Patricia Robinson Papers, 1922-1998

Mailing Address:
Special Collections
College of Charleston Library
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424

Phone:
(843) 953-8016

Title: Patricia Robinson Papers

Collection #: 0107

Dates: 1922-1998

Size: 3 linear feet

Biographical Note: Patricia Anne Colbert Robinson, 1922-1998 (the author earlier requested that her date of birth be listed as 1923), was a Charleston author, playwright, poet and actress. She and her husband Emmett E. Robinson (1914- 1988), Director of the Footlight Players, were leaders in the Charleston theater for three decades. She wrote over fifteen plays. Most of them were produced at the Dock Street Theatre. Her comedies "Syllabub" and "Hiddydoddy" were followed by period pieces that included "The Burning Tide" and collaborative musicals with Mel Marvin, "Rare Fine Towne" and "Jubalee". She wrote seven fiction novels, mostly mysteries. with Charleston as the backdrop. She collaborated with Nancy Stevenson on three of these novels, "Return to Octavia", "A Clearing in the Fog", and "Savage Summer" which were written under the pen names of Daria Macomber and Margaret Duval.

Scope and Content Note: The collection consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed playbills, and writings. The writings consist of plays, poems, copywriting for the local radio station WTMA, guest columns for "The News and Courier", typed and handwritten manuscripts, music and other writings from friends.

Subject Headings:

Robinson, Patricia, 1923-
Colbert family.
Robinson family.
Dock Street Theatre (Charleston, S.C.)
Footlight Players (Charleston, S.C.)
Dramatists, American -- 20th century.
Music -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
Actors -- South Carolina -- Charleston.

Inventory:


Box 1
1-1	Patricia Colbert Robinson	Biographical Information	1938-1999
1-2	Portrait by William Halsey	Photograph & Clipping	[1970]
1-3	Patricia Colbert Robinson	Photographs	N.D.
1-4	Scrapbook	Patricia Anne Colbert	1922-1945
1-5	Scrapbook	Colbert Children	1951-1954
1-6	Colbert Family	Clippings	1930-1978
1-7	Colbert Plaza Dedication	Photographs	6-24-1974
1-8	Robinson Family	Clippings	N.D.
1-9	Theatre Reviews	Clippings	1945-1981
1-10	Footlight Players Playbills		1950-1976
1-11	Footlight Players Footnotes		1944-1995
1-12	Fair Day Thursday	Heermans Prize, playbill – typed script (copy)	1943
1-13	Private Performance	Heermans Prize – typed script (copy)	1943
1-14	Ungallant Gesture	PC with James Sheers, playbill	1947
1-15	Battle of Fort Sumter, 1861	Clippings	1949
1-16	Lost Horizon	Dramatized from James Hilton’s novel by PC and ER, typed script (copy)	1949
1-17	Lady of the Camellias	Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas – PC typed script (copy)	1950
1-18	Sand-Sprite	Typed script (copy) by Benford Tharin	1950
1-19	Held In Splendor	By PCR and Katherine D. M. Simons clippings, typed script	1953
1-20	Christmas Gift	By PC & ER – typed script (copy)	1953
1-21	Jack the Giant Killer	Typed script	1955
1-22	Hiddydoddy	Clippings and typed script	1948
1-23	Hiddydoddy	Clippings and typed script	1954
1-24	Hiddydoddy	Typed script (copy)	1960
1-25	Hiddydoddy	Typed script (copy)	1973
1-26	Jubalee	Clippings and typed script	1951
1-26	Jubalee	Copy 2	1951
1-27	Jubalee	The Town Theatre Columbia, SC – 2 playbills	1952
1-28	Jubalee – a Musical	Clippings, typed script (copy)	1967
1-29	Songs from Jubalee	Composed by Mel Marvin and words by PCR, clippings, Dock Street Theatre Souvenir	1967
1-30	Jubalee – a Musical	Typed script (copy)	1972
1-31	Jubalee – a Musical	By Mel Marvin and PCR – typed script (copy)	1977
1-31	Jubalee – a Musical	By Mel Marvin and PCR – (copy 2)	1977
Box 2
2-1	Syllabub	2 playbills and clippings, published copy by Southern Printing	1946
2-2	Syllabub	Revised typed script copy	1974
2-3	The Burning Tide, I	Typed script	1961
2-3	The Burning Tide, I	Typed script (copy 2)	1961
2-4	The Burning Tide, II	Clippings, typed script (copy)	1965
2-4	The Burning Tide, II	Typed script (copy 2)	1965
2-5	The Burning Tide	Typed script (copy)	1971
2-6	The Burning Tide	Published copy	1979
2-7	Rare Fine Town – a Musical	Music by Mel Marvin, words by PCR, typed script	1970
2-8	Songs of Rare Fine Town	Music by Mel Marvin, words by PCR, published	1970
2-9	The Rackleigh Rebels	Clippings, playbill, typed script	1976
2-10	Poems	Handwritten and typed	1935-1990
2-11	WTMA - Copywriting	Advertisements for C & S Bank, Condons, Gamelins, Snelgroves etc., typed	1945-1946
2-12	Home Takes Forever	33 page typed short story	[1945]
2-13	News and Courier	Letters To The Editor/Writings published (copy)	1954-1996
2-14	This Time	Music by Mel Marvin and words by PCR	1968
2-15	A Cleaning In The Fog	Clippings (PR/NS)	1970
2-16	Return To Octavia	Reviews (PR/NS)	1967-1968
2-17	Savage Summer	Daria Macomber (PR/NS)	1976
2-18	Koosaw – (Savage Summer)	Margaret Duval (PR/NS) typed manuscript	1976
2-19	Koosaw – (Savage Summer)	Margaret Duval (PR/NS) typed manuscript	1976
2-20	Something To Hide	Typed manuscript	1990
2-21	Something To Hide	Correspondence/Reviews	1990-1991
2-22	Something To Hide	Contracts/Royalties	1990-1994
Box 3
3-1	Love Beyond Time	Typed manuscript	1990
3-2	A Trick Of Light	Contract/Reviews	1992-1994
3-3	The Secrets of Farand Isle	Clippings	1996
3-4	Designs For Death	Love and Death in Charleston – typed manuscript with handwritten notes on the main characters	1996
3-5	Untitled Manuscript	Handwritten murder mystery manuscript 211 pages	N.D.
3-6	The Man Nobody Saw	Play By Elizabeth Blake/directed by PCR, playbill	1971
3-7	John Henry Dick	Book introductions, 5 pages handwritten biographical information	N.D.
3-8	The Time of My Life	By Gertrude S. Legendre – working copy of typed manuscript with revisions	1980
3-9	The Time of My Life	By Gertrude S. Legendre – working copy of typed manuscript with revisions	1980
3-10	Cynthia D. L. Bell	Short Stories	N.D.
3-11	Hurricane Hugo	Captain John Le Cato, 6 pages typed account of Hurricane Hugo	9-21-89