Jane Bowles Collection, 1944-1966.

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Jane Bowles Collection, 1944-1966.

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

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.

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

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6784654

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983

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Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father, Cornelius, a salesman who was largely absent had a bad relationship with Tennessee, the second of his three children. Consequently, Tennessee was raised predominantly by his mother, Edwina, and maternal grandparents. His often strained and disturbed family life became the fodder for many of his plays. After moving to New Orleans in his late 20s, and adopting the name Tenn...

Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973

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American writer. From the description of Jane Bowles Collection, 1944-1966. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122602047 American expatriate author. From the description of Papers of Jane Bowles, 1966-1967. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136010 The author Jane Auer Bowles, 1917-1973, published one novel, Two Serious Ladies (1943); one play, In the Summer House ...

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Smith, Oliver Wendell

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