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Elsa Nessenson Papers

  • 6.1.15

Includes plays and short stories written by Nessenson. Correspondence and ephemera are also included.

Elsa Nessenson

Incoming Letters

Includes letters from the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Historical Society and the Tacoma Little Theater acknowledging gifts.

Ephemera

Includes travel brochures, the Bulletin of the Class of Ninety-Nine, Vassar College, and the 1913-1914 Annual Catalogue of Miss Round's School for Girls.

Biographical Information/Features

Includes a five-page typewritten biography by Erna S. Tilley, newspaper clippings, memorial items from Mrs. Agnes Nessenson, Elsa Nessenson's mother,and memorial clippings and matter for Elsa Nessenson.

Plays

Typewritten manuscripts, two copies of The Flame on the Hearth, one each of Her Majesty Decides and In the Secret Places. Includes three issues of The Drama magazine which reprinted In the Secret Places.

Plays

Typewritten manuscripts, three copies of The Verdict, copyright 1929, and one of The Owner's Wife, adapted from the short story of Booth Tarkington.

Incoming Letters

Includes letters from Yale about coursework and from The Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association about permissions and royalty payment.

Photographs

Includes two photgraphs mounted on card believed to be of Heinrich Conreid, and several of various stage productions and casts, some ca[tioned.

Ephemera

Includes issues of the Gadfly, published by the Great Books Foundation, issues of the Newsletter of the American Association of University Women, and the March 1914 Memorial Issue of the Round Table.

Memorabilia

Includes theater programs, handwritten notes, and a bluebook from a Lighting examination at Yale, held March 28, 1930.

Short Stories

Typewritten and handwritten manuscripts of short stories entitled The Little Count of Eichenfels, A Game of Hide and Seek, The Witch's Song, and Noblesse Oblige.

Incoming Letters

Includes letters regarding publication, appreciation from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences for a performance, and an award from Encyclopeaedia .-Britannica.

Writings

Notes and fragments, some handwritten, including work for Drama class at Columbia.

Writings (of Others)

Pages removed from various magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and The Ladies' Home Journal containg short stories and articles.