This collection, divided into 4 series, primarily contains the written play scripts of Louis Ellsworth (Ells) Laflin Jr. (Series One). The additional material within the collection include the written and visual materials of PlayReaders Theatre Group (Series 2) and a more general assortment of both B&W and Color photographs (Series Three) capturing the different facets of the greater Lake Forest community. Alongside the creative and graphic documents, the last series shows June Kennedy Laflin's, Ells Laflin's wife, small assemblage of travel scrapbooks. Overall, this collection shows the dramatic impact the Laflin family has had on Lake Forest College and the community as a whole.
Laflin, EllsTitle: The Kingmaker
Title: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (A Tragedy by Robert Browning)
Titles Include: Gaining a God of Goodness and Drake's Drum
Titles Include: The Other Side of the Wall, Palamon and Arcite (or Love Conquers All), and The Pass Over Christianity Plot.
Titles Include: The Lorenzo Bunch Dramatized from the Novel of Booth Tarkington (Should be noted this play was co-written with C. Blevins Davis) and 1966 (May to June) Losing of the Lord of Love
Titles Include: Forward to Solomon and The Devil Obliges
Titles Include: The Centaur and The Chain Reaction
Documents describe Collection Purchase History and Laflin Family History
Titles of Plays Included: Swine, The First Friday, and The Red Cross Story or 'Tutti Fratelli' (All Men are Brothers) 1959