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Ardrey (Robert) papers
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box 1, folder 1

Ephemera 1930-1959

General Physical Description note: 16 items.

Scope and Content

Includes press sheet for Quentin Durward (MGM, 1955).
box 1, folder 2

Newspaper clippings 1954-1959

General Physical Description note: 25 items.
box 1, folder 3

Office of War Information scripts 1943

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 1, folder 4

Photographs undated

General Physical Description note: 64 items.
box 1, folder 5

The Stevenson Story 1952

Scope and Content

Includes research and script material for a campaign film for Adlai Stevenson's 1952 presidential run.
box 1, folder 6

X-ray pictures of Ardrey 1958

box 1, folder 7

God and Texas -- one-act playscript ca. 1943

General Physical Description note: 23 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
box 1, folder 8

How to Get Tough About it -- two playscripts 1937

box 1, folder 9

House on Fire -- playscript undated

General Physical Description note: 118 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
box 1, folder 10

Eric Batter -- playscript and notes undated

box 1, folder 11

Casey Jones -- playscript 1936

General Physical Description note: 130 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 1

Jeb -- playscript 1945

General Physical Description note: 131 leaves. Typescript (carbon) with holograph corrections.
box 2, folder 2

Leuchtfeuer (German translation of Thunder Rock) -- published playscript 1954

General Physical Description note: 112 p.
box 2, folder 3

My Friends and I -- playscript undated

General Physical Description note: 132 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 4

Salome (Columbia, 1963) -- screenplay undated

General Physical Description note: 201 leaves. Typescript on loose sheets.
box 2, folder 5

Shadow of Heroes -- playscript 1958

General Physical Description note: 127 pp. Mimeographed.
box 2, folder 6

Sometimes I Love You (MGM, unproduced) -- screenplay 1951

General Physical Description note: 138 leaves. Mimeographed.
box 2, folder 7

Strangerman's Bay -- playscript undated

General Physical Description note: 83 leaves. Typescript on loose sheets.
box 2, folder 8

Fenelon by Emmet Lavery (Munich, Germany: Densch) [inscribed by the author] undated

box 3, folder 1

Correspondence with Brandt & Brandt Literary Agents 1934-1937

General Physical Description note: 49 items.
box 3, folder 2

Correspondence with George Abbott 1935

General Physical Description note: 23 items.
box 3, folder 3

Correspondence relating to business and the Guggenheim Fellowship 1936-1937

General Physical Description note: 41 items.

Scope and Content

Includes letters from Harold Clurman and Theresa Helburn.
box 3, folder 4

Correspondence, personal 1943

General Physical Description note: 4 items.

Scope and Content

Includes handwritten letter from Thornton Wilder.
box 3, folder 5

Correspondence, personal 1946-1950

General Physical Description note: 20 items.

Scope and Content

Includes copy of a letter from Ardrey to Esther Bonner, headmistress of his son's school, who had accused him of being a Communist.
box 3, folder 6

Correspondence, personal 1951

General Physical Description note: 30 items.

Scope and Content

Includes copy of a letter from Ardrey to Esther Bonner denying that he is a Communist; copy of a letter from Ardrey to Elia "Gadg" Kazan about Kazan's upcoming appearance before HUAC, March 22, 1952; letter from Michael Redgrave.
box 3, folder 7

Correspondence, personal 1952

General Physical Description note: 10 items.

Scope and Content

Includes note from Adlai Stevenson, December 11, 1952.
box 3, folder 8

Correspondence, personal 1953

General Physical Description note: 44 items.

Scope and Content

Includes post card from William Shirer; letter from Montgomery Clift;
box 3, folder 9

Correspondence, personal 1954

General Physical Description note: 14 items.
box 3, folder 10

Correspondence relating to loyalty 1954

General Physical Description note: 9 items.

Scope and Content

Includes copy of a letter from Ardrey to MGM refuting allegations that he is a Communist, so that he can work on Quentin Durward; copy of a letter from Ardrey to the California Committee on Un-American Activities defending his participation in the Committee for the First Amendment.
box 3, folder 11

Correspondence, personal 1955

General Physical Description note: 28 items.
box 3, folder 12

Correspondence, business 1956-1967

General Physical Description note: 33 items.
box 3, folder 13

Correspondence, personal 1956-1958

General Physical Description note: 30 items.
box 3, folder 14

Correspondence, personal 1959

General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 3, folder 15

Correspondence, personal undated

General Physical Description note: 25 items.

Scope and Content

Includes handwritten letter from Thornton Wilder.
box 3, folder 16

Christmas cards circa 1953

General Physical Description note: 18 items.

Scope and Content

Includes three cards from Michael Redgrave and family; card from Fredric March and Florence Eldridge.
box 4, folder 1

Contracts and related correspondence 1931-1938

General Physical Description note: 15 items.
box 4, folder 2

Contracts and related correspondence 1944-1947

General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 4, folder 3

Business and tax records 1950

General Physical Description note: 22 items.
box 4, folder 4

Business and tax records 1951

General Physical Description note: 44 items.
box 4, folder 5

Business and tax records 1956

General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 4, folder 6

Business and tax records 1957

General Physical Description note: 29 items.
box 4, folder 7

Business and tax records 1958

General Physical Description note: 19 items.
box 4, folder 8

Bank stubs 1951-1952

box 4, folder 9

Bank stubs 1953-1954

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