mss0099_0838.xml Finding aid for Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot1953 February 10 University of Delaware Library, Special Collections University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
Date encoded (2009 March 4) Finding aid encoded 2009 March 4 English Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot1953 February 10 Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
 Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot1953 February 10 MSS 099, F838 1 item (2 pp.) One handwritten and signed letter written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot. Materials entirely in English. University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Source

Purchase, January 2009.

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 Citation

MSS 099, F838, Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

 Shelving Summary F838: Shelved in SPEC MSS 099 manuscript boxes Processing

Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, March 2009.

 Biographical Notes

American composer and author Paul Frederic Bowles (1910–1999), whose best-known fictional work is the novel The Sheltering Sky, is equally known as a prolific translator.

Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher. An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.

 Scope and Content Note

This handwritten and signed letter was written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot on stationery from "Treetops, Merriebrooke Lane, Stamford, Connecticut," the home of Libby Holman (Reynolds). Included with the letter is an envelope postmarked Greenwich, Conn., February 10, 1953.

The brief two-page letter mentions that Bowles is in the United States and traveling with Ahmed (Yacoubi). He requests a visit with Gadiot, first wife of Beat writer Terry Southern.

 Selected Search Terms Personal Names Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999--Correspondence. Gadiot, Pud. Topical Terms American literature--20th century--Sources. Form/Genre Terms Letters (correspondence) Related Materials in this Repository

This item forms part of MSS 099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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 Detailed Contents List 56 F838 Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot1953 February 10 1 item (2 pp.)

One handwritten and signed letter written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot. The letter is written on stationery printed: "Treetops, Merriebrooke Lane, Stamford, Connecticut," the home then of Libby Holman (Reynolds). Included with the letter is an envelope postmarked Greenwich, Conn., February 10, 1953.