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Carbon copy black and red typescript for a one-act, with an original title-page and verso, six other pages of introductory material (Cast, Characters, Character descriptions, Note, and Scene. On Scene page at top in black pencil, a stage plan sketch. Bound in tan, with clip-pins, with title, author name, and address: "Care of Samuel French...," the address repeated on the title-page.

Mimeographed typescript, legal size, on onion-skin paper, with printed title-page partially missing (lower half; title and part of translator's name present). 56 pp. bound in folded-over peice of oil cloth, with clip pins through holes binding.  "1872" on front cover.

Single-spaced typescript, black ink only, of a three-act play, as translated. Unpaginated (34 leaves). In a folder labeled by Leverton "'SS Tenacity By Charles Vildrac English translation by Sidney Howard."

Legal sized typescript volume, hand stitched binding in thin paper. On cover: "Original" and "5 Acts" in blue pencil. One-page pencil "Song" inserted before Act IV, p. 13, with a note where it fits in the typescript.

Typewritten script, bound in yellow boards of Rialto Service Bureau, New York; stamped "from Co-National Plays, Inc.,... New York City"; "Burlesque" on front cover, center. Paginated Act I, 30 pp.; Act II, 23 pp.; Act III, 16 pp.

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. -"

Typescript, in black, elite single-spaced, 9 pp.

Original typescript of four-act play, variously paginated. On the title-page, typed: "Billy the Kid" and "Property of: Mrs. William Wood 318 West 51st Street New York City. In pencil: under the title "By Walter Woods" and "MS submitted by Barrett H. Clark Briarcliff Manor, N.Y." Pencilled in the upper left corner of the title-page, apparently in Barrett Clark's handwriting, "See Audrey Wood re copyright Lapsed last year".

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."