Philip K. Dick Papers: Finding Aid
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Title: Philip K. Dick Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1967-1977
Collection Number: mssHM 53576-53639; mssFAC 1280-1281
Creator:
Dick, Philip K.
Extent:
66 items in 1 box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains correspondence and manuscripts related to American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-198),
dating from the 1967 to 1977.
The bulk of the collection consists of 53 letters from Dick to his publisher, Doubleday and Company, concerning the publication
of his novels and stories.
Language: English.
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[Identification of item], Philip K. Dick Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Joseph the Provider, July 1, 1979.
Born on December 16, 1928, in Chicago, science fiction writer Philip Kindred Dick was the author
of 35 books and six collections of short stories, most dealing with the nature of reality. Dick
received the Hugo Award in 1962 for
The Man in the High Castle, a fantasy novel
about Hitler
winning World War II. His anti-drug novel,
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, won
the Campbell Memorial Award in 1974. The movie
Blade Runner was based on Dick's 1968
novel,
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip Dick died of heart failure following a stroke,
on March 2, 1982.
This collection contains correspondence and manuscripts
related to American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.
The bulk of the collection consists of 53 letters from Dick to his publisher, Doubleday
and Company, concerning the publication of his novels and stories, dating from 1967 to 1977 (HM 53578-53630).
There are also a few letters by others including Dick's collaborator Roger Zelazny and one postcard (1974, February 4) from
Ursula K. LeGuin to Dick expressing her
admiration for his writing (HM 53634). Original literary manuscripts by Dick include the outline and part of a draft of the
novel
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (HM 53576) and a fragment (page 23) of
an unidentified novel
(HM 53577). There are two Xerox
copies: Dick's outline for his novel
Deus Irae (FAC 1280) and
Fred Zackel's plot summary
for the novel
Cocaine and Blue Eyes (FAC 1281). Finally, there is one photograph of Dick in the collection.
Related materials in the Huntington Library
- Kingsley Amis Papers (mssAMS 1-1362) Contains letter to Dick to Kingsley Amis discussing Dick's reasons for using the title The Man in the High Castle for his novel. 1979, September 10. (AMS 201).
Arranged alphabetically by author, with literary manuscripts preceding
correspondence for each author.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Dick, Philip K. -- Archives.
Dick, Philip K. -- Photographs.
Authors, American -- Archives.
Science fiction, American -- Archives.
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th century.
Manuscripts for publication -- United States -- 20th century.
Photographs -- United States -- 20th century.
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-, correspondent
Lem, Stanisław.
Zackel, Fred.
Zelazny, Roger, correspondent.
Doubleday & Company, Inc., addressee.
Box 1
Correspondence and manuscripts