Author Janet Marshall Stevenson (1913- ) has made
contributions as a writer of civil rights, the women's
movement and the arts. This collection contains
manuscripts, holographs and photographs of her many short
stories, articles and books; within this collection are
research items and family papers associated with her
biography of Robert W. Kenny, an influential liberal that
championed the rights of several of the "Hollywood 10"
before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC).
Repository:
University of Oregon Libraries
Special Collections & University Archives
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through
a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical Note
Janet Marshall Stevenson has been a novelist, playwright, biographer, a teacher, a
journalist, and a social activist during her long life. Stevenson has written on civil rights,
the women's and the peace movements, and the environment. In the early 1950s she was fired from
the University of Southern California for alleged ties with the communist party. In 2003, at
the age of 90, Stevenson was still politically active and still writing.
She was born on February 4, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois to John C. and Atlantis McClendon
Marshall. Her father was an investment banker. Stevenson earned her bachelor's degree at Bryn
Mawr College, Pennsylvania in 1933. She graduated from Yale University with a Master of Fine
Arts degree in theater in 1937. She resides in Warrenton, Oregon.
Stevenson's merit as a writer was noticed early in her career when she won her first award
in 1938- the John Golden Fellowship in playwriting, an award that was shared in the same year
with playwright Tennessee Williams. Subsequently, she won the following awards: Friends of
American Writers Award for Weep No More (the novel), 1957, and the National Arts of the Theatre
Award, for "Weep No More," (the play from which the novel was adapted) 1953; the International
Bicentennial Playwriting Prize for "The Third President", 1976; the Preston Jones Fellowship
for "Sarah Ann" (later titled "Time out of Mind"), 1983; and the Charles Erskine Scott Wood
Retrospective Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, 1990.
It may be of interest to some researchers that Stevenson used several pen names: Janet Lewis,
Clare Thorne, Janet Holmes, and Jane Marsh. Before her marriage she used her maiden name,
Janet Marshall.
Stevenson met her first husband, playwright and screenwriter, Philip Stevenson, while both were
working for a summer theatre in Surry, Maine. She was working in costumes and Philip, in publicity.
The couple collaborated on several plays, including "Counterattack," which was produced on Broadway in
1944. It was later turned into a successful motion picture of the same name. She and Philip had two
sons, Joseph and Edward. They were divorced in 1964.
The author's teaching career began at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as
Lecturer in Theater from 1951 to 1953. She moved on to Grambling College, Grambling, Louisiana
as assistant professor of English from 1966 to 1967; and then to Portland State University,
Portland, Oregon as Lecturer in 1968. Of particular interest to the researcher will be the
papers documenting her subsequent firing from the University of Southern California.
Stevenson's contract was not renewed because of her alleged association with communist party
members. Her then husband, Philip, was a blacklisted Hollywood writer. The university used a
defense of "academic freedom" to justify their right not to renew Stevenson's contract. She
had refused to sign an "oath of loyalty" (as described by one newspaper columnist) when she
was hired, and refused again two years later, arguing that her right of association was an
element of academic freedom. She never divulged her contacts and continued to write under her
name, Janet Stevenson. Philip Stevenson used the pen name, Lars Lawrence, to publish his novels
and screenplays. He died while traveling in the Soviet Union in 1965 at age 69. Stevenson
married her second husband, Benson Rotstein, an educator, later that same year.
In 1970, Janet's husband Benson Rotstein's contract was not renewed by the Astoria [Oregon]
School Board because of his involvement in the peace movement and his use of controversial
articles and books in his psychology classes. He appealed to the American Association of
University Professors, and their decision was still pending when he died in a boating accident
later in the year.
In 1986, in her mid-70's Stevenson was elected Mayor of Hammond, Oregon, a small town near
the mouth of the Columbia, where Lewis and Clarke landed when they retreated from the
Washington side of the great river.
Content Description
The Janet Stevenson Papers contain many published and unpublished manuscripts.
The nonfiction articles include pieces on the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the
1950s; civil rights issues; and woman's rights issues. These articles appeared in
publications such as: American Heritage and Atlantic Monthly. There are also numerous
pieces of correspondence with her publishers and literary agent. A journal/letter that was
written to friends and recounts her six-month sea odyssey became the subject of her critically
acclaimed novel, Woman Aboard. Galley proofs from her published works are in
this collection, and research documents for several biographies including: African
American opera singer Marion Anderson, actress and native of England Frances Anne Kemble,
naturalist and bird artist John James Audubon; and Robert W. Kenny, California State
Senator and state Attorney General and defense attorney for some of the "Hollywood 10."
Important in the Correspondence Series is information concerning the
dismissal of Stevenson from the faculty of the University of Southern California in
1952, for alleged connections with the communist party. Also included are letters from her
New York City literary agent, Berthold Fles, and many of her publishers. She had a long
professional relationship with many of them. There are also personal letters to
her mother, Mrs. John Marshall, and her ex-husband, Philip Stevenson and their two sons,
that describe Stevenson's world tour in 1961. These letters include details of May Day
in Moscow at Red Square.
The Literary Manuscripts Series is comprised of book-length manuscripts, plays, short
stories, radio scripts, teleplays, screenplays, speeches, political literary criticism,
articles, and essays. This series also includes any research material related to the
manuscripts. For example, in 1980 the book The Undiminished Man was published. This
biography is about the political life of California attorney, state senator and attorney
general Robert W. Kenny. He was an influential liberal that championed the rights of
several of the "Hollywood 10" before the Thomas Die Committee from the House Un-American
Activities Committee (HUAC). This research includes audio recordings from
interviews with Kenny; some of Kenny's personal letters, photographs, and copies of his
own unpublished biography; and correspondence with Stevenson. Two additional libraries
contain portions of the Kenny collection. They are: the Southern California Library for
Social Studies and Research, and University of California Bancroft Library. Other
published works that include interesting research materials are:
An American Family,
The Ardent Years, Departure,
Marian Anderson, and
The Montgomery Bus Boycott. It is important
to note the manuscript Right Ascension was never published but was excerpted from the
published book, Departure. Additional research material for the latter can be found filed
with research material for Right Ascension.
Three of Stevenson's produced plays are within this series. "Counter Attack," produced
on Broadway in 1944, and later turned into a successful motion picture film. "Declaration,"
a play well received and reviewed in Southern California and produced by the Actors Lab.
"The Third President," a rewrite of "Declaration," and produced by Southern Players,
Laboratory Theatre, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1976.
Stevenson wrote under several pen names and seemed to use them when writing outside
of her usual topics of biography, non-fiction and historical fiction. The names are:
Janet Marshall, Janet Lewis, Clare Thorne, Allison Thorne, Jane(t) Holmes, and Jane Marsh.
As near as can be ascertained, Jane Marsh was used exclusively for her poetry.
Series V: Magazines/Articles includes published works from as early as 1933, when
Stevenson was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College to a political/environmental article
published in 1984. It also includes published pieces in Life Story,
True Confessions, and The Woman. These are the actual magazines and newsletters, not copies or tear sheets.
Some of Stevenson's student work can be viewed in Series VI: College Materials. This
includes original plays, a costume project that includes her original watercolor designs,
and a piece of interest to the literary researcher titled, "The Order of the Canterbury
Tales," complete with a diagram of the order.
As a septuagenarian, Stevenson successfully ran for mayor of Hammond, Oregon and
became involved with Home Rule issues and the environmental impact studies concerning
the Columbia River estuary near the town. Information pertaining to these items can be
found in Series VII. Also included in this series is information on the firing of her
second husband, Benson Rotstein, from the Astoria [Oregon] High School faculty.
The Miscellaneous series includes original, mostly undated, unpublished poetry by
"Jane Marsh," odd reviews and publicity for some books, and additional information
concerning Stevenson's firing from the University of Southern California in 1952.
The Audio Recordings series has extensive interviews with Robert W. Kenny and interviews
from radio shows when Stevenson and her first husband, Philip Stevenson, were guests.
The final two series contain a libretto with research information on the opera,
"Lysistrata," produced in 1984, and a closed manuscript titled, The Last Town in Oregon.
This box is closed to the researcher until the event of the author's death.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
The collection is open to the public with the exception of Series XI: The Last Town in Oregon which is closed until the author's death.
Collection must be used in Special Collections & University Archives Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use :
Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries.
Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the
Manuscripts Librarian in Special Collections & University Archives. The
reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation :
[Identification of item], Janet Marshall Stevenson Papers, Ax 265, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
Collection is organized into the following series: Series I. Correspondence;
Series II. Literary Manuscripts; Series III. Tear Sheets; Series IV. Books;
Series V. Magazines/Articles; Series VI. College Materials; Series VII. Political and
Environmental Activities in Oregon; Series VIII. Miscellaneous; Series IX. Audio
Recordings; Series X. Libretto; Series XI. The Last Town in Oregon [CLOSED].
Bibliography :
The Ardent Years, A Novel,1960.
Bread And Roses: An Informal Collection Of Readings About Women Who Lived What They Believed In
Researched and written for Women's History Week Of The Northwest Women's Political Caucus by Janet Stevenson, 1986(?).
Departure by Janet Stevenson, c1985.
Departure: A Novel by Janet Stevenson, c1985.
Marian Anderson: Singing To The World by Janet Stevenson, c1963.
Sisters And Brothers, A Novel, 1966.
The Undiminished Man: A Political Biography Of Robert Walker Kenny
by Janet Stevenson, 1980.
Weep No More, A Novel, by Janet Stevenson, 1957.
Woman Aboard by Janet Stevenson, 1981.
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series I: Correspondence, 1952-1971
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box
Folder
1
1
Letters concerning dismissal of Janet Stevenson
from faculty of University of Southern California. Also includes clippings and notes
1952
1
2
Berthold Fles, agent
1955-1956
1
3
Millen Brand, Crown publishers
1964-1966
1
4
Helen K. Taylor, Viking Press
1956/1965
1
5
Mrs. John Marshall, Hubbard Woods, Illinois
Letters from Janet Stevenson describing her world tour in
1961. Includes attendance at World Council of Peace, New Delhi, India,
March 1961.
1961
1
6
Childcraft, Field Enterprise Educational Corp. (Charles M. Block)
4 letters
March 1961-May 1961
1
6
Scott, Foresman and Company
2 letters
March 1961-May 1961
1
6
Philip Stevenson, correspondence
to her ex-husband and her two sons during her trip to Europe, Asia
and the U.S.S.R.
12 letters, 6 postcards
March 1961-May 1961
1
7
American Heritage
Concerning article on Frances Kemble titled "Butler vs. Butler" and later "A Woman's Place"
1966-1967
Three versions of article on Frances Kemble
Galley proof of article on Frances Kemble
Source material for article on Frances Kemble
Carbon copy of article on the Grimke sisters
Correspondence from American Heritage Publishing Co. Inc.
December 6, 1966
1
8
Letters sent
22 letters
1964-1969
1
9
Letters received
undated
American Heritage
6 letters
Crowell-Collier Press
4 letters
Fles, Barthold, Ms. Stevenson's literary agent
5 letters
Morris, Robert S.
1
10
Baskin, Jack
18 letters
undated
1
11
Crown Publishers
21 letters
undated
1
12
Incoming: Professional
1966-1969
Atlantic Monthly
3 letters
1969
Crown Publishers
6 letters
1966-1969
Viking
3 letters
1966
1
13
Incoming: Personal
1966-1969
Allen, James Egbert
1 letter
1966
Bugbee, Lucy Mallary
1 letter
undated
Boyd, Eugene Jr.
1 letter
undated
Clemens, Cyril
1 letter
1966
Gotlieb, Howard B.
1 letter
1966
Holden, Edith
1 letter
1966
Larkin, Margaret
1 letter
1966
Lynd, Helen
1 letter
1966
Osborne, J. Paul
1 letter
1967
Peterson, Ellen C.
1 letter
undated
Summers, Oliver R.
1 letter
1969
Unidentified
5 letters
undated
1
14
Baskin, Jack
7 letters
1966-1967
1
15
Dyson, Freeman, of The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
undated
1
16
Michelson, Norris
6 letters
1969
1
17
Outgoing
22 letters
1966-1970
1
18
Outgoing
74 letters
1966-1971
1
19
Incoming
8 letters
1964-1971
American Heritage Publishing
3 letters
1971
Crowell-Collier Press
1 letter
1969
McCall's
1 letter
1968
C. Sumner Stone
1 letter
1967
Viking Press
1 letter
1968
Powers, Robert
1 letter
1969
Agreement with Viking Press for
Weep No More
undated
1
20
Incoming: Fles, Barthold
88 letters
Including his sympathy concerning the death of Benson
Rotstein, Stevenson's second husband.
First draft, part one, (written) carbon with
author's revisions, 118 p. Fragmented revisions, carbon, 12 p.
August 1, 1962
1
23
First draft and research
Also contains research notes in an expanding file with code to pockets and
includes transcripts of letters, original pamphlets, genealogies, and outlines.
undated
1
24
Microfiche, Grimke family research
undated
2
1
Outline, and synopses of revisions
2
2
Second draft, original, as submitted to publisher (Viking)
1962
2
3
Carbon of second draft
2
4
Carbon of third version
January 1965
2
5
Carbon, part one, approximately 80 leaves not in order
undated
2
6
Research notes on cards [1 of 2]
2
7
Research notes on cards [2 of 2]
The Ardent Years, Viking
1965
Box
Folder
2
8
Speeches on book
2
9
Readers' letters
2
10
Reviews and notices
2
11
Research materials on cards
2
12
Microfiche
2
13
Printer's copy (pp. 1-180) [1 of 3]
2
14
Printer's copy (pp. 181-379) [2 of 3]
2
15
Printer's copy (pp. 380-622) [3 of 3]
Be My Love
1960
Box
Folder
2
16
Corrected and revised manuscript. Outline
2
17
Screenplay basis for novel "With This Ring"
2
18
Research notes, correspondence
Brothers and Sisters, Viking (no manuscript)
1966
Box
Folder
2
19
Notes
2
20
Reviews
Days Without Time
undated
Box
Folder
2
21
Pp. 1-195 [1 of 2]
2
22
Pp. 196-256 [2 of 2]
Denmark Vesey
1970
Box
Folder
2
23
Typed draft, insert, 97 pp.
2
24
Carbon with notes and revisions [1 of 2]
2
25
Carbon with notes and revisions [2 of 2]
Departure, Blue Heron
1985
Box
Folder
3
1
Copy edited, original manuscript [1 of 3]
1984
3
2
Copy edited, original manuscript [2 of 3]
1984
3
3
Copy edited, original manuscript [3 of 3]
1984
3
4
Research material, navigational maps
and ship blueprints.
3
5
Research material, chronology with
notes on bearings.
3
6
Research material, women navigators,
medical information, and notes on story.
3
7
Research material, information on
celestial navigation from Bowditch.
3
8
Research material, ships of the period
3
9
Research material, correspondence
3
10
Research material on note cards
3
11
Revised manuscript [1 of 7]
undated
3
12
Revised manuscript [2 of 7]
undated
3
13
Revised manuscript [3 of 7]
undated
3
14
Revised manuscript [4 of 7]
undated
3
15
Revised manuscript [5 of 7]
undated
3
16
Revised manuscript [6 of 7]
undated
3
17
Revised manuscript [7 of 7]
undated
3
18
Revised manuscript, (pp. 1?-289) [1 of 2]
1983
3
19
Revised manuscript, (pp. 290-368) [2 of 2]
1983
3
20
Revised manuscript [1 of 4]
June 1982
3
21
Revised manuscript [2 of 4]
June 1982
3
22
Revised manuscript [3 of 4]
June 1982
3
23
Revised manuscript [4 of 4]
June 1982
3
24
Revised manuscript [1 of 4]
December 1980
3
25
Revised manuscript [2 of 4]
December 1980
3
26
Revised manuscript [3 of 4]
December 1980
3
27
Revised manuscript [4 of 4]
December 1980
3
28
Photocopy of revised manuscript [1 of 4]
December 1980
3
29
Photocopy of revised manuscript [2 of 4]
December 1980
3
30
Photocopy of revised manuscript [3 of 4]
December 1980
3
31
Photocopy of revised manuscript [4 of 4]
December 1980
Doctor Harriet
1993
Box
Folder
4
1
Typescript with outline (pp. 1-180) [1 of 2]
4
2
Typescript (pp. 181-201) [2 of 2]
Do Not Forgive
1968-1971
Box
Folder
4
3
Original version
1968
4
4
Correspondence with Knox Burger, New York, N.Y.
1971
4
5
Typescript with revisions (pp.1-189) [1 of 2]
4
6
Typescript with revisions (pp.190-339) and 15 pg. Appendix. [2 of 2]
Down By the Riverside
1996
Box
Folder
4
7
Original typescript (pp. 1-185) [1 of 2]
4
8
Original typescript (pp. 186-250) [2 of 2]
(First Book of) Women's Rights
Spring 1972
Box
Folder
4
9
First draft; original; inserts
and holograph revisions, 87 pp. Chronology 1 pg.
4
9
Final draft, carbon, minor
holograph revisions, 63 pp. Later published as
Women's Rights,
juvenile history, Franklin Watts
1972
4
10
Typed draft, holograph revisions, 70 pp.
March 1971
Let Me Help, Dear
undated
Box
Folder
4
11
Final draft, carbon, 115 pp.
Marion Anderson
1962
Box
Folder
4
12
Original typed copy (typed from rough draft), 190 leaves
Notes
Correspondence: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.,
Francis S. Nipp
7 letters
Correspondence: Barthold Fles Literary Agency
1 letter
Correspondence: Gerald Goode
2 letters
Correspondence: Mrs. Dorothy Porter
1 letter
Correspondence: unidentified
2 letters
Contract with Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
September 15, 1962
4
13
Carbon with author's revisions, 195 leaves
The Montgomery Bus Boycott: December 1955: American Blacks Demand an End to Segregation, Franklin Watts
1971
Box
Folder
4
14
First draft, 72 pp., holograph notes, 4 pp.
4
15
Final draft, carbon, 66 pp.
4
16
Publisher's publicity notice. Galley proofs, 18 pp.
4
17
Rough draft, 33 pp.; notes, research letters, interviews.
1971
4
18
Typed rough draft, 55 pp.
1970
Pioneers in Freedom: Adventures in Courage, (juvenile history) Reilly and Lee
1969
Box
Folder
4
19
Research material-Xerox copy,
Memoirs of Benjamin Lay, and etc. 73 pp
Miscellaneous Xerox material, 4 pp.
4
20
Research notes, 67 pp.
4
21
Rough chapters, holograph revisions, 252 pp.
4
22
Complete draft, holograph revisions, 182 pp.
4
23
Reviews
Galley proofs, 89 pp.
Galley proofs not found (September 2003).
Right Ascension
Right Ascension is a novel
excerpted from the novel, Departure
published in 1985 by Blue Heron.
March 1974
Box
Folder
4
24
First submitted version, typed draft, and
holograph revisions (pp. 1-179)
4
25
First submitted version, typed draft, and holograph revision (pp. 180-372)
4
26
Revisions, (pp. 1-100) [1 of 3]
March 1974
4
27
Revisions, (pp. 101-218) [2 of 3]
March 1974
4
28
Revisions, (pp. 219-372) [3 of 3]
March 1974
5
1
Copy, 372 pp.
March 1974
5
2
Notes in spiral bound notebook with
two photographs attached to the front.
5
3
Maps and notes in spiral bound notebook
5
4
Miscellaneous notes
5
5
Scenario
5
6
Very old roughs
5
7
Revision
July 1974
The School Segregation Cases, Franklin Watts
1973
Box
Folder
5
8
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
and others. Typed draft, 59 pp.
5
9
First rough, typed draft, heavy
holograph revisions, 82 pp.
June 1972-July 1972
5
10
Second rough, typed draft, holograph
revisions, 76 pp.
July 20, 1972
5
11
Third rough, typed draft, holograph
revisions, 68 pp.
July 28, 1972
5
12
Notes (11 pp.) and Correspondence,
outgoing (1)
1972
5
13
Correspondence-outgoing (2);
incoming (3) from Franklin Watts, book publishers
5
14
Correspondence: - outgoing (1);
incoming (1), and copy of letter to publisher from NAACP Legal Defense
Fund
5
15
Notes, 38 cards
5
16
Typed draft, 64 pp.
5
17
Typed draft, late, holograph revisions, 58 pp.
5
18
Galley proofs, marked
Soldiers of the
Civil Rights War: Adventures in Courage, (juvenile history)
Reilly and Lee
1971
Box
Folder
5
19
First draft, holograph revisions, 186 pp.
5
20
Final draft, 161 pp.
5
20
Galley proofs, 107 pp.
Galley proofs not found (September 2003)
Spokesman for Freedom, Macmillan
1969
Box
Folder
5
21
The life of Archibald Grimke. Carbon
of final manuscript, 77l.
The Undiminished
Man, The Political Biography of Robert W. Kenny, Chandler and Sharp
1980
Box
Folder
5
22
Original with revisions (pp. 1-135) [1 of 2]
5
23
Original with revisions (pp. 136-269) [2 of 2]
5
24
Photocopy (pp. 1-170)
5
25
Photocopy (pp. 171-264)
5
26
Photocopy (pp. 1-135)
5
27
Photocopy (pp. 136-264)
5
28
Photographs (9) including two of Kenny at age 3 and one newspaper photo.
5
29
Research material
5
30
Research material
5
31
Correspondence between R. W. Kenny and J. Stevenson
5
32
Kenny speeches and articles
5
33
Drafts and revisions [1 of 3]
5
34
Drafts and revisions [2 of 3]
5
35
Drafts and revisions [3 of 3]
6
1
Transcripts of interviews with Kenny
6
2
Undated draft and revisions [1 of 2]
6
3
Undated draft and revisions [2 of 2]
6
4
Correspondence re: Kenny biography
6
5
Carbon of Kenny manuscript, August 1971
6
6
Newspaper clippings about Kenny.
6
7
Research material
6
8
Kenny family letters [1 of 7]
6 letters
6
9
Kenny family letters [2 of 7]
9 letters
6
10
Kenny family letters [3 of 7]
9 letters
6
11
Kenny family letters [4 of 7]
7 letters
6
12
Kenny family letters [5 of 7]
2 letters
6
13
Kenny family letters insurance for his father, b. 1859 [6 of 7]
1 letter
6
14
Kenny family letters incl. letters to his father dated 1891 [7 of 7]
11 letters
6
15
Early draft with revisions
6
16
First draft of
My First Forty Years in California Politics,
Kenny's unpublished autobiography (pp. 1-70) [1 of 5]
6
17
My First Forty Years in California Politics,
Kenny's unpublished autobiography (pp. 71-165) [2 of 5]
6
18
My First Forty Years in California Politics,
Kenny's unpublished autobiography (pp. 166-253) [3 of 5]
6
19
My First Forty Years in California Politics,
Kenny's unpublished autobiography (pp. 254-343) [4 of 5]
6
20
My First Forty Years in California Politics,
Kenny's unpublished autobiography (pp. 344-399, plus index) [5 of 5]
6
21
First draft of Kenny autobiography
holographs by Stevenson (pp. 1-93)
6
22
First draft of Kenny autobiography
holographs by Stevenson (pp. 94-223)
6
23
First draft of Kenny autobiography
holographs by Stevenson (pp. 224-321, plus notes pp. 1-30)
6
24
First draft of Kenny autobiography
holographs by Stevenson (pp. 322-399, plus index)
6
25
Correspondence between Kenny and Stevenson
6
26
Miscellaneous research
6
27
Reviews
6
28
News clippings and document
photocopies re: Kenny
7
1
Transcripts of taped interviews
7
2
Correspondence re: Stevenson's biography
7
3
Article on Kenny by Stevenson in
Peoples College of Law and Dies
Committee on "un-American activities" research
7
4
News clippings, articles
7
5
Research re: Smith Act
7
6
Research re: Lawyers Guild
7
7
Kenny scrapbook includes photos, news clippings, and family tree
7
8
Typescript, (pp. 1-154)
March 1975
7
9
Typescript [1 of 2]
August 1975
7
10
Typescript [2 of 2]
August 1975
7
11
Typescript [1 of 3]
1974
7
12
Typescript [2 of 3]
1974
7
13
Typescript [3 of 3]
1974
7
14
Four reports authored by Kenny, brief for Lawson vs. U.S.A.
7
15
News clippings, political handbills
7
16
News clippings re: "Hollywood 10"
7
17
Mayoral race
1950
7
18
McCain case, Pension Repeal brief and Bridges and Hallinan case
7
19
Bancroft Library's description of Kenny Papers
7
20
Attorney General
7
21
Kenny
1945-1946
7
22
State Senate race
7
23
Wallace, et. al.
1948-1949
7
24
Research notes
8
1
Transcripts of audio recordings [1 of 3]
8
2
Transcripts of audio recordings [2 of 3]
8
3
Transcripts of audio recordings [3 of 3]
Weep No More,
Viking
1957
Box
Folder
8
4
Printer's copy
8
5
Earlier version as a three-act play, mimeographed
1952-1953
8
6
Earlier version as a two-act play titled "But Yet a Woman"
1951
8
7
Earlier version as a screenplay titled "Kate"
1947
8
8
Publicity
8
9
Speeches about book
8
10
Letters from readers
8
11
Reviews and notices
8
12
Research notes
Woman Aboard,
Crown
1969
Box
Folder
8
13
Final Version, with holograph
revisions, pp. 1-204
September 1967
8
14
Final Version, with holograph
revisions, pp. 205-481
September 1967
8
15
Revised manuscript, 485l. Notes.
8
16
Revised version, carbon with corrections, 430l.
Account of a 1965 South Seas voyage in sailboat with her
husband, Benson Rotstein and two other men.
April 4, 1968
8
17
Reviews
8
18
Photographs (15) from reprint of
Woman Aboard
8
19
Drafts
Second half of first draft (pp. 322-481)
April 1967
draft (pp. 1-322)
August 10, 1966
9
1
Notes, recipes
9
2
Letters from the sea. A series of
letters to friends, recounting Stevenson's real-life voyage.
9
3
More reviews
A Woman's Place
undated
Box
Folder
9
4
Story of Frances Anne Kemble. Original
typed copy with author's revisions, 48 leaves
9
5
Miscellaneous research
Carbon, with no corrections, 33 leaves
Notes: Butler vs. Butler
research notes re: marriage of Miss Kemble
Original typed copy with
author's corrections, 25 leaves
Plays
1929-1985
Box
Folder
9
6
"All Honourable Men"
undated
Original rough draft, 42 leaves
Notes on a play in 7 or 8 scenes, original, 3 leaves
Notes, 10 leaves
Synopsis, 9 leaves (Written at Yale?)
"Ballywhom"
undated
Box
Folder
9
7
Original typed copy, 55 leaves
"But Yet a Woman"
undated
Box
Folder
9
8
Photocopy of a 3-act play
"Counter Attack"
1944
Box
Folder
9
9
Three-act play by Janet and Philip Stevenson, copyright, 1942. Carbon, 141l.
Based on a Russian play by Ilya Vershinin and Mikhail Ruderman.
1942
9
10
Third revised edition, mimeographed.
Produced on Broadway by Lee Sabinson.
1944
"Declaration"
1948
Box
Folder
9
11
Mimeographed. Set of carded research notes on Thomas Jefferson. Reviews, programs, photographs.
A three-act play by Janet and Philip Stevenson. Produced by Actors' Lab, Hollywood.
1948
"Demonstration Home"
Box
Folder
9
12
Carbon, 97 pp.
Revision of earlier work. "A play to be filmed."
1971
9
13
Three-act play, carbon copy, Alternate
title, "I pronounce You;" and carbon of a screenplay.
1950
9
14
Original of a short novel version titled, "Demonstration Home," based on the play.
undated
"Dido"
1929
Box
Folder
9
15
Carbon, 21l. With Bob Simmons
9
16
Pageant-play. Winner of Williams Prize, New Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois.
"Doctor Olga"
1942
Box
Folder
9
17
Carbon copy
By Janet and Philip Stevenson
1942
"Found in a Crowd"
Three-act play by Janet Marshall. Original title: "E. Pluribus."
1939-1940
Box
Folder
9
18
First draft, original typed copy with revisions, 114l.
9
19
Carbon, "E Pluribus," first draft, 111 leaves;
Act II, Scene I, "E Pluribus," carbon, 3 leaves
9
20
Carbon copy and working manuscript with notes
9
21
"E Pluribus," draft carbon before title change
"If the Court Please"
ca. 1938
Box
Folder
9
22
Original typed copy,
132l. Rejection letter from Federal Theatre
Project for New York (Signed by Ruth Gordon) to Miss Dorothy Fletcher.
A comedy in two acts and a prologue by Janet Marshall.
"Innocent Bystander"
1937
Box
Folder
9
23
Three manuscripts
Original working manuscript of a three-act play
Carbon copy
Mimeographed script as performed by San Francisco Labor Theater
"Kate"
1951
Box
Folder
9
24
A two-act play 54l.
"A Little Thing Like This"
undated
Box
Folder
9
25
One-act play, published by the
Cooperative League of the U.S.A., N.Y., Washington, Chicago
Mimeograph
9
26
Copy of "A Little Thing Like This"
9
27
Original one-act version
"Mayana"
undated
Box
Folder
9
28
A three-act play also known as "Kumana"
Synopsis written for Paramount
Scenario
Correspondence with Ernest Kanitz
Synopsis of a libretto
Carbon copies
Mimeograph
"Ricochet"
undated
Box
Folder
9
29
Three-act play, four items
Carbon copies (2)
Early version titled, "Streak of Pink" (2)
1936
"Rip-off"
July 1971
Box
Folder
10
1
Final draft, carbon, holograph
revisions, 40 pp. A morality play.
"A Streak of Pink"
March 1936
Box
Folder
10
2
Three-act play by Janet Marshall. Carbon, 151l.
March 1936
"These Truths"
undated
Box
Folder
10
3
A play by Allison Thorne
"Time Out of Mind"
1985
Box
Folder
10
4
Photo copy of two-act play also titled, "Sarah Ann."
"The Third President"
Produced by Southern Players, Laboratory Theatre,
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
1976
Box
Folder
10
5
Photocopy of a three-act play.
Also known as, "Declaration," but produced under the above title.
10
6
Reviews, correspondence, publicity.
"The Trial of Susan B. Anthony"
undated
Box
Folder
10
7
Photo copies of the three-act play (2)
"Weep No More"
1951
Box
Folder
10
8
Two-act play, third version. Also known as "But Yet a Woman."
10
9
Three-act version
10
10
Photocopy of three-act version
"Where is the Lightning?"
undated
Box
Folder
10
11
A three-act play by Janet Marshall
Original typed copy with author's
revisions, 113 leaves
Original typed copy, Act III, with
author's revisions, 20 leaves
Original typed copy with author's
corrections and stage directions for parts of Act I, 8 leaves
Act II, Scene II, original copy
with author's directions, 19 leaves
Fragments, carbon with author's
stage directions, 12 leaves
10
12
Carbon with author's revisions and
stage directions, 88 leaves
"With This Ring"
undated
Box
Folder
10
13
Carbon, 143 leaves
Short Stories
Mostly undated
Box
Folder
10
14
Short Stories [1 of 2] (10 titles)
"Audubon's Phoebes," By
Janet Marshall. Carbon, 9l. and correspondence.
"Cabeza De Vaca," By Janet
Marshall. Carbon, 13 leaves; Rough draft,
original, 8 leaves; Supplementary material
on story, carbon, 3 leaves
"The Camera," by Janet Stevenson,
original, 15 leaves
"Chuck-Will's-Widow," by Janet
Marshall. Carbon, 6 leaves
"General Garibaldi," by Clare
Thorne. Published by Childcraft, Field Enterprises Educational
Corp. Original typed copy with author's corrections, 9 leaves
1962
"Hayes," Original typed copy
with author's corrections, 12 leaves
"The Indian Who Was President,"
by Janet Marshall. Carbon with author's corrections,
12l. Supplementary material on
parallel with Lincoln especially in youth, carbon, 3 leaves. Notes on Juarez biography, 8l. Rough draft, incomplete, original typed copy, 9l.
"The Making of a Sourdough," by
Janet Marshall. Carbon, 10 leaves
"The Mother of Invention,"
by Janet Marshall. Carbon, 5 leaves
"Mysterious Monarchs," by
Janet Marshall. Published by Scott, Foresman and Co. Carbon, 8 leaves.
Correspondence with Lee Horton, Scott, Foresman and Co.
1963
10
15
Short Stories [2 of 2] (10 titles)
undated
"Pato," by Janet Marshall.
Carbon with author's revisions, 9l.
"Seeing What You're Looking At,"
by Janet Marshall. Carbon, final draft, 7l.
Supplementary information for shell-hunting story, carbon, 3l.
First draft, original typed copy with author's corrections, 9l. Revised draft, original typed copy, 8l.
"Sequoia's Magic Marks," by
Janet Marshall. Carbon with author's revisions, 7l.
"Stars for a Steady Diet," by
Janet Marshall. Carbon with author's revisions, 9l.
"Beginner's Luck" (or "Stars for a Steady Diet"), original typed
copy with author's revisions, 10l.;
original typed copy of second draft, 9l.;
original typed copy of first draft, 10l.
Notes on star story, 1l.
Correspondence, Mrs. Margaret Mayall and unidentified (1).
"The Stranded Flatboat," by
Clare Thorne. Original typed copy, 6l.;
carbon, 6l. Reference sources, carbon, 1l.
"The Stupid Beaver," by Janet
Marshall. Carbon with author's corrections, 8l.
Correspondence, unidentified.
"Teaching Mother," by Janet
Marshall. Carbon, 7l.
"The Three Hermits," by Janet
Marshall. Final draft, carbon, 5 leaves
First draft, carbon, 5 leaves, Original
title: "The Half-dressed Hermit."
"The Unlucky Spear-fisherman,"
by Janet Marshall. Carbon, 10 leaves
"Walky-Talky," by Janet Marshall.
Carbon, 5 leaves; Correspondence with
Erma Stewart, Scott, Foresman and Co.
10
16
"Arch's Funeral"
Also a version titled, "The Second Funeral." Notes, correspondence.
1956
10
17
"The Coat of Velasquez"
Also known as: "Citizen Velasquez" - Three versions.
Published in Reader's Scope.
1947-1948
10
18
"Denny"
Three versions, alternate title, "Denny and the Nice Plain Man."
10
19
"Doctor's Office"
Original
10
20
"The Ghost of Christmas Present"
Original
1958
10
21
"Go to the Ant …"
Original
10
22
"How Do You Manage?"
Original
10
23
"The Hysterical Type"
Another version titled, "Snake in My Typewriter."
10
24
"Lady in the Wide Sailor Hat"
Original
10
25
"Leading Man"
Original
10
26
"No Pretty Little Girls"
Original, by Janet Marshall. Published by
Redbook
1956
10
27
"Samoan Easter"
Handwritten manuscript, first
draft
Typescript
10
28
"Stopover in Santa Fe"
Original
10
29
"Tide Pool"
Original
10
30
"Wolf Cub"
Earlier version titled: "The Put-Out" original
10
31
"You See More from a Bus"
Three versions, original.
Radio Scripts
Box
Folder
10
32
"America in the Making: A series of Readings in the History of Our Country"
A 13-part radio script. Typed, carbon.
10
33
"Two Ton Trailer"
Original
Teleplays
Box
Folder
10
34
"Fresh Flaming Silk"
Carbon copy
10
35
"These Truths" By Janet and
Philip Stevenson
Carbon, 58 leaves, by
Allison Thorne.
1955
10
36
"What Anniversary is the 65th?"
Photocopy
10
37
"Women Get Desperate, by Janet Lewis.
Final draft, mimeographed, 44 pp.
Screenplays
Box
Folder
10
38
"Days Without Names," photocopy [1 of 2]
10
39
"Days Without Names," photocopy [2 of 2]
10
40
"David and Julia," also known as "Mayana" or "Kumana"
Original version
Version that is registered with
the Screen Writers Guild (SWG) that includes notes on
"Living Superstitions in Hawaii." Places story in a Pennsylvania
setting.
11
1
"Heritage," original draft.
1948
11
2
"Mayana"
Screen treatment with author's revisions, carbon,
85 leaves
11
3
"Possessed"
A screenplay by Janet Stevenson, Ralph Steiner, and
Banno Schneider. Based on a short story by Guy Endore.
11
4
"Weep No More"
Copy, also known as, "Kate." Registered with the
Screen Writers Guild.
Speeches
1950 and ; 1952
Box
Folder
11
5
Two speeches
Speech delivered at First
Unitarian Church. Meeting to protest Propositions 5 and 6
(California). Original typed copy, 13 leaves
October 5, 1952
Mother's Day Gathering, Hollywood,
California. Original typed copy with author's revisions,
12 leaves, Carbon of revised draft,
3 leaves
May 1950
Political Literary Criticism
Box
Folder
11
6
Four items
"Murder in the Courthouse."
Original typed copy, 8 leaves
"Snow Hill, Maryland Shooting
Investigation," by Janet Marshall.
Carbon 7 leaves
October 4, 1938
News clipping from
Sunday Worker, February 24, ????
"Snow Hill - Where Mother, Daughter Faced Lynchers."
"Twenty-seven Wagons Full of
Cold Comfort" About Tennessee Williams. Carbon, 19 leaves
Articles
1945-1972
Box
Folder
11
7
"An American Family"
March 1966
Outline (carbon) of Grimke article, 5 leaves
Carbon of proposed article on
Grimke sisters for American Heritage, 34 leaves
"The Fading Photograph," 11 leaves, an account of research experiences.
11
8
"Baja California"
Three manuscripts on travel in Baja California, and as
published in Trailer Life.
December 1956-June 1957
Travel in Baja California
December 1956
Travel in Baja California
February 1957
Travel in Baja California
June 1957
11
9
"The Ignorant Armies," Atlantic Monthly
October 1969
Partial drafts, holograph revisions, 54 pp.
11
10
"The Ignorant Armies," Complete draft
with holograph revisions, 46 pp.
11
11
"The Ignorant Armies," Complete draft,
Carbon, holograph revisions, 48 pp.
11
12
"The Montgomery Bus Boycott,"
American Heritage
February 1972
Interview with E.D. Nixon, rough
typewritten transcription of tape-recorded interview, 22 pp.
Chronology, 1 pg. (actually, 2 pp.
taped together).
Final draft, original, checking
copy, source notations in margin.
Code for notations separate, 33 pp.
11
13
"The Montgomery Bus Boycott," Rejected
version submitted to American Heritage,
original, 45 pp.
11
14
"The Race Riot that Didn't Happen,"
American Heritage
The orderly and peaceful return of the Japanese to
California in 1945.
1968
Transcript of taped interview
with Judge Robert W. Kenny,
Los Angeles, California (17 leaves)
November 1968
Carbon of final manuscript,
with holograph revisions, 20 leaves
11
15
"Roland Hayes"
1963
Original biographical article
and carbon. Includes letter. Unpublished as far as can be
determined.
11
16
"Ronald the Rattleworm"
Two copies with original
sketches. Includes rejection letter from agent. Unpublished as
far as can be determined.
"Visiting Hours," 2 leaves;
"Lunch Hour," 2 leaves; "Musings at the On-stage Typewriter," first draft, 4 leaves,
second draft, (2 sets), 5 leaves; Rejection note from Esquire magazine.
Prayer, original, 1 leaf.
undated
12
9
Bryn Mawr Drama Class Materials
"The Order of the Canterbury Tales," by Janet Marshall,
Original typed copy with author's corrections, 23 leaves.
Quarrel Scene, original with revisions, 7l.
April 20, 1932
12
9
"Radio Continuity," original copy, 31 leaves
1937
12
9
Costume Project for Victor Hugo's "Mary Tudor".
Original typed copy with author's corrections,
including watercolor sketches and drawings, 10 leaves
April 18, 1937
Folder
item
9
5
"Report on Greek Plays," by Janet Marshall.
Original typed copy with author's revisions, 11 leaves
March 5, 1935
12
9
"Molière and the Creation of an Ideal Comic Character,"
by Janet Marshall, April 6, 1935(?).
Original copy, 15 leaves
12
9
Costume project for "A Streak of Pink."
Original copy with water color sketches, 10 leaves
Reviews and publicity for novel published by Britannica Press.
Includes a radio transcript of the "Carnival of Books" program on WMAQ, Chicago,
Illinois.
January 19, 1964
12
22
Poetry. Original
12
23
Political writings
Especially for the Hollywood Democratic Committee, 1944 and after.
1944
12
24
Clippings and notes
Includes three photographs at the 14th National Association of
Cost Accountants, unidentified men.
12
25
Notes, etc. (4)
Dismissal from the University of Southern
California. Four issues of the USC Summer News;
letters to Editor protesting Ms. Stevenson's firing. Public Interest Paper #3,
published by the Science and Education Division of the So. California Chapter,
National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions. "Academic Freedom at USC,
The Case of Janet Stevenson."
August 8, 1952; August 12, 1952; August 15, 1952; August 19, 1952
Dust jacket of Weep No More
Award from Friends of American Writers, for
The Ardent Years.
March 29, 1961
Tear sheet, People's Daily World,
Re: Ms. Stevenson's participation in "Drive to Save the Rosenbergs."
A three-act play by Janet and Philip Stevenson. Produced by
Actors' Lab, Hollywood. Audio recording of play. 7-inch reel.
1948
13
2
An American Family
Two reels of tape-recorded source material, historical research
on the Grimke biography. One 7-inch reel, and one 5-inch reel.
13
3
Interviews with Janet Stevenson and Philip Stevenson
1956-1957
"Meet a Celebrity," KABC, Los Angeles,
California, Lars Lawrence (Philip Stevenson's pseudonym after being
blacklisted). Janet Stevenson interviewed on KFUB. Janet Stevenson interviewed
on KNXTV, one 7-inch reel.
April 14, 1956; March 4, 1957; September 15, 1957; September 1966
Janet Stevenson with Juanita Hall, NBC.
N Niles N.Y. Flower Show, one 3-inch reel.
September 1966
13
4
Astoria School Board Meeting
Benson Rotstein contract renewal as Astoria High School
Counselor. Some sex education issues. One 7-inch reel.
1969-1970
13
5
Interviews with Robert W. Kenny subject of
Stevenson's biography, The Undiminished Man.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Personal Names :
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893
Kenny, Robert Walker, 1901-
Rotstein, Benson, d. 1970
Stevenson, Janet, 1913---Archives
Stevenson, Philip, 1896-1965
Family Names :
Kenney family
Corporate Names :
University of Southern California--Faculty
Subject Terms :
Anti-communist movements--California
Authors, American--20th century
Civil rights--United States
College teachers--Dismissal of--California
Dramatists, American--20th century
Environmental protection--Columbia River Estuary (Or. and Wash.)
