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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Mabel DeVries Tanner, Playwright, Correspondence and Play Scripts, A&M 4408, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Mabel Tanner was a playwright who lived in Morgantown, West Virginia. The collection includes her correspondence advocating her plays, including letters to the Federal Theatre Project in the 1930s. There is also correspondence with the Hollywood movie star Anthony Quinn.
box 1; correspondence (including letters from Anthony Quinn), four play scripts authored by Mabel Tanner (including "May Madness," "Call it Madness," "The Go-Between," and "Bread and Wine"), two photographs of Mabel Tanner, a copyright certificate, a play program for "The Pajama Game" performed by the University Theatre, and two opera librettos
box 2; 16 folders of Tanner's alphabetized correspondence
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