"The Fourth Estate" by Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford.  A play in four acts, 1909-11?, 

Title

"The Fourth Estate" by Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford.  A play in four acts, 1909-11?, 

Subject

Journalists --Drama

Newspaper publishing --Drama

 

Description

This is a copy of a 1909 four-act play "The Fourth Estate" in manuscript with autograph notes and changes in more than one hand, copied from the original in the the Joseph Medill Patterson papers, Lake Forest College library Special Collections.  The authors are Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford.  

Cataloged; see "Relation" below. 

Joseph Medill Patterson, 1867-1946, was a reformer and muckraking author who attacked the foibles and veniality of his own family business and of business in this play.  He had written a novel and Ford joined him as an experienced playwright to make this story fit the stage.  

Creator

Patterson, Joseph Medill, 1879-1946

Ford, Harriet, 1868-1949

Publisher

Lake Forest College

Date

1909

Rights

http://www.lakeforest.edu/library/archives/permission.php

Relation

http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/lfc_193960

Format

document

Type

pdf

Citation

Patterson, Joseph Medill, 1879-1946 Ford, Harriet, 1868-1949, “"The Fourth Estate" by Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford. A play in four acts, 1909-11?,,” Digital Collections - Lake Forest College, accessed March 29, 2024, https://collections.lakeforest.edu/items/show/4212.

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