Daniel Curzon Papers, 1950s-2014 GLC 52
Subjects and Indexing Terms
1996 Accession
"Not Sold in Stores, or Skullduggery" (4 folders)
"Danny Boy (Danish Radio [script], 1992"
"People Do Things to Each Other." Also titled "What are Lovers For?" (2 copies in 5 folders)
"The Y" (2 copies in 4 folders)
"The Misadventures of Tim McPick" (3 copies in 6 folders)
"An Education Among the Carnivores" (2 folders)
"Something You Do in the Dark" [book jacket]
"The Y (Revised draft)" (2 folders)
"Interview with Daniel Curzon" [IGNA]
"Theatre Wonderful"
"Things" and "Things That Need to be Said" [columns]
"The Celebrity and the Fan"
"One Career in Literature: Touching and Amusing Anecdotes about the Novels of Daniel Curzon"
"Skin Tight" [screenplay]
"Queer Comedy, or The Misadventures of Tim McPick" (early draft). (2 folders)
"Sperm in Wrong Places (or A Crooked Eye)" (3 folders)
"The Artist"
[Unknown ms. located between "The Artist" and Part III "Every Boy Should Have a Hero"]
"Part III Every Boy Should Have a Hero"
"Future Meetings with My Unknown Son" [play]
[Notes on a play, possibly "Future Meetings with My Unknown Son"]
"The Future Will Take Care of Itself" [title page]
"Man and Wife" (alias Daniel Kaufman)
"Epiphany"
"Shakespeare Lives! (or the State of the Art)" [uncorrected rough draft] (3 folders)
"Gay additions to Shakespeare Lives! (later dropped)"
[Review of Fielding Gray by Simon Raven]
"The Importance of Being Honest"
"Taboo. In Which All is Explained; the Epilogue"
"The Ulcer"
"Claudette and the Three Bullies" or "The Tasteful Transvestite and the Three Bullies"
"Gee, May I Have Your Autograph"
"Something You Do in the Dark" (4 folders; folder 3 contains G. P. Putnam correspondence re: revisions)
"Don't Rub Me the Wrong Way" (3 copies in 3 folders)
"Read Any Bad Books Lately?"
"Beauty Is Its Own Excuse for Being"
"Let's Make Babies, Darling"
"Whither the Houseboy?"
"The Missing Houseboy"
"The Tasteful Transvestite Goes to the Vatican"
[Review of Paul Monette's The Long Shot]
[Review of three one-act plays performed by One Act Theatre Company]
[From Violent Men. "SF." Draft storyline]
"Barbarians" [A.k.a. From Violent Men] (8 folders)
"From Violent Men" velo-bound mss.
"From Violent Men" drafts, 1992-1994 (3 folders)
"The Man Who Said What He Thought" [fragment]
"Comeback" by Curzon and Dan Turner
[Review of Hector Arce's The Secret Life of Tyrone Power]
[Poetry]. "I am a Man," "Go Do It," "You Gotta," "A Guy I Know," some notes on "Comeback" (George and Rosalind play)
"Comeback" [fragment]
"Heritage"
"An Interview with Playwright Caryl Churchill"
[Review of "The Club"]
[Review of Joyce Carol Oates' Unholy Loves]. Also contains notes on From Violent Men
[Review of S. Steinberg's A Fairy Tale]
"Mini-Book Reviews"
"What It's Like to Live in San Francisco: Nostalgia for the Present"
[Review of "American Quartet"]
"Free and Easy"
[Review of "A Prayer for My Daughter"]
"David Hockney"
"Ron Dwyer" [notes]
"Cruising" and letter William Friedkin
"A Ramble with Alice through Real-Land: the State of Literary Politics"
[Review of "I Love My Wife" starring the Smothers Brothers]
"The $oft $ell" [The Soft Sell]
[Review of Arthur Laurents' The Enclave at Theatre Rhinoceros]
"Tina (a monologue)"
"The Hobbit Script" [notes]
"Sex and Violence"
"Claudette Goes to Iran"
"Welcome to the Music of Curzon and Turner"
"Craft" re: Oliver Cromwell
"No Mince Pies" [Storyline of musical by Curzon and Dan Turner. Cp. The Rule of the Saints, or the Believers]
"Theatre Roundup" [column]
"The Reverend Rat"
[Review of Peter Ackroyd's Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag]
"Who's Afraid of Beauty?" or "Ernie and Margaret vs. The World"
"That Old College Try" [Review of Robert Graham's Sins of the Father at Theatre Rhinoceros]
"With and Without Love" or "The Birthday Girl" or "Of Love and Drugs" or "A Family Album"
[Notepad. Contains notes on From Violent Men]
"A Gay Fabliau"
"Preface" [to a collection of Curzon's stories and plays]
"Henry IV, Part III" rough draft
"Ernie's" or "The Baron Dances"
[Misadventures of] "Tim McPick" [corrections] 1979
"Filmstrip Treatment: Learning and Memory" 1979
"Filmstrip Treatment: Slanted Writing" 1979
"Success" [song by Curzon and Dan Turner, 1978]
"Sharing"
"Comments on Last Call by the author" [Review of One-Act Theatre Co. II's production]
"The Rule of the Saints" or "Believers" by Curzon and Dan Turner (musical re: Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans)
"Parasites in Paradise: Life in Gay San Francisco"
"Why I Am and Ex-Catholic"
"Last Call"
"The Gems of Jerry Falwell" [book review]
[Notes on S.F. Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk, Harry Britt, plastique--probably for From Violent Men]
"The Joyful Blue Book of Gracious Gay Etiquette"
"Partial Vision" (Margaret and Ernie)
"The Honeymoon is Over" [poem]
"Boys" [Don't Jump Rope?] corrections
"My Favorite Place in San Francisco"
[Review of the Great American Rascal]
[Review of The Dan White Incident by Steve Dobbins]
"The Murder of Gonzago, a Comedy" or "Playwrights"
"Why I Wrote From Violent Men"
" The Lord May Barf by Gordon Meretricious"
"Felicity Peccadillo"
" A Boy's Own Limp Wrist" by Edmund Wimp
" Rubyfruit Discomfort by Rita Mae Blunt"
"A Guest for Dinner"
"The Morning Show"
"Carl"
"Lover"
"Why We Came to Sodom" or "Slouching Toward Sodom"
" Tails of the City by Heritage Twinklefluff"
"Bugs"
[Review of The Tempest]
"Bay Area Playwrights Festival 3"
"The Trial of the Black-Eyes"
[Review of King Lear]
"Ernie and Margaret vs. The World" [notes]
[From Violent Men. Notes]
[Reviews of Winterplay and Much Ado About Nothing]
[Reviews]
"Preface" [to From Violent Men]
"Beer and Rhubarb Pie" [fragment]
[Fragment of Stewart and Grey story]
"The Chancellor..." [probably part of the recognizing evil when we see it ms.]
"We Don't Need You" or "Flying Penis," 1994
"Nerd" or "Dazzling Sunbeam," 1994
"Champs" or "It's Only a Game," 1993
"Victim of B.J. (Blowjob)," 1993
"Flossie, Harelip, and Other Non-Bunnies" or "Remedial Creative Writing" or "The Flosser, the Psycho, and the Harelip with an Attitude," 1993
"Sabbatical Report: Second Half of Split (Spring 1993)," 1993
"The Facts of Life," 1995
[From They to He], 1993
[Notes: review of Outing Goethe]
"The Audience," 1996
"The Way We Really Live," 1996
"Body and Soul," 1995
"Anything that Won't Say No," 1994
"Five Planets in Your House of Fame" or "The End of the Millennium," 1995
"A Little History #1," 1996
"Lost Opportunities," 1994
"Role Model," 1994
"The End of the Story," 1994
"Because I Can't Explain," 1994
"Apology," 1994
"O.J. Agonistes," 1994
"Nostalgia and Discontent," 1995
"Really Bad Idea #...," 1996
"His Aching Man Member," 1996
"ISMS" or "The Problem with Lynn," 1994
"Only the Good Parts," (one character name Ivy)
"Kiss My Black Ass" or "The Optimist"
"Vegetable Rights," 1994
"A Penny for Your Thoughts," 1994
"The Housewife and the Homosexual (Twenty-five years later)"
"The Hit," 1994
[Notes on "The Haves and Have-Nots"]
"Donor Daddy"
"Shakespeare Lives!" or "Shakespeare Spotted Alive in New York Theatre District" (2 folders), 1989
[The World Can Break Your Heart]. [fragment]
"The World Can Break Your Heart" or "Boys Don't Jump Rope" (folders 1-3), 1984
"The World Can Break Your Heart" (folders 4-7), 1984
"Boys Don't Jump Rope" velo-bound ms. (Re-titled "The World Can Break Your Heart")
"Boys Don't Jump Rope" (7 folders)
"Human Warmth and Other Stories"
"Among the Carnivores" (2 folders)
"Among the Carnivores" [fragment]
"Something You Do In the Dark" (2 copies: 1 camera-ready) (4 folders)
"Only the Good Parts (plus some agents' letters)"
"Draft Only the Good Parts (novel)"
"Superfag" (2 folders)
"Possible typeset novel Superfag"
"Possible Part II" [Superfag]
"Not Sold in Stores (or Die Trying)" (7 folders; folders 3, 5-7 removed to "mold box")
"Dropping Names: memoirs [of] Daniel Curzon" (5 folders)
"The World Can Break Your Heart" velo-bound ms.
"Boys Don't Jump Rope" velo-bound ms. (Blue cover) [marked on page 1 "Use NC newer version"]
"Boys Don't Jump Rope" velo-bound ms. (no cover) [marked "Early version of The World Can Break Your Heart"]
"Boys Don't Jump Rope" velo-bound ms. (black cover)
"Dropping Names" (2 folders)
"Curzon in Love" (4 folders)
"Superfag" [notes] (2 folders)
"Gaymes" flyer and program. (Lists one-act play "Your Town" by Curzon)
"Shakespeare Lives!" (2 folders)
"Immortality"
"Skin Tight" (rough draft)
"Future Meetings with My Son" [fragment]
"Immortality"
"The Gripes of Wrath"
"The Reverend Rat" or "Who, What, Where, When and Why"
"When Bertha Was a Pretty Name, a Comedy"
"Cinderella II" (4 folders. Folder 3 also titled "Just a Pretty Face," Folder 4 rough draft)
[Several 1 pages mss. Re: homosexuality in Rome, Greece, and in The Bible]
"Sweet Fifteen: an Erotic Comedy in Four Scenes" by Rod Comesallot (B.H. Apkinson?)
Miscellaneous
[Notes for piece on acting?]
"Endangered Species"
"Interview with Jon Sugar"
"'How to Read the Critic' by B.F. Martin"
"Shakespeare Lives!" [notes]
"Things That Need to Be Said" [columns]
[Reviews]
"Interview with Daniel Curzon by Bruce Billings"
"Felicity's Whore" or "How He Got Where He Is: the Life of Dennis Stupor"
"Virility"
"Among the Carnivores" (6 folders)
"Heritage"
"Comeback" and songs by Curzon and Dan Turner
"Rich and Famous" or "One Woman" or "Comeback"
"The Y (final version best copy)" (2 folders), 1975
"Homosexuality and the Creative Impulse"
[Reviews]
"Mr. Right (or Gods Like Men)"
"Religious Types I Have Known"
"Don't Rub Me the Wrong Way"
"Partial Vision"
"Your Town" [fragment]
"'The Ugly Girl' by Janet Taylor"
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
"Fiance" [fragment]
"Bobbie"
"'With Liberty and Justice For All' : Homosexuals Should Stay in the Army"
"Want to Rut Yourself Raw in Asia"
"How Will We Recognize Evil When We See It...And What Will We Do About It If We Do"
"Old Soldiers Never Die"
"A Gay Fabliau"
"Two Bartenders, a Butcher, and Me"
"Something You Do In The Dark" foreword
"Look! See the One-Armed Man"
"Jaguar Stories" [notes]
"Son of Sex Show" [notes]
"Legend"
"The Future Will Take Care of Itself" by D. Brown
"The Persistence of Memory" by D. Brown
"The Old Man and the Dragon" by D. Brown
"Brutes" by D. Brown
"Sex Made Simple: For Classroom Use"
"Giving, Getting" by D. Brown
"Human Warmth"
"In a Five and Ten Cent Store"
"The Ways Men Shall Touch"
"Body and Soul"
"VD (a skit)"
"Beneath the Surface"
"The Happiest Time in My Life" by D. Brown
"In the Heat of the Day" by Craig Lauxes [a.k.a. D. Curzon?]
"Many Times Before Their Deaths" by D. Brown
"Pages of a Diary" by D. Brown
"The Girl in the White Raincoat"
"Reviewers as Bullies"
"A Modern Love Story" by D. Brown
"Love Is Not Enough"
"You've Got Me" [poem]
"The Y" [fragment]
"Something You Do in the Dark" [fragment]
"A Christmas Miracle at the B.O.O.M."
"The Tigers or the Lady" or "Best Girl"
"The Pipsqueak II"
"In Memory of J. Edgar Hoover"
"Why I Killed Joyce Carol Oates: a memoir"
"The Vegetable Lover"
"If It Smells, This Must Be Bangkok"
"Gay Trash"
"Interview" with D. Curzon
"Man and Wife"
"The Horror"
"Vita Brevis, Ars Longa" by Craig Lauxes [a.k.a. D. Curzon], 1964
"Music Hath Charms" by D. Brown
"The Balance of Nature" by D. Brown
"Deliver Us From Evil"
"The Man Who Said What He Thought"
"The Biggest Post-Hoc Fallacy of All Time," and "The Beloved" [notes]
"The Hideous Beast"
"Victor"
"Mating"
"The Essential Fag"
"The Sissy and the Pilot"
"Wooing" or "Duel"
"The Y" [fragment]
"Problems of Writing Gay Literature"
"Lewd and Lascivious Conduct"
"The Housewife and the Homosexual"
"Family Pornography"
"Politics: a skit"
"S and M"
"How Do You Think You'd Feel If You Were Queer"
"Sex Education"
"A Matter of the Heart"
"Misadventures of Tim McPick" [movie treatment]
"Holding the Mirror Up to Life"
[Story with Harold, Edith, Joyce, Fred. Fragment]
"Corrections" [Novel with Roger, possibly Fiance?]
"A Crooked Eye" (3 folders)
"The Gay Engagement Calendar" (2 copies) contains photo. of Curzon
Calendar September 1984-September 1985 [annotated]
Calendar 1982 [annotated]
Calendar 1980 [annotated]
University of Maryland. University College. Far East Division. 20th Anniversary commemorative volume
"Superfag" [notes]
"A Literary Double Standard"
"The Business, the Soldier, and the Pimp"
[Printed interviews and articles. Clippings]
"The Artist"
"How To Read the Critics"
"Kingsfield in Love" ["Paper Chase" story]
"Love Is Not What They Say It Is" [becomes "Curzon In Love"]
"Try Atheism"
"Politics (a bicentennial skit)"
"On Being a Gay Teacher"
"What Can We Learn From Gay Writing: an Interview with Daniel Curzon"
"The $oft $ell" [The Soft Sell]
"The 1978 Achievement Awards"
"The Beautiful Bag Man"
"Do We Need a Wholesome Gay Literature?"
"God," 1993
[Poem], 1993
"In 1692" or "My Client," 1993
"The Last War"
"Discontents"
"I Was Shocked, Appalled..."
"Sour Grapes," 1993
"God Called. Elmer Answered"
"The New Zoo Story," 1993
"Listen, Christians..." [notes], 1993
"Portrait of a Philistine Examining David Hockney"
"The Y" [fragment]
"Something You Do in the Dark" [fragment]
"With Liberty and Justice for All" [fragment]
[Reviews]
[Fragments of several stories and plays]
[Songs]
"The Proper Mate Choosing"
"The Little Blue Book of Gay Etiquette"
"Once Upon a Time There Was a Gay Writer who Committed Suicide..."
"Beer and Rhubarb Pie and Teacups" "Art We Can Be Proud Of" "Rich and Famous" [or "Comeback"]
"Art We Can Be Proud Of"
"Rich and Famous" [or "Comeback"]
"Beneath the Surface"
"Holy Communion"
"Shivers"
"From Violent Men" [fragment]
"Something You Do in the Dark" [fragment]
[On Tattooing]
"Hand in Hand"
[Play fragment. Characters: Sam, Herman, Gene, Katerina, Priscilla]
"Sour Grapes" (3 drafts)
Academic Work by Brown
"Swift's Excremental Repetition"
Correspondence--Louie [Crew] re: military education assignments
Correspondence--University of Maryland. Department of the Army
"Visions of the Grotesque in Crane and Norris"
[Papers for Kent State and Wayne State] 1960-1961
"Nathanael West : the War Within" (first draft) 1969
Academic Papers (2 folders)
"The Appeal of Mendeville's Travels"
"Nathanael West: the War Within: Naturalism and Existentialism Defined"
[Exams taken by Daniel Brown]
12 notebooks of various sizes
"Rejection slips"
[Academic Papers]
Notebook
Black folder with academic papers
Manila folder with notebook
Blue folder with "The Future will Take Care of Itself"
"Shorthand" notebook
[4 journal articles by or about Joyce Carol Oates]
"Student Power--How Much is Enough?"
Academic Papers
4 notebooks
Letter from Barb Lanctot and A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
4 pamphlets with articles by Joyce Carol Oates
Wayne State University Commencement program, 1969
Notebooks
English 57 Lecture notes
Student examinations
Course dittos
"Among the Carnivores" [flyer]
Correspondence
"Sex Show" [review]
[Audition poster for "Last Call"]
"Curzon ISBN information"
"Curzon flyer"
Two drawings of Daniel Curzon by Don Bachardy, 1975
Bill--Photocopy of "Among the Carnivores"
Wanda Pettway
[Printed items re: publishing, COSMEP]
"Career" and "Plans" [biographical]
Photocopy of Edward Carpenter
Gay Academic Union
Correspondence, etc.
1968 International Guild Guide, 1968
Notes/Personal
Miscellaneous Impersonal
Miscellaneous Personal (?)
Correspondence, 1969
Correspondence, 1970-1971
Book Printing
Briggs Initiative
Curzon Interviews
Vita Brevis, Ars Longa manuscript
Periodicals: Rodale's Quinto Lingo
Periodicals
Passport
Raphael's Astronomical Ephemeris of the Planets' Places for 1938
Correspondence, photos., etc.
Legal sized documents
[Story for play with characters: Curzon, Jean-Michel, Jen, and Mere]
[Review of "An Open Window : Conversations with Gore Vidal" by Lyle Stuart]
"English 58 final exam"
Brown / Academics [dittos, etc.]
[Revisions and drafts of several manuscripts]
"Notes for a new play. Titles: The Last Wasp, Prometheus Stuck, The Part-Timer"
Screenplay [The Missing Houseboy or Whither the Houseboy?]
"How Do You Think You'd Feel If You Were A Queer?" (2 versions)
Book Ads/reviews
Notes
"The Fatwa" [notes]
"Something You Do In The Dark" [screenplay]
"Shakespeare Lives!" [notes on plot]
Song: "One Woman" for "Comeback" by Curzon and Turner
"A Crooked Eye"
[Printed article]
[Notes]
"Small Victories," 1993
"Sour Grapes" [notes], [1993]
[Curzon interview]
Gay Literature class flyers
Drawings by Daniel Brown (some subjects are taken from the sketch books following), 1970s
5 books on sketching and drawing
Correspondence (unsorted, folded in envelopes)
Publicity and reviews of Curzon's work. Reviews and articles by Curzon (Some appear in erotic magazines)
IGNA, books and articles by Curzon, plastic face masks used in a play by Curzon, IGNA card file
IGNA
IGNA files and releases. Newspapers, 1982-1983
IGNA Newspapers (includes several issues of erotic magazines), 1980-1981
IGNA correspondence and releases. Newspapers, 1980s
IGNA Newspapers, 1981-1984
IGNA Newspapers, 1981-1982
IGNA Newspapers, 1982-1983
Writing / Manuscripts [folders set aside due to possible mold contamination]
Wasps (6 drafts), 1993
The Hamster, the Parrot, The Pig, The Snake, and the AIDS Widow (8 drafts), 1993
Bad Puppet, or, Do Not Open This Box Whatever You Do (4 drafts), 1993
His Aching Man Member (7 drafts), 1993
The Writers and Artists Year Book (London: Adam & Charles Black), 1971
An Actor Prepares (3 drafts), 1993
A Murder Story (3 drafts), 1993
Masturbator, or, The Stand Off (3 drafts), 1993
A Bridge, or, Our Bridge, or, The Last War, (2 drafts), 1993
Save Pet, or, Choice, or Ain't (3 drafts), 1992
Sammy, or Goofy (9 drafts), 1992
Scratched (6 drafts), 1992
Diversity (3 drafts), 1992
Turd, or, The Punch Bowl, or, Punch (4 drafts), 1992
Liberals (6 drafts, 1992
Chickens (6 drafts), 1992
Blackdog (5 drafts), 1992
Whipped, or, Pussy Whipped (6 drafts), 1992
Not Sold in Stores "final polish, final draft," April 1992
[Notes on a Shakespearean scene with King Henry, Flastaff, et al.]
Etiquette [fragment]
"Not Sold in Stores (or Die Trying)" (folders 3, 5-7)
Boys Don't Jump Rope (374 p.)
Boys Don't Jump Rope (velobound manuscript, 374 p.), undated
Photos of two portraits of Daniel Curzon drawn by Don Bachardy [matted], February8 and March 2, 1975
Earnest Players present Beneath The Surface. Midnight Thater by Daniel Curzon, poster by Jim Mabry (2 posters)
Cover art "The Misadventures of Tim McPick," mock-ups for publications, 1975, 1980, undated
Poster of gargoyle? holding shield with lambda emblazoned on it. Artist Musgrave, 1977
Scrapbook pages with reviews, issues of newspapers with reviews and interviews, 1978-1987
2004-2005 Accession
[Novels, plays, writing]
Cartoons by Daniel Curzon, Joe Kirby, Zad Johnson, et al., undated
Dropping Names-memoirs, undated
The Joyful Blue Book of Gracious Gay Etiquette-finished revision, January 2005
Only the Good Parts, undated
Only the Good Parts-final version, April/May 1998
Only the Good Parts-George Ziegler, undated
Only the Good Parts, undated
Superfag-Printer's layout copy, November 5, 1995
[Playscripts, novels, writing, correspondence]
"Beastly Fables"
"A Christmas Miracle at The Open Mess" (5 copies and an early draft)
Copies of short stories and one-act plays published in different periodicals and magazines
Correspondence, 1989-1999, undated
"A History of Really, Really Bad Ideas"
"If Shakespeare Came Back Today" (5 copies and 2 incomplete)
"Last Call" (3 copies)
"Margaret and Ernie vs. The World" (3 copies)
"The Murder of Gonzago, A Comedy"
"Not Sold In Stores, Or Skullduggery"-Edited
Notes-Drafts
One-Act Plays #1 (includes: "1000 Nights," "AIDS Sketch (from The AIDS Show)," "A Little History #1: How Gays Destroyed The Family," "An Actor Prepares (A One-Act Play)," "Air Rage," "Beer and Rhubarb Pie" (incomplete parts), "Boo!" "Carl," "Celebrities in Hell," "Don't Open This Box Whatever Your Do," "God Called, Elmer Answered" (2 copies), "Guest for Dinner," "Hand in Hand," "In A Five-and-Ten-Cent Store" (2 copies)
One-Act Plays #2 (includes: "Life," "Love," "O.J. Agonistes," "The Billy Goat," "The Importance of Being P.C.," "The Robin Chatterton Chat Show," "Trust (A Monologue)," "S & M" (2 copies), "Schemers," "Script for video of An Irish Blessing," "Victim of B.J." (2 copies), "Void (Where Prohibited)," "War" (2 copies), "Your Town"
"Pixies in Peril (A Parody of The Hobbit)" (original copy)
"Sex Show"
"Shakespeare Spotted in New York Theater District"
Short Stories (includes "A Gay Fabliau," "A Murder Story" (4 copies), "Sexual Variety As a Way of Life," "Shakespeare Rap," "The Angels of Light," "The Ghoul," "The Girl in The White Raincoat," "The Horror" (2 copies), "The Trial of The Black-Eyes," "The Ugly Girl" (2 copies), "The Weird Animal Business" (2 copies)
"So Middle Class"
"Something You Do In The Dark" screenplay
"Sour Grapes" #1 (2 copies)
"Sour Grapes" #2 (2 copies)
"The Tasteful Transvestite and Three Bullies" (7 copies)
"The Weird Animal Business (A One-Act Play)" (11 copies)
[Writings]
"Plays by Daniel Curzon Available for Production" (List); "Daniel Curzon / Daniel R. Brown. Bibliography" (List. 2 copies); Copy of cover and back cover of "Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume II (1982-1983)"
Short plays: Producing with Poppy; Body and Soul; Trust; A Christmas Miracle at the B.O.O.M.; The Fly and The Bullfrog; The Golden Retriever and The Spotted Hyena
"Act II" (part of a play)
"Animal Farm" (2 copies)
"Avatars: In Which All Is Explained (First Version)," 1987
Early Play "The Awakening"
Beer and Rhubarb Pie, A One-Act Play
"Beer and Rhubarb Pie" (copies #1 and 2)
"Beer and Rhubarb Pie" (copies #3 and 4), 1998, undated
"Beneath The Surface (1978 version)," 1978
"Beneath the Surface"
"The Birthday Girl" (2 copies), undated
Celebrities in Hell
"Cinderella II (Happily Ever After)"
"Comeback, A Musical Drama"
"Demons"
"Don't Rub Me The Wrong Way (a play in two acts)," undated
Everything You Need to Know About Finding a Mate
"Godot Arrives"
"Half to Death"
"Half to Death (A Thriller)"
"Half to Death (A Comedy Thriller)" [includes letter to Charles, June 17, 1991], 1991, undated
Hand in Hand
The Hit
"How to Murder Some of Your Very Best Friends" (2 copies)
"How to Murder Some of Your Very Best Friends"
If Shakespeare Came Back Tomorrow, If Shakespeare Were Alive Today
Immortality
The Importance of Being Honest
"The Importance of Being P.C.," undated
In A Five-And-Ten-Cent Store
Last Call and Sequel to Last Call
Life
"Margaret and Ernie vs. The World (3-Act Play)"
"The Murder of Gonzago. A Comedy. (4 characters)"
"The Murder of Gonzago. A Comedy (3-act play)"
"My Unknown Son or The Interrupted Hug"
"Not Sold in Stores or Skullduggery" #1
"Not Sold in Stores or Skullduggery" #2
A Penny for Your Thoughts
"Pixies in Peril" #1, undated
"Pixies in Peril" #2, undated
Really Bad Ideas
S and M
Simpson Agonistes
"So Middle Class, or The New Zoo Story" (2 copies), after 1998
Sour Grapes
"Stuck," after 2003
The Tasteful Transvestite and the Three Bullies
"The Third Part of Henry The Fourth [Discovered and Annotated by Daniel Curzon]"
[Writings; correspondence]
"The Third Part of Henry The Fourth by William Shakespeare, II [Discovered and Annotated by Daniel Curzon]"
"The Third Part of Henry The Fourth by William Shakespeare, II. 5 Acts . England, 15th Century, 20 Characters]"
"Very Nasty Indeed" (2 copies, second incomplete)
"Very Tasty Indeed"
Your Town
"Your Town" (3 copies)
Some Memoirs: Dropping Names and Unfinished Further Travels of Gulliver
3 gradebooks at City College, San Francisco
Correspondence to Daniel Curzon, 1993
Correspondence, mostly to Daniel Curzon, 1993-1994
Correspondence, mostly to Daniel Curzon, 1994-1995
Correspondence, mostly to Daniel Curzon, 1995-1996
Correspondence to and from Daniel Curzon, 1997-1998
Correspondence to and from Daniel Curzon, 1998
Correspondence, mostly to Daniel Curzon, 1999-2000
[Play scripts, some published stories, poems] Unorganized
[Plays, writing]
Plays by Daniel Curzon Available for Production, undated
Correspondence and reader reports, 1988, 1990, 1998
Dialogus Play Service & Publishing, Inc. Catalog of Plays, [1995?]
Animal Farm (2 copies), undated
Avatars: In Which All Is Explained, undated
Beneath the Surface; First Production cast list and theater information, undated
Beer and Rhubarb Pie, and Last Call (undated); staged reading announcement (1990), 1990, undated
Beer and Rhubarb Pie (newspaper clippings from The Alternate), undated
The Birthday Girl [also titled Please, Not To Us] (4 copies), undated
The Blasphemer (The Ayatollah's Edict) (2 folders, 1 copy in each), undated
Bobbie, undated
A Christmas Miracle at the B.O.O.M. (2 copies), undated
Cinderella: II (Happily Ever After), undated
Cinderella II (Happily Ever After) [Act 2 pages are 3-hole punched], undated
Everything You Need to know About Finding a Mate, undated
The FATWA (The Ayatollah's Edict) [also The Blasphemer. Includes correspondence with Cynthia White and S.F. Russell, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland], 1992-1993
Godot Arrives, undated
Godot Arrives [gray report cover], undated
Godot Arrives "winner of National New Play Contest, 1999"
The Importance of Being Honest (5 copies), undated
Margaret and Ernie vs. The World [2 copies], undated
The Murder of Gonzago-A Comedy [2 act version], undated
The Murder of Gonzago-A Comedy [annotated], undated
My Unknown Son, or the Interrupted Hug, undated
My Unknown Son, or the Interrupted Hug [yellow cover], undated
My Unknown Son [printed from Lodestar Quarterly website], 2003
Pixies in Peril-A comedy in two acts, undated
Please, Not To Us by Keenesha Good [Lesbian version of The Birthday Boy. See also The Birthday Girl], undated
Reverend What's His Name (photocopies of play printed in West Coast Plays), undated
S and M, undated
Sex Show skits (2 copies) [Body and Soul; Beastiality; Desert Isle; The Ways Men Shall Touch; The Fiance; Mr. Right; Bobbie; What Did They Do In Gomorrha? Somewhere Over The Rainbow; How Sex Affects the Weather; VD; Family Pornography; Sex Education, undated
[Simpson Agonistes] [O. J. Simpson play. Spiral bound notebook with notes on trial, news coverage, variant endings to play], 1995
[Simpson Agonistes ] O. J. [Simpson] Play, pages 28-95, undated
Simpson Agonistes [includes letter from The New Conservatory Theatre Center, September 5, 1995], 1995
Son of Shaw (8 copies. One copy marked: "Incorporated into Murder of Gonzago, 2 act verson"), undated
Stuck, undated
Stuck (2 copies), undated
The Third Part of Henry the Fourth, undated
The Third Part of Henry the Fourth (oversized paper, 11 x 17-inches), undated
Very Tasty Indeed (A Thriller, with Possibly Comic Overtones), undated
When Bertha Was a Pretty Name, undated
When Bertha Was a Pretty Name [post-it from Phoebe to Fran], undated
When Bertha Was a Pretty Name, 1998
Your Town, [1977?]
Your Town (3 copies), undated
Your Town, with first production information, undated
Published books and articles by Curzon
Books and articles inscribed to Curzon
[Correspondence and manuscripts/writing]
Correspondence about Curzon's case against military over academic freedom. Defense by Society for Individual Rights, 1974
Correspondence. Copies of letters and postcards from Christopher Isherwood, 1974, undated
Correspondence. "Interesting early letters, 1970-1971. 1) from editor at Putnam about Something You Do In The Dark; 2) to a man who reported "gay" activity--he later came out!! 3) to John [who?] refers to Oates," 1970-1971
Correspondence. "Letters of recommendation including Oates (later removed from file) from her husband, too--Ray Smith; 2) graduate school transcripts, Wayne State University," 1969
The Y. "Edited ms. of The Y (unpublished novel), written in early 1970s" "2nd last draft," early 1970s
The Y. "Edited ms. of The Y (unpublished novel)," undated
The Y. "1) marked 2nd last draft of The Y (unpublished novel); 2) notes," 1973
The Y (unpublished novel) [typed, in box], undated
Typed ms. of Tim McPick (novel) corrected, undated
Gay liberation in England, early 1970s, newspapers, flyers, etc. Gay Liberation Front issues, etc., early 1970s
Typed manuscript of short story "The Artist" (based on Oates), late 1960s-early 1970s
Drawings done by Curzon (includes a cartoon or two), London, 1970-1971
Chapter from Curzon's doctoral dissertation on Nathanael West, 1969
Astrological chart (done by Professor Russell Durning), 1967-1968
Writing, photo: 1) article "Swift and the Limitations of Satire"-later published; 2) last page of story [which?] 3) photos of staff University of Maryland, Far East Division, 1969? or 1972, undated
Maybe the first published interview of Curzon in Gay Liberator (Detroit) regarding Something You Do In The Dark, undated
Materials on Something You Do in the Dark: 1) including contract via agent Blanche Gregory; 2) some reviews; 3) New York Times ad; 4) fake headline-first test of pen name (Curzon), 1971-1972
Writing: 1) essay on being a writer; 2) essay/travel piece on Japan; 3) travel/on Paris "Gay Paree"; 4) essay "Lust as A Way of Life"; 5) "Letter" from London; 6) Satire of revewers. "Read Any Bad Books Lately?" and "A Reviewer Remembered," 1971-1972
Early writings, early 1970s: 1) "Whatever Happened to Queens?" 2) "How Do You Think You'd Feel If You Were a Queen?" 3) "Jobs in Britain"; 4) "Hey There, Sports Fans" (comedy?); 5) "A Matter of the Heart," early 1970s
Curzon's written notes on 1) The World Can Break Your Heart; 2) Ideas for movies he was in, undated
Final section of Among the Carnivores typed manuscript, 1976
Writing: 1) ms. of short stories "Wee Beasties" published in a Detroit Gay Liberator (early 1970s) "mystery" (mock); 2) edited manuscript of short story "Life" (included in Perverts); 3) short story (rejected) "Vita Brevis, Ars Longa," early 1970s
Manuscript drafts of screenplay: She Slept with the Writer (finished later), 1997
[Correspondence and manuscripts/writing]
Letters to Daniel Curzon (Brown): Ralph A. Horn about his music (songs), Christmas cards, handwritten notes on TeacherReview.com, 1997-1998
Manuscripts: 1) Play: 1001 Nights at the House of Pancakes; 2) Songs (new and revised), 1996-1997
Phone messages/notes, circa late 1980s-early 1990s
More drafts of Godot Arrives (winner of the National New Play Contest, 1999), August 1997
Screenplay drafts: Love Is Just Around the Corner (Later called: This Little Nightmare: Called My Life), May 1997
Daniel Curzon and Isabel Gilbert. More drafts of This Little Nightmare: Called My Life, early 1997
Songs. New and Revised: "And I'll Get Rid of This Pain", "Your Doggy Bone", "You'll Have to Get Hugged...", etc., 1997
Songs (words and music by Curzon): "An Irish Blessing" a great song!! August 1997, "Rock Hard" ("Your Doggy Bone"), "Let's Make Love Again", "The Story of Ida Vanola," 1997
Songs. New and Revised: "She's Got the Pretties...", "Words", "Even Little Babies", etc., 1998
Manuscript drafts of Godot Arrives (which won the National New Play Contest, 1999), 1997
Publications: GPU News (June 1975 (contains review of Gay Literature magazine on p. 17, also May 1976); In Unity Metropolitan Community Church (1975); Gay Academic Union (1974); 4) Fag Rag (1976); 5) Gay Sunshine (Spring 1976); Campaign (British, May 1976, mentions Gay Literature, p. 24) 1974-1976
[Early gay publications; manuscripts/writing]
Early gay publications: Gay Sunshine, 1973-1976; GPU News, April 1976 contains story by Richard Hall; Annotated articles by Curzon; some class assignments for Gay Literature at Fresno State (1975), 1973-1976
Various gay publications: 1) "Ask No Man Pardon" Elsa Gidlow; 2) "Dream of the Traveler" Richard McCann; 3) The Gay Question : A Marxist Appraisal by Bob McCubbin; 4) Gayellow Pages (Winter 1973); 5) Manroot 10 (poems, 1975), circa 1973-1976
Early gay magazines: GPU News, RFD, Vector, College English, Fag Rag (I'm not in this, I think)," 1974-1976
Gay publications: 1) Margins (Lesbian issue) 1975; 2) The Advocate (1976); 3) RFD 1975; 4) Gay News (London, number 51); 5) Alternative to Alienation, number 6, November-December 1975; 6) Vector (no Curzon material) 1976; 7) Gay Liberator (Joe Fiore, Detroit) 1975; 8) Seattle Gay News 1976, 1975-1976
Early magazines: 1) GPU News (October 1975) contains no Curzon material; 2) Christopher Street July 1976 contains no Curzon material; 3) In Tandem; 4) The Liberty Express; 5) Entertainment West; 6) Fag Rag 1974; 7) Female Impersonator News; 8) GCN; 9) Gay Sunshine (Summer 1975, Spring 1975), 1974-1976
Arcadie: revue litteraire at scientifique, #225 (September 1972), #277 (November 1972). French gay journal. Contains article on Something You Do in the Dark, 1972
Early gay newspapers: 1) Gayzette; 2) Advocate; 3) Drummer, undated
Gay Liberator newspaper (Detroit), early 1970s
Manuscript drafts of short stories/also published stories, 1998- 1) "The Tasteful Transvestite Goes to the Vatican" 2) "His Achy Man Member"; 3) "Ain't"; 4) "Liberals"; 5) GPU News contains "The Businessman, the Soldier, and the Pimp" (Dec. 1975); 6) GPU News contains "How Will We Recognize Evil" (September 1975), 1975, 1998, undated
Songs, 1997. Revised ones. Written originally with Dan Turner in 1983-1984. "One Woman" (1978?); "Sorrows" (Curzon alone, 1977?), 1977-1997
Non-fiction drafts: "Discontents"; "False Assumptions of Teacher Review," undated
Play manuscripts ( 1001 Nights at the House of Pancakes; An Actor Prepares; My Unknown Son, 1977- ; College English, November 1974 contains poem, 1974-1977, undated
Articles about gay life annotated by Curzon. "Body Politic" and others (1976). Jan Morris (prepay to write Comeback), 1976
Articles: "Differential Diagnosis" TV and TS annotated by Curzon; On bisexuality annotated by Curzon; Exam question from a course (not Curzon's) at Fresno State; Curzon appears as speaker at St. Louis Gay People's Association, 1975 or 1976; Sexual Law Reporter, 1975-1976; Gay Post, 1975-1976
[Correspondence, publications, manuscripts/writing]
Correspondence from Tricia and Zack Johnson, March 18, 1991
Curzon biography page, [2001]
From Violent Men review in California Voice, May 20, 1983
Western Gay Academic Union newsletter, vol. 1 (3), July 1977. Includes reference to Something You Do in the Dark (2 copies), July 1977
Afterword by Curzon (fading photocopy), undated
The Blasphemer (2 copies), undated
A Christmas Miracle at the B.O.O.M. ( Gay Sunshine), January-February 1974
Curzon's review of Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood, undated
[Cinderella II. Act II], undated
"The Cosmopolitan Novel: James and Lewis" by Daniel R. Brown ( Sinclair Lewis Newsletter, vol. 1 (1)), Spring 1969
Damaged Fairies (photocopies), undated
Do We Need A Wholesome Gay Literature? (4 copies), undated
A Fool's Audition, [2001]
"From Satire to the Absurd in Nathanael West's A Cool Million," undated
Review by Curzon: Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning by Mark Thompson ( Los Angeles Times, p.13 Book Review section), July 26, 1987
The Girl in the White Raincoat, undated
God, I Hate Most Poetry, undated
Godot Arrives, after 1999?
Godot Arrives. Act II, undated
Godot Arrives (2 copies), undated
"Greed and Glamour: Trashy Novels and What They Mean" ( Bay Area Reporter), January 22, 1987
The Gripes of Wrath ( Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 15 (3)). Photocopy, October 1988
Growing Up Gay in Michigan, speech given at the University of Michigan, 1981
Homosexuality and the Creative Impulse, undated
The Horror (2 copies), undated
Review of Hotel Paradiso at A.C.T., undated
How Do You Think You'd Feel if You Were A Queer?, undated
In a Five-And-Ten-Cent Store, undated
In Memory of the Late J. Edgar Hoover. Photocopy, undated
John Gettys, undated
The Joyful Blue Book of Gracious Gay Etiquette [mock up], undated
"A Look at Archetypal Criticism" by Daniel Russell Brown (Reprint from The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 28 (4)) (2 copies), Summer 1970
A Look at Recent History, undated
Lust As A Way of Life, undated
Mindgames, written by D. M. Hariton. First draft, July 19, 1990
The Monster in the Wood, Summer 1997
The Murder of Gonzago--a comedy, undated
My Babies by Danielle (Womb of) Steel, undated
"The Natural Man in John Steinbeck's Non-Teleological Tales." Photocopy, undated
One Career in Literature: Touching and Amusing Anecdotes About the Novels of Daniel Curzon (paper delivered on a panel called "Novelists on Writing and Publishing Novels" at the Modern Language Association convention, Los Angeles), December 1983
1001 Nights at the House of Pancakes: a play in vignettes, undated
"Parades and Parasites in Paradise: Life in Gay San Francisco" ( Gay News), October 30-November 12, 1981
Paul Welles tribute, undated
The Pipsqueak (Two Days Later), undated
The Pipsqueak Murder (Two Days After), undated
Playwrights' Theatre. One Act. Article on Playwrights' Unit with photo of Curzon, et al., undated
The Problems of Writing Gay Literature ( Margins), Spring 1975
S and M, undated
Sex Show flyer with notes on verso regarding order of skits, undated
The Shark of Recognition, undated
"The Sheep and the Bad Shepherd: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts" with critical review by PMLA, 1975
Plays: 1) Eye to Eye; and 2) Skin Tight. Notes, correspondence, contracts, drafts, with Isabel Gilbert, 1985-1991
Skin Tight [overview] with Isabel Gilbert, undated
Skin Tight by Daniel Curzon and Isabel Gilbert, 12/3
Skin Tight (2 copies, 1 is annotated) with scleroderma advertisement, undated
Skin Tight (screenplay, revised), November 20, 1992
Skin Tight (screenplay). Second version with Isabel Gilbert, undated
Eye to Eye (a screenplay with authentic hypnosis) by Daniel Curzon and Isabel Gilbert, undated
"Some of Your Best Friends Are Perverts" by Curzon (in Small Press Review, p1) photocopy, October-November 1977
A Streetcar Named Viagra (2 copies), 2003
Stuck, with Curzon biography sheet, [2001]
That All-Important Job Interview, undated
The Third Part of Henry the Fourth, undated
This Little Nightmare (Called My Life) by Isabel Gilbert and Daniel Curzon, undated
The Trial of the Black Eyes, undated
Two Short Stories by Daniel Curzon: The Child Molester; Pity (2 copies), undated
The Ugly Girl, undated
Victor (from Mae West Is Dead, Faber & Faber, London, 1983 and from the Kansas Quarterly), 1983
"The War Within Nathanael West: Naturalism and Existentialism" by Daniel R. Brown ( Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 20 (2), Purdue University). Photocopy, Summer 1974
What's Wrong with Gay Life: a short story ( Vector), May 1975
Why I Am An Ex-Catholic ("In My Opinion" Gay News, vol. 5 (25)), October 2-15, 1981
Why We Came to Sodom ( North American Review) (2 copies), December 1983
Legal documents, correspondence, research regarding law suit against City College of San Francisco and Teacher Review
Legal documents, correspondence, research regarding law suit against City College of San Francisco and Teacher Review
[Law suit, Correspondence, publications, manuscripts/writing, computer disks]
Correspondence and documents regarding law suit against City College of San Francisco
Getting Gay In New York poems by George Whitmore (first edition), 1976
The Advocate (early issue), Curzon published articles here, from London, helped pay bills; 2) early The Sentinel
Early gay magazines: Gay Sunshine, Spring 1974; GPU News, Feb 1976; Portuguese Club Ainda Ha Amigos; Emily Dickinson poetry
Curzon columns and reviews, 1970s-1990s
Computer disks
Correspondence, 1997
[Correspondence, publications, manuscripts/writing]
Columns, reviews, correspondence, 1970s-1990s
James White Review (2 copies), Fall 1990
Heaven, the musical, undated
This Little Nightmare: Called My Life, undated
Correspondence, etc.
Simpson Agonistes
A Thankless Child [Die Trying] final revised, August and September 2002
Wayne State University and University of Detroit graduation certificates and grades, 1960, 1964
Publicity
Publications
[Columns and reviews—complete newspaper issues]
[Correspondence, publicity]
Publicity about Curzon's books, undated
Correspondence, 1974-1990s
Correspondence, 1974-1990s
Oversized [Scrapbooks and drawings by Daniel Curzon and his son, Zachary Johnson; drawings by Douglas Riseborough ("tricked" several times)]
Correspondence (in accordion file)
Correspondence
Letters to Curzon: from mother, sister, some on Gay Literature, Stephen Wright, 1971-1974
Letters: Dan Allen (lover of Richard Hall), Joe Fiori (fist fan), Morris Kight, The Advocate publisher David Goodstein (lawsuit), William N. Harlowe, Louie Crew, 1972-1974
Letters: Jonathan Katz, William Harlowe,
Agents, Family (mother, sister), editors, 1978-1979
Carl Morse (poet), John Gilgun, Robert Prager, et al., 1990
Letters: John Gilgun, agent George Ziegler (New York), Paths Untrodden, Rich Rubin, 1990-1991
Music / Songs by Curzon [tapes, CDs]
Music / Dan Turner. Lead sheets, tapes
Cinderella II (Happily Ever After) [script]
Shakespeare Rap by Curzon and Dan Turner (2 copies)
[Songs / Lyrics by Curzon]
Lead sheets A-M
Lead sheets Cinderella II
Dan Turner's papers on musicals / Comeback production, 1980-1981
Sondheim, Stephen (photocopy of letter 1980)
Audiotapes
Scoring (piano)
New Turner melodies (2?) Along with Practice of "Movers"
Scoring: Winner--Dan Humming (A); blank (B)
Scoring Cinderella II
Music to score (piano); blank (B)
Scoring--Cindy. Dan Humming
Books by Curzon
Correspondence
Letters from Joyce Carol Oates [Joyce Smith], 1965-1974, 1984
Joyce Carol Oates letters [photocopies of letters to Curzon, some photocopies of Curzon's letters to Oates], 1968-1984
Gay Literature magazine, 1975-1976
Book sales, correspondence and Gay Literature, 1976-1977
Letters and cards to Daniel Curzon: Robert Patrick (playwright), Steve Abbott (poet), Richard Hall (writer), Jerry Roscoe (writer), Dean Goodman (actor), John Gilgun (writer), Paul Hunter (writer), Jesse Monteagudo (critic), arnold Goodman (agent), Ashley Books (publisher), 1979-1980
Letters/notes from Stephen Sondheim, 1981-1990
Letters: Jerry Roscoe (biog. of), Robert Prager (fan), Barbara Lanctot (friend), Dan Barrington (New York City play producer), literary agent George Ziegler, Isabel Gilbert, John Gilgun, 1988-1989
Letters: John Gilgun, Guy Johnson (biog. of Oates), Louie Crew, Larry Myers, Robert Patrick, George Ziegler, Knights Press, 1988-1989
Letters from: Carl Morse (editor/poet), John Gilgun, niece (Hall), Knights Press, Robert Prager ?, strange person (Rony Arn), Tropani (New York City director), 1989-1990
Academic work / College
Correspondence
Correspondence (accordion files)
Correspondence and manuscripts
Correspondence and orders for Tim McPick
Novel manuscripts
Manuscripts and correspondence [?]
Autographed books
Manuscripts
Correspondence, writings. J.C. Oates materials,
Correspondence mostly to Daniel Curzon (Daniel R. Brown) including writer Ralph Horne, Shannon Moffat (transexual), Zach Johnson (his son); a few notes by Curzon on story ideas--handwritten), 1998-2000
Drafts / Manuscripts of recent stories, some beast fables; and correspondence (e-mails, especially, some about Teacher Review and San Francisco City College lawsuit), 2001
Poetry and Oates/Curzon fight letters
Correspondence to and from Daniel Curzon, 2000-2001
News/cover stories of Oates (1965, 1969), off-prints of two Oates scholarly articles, Don Bachardy Drawings catalog (The New York Cultural Center, 1974), photocopies of articles by Claude Summers, Raymond-Jean Ftontain, Thomas C. SPear, Jerry Rosco
Correspondence: Robert Patrick (1993), R. A. Horne (1996, 2000?), Arthur Scheldinger, Jr., Leah Garchik, Peg Cruikshank, Zack Johnson, poor photocopy of Steinbeck letter, Camille Paglia, Jerry Rosco, Greg Johnson, Larry Myers, et al., 1990s-2000
Curzon resume, [1981]
Teaching evaluations, 1974, 1987
Publicity
Rough drafts of novel called "Tangled, Crooked, Anyhow," 2002
Manuscripts
The Y, August 9, 1973
Shakespeare Lives! (or The State of the Art) "with author's notes," undated
Shakespeare Lives! (or The State of The Art) [Bertha Klausner], April 11, 1987
Superfag: a novel by Daniel Curzon, [1990-1992?]
Fudgy the Elf, [1990-1992?]
Superfag (A Hard Comedy): a novella by Daniel Curzon (2 drafts), [1990-1992?]
Diary entry, Deddington, A Worm, 1992
Drafts: Only the Good Parts; epistolary draft with Nan, Sandra, Dolores. Letters from Eric Glass, Ltd., 1990
The Wimp "novelization of Pixies in Peril (never published)," undated
Not Sold in Stores, or Skulduggery: a novel. "Added first scene of Ivy as girl (keep)"
Not Sold in Stores, or Skulduggery: a novel
Diary "C. C. Rice," Waggoner, Illinois, 1935
Audiotapes and videotape,
Isabel Gilbert--screenplay (5); Love Is Just Around the Corner (1); Zack and Dan (Hi8), undated, March 22, 1997, April 24, 1999
"Fruit Punch" hosted by Curzon, May 14, 1986; interview--Lee--Fruit Punch--KPFA, August 24, 1994; Fruit Punch, Dan Curzon hosting, March 17 and March 24 air check; Fruit Punch, the Last Show, July 26, 1995; Daniel Curzon, KPFA, June 1991, Dan Curzon as critic, FPFA, 1986-1995
Pat Tickner (1), Serramonte Ford, important dealership information (1), undated, 1987
Manuscripts: Tangled Web, Only the Good Parts, Further Tales of Gulliver's Travels (unpublished), Endangered Species (unpublished)
Correspondence (accordion files)
"Current manuscripts (fiction)"
2014 Accession
Reviews of Curzon's books, some writing by Curzon,
Something You Do In The Dark, 1971-
Reviews of Curzon's books (including some early books)
Sex Show, 1977
Your Town, 1978
[Play reviews], 1980-1981, 1990
Beneath the Surface, 1979
Revolt of the Perverts, 1978
Gay Etiquette Book, 1978
The AIDS Show, and, City College Founders' Day program, 1984-2000
The Misadventures of Tim McPick, 1975
From Violent Men, 1983
Human Warmth, 1981
Superfag, 1996
Contemporary Gay American Novelists
My Unknown Son, L.A., 1997
Curzon in Love
My Unknown Son, L.A. (2 envelopes), 1997
The World Can Break Your Heart, 1985
Sex, Death & Aerobics, One-Act Festival, California Travel Troupe, February 2001
Sexy Shorts, and, Actors in Briefs
Cinderella II, 1984
Among the Carnivores, 1979
1001 Nights at the House of Pancakes
Sour Grapes, October 1997
The Attic Theatre. "So Middle Class" The New Zoo Story, June-July 1998
Importance of Being P.C., Santa Cruz, 2004
Last Call, Margaret and Ernie vs. The World (2 envelopes) 1981-1982
One Man's Opinion, and San Francisco City College 50th anniversary show, 1984
The Murder of Gonzago, 1986
Really, Really Bad Ideas
Rude Awakenings, The New Zoo Story, Sept. 16- Oct. 9, 1993, Clara Studio, 1993
Play Dead, Spring 1993
West Coast Playwrights Workshop, 1987
Animal Farm, 1983
Programs, etc.
Clippings, 2000, 2006
Saving Jane Austen, a novel, 2012
"Christmas: Naughty and Nice." Old Port Playhouse, Portland, Maine, December 2009
Something You Do in the Dark (includes original press release from 1971), 1971
A Streetcar Named Viagra, written in 2002. First performed June 2012 at Ringwald Theatre, Ferndale, Michigan, June 2012
Batperson and Robbie, New York City, September 2010
The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, 2010
Only the Good Parts, August 1997
A Fool's Audition, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2010
A Fool's Audition. Prize winner, 2001
Godot Arrives, 2000, 2008-2009, 2012
Not Necessarily Nice, 2000
Cat Talk Cartoons
Batman and Robin. Winner second [round or read]. Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz
A Christmas Mistake. San Francisco Chronicle, 2005
The Birthday Girl, 1982
Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volumes I-VII (1977-2004), 1977-2004
Wilma Loves Betty, Parodies (1991), and "Two Cents" in San Francisco Chronicle, 1991, undated
The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette, 2006
Hard to Swallow, one-act contest winner, 2007
Jack London Writers' Conference. Presenter, 2005
In Hormel Collection, San Francisco Public Library
What a Tangled Web. About Defamation, PC-ism, gay father/straight son
Don't Open This Box, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2001
The Hit
Dropping Names: memoirs
Homosexual Acts (2 skits), 1991, New York City; and Don't Rub Me The Wrong Way reading, 1991, undated
Rankings of Daniel Curzon's Songs
Don't Rub Me The Wrong Way staged reading, Phoenix, April 1997
Animal Farm, San Francisco Fringe, 2003
Ten-Minute Play Festival "The History of Art Criticism", University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Fall 2012
Very Nasty Indeed movie
Halfway to the Stars, 2013
Commonwealth Club speech, August 21, 2014
Reviews and correspondence
Email, correspondence, 2002-2008
The Cat and the Mouse, a beastly fable
Not a Love Song
Taunting the Tiger
Writing, clippings, 2005, 2007, undated
Fool's Audition
The Importance of Being Cecily, or Cecil, or Prizzy
Henry IV: Part III
Books
Curzon, Daniel. Halfway to the Stars: Cable Car Tales of A Grumpy Gripman (San Francisco: IGNA, 2013)
Curzon, Daniel. Halfway to the Stars: Cable Car Tales of A Grumpy Gripman (Sweden: Wisehouse, 2014)
[Curzon, Daniel]. A Thankless Child by Amanda March (San Francisco: IGNA, 2013)
Curzon, Daniel. Saving Jane Austen (in lieu of galleys) (San Francisco: IGNA, 2012)
Curzon, Daniel. What A Tangled Web: a non-fiction narrative (San Francisco: IGNA, 2005)
Curzon, Daniel. Dropping Names: the delicious memoirs of Daniel Curzon (San Francisco: IGNA, 2004)
Curzon, Daniel. The Joy of Atheism (San Francisco: IGNA, 2014)
Curzon, Daniel. Beastly Fables (San Francisco: IGNA, 2012) [2 copies]
Curzon, Daniel. The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette (Sweden: Wisehouse, 2014)
Curzon, Daniel. The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette (San Francisco: IGNA, 2006)
Gay Literature, Numbers 1-6 (1975-1976) (Fresno: State University of California). Edited by Daniel Curzon.
Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume III, 1984-1988. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2003)
Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume VIII, 2004-2007. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2008)
Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume IX, 2000-2009. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2010)
Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume X, 2010-2011. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2011)
Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume XI, 2011-2013. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2014)
Curzon, Daniel. Something You Do In The Dark. (New York: Lancer Books, 1971) [signed by Curzon]
Isherwood, Christopher. Ramakrishna and His Disciples. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970)
Isherwood, Christopher. Down There on a Visit. (New York: Popular Library edition, January 1963)
Isherwood, Christopher. A Single Man. (New York: Lancer Books, 1965)
Isherwood, Christopher. The World in the Evening. (New York: Popular Library edition, December 1955)
Isherwood, Christopher. Prater Violet. (New York: Modern Library, 1955)
Arcangelini, M.J. With Fingers at the Tips of My Words. (Mountain View, Calif.: Beautiful Dreamer Press, 2002) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon]
Lauritsen, John. The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein. (Dorchester, Mass.: Pagan Press, 2007) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon]
Lebowitz, Gina. Forty Different Words for Love. (Chapel Hill: Professional Press, 1996) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon]
Batchelor, Karen. Murder at Ocean View College. (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon]
Maupin, Armistead. Michael Tolliver Lives. (London: Doubleday, 2007) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon]
Abbott, Steve. Stretching the Agape Bra. (San Francisco: Angrogyne Press, 1980) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon]
The Gay Engagement Book. Compiled by Martin Greif (Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street Press, 1985)
The Gay Engagement Book. Compiled by Martin Greif (Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street Press, 1986)
The Gay Engagement Book. Compiled by Martin Greif (Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street Press, 1987)
Gala Review, vol. 3, no. 1 (January 1980). Daniel Curzon, associate editor. (San Francisco: Gay Atheists League of America, 1980)
Class Notes and Lectures
Class Lecture notes. Daniel Curzon-Brown. English 35 A&B
Class Lecture notes. Daniel Curzon-Brown. English 1 A
Class Lecture notes. Daniel Curzon-Brown. English 1 B
Writing and sample stories for class critique
Photocopied articles and papers [for English 1A class, and others?], 1992-2007
Writing by Curzon (includes correspondence)
What a Tangled Web. Edited down to 727 pages (last edit), February 28, 2003
Performance and Mechanical Rights Royalties
Writing: In the Moment; The Busy Beaver; The Rat and the Terrier; The Spider and the Cat; Synopsis of Despicable Daughter; Star Fucked; Title pages for She Slept with the Writer and What Big Eyes You Have
The Organ Donor
Very Nasty Indeed
G.D. Arrives
The Birthday Girl
Toxic Princess
Mean Enough For Ya? London travel, 2014
Lord Bracknell's Ways
Notes on Halfway to the Stars
Composition notebook. Notes on Preliminary hearing for John Gettys, 2004
Such Bad Friends, 2013
Halfway to the Stars: Cable car tales, 2013
The Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon, vol. IX (2008-2009). Title pages
[Saving Jane Austen ? drafts]
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda. Aka Asides, and [G.D.?]
Thirteenth Night, or Malvolio's Revenge (a problem play), 2011
Star Fucked
More Oppressed Than Thou
A Peculiar Tale of a Peculiar Sec?ress?
Correspondence/contracts regarding recordings, 2005, 2009
Correspondence (includes family tree DNA, audiorecording info, Neptune Society account summary with John Gettys, Thomas LeRoux probate document re: Curzon and Jeffrey Tung, etc.), 1999-2008
Correspondence, 2005
Correspondence, 2006
Correspondence, 2007
Correspondence, 2008
Correspondence, 2008-2013
Correspondence, 2009
Correspondence, 2010
Correspondence, 2011-2014
Writers Guild of America, West, 2009-2013
Songwriting agreement, CityLove Music, 2010
Baker's Plays, 2010
Financial Materials
Bank of America mortgage
Thomas LeRoux, attorney. Jeff Tung. Documents regarding Ann Shay estate, 2004-2008
Estate of Ann Shay, 2005-2009
Daniel Brown/Curzon. Checking account receipts, 2004-2005
Photographs
Empty envelopes
Fresno, 1974-1976
Brighton with John Gettys, 1989
1996 (includes son Zack); 1998 negatives, 1996, 1998
Curzon, John Gettys, Zack, Bill Harlowe, N. Mallet, 1970-1997
Zack (son), 1983-1997
Curzon on Today show, May 9, 2000
Color photocopies of scanned photos (8-1/2 x 11 inch paper)
St. Rose School, 1950s. Color photocopies of scanned photos (8-1/2 x 11 inch paper), 1950s
University of Detroit, Theater photos (college days), 1956-1960
Photos [includes: Bill Harlowe, Curzon, Melissa (great niece), Zack, theatre marquee My Unknown Son opening night, etc.], 1969-1998
Photos (early days with family to 1990s), [1950s?]-1990s
Photos of Daniel Curzon, age 39, by Daniel Travert, [1977?]
Photos of Curzon and Gettys, Lake Mead (2007), Hawaii, cruise, Sea Life Park with dolphins
Portland/Pacific Northwest (1997); Europe (2006), 1997, 2006
Curzon in Asia, 1969, 1972-1974
Safari Park, 2002
Curzon and Elaine Mannon?, 1994?
Joan Dunham, 2000?
Dan Brown, 1983
Farmersville and Detroit, Danny Brown and relatives, includes 1970s
Curzon publicity shots by John Gettys, late 1980s
Kent State, 1960
Negatives
Framed photo: Curzon, with 3 others, New York City, 1998
Audio-visual material
City College of San Francisco. Board of Trustees meeting, (1/2-inch video VHS) (RT: 1:17:26), May 27, 1999
Beer and Rhubarb Pie by Daniel Curzon (original). 30 minute tape (3/4-inch U-matic), undated
Beer and Rhubarb Pie by Daniel Curzon (copy). 27 minutes (3/4-inch U-matic), undated
Beer and Rhubarb Pie I. (3/4-inch Scotch UCA20S U-matic), Scene 1, 175- Scene 2, March 1981
Cinderella II. (Beta. BASF L500HG), Pre,. Enhance audio. RT: 2:03:38, undated
Compilation of Survivor audition, Today Show, Fox News (1/2-inch video VHS), undated
I. Test Tape, January 28, 1981. B&RP [ Beer and Rhubarb Pie] opening title. (3/4-inch Scotch UCA20S U-matic), March 1981. WV3100, VO4800, 1981
Daniel Curzon-Brown and Ryan Lathouwers, Today, (1/2-inch video VHS), May 9, 2000
VMS Home Video Service. ABC. The View. (1/2-inch video VHS), May 9, 2000
Discussing my lawsuit, The View, (2 DVDs), 2000
Defamation Law Suit. FNC Fox News. RT: 02:48. (1/2-inch video VHS), May 8, 1998
[Defamation Law Suit. FNC Fox News, RT: 02:48.] (2 DVDs), May 8, 1998
Daniel. Dayside. Beyond Pix production services. (1/2-inch video VHS; and 2 DVDs), undated
[ The Today Show. Daniel Curzon-Brown ? information crossed out] (1/2-inch video VHS), undated
Visit with Zack; When Bertha Was a Pretty Name (first act). TDK MP-60. 8mm videocassette, July 23, 1988
My Unknown Son. Marin Theatre Co. TDK MP-90. 8mm videocassette, August 7, 1987
3 unlabeled DVDs, undated
Hard to Swallow, written by Daniel Curzon. The Chameleon Theatre Circle. Eighth Annual New Play Festival. Saturday. (DVD), February 10, 2007
Oversized Materials
Posters for Shakespeare: The Revue; and, Playdead
Correspondence, flyers for That Cro-Magnon Ping, 2008