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Tennesse Williams Papers, 1920-1983

Title: Tennesse Williams Papers, 1920-1983

A large and important collection of the correspondence, memoirs, and plays of Tennessee Williams. The collection is especially strong in the later works.

ArchivalResource: 38 linear ft. (in 77 boxes and one Mapcase 13-4G-13).

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McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Carson McCullers papers, 1941-1995.

Title: Carson McCullers papers, 1941-1995.

Collection consists of correspondence between McCullers and Tennessee Williams, Dame Edith Sitwell, and cousins, Jordan Massee, Jr., and Paul Bigelow; writings by McCullers; poems by Dame Edith Sitwell; and clippings; together with correspondence from McCullers' mother, Marguerite (Waters) Smith, to Massee and Bigelow, and other papers. Topics include the relationship between McCullers and Williams and their lifestyles, health, moods, travels, residences, and attitudes toward well-known contemporary writers, and McCullers' relationship with her husband, Reeves.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.

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Papers, 1920-1983.

Title: Papers, 1920-1983.

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, set designs, programs, playbills, and other printed materials and audio recordings. There is the typescript, with ms. corrections, of "Mes Cahiers Noirs," an unpublished diary ca. 1979. Typewritten manuscript dating from the early 1940s of two unpublished sonnets; the mimeographed script of the David Frost interview, 21 Jan. 1970; letters to, by, or from: Herbert Machiz, Josephine Healy, Paul Bigelow, Audrey Wood (Williams' agent), Cheryl Crawford, David Diamond, James Laughlin, Glenway Wescott, Charles Feldman, Rose Williams, Edwina Williams, Edwin Dakin, Dakin Williams, and Carson McCullers; the manuscript of 9 poems, one of which "Poem for Paul" does not appear to have been published; set designs by Boris Aronson and Jo Mielziner; portrait of Williams by Leon Kroll; portrait of Rose Williams by Florence Van Steeg; portrait of Edwina Williams by Simon Branders. Scripts for TWO CHARACTER PLAY; THIS IS; VIEUX CARRÉ; A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR; A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND; NOW THE CATS WITH JEWELLED CLAWS; THE YOUTHFULLY DEPARTED; A CAVALIER FOR MILADY; THE RED DEVIL BATTERY SIGN. Also, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' "GRAND": a teleplay by Trace Johnson. Among the programs is one from THE ROSE TATTOO'S first performance with signatures by Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach and others, and a STARLESS AIR program, signed by Williams, Donald Windham, and Margaret Phillips. Director's archive for TIGERTAIL. There is one box of books by and about Williams with annotations by Jay Leo Colt.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear ft. (614 items in 10 boxes and 10 oversize folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122632718 View