Kermit Sheets was an artist, actor, and
playwright who served as a conscientious objector during World War II and
worked in San Francisco after the war. The collection includes: poetry, short
stories, novels, and play drafts; correspondence; photographs; and other forms
of documentation of the Civilian Public Service Fine Arts program and the
post-war arts and theater in San Francisco.
Repository:
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and Archives
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and Archives Aubrey R. Watzek Library 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. Portland, OR 97219 archives@lclark.edu 503-768-7254
Languages:
English
Biographical Note
Louis Kermit Sheets was a pacifist artist, printer, actor, director,
and stage designer who contributed greatly to the early development of the San
Francisco Renaissance in the late 1940s. He was born in California's Imperial
Valley on August 14, 1915, grew up in Fresno, and graduated from Chapman
College in 1936. Between January 1942 and January 1946 he served as a
conscientious objector in CPS camp 21 (Cascade Locks at Wyeth on the Columbia
River) and camp 56 (Waldport on the Oregon Coast). At Wyeth he co-edited
The Illiteratijournal and the camp
newsletter
The Columbian, and wrote and performed in
the satirical play
Mikado in CPS. At Waldport he and his
co-editor Kemper Nomland joined William Everson's Fine Arts Group, where he was
closely involved in the printing of the Untide Press and was a key member of
the high quality theater group in the camp.
Many of the camp theater personnel settled in San Francisco in 1946,
founding the Interplayers in association with Adrian Wilson, Joyce Lancaster
Wilson and other colleagues from the Waldport camp. At the same time, in
collaboration with poet James Broughton, he founded the Centaur Press,
publishing poetry and drama by Broughton, Anais Nin, Robert Duncan, Glen
Coffield, Madeline Gleason, and Muriel Rukeyser. In the early 1950s he acted in
Broughton's films
The Pleasure Garden (winner of a Cannes
Festival Award) and
Loony Tom the Happy Lover. Returning from
Europe in 1955, he became managing director of The Playhouse, until the early
1960s, mounting many successful productions, including Helen Adam’s
long-running
San Francisco’s Burning (December 1961-
June 1962) with music by Warner Jepson. In 1965 he married Jane Steckle, who
died in 1999. From 1970 to 1980 he was director of the Center at the Lighthouse
for the Blind. After retirement he spent much of the 1980s in writing novels
and short stories and traveling with Jane. He died on April 6, 2006 in San
Francisco.
The collection has been assembled with generous assistance from Norma
Miller, and early participant as actor and director in the Interplayers and
Playhouse companies, and a lifelong friend of Kermit Sheets.
Content Description
The collection consists of drafts and final typescripts of poetry,
short stories, novels, and plays; of published materials, notably of the
Centaur Press; of correspondence and documentation relating particularly to
Civilian Public Service (1941 onwards), to the Centaur Press (1949 onwards), to
Broughton and Farallone Films (1950-1952), and to the three theater groups The
Interplayers, The Playhouse, and the Center at The Lighthouse for the Blind
(1947-1981). Also numerous photographs relating to the CPS camps and to theater
productions, and family and personal photographs from foreign travel.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
Restrictions on Use :
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in
the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written
permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.
Preferred Citation :
The Kermit Sheets Collections OLPb006SHE, Lewis & Clark College
Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
Arranged in a single topical series.
Acquisition Information :
Given to Lewis & Clark College by Kermit Sheets in 2005.
Processing Note :
Processed in April, 2006. All materials relocated to acid-free
containers.
Separated Materials :
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections also has other
collections related to World War II Civilian Public Service camps including the
H. Vail Deale papers, the William Stafford collection, and a collection of
general Civilian Public Service materials. For more information vistit the
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections at
http://www.lclark.edu/%7Earchives/specialcollections/
Bibliography :
For more information about Kermit Sheets and the World War II Civilian
Public Service Camps see:
Eshelman, William R.
No Silence! A Library Life. Metuchen,
NY: Scarecrow, 1997.
Wilson, Adrian.
Two Against the Tide: Selected Letters
1941-1948. Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1990.
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Box 1: Early and
Autobiographical/Biographical Materials, 1915-1943
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box
1
1.1 : Kermit Sheets
Obituary
2006
1
1.2: Kermit's Baby Book
1
1.3: Interviews, Memoirs, etc.
Includes memoir/short story Venus versus
Mars
1
1.4: Kermit Sheets Artwork
1927
1
1.5: Kermit Sheets thesis on Robert
Emmett Sherwood, Occidental College
1
1.6: Fresno State College Theater
activities
1933 and 1934
1
1.7: Chapman College,
The Flattering Word Director's Manual
1935
1
1.8: Chapman College Class of 1936
reunion
1
1.9: Chapman College
brochures
1
1.10: "Stuff in Progress"
circa
1942
1
1.11: "L. Kermit Sheets" Early Scripts
("The Honest Citizen (three copies); Aristophanes' "Acharnanians"
1
1.12: "Radio Scripts" (An Unexpected
Acquaintance;" "I Think You're Wonderful;" "Murder at the Insanities") with
four stage settings on two sheets of lined paper
1
1.13: "Community Planning and Education
and Pacifism," some items relating to a project at Hemlock side camp (from
Cascade Lockes?) including items by George Maurer, Kermit Sheets and Kemper
Nomland
Box 3: Writings by Kermit
Sheets, circa 1940-circa 1991
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box
3
3.1: Stories by Kermit Sheets, some
prewar
Delight Borders Contempt (two copies)Their Roots Are in HavocMiss Beveridge and the Color Line (see 3.13)(Untitled story), "Although Jimmie's mother..."(Untitled story), "When the news first crashed the art world
headlines...""The Continuance is in the feeling"Handwritten memoir on Morris GravesProjection into Limbo (two copies)AbstractionJulie and the District Attorney (four versions)
3
3.2: "Plays, Stories, Poems,
Autobiographies" by Kermit Sheets
Note: "I want to be a writer..."Seven page typed story, untitled: "The night of Scott's
twenty-sixth birthday..."Review of Jean Genet film "Chanson d'Amour," in wraparound with
drawing of classical figure.Four limericksFolder of notes for Cupid and Psyche play (Psyche's Pleasure, or
Labor of Love)Folder of notes on a number of storiesNeapolitan NightsWhen in Rome--Don't Go Hollywood (dated Grand Canyon June 20,
1937)Is Death the End? (annotated "Catherine Crain")Sanctum SanctorumSlow White and the Seven WartsPoem: "My love has hair so soft, so bright"Poem: "Today the sun plays in and out"Poem: "Love came to him, but would not speak"Poem: "Though dread and fear assault my dismal life"Poem: "I ask no promise of you"Poem: LamentPoem: SymbolPoem: To CatherinePoem: To CayPoem: Notes Taken During a Cochy Lecture on Matthew ArnoldTwo poems, one from the Greek anthology and its parody in the
New YorkerPoem: DittyPoem: "If I could forget cool hands caressing. . ."Nature note: "A very grim first day of Spring..."Poem: Presenting to You–Poem: "Why must I decide?"Tearsheet from newspaper with poem: AditherPoem: Bargain Basement WoodsDraft of letter to Mrs MelroseTwo copies of play script, College HallPoem: Sea Moods (annotated "Sylvia")Poem: "As once, when my small feet..." (two versions, one with
comment by George ?Grady)Poem: "Sing, Heavenly Muse!"Poem: To Bebe ("Sing, Heavenly Muse!..." another version)Poem: Sonnet to Barbara (dated 23 January 1940)Story: Where Love Is--Leo TolstoyA melody written out on ruled music paperPoem: Solamente PortiPoem: "Lullaby, good night, my little one"Poem: "I fell for a sweetheart"Fragments of dialog: One More Swan SongPoem: "I could have loved you always"Sentence (story beginning?): "On long winter evenings..."
3
3.3: Four Poems and a
Reminiscence
Poem: A Good Loser's Last lamentPoem: "O I'm a man with only one leg"Poem: "Allow me to present my new ambition"Poem: Sonnet ("I wish to clarify a new ambition")Reminiscence: "(Marquez) is an instinctive storyteller..."
3
3.4: Drafts of poem "Let me not to the
marriage of true minds admit impediments"
3
3.5: "Cuckoo Cantata": Drafts of
various poems and musical settings
3
3.6: Poem: "In the night in the quiet
we hear"
3
3.7: Notes and Letters for "The
O'Rourkes," "The Hudsons," "Blind Alley," and "Safety Net"
3
3.8: Story Rejections,
1988-1991
3
3.9: Addresses of Literary
Journals
3
3.10: Poem: "The Twins Retired Near San
Francisco"
3
3.11: Poem: "The Enemy"
3
3.12: Research materials (?relating to
the Cascade Locks reunion) labeled "Silicon Valley"
3
3.13: Berberis Press Publications
related to Kermit Sheets:
Waldport 1943 (Ninetieth birthday celebration, 2005)Miss Beveridge & the Color Line (Memorial, 2006)Printing at Waldport (USF exhibit, March 2005)
4.4: Four rolls of negative film,
"Mechanized Unit Negatives" possibly relating to introduction mechanized fire
equipment - Bernhard Fedde suggestion. (Prints on hard drive.)
4
4.5: Judson Crews, editor,
Suck-Egg Mule (1950). Contains poems by Scott
Greer
4
4.6: Milton Mayer,
Conscience and the Commonwealth (Plowshare Press,
1944)
4
4.7: The
Formalist vol. 1 No. 1 (Summer 1949)
4
4.8: Against the
Tide: the 1984 War Resisters Calendar. Quotes from William Everson,
Manche Harvey, Martin Ponch, George Reeves, Kermit Sheets, Adrian and Joyce
Wilson, and others. Cover design by Adrian Wilson
Box 6: Materials Relating to
CPS, 1941-1951, 1965-1987
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box
6
6.1: Venus
versus Mars (attributed to Don Baker)
6
6.2: Production photographs of
Candida (Waldport, October 1945) and ?rehearsal
photo of KS and Manche Langley in Ara da Capo (see comparable production photo
in Wilson, Two Against the Tide)
6
6.3: Circle 1:2 (1944)
6
6.4: Motive November 1945 (cover design by Kermit
Sheets)
6
6.5: "Business at Waldport"
including
Everson's statement on Manche LangleyThe Reporter October 15, 1945
(George Bernard Shaw on COs)M. K. Zigler to KS, 12 December 1941, assigning him to camp
21List of articles to be brought to camp
6
6.6: Copy of 84, (newsletter of camp 84, New Hampshire State
Hospital)
Christmas 1944
6
6.7: George Maurer
Correspondence
Box
6
George [Maurer] to COs, Los
Angeles
12 February 1943
6
George Maurer
correspondence
August 1943-January 1944
6
George [Maurer] to various COs,
Los Angeles, same day
12 February 1943?
6
George [Maurer] to Kemper
[Nomland] fom Los Angeles
23 February 1943
6
George [Maurer], three page
report on pacifist meeting, Los Angeles
9 March 1943
6
George Maurer
Correspondence
1946-1948
6
6.8: Manche Langley
correspondence
Box
6
Sally [future wife of Ed Kerr]
to Manche, Kermit Sheets, Don [Baker] and Kemper [Nomland]
undated
6
Manche [Harvey] Langley
Correspondence
1947-1951, 1965-1966, 1981-1987
6
6.9: Bill Webb
correspondence
1943-1945
6
6.10: Tulean
Dispatch (newsletter of Tule Lake Japanese relocation camp)
January 1943
6
6.11: Tom Polk Miller
Correspondence.
Box
6
Miscellaneous letters from
1946-1950, 1966, and 1980. C
6
Copy of daughter Abigail's 1967
essay on CPS poems by Sheets, Stafford, and Everson.
6
Civilian Island Report. A CPS
memoir by Tom Polk Miller
16 February 1985
6
6.12: Kermit Sheets CPS 21
Correspondence.
Box
6
Morris [Keaton], M. R. Zigler,
W. Harold Row, Henry [?Dasenbrock], Tod Elias
1945
6
Sheets personnel record and
statement to draft board
6
1941 correspondence with
Selective Service
6
File of 1942 and 1943 letters
on CPS business.
6
6.13: William Eshelman
Correspondence.
Box
6
Early Eshelman
Letters,
1946-1948
6
The Waldport Project (William
Eshelman and Tom Polk Miller) 1989-1993 correspondence
6
Recent photograph of William
Eshelman and Jerry Rubin; WE
1978/1979
6
Correspondence with Guido
Palandri (U of O)
6
Miscellaneous Waldport Project
correspondence
6
Press at Camperdown Elm items
1989/1990
6
WE to William Everson 17 April
1989 commenting on Lee [Bartlett] biography of Everson
6
WE to Kermit Sheets 2/28/47,
12/2/46, 4/10/46, 6/2/46, 6/13/46 from Cascade Locks
6
WE to KS 7/17/46 from
Minersville
6
WE to KS 2/24/48 from Pico,
CA
6
Postcard ("Acirema Unlimited"
with photo of convict with upside down ears, 5/13/48 from Pico Announcement of
U of Oregon Library Waldport exhibit
1990
6
Letter of Pat Rom and William
Eshelman to KS
March 1999
6
Letter of Pat Rom and William
Eshelman to KS
March 2000
6
6.14: Acirema Stories by Kermit
Sheets
Title page; complete first draft with introduction by Harry
Prochaska;Individual items, some in multiple copies and drafts:"I have seen the terror..." (poem)Miss Beveridge [Miss Pinball] and the Color Line [see 3.1 &
6A.15][this story published in The
Compass Art and Literature issue, 1945]God Smiles Down on a Meadow (story)"Perched on the last vestige of tradition" (poem)A Modest Proposal from Fioret Finemettle (story)Lysistrata and the New Order (story)"Book bound and each ridden..." (poem)Projection into Limbo (story) [see 3.1 & 6A.15]Delight Borders Contempt (story) [see3.1 & 6A.15]"Dear Miss Rae" (poem)The Churches Go to Jail for Conscience (story)The Support of Someone (story)"Pursued by eyes..." (poem)"Dear Trudi (poem and prose versions).Page of notes for a theater production, and tearsheet of a Glen
Coffield poem from Illiterati 3.
circa
1942
6
6.15: CPS and Fine Arts
Writings
Poems, apparently all by Kermit Sheets:Love Cycle (8 pages)Day of Giving Thanks"Upon the iron forces...""When will a time..."To HLSAs the Wake Broadens, the Swells DieA Snatch in Time Saves Mine"A pair of hips...""The bride of the moment...""Arching her nostrils...""Between two pulls...""What is this thing called love ? . ." (with the [Waldport]
Theater Schedule on verso)"Each era nibbling (two drafts)... ""Sharpen your needle...""The curve turns...""The will holds back..."To HLS (two copies)"Point to the pardon...""As far away as I can get...""Over the screaming oracles of the sea..." (draft and two
version),Overweening HarbingerBeneath the Duty Lies a Scar of Lassitude"I have seen the terror...""Sing to me of carrion...""And will her queenly majesty..."Katharsis at Wyeth, Waldport 1943 (published 2005 for Kermit's
90th birthday).
circa
1942-1945
6
6.16: CPS Materials
(1942-1945)
Box
6
Joseph Gunterman announcement
of his daughter's birth
February 7, [?1943]
6
Brochure, "Information for New
arrivals at CPS Camp 21 Cascade Locks, Oregon
April 1943
6
First page of an unsigned
statement about CPS camp, from Cascade Locks
6
[? Kermit Sheets] manuscript
notes on Christmas
6
In file marked "CPS Statements
Questionnaires Letters":
6
Western Union money order
recording [William G.] Webb's arrest in the Dalles
6
Western Union telegram to
Kermit Sheets indicating Webb's bail
21 April 1943
6
Statement by William G. Webb,
"Why I Refused to Work in CPS Camp"
6
Statement by Alan McRae, 10
December 1943 on refusal of CPS status
6
Retrospective statement 23
March 1944 by Alan McRae on leaving CPS
6
Account of trial and sentencing
of Philip Iseley and Bill Webb
10 and 12 May 1943
6
Statement of George Yamada
concerning his case, Colorado Springs
12 September 1943
6
Statement on desertion from CPS
by Charles D. Hornig
6 April 1943
6
Document "A Peace Directive"
outlining "Our Eight Terms for Peace"
6
Statement of Philip Iseley in
Federal Court, Portland
10 May 1943
6
Statement of William G. Webb on
refusal to work, Camp 21
18 March 1943
6
Joseph Gunterman objection to
Estacada side camp. Larch Mountain
13 October 1942
6
pages 4-12, with five pages of
appendices, including reply from Mark Schrock
6
Paul Comley French to Kermit
Sheets et al.
30 September 1942
6
J[ames] W. Sulek, open letter
to Waldport friends after walking out
March 1943
6
Art Brown, "My reasons for
leaving CPS"
6 March 1943
6
Cascade Locks minutes, pp.
20-32, November 1942--February 1943, Charles D. Hornig secretary
6
Notes (3 pp.) on the Clackamas
River Project, visit of foresters Jack Horton and James Frankland
6
Speech fragment, "Horton or
Franklin,"
7 October 1942
6
Notes (2 pp.) on "Discussion of
3 Lynx Project on Clackamas (Frankland and Horton)
6
Typed note (3-ring binder
sheet) on Estacada (Clackamas) project
3 October 1942
6
Typed note from J. J. Handsaker
on roads [in Clackamas Project]
6
Partially completed
questionnaire from Linfield College seniors
6
Blank questionnaire from Camp
21
10 November 1942
6
Five sheets of a blank
personnel record (BSC 1)
6
Statement from April Six Action
Committee, New York City
6
Four page statement by Philip
Isely
7 November 1942
6
Philip Isely, open letter to
fifty national figures, Cascade Locks
16 November 1942
6
Philip Isely, three page
memorandum on a group walkout from CPS
10 January 1942
6
Philip Isely, two page open
letter to Camp 21, from Salem, Oregon
February 1943
6
Folder titled "Razzeroo"
containing seven pages of satirical writings from Camp 21
pages 1,3, and 4 of four page letter Allen Hastings to CPS 21,
March,31 1942
"Daddy, what did you do to help keep the peace?"Design (not used) for Illiterati
coverAnnouncement (two copies) of first Illiterati"Darling, don't you think you should keep a couple of guinea
pigs in the kitchen?"(Cartoon without caption) Father and son playing soldiers
(published 2005 for Kermit's 90th birthday)."I felt OK last night.""Better luck next time.""Beethoven sure tears hell outa Grandma's needles.""I saw him at the Playhouse last winter. He simply laid me in
the aisle." (See Wilson, Two Against the Tide, p.
94, 1 September 1944)"What is your concept of the function of the individual in
society?" (two versions)"Horace bought me guinea pigs instead of a cookbook.""Hargrove, I feel it only fair to tell you that my approach to
you is essentially carnal."
8.2: Pauline Kael Correspondence with
Kermit Sheets
1948 and 1953
8
8.3: William Everson materials,
including a handwritten letter to KS of 14 April 1947
8
8.4: Bill Webb / Kermit Sheets
Correspondence
October and November 1945
8
8.5: Ella and Kemper Nomland
Correspondence
1946 and 1998-1993
8
8.6: Harry Prochaska
Correspondence
1950 and 1976-1988
8
8.7: Vlad and Ibby Dupre
Correspondence
1946-1948, 1987-1993
8
8.8: Three four-minute plays for four
people (by Kermit Sheets): The Tower Under the
Garden (ts), Hollywood Story Conference
(ms), Make Mine Medium (ts).
8
8.9: Conscientious Objector Reports
from Swarthmore Collection and from "The Good War" website
8
8.10: Glen Wallach thesis (Yale, c.
1981) on CPS and SF Renaissance, including KS replies to his questionnaire;
1976 camp 21 reunion
8
8.11: Miscellaneous letters
Glen Coffield, Robert Constable, Coffield, Erna, Scott [Greer?],
Coffield (postcard and pencil note), copy of The
Untide 2:4 / The Belfry 1:1 (January 1947,
tabloid edition), with Coffield note to KS requesting contributions from Joyce
[Lancaster] in the person of Phyllis the Moth, four-sheet letter from Doug,
Coffield (postcard), D[oug], Doug, Constable, Herb [Smith], Scott, Constable,
Gistirak, Coffield (7 cards and a pencil note), picture postcard from H[erb]
S[mith?], D[oug] (nine letters), Webb, Prochaska, ?Joe [Gistirak], Constable
(four letters), Coffield (two cards and a three page pencil letter), Doug (four
letters), Constable (two letters), Doug, Joe [?Gistirak], Scott, Prochaska,
Scott, Doug, Constable, Joe, Constable, Doug (four letters), Naomi, Jay
Townsend, Constable, Scott, Doug (five letters), Herb, Gistirak with reply from
KS, Doug (three letters)
1946-1947
8
8.12: Miscellaneous CPS
letters
Hildegarde Erle (three letters), Charles Coles, Father Divine,
Don and Betty Chamberlain, the [John] Jahns, James B. Hall, Charles Davis,
Julius [Richert], Ray [Fletcher]
1946-1966
8
8.13: Correspondence
(some correspondents with more than one letter) Zev and
Gertrude, Trudi, Dave, Mother and Father, Ed Schaff, Evelyn [Beatty], David
[Mauro],Marguerite Gaetani, Daisy and Olga, Norma [Miller], Chris Rambo, Ben
[Small], Helmut Rückriegel, Sydney, many pages of names and addresses, Kermit
to Pamela, Nina [Boas]
Box 12: James Broughton Letters and
Play Scripts, 1953-1955
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box
12
12.1: Broughton letters
1951-1955
12
12.2: Envelope containing memoir about
Broughton by Kermit Sheets, and a commentary on Broughton by Stan Brakhage,
with a letter of comment by James Broughton.
12
12.3: An Almanac
for Amorists letters, orders.
Box
12
1: Librairie Anglaise
invoice
12
2: La Hune invoice
12
3: The Lion Bookshop
invoice
12
4: List of orders
12
5: Order from Bill
Seut
12
6: Collection Merlin
invoice
12
7: Letter from Helmut Rückriegel
to Kermit Sheets
undated
12
8: Letter from Esto B.Broughton to
Collection Merlin
January 1, 1955
12
9: Letter from Olive Leonhardt to
Collection Merlin
January 8, 1955
12
10: Letter from William Eschelman
to Kermit Sheets
[December 31, 1954]
12
11: Letter from Frank [?] to Kermit
Sheets
January 25
12
12: Flights of Fancy
invoice
12
13: Orders from Mrs. B. Castle and
Mrs. M.C. Wendt
12
14: Letter from Dave [?] to Kermit
Sheets
December 12, 1954
12
15: Letter from Tommie [Boyer?] to
Kermit Sheets
December 9, 1954
12
16: Letter from Poppa Reisz to
James Broughton and Kermit Sheets
December 14, 1954
12
17: Letter from Nick [?] to James
Broughton
undated
12
18: Letter from [??] to Kermit
Sheets
December 13, 1954
12
19: Letter from Daphne [?] to
Kermit Sheets
November 16, 1954
12
20: Letter from Bill Barrett to
James Broughton, Thanksgiving Day
1954
12
21: Letter from Brenda Pool to
James Broughton
November 17, 1954
12
22: Letter from Basil Wright to
Kermit Sheets
undated
12
23: Letter from Bill Barrett to
James Broughton
December 11, 1954
12
24: Letter from Curtiss [?] to
Kermit Sheets
[2 pages]
December 6, 1954
12
25: Letter from Ella and Kemper
[Nomland?] to Kermit Sheets
December 15, 1954
12
26: Letter from Weldon Kees to
James Broughton
December 7, 1954
12
27: Letter from Donald Nelson to
James Broughton and Kermit Sheets
December 10, 1954
12
28: Letter from Ove Brusendorff to
James Broughton
November 18, 1954
12
29: Letter from Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
to James Broughton
December 3, 1954
12
30: Letter from B. to James
Broughton and Kermit Sheets
undated
12
31: Airgram from Bente Hasselbach
to James Broughton
November 18, 1954
12
32: Letter from Kenneth Zwerin to
James Broughton
November 18, 1954
12
33: Letter from Ruth [?] to James
Broughton
[2 pages]
November 17, 1954
12
34: Card from Misette (?) Eglin to
James Broughton
December 2, 1954
12
35: Letter from Marguerite [?] to
James Broughton
December 4, [1954?]
12
36: Letter from Lindsay [?] to
James Broughton
November 23/December 12, 1954
12
37: Letter from D.N. to Kermit
Sheets and James Broughton
[November 23, 1954?]
12
38: Letter from Esto [Broughton] to
James Broughton
December 1, 1954
12
39: Letter from Barbara [?] to
Kermit Sheets and James Broughton
November 18, 1954
12
40: Letter from Eugene
Walter
October 21, 1954
12
41: Letter from Allegra [?] to
Kermit Sheets
[December 10, 1954?]
12
42: Letter from Christopher [Logue]
to Kermit Sheets
undated
12
43: Letter from Kermit Sheets to
Alex Trocchi
undated
12
44: Letter from Christopher [Logue]
to Kermit Sheets
undated
12
45: Letter from Christopher [Logue]
to Kermit Sheets
undated
12
46: Contract between James
Broughton and Christopher Logue
December 17, 1954
12
47: List of orders,
Caracteres
12
48: Eight receipts from Bruno
Durocher
October 27, November 23, December 11, December 17, 1954;
February 4, February 28, March 5, 1955
12
49: Receipt from A.
Roques
March 16, 1955
12
50: Receipt from Union papetière de
l'est
March 10, 1955
12
51: Two receipts from 600 Jaquettes
(?)
undateds
12
52: Receipt from Mistral Books and
Prints
12
12.4: An Almanac
for Amorists, Kermit's drawings
1. Title page, pencil2. "Spring is a Virgin"3. "Summer is a Bride"4. "Autumn is a Mistress" [3 copies/drafts]5. "Winter is a Widow"6. "An Almanac for Amorists, James Broughton"7. Three drafts of title page
12
12.5: Broughton's Memoirs,
Coming Unbuttoned
12
12.6: The
Playground typescript
12
12.7: Three copies of
Theatre Arts, August 1946, with text of
The Playground, pp. 450-460
12
12.8: James Broughton, play
typescripts
1. "Bedlam in the Playground" (multiple copies)2. "Willy and Nilly"3. "Kitty and Cora"
12
12.9: James Broughton,
Where Helen Lies typescript
12
12.10: Production notes (publicity and
technical) for Bedlam at SFSC (October/November
1967).
12
12.11: Bedlam at SFSC photos, programs, reviews,
etc.
Prospectus (two copies) of A Medieval
MirrorEphemera: Joyce Lancaster, Adrian Wilson, Manche Langley,
Adrian's memorial cardsProspectus of Everson's In Medias
Res
17
17.2: Adrian Wilson Printing for
Interplayers
1948-1952 and 1961
Box
17
Sartre, No Exit July/August 1948
17
Sartre, No Exit April 1949
17
Prospectus for 1949-50
Season
17
Afternoon of Dance Theater and
Lorca, The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife
circa 1950
17
James Broughton Gala
Evening
May 6, 1951
17
Shaw, Fanny's First Play
August-November 1951
17
Prospectus for [September 1951]
shortly before the split of companies
17
Announcement of temporary
hiatus of a few weeks
[November 1951]
17
November 1951
Schedule
17
Shaw, Fanny's First Play
17
Cervantes,
The Sham Biscayan
17
Pirandello,
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
17
Announcement of Lorca,
Blood Wedding
17
Advertisement for
November/December 1951 performances
17
Stein, Yes Is for a Very Young Man
17
Pirandello,
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
17
Cervantes,
The Sham Biscayan
17
Fry, A
Phoenix Too Frequent
17
Announcement of split into two
companies
[December 1951]
17
[New Interplayers] New Year's
Greeting
1952
17
Eliot, The Family Reunion, April 1952 (New
Interplayers)
17
Becque, La Parisienne and Lorca, Blood
Wedding June/July 1952 (New Interplayers) (with announcement of Lessing,
Nathan the Wise)
17
Thomas, Under Milk Wood concert reading ?1952 (New
Interplayers)
17
Raynal, The Unknown Warrior November - December 1952 (New
Interplayers)
17
Shakespeare,
The Merry Wives of Windsor 1961 (Playhouse
Company)
Box 19: Playhouse and Lighthouse
Materials, 1957-1982
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box
19
19.1: [Cocteau, translated by Auden],
Knights of the Round Table (1959) with
correspondence from G.Langston Fabian
19
19.2: Cocteau, translated by Robert
Duncan, The Typewriter
1957
19
19.3: Moliere, A
Doctor in Spite of Himself, directed by KS (Music at the Vineyards,
Saratoga, CA)
August 28-29, 1965
19
19.4: Shakespeare,
Troilus and Cressida
December 1963
19
19.5: Purcell, Dido and Aeneas
May 1965
19
19.6: Shaw, An
Ideal Husband, January 1963, with photo of Gail Chug and Audrey
Robinson
19
19.7: Production photos for
No Exit (1953), The Madwoman
of Chaillot (1955), Waters of the Moon
(1956), and The Typewriter
1957
19
19.8: Photos (damaged) of Joan Grant,
Billie Jo Burns, Ron Bianco, Kathy Geer, Melody James, Jane Steckle. Alain
Monroe in Bedlam in the Playground (SFSC
1967)
19
19.9: Materials related to the
Playhouse, including a questionnaire and very brief summary of Playhouse
history, and a resume of the 1958 season
19
19.10: Profile (from SF Chronicle) of
Eliza Pietch, Playhouse costume designer
19
19.11: Photos and news clippings
relating to the Playhouse
19
19.20: Production photographs of
Diary of a Scoundrel (date unknown),
Androcles and the Lion (1957), and
The House of Bernarda Alba
1958
19
19.21: Invitations: An anthology published by Lighthouse for
the Blind
1982
19
19.22: "Let's Not Clown Around" small
chapbook describing San Francisco, containing photo of Playhouse
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