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Letter addressed to Leverton, includes a carbon copy index of play scripts.

24 cards for a 16 week course. Includes handwritten notes.

Carbon copy and typescripts with suggestions and notes for prospective classes on theater production.

Four handwritten ink manuscript parts, one for each of four acts, with tan paper covers sewn together with slightly darker tan thread.  The cover for Act I.'s part reads "Follime" in ink, with "Comedy in 4 Acts by Augustin Daly" and above in upper right corner, "1877." The text is in blue ink, with underlining and notes in red pencil and black ink.

Typescript on onion skin paper, in black and red inks. The script is preceded by one page with a Note, one page with an Author's Foreward, one page for characters, and one page of synopsis of scenes.  Stage directions in the script are in red type.

Typescript. Title-page in pieces, copied and put in plastic sleeve.

Carbon copy typescript. Cover is a manilla file folder, with two clip pins to bind it to the script.  On the front cover, typed "The Warrens of Virginia" and in pencil script: "Dear Garrett - Here's a present.  Keep this.  It's a copy of an authentic script - 4 Nov. 37 BHC."

Diploma for Bachelor of Arts from DePauw University

Typescript. Only two copies of this play are known to be in existence, Harvard has the other." Letter from Leverton to Ernest Johnson, available in deed of gift file.

Carbon copy of typescript, preceeded by three pages in pencil script. Some ink and pencil annotations. Loosely laid in a Samuel French folder, with some pages tied by ribbon or clipped together.

2 items: 1 copy typescript with some handwritten notes including the name "Bill Cronenwett" along the left side in red ink and "this script the property of marquens" (?) in blue ink at the right top of page. On verso of last page, a list of pencilled notes. 1 copied script, no marks.

Manuscripts and typescripts of course examinations, including answer keys.

Typescript preceded by two playbills for productions 1903 (Castle Square theater) and 1907 (Payton's Lee Ave. Theater). The playscript is heavily annotated with marks in pencil -- red, blue, and black.  some sections are crossed out. A Cast of Characters page precedes the script, with a stage plan drawn on the verso; other such blue-pencil plans precede each of the four acts. Each stage plan is signed "Lee Sterrett." The script is pin-clip bound with blue paper covers. The script's front cover is stamped "Shelf No. 8" and "From Leibler & Co....New York City."

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.

This collection documents the work of Garrett H. Leverton, who was a professor of speech and drama in addition to being a theater director. The collection contains play scripts that Leverton collected from various sources, potentially for an anthologized publication. The collection also contains curriculum and course notes that Leverton created for the instruction of speech, acting, and stage production in the 1920's and 1930's. Topics represented in the collection include dramatic arts, theater production, acting, and instruction in theater. Also included are prompt books, reports, and production notes for student productions at the Northwestern University Theatre from the 1930's. These reports include costume design sketches, crew member reviews, stage design, and playbills. Leverton's personal papers include correspondence, the bulk of which was exchanged with Barrett Clark, as well as his diplomas from DePauw University, Northwestern University, and Columbia University. There are many photographs included in the collection, both of scenes on stage as well as potraits of Leverton and other individuals, some identified.

Production package for a January and June (commencement) production of Ghosts, by the Seminar in Dramatic Production: typed prompt script with diagrams and photos of stage directions and appearance, and Part II, Technical Reports (Stage managers with working drawings and elevations, properties, costumes, and make-up.  Originally leather-bound, zip ring binder, stamped in gold "GHOSTS / Ibsen," included.

Playbills, newspaper clippings, and telegrams on the production of a play titled Gloriana.

Typescript, paper bound.

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 in an orange Samuel French clip-pin binder, with Leverton bookplate in inside front cover.