Finding Aid for the Tennessee Williams Papers, 1930-1970
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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding Aid for the Tennessee Williams Papers, 1930-1970
Collection number: 492
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Tine Brouwer, May 1971
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Text converted and initial container list EAD tagging by:
- Apex Data Services
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh FIala, April 2002
© 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Tennessee Williams Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1930-1970
Collection number: 492
Creator:
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
Extent:
2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Thomas Lanier Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Missouri. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for
A Streetcar Named Desire, and another in 1955 for
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Many of his plays were adapted for the screen. His works include 24 major plays, 2 novels, several screenplays, and a volume
of memoirs. The collection contains manuscripts of several of Williams' published and unpublished plays, play fragments, short
stories, screen scenarios, and poems.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Papers cannot be copied or published except with the permision of the literary executor (information on file).
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
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consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Tennessee Williams, purchase, 1970.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Tennessee Williams Papers (Collection 492). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Missouri; his first major success came with the 1945 Broadway
premiere of
The Glass Menagerie; won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for
A Streetcar Named Desire, and another in 1955 for
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; adapted a number of his plays for the screen; his works include 24 major plays, 2 novels, several screenplays, and a volume
of memoirs; died on February 25, 1983 in New York City.
Scope and Content
Collection contains manuscripts of several of Williams' published and unpublished plays, play fragments, short stories, screen
scenarios, and poems. Includes transcripts of early versions of
Sweet Bird of Youth and
The Night of the Iguana. Also includes uncorrected proofs and galleys of Gilbert Maxwell's book,
Tennessee Williams and Friends (1965).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983--Archives.
Authors, American--20th century--Archival resources.
Dramatists, American--20th century--Archival resources.
Maxwell, Gilbert, 1910- --Tennessee Williams and Friends.
Container List
Box 1
The Day on Which a Man Dies (an occidental Noh Play). Miami, 1960. Unpublished.
Physical Description: 40 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1
And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... Havana, Cuba, ca. 1958. Unpublished.
Physical Description: 33 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1
Now and at the Hour of Our Death. n.p., n.d. Unpublished.
Physical Description: 39 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1
The Demolition Downtown. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 31 leaves. Mimeograph and a few handtyped pages with holograph corrections.
Box 1
No Sight Would Be Worth Seeing. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 20 leaves. Mimeograph and a few handtyped pages with holograph corrections.
Box 1
The Drunken Fiddler. v.p., ca. 1930-1940. Unpublished.
Physical Description: 72 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1
Happy August the Tenth. n.p., ca. 1957. Unpublished short story.
Physical Description: 21 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1
Stairs to the Roof. New Orleans, 1941. Unpublished play.
Physical Description: 105 leaves. Professionally typed.
Scope and Content Note
Produced at the Pasadena Playhouse ca. 1943.
Box 1
Sweet Bird of Youth. n.p., ca. 1955.
Physical Description: 80 leaves. Mimeograph and a few handtyped pages, with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Original version, produced at Studio M in Coral Gables, Florida, ca. 1956.
Box 1
Man Bring This Up Road. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 55 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Short story published in the Knightly Quest, New York, New Directions, 1966.
Box 1
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 65 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Fragments.
Box 1
Do it Yourself Interview. n.p., n.d. Unpublished.
Physical Description: 15 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1
Candles to the Sun. n.p., 1936. Unpublished play.
Physical Description: 53 leaves. Typescript.
Box 1
The Night of the Iguana. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 50 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
Early version, produced 1960.
Box 2
The Twister. n.p., n.d. Unpublished and unproduced.
Physical Description: 12 leaves. Typescript, carbon copy.
Box 2
Hide and Seek or Whipmaster. n.p., 1954.
Physical Description: 100 leaves. Typescript, carbon copy.
Scope and Content Note
Unpublished early version of
Baby Doll.
Box 2
Golden Rules for Playwrights. Acapulco, Mexico, 1959. Unpublished.
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2
Night of the Iguana. n.p., 1960. Play.
Physical Description: 100 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Author's work-script.
Box 2
Baby Doll. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 65 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Screen scenario.
Fragment, not included in film.
Box 2
A Man Grows Long... n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Incomplete poem.
Box 2
Letter to the drama editor of the
New York Times. New York, n.d.
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Published in different form in the drama pages of the
New York Times.
Box 2
A reply to the Point of View (POV) of critic Marya Mannes. New York, n.d.
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Published in the drama section of the
New York Times in slightly different form.
First draft.
Box 2
Mama's Old Stucco House. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph.
Scope and Content Note
Story published in final form in the
Knightly Quest, New York: New Directions, 1966.
Box 2
The Mutilated, and
The Gnadiges Fraulein. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 43 leaves. Typescript and holograph.
Scope and Content Note
Two short plays, final versions produced in the 1960s.
Box 2
What's Next on the Agenda, Mr. Williams? n.p., n.d. Unpublished.
Physical Description: 13 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Prose-poem describing the author's experiences in the violent ward of a psychiatric hospital.
Read at London Poetry Festival, 1970.
Box 2
A Recluse and His Guest. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 13 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Short story published in
Playboy, December 1969.
Box 2
The Tread-Mill. n.p., n.d. Never published.
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
Fragment of an early short story.
Box 2
One Arm. n.p., ca. 1968. Screenplay of the short story. Unproduced.
Physical Description: 100 leaves. Typescript.
Box 2
Letter to Virginia Carr. Key West, Florida, August 18-19, 1970.
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.
Box 2
Maxwell, Gilbert.
Tennessee Williams and Friends. New York: World Publishing Company, 1965.
Scope and Content Note
Uncorrected proofs, galleys.
Poems. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: (7 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
(Typescript and holograph)
Box 2
“We Are Coming Home to Die...” [first line].
Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph.
Scope and Content Note
10 line poem.
Box 2
“Ain't it a Pity”.
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Holograph, signed.
Scope and Content Note
24 line poem.
Box 2
“She That Comes Late to the Dance”.
Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph, signed.
Scope and Content Note
12 line poem.
Box 2
“A Witch and Her Daughter...” [first line].
Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
12 line poem.
Box 2
“A Moment in a Room”. March 1952.
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
32 line poem.
