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Phyllis Merrill papers

Title: Phyllis Merrill papers, 1933-1956.
Author: Merrill, Phyllis, 1908-
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 47	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 47	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 46	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 46	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 45	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 45	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 44	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 44	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 43	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 43	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 42	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 42	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 41	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 41	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 40	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 40	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 39	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 39	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 38	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 38	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 37	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 37	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 36	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 36	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 35	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 35	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 34	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 34	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 33	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 33	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 32	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 32	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 31	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 31	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 30	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 30	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 29	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 29	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 28	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1998-004 Box 28	Offsite

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Additional Authors

Serling, Rod, 1924-1975.

Description

17 lf. (47 boxes)

Summary

The Phyllis Merrill papers span 1933-1956 and consist of correspondence, memos, notes, commercial writings from the J. Walter Thompson agency, and scripts for radio and television.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Radio scripts.
Television scripts.
Scripts.
Correspondence.

Access (note)

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Source (note)

Roberta M. Carr

Biography (note)

Phyllis Merrill (1908-1972) was born in Franklin, New Hampshire, graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1930, and earned an M.A. from Radcliffe in 1932. In 1942, after several years as a teacher, she took a job with the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency as a copy writer. Ms. Merrill became a radio scriptwriter, adapting plays for the Helen Hayes Theater series, writing comedy sketches for Edgar Bergen, Fred Allen, and Jackie Gleason, and writing speeches for various actors, comedians, and politicians. After a series of heart attacks, Phyllis Merrill returned to New Hampshire in 1957 and resumed work as a copy writer for a small agency in Concord. She also edited the New Hampshire Education Association magazine. She died in Concord on January 23, 1972.

Processing Action (note)

Processed

Call Number

*T-Mss 1998-004

OCLC

NYPW00-A106

Author

Merrill, Phyllis, 1908-

Title

Phyllis Merrill papers, 1933-1956.

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Biography

Phyllis Merrill (1908-1972) was born in Franklin, New Hampshire, graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1930, and earned an M.A. from Radcliffe in 1932. In 1942, after several years as a teacher, she took a job with the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency as a copy writer. Ms. Merrill became a radio scriptwriter, adapting plays for the Helen Hayes Theater series, writing comedy sketches for Edgar Bergen, Fred Allen, and Jackie Gleason, and writing speeches for various actors, comedians, and politicians. After a series of heart attacks, Phyllis Merrill returned to New Hampshire in 1957 and resumed work as a copy writer for a small agency in Concord. She also edited the New Hampshire Education Association magazine. She died in Concord on January 23, 1972.

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Merrill, Phyllis, 1908-

Serling, Rod, 1924-1975.

Serling, Rod, 1924-1975. Blues for Joey Menotti.

Serling, Rod, 1924-1975. Long time till dawn.

Research Call Number

*T-Mss 1998-004

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