Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series: Business correspondence relates to Vliet’s writing career, and covers such subjects as writing submissions, editing of works to be published, royalties for published works. Correspondents include various poetry and literary journals, Texas Institute of Letters, the Ford Foundation, and Vliet’s agent, Lucy Kroll, of the Lucy Kroll Agency. Two non-correspondence files were filed by the author with this business correspondence, and are located at the beginning of this group of...

Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Education and Training, contains Mary Sue's yearbooks, class notes, and her thesis from her years at Baylor University, where she gained her undergraduate and masters degrees in drama. Also included are slides of the 1952 trip to Paris made by the Baylor Drama students with Paul Baker. The next subseries, Acting, Design, and Directing Career, contains records, audiotapes, photographs, slides, posters, letters, scripts, set designs and costume designs. The...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials are organized into three series: "AETA/ATA", "American College Theatre Festival", "University and College Theatre Association". It contains correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, newsletters, curriculum vitaes, reports, and operating documents relating to the American Theatre Association and its members, specifically James Barton, a former professor at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and regional representative to the ATA. The material is...

Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series: This subseries very clearly shows Vliet’s process of writing from preliminary research through final product. It includes extensive background research files including files by subject containing clippings from newspapers and magazines, library call slips, color and black and white photographs, and handwritten notes. Following these research files are drafts of chapters handwritten in pencil, annotated typescripts, clean typescripts, and (minimal) correspondence. Perhaps most meticulously...

Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Drafts of plays (mostly handwritten in pencil and annotated) and typescripts (mostly mimeographs or photocopies with annotations) are arranged in this subseries in alphabetical order. For reviews and further information regarding the author’s plays, see Series II: Personal, Newsclippings.

Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Individual handwritten and typed poems, and hand-bound books of poetry, comprise this subseries. Many of the individual poems are accompanied by drafts, some are single copies. Individual poems are arranged alphabetically, followed by books of poetry, also arranged alphabetically. See also Series 2 : Personal, Subseries C: Scrapbook, for early drafts of poetry.

Series Description From the Series: Mary Sue Jones left the Dallas Theater Center in 1983 and joined the College of Santa Fe as artist in residence. She taught and directed at the Greer Garson Theater Center becoming a full time faculty member at the College of Santa Fe in 1988. The first subseries, Teaching and Directing, contains class notes, student theses, reviews of College productions, and notes on faculty and college administration. Besides her own theater work, Mary Sue continued to manage the rights to Preston's...

Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Handwritten and typed notes, clippings, and photocopies, arranged in alphabetical order by the author’s subject categories, comprise the majority of this subseries. Also included are several folders of topographical and road maps of various Texas counties and other locations.

Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Photographs in this subseries are divided into the following groups: photographs of R.G. Vliet alone, Vliet and his immediate family, Vliet and extended family, Mexico snapshots, friends, workspaces, and pets. Most are color snapshots from Vliet’s personal life, most are not labeled with identifying information. See also Subseries C : Scrapbook, for additional photographs, especially from Vliet’s youth.