O'Faoláin (Seán) Papers

Series 1: Correspondence 1927-1987

Physical Description: Box 1-3

Subseries 1.1: Outgoing

Physical Description: Box 1

box 1, folder 1

Davison, Peter 1967

box 1, folder 2

Driscoll, Michael undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 1, folder 3-6

Hart, J.D. 1972-1987

Physical Description: 31 letters.

Content Note

To James D. Hart, chiefly concerning O'Faolain correspondence and papers held at The Bancroft Library. Also includes a photocopy of an article by O'Faolain, "The Art of Autobiography," from The Listener, May 19, 1966.

box 1, folder 7

Middleton, Neil 1980-1982

Physical Description: 8 letters.

Content Note

Mainly related to a collection of O'Faolain's works. Also includes 4 printed pages from the appendix to The Irish, annotated; and 8 typescript (4 carbon) revisions of appendix to The Irish.

box 1, folder 8

Mr. Pinker (literary agent) 1928-1939

Physical Description: 18 letters.

box 1, folder 9

Rippier, Joseph S. 1970-1975

Physical Description: 7 letters.

Content Note

Correspondence concerns in part Mr. Rippier's dissertation, in which he sought to conclude that O'Faolain introduced minor changes into certain stories between their original appearance and their appearance in the collected edition, Finest stories, published by Bantam. Also dealt with are literary influences on O'Faolain, and some personal matters.

box 1, folder 10

Sam [?] 1962-1963

Physical Description: 3 letters.

box 1, folder 11

Christmas cards approximately 1957

Physical Description: 2 cards.

Content Note

One addressed to John and Mary [Marshall] and one to an unidentified recipient.

Subseries 1.2: Incoming

Physical Description: Box 2-3

General

box 2, folder 1

American Academy of Arts and Sciences May 12, 1976

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 2

Annan, Baron Noel Gilroy November 11, [?]

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 3

Atlantic Monthly Press (Peter Davison) April 6, 1967

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 4

Baker, Carlos Heard undated

Physical Description: 1 note.

box 2, folder 5

Barea, Arturo November 13, 1953

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Contents

Regarding Ernest Hemingway and reception of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

box 2, folder 6

Benson, Theodora undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Regarding Evelyn Waugh and the Twenties generally.

box 2, folder 7

Betjeman, Sir John 1968-1972

Physical Description: 10 letters.

Content Note

1971 letter addressed to Julia O'Faoláin.

box 2, folder 8

Böll, Heinrich January 30, 1968

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 9

Bowen, Elizabeth approximately 1939-1972

Physical Description: 3 letters.

Content Note

1 addressed to Julia O'Faoláin and 1 incomplete.

box 2, folder 10

Burns, Thomas F. undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Written as editor of The Tablet.

box 2, folder 11

Cagney, E. June 14, 1962

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 12

Colum, Padraic February 1, 1968

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 13

The Critic July 25, 1969

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

By Joel Wells.

box 2, folder 14

Cuala Press September 19, 1932

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

By Elizabeth C. Yeats.

box 2, folder 15

Curtis Brown Ltd. 1955-1970

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Content Note

By Alan C. Collins and Emilie Jacobsen regarding O'Faoláin's A Land of Dreams and How to Write a Short Story.

box 2, folder 16

Day-Lewis, Cecil February 17, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Addressed to Julia O'Faoláin.

box 2, folder 17

Ellman, Richard 1967-1976

Physical Description: 10 letters.

box 2, folder 18

Emmanuel, Pierre undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 19

Farrell, James Thomas 1973

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 2, folder 20

Friel, Brian May 19, 1971

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 21

Garnett, Edward approximately 1933

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Content Note

With note by Seán O'Faoláin regarding one of the letters.

box 2, folder 22

Gogarty, Oliver St. John 1936

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Content Note

To Mrs. O'Faoláin.

box 2, folder 23

The Golden Cockerel Press 1932-1934

Physical Description: 8 letters.

Content Note

By Robert Gibbings and Owen Rutter.

box 2, folder 24

Greene, Graham 1976

Physical Description: 3 letters.

box 2, folder 25

Hackett, Francis November 7, 1934

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Regarding P.E.N. Club.

box 2, folder 26

Heaney, Seamus approximately December 15, 1975

Physical Description: 1 postcard.

box 2, folder 27

Higgins, Frederick Robert April 24, 1939

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 28

Horgan, Paul May 22, 1966

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 29

Irish Academy of Letters 1968

Physical Description: 3 letters.

Content Note

By Mervyn Wall.

box 2, folder 30

Kelleher, John V. 1955

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Content Note

Regarding O'Faoláin's A Land of Dreams or Alien with a Passport.

box 2, folder 31

Lavin, Mary 1970-1972

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 2, folder 32

Leicester, Edward February 22, 1968

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 33

Macaulay, Dame Rose undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 34

MacCarthy, Robert B. 1975-1976

Physical Description: 2 letters.

Content Note

Regarding funds for a projected memorial to Elizabeth Bowen.

box 2, folder 35

Maritain, Jacques March 10, 1956

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 36

Mathew, Gervase undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

On Graham Greene.

box 2, folder 37

Maureen (typist) 1973

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 38

Mortimer, Raymond December 7, 1953

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Regarding Evelyn Waugh.

box 2, folder 39

O'Connor, Frank approximately 1932-1954

Physical Description: 33 letters.

Content Note

Mainly signed by M. or MOD. Frank O'Connor was born Michael O'Donovan. With clippings of a letter by o'Connor, September 13, 1936, protesting ban in O'Faoláin's Bird Alone; comment by O'Connor; article on Ireland written for Holiday; obituaries and tributes at the time of his death; typescript of poem Cork; and statement regarding difficulties with Radio Eireann.

box 2, folder 40

O'Dálaigh, Cearbhall approximately January 31, 1975

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 41

O'Donnell, Peadar undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 42

O'Donovan, Joan (Mrs. Frank O'Connor/Mrs. Michael O'Donovan) March 14, 1966

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 43

O'Faoláin, Julia approximately 1968-1970

Physical Description: 3 letters.

Content Note

Some letters regarding her father's How to Write a Short Story.

box 2, folder 44

O'Flaherty, Liam January 16, 1927

Physical Description: 1 letter. Missing page.

box 2, folder 45

O'Gowan, Eric November 29, 1953

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Eric Doman Smith. Regarding Hemingway.

box 2, folder 46

Playboy 1970-1972

Physical Description: 12 letters.

Content Note

From Robie Macauley.

box 2, folder 47

Plomer, William November 5, 1954

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Regarding O'Faoláin's A Land of Dreams or Alien with a Passport.

box 2, folder 48

Plunkett, James undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 49

Powers, James 1956-1975

Physical Description: 8 letters.

Content Note

Also includes a letter from Betty Powers (Mrs. J.F. Powers), 1968.

box 2, folder 50

Pritchett, Sir Victor S. (V.S.) 1966-1977

Physical Description: 6 letters.

box 2, folder 51

Russell, George William 1932-1935

Physical Description: 6 letters.

Content Note

Signed A.E. Some regarding Yeats and other Irish writers.

box 2, folder 52

Ryan, John February 14, 1975

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 53

Saroyan, William 1946

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 2, folder 54

Shaw, George Bernard 1940-1948

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 2, folder 55

Sions, Harry January 3, 1965

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Regarding demise of Holiday.

box 2, folder 56

Spark, Muriel August 21, 1976

Physical Description: 1 postcard.

box 2, folder 57

Spender, Stephen March 13, 1973

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 2, folder 58

Stegner, Wallace 1976

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 2, folder 59

Tristram, Henry November 15, 1952

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Regarding O'Faoláin's Newman's Way.

box 2, folder 60

Watt (A.P.) and Son August 20, 1969

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

By Hilary Rubinstein regarding Julia O'Faoláin's novel. With a note by Seán O'Faoláin.

box 2, folder 61

Waugh, Evelyn 1953, undated

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 2, folder 62

White, Terence de Vere undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Regarding Elizabeth Bowen.

box 2, folder 63

Wilson, John (Anthony Burgess) undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

With O'Faoláin's note regarding the letter.

box 2, folder 64

Yeats, George (Mrs. W.B. Yeats) January 13, 1950

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Regarding Richard Ellman's 1948 book on Yeats.

box 2, folder 65

Yeats, William Butler undated

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Letters concerning detention without trial in Northern Ireland

box 3, folder 1

Auden, W.H. 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Note on bottom of form letter. Signed.

box 3, folder 2

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules February 27, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 3

Barrett, Cyril February 2, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 4

Beloff, Max February 21, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 5

Berlin, Sir Isaiah February 18, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 6

Betjeman, Sir John February 15, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 7

Bowen, Elizabeth 1972

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 3, folder 8

Brogan, Sir Denis William March 1, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 9

Clark, Kenneth McKenzie, Baron Clark February 13, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 10

Day-Lewis, Cecil February 12, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 11

Drabble, Margaret 1972

Physical Description: 1 card.

box 3, folder 12

Ellman, Richard February 28, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 13

Gaitskell, Anna Dora (Creditor), Baroness February 19, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 14

Greene, Graham February 16, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 15

Guiness, Sir Alec March 4, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 16

Hampshire, Stuart February 16, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 17

Hoyle, Fred May 7, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 18

Johnson, Pamela Hansford February 12, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 19

Kermode, John Frank February 24, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 20

Kilmartin, Terry February 18, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 21

Laski, Marghanita March 3, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 22

Law, Iris March 1, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Content Note

Written as secretary to Sir Frederick Ashton.

box 3, folder 23

Lehmann, Rosamond February 25, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 24

Lessing, Doris May 1972

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 3, folder 25

Linklater, Eric February 16, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 26

Longford, Frank Pakenham (7th Earl of) 1972

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 3, folder 27

Mathew, David, abp. February 22, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 28

Moore, Brian February 16, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 29

Moore, Henry Spencer March 6, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Scope and Contents

Signed form letter.

box 3, folder 30

Murdoch, Iris 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 31

Osborne, John February 16, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 32

Plomer, William Charles Franklyn February 14, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 33

Pope-Hennessy, Sir John Wyndham March 3, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 34

Popper, Sir Karl Raimund March 1, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 35

Powell, Anthony February 15, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 36

Pritchett, Victor Sawdon February 12, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 37

Raine, Kathleen Jessie 1972

Physical Description: 1 card.

box 3, folder 38

Rees, Goronwy February 11, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 39

Richardson, Sir Ralph David February 15, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 40

Ross, Alan February 25, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 41

Sellers, Peter February 2, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Scope and Contents

Signed form letter and signed note.

box 3, folder 42

Snow, Charles Percy, Baron Snow February 14, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 43

Spender, Stephen 1972

Physical Description: 2 letters.

box 3, folder 44

Steiner, George February 11, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 45

Strode, Rosamund March 3, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

Scope and Contents

Written on behalf of Benjamin Britten.

box 3, folder 46

Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel May 5, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 47

Trevor-Roper, Hugh February 22, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 48

Wain, John March 3, 1972

Physical Description: 1 letter.

box 3, folder 49

Walton, Sir William Turner February 29, 1972

Physical Description: 1 card.

box 3, folder 50

Miscellaneous material related to obtaining signatures for letter in The Times 1972

Series 2: Writings approximately 1932-1986

Physical Description: Carton 1-2; carton 3, folder 1-14; box 4-5

carton 1, folder 1-4

Alien with a Passport or A Land of Dreams

Content Note

3 typescript drafts with corrections and 1 folder of notes.

carton 1, folder 5-18

And Again

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and typescripts with revisions, correspondence, reviews, early drafts, and penultimate version.

carton 2, folder 1

The Bombshop before 1932

Physical Description: Corrected typescript.

carton 2, folder 2

Brainsy approximately 1965

Content Note

Notes, 6 revised typescripts, final [?].

carton 2, folder 3

The Creative Reader November 4, 1974

Content Note

Uncorrected draft of talk given as Beckman Lecture, University of California, Berkeley.

carton 2, folder 4

A Dead Cert undated

Content Note

Revised typescript. Variant title: Your's Ever.

carton 2, folder 5

The Faithless Wife approximately 1973

Content Note

7 revised typescripts. Story was first published in Playboy in December/January 1973-1974.

carton 2, folder 6

Falling Rocks, Narrowing Road, Cul de Sac, Stop approximately 1972

Scope and Contents

2 carbon typescripts, one with some revisions, and tearsheets of version published in Playboy in June 1972.

carton 2, folder 7

Feed My Lambs approximately 1966-1967

Content Note

Fragments, 4 revised typescripts, and notes regarding the story. Alternate title: Pic de Jer.

carton 2, folder 8-11

Foreign Affairs approximately 1976

Content Note

Notes, fragments, correspondence, reviews, 12 revised typescripts. Other titles: Georgie Freddy, What a Career!, and Miss Pygmalion. Published in 1976 book of short stories, Foreign Affairs and Other Stories.

carton 2, folder 12

How to Write a Short Story approximately 1974

Content Note

9 typescripts, many of them revised. Original title: C'est la vie. Published in 1974 in Winter's Tales.

carton 2, folder 13

Inside Outside Complex undated

Content Note

2 revised typescripts. Letter about the story by Robie McCauley of Playboy in correspondence files.

carton 2, folder 14

The Kitchen 1968

Content Note

3 revised typescripts.

carton 2, folder 15

Liberty approximately 1976

Content Note

Fragments, 6 revised typescripts. Variant titles: Cornfield, World Without Walls, Freelifers. Published in Foreign Affairs and Other Stories in 1976.

carton 2, folder 16-17

Murder at Cobbler's Hulk undated

Content Note

Fragments, 9 revised typescripts and tearsheets from Playboy. Earlier titles: Mr. Godkin Lends a Hand and A Station in Life.

carton 2, folder 18

No Country for Old Men approximately 1956

Content Note

Revised typescript of a novel, written around 1956 and subsequently recast as a short story of the same title and published in I Remember! I Remember! in 1962.

carton 2, folder 19

Nora Barnacle: 'Pictor Ignotus' 1986

Content Note

Tearsheet, the Irish Times, 29 July 1986.

carton 2, folder 20

Of Sanctity and Whiskey undated

Content Note

Revised typescripts with variant pages of several drafts.

carton 2, folder 21-23

Old Lover's Ghost undated

Content Note

Notes, 2 revised typescripts, many fragments.

carton 2, folder 24

Our Fearful Innocence undated

Content Note

Reworking of This Shallow Bay, q.v. Includes copy of typescript of original story, revised printed tearsheet, and revised typescript of several versions, with some notes. Alternate titles: Home, There is No Such Place as Moscow.

carton 2, folder 25

The Planets of the Years undated

Content Note

Notes, holograph manuscript and 3 revised typescripts.

carton 3, folder 1

The Rain undated

Content Note

Revised typescript, unpublished manuscript.

carton 3, folder 2

Something, Everything, Anything, Nothing undated

Content Note

12 revised typescripts and fragments, expanded from unpublished The Whirr of the Wings. Other titles: Van Gogh Has Killed Himself; Who Killed Cock Robbin; Sancho Panza; Dreams, Love, Folly, and Time; and Oh, Everything!.

carton 3, folder 3-4

The Talking Trees undated

Content Note

6 revised typescripts, fragments, and printer's copy in the American edition, with revisions and corrections. Alternate titles: Night of Stars; Starry Night; A New Miss; That Girl We Used to Say Was Fast; and, The Planets of the Years.

carton 3, folder 5

Thieves undated

Content Note

9 revised typescripts, fragments and notes by the author. Other titles A Morning Call; Wages of Sin; The Case of the Blue Umbrella; and Broken Biscuits.

carton 3, folder 6

This Shallow Bay undated

Content Note

5 revised typescripts.

carton 3, folder 7-8

The Time of Her Life undated

Content Note

9 revised typescripts, fragments.

carton 3, folder 9-12, box 4-5

Vive Moi! approximately 1964

Content Note

Revised typescript, many fragments.

carton 3, folder 13

Wan Terrible Book undated

Content Note

5 revised typescripts, fragments, and galley. Alternate title: The Terrible Book.

carton 3, folder 14

A World of Fitzies 1977

Content Note

Newspaper article regarding Maurice Wohlgelernter's biography of Frank O'Connor.

Series 3: Pictorial undated

Physical Description: Carton 3, folder 15; oversize folder 1

Content Note

Carton 3, folder 15 contains 1 signed photograph of Seán O'Faoláin. Oversize folder 1 contains a woodcut from a 19th century book of Russian popular prints signed by O'Faoláin.