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Novels Series 1. 1956-1994

Physical Description: 5.8 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains published and unpublished novels by Margaret Millar. Most novels include manuscript and typescript drafts.

Arrangement

This series is arranged alphabetically by title.
 

Ask for Me Tomorrow

box 1 RESTRICTED, folder 1-5

Manuscript notebooks undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes note cards and loose leaves.
box 2 RESTRICTED, folder 1

Page proof and alterations to galleys 1976

box 1 RESTRICTED, folder 8-9

Photocopy undated

Scope and Contents note

"3rd Xerox copy," with leaf headed: "note to author." Leaves [1-4], 1-246.
box 1 RESTRICTED, folder 6-7

Typescript 1976

Scope and Contents note

Stamped: "Setting Copy." Leaves [i-vi], [1]-247.
 

Banshee

box 6 RESTRICTED, folder 3-4

Photocopy of corrected typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

Leaves [1]-225.
box 15 RESTRICTED, folder 1

Typescript circa 1983

box 6 RESTRICTED, folder 5

Typescript with manuscript corrections, revisions, and additions undated

Scope and Contents note

Stored in cloth-bound clamshell box.
 

Beast in View (dramatization of)

 

"Words Can Kill," by Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert.

box 7 RESTRICTED, folder 1-4

Carbon typescript 1956, undated

Scope and Contents note

With typed letter signed from Harold Ober Associates and manuscript notes by Kenneth Millar.
 

Beyond This Point Are Monsters

box 2 RESTRICTED, folder 5-6

Carbon typescript, "Copy 3" undated

Scope and Contents note

Leaves 1-218.
box 2 RESTRICTED, folder 7-8

Carbon typescript, "Copy 5" undated

Scope and Contents note

Leaves 1-218.
box 3 RESTRICTED, folder 1-5

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes notebooks and loose pages.
box 2 RESTRICTED, folder 4

Proof copy 1970

box 2 RESTRICTED, folder 2-3

Typescript 1970

Scope and Contents note

Includes printer's layout markings. Leaves [14], [1]-218.
 

The Birds and the Beasts Were There

box 5 RESTRICTED, folder 11-12

Carbon typescript, "Setting Copy" 1967

Scope and Contents note

Preliminary leaves; leaves 1-293; About the author; Index.
box 4 RESTRICTED, folder 5-7

Carbon typescript with manuscript corrections 1968

Scope and Contents note

Title: "A Tempest of Tanagers." Leaves 1-293; Index.
box 6 RESTRICTED, folder 1-2

Carbon typescript with manuscript corrections undated

Scope and Contents note

Title: "A Tempest of Tanagers." Leaves 1- 293.
box 4 RESTRICTED, folder 3-4

Carbon typescript with manuscript revisions and notes 1982

Scope and Contents note

With Margaret Millar note, 15 June 1982. Leaves 1-293.
box 5 RESTRICTED, folder 9

Comments and miscellaneous undated

box 5 RESTRICTED, folder 1-8

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 8 notebooks. Title: "A Tempest of Tanagers."
box 5 RESTRICTED, folder 10

Photographs undated

box 4 RESTRICTED, folder 1-2

Typescript with manuscript revisions 1972

Scope and Contents note

Leaves 1-293. Kenneth Millar note: "There is no 138-9."
 

The Fiend

Scope and Contents note

Earlier title: "The Remember Game"
box 7 RESTRICTED, folder 5-7

Carbon typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

2 title leaves. 1 title leaf marked "Copy 4" and 1 leaf of alterations in Kenneth Millar's holograph. Leaves 1-313.
box 7 RESTRICTED, folder 8-10

Carbon typescript 1964

Scope and Contents note

Stamped: "Setting Copy." Leaves i-vi, 1-313.
box 15 RESTRICTED, folder 2-9

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 8 notebooks and loose leaves. Title: "The Remember Game."
 

"Gallagher's Wake"

Scope and Contents note

Unpublished novel.

Conditions Governing Access note

Access restricted.
box 26 RESTRICTED, folder 1-4

Typescript 1994

Scope and Contents note

Encompasses 2 early versions with handwritten corrections and plans for the novel.
 

[Holly J. Ban]

Scope and Contents note

Alternative title: [Nobody/No One Heard from Holly J. Ban].
box 16 RESTRICTED, folder 1-6

Manuscripts circa 1969

Scope and Contents note

Includes 6 notebooks and loose leaves.
 

How Like an Angel

box 9 RESTRICTED, folder 1-3

Typescript 1972

Scope and Contents note

Leaves 1-388.
 

[The Life Taster]

Scope and Contents note

Untitled novel. Main characters are named Helena, Jarwin, Mrs. Anderson, Elizabeth, Roy.
box 16 RESTRICTED, folder 7-12

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 6 notebooks and loose leaves.
 

The Listening Walls

box 9 RESTRICTED, folder 5-6

Carbon typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

Leaves 1-246.
box 9 RESTRICTED, folder 7-8

Carbon typescript, with manuscripts revisions undated

Scope and Contents note

Leaves 1-246.
box 9 RESTRICTED, folder 9

Carbon typescript for Cosmopolitan version, copy 3 undated

box 9 RESTRICTED, folder 10

Carbon typescript for Cosmopolitan version, copy 4 undated

box 9 RESTRICTED, folder 4

Correspondence with Harry E. Maule 1958

box 10 RESTRICTED, folder 1-5

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 4 notebooks and loose pages.
 

Mermaid

box 8 RESTRICTED, folder 5

Galley proof 1982

box 8 RESTRICTED, folder 1-2

Photocopy of corrected typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

Leaves 1-208.
box 8 RESTRICTED, folder 3-4

Photocopy of typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

Leaves [1]-232.
box 8 RESTRICTED, folder 6-8

Typescript with manuscript revisions undated

Scope and Contents note

Leaves [2], 1-229.
 

"Mrs. B"

Scope and Contents note

Unfinished novel.
box 17 RESTRICTED, folder 1-2

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 2 notebooks and loose leaves.
box 17 RESTRICTED, folder 3-4

Typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes first chapter and structure for following chapters.
 

The Murder of Miranda

box 10 RESTRICTED, folder 6-7

Galley proof 1979

box 10 RESTRICTED, folder 8-14

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 6 notebooks and loose leaves.
 

Spider Webs

box 19 RESTRICTED, folder 1-2

Typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

2 boxes with manuscript revisions.
box 18 RESTRICTED, folder 1-3

Typescript with manuscript revisions undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes research notes.
box 18 RESTRICTED, folder 4-6

Typesetting copy with manuscript corrections 1987

Scope and Contents note

Includes letter from William Morrow and Company.
 

A Stranger in my Grave

box 11 RESTRICTED, folder 1-9

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 9 notebooks and loose leaves.
 

[Winnie/Galloway]

Scope and Contents note

Untitled novel.
box 17 RESTRICTED, folder 5-9

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 5 notebooks, loose leaves, and chapter plans.
 

Other writings Series 2. 1936-1963

Physical Description: 1.2 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains published and unpublished plays, poems, and short stories.

Arrangement

This series is arranged alphabetically by title.
 

Plays

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 2

"Black Pearl": carbon typescript circa 1962

Scope and Contents note

With typed letter signed, 1962 September 10. Margaret Millar's note on letter.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 3

"Blind Justice": carbon typescript 1953

 

"The Clever One"

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 6

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Loose leaves.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 7

Typescript undated

 

[Island Prison]

box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 1

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 1 notebook and loose leaves.
box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 1

Typescript undated

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 11

"Like a Fox": mimeograph undated

Scope and Contents note

Teleplay by Margaret Millar; story by Margaret and Kenneth Millar. Produced for Rod Cameron's "City Detective Series." 40 leaves.
box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 2

[Mary Comes In…]: manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Untitled screenplay, 2 notebooks.
 

"McGowney's Miracle"

Scope and Contents note

Teleplay based on Cosmopolitan story.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 14

Manuscripts. undated

Scope and Contents note

2 notebooks.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 15

Carbon typescripts undated

Scope and Contents note

2 copies.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 18

"Service Wives": manuscripts undated

box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 3

Untitled television scripts circa 1957

Scope and Contents note

3 notebooks.
box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 4

"The Woman Who Lived Alone": manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Screenplay co-written with Kenneth Millar. One notebook.
 

Poetry

box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 5

"Early Poems": manuscripts circa 1936

Scope and Contents note

Includes a series of poems written in Toronto and London in 1936.
 

"Quiet please"

box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 6

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook.
box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 7-8

Typescript. undated

box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 9-10

"Where Have You Been": typescript undated

 

Short Stories

box 13 RESTRICTED, folder 1

"Among Those Present": typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

8 leaves. Enclosed in envelope marked "Stream of Conscience." Kenneth Millar notes for "English 182" are on the verso of each page.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 1

"Baby Duck": typescript circa 1945

box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 11

"Body Builder -- Musclebound": manuscript undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook.
box 13 RESTRICTED, folder 2

"But Thee and Me": typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

5 leaves.
box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 12

[Casino Story]: manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook and loose leaves.
box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 13

[Channel City]: manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook and loose leaves.
 

"Charley's Mr. Evans"

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 4

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Tablet, 22 leaves, with note by Margaret Millar. Title on envelope: "The Last of Mr. Evans." See also "The End of Mr. Evans."
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 5

Typescript circa 1945

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 8

"The Couple Next Door": carbon typescript circa 1963

Scope and Contents note

With typed letter signed from Catherine [Barth], 1963 May 20.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 9

"Doctor in the House" : typescript circa 1944

box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 14

[Dying Animal]: manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 10

"The End of Mr. Evans": carbon typescript undated

 

[Exchanging Bitter Words and Hostile Looks]

box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 1

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook.
box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 2

Typescript undated

box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 3

"The Firebug": manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook.
box 13 RESTRICTED, folder 5

"Grandpa and Democracy": typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

5 leaves.
box 13 RESTRICTED, folder 6

"Grandpa and the Sabbath": typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

5 leaves.
box 13 RESTRICTED, folder 7

"Grandpa and the Yucca Moth": typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

5 leaves.
box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 4-5

"The Liar": typescript 1948

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 12

"The Man Who Had Everything": carbon typescript undated

box 20 RESTRICTED, folder 11

"Marriage Counselor": manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 13

"McGowney's Miracle": Cosmopolitan printing undated

 

"McHappy"

box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 6

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

2 leaves.
box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 6

Typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

5 leaves.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 16

"The Mimican": typescript undated

box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 7

[Mr. Trio]: typescript with corrections undated

 

[Mrs. Faulkner]

box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 8

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook.
box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 9

Typescript with corrections undated

box 13 RESTRICTED, folder 8

"Mrs. Vista's Sunshine": typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

7 leaves.
box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 10

"Notions": typescript with corrections undated

box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 11

"The People Across the Canyon": typescript undated

box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 12

[Rosalind / Charles]: manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes loose leaves.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 19

"Shakedown Cruise": typescript undated

 

"The Shaman's Daughter"

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 20

Carbon typescript undated

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 21

Notes undated

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 22

"Shoo, Shoo Baby": typescript circa 1945

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 23, box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 13

"The Silhouette": typescript undated

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 24

"Social and Personal": manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

Loose leaves, [1]-[11].
box 13 RESTRICTED, folder 3

"Stream of Conscience": typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

5 leaves.
box 13 RESTRICTED, folder 4

"The Unsung Galahad": typescript undated

Scope and Contents note

5 leaves.
box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 14

"Why Not You": typescript undated

 

"Zombie"

box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 15

Manuscripts undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook.
box 21 RESTRICTED, folder 16

Typescript undated

 

Miscellaneous

Scope and Contents note

Includes reviews, speeches, and script treatments.
box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 25

Address to Mystery Writers of America. undated

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 26

Notes for introduction of Kenneth Millar at Writer's Conference. undated

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 17

Script treatment proposed for James M. Cain's "Serenade": typescript 1947

box 12 RESTRICTED, folder 27

"Some Recent Crime Stories" undated

 

Publication contracts Series 3. 1943-1978

Physical Description: 0.4 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains publication contracts for 23 novels, including contracts signed with foreign publishing houses.

Arrangement

This series is arranged alphabetically by novel title.
box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 1

An Air That Kills 1957-1971

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 2

Ask for Me Tomorrow 1976-1977

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 3

Beast in View 1954-1978

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 4

Beyond This Point Are Monsters 1969-1971

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 5

The Birds and the Beasts Were There 1966

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 6

The Cannibal Heart 1949-1950, 1972

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 7

The Devil Loves Me 1942

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 8

Do Evil in Return 1950-1951, 1965-1972

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 9

Experiment in Springtime undated

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 10

The Fiend 1963-1972

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 11

Fire Will Freeze 1943-1946, 1967

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 12

How Like an Angel 1963-1965

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 13

The Iron Gates 1944-1967

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 14

It's All in the Family 1949

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 15

The Listening Walls 1960-1967

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 16

Priscilla undated

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 17

Rose's Last Summer 1952-1955

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 18

A Stranger in My Grave 1960-1967

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 19

Taste of Fears 1963-1965

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 20

Vanish in an Instant 1951-1953, 1968

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 21

Wall of Eyes 1943-1947, 1972

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 22

The Weak-Eyed Bat 1941-1945

box 14 RESTRICTED, folder 23

Wives and Lovers 1954-1963

 

Research files, notes, and reviews Series 4. 1945-1994

Physical Description: 1.4 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains handwritten preliminary notebooks, research files, reviews of novels, miscellaneous information on Kenneth Millar, and information on the Edgar Allan Poe Awards.

Arrangement

This series is arranged alphabetically by topic or format.
 

Biographical information

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 1

Clippings 1952-1961, 1976- 1989

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 1

Correspondence 1987-1988

Scope and Contents note

Includes note from the White House and Charles Champlin's introduction of Margaret Millar at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 2

Edgar Allan Poe Award 1955-1956

Scope and Contents note

Includes certificate and press release by Random House.
box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 3

H. R. F. Keating, Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books, excerpt 1991

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence and review essays of Beast in View, Beyond These Point Are Monsters, and Ross Macdonald's The Blue Hammer.
box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 4

Harry R. Warfel, American Novelists of Today, excerpt undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes biographical sketch of Margaret Millar.
box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 5

Kenneth Millar's obituary 1983

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 6

List of books by Margaret Millar undated

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 7

Mystery Writers Annual 1994

Scope and Contents note

Includes an article by Ross Macdonald and a note "In Memoriam" of several writers including Margaret Millar.
box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 8

Outstanding Achievement Award for Kenneth Millar 1972

Scope and Contents note

Includes certificate and newspapers clipping.
box FB 17, folder 7

Poster

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 9

"Words Can Kill" program for the Pasadena Playhouse Patio Theatre. undated

 

Research Files

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 10

Birder's Life List and Diary 1961-1974

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 11

National Shorthand Reporters Association, Making the Record 1968

 

Newspaper clippings

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 12

General 1968, 1980-1983, undated

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 13

Jury picking 1983

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 14

Kurtzman and Tramel 1986

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 15

Quaglino 1972-1976

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 16

Reverend Moon Cult and Stonehenge bombing 1977-1978

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 17

Roehler 1982, 1993

box 22 RESTRICTED, folder 18

Spenceley 1968

 

Trial records

box 23 RESTRICTED, folder 1-5

People of the State of California, Plaintiff, vs. Frederick Roehler 1981-1982

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 2

People of the State of California, Plaintiff, vs. Millan H. Spenceley 1968

 

Research notes

box 24 RESTRICTED, folder 1

[Carla Planning] undated

Scope and Contents note

1 notebook.
box 24 RESTRICTED, folder 2-12

General undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 6 notebooks and loose handwritten and typescript leaves. Contains general ideas, notes, and plans for novels, short stories and plays.
 

[Ivy and Roger Story]

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 3-4

Planning undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 2 notebooks and loose handwritten and typescript leaves.
box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 5

[Radio Station Book] undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes 1 notebook.
 

Reviews

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 6

Ask for Me Tomorrow 1976-1977

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 7

Beast in View 1955-1956

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 8

Beyond This Point Are Monsters 1974

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 9

The Birds and the Beasts Were There 1968

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 10

Do Evil in Return 1952

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 11

The Fiend 1964

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 12

The Iron Gates 1945

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 13

The Listening Walls 1959

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 14

The Murder of Miranda 1980

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 15

Rose's Last Summer 1952-1953

box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 16

Spider Webs 1986-1987

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence from Charles Champlin and Harvey Ginsberg.
box 25 RESTRICTED, folder 17

A Stranger in My Grave 1960-1961

box 26 RESTRICTED

Unprocessed addition 2018 Accession 2018.018 circa 1960s-1983

Physical Description: 0.4 Linear Feet(2 letter file folders)

Access

This addition to the collection has not been processed but is open for research. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This addition to the collection is comprised of typescripts of novels, an article, and a treatment for a television script written by Margaret Millar. The typescripts contain editorial annotations.