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VIRGINIA SPENCER CARR
PAPERS
1911 - 2004
(bulk 1990 – 2004)
Manuscript Collection Number:
Extent:
40 linear ft.
Contents:
manuscripts, proofs, correspondence, clippings, photographs, subject
files
Access:
Access is limited pending completion of processing. Material in annex requires 24-hour notice for retrieval.
Table of Contents
Biographical Note
Virginia Spencer Carr is the John B. and Elena Diaz-Verson
Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters, Department of English,
Scope and Content Note
The Virginia Spencer Carr Papers comprises three groups of materials:
I. Papers related to Tennessee
Williams, ca. 1911-1996
II. Papers related to Paul Bowles, ca. 1911-2004
III. Personal papers, ca. 1945-2002
The bulk of the material is research, correspondence, manuscripts, and publisher's proofs toward her biography of Paul Bowles.
Contents List
** Preliminary container list only. Please contact Manuscripts Librarian for assistance.
Box -- -- -- Contents
Boxes 1-8 I.
Papers related to
Research files including correspondence, notes, photographs, clippings, reviews, bibliography, life chronology, and other research material
Box
1 Research files, with photographs of Williams
2 Research files
3 Research files
4 Research files, with folder with items signed by Tennessee Williams
5 Research files, includes correspondence with James Laughlin
6 Research files, includes interview material and material related to
7 Research files, including chronology for 1979-1990
8 Research files, including chronology for 1911-1977
Boxes 9-39 II. Papers
related to Paul Bowles, ca. 1911-2004
Research files including correspondence, chronologies, plus numerous typescript drafts and publishers’ proofs of Carr’s biography, Paul Bowles: a Life
Box
9 Correspondence and research material from libraries and institutions
10 Correspondence and research material from libraries and institutions (cont’d)
10 Paul Bowles chronology, 1911-1947 (plus draft of completed chronology)
11 Paul Bowles chronology, 1948-1970
12 Paul Bowles chronology, 1996
Some correspondence with Bowles and interview notes
13 Small trunk of Paul Bowles’s letters to Carr
Paul Bowles: a Life
14 Correspondence with editors at Scribners and early typescript drafts
15 Manuscript notes and typescript drafts
16 Typescript drafts – “miscellaneous versions, out of order”
17 Typescript drafts, including draft read by Allen Hibbard
18 Typescript drafts, including drafts read by Robert McBath
19 Typescript drafts, including draft read by Polly Marks Smith
20 Typescript drafts, including draft read by Phillip Ramey
21 Typescript drafts, including draft edited by Robert Burns
22 Typescript drafts – “Misc, no order”
23 Typescript drafts, miscellaneous
24 Typescript drafts, miscellaneous
25 Typescript drafts, including early draft titled “Mektoub: a Biography of Paul
Bowles”
26 Typescript drafts, including drafts edited by “Alexis or Ilene”
27 Typescript drafts, including editing by others
28 Typescript drafts, including “4th
version
Gargagliano” and miscellaneous notes
29 Typescript drafts, including “Complete 7 longest Mss”
30 Typescript drafts, including “draft read to Bowles Dec/Jan 1998-99 Tangier”
and draft edited by Bowles
31 Typescript drafts, including drafts edited by Scribner editors and read by legals
Publishers’ proofs and copy of advance uncorrected proofs
32 Poems by Paul Bowles
(final draft and misc.) (Air to the Sea)
33 Subject files A-F
34 Subject files F-P
35 Subject files R-Z
36 VSC Correspondence and subject material re PB
37 Research, research assistants and works by Bowles
38 Research, some related to Bowles’s music
39 Research (Bowles’s early life), Bowles’s correspondence, health, will, estate,
obituaries
Box 40 III. Personal papers, ca.
1945-2002
Includes family correspondence, magazine and clippings, teaching files, and material related to Yaddo. Also includes an oversize 1969 issue of Palm Beach Daily News.
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