Guide to the Fanny Howe Papers, 1981-1995
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Guide to the Fanny Howe Papers, 1981-1995
Collection number: M0848
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- 1997
- Encoded by:
- Steven Mandeville-Gamble
© 2002 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Howe, Fanny. Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1981-1995
Collection number: M0848
Creator:
Howe, Fanny.
Extent:
2.5 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Abstract: Manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence, the last including letters from Samuel Beckett, William Corbett, Mark Mirsky,
and Alice Walker (one of Walker's containing reference to Tillie Olsen).
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Acquisition Information
Purchased, 1996.
Preferred Citation
Fanny Howe Papers. M0848. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Fanny Howe is Professor of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of more than
twenty books of fiction and poetry, most recently, One Crossed Out, 1997.
Access Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-
Corbett, William, 1942-
Mirsky, Mark.
Olsen, Tillie.
Walker, Alice, 1944-
American literature--20th century.
Series 1. Manuscripts and typescripts
Box 1, Folder 1
O'clockFall 1995
Physical Description: Ring-bound, white wrappers, 90 pp. Fair copy, virtually, though ink corrections on two leaves at least
Scope and Content Note
Poems
Box 1, Folder 2.124
Bronte Wilde : penultimate draft : corrected ts, n.d.
Physical Description: 183 leaves, in rough order. Much paste up & corrected texts; some mechanically reproduced leaves
Scope and Content Note
Fiction
Box 1, Folder 3.134
Saving history : summary treatment from the novel & corrected ts, n.d.
Physical Description: 20 pp. summary treatment + 3 p. corrected ts. + 184 pp. corrected ts. + 1 leaf ms.
Scope and Content Note
Fiction
Box 1, Folder 4.147
Poems in corrected typescript. [Folder is mislabeled "Travel"]n.d.
Physical Description: 120 leaves, including a few prose pieces ; draft of one letter ; a few ms. leaves on ruled yellow foolscap. Much correction
in ink throughout.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Proposal for a collection of Essays, 1 p. -- Puella songs [completed Holy Week, 1994] -- Strand -- For Tom Raworth
-- The only way
Box 1, Folder 5.152
Inquest and experience : ts & ms, n.d.
Physical Description: 13 leaves of ms on ruled yellow foolscap + 10 leaves ts., very heavily corrected throughout
Scope and Content Note
Includes: drafts of poems
Box 2, Folder 6.163
Tis of thee : seven year project "to be performed with jazz in San Diego" [1 of 2]n.d.
Box 2, Folder 6.465
Tis of thee : seven year project "to be performed with jazz in San Diego" [2 of 2]n.d.
Box 2, Folder 7.173
Africa America : a love story : typescripts, cut up, pasted up. -- London, n.d.
Physical Description: 54 leaves with short prose passages on recto & verso & 5 related pages
Box 2, Folder 8.183
Fear : draft, 1993 Oct. 2
Physical Description: 64 sections, each section being (usually) 2 sheets taped together
Scope and Content Note
Includes corrected ts.
Box 2, Folder 9
Miscellaneous short pieces1991-1992
Physical Description: 52 leaves, ts & ms, corrected ts.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: The Netherworld -- Victory -- Latin -- Bad eyes
Box 2, Folder 10.1104
Prose work set in or near Boston with characters Ellen, Mason, and Blaise : drafts,n.d.
Physical Description: 50 p.
Scope and Content Note
This group may belong to "Fear". With related sheets beginning "What was the thing ... ", 18 p. Also includes related text:
Premise, Jamaica Plain, 6 p., an important prose outline of the whole project.
Box 2, Folder 11
The birth of error (from: The mother : a progress), n.d.
Physical Description: 12 p., corrected ts.
Scope and Content Note
Related to: Tis of thee, which is mentioned in passing.
Box 2, Folder 12.1123
Scraps and fragments related to Fear,n.d.
Physical Description: 47 p., lightly corrected ts.
Box 2, Folder 13.1132
Project with Maureen Owensn.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: 2 tls from Maureen Owens, 1991 - 2 p. -- ALS from Bob Grenier, 2 p. -- 43 leaves (xeroxed) texts
Box 2, Folder 14
Saving history n.d.
Physical Description: 1 ms. leaf + 2 xeroxed sheets
Box 2, Folder 15
Be again : voiceover,n.d.
Physical Description: 6 p., ts
Scope and Content Note
Text for voiceover for video filmed in Ireland.
Box 2, Folder 16.1163
Bronte Wilde : intermediate draft of new version [1 of 2]n.d.
Physical Description: 170 leaves; some corrected, some pasted up
Box 3, Folder 16.4
Bronte Wilde : intermediate draft of new version [2 of 2]n.d.
Physical Description: 170 leaves; some corrected, some pasted up
Box 3, Folder 17
London notebook : ts, corrected, 1993-1994
Physical Description: 76 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Contents are autobiographical and include frequent correction in ink.
Box 3, Folder 18.1182
Manuscript notebook, Boston - UK1993-1994
Physical Description: 1 v. : brown cloth, gilt, ca. 5x7 in., signed + 12 leaves of mss/notes tipped in
Box 3, Folder 19.1194
NOD [previously: October] : poems, corrected ts,1996 Jan. 15
Physical Description: 1 v. (93 p.) : ringbound, blue wrappers. Notes on plain covers in ink.
Scope and Content Note
Includes "mid-draft", ts, velo-bound in yellow wrappers and later draft, 134 p., ts, very few marks
Box 3, Folder 20.1204
SALT : middle draft,n.d.
Physical Description: 118 leaves ; corrected ts., with yellow post-it tabs
Scope and Content Note
Internal title: The Children's progress from the dream world to the world which is delivered under the likeness of a dream.
Includes additional version, London, n.d., 129 leaves, no corrections, but at least one paste-on.
Box 4, Folder 21
Manuscript notebook accompanying SALT typescriptsn.d.
Physical Description: ringbound, blue illus. covers. 152 p. closely written holograph ink
Scope and Content Note
Includes creative text.
Series 2. Correspondence with established authors
Box 4, Folder 1
Beckett, Samuel. ANS to Mary, Paris, 1981 Sept. 11
Physical Description: 1 ans + envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letter offers sympathy to Mary for difficult times which she is experiencing.
Box 4, Folder 2
Beckett, Samuel. ANS to Fanny Howe, Paris, 1981 Sept. 11
Physical Description: 1 ans + envelope
Scope and Content Note
Letter expresses sympathy to Fanny Howe on behalf of Mary for difficult times that Mary is experiencing. Indicates that he
does not have Mary's address.
Box 4, Folder 3
Corbett, William. Poet1993 - 1995
Physical Description: 11 als + 11 acs
Box 4, Folder 4.142
Mirsky, Mark. Novelist1992 - 1994
Physical Description: 7 tls + 63 p., typed texts
Box 4, Folder 5
Walker, Alice1983 - 1987, n.d.
Physical Description: 10 als + 1 tls
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters beginning on the day after Walker's 39th birthday. Letters relate to Walker's relationship with Robert, feelings
for Howe's struggles for teaching and health, and on Tillie Olsen's meanness in tearing apart a Walker essay on Martin Luther
King, Jr. she had sent to Olsen but which was returned "torn up".
Series 3. Correspondence, general
Box 4, Folder 1
Banks, Russell
Physical Description: 2 letters
Box 4, Folder 5
Creeley, Robert - APC1993
Box 4, Folder 6
d'Ormesson, Donatella
Physical Description: 2 letters
Box 4, Folder 9
deLissovoy, Peter. Author of FEEL GOOD1988-1991
Physical Description: 23 letters
Box 4, Folder 13
Green, Paul. UK publisher1995
Physical Description: 8 letters + 7 envelopes
Box 4, Folder 16
Hambone [note: added to C27 - Nathaniel Mackey, same person]
Box 4, Folder 18
Hejinian, Lyn. Poet1986 - 1995
Physical Description: 8 letters + 1 postcard
Box 4, Folder 19
High, John1992
Physical Description: 20 leaves
Box 4, Folder 20
Howe, Fanny to Peter Gizzi [retained copy]
Box 4, Folder 24
Lee, Don
Physical Description: 2 letters
Box 4, Folder 28
Manson, Peter
Physical Description: 2 letters
Box 4, Folder 29
Mayer, Bernadette1994
Physical Description: 2 als
Box 4, Folder 30
Messerli, Douglas. Sun & Moon Press
Physical Description: 3 letters + signed agreement; proof cover
Box 4, Folder 32
Morrow, Brad
Physical Description: 2 letters
Box 4, Folder 34
Muckle, John
Physical Description: 2 letters + Howe proofs + draft, Howe to Muckle
Box 4, Folder 39
Rieselbach, Erik
Physical Description: 3 letters
Box 4, Folder 40
Sherman, Ken
Physical Description: 5 letters
Box 4, Folder 41
Stein, Jean (Grant Street)
Physical Description: 4 letters
Box 4, Folder 42
Sukenik, Ron
Physical Description: 1 form letter
Box 4, Folder 46
Treisman, Deborah
Scope and Content Note
Includes note on Grand Street xerox
Box 4, Folder 48
Woods, Peggy
Physical Description: 3 letters
Box 4, Folder 49
Xeroxed letters & copies forwarded
Physical Description: 30 p.
Series 4. Manuscripts by others
Box 5, Folder 1
Armantrout, Rae. Feminist politics and the meaning of clarity.n.d.
Physical Description: 14 p. xeroxed prose essay, inscribed.
Box 5, Folder 2
Fanny's tea : holograph poemn.d.
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 5, Folder 3
Gander, Forest. Eggplants and lotus root.n.d.
Physical Description: 11 p. typescript, inscribed
Box 5, Folder 4
Gander, Forest. Hopkins leap : typescriptn.d.
Physical Description: 3 p. typescript, inscribed
Box 5, Folder 5
Grenier, Robertn.d.
Physical Description: 16 leaves of text
Box 5, Folder 6
Rodefer, Stepehn. Moncanard1995
Physical Description: 1 v. (30 p.) : initialed. No. 3 of 7.
Box 5, Folder 7
Walker, Alice. Coming in from the cold : speech draft,ca. 1984
Physical Description: 18 leaves, inscribed to Fanny Howe, mechanically reproduced, corrections revealed
Scope and Content Note
Draft of speech eventually given by Walker at the National Writers Union, New York City, 1984 Oct. 19.
Series 5. Contracts and Agreements
Box 5, Folder 1
Contracts and agreements of Fanny Howe
Physical Description: Includes contracts and agreements with: Avon (2); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Naropa Institute; Sun & Moon Press
Box 5, Folder 1
Ephemera
Physical Description: 22 p.
Scope and Content Note
Includes flyers, announcements, posters (some involving Howe), curriculum vita, 3p.
Series 7. Reviews and notices
Box 5, Folder 1
Reviews and notices
Scope and Content Note
Includes 18 p. essay on Howe by Jean Day, with cover tls; plus 16 p. related material, including a few letters & xeroxes of
letters