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Summary Information
Walter and Jean Kerr Papers
circa 1920-1993
U.S. Mss 27AN; Audio 505A; Audio 1052A; AE 842; CD 364-CD 365; DG 781; FI 020-FI
030; M2004-120
56.4 cubic feet (111 archives boxes, 68 volumes, and 2 packages), 54 audio recordings (1/4-inch reel), 3 audio recordings (cassette), 16 audio recordings (disc); plus additions of 8.3 cubic feet (7 record center cartons and 2 flat boxes), 6 audio recordings (cassette), 36 photographs, 15 reels of film (16 mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Walter Kerr, playwright and
drama critic, and his wife Jean Kerr, humorist and playwright; the collection documents
their individual and their collaborative careers. For their New York productions such as
King of Hearts (1954), Mary,
Mary (1961), and Poor Richard (1964), there are
scripts, musical scores and recordings, photographs, notes, clippings, correspondence, and
financial records. Also included are materials relating to Walter Kerr's teaching, and his
career as a theater critic. Jean Kerr's writings are represented by correspondence and
financial and legal material for Please Don't Eat the Daisies
(1957), and drafts of three collections of her free-lance articles. Among many prominent
correspondents in the collection are W.H. Auden, Richard Burton, Carol Channing, Oscar
Hammerstein II, Moss Hart, Helen Hayes, Hubert H. Humphrey, Elia Kazan, Clare Boothe Luce,
Fredric March, Mary Martin, Groucho Marx, Richard Rodgers, William Saroyan, Gloria Swanson,
and Tennessee Williams.
English
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