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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, 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 Brion Gysin [manuscript], 1975-1978.

Title: Letters to Brion Gysin [manuscript], 1975-1978.

Bowles discusses mutual acquaintances, Moroccan music, the Spanish Sahara war, the high cost of living in Tangier, and disruptions caused by Islamic holidays. He occasionally mentions his work or Gysin's.

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821100 View