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Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973. Two serious ladies : autograph manuscript notebook, [ca. 1940].

Title: Two serious ladies : autograph manuscript notebook, [ca. 1940].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (ca. 70 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270838899 View

Paul Bowles letters to Nathalie Blondel, 1987–1990

Title: Paul Bowles letters to Nathalie Blondel 1987–1990

In these twenty letters to Nathalie Blondel, written between 1987 and 1990, American author Paul Bowles provided recommendations for editorial and publication decisions concerning three of Jane Bowles’s unpublished short stories.

ArchivalResource: 20 items

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Paul Bowles Collection TXRC99-A15., 1897-1995

Title: Paul Bowles Collection 1897-1995

Handwritten and typescript manuscripts of short stories, essays, and novels, correspondence, and musical compositions make up the bulk of the collection.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00141/00141-P.html View

Miscellaneous screen, stage, and radio scripts, ca. 1859-2007.

Title: Miscellaneous screen, stage, and radio scripts, ca. 1859-2007.

19th-21st-century typescript and manuscript American and European stage scripts, radio scripts, television scripts, and screenplays.

ArchivalResource: 60 boxes (31 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01716/catalog View

Dillon, Millicent. Papers, 1905-1990 (bulk 1935-1986).

Title: Papers, 1905-1990 (bulk 1935-1986).

The collection consists of Millicent Dillon's notebooks, index cards, typescripts, correspondence, photographs, cassette tapes, and clippings, as well as materials by Paul and Jane Bowles she collected, including Jane Bowles's notebooks, typescripts, correspondence, photographs, and legal documents, and Paul Bowles's correspondence and clippings. The collection centers around Dillon's writings about Jane Bowles's life and works. While writing a biography about Jane Bowles, A Little Original Sin: The Life and Works of Jane Bowles, Dillon contacted Jane Bowles's husband, writer-composer Paul Bowles, as well as Jane's relatives, friends, and acquaintances. The resulting correspondence and interview notes are a highlight of the collection. Among the correspondence are 170 letters between Dillon and Paul Bowles from 1976-1990 and one or more letters by Brion Gysin, Patricia Highsmith, Dione Lewis, Miriam Levy, Gordon Sager, Virgil Thomson, and others. Dillon also obtained original letters and photocopies of letters written by Jane Bowles, some of Bowles's notebooks and typescripts, and numerous photographs. Dillon also gathered Jane Bowles's birth and death certificates, as well as other documents relating to Jane Bowles and her family, and was given some of Paul Bowles's correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (7.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122640490 View

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. Paul Bowles Collection, 1897-1995.

Title: Paul Bowles Collection, 1897-1995.

The Works Series is divided into literary and musical works. Among the literary works are a number of notebooks containing drafts of numerous short stories and essays, as well as three typescripts of The Sheltering Sky, and several fables and stories translated by Bowles, including "A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard," "M'hashish," and "The Hyena." Musical materials include several sonatas for various instruments, Congo, the Picnic Cantata, and music written to accompany works by Jane Bowles and Tennessee Williams. Both the translation of Frederico Lorca's Yerma, which Bowles wrote as the libretto for an opera, and the musical score for said opera are also present. The Correspondence Series, made up of mostly personal communications, includes letters from Bowles to family, friends, and acquaintances, Jane Bowles, James Purdy, Tennessee Williams, and others. Incoming correspondence includes letters from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Alan Sillitoe, Virgil Thomson, as well as others. Third-party correspondence is made up of letters between people associated with Bowles, and generally regarding him or his work. The small Personal Papers series contains financial papers, including bank statements, cancelled checks, and income tax returns, a few legal documents, including identity papers and memoranda of agreement, as well as assorted notes and lists. The Works by other Authors Series contains holograph and typescript manuscripts by Andreas Brown, Oliver Evans, Charles Henri Ford, as well as other friends and acquaintances of Bowles.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (4.58 linear feet), 5 oversize boxes, 4 galley folders.

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Herbert Machiz records concerning the Artists' Theatre, New York, 1954-1976.

Title: Herbert Machiz records concerning the Artists' Theatre, New York, 1954-1976.

Correspondence and papers of American theatre director Herbert Machiz and producer John Bernard Myers concerning the Artists' Theatre in New York.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00578/catalog View

Burden, Carter,. Statement in behalf of a poet : copy of a typed statement in support of Tennessee Williams's play Camino Real, [1957].

Title: Statement in behalf of a poet : copy of a typed statement in support of Tennessee Williams's play Camino Real, [1957].

The statement begins: "The undersigned group of artists, on their own volition and with no vested interest, are making this appeal to urge support for a beautiful play, CAMINO REAL by Tennessee Williams ... like Alice in Wonderland or Ubu Roi, it is a work of the imagination--romantic, intensely poetic and modern." The typed names that appear below are: Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, George Davis, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Lotta Lenya, John Latouche, Herbert Machiz, John Myers, Betty Parsons, I. Rice Pereira, and Gore Vidal.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270932669 View

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. Papers of Paul Bowles, 1933-1985 (bulk 1967-1985).

Title: Papers of Paul Bowles, 1933-1985 (bulk 1967-1985).

The collection contains three manuscripts by Bowles (two short stories and one musical score) as well as a series of letters between him and his friend and fellow author, Lonnie Burr. The majority of the correspondence is authored by Bowles and includes several picture postcards from Morocco and other foreign locations. Also included in the collection are two letters Bowles wrote to the William Morris Agency. Issues addressed within the collection include the political situation in Morocco and the United States, descriptions of Morocco's Tangier peninsula, discussions of contemporary writers and their work and the personal life of both Bowles and Burr.

ArchivalResource: 45 pieces.1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122443776 View

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. Papers of Paul Bowles, 1965-1974 [manuscript].

Title: Papers of Paul Bowles, 1965-1974 [manuscript].

The collection, assembled by Bowles' bibliographer Jeffrey Miller, consists chiefly of letters from Bowles to William Targ, the editor of Bowles' autobiography "Without stopping" and to Norman Glass, a translator and acquaintance. There are also letters to Don Gold, his agent at the William Morris agency, Helen Baigini, another Morris agent, and Larry Levis, editor of the "Missouri Review." Bowles' autobiography is the main subject. Other topics include the publication of "Love with a few hairs," the translation of a Mrabet story, and Glass' thoughts on numerous matters including dreams, suicide, authors and music. Two of the letters enclose changes in the text of the autobiography.

ArchivalResource: 65 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647827907 View

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Memoir : of William S. Burroughs, [1956-1958].

Title: Memoir : of William S. Burroughs, [1956-1958].

This one page fragment is from a memoir of Burroughs' life in Tripoli, Algiers and Tangier. This particular page mentions the Suez crisis of 1956, his full-time writing, his books, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, Nova Express, meeting Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Paul and Jane Bowles, Alan Anson, and a trip to Scandinavia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793144 View

Allanah Harper Papers TXRC99-A8., 1931-1993

Title: Allanah Harper Papers 1931-1993

The collection chroniclesHarper's life from the 1930s through the early 1990s, primarily throughHarper's outgoing and incoming correspondence, in addition to clippings,manuscripts, notebooks, and photographs. The collection also contains SybilleBedford's correspondence, and two manuscripts relating to the work of AldousHuxley.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00053/00053-P.html View

Christopher Isherwood Collection TXRC93-A2., 1883-1970

Title: Christopher IsherwoodCollection 1883-1970

The collection comprisescorrespondence and works of Isherwood and diaries by him and his mother,Kathleen Isherwood (1883-1971). The bulk of the materials relates to thebiography of Isherwood's parents, which was published in1971. Kathleen and Frank,

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00061/00061-P.html View

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Tennessee Williams papers, 1932-1983.

Title: Tennessee Williams papers, 1932-1983.

The bulk of this collection consists of drafts of TW's theatrical plays. These range from handwritten notes scrawled on scraps of paper, to loose pages typed on hotel stationery, to professionally typed clean copies, to TW's notes made during rehearsals. Most of his plays from the 1950s onward are represented, as well as a smaller proportion of his early works. Most notable for its omission is his 1944 The glass menagerie, while A streetcar named Desire (1947) is represented only by 9 loose sheets from various drafts. Later works such as The milk train doesn't stop here any more, Out cry, Red Devil Battery sign, and many others, are very well documented. The collection also includes good documentation of TW's work in other fields, including his scripts for film and television, and his fiction, poetry, and essays. Also included are an eclectic but important group of his correspondence, mostly drafts of letters sent (most notably with partner Frank P. Merlo and director Elia Kazan); transcripts of several interviews; biographical papers, including several diaries kept by Williams intermittently from 1942 to 1981; a few scattered financial papers; compositions by others which were retained by Williams (including significant works by Jane Auer Bowles and Gore Vidal); and a small group of photographs.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (20 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612795400 View

In the summer house archive, 1950-1953.

Title: In the summer house archive, 1950-1953.

Producers' files for a proposed pre-Broadway tryout of In the Summer House by Jane Bowles at the Westport Playhouse in August 1950 consist primarily of correspondence and contracts relating to casting by Robert T. Ingham, assistant to John C. Wilson who intended to produce the show with Oliver Smith.

ArchivalResource: .25 lin. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233654190 View

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. Letters : to Oliver Evans, 1963-72.

Title: Letters : to Oliver Evans, 1963-72.

Bowles discusses his autobiography and other writing projects of Evans and himself. He frequently mentions mutual acquaintances, particular Carson Smith McCullers, Tennessee Williams, Peter Owen, Gore Vidal, and Mohammed Mrabet. Many of the letters refer to an interview with Bowles done by Evans. The health of his wife Jane, life in Tangier, and travels of both of them are also frequent topics.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29734051 View

Paul Bowles correspondence with John Widdicombe, 1929–1975, 1929–1935

Title: Paul Bowles correspondence with John Widdicombe 1929–1975 1929–1935

The Paul Bowles correspondence with John Widdicombe comprises 49 letters and postcards reflecting the long-lasting friendship Bowles maintained with Widdicombe, whom Bowles met during his brief time as a student in Virginia. While on his travels, Bowles posted letters from various locations abroad, which ranged in content from news about musical and literary acquaintances, such as Aaron Copland or Gertrude Stein, to sketches of local nationals and their culture.

ArchivalResource: .3 linear ft.; (49 items)

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0604 View

Brown, Andreas. [Paul and Jane Bowles materials].

Title: [Paul and Jane Bowles materials]. [1973-1976]

Contains two letters by Paul Bowles to Andreas Brown of Gotham Book Mart, and a detached obituary of Jane Bowles (New York Times, Thursday, May 31, 1973).

ArchivalResource: 3 items : port. ; 12-27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184941037 View

New Directions Publishing records

Title: New Directions Publishing records

Records of the New Directions Publishing Corporation largely from the Norfolk, Connecticut office of the founder, James Laughlin.

ArchivalResource: 344 linear feet (910 boxes and 4 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00077/catalog View

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Memoir : of William S. Burroughs, [1956-1958] [manuscript].

Title: Memoir : of William S. Burroughs, [1956-1958] [manuscript].

This one page fragment is from a memoir of Burroughs' life in Tripoli, Algiers and Tangier. This particular page mentions the Suez crisis of 1956, his full-time writing, his books, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, Nova Express, meeting Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Paul and Jane Bowles, Alan Anson, and a trip to Scandinavia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647835512 View

Harper, Allanah, 1904-1992. Allanah Harper Papers, 1931-1993.

Title: Allanah Harper Papers, 1931-1993.

The bulk of Series I., Allanah Harper, is made up of incoming correspondence, but the collection does include seventeen outgoing letters. Harper's incoming correspondence is comprised of letters from her friends, her mother, and various scholars. The greatest quantity of letters are from Sybille Bedford, Harper's close friend, and sometime financial supporter. These letters, which are personal in nature, date from 1946-1991, bulking in the 1950s to 1970s. Some of the other correspondents represented in the approximately 500 letters gathered here are: Cecil Beaton, Jane Bowles, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Lawrence Durrell, T.S. Eliot, Martha Gellhorn, Victoria Glendinning, Brian Howard, Peter Quennell, and Sacheverell Sitwell, among others. Also present are letters and contracts with the London literary agency David Higham Associates, Ltd., relating to Harper's contributions to a book project on her friend Edith Sitwell. There are also several folders of unidentified correspondence, which have either incomplete names or indecipherable signatures. Harper's manuscript of her autobiography All Trivial Fond Records is present, along with some manuscripts and notes for a few short works. Series II, Sybille Bedford, is comprised primarily of incoming correspondence to Sybille Bedford, but also contains some outgoing correspondence, and two manuscripts relating to the work of Aldous Huxley. Her outgoing correspondence is primarily to her longtime friend, Eda Lord, during the 1970s. Incoming correspondence from Anna Bernhardt, Bedford's maternal grandmother, is extensive, numbering 168 letters (40 in German) and dates from 1933-1937.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.10 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122492308 View

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. Bluebell Mountain / [music by] Paul Bowles ; [words by] Jane Bowles.

Title: Bluebell Mountain / [music by] Paul Bowles ; [words by] Jane Bowles. [19--]

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34170511 View

Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973. Jane Bowles Collection, 1944-1966.

Title: Jane Bowles Collection, 1944-1966.

The Works Series contains three typescript versions of In the Summer House, as well as pieces of other works, mostly untitled. Additionally, there are four undated notebooks with parts of stories and plays as well as doodles and sketches, and one notebook contains a completed short story, "Everything Is Nice." Two untitled plays and an untitled story round out the series. The Correspondence Series is divided into Outgoing and Incoming correspondence. The outgoing section contains three personal letters from Bowles, while the incoming section contains letters from Libby Holman, Ruth Sillitoe, Oliver Smith, and Tennessee Williams, as well as others. The small Personal Papers series contains memoranda of agreement and medical information from the fifties as well as a letter from the U.S. Consulate in Madeira, to be used in lieu of a lost passport.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.83 linear feet), 1 galley folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122602047 View

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. Letters to Oliver Evans [manuscript], 1963-1972.

Title: Letters to Oliver Evans [manuscript], 1963-1972.

Bowles discusses his autobiography and other writing projects of Evans and himself. He frequently mentions mutual acquaintances, particularly Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, Peter Owen, Gore Vidal, and Mohammed Mrabet. Many of the letters refer to an interview with Bowles done by Evans. The health of his wife Jane, life in Tangier, and travels of both of them are frequent topics.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647835063 View

Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973. Autograph letters signed (3) : New York, to Miriam Fligelman, [1937].

Title: Autograph letters signed (3) : New York, to Miriam Fligelman, [1937].

On personal matters, refers to problems with her writing.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270838926 View

Jane Auer Bowles Collection TXRC99-A16., 1944-1966

Title: Jane Auer Bowles Collection 1944-1966

Manuscript drafts and correspondence comprise the bulk of this American author's collection.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00142/00142-P.html View

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. In the summer house / Paul Bowles.

Title: In the summer house / Paul Bowles. 1953 Apr.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (40 p.) + 8 ms. parts ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80664127 View

Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973. Papers of Jane Bowles, 1966-1967.

Title: Papers of Jane Bowles, 1966-1967.

The papers belong to the publisher's original file for the play "A Quarreling Pair" first published in Mademoiselle a week before the play was included as the only original piece in "The Collected Works of Jane Bowles," December 1966. The collection contains correspondence between Mademoiselle and Farrar, Straus and Giraux concerning serial rights; in-house memoranda concerning publication; the manuscript, carbons, and tearsheet copies of Truman Capote's introduction with photographs of Capote and Bowles; manuscript and galleys of the play including copy editor's modifications; dust jacket; promo sheet; and reviews of the book.

ArchivalResource: 37 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136010 View

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904- . Collection, 1883-1971, (bulk 1932-1970).

Title: Collection, 1883-1971, (bulk 1932-1970).

Comprises correspondence and works of Isherwood and diaries by him and his mother, Kathleen Isherwood (1883-1971). The bulk of the material relates to the biography of Isherwood's parents, Kathleen and Frank, which was published in 1971. Notes and transcripts of Kathleen's diaries date from 1883-1916, and her diaries date from 1911-1959. Isherwood's own diaries date from 1917 and 1934. Other works include the typescript for Down There on a Visit, and a reprint of What Vedanta Means to Me (1951). Correspondence is from Isherwood to Paul and Jane Bowles, Eric Falk, Peter Gamble, and Gerald Hamilton, from 1923-1963.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122547443 View

Robert A. Wilson collection, 1906-2011

Title: Robert A. Wilson collection 1906-2011

The Robert A. Wilson collection comprises 9 linear feet of material related to 36 prominent literary figures previously in the private collection of Robert A. Wilson, the final owner of the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City (1962-1988).

ArchivalResource: 11 linearfeet and 8 oversize boxes, 8 oversize folders, and 2 oversize galleys; (29 boxes)

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0481 View

Tennessee Williams papers, 1932-1983.

Title: Tennessee Williams papers, 1932-1983.

Drafts of plays and other compositions, with smaller runs of correspondence, diaries, photographs, and other papers of American playwright Tennessee Williams.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (20 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01891/catalog View