Finding Aid for the William Brandon Papers, 1936-1997

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Descriptive Summary

Title: William Brandon Papers
Date (inclusive): 1936-1997
Collection number: 716
Creator: Brandon, William, 1914-
Extent: 129 boxes (64.5 linear ft.) and 13 oversize boxes
Abstract: William Edward Brandon (1914- ) was a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts (1966-67), California State University, Los Angeles (1970-71), and California State University, Long Beach (1970-71, 1974-75). He wrote short stories, screenplays and books including The Dangerous Dead (1943), The Men and the Mountain (1955), The American Heritage Book of Indians (1961), The Magic World (1971), and The Last Americans (1971). The collection consists of literary manuscripts, correspondence, periodicals containing material by Brandon, and ephemera.
Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including 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.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of William Brandon, 1983-97.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], William Brandon Papers (Collection 716). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 709461 

Biography

William Edward Brandon was born on September 21, 1914 in Kokomo, Indiana; attended public schools in Indiana and New Mexico; visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts (1966-67), California State University, Los Angeles (1970-71), and California State University, Long Beach (1970-71, 1974-75); author of The dangerous dead (1943), The men and the mountain (1955), The American Heritage book of Indians (1961), The magic world (1971), and The last Americans (1971); moved to France, translating works from French, Latin and Greek; author of two screenplays and of several hundred stories, anthologized in many collections.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of literary manuscripts, correspondence, periodicals containing material by Brandon, and ephemera. Most of the correspondence is with or about Joseph T. Shaw.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:
  1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-5, 6-12, 14-21, 36-40, 44-45, 57, 61-65, 70-71, 73-75, 77, 80-82).
  2. Correspondence (Boxes 22-35, 39, 45-56, 58-62, 66-67, 69, 71, 73, 75-80).
  3. Ephemera (Boxes 42-44, 69, 77).
  4. Photographs (Box 59).
  5. Documents (Boxes 43-45, 69, 80-81).
  6. Personal (Boxes 43, 70, 82).
  7. Printed materials (Boxes 12-13, 41-42, 45, 58, 67-69, 72, 102-113).
  8. Unlisted (Boxes 83-101).
  9. Additions 1991 - Unlisted (Boxes 117-124).
  10. Additions 1994 - Correspondence, Manuscripts (Boxes 125-133).

Items Removed from Collection

(Street and Smith's) Cowboy Stories. vol.28, no.1; vol.28, no.4; vol.31, no.4; vol.31, no.2. July 1935, October 1935, April 1936, February 1937.
Ace-High. vol.82, no.2 August 1938.
Big Book Western Magazine. vol.4, no.5 June-July 1938.
Blue Book. vol.93, no.4 August 1951.
Dan Dunn Detective Magazine. vol.1, no.1; vol.1, no.2 September 1936, November 1936.
Detective Tales. vol.49, no.3 June 1952.
Dime Detective. vol.34, no.2 September 1940.
Dime Mystery. vol.28, no.1; vol.39 no,2 November 1942, December 1949.
Double Detective. vol.3, no.3; vol.4, no.2; vol.4, no.3; vol.4, no.4; vol.5, no.1; vol.7, no.6 February 1939, July 1939, August 1939, September 1939, December 1939, March 1943.
Mystery Adventures. vol.4, no.4; vol.5, no.2; vol.5, no.3 December 1936, February 1937, March 1937.
Romantic Range. vol.15, no.2; vol.15, no.3 December 1942, January 1943.
Street And Smith's Detective Story Magazine. vol.163, no.5; vol.164, no.4; vol.164, no.6; vol.165, no.2; vol.166, no.5; vol.166, no.6 March 1942, August 1942, October 1942, December 1942, September 1943, October 1943.
Ten Detective Aces. vol.33, no.1 July 1938.
Western Aces. vol.12, no.1 October 1938.
[Flynn's] Detective Fiction Weekly. vol.118, no.3; vol.120, no.3; vol.120, no.5; vol.121, no.2; vol.122, no.3; vol.123, no.4; vol.124, no.3, March 26, 1938; June 18, 1938; July 2, 1938; July 23, 1938; September 10, 1938; October 29, 1938; December 3, 1938.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Brandon, William, 1914- --Archives.
Authors, American--West (U.S.)--Archival resources.
Indians of North America--West (U.S.).
West (U.S.)--History.


 

Manuscripts

Box 1, Folder 1

The Battle of Calabash. n.p. n.d.

Physical Description: (Typescript copy, 14 leaves [9, 10, 12 missing])

Additional Note

Addressed to Jacques Chambrun, Incorporated, 745 Fifth Ave., New York City, 22.
Appeared in Collier's, October 15, 1949.
Box 1, Folder 1

Five and Ten. n.p. n.d.

Physical Description: (Typescript, approximately 8,000 words, 27 leaves)

Scope and Content Note

With holograph revisions and notations in pencil.

Additional Note

Addressed as above. Appeared in Detective Fiction Weekly, January 18, 1941.
Box 1, Folder 1

Hermione. Parts 1 and 2. n.p. n.d.

Physical Description: (Typescript, 7 and 5 leaves, bound in manila folder)

Scope and Content Note

Advance copy.

Additional Note

Appeared in Harper's Bazaar, August 1955 and in This Week, October 20, 1957.
Box 1, Folder 1

It's So Peaceful in the Country. n.p. n.d.

Physical Description: (Typescript, 15 leaves, bond in red wrapper)

Additional Note

Appeared in Black Mask, November, 1943.
Box 1, Folder 2

The Man Who Was Afraid. n.p. n.d.

Physical Description: (Typescript carbon, 56 leaves)

Additional Note

Appeared in Blue Book, December 1947.
Box 1, Folder 2

Sign. n.p. n.d.

Physical Description: (Typescript carbon, with one holograph insertion, 22 leaves)

Additional Note

Appeared in Blue Book, June 1949.
Box 1, Folder 3

Correspondence with Philip Durham, v.p. 1958-

Physical Description: (6 items)

Scope and Content Note

Mostly re Joseph T. Shaw and The Black Mask.
Box 2

The Men and the Mountain: Fremont's Fourth Expedition. n.p. ca. 1955

Scope and Content Note

2 manuscript drafts (Printer's typescript and first draft) and two sets of galleys.

Additional Note

First published by William Morrow and Company, New York, 1955.
Box 3

The Men and the Mountain. . .

Physical Description: (2 manuscript drafts)
Box 3

Shrike. n.p. n.d.

Physical Description: (172 leaves, typescript carbon)
Box 3

Blue Book (publication)

Scope and Content Note

Condensed to 30,000 words.
Box 4

Book of Indians. n.p. ca. 1960

Physical Description: (ca. 500 leaves, typescript with holograph corrections)

Additional Note

First published by the American Heritage Publishing Company, New York, 1961.
Box 4

Dangerous Deed. n.p. ca. 1943

Physical Description: (166 leaves, typescript carbon)

Additional Note

First published by Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1943.
Box 4

The Undecided. n.p. n.d.

Physical Description: (275 leaves, typescript carbon)

Scope and Content Note

3rd copy of 3rd draft.

Additional Note

Apparently unpublished.
Box 5

Book of Indians. n.p. ca. 1960

Scope and Content Note

3 manuscript drafts with notes.
Box 6, Folders 1-2

Manuscripts to unidentified work(s?)

Box 6, Folder 3

Hermione Part 1

Scope and Content Note

Unedited advance copy.
Box 6, Folder 3

The Man Nobody Remembered December 22, 1951

Physical Description: (Photocopy)

Additional Note

From Saturday Evening Post.
Box 6, Folder 3

The Life and White Horse of Ind. Joe

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 6, Folder 3

The Great American Story

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 4

Princess Triplex

Scope and Content Note

Outline.
Box 6, Folder 4

Exiles

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 6, Folder 4

Parises

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 4

Berv Leery Journals (1939)

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 5

Avez-Vous Vu Hubert?

Physical Description: (p.1)
Box 6, Folder 5

Berv Leery Journals (1938-1939)

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 5

Berv Leery Journals (1971)

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 5

Princess Triplex

Scope and Content Note

Outlines.
Box 6, Folder 6

Frenchgirl

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 6

Princess Triplex

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 6

Parises

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 7

Avez-Vous Vu Hubert?

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 7

Parises

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 8

American Indians--The Real American Revolution

Physical Description: (Typescript and photocopy)
Box 7, Folders 1-5

Liberty and the New World [title changed from New Worlds for Old]

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 8, Folders 1-4

New Worlds for Old

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 8, Folders 5-9

Liberty and the New World

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 1

American Indian USA

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 9, Folder 1

America in Utopia

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 9, Folder 2

American Indians: The Unamericans

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 2

American Indians: The Real Revolution

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 2

The New Americans

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 3

The New Americans

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten notes and typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 3

American Indians: The Alian Americans

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 9, Folder 4

American Indians: The Alien Americans

Physical Description: (Typed draft, typescripts, photocopy)

Additional Note

From unidentified magazine, December 12, 1969.
Box 9, Folder 5

The Unamericans

Scope and Content Note

Typed drafts.
Box 9, Folder 6

American Indians: The Alien Americans

Scope and Content Note

Typed drafts.
Box 10, Folder 1

The Magic World [An anthology of Indian literature]

Scope and Content Note

Drafts, correspondence with publisher (University of Oklahoma Press).
Box 10, Folder 2

The Grand Old National Game. .

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 10, Folder 2

Parises

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 10, Folder 2

The Skin Job Works

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 10, Folder 3

Has Anybody Here Seen Hubert?

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 4

Goodbye My Fancy [formerly titled Princess Triplex]

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 4

Princess Triplex

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 4

Berv Leery Journals

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 5

Avez-Vous Vu Hubert?

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 5

Princess Triplex

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 5

Berv Leery Journals

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 11, Folders 1-5

The Fourth Expedition

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 11, Folder 6

With All My Heart

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 11, Folders 7-9

The Fourth Expedition[?]

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Additional Note

Starts with p.58.
Box 12, Folders 1-2

The Fourth Expedition[?]

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.

Additional Note

Starts with p.5.
Box 14, Folder 1

Unknown

Box 14, Folders 2-3

Step Step

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 14, Folders 4-12

The Second Step

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folders 1-3

The Second Step

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folders 4-5

A Matter of Communication

Scope and Content Note

Typed drafts.
Box 15, Folder 6

With All My Heart

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folder 7

A Matter of Communication

Scope and Content Note

Outline and typescript.
Box 15, Folder 8

Said Rabbit

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folder 8

Sunpah Adamah

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folder 8

New Worlds For Old

Scope and Content Note

Notes.
Box 15, Folder 9

New Worlds For Old

Scope and Content Note

Preface, acknowlegments, notes.
Box 16, Folder 1

Master Chester

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 1

Child of the North

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 1

T'As Pas Froid Cheri?

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 1

Pilgrim's Way

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 1

The Masca

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 2

Manuscript and typed draft (unidentified work)

Box 16, Folder 2

Spanish Lilac

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 2

T'As Pas Froid Cheri?

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 3

Project Echo

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 3

Torpito and the Joker (unpublished) 1952

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 4

The Princess in the Castle

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 4

Winter Way

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 4

Letters Persanes

Physical Description: (Photocopy, pp.28-37 and 204-213)
Box 16, Folders 5-10

New Worlds For Old

Box 16, Folder 5

Manuscript and typescript

Box 16, Folder 6

Revisions

Box 16, Folder 7

Copy for back jacket cover

Box 16, Folder 8

Paper read at national meeting of American Society for Ethnohistory October 23, 1980

Box 16, Folder 8

Abstract and revisions

Box 16, Folder 9

Revisions

Box 16, Folder 10

Acknowlegements, copy for jacket cover; correspondence with Indian Historian Press

Box 17, Folder 1

American Indian USA

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 17, Folders 2-9

New Worlds For Old

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 1

The Grimley City Monster Story

Physical Description: (Typescripts)
Box 18, Folder 2

The Great Little Metaphysician

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2

The Bee At War

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2

The Grand Old National Game. .

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2

Contesting

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folders 2-3

T'As Pas Froid Cheri?

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2

Spanish Lilac

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2

The Grimley City Monster Story

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2

Has Anybody Here Seen Hubert

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folders 4-7

The Magic World

Additional Note

Includes typescript, master draft, and correspondence with the publisher (William Morrow).
Box 18, Folders 4-5

“The Magic World - Dead Matter”

Scope and Content Note

Notation On Original Envelope.
Includes typescript, master draft, and correspondence with the publisher (William Morrow).
Box 18, Folder 6

Publisher's proof

Scope and Content Note

With attached business card of Daniel Johnson, managing editor of William Morrow.
Box 18, Folder 7

“The Magic World - Author's set”

Additional Note

Note On Original Envelope.
Box 19, Folders 1-6

New Worlds For Old

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 19, Folder 7

Goodbye My Fancy

Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 19, Folders 7-9

Berv Leery Journals

Physical Description: (Typescripts)
Box 20, Folder 1

Berv Leery Journals

Physical Description: (Typescripts)
Box 20, Folders 2-9

Manuscripts of works:

Box 20, Folder 2

Unidentified

Box 20, Folder 3

Avez-Vous Vu Hubert?

Box 20, Folder 4

Frenchgirl

Box 20, Folders 5-8

Berv Leery Journals[?]

Box 20, Folder 9

Berv Leery Journals

Box 21, Folders 1-3

Manuscripts continuing from Box 20:

Box 21, Folder 1

Unidentified

Box 21, Folder 2

Berv Leery Journals

Box 21, Folder 3

Avez-Vous Vu Hubert?[?]

Box 21, Folders 4-5

Unidentified works

Physical Description: (Typescripts)
Box 21, Folders 6-9

The Road to Quivera

Scope and Content Note

Typed draft.
Box 36, Folder 1

Payday

Box 36, Folder 2

The Mystic Touch

Box 36, Folder 3

The Battle of Calabash

Box 36, Folder 4

Medicine Show

Box 36, Folder 5

Landfall

Box 36, Folder 6

“Alibi”

Additional Note

Published in Detective Tales, November 1949.
Box 36, Folder 7

Don't Be -- Do!

Box 36, Folder 8

A Matter of Luck

Box 36, Folder 9

Little Grigoire

Box 36, Folder 10

The Thief

Box 36, Folder 11

Wolf

Box 36, Folder 12

A Compliment to the Human Race

Box 36, Folder 13

Come to the Fair

Box 36, Folder 14

Torpito and the Joker

Box 36, Folder 15

The Sunlight All Around

Box 36, Folder 16

The Balloon Rising

Box 36, Folder 17

The Girl Who Would Always Have Everything

Box 36, Folder 18

Once Around the Rainbow

Box 36, Folder 19

A Matter of Communication

Box 36, Folder 20

Tiki

Box 36, Folder 21

The Hermit

Box 36, Folder 22

An Hour to Wait

Box 36, Folder 23

Memo to an April Evening

Box 36, Folder 24

The Vision of Herman Willoughby

Box 36, Folder 25

Of Life and the Adman

Box 36, Folder 26

[Untitled - 1 filler]

Scope and Content Note

Beginning, “Some years ago in New Mexico...”
Box 36, Folder 27

There'a a Great Day Coming

Box 36, Folder 28

Alice

Box 36, Folder 29

Professor Carnaval

Box 36, Folder 30

Leif the Lucky

Box 36, Folder 31

Master Chester

Box 37, Folder 1

Child of the Earth

Box 37, Folder 2

The Siege of Conquinet

Box 37, Folder 3

Untitled

Scope and Content Note

Beginning, “The story of Claude Trundle...”
Box 37, Folder 4

[Untitled]

Scope and Content Note

Beginning “If, as seems incredible...”
Box 37, Folder 5

Broom Boogie

Box 37, Folder 6

Down in the Valley

Box 37, Folder 7

Like What, Man?

Box 37, Folder 8

Lost Dog

Box 37, Folder 9

Project Echo

Box 37, Folder 10

Good By, Old Pal!

Box 37, Folder 11

Johnny Fourteen and the Happy Wife

Box 37, Folder 12

Rainbow

Box 37, Folder 13

San Francisco is a Nice Town

Box 37, Folder 14

Idyl[?]

Box 37, Folder 15

[Untitled]

Scope and Content Note

Beginning, “The room was damp and cold.”
Box 37, Folder 16

Old Pegleg

Box 37, Folder 17

Mirage

Box 37, Folder 18

I've Got a Secret

Additional Note

Also known as: Wherever You Are
Box 37, Folder 19

Small Town in the West

Additional Note

Also known as: A Look on the Outside
Box 37, Folder 20

The Abandoned

Box 37, Folder 21

[Untitled]

Scope and Content Note

Beginning, “My friend Sam Ireland...”
Box 37, Folder 22

Coquinet Forever

Box 37, Folder 23

Incomplete items, fragments

Box 37, Folder 24

A Complement to the Human Race

Additional Note

See also box 36.
Box 37, Folder 25

Snowdrift

Box 37, Folder 26

Toil and Trouble

Box 37, Folder 27

Mary Jane at the Piano

Box 37, Folder 28

Old Dog

Box 37, Folder 29

It's So Peaceful in the Country

Box 38, Folder 1

New Worlds for Old

Box 38, Folder 2

Happy Land

Box 38, Folder 3

Now About Old Bill Williams

Box 38, Folder 4

Late Afternoon of a Faun

Box 38, Folder 5

The Salted Dogs

Box 38, Folder 6

The Key Behind

Box 38, Folder 7

The Chase

Box 38, Folder 8

Destination Moon

Box 38, Folder 9

Round Trip to the Moon

Box 38, Folder 10

[Untitled]

Scope and Content Note

Beginning, “The pier was a shed broken with barn doors.”
Box 38, Folder 11

I Can't Give You Anything

Box 38, Folder 12

The Threat

Box 38, Folder 13

American Indians and American History

Physical Description: (Photocopy)

Scope and Content Note

With correspondence.
Box 38, Folder 14

O'Brien. Teleplay by Bodeen DeWitt and Sidney Biddle. Meridian Productions no.54

Box 38, Folder 15

Contesting

Box 38, Folder 16

I'm a Lonesome Cowboy

Box 38, Folder 17

The Salted Dog

Box 38, Folder 18

The Pit

Box 38, Folder 19

Underground

Additional Note

Also known as: Mission to the Underground
Box 38, Folders 20-21

Zugwang

Box 38, Folder 22

The Abandoned

Box 38, Folder 23

All the Pretty Little Horses

Box 38, Folder 24

Wilson Price Hunt

Box 39, Folder 1

Late Afternoon of a Faun

Box 39, Folder 2

A Place to Come Home to

Box 39, Folder 3

The New World

Box 39, Folder 4

A Woman Brushing Her Hair

Box 39, Folder 5

1956

Box 39, Folder 6

The Hunters

Box 39, Folder 7

Cecilia

Box 39, Folder 8

“The Windmill”

Additional Note

Published in Blue Book.
Box 39, Folder 9

“Death Old Woman”

Additional Note

Published in Adventure.
Box 39, Folder 10

Sequoya: A Man for our Season

Box 39, Folder 12

Indian Summer

Box 39, Folder 13

Small Town in the West

Box 39, Folder 14

Kaala Beach

Box 39, Folder 15

The Way to Leiter Laoi

Box 39, Folder 16

Rodec

Box 39, Folder 17

The Sunlight All Around

Box 39, Folder 18

New Woman

Box 39, Folder 19

The Tiger's Eye

Box 39, Folder 20

Act of Mercy. By William Brandon and Helen Taini (developed from an original story by William Brandon...)

Box 39, Folder 21

Son of Kings. By Helen Taini and William Brandon

Box 39, Folder 22

The Rival

Box 39, Folder 23

The Age of Understanding

Box 39, Folder 24

Catalina and the Hundred Years

Box 39, Folder 25

Toil and Trouble

Box 39, Folder 26

The Traveler

Box 39, Folder 27

A Pair of Shoes

Box 39, Folder 28

[Untitled]

Additional Note

Beginning, “The best of sentiment...”
Box 39, Folder 29

With All My Heart

Additional Note

Also known as: A Matter of Communication.
Box 39, Folder 30

The Horse

Box 39, Folder 31

The Second Step

Box 39, Folder 32

The Man Who Might Have Been

Box 40, Folder 1

Untitled holograph manuscript

Physical Description: (Manuscript is partially in Greek)
Box 40, Folder 2

10 3/2 Years Hence

Box 40, Folder 3

[Untitled - incomplete]

Additional Note

Beginning, “My dentist's secretary in Madrid...”
Box 40, Folder 4

Untitled--with sketches, incomplete

Box 40, Folder 5

Concrete History

Additional Note

For Oakland Museum[?]
Box 40, Folder 6

Mexican World in California

Additional Note

For Oakland Museum[?]
Box 40, Folder 7

Spanish World in California

Additional Note

For Oakland Museum[?]
Box 40, Folder 8

California Indian World

Box 40, Folder 9

Relatively Yours

Box 44, Folders 1-2

Research notes and materials

Scope and Content Note

Includes printed material.
Box 44, Folders 4-6

Research notes and materials

Box 45, Folder 2

Music manuscripts--William Brandon, Mike King

Physical Description: (4 items)
Box 57

Various works

Physical Description: (Typescripts)

Scope and Content Note

Also, copies of Saturday Evening Post Stories ( 1956), and Massachusetts Review.
Box 62, Folder 3

T.V. outlines, etc.

Box 62, Folder 4

Short stories

Box 62, Folders 5-6

Stories

Box 63, Folder 1

American Indians: the Real American Revolution

Box 63, Folders 2-6

Stories

Box 64, Folders 1-2

Stories

Box 64, Folders 3-4

Stories-- Agent's Cover

Box 64, Folder 5

A Pair of Shoes

Box 64, Folder 6

With All My Heart

Box 64, Folder 7

Manuscripts

Box 65, Folder 1

Manuscripts

Box 70, Folder 2

Manuscripts, correspondence & family memorabilia

Box 70, Folder 3

Novel (untitled)

Box 70, Folders 4-5

Stories

Box 71, Folders 1-4

Stories

Box 73, Folder 1

Novel--partial manuscript (untitled)

Box 74, Folder 1

Miscellaneous filed with Indian world (Notes)

Box 74, Folders 2-7

Stories

Box 75, Folder 3

Manuscripts with Agent's Cover

Box 80, Folder 4

Indian World

Box 80, Folders 5-8

Unsorted manuscripts

Box 81, Folders 1-4

Stories

Box 82, Folder 1

Untitled manuscript

Box 82, Folder 2

New Worlds for Old

Box 82, Folder 3

Family memorabilia

Box 82, Folder 4

The Western Story

Box 82, Folder 5

The Ballad of Bargain Day

Box 82, Folder 6

The Grand Old National Game is a Grand Old Game

Box 82, Folder 7

Research material--Francis Bloom & Gertrude Duby

Box 82, Folder 8

The Magic World

Boxes 83-101

Unlisted

Boxes 102-113

Publications

Boxes 114-116

[?]

Boxes 117-124

Santa Fe Trail, etc.; New World; Indians

Additional Note

Additions 1991.
Boxes 125-133

Correspondence and Manuscripts (73-92)

Additional Note

Additions 1994.
Boxes 134-135

Unlisted

Additional Note

Additions 1997.
Box 136, Folder 1

1956

Box 136, Folder 2

The Alarmist

Box 136, Folder 3

America in Utopia

Box 136, Folder 4

American Indians and Native Americans

Box 136, Folder 5

The American West

Box 136, Folder 7

A Ballet (alternate title: Cibola)

Box 136, Folder 8

The Balloon Rising

Box 136, Folder 9

The Battle of Calabash

Box 136, Folder 10

Beach of Promises

Box 136, Folder 11

The Bee

Box 136, Folder 12

Bernalillo County (alternate title: Nightfall with Nighthawks)

Box 136, Folder 13

The Birth of the USA

Box 136, Folder 14

Bonanza

Box 136, Folder 15

The Buffalo Singer

Box 136, Folder 16

Business

Box 136, Folder 17

Child of the Earth

Box 136, Folder 18

Christmas Comes but Once a Month

Box 136, Folder 19

Cibola (alternate title: A Ballet)

Box 136, Folder 20

Clowntown

Box 136, Folder 21

Come to the Fair

Box 136, Folder 22

A Compliment to the Human Race

Box 136, Folder 23

Contesting

Box 136, Folder 24

Cote D'azur

Box 136, Folder 25

Death Old Woman

Box 136, Folder 26

Dime

Box 136, Folder 27

The Draft and the Riots 1863

Box 136, Folder 28

Easy Street

Box 136, Folder 29

The Editor and Publisher

Box 136, Folder 30

Escape

Box 136, Folder 31

The Farmer

Box 136, Folder 32

Flight Patterns

Box 136, Folder 33

Fox on the Rocks (alternate title: The Fox and the Blues)

Box 136, Folder 34

Friendship

Box 136, Folder 35

The Garden

Box 136, Folder 36

The Ghost Lode

Box 136, Folder 37

The Ghost Takes Charge (alternate title: A Look at the Fire)

Box 136, Folder 38

The Golden World

Box 136, Folder 39

The Grand Old Game

Box 136, Folder 40

The Great American Story

Box 136, Folder 41

The Great Little Metaphysician

Box 136, Folder 42

The Grimley City Monster Story

Box 136, Folder 43

Grown Ups My Ass

Box 136, Folder 44

The Hired Girl

Box 136, Folder 45

Horse and Horse

Box 136, Folder 46

Hot Mill Man

Box 136, Folder 47

The House of Time

Box 136, Folder 48

How the Healer Caught Johnny Fourteen

Box 136, Folder 49

Hump and the Serpent's Tooth

Box 136, Folder 50

The Hunters

Box 136, Folder 51

Indian History: Spanish Nebraska and the Pawnee Frontier

Box 136, Folder 52

Introduction to Alpheus H. Favour's Old Bill Williams, Mountain Man

Box 136, Folder 53

Iron

Box 136, Folder 54

Iseult of the Windows

Box 136, Folder 55

Joe Goodman of the GMT

Box 136, Folder 56

Johnny Fourteen and the Happy Wife

Box 136, Folder 57

The Key Behind (alternate title: Click-Click)

Box 136, Folder 58

Late Afternoon of a Faun

Box 137, Folder 1

Latin Quarter

Box 137, Folder 2

The Life and White Horse of Ind. Joe

Box 137, Folder 3

Light of the World

Box 137, Folder 4

The Lost Gods

Box 137, Folder 5

Lovers

Box 137, Folder 6

Love Song

Box 137, Folder 7

Love Story

Box 137, Folder 8

Lucinda and the Happy Hippo/Lucinda and the Hippopotami (alternate title: Hermione)

Box 137, Folder 9

The Man Who Might Have Been

Box 137, Folder 10

Mario (alternate title: The Alarmist)

Box 137, Folder 11

Mary Jane at the Piano

Box 137, Folder 12

The Masca

Box 137, Folder 13

Medicine Show

Box 137, Folder 14

The Merry Widows

Box 137, Folder 15

Monsieur le Duc

Box 137, Folder 16

The Mountain

Box 137, Folder 17

The Mountain Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Box 137, Folder 18

Narcissus and the Yankee Trader

Box 137, Folder 19

Nerosis

Box 137, Folder 20

The New House

Box 137, Folder 21

The New World in the French Revolution of Ideas

Box 137, Folder 22

New Woman (alternate title: Memento)

Box 137, Folder 23

Night in Kyoto

Box 137, Folder 24

Nirvana

Box 137, Folder 25

Oh My Grandpa/The Tiger's Eye

Box 137, Folder 26

Once More to the Stars

Box 137, Folder 27

O Sparkling Star

Box 137, Folder 28

A Pair of Shoes

Box 137, Folder 29

Pass the Heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah

Box 137, Folder 30

Pat and Mike and the Flying Saucer

Box 137, Folder 31

Pavane for a Dead Prince

Box 137, Folder 32

Payday

Box 137, Folder 33

The Permit

Box 137, Folder 34

Pilgrimage (alternate title: Pilgrim's Way)

Box 137, Folder 35

Professor Barone

Box 137, Folder 36

Rainbow

Box 137, Folder 37

Rainy Night

Box 137, Folder 38

Revolution in the Second R

Box 137, Folder 39

Rougher, Roller, Rich Man, Chief

Box 137, Folder 40

Said Rabbit

Box 137, Folder 41

Seam (alternate title: The Sweet Cheat Gone)

Box 137, Folder 42

Sequoya: A Man for our Season

Box 137, Folder 43

Shadow

Box 137, Folder 44

Sign

Box 137, Folder 45

The Skin Job Works

Box 137, Folder 46

The Sleeping Cat

Box 137, Folder 47

Small Talk

Box 137, Folder 48

Small Town in the West

Box 137, Folder 49

Some Historic Places Along the Santa Fe Trail

Box 138, Folder 1

Song for the Lute Viol (alternate title: A Matter of Communication)

Box 138, Folder 2

The Sound of Vermont

Box 138, Folder 3

Spanish Lilac

Box 138, Folder 4

This Kind Nepenthe

Box 138, Folder 5

Three Men in a Boat

Box 138, Folder 6

Tiki

Box 138, Folder 7

Toil and Trouble

Box 138, Folder 8

The Tomahawk

Box 138, Folder 9

Torpito and the Joker

Box 138, Folder 10

The Traveler

Box 138, Folder 11

The Two of Them (alternate title: Kitty)

Box 138, Folder 12

The Vision of Herman Willoughby

Box 138, Folder 13

The Voice

Box 138, Folder 14

War

Box 138, Folder 15

The War with the Reds

Box 138, Folder 16

The Western Story

Box 138, Folder 17

When the Saints Come Marching In

Box 138, Folder 18

Wild Horse Country

Box 138, Folder 19

Wilson Price Hunt

Box 138, Folder 20

The Windmill

Box 138, Folder 21

Winter Hay

Box 138, Folder 22

The Wish Doctor

Box 138, Folder 23

The Wolf from the Woods

Box 138, Folder 24

The Wonderful Years in Secaucus

Box 138, Folder 25

Words to Live By

Box 138, Folder 26

The Writer's Craft (alternate title: Techniques)

Box 138, Folder 27

Yankee Trade

Box 138, Folder 28

You Waltz Divinely

Box 138, Folder 29

Sequoya (film outline)

Box 138, Folder 30

Book Review of Being Geniuses Together

Box 138, Folder 31

Exiles (Dance) (folder 1 of 2)

Box 138, Folder 32

Exiles (Dance) (folder 2 of 2)

Box 138, Folder 33

Exiles (contains: Photocopy of Printed Exiles Portion, Has Anybody Her Seen Hubert?, Berv in Love/French Girl/The Poet, Lia/Luv, Son of Ubu)

Box 139, Folder 1

A Book of Hours (alternate title: The Thinker)

Box 139, Folder 2

The New World, Volume Two (folder 1 of 3)

Box 139, Folder 3

The New World, Volume Two (folder 2 of 3)

Box 139, Folder 4

The New World, Volume Two (folder 3 of 3)

Box 139, Folder 5

The New World, Volume One (folder 1 of 2)

Box 139, Folder 6

The New World, Volume One (folder 2 of 2)

Box 140, Folder 1

The New World (notes)

Box 140, Folder 2

The Buffalo Singer (folder 1 of 2)

Box 140, Folder 3

The Buffalo Singer (folder 2 of 2)

Box 141, Folder 2

Transfer of Rights Concerning American Heritage Book

Box 142, Folder 1

Gunpah Andamah

Box 142, Folder 2

Published Copies of Work

 

Correspondence, Letters

Box 1, Folder 4

Letters from and re Joseph T. Shaw, during the latter's last months as editor of Black Mask. New York March-September 1936

Physical Description: (15 items)

Scope and Content Note

Also, letters from and re Joseph T. Shaw while head of Publisher's and Author's Department, Wilson Powell, and Hayward. New York, November 1936-November 1937.
Box 1, Folder 5

Letters from and correspondence with various persons. v.p. v.d.

Physical Description: (1 item)

Scope and Content Note

Donald Kennicott. Sherman, Connecticut, February 6, 1951.
Box 22, Folders 1-4

Correspondence 1930s-1940s

Box 22, Folder 5

Correspondence 1940s-1950s

Box 22, Folders 6-7

Correspondence, etc. ca. 1952

Box 23, Folder 1

Correspondence, etc. ca. 1952

Box 23, Folder 2

Brandon, R.C. 1940s-1960s

Box 23, Folders 3-6

Correspondence 1950s

Box 24, Folders 1-2

Correspondence 1950s

Box 24, Folder 3

Correspondence 1960s

Box 24, Folder 3

Business correspondence 1961-1965

Box 25, Folders 1-5

Harriman, Caroline 1950s-1960s

Box 26, Folders 1-4

Harriman, Caroline 1950s-1960s

Box 27, Folders 1-2

Correspondence 1950s-1960s

Box 27, Folder 3

Correspondence - K - Judithe - Vom - Betty - Gina 1960s

Box 27, Folder 4

Correspondence - receipts, etc. 1959-1960

Box 27, Folder 5

Harriman, Caroline 1963

Box 28, Folders 1-4

Correspondence 1960s

Box 29, Folders 1-3

Correspondence 1960s

Box 30, Folders 1-3

Correspondence 1960s

Box 30, Folder 4

Correspondence 1970s

Box 31, Folder 1

Correspondence 1970s

Box 31, Folders 2-3

Personal 1972-73

Box 32, Folders 1-5

Correspondence 1970s

Box 33, Folders 1-2

Editors and publishers 1972

Box 33, Folders 3-5

Editors and publishers 1972-1973

Box 34, Folders 1-3

Business 1972-1973

Box 35, Folder 1

Correspondence 1950s-1970s

Box 35, Folders 2-5

Personal 1972

Box 39, Folder 11

Sequoya--correspondence

Box 45, Folder 3

Letters from students, Los Exploredores of Tulacitos

Boxes 46-54

Correspondence from William Brandon to family during World War II (ca. 1940-1945)

Box 55

Correspondence with Jacques Chambrun, Incorporated (publisher) re various works (ca. 1939-1943)

Box 56

Correspondence ca. 1945

Scope and Content Note

Including one folder of letters to Jacques Chambrun, Incorporated.
Box 58

Correspondence

Box 59

Correspondence with Jacques Chambrun, Incorporated 1939-1943

Box 59

William Brandon's personal correspondence ca. 1944

Box 60

Correspondence ca. 1945

Additional Note

Materials received December 1988 Brieflisted dd, lh, dl, dt.
Box 61, Folders 1-2

Brandt & Brandt 1952-1954

Box 61, Folder 1

1953-1954

Box 61, Folder 2

1952-1953

Box 61, Folder 3

American Heritage Indians 1966-1971

Box 62, Folder 2

Correspondence 1956-1963

Box 66, Folders 1-5

Correspondence

Box 67, Folders 1-4

Correspondence

Box 68, Folders 1-4

Correspondence

Box 69, Folders 3-6

Brandt & Brandt 1953-1963

Box 69, Folder 3

1953-1963

Box 69, Folder 4

1957-1958

Box 69, Folder 5

1955-1957

Box 69, Folder 6

1955-1956

Box 71, Folder 5

Correspondence & memorabilia

Box 73, Folders 2-4

Correspondence

Box 75, Folders 1-2

Brandt & Brandt 1949-1950

Box 76, Folders 1-4

Correspondence

Box 77, Folder 1

Manuscripts, correspondence, memorabilia, etc.

Box 77, Folders 2-3

Correspondence

Box 78, Folders 1-2

Correspondence

Box 79, Folders 1-2

Correspondence

Box 79, Folder 3

Brandt & Brandt/Harold Ober 1963-1966

Box 80, Folder 1

Editors, Publications 1970-71

Box 80, Folder 2

Estate--Benjamin Brandon

Box 140, Folder 4

Correspondence Concerning American Heritage Dispute (folder 1 of 3)

Box 140, Folder 5

Correspondence Concerning American Heritage Dispute (folder 2 of 3)

Box 141, Folder 1

Correspondence Concerning American Heritage Dispute (folder 3 of 3)

Box 141, Folder 3

Correspondence with Professor Philip Durham 2/15/1973-1/25/1977

Box 141, Folder 4

Correspondence to Miss Dorothy Olding

Box 141, Folder 5

Letter to President John F. Kennedy Regarding Land Rights of Alaskan Native Peoples

Box 141, Folder 6

General Correspondence

 

Ephemera

Box 1, Folder 6

Newspaper clippings

Physical Description: (2 items)
Box 43, Folder 6

Taos Book Shop News, announcements, etc.

Box 43, Folder 7

Price lists, cruise information, etc.

Box 43, Folder 8

Research material re Vietnam

Box 44, Folder 7

Research material re atomic testing

Box 69, Folder 2

Clippings/articles

Box 42, Folders 8-9

Ephemera by or about William Brandon

Scope and Content Note

Clippings.
 

Photographs

Box 59

Photographs

 

Documents

Box 43, Folder 1

Documents re R.C. Brandon

Box 44, Folder 3

Oakland Museum--exhibit schedules

Box 45, Folder 1

Complaint for divorce November 23, 1959

Physical Description: (1 item)

Additional Note

Box 45 is oversize flat box
Box 69, Folder 2

Memorabilia

Scope and Content Note

Passports, identification, and photographs.
Box 80, Folder 3

Income tax 1962-1964

Box 81, Folder 5

Income tax evidence 1958 & 1963

 

Personal

Box 43, Folders 2-4

Check stubs

Box 43, Folder 5

Notebook--chess games in progress?

Box 70, Folder 1

Student papers & family memorabilia

 

Printed Material: Articles, Stories by William Brandon

Box 41, Folder 2

Flavish

Box 41, Folder 5

Enchanted Afternoon

Box 41, Folder 12

Mystery of the Missing Face

Box 41, Folder 13

The Runaway

Box 41, Folder 14

The Mystery of the Haunted Ring

Box 41, Folder 16

Come to the Fair

Box 41, Folder 16

White Terror

Box 41, Folder 17

Gold at the Grass Roots

Box 41, Folder 21

A Triple Cross for the Countess

Box 61, Folder 4

Indians

Box 61, Folder 5

A History of Indians

Box 62, Folder 1

American Indians and American History

 

[Periodicals With Articles and Stories by William Brandon]

Box 1, Folder 7

Various periodicals

Physical Description: (5 items)

Scope and Content Note

  • The Atlantic, August 1957
  • Black Mask, March 1939
  • Blue Book, April 1943; April 1944 (2 items)
  • Collier's, October 15, 1949
Box 1, Folder 8

Various periodicals

Physical Description: (7 items)

Scope and Content Note

  • Esquire, October 1941; October 1942 (2 items)
  • Harper's Bazaar. August 1955
  • John Bull. August 16, 1958
  • Saturday Evening Post. December 22, 1951
  • This Week. September 6, 1952; December 27, 1953 (2 items)
Box 12, Folders 3-8

Magazines With Articles or Stories by William Brandon

Physical Description: (All fragile)
Box 12, Folder 3

Argosy July 13, 1940

Box 12, Folder 4

Black Mask September 1940

Box 12, Folder 5

Adventure September 3, 1919

Folder 6

Double Detective May 1949

Box 12, Folder 7

Dan Dunn [vol.1, no.1] September 1936

Box 12, Folder 8

Ranch Romances October 2, 1936

Box 13, Folder 1-6

Magazines with Articles or Stories by William Brandon

Additional Note

(1-4 are fragile)
Box 13, Folder 1

Ranch Romances August 1943

Box 13, Folder 2

Mystery Adventures Magazine March 1937

Box 13, Folder 3

Detective Fiction Weekly March 11, 1949

Box 13, Folder 4

Double Detective June 1939

Box 13, Folder 5

Massachusetts Review Spring 1976

Box 13, Folder 6

Massachusetts Review Summer 1984

Box 41, Folder 1

“Witchcraft in the Library.” In Star Weekly Magazine January 5, 1957

Box 41, Folder 3

Treachery in the Desert. In Star Weekly January 24, 1953

Box 41, Folder 4

“The Man in Disguise.” In This Week Magazine December 4, 1956

Box 41, Folder 6

“The House of Time.” In Dime Detective September 1940

Box 41, Folder 7

“Girl With a Horse for Sale.” In Collier's December 25, 1948

Box 41, Folder 8

“False Face.” In Detective Fiction Weekly November 2, 1940

Box 41, Folder 9

“Light.” In Good Housekeeping

Box 41, Folder 10

“The Flight.” In Collier's 15 May 1948

Box 41, Folder 11

“Battle of Calabash.” In Collier's October 15, 1949

Box 41, Folder 15

“The Last Dive.” In Argosy April 1958

Box 41, Folder 18

“The Mystery of John Swift.” In Blue Book April 1943

Box 41, Folder 19

“An Heiress Runs Away.” In Blue Book January 1949

Box 41, Folder 20

“Old Pegleg.” In Blue Book September 1943

Box 41, Folder 22

“Two Thousand Miles from the Counting House.” In American West July 1968

Box 41, Folder 23

“How Near is the Morning.” In American West Winter 1965

Box 41, Folder 24

“American Indians and American History.” In American West Spring 1965

Box 41, Folder 27

“Paris in Spring.” In Saturday Review May 21, 1966

Box 41, Folder 28

“The Magic World, Six Indian Songs and Poems.” In Nimrod Spring/Summer 1972

Box 41, Folder 29

[Poems from The Magic World]. In Scholastic January 31, 1972

Box 41, Folder 30

“Wild Horses of the West.” In Sierra Club Bulletin September 1972

Box 42, Folder 1

“The Life and White Horse of Ind. Joe..” The Massachusetts Review Spring 1970

Box 42, Folder 2

“Sappho and Other Stories.” In The Massachusetts Review Autumn 1967

Box 42, Folder 3

“Old Dog.” In Reader's Digest April 1957

Box 42, Folder 4

“The Trail to Santa Fe.” In Blue Book September 1949

Box 42, Folder 5

“Dust Devil.” In Blue Book September 1943

Box 42, Folder 6

“Hail to the Chief.” In The Progressive October 1970

Box 42, Folder 7

“The American Indians: The Un-Americans.” In The Progressive January 1970

Box 42, Folder 10

“The Men and the Mountain” by William Brandon. In Books for Spring 1955

Physical Description: (p.36)
Box 45, Folder 4

“Don't Be Too Sure.” In This Week 6 July 1958

Box 45, Folder 5

“Lucinda and her Happy Hippo.” In This Week October 20, 1957

Box 45, Folder 6

“As You Like it, Man.” In Chicago Tribune Book World December 31, 1967

Box 45, Folder 7

“The Wrong Kind of Girl.” In Saturday Evening Post March 3, 1956

Box 45, Folder 8

“Light.” In John Bull February 26, 1955

Box 45, Folder 9

“Witchcraft in the Library.” In This Week 4 March 1956

Box 45, Folder 10

“Treasure Chest.” In Collier's July 18, 1953

Box 45, Folder 11

“The Trap.” In Collier's November 8, 1941

Box 45, Folder 12

“Brief Enchantment.” In Saturday Evening Post July 21, 1956

Box 45, Folder 13

“Come to the Fair.” In Ladies' Home Journal May 1956

 

[Reviews]

Box 41, Folder 25

[Review of Being Geniuses Together - Boyle, McAlmon]. In The Progressive September 1968

Box 41, Folder 26

Indian Summer - [book reviews]. In Saturday Review July 1968

 

[Various Periodicals and Pamphlets]

Box 41, Folder 31

Sign

Box 41, Folder 32

Windmill

Box 42, Folder 11

Publications - no Brandon material[?]

Box 42, Folder 12

Monterey Foghorn

Physical Description: (6 issues)
Box 58

Issues of American West magazine

Box 67, Folder 5

Pamphlets

Box 72, Folder 1

Publications, etc.

Scope and Content Note

  • Cosmopolitan
  • American West
  • Atlantic Monthly
  • Good Housekeeping