Dashiell Hammett Papers, 1923-1974.

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Dashiell Hammett Papers, 1923-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85058436

The Dashiell Hammett papers comprise manuscripts, notes, and correspondence. Series I. includes drafts of short stories, several unpublished and some incomplete, along with drafts of The Thin Man, the film version of Watch on the Rhine, and the unfinished novels, The Secret Emperor and Tulip. Series II. contains letters written to various correspondents, including Lillian Hellman (1935-58) and Maggie Kober (1942-51).

2 boxes (.84 linear foot)

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 8332124

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Kober, Margaret Frohnknecht, 1913-1951

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Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984

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Dramatist. From the description of The autumn garden : playscript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131544 Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), playwright and screenwriter. From the description of These three : (Hellman story), 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702193196 Lillian Hellman, America’s most significant woman playwright of the twentieth century, was born on June 20, 1905, in New Orleans to Max and Julia Newhouse Hellman. Her e...

Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961

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American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Dashiell Hammett Papers, 1923-1974. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 85058436 Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland on May 27, 1894 to a family long in the county. After working as a youth to help support his family, he left home in 1914 and worked as a detective before enlisting in the U.S. Army during Wo...