Theodore Pratt Collection
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Picnic in California
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: An Ottginal 'fel.e pl,&f I n !~iu~ Aot, Por aa. Hour Jregra• t 11 T,mQJilQBI IBAfT Note: This eor1pt oan be produced either live or made on film . . If .d one li've some of the simple modern oostl1llte changes for o:nly a few people are tight for time, …
Big Blow Program
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: IElfG 13l0ff BY Th,e odore Pratt STI\G ED BY I\NTON BUNDSMANN MUSIC BY HANS BRUNO MEYER I' SETTINGS BY SAMUEL LEVE ~ , ~ LIGHTING .. ,. '. " BY C0$TUME$ BY MARY MERRILL FEDER . ' 411 , . .. I . ' ,• , PRODUCED BY Morris …
Organizing the Writer's Material
Type: Text
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original article manuscript and article printed in Writer's Digest more
Full Text: PUBLISHER IN "THE WRITER ' S DIGEST , ' 19610 PLEASE RETURN TO AUTHOR . OR.G\NIZ:Uto nm WRI ii:.:a. s . TERL.a.L Theodot'El P: tt" wh liv s !.n t_:ita~ ,~ l:ltC!J:a spapP~A -1(.,.u_, ~DU ✓ n ref t •,tai1man t t'li -t~ -~ul" , ~ "Th ir laureate of Fl t d:t …
The Touch
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I 1 Theodore Pre. tt 222 North K Street ~ke Worth, Florida. TRE TOUCH B.v Theodore Pratt Nw. It was coming now. Webby telt sure of it. All the usual signs had appeared, beginning with the letter trom Charlie, after all these years, to the present …
How to Build a Fire
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Original story tor a Robert Benohley shorts \. HO ~ TO BUILD A FIRE By THroOORE PRATT Benchley 1a se n leavin son of ten. h1a house With sonny, his small They are dressed tor camping in the woods, sonny 1n a neat, simple Boy Scout's outfit and Benchlo~ …
Prison Train
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: P R I S ON TRAIN By 1rHEODORE PRATT The long, stream.lined, stainless steel train, starrli ng splendid and shining in the -Chicago railroad station, had only one th:llm.g the matter with it. Tacked on its end, like an incongruous afterthought, there was a …
Why Authors Hate Publishers
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: WHY AUTHORS HATE PUBLISHERS By THEODORE PRATT Excerpt from the author's newly-completed Thirty-fx h book, "Anybody Want To Be An Author?" which tells the frank story of his life as a writer. 6000 words. First North American SErial Rights Only. Theodore …
I Found My Mother
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a letter to an editor.
Full Text: Third person story to be re-worked under title: I FOUND MY MOTHER ' ,1 First North American Serial Rights in English Only. 4000 words. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach,Flor1da GOING HOME By Theodore Pratt In a few minutes, when the taxi gets …
Favor Returned
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: FAVO 1• tan the ba ket or or you ton ge RETU 'D 1c •• ny s id polit ly, e c rr1ed into our kitchen, 0 th xt y n r • hi toring on y co or . g couple tbat th r • dozen extry . ' xp cte re ·1 y ounted o 1 Ony ' fifteen lles t ncl t e promise ha oz . rr v 1 a …
God Knows
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt 25 Sickles Place New Rochelle, N. Y. GOD KNOWS The Reverend Gideon Oder, a Cracker evangelist, was a f'airly close neighbor of mine in Florida. I had heard him preach in his ramshackle church, whic1t-e called "The Sanct1£1ed and Pentecostal …
Mr. Webster Goes to a Bullfight
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: MR. WEBSTER GOES TO A BULLFIGHT By THEODO:RE PRATT 2100 words . Fir t Nirth American Serial Rights Only . Theodore Pratt 717- B Ninth Street Santa Monica California MR. WEBSTER GOES TO A BULLFIGHT By THEODORE PRATT Mr . Webster stared at the great arena …
Please Help the Blind
Type: Text
Year: 1941, 1941
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Villager
Full Text: Please Delp The Blind PRIZE CHARACTER SKETCH by Theodore Pratt M y BLIND COUSIN, Elizabeth, was coming on from Boston for a short visit, and I was delegated to meet her at the bus station and take her around the town. I remem, bered Elizabeth as a child, …
Handsome
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A re-working, and in part an adaptation and treatment of the novel, using most of the printed book, by the author, to make the story acceptable to the Motion Picture Broduction Code, of: HANDSOME By THEODORE PRATT Route 1, Box 81f Delray Beach, Florida …
Mr. Limpet
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: 1.75 .. MR. LIMPET THEODORE PRATT The rich ingredients of this new novel by Theodore Pratt are a calm acceptance of the impossible, a delicious sense of fun, and some shrewd and devastating comment on men and their ways. Not since Lady into Fox has there …
Mercy Island
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: ,-:-v:"\--♦"~~'7--1":"'v-:"'~--♦"$ 2 . 50 net /11 BR UPTLY the tarpon turned and ~7/ headed for the mangroves along the shore of the key. Lowe, the Conch captain, swung the boat broadside to work against the pull of the fish; but the line went singing out …
Tom Paine, Infidel
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: T OK P A I NE ~ I N F I DE L {An Imaginative Episode) By Theodore Pratt Theodore G. Pratt All rights are QS DI :JcJ ea Pl~• reserved. by the Hew i1eb1JJa, Ha¥. author. / #II" e ttttl-- ~... e Ne_,- ~r/~ ,,-v.y, ~/"l> tf "V~I? CHARACTERS: MRS. ALLEN -- …
That Was Palm Beach
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: Related Books on Florida History DR. TURNBULL AND THE NEW SMYRNA COLONY: By Carita Doggett Corse. The author spent three years of research to get the true and objective facts on Dr. Turnbull. Footnotes and bibiliography will help the student of …
Remainders and Their Authors
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Recently I ran across a splendid example of whet saps we writers a.re :in accapt in~ the so-called business arrangement~ ba.ving to do with the sales of our books. le • "Jhj_l e spending an 0-i ght-hour· day at the library in a small . uob-lot 1tremaim er …
The Instrument
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes submission log
Full Text: THE INSTRUMENT By THEODORE PRATT The old sedan, Lucy thought as she brought it to a stop in the southwest part of Los Angeles, was just about holding together and no more. She leaned over from the wheel to the right window and gazed at her destination. It …
Three Articles
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original manuscript of "The Royal Poinciana; Grandest of All Hotels"; "World's Most Exclusive Gambling Place"; "Palm Beach's Marble Palace"with notes more
Full Text: Three articles: THE ROYAL POINCIANA, GRANDEST OF ALL HOTELS WORLD'S MOST EXCLUSIVE GAMBLING PLACE PALM BEACH'S MARBLE PALACE By Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida 33444 Phone: 305-278-2290 These articles are c: urrently being published …
Little Samson
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ,. LITTLE S!i\!SON (A Play in Three ·i.Acts) By Theodore Pratt Copxyright, b ~ ~ Characters; HENRY SAMSON. RUTH AYLOR. MRS . THOMAS TAYLOR•.• ALICE DAVIS. EDDIE DAVIS. GEORGE KING, H~-ctISOU . ' WILLIE KEEFE. McKANE. ,, ACT I -- The living-room of the …
Bernard Papy -- Dreamer
Type: Text
Year: 1954, 1954
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: BERNARD PAPY -- DREAMER By THEODORE PRATT Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida Frmm the December, 1954 issue of FANTASTIC UNIVERSE. Reprint rights held by author. Bernard Papy -dream.er by ... Theodore Pratt The world .didn't have too high an opinion of …
More Valuable Dead
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes submission log and letter from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine more
Full Text: I The work of an artist becomes more valuable after he is dead, and this was true, in a slightly different way, of Amadeo Gid1an1, who always put the date of a painting after his signature. MORE VALUABLE DEAD By THEODORE PRATT 5, 5)0 words. First North …
Cracker's Hurricane
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: First section and brief outline of the rest of the story of a new novel -- CRACKER'S HURRICANE By THEODORE PRATT Theodore Pratt 3502 E. Harvard Street Phoenix, Arizona THERE IS JUST ONE thing you 1 ve got to believe about Piper Peeple. This is that he was …
The Night of August 18th on 23rd Street
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE NIGHT OF AUGUST 18th ON 23rd STREET By Theodore Pratt 1500 words. First North American Serial Rights Only. Please take out periodical copyright in name of author. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida 33444 THE NIGHT OF AUGUST 18th ON …
Robert Robot
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Alternative title Robert. Published in "Catholic Youth", January 1964. more
Full Text: ·fflEODORE PRATl 2600 lf'O . 8 •t,rtt _ tt.h •. med.cm, \ serial tUQhta Only. \ \ I \ I \ I By When h• appeand at the dootr he sal . t once, ttt am RObot.• "R.e1> en1" l alk.ed. o, Rotaot. 1 have been lent••• "Robert, 11 I repeetec11 he val81 t fooling •• …
Gold Medal Books
Type: Text
Year: 1952, 1952
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in Report to Writers
Full Text: Of interest to reader, writer, and publisher alike is the issuance of the paper-back, pocket-size, original novel, which threatens, or promises, to effect profound changes in the world of books. Of most importance to us, of course, is the effect on the …
Seminole
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: $4.50 EMINOLE A novel of OSCEOLA, Florida's great Indian war-chief SEMINOLE A novel of OSCEOLA, Florida's great Indian war-chief by THEODORE PRATT A dramatic novel of early Florida, this is the story of Osceola, the great Seminole chief who led his people …
My Love in the Mangroves
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes correspondence from Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Full Text: MY LOVE IN THE MANGROVES By THEuDvRE PF~TT Autbor's Note: This is a 21,000 version in first-pers~n confession style ~f my 0riginal pRperback nrvel, ESCAPE TO ED~N, issued by Gold Medal in 1953. Thend~re Pratt Rnute 1, Box 8Ql Delray Beach, Flcrida Clymie …
There's Nothing Like Sailing
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I / I' ( IBERE 1 S NO'IHING LIKE SAILING .--By THEODORE ?'l(ATT I was ratter surprised when Charlie asked me to go sailing with him. I never lmew he had a boat or could sail. "Oh he assured me w1 th that absent confidence he always had. , yes ,~ 11 "Am …
God and I Will Be Friends Again
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a submission log.
Full Text: GOD AND I WILL BE FRIENDS AGAIN By THEODORE PRATT 2500 words. Theodore Pratt Re-worked section from~ Tormented, original paperback novel published by Fawcett ·Publications, 1950, out of print since 1955, sold over a million and a quarter copies. Book will …
St. Patrick's Parade
Type: Text
Year: 1953, 1953
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Pelican; a local Boca Raton newsletter
Full Text: 1 I Fairi and '}arm. EXHl3IT ST. PATRICK'S PARADE The annual exh bition of the Guild of E ca Raton which is in procress ow in the Cloister Lounce o 3oca R~ton Hotel has e.ttract d hundreds of visitors up and dorn-i the ecst cos,st, many of ·1hom hc.ve …
Medicine Show
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes manuscript notes.
Full Text: From the novel, .Handsome, The New York Times, and Health Educa tion . MEDICINE-SHOW One of the things that Ha.ndsome most enjoyed in h1s experience of going a.round Flori da to s e life was getting a job with an old-time ~edicine- show . T~i was making a …
Socrates
Type: Text
Year: 1925, 1925
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: SOCRATES (A play in one act arter the classical accounts of Plato and Xenephon, being a paraphrasing and re-shaping from, and imaginative addition to, these writings) by THEODORE PRATT Copyright, 1925 All rights reserved From: Virginia Rice 18 East 41st …
World's Fastest Spender
Type: Text
Year: 1956, 1956
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article regarding Arthur Vining Davis printed in Look
Full Text: L II World's fastest spender By THEODORE PRATT Arthur Vining Davis' spending projects are of truly heroic proportions: • $500,000 to improve a single estate • The worul' s biggest orchid nursery • An entire Florida island • $22,500,000 for a hotel which …
Florida Roundabout
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: $3.95 Florida Roundabout by THEODORE PRATT Hailed by The Miami Herald as "the literary laureate of Florida," Theodore Pratt has written more about Florida than any other author, past or present. His best-known works are the Florida trilogy of THE BAREFOOT …
Cash Cargo
Type: Text
Year: 1935, 1935
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A hort- story : C .R G O 'Iheodore J> t-att )600 word$-. Route 1, J'Jox 818 Jllrst ubl1ahed 1n 'llte ~'vening Fire:t orth American Serial Bight Only" Stand,u-d, ondon, England, 1935, "' Da,l ray lie .011,. Florida 00 C 1n 1'ront ot ~• M dull green ar ored …
Place of Dreams Untold
Type: Text
Year: 1957, 1957
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in New York Times Sunday Magazine and The Irish Digest
Full Text: ----,u,,: rrI it..) 1-t I) I(;,~J T; Ja.,_ u~ ,_,. /'1 r,-;f This famous American artists' colony w~ created and sustained by a wmnan's devotion. She and her composer husband were of Irish descent "' Place of Dreams Untold" THEODORE PRATT NE of the …
Zora Neale Hurston
Type: Text
Year: 1961, 1961
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article published in The Florida Historical Quarterly, 1961 v 40, n.1, pp 35-40.
Full Text: ZORA NEALE HURSTON by Theodore Pratt ZORA NEALE HURSTON by Theodore Pratt For many years, when giving talks in Florida, I have pointed out that there is only one first-class native-born Florida author . who has written any even small body of work about …
Mercy Island-Inscription
Type: Text
Year: 1941, 1941
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book inscription
Full Text: MERCY ISLAND VER FIRST INSIDE CO '· black PAGE written 1.n en and ink: 1941, For mv mo~her, 'thout whom th1.s w1. ld never have book co~ with all been wr1.tten,. • love & affect1.on -Theodore (Pratt) BY THEODORE PRATT This scrap paper is acid-free. ALFRED …
Sabine Farm
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt 4, Rue du Pare Montsouris Paris, 14e •. SABINE F.ARM Miss Winship was delighted to find that the people of the French farm just outside of the town of Lun:ville on the Meurthe ~id not think it strange that a girl should want to take their …
The Barefoot Mailman
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: SEVENTH LARGE PRINTING $2.75 THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN By Theodore Pratt BAREFOOT MAILMAN The Barefoot Mailman is a romantic adventure story of Florida which Theodore Pratt knows so well and has written of in three widely hailed earlier novels. Big Blow, Mercy …
Literary Tea
Type: Text
Year: 1957, 1957
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a published version in Esquire Magazine
Full Text: So :r . G. t looke .. f rw 1 nl:; bad tea t.1 t. .uow, bafor•o le vir.J , h1 a1 · :r1 c utrol hie ~ s s ho e. aro1nc t 11.ln, comp le •1 n ,.v te .;... ant lie ha· sJ.cc l done •s 1e •a,' b t -- tt :lla 1 s been t ad1e . lt p aine b eh$ 1n t re t a ll\U 0 …
Barefoot Mailman in Archives of Library of Congress
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: It has taken nearly a quarter of a century, hut now Florida's barefoot mailman is to be included in the archives of the Library of Congress. In 1943 Theodore Pratt of Delray Beach wrote his book, "The Barefoot Mailman, 11 which has hecor.1e famous and …
Why Authors Dislike Publishers
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Manuscript notes and annotation included.
Full Text: I 1HY AO'l'RO ,wl)·,cp;,-.ia IL LL .. DISLIKE P Ii 1t • • Addr Thi ar lcl o . 1 · d on t e o lo g c o : ---~.,.--.,tn r,urchas1ng it agrees not to tutk ny h1qutr. • 1n any x-orrard .as to it o ht , cc t l1f; be 10 o the ent th, t' author i an e abti he1 …
Mr. Atom
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: r ~ ~ • MmQ~,r®M MR. ATOM by BY THEODORE PRATT )> ---1 "· • _,()f all the authors who have written about Florida, Theodore Pratt stands out above all others" was the tribute paid to the author of this book, by Dr,. Robert Hively, Professor of English at …
The Story of Boca Raton
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: … Florida Atlantic University Digital Library …
Last Refuge
Type: Text
Year: 1958, 1958
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original manuscript with a published version from The All Florida Weekly Magazine
Full Text: LAS REF'UGE The a1:x:teen-root sailboat bowled down the chop y Gul.t ot Mexico ju oft th on at, it h lim er t2'!lme outhwe t Florida eu st. led artly as it skim ed ater, even tho gh ov r-lo d d. ear to With 1 h a eh llo n t ju w h1te 1th l H doleful th n …
Incredible Woman of the Arts
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I An article ... - INCREDIBLE WOMAN OF THE ARTS By THEODORE PRATT 3800 words . Theodore Pratt 3502 E . Harvard Street Phoenix, Arizona INCREDIBLE WOMAN OF THE ARTS By THEODORE PRATT Thia year the MacDowell Colony at Peterborough, N. H., is celebrating its …
That Was Palm Beach
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original manuscript of booklet of articles to be published by Great Outdoors Publishing Co.
Full Text: THAT WAS PALM BEACH By THEODORE PRATT Author of "The Barefoot Mailman" (Note to publisher: The booklet is to be illustrated with many photographs of the barefoot mailman, using both the West Palm Beach postoffice murals and the Columbia movie of the book; …
The Big Bubble
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: I \ Theodore Pratt THE BIG BUBBLE This is the story of Adam and Eve. Their time was the early 1920's, and their Paradise was Florida, where the greatest land bubble in history swelled and shimmered with rosy reflections of fifty-room Spanish Renaissance …
Mr. Preedy Helps the Ladies
Type: Text
Year: 1934, 1934
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a copy of this story published in The Sunday Review.
Full Text: I I ,I / I KR., PRBBDY H•LPS ~HE LADIES The tenants ot the two ho ses 81 .ply had to like each other, or at least make a pretense ot neighborly affect on., he owner ot the houses ha the gardens; there was provded no proper wall between dge of hollyhocks …
Creeping Devil
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes correspondence from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. more
Full Text: y 500 OT NOT FOR PUBLICATION EXCEPT BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE AIDRHOt Please return to: THEODORE PRATT RT. 1 a.ox ao1 DEL AA Y BEACH, FLORIDA 33444 n~vtt By THE ·oo E , RATT i g_ ~own 1und1el~ of £ Cali ·ornia , 10t. mount inou desert .1· ·• ,io t ~of unexc …
Adopted Land
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ( ADOPTED LAND By THEODORE PRATT 2800 words. Author reserves right to include this story in any collection of his own stories, not bo be exercised until at least one year from publication date of MY FAVORITE STORY I DIDN'T SELL. Theodore Pratt Route 1, …
Papa of the Everglades National Park
Type: Text
Year: 1947, 1947
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Saturday Evening Post
Full Text: Papa of the Everglades National Park Fiorida will soon he boasting our newest and third largest national park-due largely to one man's unrelenting twenty-year fight. RNEST FRANCIS COE, of Miami, is probably the only man in the country whose life has been …
Without Consent-(Bennett cover)
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: Theodore Pratt's most important book WITHOUT CONSENT presents a searing portrait of the dark urge that drove a tormented youth to rape. … Florida Atlantic University Digital …
The Little Shirt Tale
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE LITl'LE SHIRT TALE By THEODORE PRATI' 8,000 words. North American Book Publishing rights Theodore Pratt Route l, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida THE LITTLE SHIRT TALE By THEODORE PRATT Felix got his name from his maker, Felix Shirts. quite a young …
Seminole Attack
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A ehor t-story : Sh.1'-IDWLE ATTACK By THEODORE PRATT Author' note: In 1840, during the Seminole \tJar 1n Florida, a theatrical troupe was attacked by tbe Indians just outside of st . t,ugastine end one man. was killed . That incident, treated …
Florida's Wonderful Hovel
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Saturday Evening Post
Full Text: REPORT TO THE EDITORS Florida's Wonderful Hovel By THEODORE PRATT tourists arrive at the Driftwood Inn, midway on the Florida SOME east coast at Vero Beach, take one startled look at the nightmarish, worm-eaten structure, suppress a scream and drive away …
An Insider Tees Off on the Two Miamis
Type: Text
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article from The Miami News
Full Text: AN INSIDER TEES OFF ON THE TWO MIAMIS By THEODORE PRATT The motorist stopped "for gas at a service station in Jacksonville. "How far is it to Florida?" he asked the attendant. "You're in Florida." "No, no - I mean Miami." This little dialogue takes place …