Lucy Kroll papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 881
Subjects: Theatrical agents; Literary agents; Lucy Kroll Agency
Description: Client files containing correspondence, contracts, financial records, notes, scripts, printed material, posters, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the work of the Lucy Kroll Agency which managed the careers of clients in the literary and entertainment fields.  Documents the business association, friendship, and mentoring relationship between Kroll and her clients.  Also includes Kroll family papers and an office file consisting of account books, appointment books, client fact sheets and lists, deal memoranda, and other papers.  Clients include E.R. Braithwaite, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Vincent J. Donehue, Dorothy Fields (estate of), Horton Foote, Lillian Gish, Joanna M. Glass, Martha Graham, Uta Hagen, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Daniel Petrie, Dorothea G. Petrie, Carl Sandburg, Kim Stanley, Howard Teichmann, and Fritz Weaver.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, deposit converted to gift, and bequest, Lucy Kroll, 1969-1997.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Literary and talent agent.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006016