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Autograph manuscript, in black and violet ink, with changes and passages crossed out.  Partial copy only, with two of four acts, separately paper-bound.  Act I., partially paginated, [12] pp.  Act II., 22 pp. On the verso of the title page, in pencil, is a list of the characters, including Bertha Bascombe, as she is called in Foster's 1872 version.

Typescript (black and red inks, single-spaced) play script, clip pin bound in brown paper boards (front detached) of American Play Company,  Inc., New York.

Letter-size playscript in four parts, paper-bound with clip pins.  On cover, first part ("Act First"), the title in ink and "Act First," "Bronson Howard" in older faded pencil, and "1877" in darker, newer pencil.  Part I opens in manuscript with one page of characters, one of scenes listed, and one page of scene plots/plats, stage plans in detail.  The rest of the play in parts for each act is a combination of manuscript and typewritten, heavily revised pages.

Three-part typescript play script, with red-pencil underlining. Each part bound by clip-pins in blue sheets of "Rosenfield Typwriting" and stamped "Return to Samuel French...." Act I., 31 pp.; Act II., 42 pp.; and Act III., 37 pp. No changes to these pages, and on the back of Part III in pencil: "Mr. West."

Original typescript on thin paper, in black ink with red ink stage directions.  four acts separately paginated.  On last page (4-20), handwritten note in ink: "Final speech not right! Am re-doing it.  G.H.L."

Typescript, letter size. Stage directions in red ink.

Two typescripts, one "Fog" and the other "Thirst," in a folder with "second copies Early One Acts of O'Neill" written on the cover in pencil. Bookplate on the upper right of the inside cover.

Three copies. Handwritten blue and black ink manuscript on 9.5" x 6" lined, punched notebook paper, 36 pp., unsigned. From a folder titled "Rime of the Ancient Mariner/ By Eugene O'Neill, Never published. This is one of only two manuscripts in existence."  Inside front cover of the folder is Leverton's bookplate. Original typescript, elite type and single-spaced, and in two columns, 23 numbered pages.  The paper is watermarked "Whiting's."  Carbon copy of typescript.

Typescript in black with stage directions in red. Bound in a Samuel French folder.

Carbon copy typescript of four-act play, on onion skin paper.  Variously paginated. In a blue Samuel French binder, with clip pins.

Original typescript, on thin paper, in red and black ink. Eight-act tragedy. Bound in tan Samuel French binder with its rights statement. Variously paginated.

Mimeographed play script, hard bound (red cloth), with three acts, variously paged. On title-page, lower left: "To be returned to Samuel French... New York City, NY." Following the title-page there is a page of characters and scenes, the next three pages the "Property Plot," a page of the "Light Plot," and a page of the "Dress Plot." This copy shows water damage at the bottom, but no text lost and pages not stuck together.

2 copies. Original typescript, corrected in pencil, letter-size, and carbon copy, 18 pp. It is in a Leverton folder labeled "Anthologies: An Evening in Sorrento."

Original typescript one-act in red and black ink, 41 pp., with three pages of introductory material following the title-page: Characters; Time-Place-Scene-Note; and p. "(0)" immediately prior to p. 1, setting the scene, or background.  Bound in a tan folder, stamped both lower right front cover and lower right title-page "To be returned to Samuel French...."

Lined manuscript copy book, 10" tall by 8" wide, two signatures sewn together in brown wrappers, though only the front wrapper of he first signature and the back cover of the second survive.  Act 1, 22 pp., Act 2, 28 pp.  On the front cover, in tall, underlined ink script, "The Wizard Skiff/Prompt Book."  In pencil, lower right, "by Augustine [sic] Daly."  Stamped "T. Goodwin, No. 7/ Vandams/ New York."  The title-page reads: "W. Wheatley/The Wizard Skiff/or the/ Massacre of Scio/ A nautical and romantic Melodrama/ in Two Acts./Partly founded on the massacre of Scio, and/partly on a popular superstition prevalent/in the Greek Isles-/Written for Mad'lle. Celeste, by the author of/ The Spirit Bride" etc. -"

Original trypescript (black with red pencil underlining, letter size, in three parts, with clip-pinned blue paper covers. Stamped "to be returned to Samuel French..." on cover front. The other two parts' covers are marked "Rosenfield Stenography..." Part I includes a title-page, "Cast of Characters" page, and Act I. script, 31 pp. Part II., Act II., includes 27 pp. Part III., Act III., has 22 pp. The front cover of Part I. is marked in pencil "1887."

Partial package, apparently for a thesis (on list of such Dramatic production Theses, elsewhere in collection). Part II, sections 1 (prompt script) and 2 (scene designs, three color elevations, three plans, equipment set-up charts, light plot; costuming, with twenty color plates; properties; music; and make-up).

Production reports on the play which ran at Northwestern: make-up, technicians, and properties.

Stage Crew Report and fold-out plans and reports for properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and make-up.

Prompt script, typed, with ink annotations and stage diagrams.  This preceded by a pasted-in program, "March 21-22-23" and directed by Leverton, at the Northwestern University Theatre.  The program note is by Marguerite Koneckny.