McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Carson McCullers Collection, 1924-1976.
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Carson McCullers Collection, 1924-1976.
The 48 boxes of manuscripts and correspondence which make up the bulk of the Carson McCullers Collection, 1924-1976, principally reflect her literary life and career. The Works Series consists of holograph drafts, typescripts, galley and page proofs, notes, and fragments of poems, articles, essays, memoirs, plays, stories, and novels, some unpublished. The Center has extensive manuscript holdings for the novels, Clock without Hands (1961), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), The Member of the Wedding (1946), including her script for stage and the musical adaptation, and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941). Manuscripts for her collected works include Collected Short Stories and the Novel The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1952), as well as The Mortgaged Heart (1971), edited by her sister, Margarita G. Smith. Numerous holograph drafts and typescripts for her play, The Square Root of Wonderful (1958), are found here as well. The Letters Series includes 260 letters written by McCullers to her family, including her husband, Reeves, her sister, and her mother, as well as to literary friends, publishers, literary agents, and her attorneys Fitelson and Mayers. The Recipient Series contains approximately 1000 letters to McCullers including letters from fans; from literary and artistic friends Newton Arvin, Marielle Bancou, David Diamond, Janet Flanner, Howard Mandel, Dawn Langley Simmons, and Tennessee Williams, among others; from editors André Bay and John Lackey Brown; movie director Fred Zinnemann; her biographer Oliver Evans; her physician and close friend, Mary Mercer; from literary agents Ann Watkins, Inc., Robert Lantz, Liebling-Wood, and Pearn, Pollinger,? publishers Houghton Mifflin and Company and Mondadori Publishing Company, Inc.; attorneys Fitelson and Mayers; organizations such as the Ford Foundation and the National Institute of Arts and Letters; and her family. The Miscellaneous Series contains various adaptations of McCullers' works including Ballad of the Sad Cafe (stage adaptation by Edward Albee and materials from the Merchant Ivory Productions film), The Member of the Wedding (French stage adaptation by André Bay, and a musical adaptation by Theodore Mann and G. Wood called "F, Jasmine Addams"), Reflections in a Golden Eye (screenplay by Chapman Mortimer, Gladys Hill, and John Huston), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (filmscript by Thomas C. Ryan), and Clock without Hands (stage adaptation by Arthur J. Vander). Also included here are manuscripts of articles, books, theses, and dissertations about McCullers by authors such as Hans de Vaal, Oliver Wendell Evans, Lawrence J. McCarthy, Simeon Mozart Smith, and Margaret Sue Sullivan. Especially notable is an article "Praise to Assenting Angels" by Tennessee Williams. Works by other authors, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Garrison Chapin, David Diamond, A.E. Hotchner, Victor Sawdon Pritchett, Vinnie Williams, Vurrell Yentzen, and R.L. York, are also present in this series. Diamond's musical compositions include McCullers' "The Twisted Trinity" set to music. This series also contains extensive third party correspondence, much of it pertaining to McCullers and written to her sister, with the majority from McCullers' attorneys, her publisher, and her agent. Personal items relating to McCullers, such as address books, a family Bible, various financial records, materials concerning her funeral, and her will are also present.
ArchivalResource:
48 boxes (20 linear feet), 16 galley folders, 3 oversize flat files.
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