Scope and Contents: The collection primarily consists of Curtis’s original compositions. The majority of these are manuscript lead sheets, athough there are also a number of manuscript scores and parts. These lead sheets, scores, and parts comprise the first three boxes of the collection. The materials in Box 4 include music from Curtis’s musical comedy, “This Is the Day!!,” songs from “The Folk Album,” and a financial proposal for a musical comedy entitled “Ever Since Eve!!”  Box 4 also includes a publicity photograph of Curtis and a 12-inch 45-rpm record of his “The Oreo Cookie Gang!!”