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C. Lawton Campbell Papers

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Campbell, C. Lawton (Charles Lawton), 1896-

Charles Lawton Campbell (Princeton Class of 1916) was an American playwright and advertising writer.

The collection contains ninety-four drafts, fragments, and fully-conceived plays by Campbell (Princeton Class of 1916), as well as poems, essays, and an autobiography covering fifty years of his life as a devotee of the theater. In addition, the collection includes family correspondence as well as letters to friends and business associates, and scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia covering Campbell's earliest years as a boy in Montgomery, Alabama, through his years as a playwright and advertising executive in New York City. Among Campbell's correspondents are Andrew Turnbull and Nancy Milford, authors of Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda, respectively, regarding the Fitzgeralds, and there is a special section of memorabilia and printed matter dedicated to ANTA (American National Theatre and Academy), during the years, 1945-1970. In the series devoted to papers of others, there is a project devoted to Stark Young containing copies of letters written by Young to Sir Julian Huxley, Ellen Glasgow, Allen Tate, Maxwell Perkins, Charles Scribner, and other authors, editors, and theater people.

Gift of the author in 1957-1964 and his estate in 1981.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2002
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

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2 boxes

A - C, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

D - Z; Miscellaneous and Unidentifiable, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Business Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 box.
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(including rejections)

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1 box

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1 box

high school and college; travel and army, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

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1 box

clippings, photographs, Henry Campbell's diary etc., dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

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16 boxes

Always the Hero - Bachelor Queen, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Bachelor Queen, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Bachelor Queen - Back Bay, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Back Bay - Cavalier, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Cedar Bluff - Devil in the Choir, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Dora - Fangs, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

The Feast of Bacchus - Foolish Sunset, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Fragments - Home Comes the Hunter, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Home Comes the Hunter - The Impossible Happened, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Isabella - Lady on the Loose, dates not examined. 1 box.
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Lady on the Loose - Madame Malissa, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

The Man Behind the Door - The National Anthem Contest, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Pebbles - Rain on the Roof, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Red Tape - River Rat, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

The Romantic Refugees - Swat the Fly, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

Tarvia's Tapestry - The Yellow Jacket, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

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3 boxes

"Behind the Blind" - Poems, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

The Theatre is Mine - "Tide", dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA): Letters and Other Material Covering, 1945-1970. 1 box.
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1 box

Miscellaneous, dates not examined. 1 box.
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3 boxes

1900-1923, 1900-1923. 1 box.
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1 box

1924-1933, 1924-1933. 1 box.
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1933 May-1937, 1933 May-1937. 1 box.
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Print, Suggest