Skip to main content

Margaret Getchell Parsons Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SMC-033

Scope and Contents

Plays written by Margaret Getchell Parsons, including: -"Spruce Cone and Bunchberry: A Camp Fire Girls Play" 1916 -"Colette of the Red Cross" 1918 -"Proposal Number Seven" 1918 "The Muddies of Mussyland: A Purity Play for Tubsters" 1923 -"Ten Stirring Bible Plays" 1927 -"The Rummage Sale" 1927 (written with Madeleine Pool) -"Good Turns or Only a Tenderfoot: A Boy Scout Play in Three Acts" 1928 -"Christmas Carols" 1929 -"Scoops" 1930 -"Almost Rehearsal-less Plays" 1931 -"The Prophecy" in George Washington Plays, selected by A.P. Sanford, copyright 1931 -"Off The Old Block" 1935 -"A Modern Thanksgiving" 1937

Dates

  • Creation: 1916-1937

Creator

Access Restrictions

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright

Copyright is retained by the authors, or their descendants, of items in these papers as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Biography

Margaret Getchell Parsons graduated from Wheaton in 1910. She became a published playwright and married Eugene O. Parsons.

Extent

0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Aquisition Information

Acquisition information not available for this collection. Collection inputted into database in 2009.

Title
Inventory of Margaret Getchell Parsons Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Shannon Ryan
Date
June 2009
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • September 2012: Hanna Juergens

Repository Details

Part of the Marion B. Gebbie Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Wheaton College
26 East Main Street
Norton Massachusetts 02766