The John Patrick collection provides insights into the craft of the writer. This the reader can discern from the numerous insertions, notes, and corrections in the manuscripts, especially in the three plays contained in this collection - Good as Gold (1956); Juniper and the Pagans (1959); and the original typescript draft of The Hasty Heart (1944). Of further interest is the material dealing with the motion picture, The World of Suzie Wong for which Patrick wrote the screenplay. Included in the Wong folders is extensive correspondence on three aspects of the filming of this picture - location problems, star rights and prerogatives, and censorship questions.
This collection also contains, in published form, Patrick's 1947 play, The World of Mary Surratt, and Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan's Mr. Roberts, with manuscript notes by Patrick who adapted the play for motion pictures. There are two pages of notes on dialogue of Patrick's most successful play, The Teahouse of the August Moon. Photographs of Patrick himself, the Broadway cast headed by David Wayne and John Forsythe, casts all over the world, and the stars of the motion picture version of the play, Glenn Ford and Marlon Brando, are also retained with these papers. Foreign language books of Patrick's works are included too: The Teahouse of the August Moon in Greek; and The Hasty Heart in Telugu, Arabic, and Japanese.
