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Prompt script for Belle Lamar, apparently by director John F. Baird. Galley proofs for script, pasted onto three-ring punched paper, with handwritten annotations (more than one hand). Flyer included but top half is torn. Unconfirmed that this was a Northwestern University Theatre production.

V. 2 is a prompt script with a printed version pasted onto the notebook pages, and heavily annotated with instructions.

This production at Northwestern July 1937 was staged by Garrett Leverton, according to the program, p. 4, v. 1. p. 10 of v. 1 includes a handwritten note of thanks from Glaspell, the author. There are twelve 4" x 6" b & w photographs of stage settings, etc., v. 1, pp. 77-82.

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."

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".

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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...."

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."

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.

Typescript, on thin paper, variously paginated among the four acts. Bound in a once-yellow Rialto Service Bureau clip-pinned paper cover/folder. Soiled cover, fore-edges of pages. Moderately altered over productions in red, black, and orange pencil.

Typescript, black ink, 21 pp.

Typescript, black ink, letter-size, 85 pp.

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.

Original typescript on thin paper, in red and black ink. A page listing characters and scenes following the title-page. Three acts, variously paginated. bound in a blue Samuel French folder, with clip pins.