Paul Osborn Papers, 1926-1964

Contents List

Container Title
Box   1
Correspondence, 1926, Mar. 8 - 1964, Feb. 3, undated
Box   1
Business papers, 1932, Aug. 4 - 1962, May 4
Box   1
Contracts, 1929, Nov. 21 - 1959, July 21
Box   2
Musical, Mr. Brink, based on Osborn's play, On Borrowed Time, undated
Plays
A Bell for Adano
Box   2
Copy 1, 1944, Sept. 19
Box   2
Copy 2, 1944
Box   2
The Bridge, undated and , undated draft
Box   2
Film of Memory, undated
The Innocent Voyage
Box   2
Copy 1-2, undated
Box   3
Copy 3, undated
Maiden Voyage
Box   3
Copy 1-3, 1959, Feb.
Box   3
Copy 4, 1959, Mar.
Box   3
Copy 5, 1960, Oct. 18
Box   3
Copy 6-8, undated
Box   4
Copy 9-15, undated
Box   5
Copy 16-21, undated
Box   5
Drafts and misc. notes, undated
Box   5
Mary Hackett Swope, 1949, Feb. 14
Box   5
Meeting in Australia, undated
Mornings at Seven
Box   6
Copy 1, 1939, Sept. 11
Box   6
Copy 2, 1939, Nov.
Box   6
Copy 3 (incomplete), undated
Box   6
The New Suit, undated
Box   6
On Borrowed Time, undated
Box   6
Point of No Return, Copy 1-3, undated
Scarecrow on the Tree
Box   6
Copy 1, 1961, May 18
Box   7
Copy 2-5, 1961, May 31
Box   7
Copy 6-7, 1961, Oct. 27
Box   7
Copy 8, 1961, Nov. 17
Box   8
Copy 9-10, 1962, Feb. 5
Box   8
Draft, undated
Box   8
Act I draft, undated
Box   8
Incomplete draft sheets, undated
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Tomorrow's Monday
Box   8
Copy 1, undated
Box   9
Copy 2, undated
Box   9
The Vinegar Tree, 1930, Nov. 19
The World of Susie Wong
Box   9
Copy 1-6, 1958
Box   10
Annotated sheets and notes, 1958
Screenplays
Box   10
Cry Havoc, 1943, Mar. 11
Box   10
East of Eden, 1954, May 17
Box   10
Forever, undated
Box   10
Homecoming, 1947, Mar. 31
Box   10
Madame Curie, 1942, Dec. 21
Box   10
Mrs. Miniver, 1941, Oct. 18
Mornings at Seven
Box   11
Copy 1, undated
Box   11
Copy 2, incomplete, undated
The Old Man and the Sea
Box   11
Copy 1, 1955, June 14
Box   11
Copy 2, 1955
Box   11
Copy 3-4, 1956, Mar. 26
Box   11
Copy 5, 1957, June 1
Box   11
Story outline, 1954, June, draft sheets, misc. notes, , undated
Portrait of Jennie
Box   11
Copy 1, 1947, Mar. 12
Box   11
Copy 2, 1947, June 30
Sayonara
Box   12
Copy 1, 1956, Dec. 20
Box   12
Copy 2, undated
South Pacific
Box   12
Copy 1, 1956, Dec. 11
Box   12
Copy 2, 1957, May 22
Box   12
Copy 3, 1957, June 10
Box   12
Copy 4, undated
Wild River
Box   12
Copy 1, 1958, Apr. 7
Box   13
Copy 2, 1958, Apr. 7
Box   13
Copy 3, 1959, Aug. 20
Box   13
Copy 4, 1959, Sept. 1
Box   13
Copy 5, 1959, Oct. 5
The Yearling
Box   13
Copy 1, 1940, July 2
Box   13
Copy 2, 1944, Dec. 7
Box   14
The Young in Heart, 1923, Apr. 23
TV Scripts
Box   14
A Sunny Morning, 1954
Box   14
The Birthmark, undated
Box   14
Bright Golden Girl, undated
Box   14
The Duplicity of Hargraves, undated
Erwin Shaw's Triumph of Justice
Box   14
Copy 1, undated
Box   14
With interspersed draft sheets, undated
Box   14
Draft sheets, undated
Box   14
The Gift of the Magi, undated
Box   14
The Higher Pragmatism, undated
Box   14
Home Burial, undated
Box   14
Mornings at Seven, 1948, Feb. 22
Box   14
On Borrowed Time, 1952, June 25
Box   14
The Whirligig of Life, undated
Box   15
Unidentified manuscripts, 1944 Mar. 24, undated
Box   15
Novel, The Blue Danube, by Ludwig Bemelmans, undated
Box   15
Short story, “Christopher,” by Ludwig Bemelmans, undated
Box   15
Play, Mr. Roberts, by Thomas Heggen, undated
Box   15
Article, printed, “A Superior Writing Talent,” by Jane Howard, 1958, June 7
Box   15
Ephemera
Box   15
Miscellaneous papers, undated
Box   15
Miscellaneous scene and costume designs for Maiden Voyage, 1957, and Pride and Prejudice, , undated
Box   15
Programs, 1928, Nov. 9 - 1956, Jan. 8, undated
Miscellaneous unsorted clippings
Box   15
Group 1
Box   16
Groups 2-5
Box   17
Groups 6-7
Photographs
Box   17
Sayonara, 1956
Box   17
South Pacific, 1957, and The Vinegar Tree, Netherlands production, , undated
Unidentified production, undated
East of Eden
Note: These photographs, originally comprising Volumes 5-6 in Boxes 18-19, were transferred to the WCFTR Film Title File, June 30, 2000.
Annotated books
Box   20
Volume   7
The Film of Memory, by Maurice Druon, 1955
Box   20
Volume   8
The Complete Works of Homer, translated by Lang, Leaf, Myers, and Butcher, 1950
Box   20
Volume   9
Madame Curie, by Eve Curie, 1939
Box   20
Volume   10
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, 1952
Box   20
Volume   11
Point of No Return, by John P. Marquand, 1949
Box   20
Volume   12
Sayonara, by James A. Michener, 1953
Box   20
Volume   13
The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlins, 1938
Scrapbooks
Volume   1
Circa 1927-1929, including material on early plays, Hotbed, and A Ledge
Volume   2
1951, concerning Point of No Return
Volume   3
1952-1953, concerning Point of No Return, road company
Volume   4
1953, concerning On Borrowed Time, revival
Package   1
Photographs, including prints of Robert Frost, Joshua Logan, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, and Louis Untermeyer
Package   1
Award certificate from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp., 1947
Package   2
Water color, “The Red General,” by Jo Mielziner
Package   3
Posters for A Bell for Adano, Maiden Voyage, Point of No Return, and The World of Suzie Wong