"The Artless Heiress" Manuscript Copy, c. 1957
Scope and Contents
A manuscript copy of Clarence Budington Kelland's novel "The Artless Heiress" -- first published as a magazine serial in The Saturday Evening Post in 1957, with illustrations by Robert Meyers.
The manuscript appears to have been copied from the original serial: it is written in blue ink in a neat decorative script (not Kelland's own) and features the original illustrations, which have been cut out and pasted into the book. The text itself is written on blank paper that has been added to the original binding of a Dutch-language copy of Robert Carson's "You Got to Stay Happy" (1956, here titled "Avontuur in de Wolken"), of which only pages 81-96 are present. Like Kelland, Carson was a Hollywood screenwriter and author of pulp novels, often serialized in the Post.
A receipt present with the volume indicates that Scheetz purchased it at the Lantern Bookshop in Washington DC in January of 2015.
Dates
- c. 1957
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Clarence Budington Kelland (1881-1964) was an American writer and screenwriter. He enjoyed a long career, publishing more than 200 short stories and 60 novels, including "Opera Hat" upon which the Oscar-winning Frank Capra film "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936) was based.
Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (69 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
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From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
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