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: Kerbala: The Shia Moslem Mystery Play of Hasan and Hussein, Land of No Return, and The Last Flight of 1971
Title: I'm Dying, Egypt
Title: California
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
Documents describe Collection Purchase History and Laflin Family History
Volume One Chapters #1-13
Title: If You Touch Them They Vanish (from the Novel of Gourveneur Morris)
Titles Include: Ba, Ba, Bakshish or Goldie-Sphinx and the Three Pyrs, American Colony Applegate, Dining Out (Stapled script and hand written note stating 'From Diminutive Drama by Maurice(?) Baring 1912) and Advice to Authors (Played for the The Society of Midland Authors 57th Annual Dinner and Awards)
Title: Back to Nassau Hall
Original Play Script and a Photocopied copy included within the folder.
Volume Two Chapters 14-24