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Matthew Taylor papers Taylor, Sam, 1895-1958 Taylor, Matt, 1897-1966 Ax 367 1.5 linear feet 1 container 1 record storage box 1930-1966 Matthew "Matt" Ambrose Taylor (1897-1966) was a reporter, writer, and script writer of short fiction, plays, and detective stories, many of which were adapted for radio, TV, or movies. The collection contains published and unpublished short stories, plays, radio and television scripts, and correspondence. English . 1

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Matthew "Matt" Ambrose Taylor (1897-1966) was born in New York City and graduated from Fordham University. He worked as a reporter in New York and as a screen writer in Hollywood. After 1931 he began writing short fiction for the magazine market and plays. Many of his stories were adapted for radio and television, and some were made into motion pictures.

He wrote a series of related detective stories for This Week featuring "Dan McGarry, a policeman and Kitty Archer is his love," a relationship that was described as very "egalitarian" for the times.

[Source: http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/f92.htm#A3318]

[Source: http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/26273447/The%20Famous%20McGarry%20Stories]

The papers consist of published and unpublished short stories, plays, radio and television scripts, and correspondence.

The initial donation of 1967 contains published and unpublished writings, some of which contain revisions. The paper finding aid also lists publisher information

Series I, Subseries A: contains published stories organized in alphabetical order by title. Subseries B: contains unpublished stories also organized alphabetically by title.

Series II: consists of play manuscripts and some titles include correspondence. One play, The Stop Over was retitled and copyrighted as The Tourists, and was written by Matt Taylor and his brother Sam Taylor.

Series III: contains published stories arranged by publisher first, then by date. Stories include Mr. Mumpus that became a television show staring Fred Astaire titled, Mr. Happy. This section contains published versions of the "McGarry" detective stories.

Series IV: Miscellaneous contains a speech and a letter from Universal Pictures.

The addendum of 1969 contains published and unpublished manuscripts and correspondence.

Manuscripts include screenplays and stories for film, television and radio.

Unpublished manuscripts are alphabetically organized by title.

Published stories include tearsheets from magazines and include more "McGarry" stories.

Correspondence is separated into incoming and outgoing sections. Incoming is alphabetically organized by company title or author's last name and includes publisher, television and movie studio correspondence. Outgoing correspondence contains carbon copies of letters.

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