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Scrapbook page containing newspaper clipping of article about playwright Rachel Crothers titled "Woman Playwright Things Her Sex Shows More Sympathy for the Sister Who Has Strayed From Path of Conventional Morality..."

Scrapbook page containing newspaper clipping of article titled "Rachel Crothers the Woman Playwright Who Has Grown Famous In Writing 'The Three of Us,' 'The Coming of Mrs. Patrick' and 'Myself Bettina.'"

Selected pages from a lecture by Rachel Crothers titled "Construction of a Play" published in the 1928 anthology The Art of Playwriting: Lectures Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania on the Mask and Wig Foundation.

Signed typed manuscript copy of a speech given by Rachel Crothers at the White House upon receipt of a Chi Omega National Achievement Award in April 1939. The ceremony was attended by Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt.

First four pages of Rachel Crothers' typed manuscript copy of her play A Man's World, first published in 1910.

Five-page manuscript essay by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby titled "Through Literature to Life," written on November 22, 1935.

An article titled "Some Often Forgotten Aspects of the Relation of Women to the Industrial World" by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby excerpted from the February 4, 1908 issue of the ISU student…

Article by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby titled "The Girl and the Library," published in vol. 2, no. 1 of The Educational Bi-Monthly on October 1, 1907.

The first page of an essay in both manuscript and typescript form by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby titled "Training Teachers of Appreciation."

Transcript:

62
Oct 9th 1858
One year ago yesterday since I said good
bye to Annie on the cars. Wanted to write
some last night but was too "deeply, darkly,
desperately," steeped in indigo to trust myself
with a pen only for the tedium of…