Television writing credits 1956
Television market list 1959
Miscellaneous organizations
American Federation of Radio Artists: sample contract
Dramatists Guild: Publication, The Dramatists Guild, what it Is and what it Does 1947
Film Industry Mass Meeting: press release 1944
H.I.C.C.A.S.P 1946
National Association of Broadcast Unions and Guilds 1949
National Entertainment Industry Council 1943
Radio and Television Directors Guild 1950-1953
Union contracts, unidentified
Screen Extras Guild Television Commercials Agreement 1966-1969
Blacklisting
Correspondence: Rep. Clyde Doyle 1954
Correspondence: Jay Kanter-Irving Paley 1954
Correspondence: Don Quinn (letters on behalf of Merlin) 1954
Correspondence: Letters in defense of Milton Merlin 1954
Correspondence: M. Merlin to David Miller, Young & Rubicam; defending self against charges 1953 June 19
Correspondence: M. Merlin to Bill Wheeler, various drafts of letter disavowing Communist ties 1953
Legal brief: Proposed brief for amici curiae, Supreme Court of the U.S.; J.H. Lawson vs. U.S.; Dalton Trumbo vs. U.S. 1949 October
News clippings: re: accusations against M. Merlin 1953-1954
Publications: Sponsor, Why we dislike Red Channels 1951 October 08
Publications: Saturday Review, Whittaker Chambers and his 'witness' 1953 May 24
Publications: The Progressive, McCarthy: a documented record 1954 April
Publications: Frontier, The Hollywood Story 1954 May
Publications: The Nation, Blacklist = black market, by Dalton Trumbo 1957 May 04
News clippings: various testimonies before H.U.A.C. (blacklisting) 1947 October
News clippings: Merlin's testimony before H.U.A.C. (blacklisting) 1953 November
Alert: A Journal of Facts and Ideas to Fight for Freedom (blacklisting) 1951 October
News clippings: Blacklisting in general 1950 1953 1956
Correspondence in Defense of Milton Merlin against the Un-American Activities Committee 1953 June 16-1955 April 04
Un-American Activities Committee Correspondence 1954 March 15-April 07
Merlin Letters in Defense of accusations as being a member of the Communist Party 1953 July 15-1954 March 25
Correspondence
Agents
William Morris Agency 1946 August 27
Music Corporation of America (MCA) 1954-1962
Radio and Television Exchange: list of actors actresses represented 1958
General Artists Corporation 1963
John F. Dugan Enterprises 1965-1966
Family
Milton Merlin to mother 1924
Milton Merlin to parents 1925
Milton Merlin to mother 1926
Milton Merlin to mother 1934-1943
Milton Merlin-Barbara Merlin 1948 1952
Milton and Barbara Merlin to family, from Hong Kong 1972
Milton Merlin to Mark Merlin 1971-1973
Kenneth Smitten (father of Barbara Merlin) 1950-1955
Merlin family to Pres. Gerald R. Ford, protesting pardon of Richard Nixon 1974
Research
Researchers: Milton Ferguson (Halls of Ivy log) 1991 December 28
Researchers: Sam Frank (Ronald Colman biographer) 1980-1991
Researchers: Sam Frank 1992-1993
General
General circa 1920s-1930s
World War II: Richard Diggs, Office of War Information 1942
World War II: Defense Council, City of Los Angeles: re: unidentified radio program) 1943 January 15
World War II: Draft Board 1943
World War II: Geoffrey Bridson, BBC 1943
World War II: Army Signal Corps 1943
General correspondence, unidentified 1944
Barbara Smitten (Merlin)-Ruthrauff & Ryan 1944
Friends and relatives: general 1954-1979
Budd Bankson (re: current television projects) 1965 July 24
British Broadcasting Corporation: re: interview for television film on Ronald Colman 1978 May
Condolence letter to Benita Hume Colman, on behalf of Merlins 1958 May 22
Juliet Colman, re: biography of Ronald Colman 1973
Theodore Des Loges, re: proposed TV series 1952 November 11
Bruce Fowler, CBS Television (re: television projects) 1965 July
Paul and Virginia Franklin 1958-1979
Milton Geiger, re: Winnie Rawls 1964
Milton Merlin to H.H. (H. Hulett?) 1963-1969
Les Kaufman (re: idea for television project) 1968 June 24
Gordon Knox, re: proposed Colman TV series 1952
Alan Mowbray 1949
H.O. (Haim Obadie) 1971-1973
Irving Settel, re: publication of Halls of Ivy script in anthology 1956 September 06
Jimmy Weldon (incomplete letter)
Frank Woodruff, Young & Rubicam: re: unsold pilots 1951 December 28
Miscellaneous Correspondence 1946 July 18-1967 July 01
Santa Monica Bay Music Association Correspondence 1931 October 02
Publications
On the Air from Hollywood circa 1940s
What every Young Musician Should Know, by Meredith Willson 1938
Cities with Standard Radio Broadcasting Stations--United States and Canada (map) 1941
Office of War Information, When Radio Writes for War 1943
Radio-Television News: four issues 1945-1947
Radio Is Yours, by Jerome Spingarn 1946
Television: The Business Magazine of the Industry 1946-02
Television in the United States, Television Digest (map) 1953
This Was Television, 1956-1957, TV Guide 1957
Subscriber's Choice, Subscription TV of Southern California 1964 October
Publications on Writers in Hollywood 1939 November 17-1954 September 28
Miscellaneous Publications 1939 November 17-1954 September 28
Film Material (publications) 1935 March 04-1937 October 23
Recreation-a Resource of War 1943 1955 August 22
Teaching and speaking engagements
Announcement: Salute to our Russian Ally, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles 1943 November
School for Writers, Authors League of America, Hollywood, CA 1942-1944
Conference on American-Russian Cultural Exchange, U.C.L.A. 1945
Unidentified venue, possibly University of Southern California: correspondence 1948 December 07
Writing for Television, Pasadena (CA) Playhouse: Brochures 1953
Writing for Television, Pasadena (CA) Playhouse: Correspondence 1953
Writing for Television, Pasadena (CA) Playhouse: Notes 1953
Writing for Television, Pasadena (CA) Playhouse: Student lists 1953
Columbia College, Chicago: letter, re: upcoming class 1957 March 19
Anatomy of Writing for Television, UCLA Extension (letter regarding the Merlins appearance as guest lecturers for one class meeting) 1983
The Breen-Merlin Modern Workshop: notes
Television writing workshops, n.e.c.: background material
Writings, misc.
Book reviews, by M. Merlin
Poetry, by M. Merlin
Poetry, by M. Merlin circa 1923-1926
Prose, by M. Merlin circa 1923-1926
News articles by M. Merlin: Santa Monica Evening Outlook and Sunday Morning Outlook circa 1920s
Column: Eventful Days for Westways (M. Merlin) 1934-1935
Book reviews (M. Merlin): correspondence, re: review of A. MacLeish's Fall of the City 1937 May 30
Book reviews (M. Merlin): The Hospital, by Kenneth Fearing, (typed draft) circa 1939
I Lost my Guts at Christmas (re: M. Merlin's appendectomy) circa 1940s
Radio reviews (B. Merlin): Radio-Television News: correspondence, typed drafts 1946
Radio reviews (B. Merlin): Radio-Television News: printed reviews 1946
For the Love of Music: a mini-memoir (M. Merlin?) 1978 June 21
Partial Scripts and Notes
"May Flavin Notes" (script)
The Heroes (partial script) 1939 April 03
Don Quinn Title Art
Abraham Lincoln Collects a Dividend (musical score)
Series 5: Calendars and Diaries
Loose pages 1942-1996
1942 Calendar
1944 Calendar
1945 Calendar
1946 Calendar
1956 Calendar
1957 Calendar
1958 Calendar
1959 Calendar
1960 Calendar
1961 Calendar
1964 Calendar
1965 Calendar
1970 Calendar
1971 Calendar
1971 Journal (Part 1)
1971 Journal (Part 2)
1972 Calendar and Diary (Part 1)
1972 Calendar (Part 2)
1972 Journal
1973 Calendar
1974 Calendar
1975 Calendar
1976 Calendar
1977 Calendar
1978 Calendar
1979 Calendar
1980 Calendar
1981 Calendar
1982 Calendar
1983 Calendar
1984 Calendar
1985 Calendar
1986 Calendar
1987 Calendar
1988 Calendar
1989 Calendar
1990 Calendar
1993 Calendar
1994 Calendar
1995 Calendar
1996 Calendar
Bound volumes 1941-1964
1938 Calendar and Diary
1947 Calendar and Diary
1949 Calendar and Diary
1950 Calendar and Diary
1951 Calendar and Diary
1952 Calendar and Diary
1953 Calendar and Diary
1954 Calendar and Diary
1956 Calendar and Diary
1963 Calendar and Diary
1964 Calendar and Diary
Other Material
Pocket Organizers 1977 1981 1985-1986
Notebooks 1929 1982-1986
Daily Planners 1926 1932 1937
Address and Telephone Books
Calendars 1933-1938
Collection of Internal Revenue circa 1940s
Stark Desk Calendar Pad 1937
Series 6: Sound Recordings
Halls of Ivy-Glory Golightly and Athlete's Brain 1954 July 16
Halls of Ivy-Reappointment undated
Halls of Ivy-Art Student undated
Halls of Ivy-Changing Professors and Professor Maxwell "A Pipe Course" 1954 August 28
Halls of Ivy-Mummy Nappers and Mlle from the Sorbonne 1954 July 3
Halls of Ivy-Warren's Romance and Old Professor Forgets his Umbrella 1954 July 03
Halls of Ivy-Hall in the Kitchen and The Voice of the Ivy Vines 1954 July 17
Halls of Ivy-Easy Fix and Lifemanship 1954 July 30
Halls of Ivy-Calhoun Gaddy and Planter's Punch 1954 July 16
Halls of Ivy-His Father's Image and Her Sister's Keeper 1954 July 17
Halls of Ivy-Faculty Follies 1 and 2 1954 September 19
Final Examinations and ...in South Dakota 1954 July 30
Fipple Flute and Note the Quote 1954 July 16
Halls of Ivy-Mrs. Why? and Dr. Spatzen 1954 July 04
Halls of Ivy-Stolen First Edition and Jazz from 455... 1954 August 28
Halls of Ivy-Dr. Halls Baby and The Wellman's Comes to Dinner undated
Wrong Credits and Professor Huntley and Linda 1954 August 24
Halls of Ivy-Korngold: Violin Concerto Heifetz and Coconuts 1954 July 03