Scope and content

Records include essays and proposals in support of the festival; theater building plans; master site plan; programs and objectives; financial records, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of festival committees; leases; and clippings. Correspondents include Walter Bruska, David C. Mandeville, Norbert H. Schickel, Jr., William Schmidt, Alan Schneider, John Summerskill, Walter Wiggins, and Joe Zeigler.

Abstract Records concerning the organization and development of the Festival include agendas and minutes of the Board of Trustees and the Executive; minutes and reports of various other committees; fund raising and public relations consultants' reports, the report on a space and accommodation program prepared by Fairchild and Dubois, Toronto architects, and a statement on the Festival by the Department of Speech and Drama at Cornell University; correspondence, memoranda, resolutions, financial...