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box 1-13

Rob Wagner's Script. A file of the magazine, 1929-1941.

box 14-18

Correspondence, 1925-1942.

Scope and Contents note

Much of this correspondence is in reference to the magazine Script and includes letters from famous movie personalities, some of which are here listed:

Charles Chaplin
Bette Davis
Jimmy Durante
Edward Arnold
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Tom Mix
Randolph Scott
Gloria Swanson
Herbert Marshall
Adolphe Menjou
Noah Beery
Norman Bel Geddes
Eddie Cantor
Joan Crawford
Bebe Daniels
Cecil B. DeMille
Walt Disney
Hedda Hopper
Jean Harlow
Jean Hersholt
Walter
Huston
Darryl Zanuck
Edward Everett Horton
Frederick Marsh
Kenneth Macgowan
Mary Pickford
Louella Parson
Edward G. Robinson
Sigmund Romburg
Spencer Tracy
Lawrence Tibbett
Jack Warner (tracings).

General note

Correspondence of movie people has added entries in catalog.

box 16

Literary figures.

Scope and Contents note

Included with the correspondence is 1 folder of letters from prominent literary figures:

William Saroyan, 15 items.
Ogden Nash, 2 items.
Edgar Guest, 1 item.
Irvin S. Cobb, 4 items.
Thomas B. Costain, 7 items.
Theodore Dreiser, 2 items.

General note

All correspondence is filed alphabetically by separate items, except this folder which is in one group under Literary figures.

box 19-22

Manuscripts by Rob Wagner. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: Holograph and typescript (some carbon). 135 items.

Scope and Contents note

These manuscripts are mostly either stories intended for film adaptation or titles written for silent films.

box 23

Manuscripts by various authors. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: Holograph and typescript (some carbon).

Some of the manuscripts are unidentified but most include both title and author.
With this: 1 manuscript each by William Saroyan and Peter B. Kyne.

box 24

Ephemera, miscellaneous. 1919.

General Physical Description note: 45 items.

Mostly literature referring to Robert Wagner and his magazine Script.
With this: 1 envelope of articles, clippings, pamphlets, correspondence etc. regarding the campaign against censorship in movies.

box 17

Letters from, to and regarding Upton Sinclair, 1926-1939.

30 letters from Sinclair to Wagner.
6 letters from Wagner to Sinclair and 17 letters from various persons regarding Sinclair.
Also, 5 pieces of related ephemera.

box 27

Records of Rob Wagner's radio program of Script's birthday party.

General Physical Description note: 11 pieces. (9" × 16" and 2" × 12" records).

box 26

Original drawings, sketches, layouts, illustrations, posters etc. by Rob Wagner, 1892-1925.

General Physical Description note: 61 pieces.

Scope and Contents note

Mostly intended for reproduction in magazines such as Script, The Royal, Criterion, and Madame.

box 36

Original drawing for Rob Wagner's Script, by Walt Disney. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: Ink on mat board, covered by cellophane.

box 25

Articles and editorials clipped from Script, and arranged chronologically. Also articles by Florence Wagner clipped from Script.

box 28

Clippings - 1930s.

Clippings and Correspondence, v.d.

box 29

1925, 1936-1939.

box 30

1922, 1935-1939.

box 31

1928, 1933.

box 32

1923, 1918.

box 33

1938, 1926-1928.

box 34

1933-1934, 1915.

box 35

1924, 1919.

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