Scope and Content Note

The Virgil L. Baker Papers include correspondence concerning the New Play Series at the University Theatre, the building of the Fine Arts Complex, and the Department of Speech and Dramatic Art. Along with first and second drafts of several books as well as articles, short stories, and plays, the collection contains Virgil L. Baker's research notes, material for future poems, Unitarian church materials, University of Arkansas materials, clippings, and papers of Lillian Baker.

Scope and Content Note Typescript manuscript of Speech in Personal and Public Affairs. The typed manuscript of Speech in Personal and Public Affairs is a draft of the published text, Speech in Personal Affairs (New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965), a text by Virgil Lyle Baker and Ralph T. Eubanks, used for teaching speech at the university level. The copy in the present collection, containing corrections and emendations, demonstrates the evolutionary process of completing the manuscript. The incomplete draft...