Box: 2 Fold: 22 Friends - Correspondence (Misc.)
@ Brown, George - ALS to PB, n.d. Refers to the opening of "Here Come the Clowns." Opened in New York, December 7, 1938.
@ Cole, John N. - ALS + envelope to PB and ESB. Postmarked 2/11/43.
@ Myers, Richard - ALS to PB, n.d., re "Here Come the Clowns."
@ Oliver, James - TLS to PB, 12/24/38; with comments on "Here Come the Clowns."
@ Selznick, Irene M. - TLS, 2 pp., 9/5/49. Expresses delight and interest after reading "Second Threshold."
Box: 2 Fold: 23 Friends - Newsclippings Box: 2 Fold: 24 Business/non-Social Correspondence Box: 2 Fold: 25 Fanmail (Misc. alphabetical) Box: 2 Fold: 26 Fanmail (Wilhelmina Stoddard) Box: 2 Fold: 27 Fanmail (Mary Tracy) Box: 2 Fold: 28 Unidentified Correspondence Box: 3 Fold: 1 "Here Come the Clowns" - Original Version: "After the Theatre" Box: 3 Fold: 2 "Here Come the Clowns" - Manuscript (Carbon) Box: 3 Fold: 3 "Here Come the Clowns" - Manuscript (copy) Box: 3 Fold: 4 "Here Come the Clowns" - Manuscript: Act 3 w/ CXs. Box: 3 Fold: 5 "Here Come the Clowns" - Manuscript: Act 5 Box: 3 Fold: 6 "Here Come the Clowns" - Manuscript w/ CXs Box: 3 Fold: 7 "Here Come the Clowns" - Notes for Herman Shumlin
@ See Roppolo on "Here Come the Clowns," p.87. The play was finally offered to Eddie Dowling who produced and starred in it as Dan Clancy.
Box: 3 Fold: 8 "Here Come the Clowns" - Notes by Philip Barry Box: 3 Fold: 9 "Here Come the Clowns" - Dwarf Scene: Outline Box: 3 Fold: 10 "Holiday" (Musical, 1968) - Correspondence Box: 3 Fold: 11 "Holiday" (Musical, 1968) - Script Box: 3 Fold: 12 "Holiday" (Musical, 1968) - Script Box: 3 Fold: 13 "Holiday"/"Happy New Year" (Musical, 1979) Box: 4 Fold: 1 "Holiday" (Musical, 1968) - Script Box: 4 Fold: 2 "Holiday" (Musical, 1968) - Notes & Clipping Box: 4 Fold: 3 "Hotel Universe" - Manuscript (Part 1 of 3) Box: 4 Fold: 4 "Hotel Universe" - Manuscript (Part 2 of 3) Box: 4 Fold: 5 "Hotel Universe" - Manuscript (Part 3 of 3) Box: 4 Fold: 6 "My Name is Aquilon" - Manuscript Box: 4 Fold: 7 "My Name is Aquilon" - Manuscript Fragment Box: 4 Fold: 8 "A Man of Taste" - Manuscript Box: 4 Fold: 9 "Philadephia Story" - Arabic translation Box: 5 Fold: 1 "Philadelphia Story" (Television, 1954) - Script Box: 5 Fold: 2 "Second Threshold" - Manuscripts: Early Notes
Box: 5 Fold: 3 "Second Threshold" - MSS entitled: "Stern Daughter"
@ ESB to Gill: "Brendan - I believe this is Philip's final draft of Second Threshold - and the one my son Phil and I would like to have printed in the book instead of the Sherwood version - If you will note in your reference to it - that the other version is with Samuel French for acting - I think these notes on the script were made in the Boston try out. I think they are my son Phil's writing - I think they can be ignored as they are not Philip Barry's writing & stick to the typescript which he gave to Alfred de Liagre, Jr. just before he died. Ellen."
Box: 5 Fold: 4 "Second Threshold" - MSS entitled: "Stern Daughter" Box: 5 Fold: 5 "Second Threshold" - Manuscript: Early Notes and Inspiration
@ Includes newsclipping that may also have inspired PB.
Box: 5 Fold: 6 "Second Threshold" - Manuscript: Act I Box: 5 Fold: 7.1 "Second Threshold" - Manuscript: Act II/ Final Scene Box: 5 Fold: 7.2 "Second Threshold" - Manuscript: Act II/ Final Scene Box: 5 Fold: 8 "Second Threshold" - Manuscript: Act II/ Final Scene Box: 5 Fold: 9 "Second Threshold" - Manuscript: Act II/ Final Scene Box: 5 Fold: 10 "Second Threshold" - Manuscript: Act II/ Final Scene Box: 5 Fold: 11 "Second Threshold" - Manuscript: Corrected by Philip Barry Box: 5 Fold: 12 "Second Threshold" - Script Corrected by Robert Sherwood Box: 5 Fold: 13 "Second Threshold" - MSS: Sherwood revision for publication Box: 5 Fold: 14 "Spring Dance" - MSS w/ corrections Box: 6 Fold: 1 "War in Heaven" - Manuscript Box: 6 Fold: 2 "War in Heaven" - Manuscript Box: 6 Fold: 3 "War in Heaven" - Manuscript: Fragments Box: 6 Fold: 4 "War in Heaven" - Book (w/ pages missing) Box: 6 Fold: 5 "The Wild Harps Playing" - MSS Box: 6 Fold: 6 "The Wild Harps Playing" - MSS Box: 6 Fold: 7 Speech: Yale Drama School 1934
Datespan: 12/24/38-9/5/49
DESCRIPTION: Contains miscellaneous correspondence from friends including -
Datespan: 1944-1971
DESCRIPTION: Contains newsclippings about friends and acquaintances of PB, including, Arthur Hopkins, Robert and Elizabeth Montgomery, Dorothy Parker, and Donald Ogden Stewart. Also includes an article by James V. Forrestal, US secretary of the Navy, "Will We Choose Naval Suicide Again?" (1944).
Datespan: 3/9/39-2/5/43
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence to PB from various organizations requesting donations and assistance. Includes TLS from Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, editors for "Twentieth Century Authors"; and from Walter O'Meara, chief of the psychological warfare branch of the US Office of Strategic Services.
c. 1938
DESCRIPTION: PB's play, "Here Come the Clowns," and his novel, "War in Heaven," both about the age-old battle between Good and Evil, invited a remarkable amount of correspondence to PB in the form of fanmail. See also the following folders of correspondence from one Wilhelmina Z. Stoddard and Mary Tracy.
July-August 1941
DESCRIPTION: Contains fanmail-type correspondence to PB, probably inspired by his 1938 works, "War in Heaven," and "Here Come the Clowns."
1933-34
DESCRIPTION: Contains fanmail-type correspondence to PB.
Datespan: 2/20/31-2/14/41
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 TLS, 2 ALS, 1 telegram from friends and family, not identified.
c.1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon TMs for "After the Theatre - A play in two acts," to be retitled later and performed as "Here Come the Clowns," opening at the Booth Theatre, N.Y., on December 7, 1938.
c.1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon of TMs for the play.
c.1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains mimeograph copy of the TMs. Includes autograph corrections in pencil on the script, probably by PB.
c. 1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon TMs with autograph notes in pencil, probably in PB's hand.
c. 1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains TMs for pages 11-25 of Act 5.
c. 1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon of TMs with autograph pencil corrections by PB. The front cover of the script is labelled in pencil, "Final Revised." The title has been altered, "Here Come the Clowns - A play in five scenes."
c.1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains pencil autograph notes by PB about the play. A note by ESB explains: "Notes for Herman Shumlin in talks about producing "Here Come the Clowns" - (Shumlin did not produce it). EB."
c. 1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains pencil autograph notes by PB apparently regarding the selection of a suitable title for the play.
1933 -1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 copies of TMs of the outline for the "dwarf scene" of the play. Includes newclipping of obituaries for Robert Ralston, a midget actor.
Datespan: 2/12/68-4/25/69
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence to ESB concerning the production of a musical version of "Holiday." Includes 1 TLS from Robert A. Freedman, Brandt & Brandt; 1 TLS from Albert W. Selden.
c.1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains mimeograph copy of the script showing autograph changes. Original play by PB, made into a musical by Burt Shevelove. This copy includes autograph note inserts by ESB.
c.1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains bound copy of the script. Includes 1 p., autograph notes by ESB.
1979
DESCRIPTION: Contains script for Shevelove's musical adaptation of PB's play, "Holiday." Retitled, "Happy New Year." Includes copy of the Offering Circular presented June 1, 1979 and amended August 15, 1979.
c.1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains copy of the script of PB's play, adapted into a musical by Burt Shevelove.
1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains autograph notes by ESB about the musical adaptation. Also, a clipping from the New York Times (2/5/68) concerning the Shevelove production.
c.1930
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon TMs with pencil autograph corrections and notes by PB. (This is part of a larger sheaf of manuscripts that has been divided into three consecutive folders for easier storage. Note: the pages are not consecutive.)
1930
DESCRIPTION: Contains TMs (some pages carbon, some original) with pencil autograph notes by PB. (Pages are not consecutive.)
1930
DESCRIPTION: Contains AMs notes by PB concerning the play. These pages were part of the sheaf of MSS pages in the two preceding folders 4:3 and 4:4.
1949
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon copy of TMs. This play was adapted by PB from a play by Jean-Pierre Aumont, "L'Empereur de Chine." It was performed by the Theatre Guild first in Boston under the title, "Figure of a Girl,", then in New York under the current title, opening on February 9, 1949.
1949
DESCRIPTION: Contains TMs, 2 pp.. A fragment of act 2, scene 2, pp.51-52.
1924
DESCRIPTION: Contains one of PB's earliest unpublished plays. AMsS in 3 bound sections. Very fragile; somewhat water-damaged.
DATE SPAN: [01/01/1939]? - [12/31/1980]?
DESCRIPTION: Contains book: "Philadelphia Story" in Arabic translation.
Aired 12/8/54
DESCRIPTION: Contains copy of script for the television production adapted by Philip Barry, Jr., produced by Martin Manulis, directed by Sidney Lumet.
c.1947-1950
DESCRIPTION: Contains early autograph and typed notes and outline for the play. Includes pencil AL from Barry to actor "Mr. Livessy," possibly Barrie Livesy or Jack Livesy.
c.1949
DESCRIPTION: Contains undated carbon TMs of the play in the early version entitled, "Stern Daughter." Includes autograph note from ESB to Brendan Gill, who was preparing his book, "States of Grace - Eight Plays by Philip Barry."
c.1949
DESCRIPTION: Contains another carbon copy of "Stern Daughter" (see copy in Folder 5:3).
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains AMs, 2 pp., possibly of a very early concept for the play. The main character, eventually to be called Josiah Brook and then Bolton, is named Jo Benjamin here.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains AMs, 3 pp., possibly of an early version of the scene setting for Act I. The main character is named Josiah Benjamin here.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains one of two versions of working scripts for the final scene of the play. This folder includes TMs and AMs by PB.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains the second of two working scripts by PB for Act II.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains script, partly AMs and TMs for the final scene of the play. Includes ANs note from ESB to Brendan Gill: "I think this was the rewrite of the final Josiah & Miranda scene..."
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains fragment of the final scene, partly AMs and TMs.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains TMs, 4 pp., a fragment of Act II Scene 3.
c.1948-49
DESCRIPTION: Contains copy of the script with extensive autograph and typed corrections by PB.
October 1951
DESCRIPTION: Contains mimeograph copy of the script with autograph corrections by Robert Sherwood who produced the play for the Theatre Guild. See Roppolo for a detailed history of the play (pp. 103-122).
3/2/51
DESCRIPTION: Contains manuscript of the play with editorial marks and printer specifications for publication. Includes preface written by Robert Sherwood. The play as revised by Sherwood was published by Harper, New York, 1951.
1936
DESCRIPTION: Contains TMs carbon with autograph corrections in pencil by PB. The play was adapted from one by Eleanor Golden and Eloise Barrangon, and opened in New York in August 1936.
Published 1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains the first of two parts of the complete TMs of PB's one and only novel, pp.1-123. The book was published by Coward-McMann, New York, 1938.
Published 1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains the second of two parts of the original TMs, pp.124-247.
1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 pp. TMs, for pp.219, 220 and 161A.
Published 1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains the published book. Pages 1-66 are torn out.
c.1936
DESCRIPTION: Contains TMs for the play. This version contains only two acts. Eventually "The Wild Harps Playing" became a three-act play in thirteen scenes. It was never accepted for production, although Act I was published in the Yale Literary Magazine, February 22, 1936. The play would provide the basis for the later play, "Liberty Jones," which opened at the Shubert Theatre, New York, February 5, 1941. (See Roppolo pp.95-98 for the history of both plays.)
1936
DESCRIPTION: Contains the three-act version of the play. Original TMs.
1934
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon copy of TMs, 12 pp., of speech written and delivered by PB to the Yale Drama School.
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