Guerard (Albert J.) papers addenda

Series 1. Novels and short story collections

Scope and Contents

This series contains drafts, proofs, outlines, and notes for novels and short story collections authored by Albert J. Guerard. Material has been divided into sub-series by project, arranged chronologically. 'Other novels' sub-series contains various material related to other published novels.

Sub-Series 1. Night Journey (1950)

Box 8, folder 1

Night Journey: Fragments toward NIGHT JOURNEY

Scope and Contents

"The Cambo" (name of fleabag Paris hotel I stayed in 1945); "The Hotel", "Secret Agent"

Box 10, folder 1-3

Night Journey

Scope and Contents

"The final working manuscript as marked for the printer. The penciled corrections, additions, cuts are mine."

Box 10, folder 4-6

Night Journey

Scope and Contents

Carbon of penultimate draft of the novel. 522 pages. Very close to final.

Box 11, folder 1-2

Night Journey

Scope and Contents

"Parts of a working manuscript, in some cases making presumably final corrections. On top of the manuscript are heavily worked passages of two of the most important passages in the novel: the oblique, evasive confession of the proxy rape of Joanne by Cirinato, released by Haldan from his attic prison. (342-3 of Knopf edition) The proxy rape was a reenactment of the trauma of overhearing his mother's quasi-sexual shipboard dalliance.. The second was the discovery that the heroic self-sacrificing "Colonel" was Montalva, the man he left to die in Moratan. (334-336). I believe Graham Greene took his very similar scene in The Comedians from this passage."

Box 11, folder 3

Night Journey galley proof

Box 11, folder 4-6

Night Journey

Scope and Contents

Heavily worked ms. for chapters 6-10, many penciled changes, with two versions of chapter 8.

Box 11, folder 7

Night Journey

Scope and Contents

Heavily worked manuscript for first chapter, part of second.

Box 12, folder 1

Night Journey

Scope and Contents

Carefully handwritten draft, 28 pages, of the central traumatic incident of Haldan's (in draft "Kellen") early life, overhearing and seeing his mother's shipboard dalliance. See [94-95].

Box 12, folder 2-3

Night Journey

Scope and Contents

Both exploratory and highly ordered reasoning on what I'm doing. Plans, notes—large number in pencil. A13-point psychological "explication" of novel. Careful outline of novel's general movement. A pencil map of Moratan area. Time chart of the crucial day. Analyses of characters. Drafts of parts of important chapters.

Box 15, folder 5

Night Journey: Corrected galleys

Box 34, folder 3

Early penciled notes for Night Journey June 1948

Scope and Contents

"ALSO: NOTES for lecture or essay on my use 1st person in novels."

Box 36, folder 23

Manuscript of first draft of Night Journey

Scope and Contents

Pp. 477-530, "arranged for possible separate publication. Name of Sommaripa, the real life original, has been pencil corrected to the final 'Montalva'. There are minor changes from the published text throughout and very crucial changes on 529-530, corresponding to 341-343 of the published book: the rape by proxy, with Haldan releasing Cirinato from the attic to commit it, is more explicit in the first draft. ALSO. a 3 page COMMENTARY on this extract, for a possible 'Selected Writings' book, which explains how my experience in Psychological Warfare, and my awareness of how our deceptions could become self-deception, affected the novel."

Box 46, folder 6-8

Night Journey - working manuscript

Box 48, folder 4-5

Night Journey - plate proof

Box 48, folder 6

Night Journey - page proof

Sub-Series 2. The Exiles (1962)

Box 18, folder 2

The Exiles: Working typescript for chapters VII, VIII

Scope and Contents

With many penciled corrections

Box 18, folder 3

The Exiles: Notes

Scope and Contents

"About 30 pages of very rough notes as I grope for subject."

Box 18, folder 4

The Exiles: Revised first chapter

Box 18, folder 5

The Exiles: Notebook 1959

Scope and Contents

"Exceptional example of groping for a situation, plot, characters, setting, with only two minor characters--Murphree & Sweeney--on first page, although the name "Andrada" (the hero) on third page and by page 8 "the conscientious assassination". After a false move, real story begins to emerge."

Box 18, folder 6

The Exiles: Miscellaneous notes

Scope and Contents

"Interesting miscellaneous package: 10 pages of a story (incomplete) 'The Loyal Bureaucrat"; 3 pages statement on the novel, probably for publicity or to interest publisher; 1 page summary dated 7/13/59 of ten alternatives plots, ten different possibilities, most of which could have been separate novels, but with nearly all developed in The Exiles. I have annotated (7/24/95) this in ink. I note for instance that the Charles Sweeney (a friend of Hemingway and soldier of fortune) and Dorothy Allen--we met the two when I was working at a Writer's Conference at the University of Utah in 1958-"became" Charles Murphree and Dorothy Swenson in the novel. They are referred to as recent guests in The Hotel in the Jungle, published in 1996; Un-annotated clean copy of the above page; Reworking of last paragraph of the book with many corrections notebook: ideas for creation or revision; Summary of the problem of revision."

Box 18, folder 7

The Exiles: Pages for a piece to be entitled "Portrait of a Dictator"

Scope and Contents

With basic elements of the novel. 5 segments taken from the Behavioral Science edition. Segment 4 underlines the real difference of the Trujillo regime. Letter of rejection Seymour Lawrence of Atlantic Monthly for proposed article on Trujillo.

Box 18, folder 8

The Exiles: Statement of proposed revisions of Behavioral Science edition

Box 18, folder 9

The Exiles: Correspondence

Scope and Contents

"Correspondence regarding The Exiles with Sam (Seymour) Lawrence, editor at Atlantic Monthly Press (and who had been my editor there for The Bystander). I think Lawrence was overruled by higher-ups because of disappointing sale of The Bystander. Also correspondence with A.L. Hart, my editor at Macmillan where The Exiles was published in 1963. A unique experience for me: Hart took the submitted ms. home for the weekend and Monday made an offer."

Box 18, folder 10

The Exiles: Very early gropings, notes

Box 18, folder 11

The Exiles

Scope and Contents

"Project (April 1950) for novel COSTA MALA, a backward Caribbean island, to be an expose of Point Four "operation". Idea based on what I had read about Haiti. Also 3 page SCENARIO and three page WHO THE PEOPLE ARE (August, 1953) The essentials of the novel are already in place, though the location is still "Costa Mala". 1953 correct? "

Box 18, folder 12

The Exiles: Carbon of 3-page statement on The Exiles + letter to the English publisher.

Box 18, folder 13

The Exiles: Screenplay of The Exiles by Keith Howard Fisk

Scope and Contents

"I think a San Francisco journalist and former Stanford student. I had nothing to do with the writing of this screenplay, which did not find a producer. A Hollywood agent who had been one of my Harvard students read it and wrote me that it was unworthy of the novel. *Note: The actor John Gavin, later U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, wanted to produce a film from The Exiles but could not get financing. Peter Sellers wanted to act Andrada. The Exiles was the most warmly received of my novels with the possible exception of Maquisard. Graham Greene wrote me about The Exiles: "It is obvious we have the same master, but I think Conrad would have been prouder of you than of me." The Exiles had a definite influence on some scenes in The Comedians: at a luncheon I had urged Greene to revisit Haiti. In The Comedians he also remade a scene--the heroism of a supposed villain defending a barricade--of Night Journey."

Box 18, folder 14

The Exiles: Revised first chapter of the Behavioral Science edition

Box 19, folder 1-3

The Exiles: Antepenultimate manuscript

Scope and Contents

"Typescript, with some pen and pencil corrections, from which the multolithed Behavioral Science version was made. The main text (to405) is here preceded by alternative endings, paper-clipped. 'Rough version A' runs 406A-441-A. 'Rough version B' runs 406-431B, and this would be followed by 'Rough Version A' 411A-441 A, with some new phrasing for modulation. (The multolithed 377 (opening of Chapter VIII) is the same as 406 of 'Rough Version B'.)"

Box 19, folder 4-6

The Exiles: Notes, outlines

Scope and Contents

Extremely detailed, single-space typed notes (about 150 pages) on characters, plot, evolving situations, problems, aesthetic effects to be achieved.

Box 19, folder 7

The Exiles: Two volume multolithed Behavioral Science version 1959-1960

Scope and Contents

Written 1959-1960 at the Behavioral Science Center at Stanford. Volume 1: pages 1 - 239; Volume 2: pages 240 -442

Box 20, Folder 1

The Exiles: Two volume multolithed Behavioral Science version 1959-1960

Box 20, folder 2

Galleys of The Exiles, Macmillan 1963

Box 20, folder 3-5

The Exiles: Working draft

Scope and Contents

Major portion of the working draft of The Exiles that followed and for some chapters used and marked up the multolithed Behavioral Sciences text. But also many typed sections. Many pen and pencil corrections, additions, excisions in both kinds of text.

Box 20, folder 6

The Exiles: Typescript with penciled corrections

Scope and Contents

12 pages of "The Lusts and Gratifications of Andrada," ultimately published by Paris Review (1962), winning Review's 1963 prize for fiction.

Box 20, folder 7

The Exiles: Projected revisions 1960

Scope and Contents

Projected Revisions (Spring, 1960) of the multolithed Behavioral Sciences version after careful reconsideration.

Box 20, folder 8

The Exiles: Miscellaneous publications

Box 46, folder 2

The Exiles early chapter draft

Box 46, folder 3

The Exiles - revised opening

Box 46, folder 4

The Exiles - Chaps. II & III revisions

Box 47, folder 3-4

The Exiles final typed manuscript

Box 47, folder 5

The Exiles working manuscript, 1 of 3 1959-1960

Box 47, folder 6

The Exiles working manuscript, 2 of 3 1959-1960

Box 48, folder 1

The Exiles working manuscript, 3 of 3 1959-1960

Sub-Series 3. Christine/Annette (1985)

Box 21, folder 1

Christine/Annette: Notes 1979-1980

Scope and Contents

About 100 pages of 1979 and 1980 notes made during planning and composition. They explore how my own life can be used in the fiction. Some rough penciled notes.

Box 21, folder 2-3

Christine/Annette: Lois Moran and Lya de Putti

Scope and Contents

Notes on my research into the life of Lya de Putti, with interviews with various Hollywood people and with Lois Moran. Plans for a short book on Moran and Putti. Interesting package for people interested in films of 20's

Box 21, folder 4

Christine/Annette: Summary and manuscript

Scope and Contents

Summary and manuscript (not the final one) of Part One, pages 1-143, corresponding to 1-143 of published novel.

Box 21, folder 5-6

Christine/Annette: Final manuscript of novel made ready for typist

Box 22, folder 1-2

Christine/Annette: Penultimate draft of whole novel

Scope and Contents

Screenplay, here 1-126, would correspond to 145-270 of novel. There are small differences from the published version.

Box 22, folder 3

Christine/Annette: Screenplay with synopsis and treatment 1982

Box 22, folder 4

Christine/Annette: Copy of uncorrected galleys

Box 22, folder 5

Christine/Annette: Publisher's bound advance uncorrected page proof for trade

Box 22, folder 6

Christine/Annette: Miscellaneous

Scope and Contents

"Includes a highly autobiographical page labeled 'Another start/July 3 1980', referring to my crucial year at the American High School 1928-1929 and my Big Lie (Charles' in the novel) to the French widows with whom I was staying. This year was probably more fruitful than any other for my later imaginative life. ALSO funeral notice used for end of book."

Box 22, folder 7

Christine/Annette: Reviews

Box 23, folder 1-3

Christine/Annette: Photocopy of manuscript of Christine/Annette

Box 23, folder 4

Christine/Annette: Synopsis, brief treatment and screenplay

Scope and Contents

25 pages of screenplay, differing radically from the final screenplay. We see Christine first as one of the Lorient refugee children I saw in 1944, then move to Saigon at war, where Dexter rescues her'. There is no German episode; instead she becomes Antonia Francia in Mexico.

Box 41, folder 7

Christine/Annette galleys, 1 of 2

Box 42, folder 1

Christine/Annette galleys, 2 of 2

Box 42, folder 2-3

Christine/Annette corrected manuscript

Box 42, folder 4-5

Christine/Annette typescript

Box 42, folder 7

Christine/Annette photocopy

Box 43, folder 1

Christine/Annette original screenplay

Box 43, folder 2

Christine/Annette screenplay for submission to studios

Box 43, folder 3

Typescript of first draft of Christine/Annette screenplay

Box 43, folder 4

Christine/Annette bound advanced uncorrected proof

Sub-Series 4. Gabrielle (1992)

Box 12, folder 6

Gabrielle: Publishing letters

Box 12, folder 7-8

Laser copy of Gabrielle (1-216)

Scope and Contents

Dot-matrix copy (1-6) of a new opening that would precede page 1 of the laser. This was written to create some sympathy for Randall (who was based on the conservative, repulsive State Department Elliot Abrams.)

Box 12, folder 9-10

Laser copy of Gabrielle (1-228)

Scope and Contents

Using 1-6 of the revised opening. There are a large number of penciled additions, cuts, changes, but this is close to the printed book.

Box 13, folder 1-2

Gabrielle: Final

Scope and Contents

1-125 laser, 126-227 dot. A few corrections.

Box 13, folder 3

Gabrielle: Reviews, letters

Scope and Contents

Including from Gordon Wright, the model for Seymour

Box 13, folder 4

Gabrielle: Summaries, important letters, school notebook used for research in Paris, including sex shoppe and Hotel Meurice

Box 13, folder 5-6

A Hole In Time (Later "Gabrielle"): Penultimate draft

Scope and Contents

With different opening section from the final one. Randall based on Elliott Abrams of State Department.

Box 38, folder 2

First publication of section of Gabrielle 1992

Scope and Contents

Photo of opening section in Donald Fine, Summer 1992 Fiction Sampler.

Box 49, folder 1

Gabrielle - penultimate draft copy B

Box 49, folder 2

Gabrielle - working notes

Box 49, folder 3

Gabrielle - original opening

Box 49, folder 4

Gabrielle in America - first ideas

Sub-Series 5. Hotel in the Jungle (1996)

Box 3, folder 6-7

358 Page Penultimate "Hotel in the Jungle"

Box 24, folder 8-10

Hotel In The Jungle: Definitive manuscript

Scope and Contents

377 non-laser pages with inked corrections by me and as sent to Baskerville on 12/4/95. There are a number of changes from the CSLI printout. Baskerville found so many errors in CSLI that they decided to reset. A copy is still in the hands of Baskerville as of 9.18.96.

Box 25, folder 1-2

Hotel In The Jungle: Penultimate draft

Scope and Contents

PENULTIMATE DRAFT, with Eloise not introduced until 1982 section. Laser 358 pages, with some inked corrections. On box is Clyde Taylor's agent identification. This was what was submitted to a number of top publishers, with Pantheon almost accepting.

Box 25, folder 3-5

Hotel In The Jungle: "Version A"

Scope and Contents

453 pages, with penciled table of contents and a few corrections in ink. Author's Note, Dec.1988. At one point this version was titled "The Jaguar and the Pyramid" and has a handwritten title page thus. In this version the book opens with a bumbling CIA employee, Harrison Brown, traveling to the hotel. His trip and a long history of the hotel precede the introduction of Rosellen Maurepas. This version has a quotation from Morrelet about women in the grove not used later.

Box 25, folder 6-7

Hotel In The Jungle: First draft and notes

Scope and Contents

Printout of diskette "First Draft Hotel", probably done between January 1987 and March 1988. Not a complete first draft. In February 1996 I annotated some of these chapters. This printout contains a large number of notes, plot plans, reflections, and self-analyses as I grope my way toward the ideas finally used.

Box 26, folder 1

Hotel In The Jungle: Four versions of "Rosellen Maurepas"

Box 26, folder 2

Hotel In The Jungle: Assorted notes, outlines

Box 26, folder 3

Hotel In The Jungle: Early versions of chapters

Box 26, folder 4

Hotel In The Jungle: Variants of seven chapters

Scope and Contents

Mostly from Version A.

Box 26, folder 5

Hotel In The Jungle: Early versions of three chapters

Box 26, folder 6

Hotel In The Jungle: Final pencil and ink corrections of four chapters

Box 26, folder 7

Hotel In The Jungle: Incomplete 421 page version

Box 27, Folder 1

Hotel In The Jungle: Incomplete 421 page version

Box 27, folder 2-3

Hotel In The Jungle: Incomplete Version A (450 page)

Box 27, folder 4

Hotel In The Jungle: Various versions of four chapters

Box 27, folder 5

Hotel In The Jungle: Three opening chapters and two earlier openings

Box 27, folder 6

Hotel In The Jungle: Extra pages of Version A

Box 27, folder 7

Hotel In The Jungle: Three versions of Rosellen's journey

Scope and Contents

Rewritten to shorten.

Box 28, folder 1

Hotel In The Jungle: Five chapters that could be separately published stories

Box 28, folder 2

Hotel In The Jungle: First printings of the novel at CSLI

Scope and Contents

"Trying typefaces."

Box 28, folder 3

Hotel In The Jungle: CSLI printing of 221-289

Scope and Contents

Many pencil corrections.

Box 28, folder 4

Hotel In The Jungle: Mina Loy/Arthur Cravan material

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, plans

Box 28, folder 5

Hotel In The Jungle: Material on Santa Maria Chimalapa

Box 28, folder 6

Hotel In The Jungle: Two chapters with final corrections for Baskerville

Box 28, folder 7

Hotel In The Jungle: Miscellaneous, with earliest notes for novel 1986

Box 28, folder 8

Hotel In The Jungle: Penciled corrections, notes, plans, on Eloise Deslonde

Box 28, folder 9

Hotel In The Jungle: Two articles

Scope and Contents

Two versions of articles on the writing of the novel and extract (pub. Fiction): "The Blue Notebook of Charles Stanfield".

Box 28, folder 10-11

Hotel In The Jungle: Publicity

Scope and Contents

"ALSO MS. of my two articles (short and long) on writing of the novel: 'History to Myth to Fiction'."

Box 28, folder 12

Hotel In The Jungle: Notes

Scope and Contents

Notes while actually writing. CSLI sample type faces.

Box 28, folder 13

Hotel In The Jungle: Working manuscript

Scope and Contents

"Various versions of several chapters."

Box 28, folder 14

Hotel In The Jungle: Four sections printed by CSLI, letters to editor

Box 28, folder 15

Hotel In The Jungle: The Camino Secreto

Box 36, folder 10

Notes for public readings from Hotel in the Jungle

Box 36, folder 11

Germ of Hotel in the Jungle

Scope and Contents

"Germ of The Hotel in the Jungle in a book of non-fiction to be called The Hotel in the Jungle (alternate titles suggested) Also more early notes on the novel."

Box 36, folder 20

Notes for Printer's Ink reading of The Hotel in the Jungle

Box 38, folder 3

Publicity for Hotel in the Jungle

Box 38, folder 15

Notes for two readings of The Hotel in the-Jungle

Box 42, folder 6

Notes for "The Frenchman's legacy"

Box 43, folder 5-6

Hotel in the Jungle - versions of early chapters

Box 43, folder 7

Hotel in the Jungle first printings

Box 44, folder 1

Hotel in the Jungle rejected sections

Box 44, folder 2-3

Hotel in the Jungle draft, 1993

Box 44, folder 4-5

Hotel in the Jungle draft 1995-10-20

Box 44, Item 6

Hotel in the Jungle bound uncorrected proof

Box 45, folder 1-2

Hotel in the Jungle draft 1990-11-26

Box 45, folder 3-5

Hotel in the Jungle draft 1989

Sub-Series 6. Suspended Sentences (1999)

Scope and Contents

This series contains material related to Guerard's 1999 short story collection, Suspended Sentences. It also includes material for two novels, Suspended Sentence and A Taste for Risk; neither of these novels were ever published but instead had their first chapters included as stories in Suspended Sentences.

Box 16, folder 1-3

Suspended Sentence

Scope and Contents

"Early working manuscript, first draft (probably begun in 1951.) Innumerable penciled corrections and some pages entirely handwritten. Numbering erratic as sometimes reverts to a page 1 for a new chapter. This ms should he preceded by the 32 page ms. "Suspended Sentence" (see 7.6 below), which with some changes was published as "Suspended Sentence A Chronicle of 1944 in Sequoia Vol. 31 ,No.2 (Winter 1988), 31 47. A few other sections are missing. Final pages of the present ms are close to the real final pages. A good example of creative struggle. The chief interest of the opening chapter' (twice rewritten, then abandoned, published as a story in Sequoia, lies in its picture of Henri Talloires: a "portrait from life" of Albert Camus as I remembered him from meetings in 1944 and 1945. The menace of TB had much to do with Camus' preoccupation with death. But so too his concern with summary trials and condemnation to death of collaborators held in the maquis. So far as I know Camus never presided in such a trial as Barnave's. The closest I came to helpless personal involvement was witnessing, by request (of the French? I don't remember), the trial of a collaborator, who was repeatedly slapped while being interrogated. Once the prisoner appealed to me and to Lawdy Lawrence, a higher up in PWD (and vice-president of MGM: "Can't you stop them?" I suspect Lawrence was into PWD to advance American film interests in a showdown with French interests immediately after the liberation of Paris. As a result of the conflict no films were shown in early days of liberation.

Box 16, folder 4

Suspended Sentence: Large collection of notes and outlines 1951-1954

Scope and Contents

Some 1951 notes for Suspended Sentence and for a story about a diplomat in which Trent of Suspended Sentence is a major character. (The various aborted plans and notes for disappeared diplomats ultimately fed into The Exiles and to some degree Gabrielle.)

Box 16, folder 5-6

Suspended Sentence: Next to last draft

Scope and Contents

409 pages + some extra pages. The opening and the last pages were taken from the final version.

Box 17, Folder 1

Suspended Sentence: Next to last draft

Box 17, folder 2-3

Suspended Sentence: Incomplete carbon of a late version

Box 17, folder 4

Important notes for Suspended Sentence and Night Journey

Box 17, folder 5-7

Suspended Sentence: Carbon of final version

Scope and Contents

485 pages, including 32 and 33 page opening chapters.

Box 18, folder 1

Suspended Sentence: Abandoned opening

Scope and Contents

21 pp., with added page of planning Media-res opening instead of final 1944 opening in Paris. Also 14 pages ROUGH TYPESCRIPT (291-304), innumerable penciled corrections, additions, excisions.

Box 15, folder 4

Suspended Sentence flyers

Box 36, folder 30

6pp. draft of Suspended Sentence

Box 32, folder 5-6

A Taste For Risk: Penultimate draft

Scope and Contents

360 page, a few corrections. Begins in San Jose and with a recruiting trip to Cincinnati where Blanchard is seen as restive and already taking risks. The final version begins dramatically, in medias res, in Mazatlan.

Box 32, folder 7-8

A Taste For Risk: Virtually final version

Scope and Contents

295 pages. "Preceded here by two 'afterwords' in which Teresa survives. I finally decided the fully tragic ending was the logical outcome of what went before and the dramatic texture of Chapter 11. Pages 1-29, with slight changes, were printed as 'A Taste for Risk' in Fiction, Vol.44, No.3, 116-133. Text includes some ink corrections, cuts, and additions. (Final version is at Baskerville for copy-editing. In it the final dream passages are slightly shortened.)"

Box 33, folder 1

A Taste For Risk: Notes for the developing story

Scope and Contents

"Originally called SOUTH TO MAZATLAN. One of best examples of computer notes as a mode of creative thinking. Nearly 100 single space pages of notes showing early evolution of the novel from its original idea of a college president (later Dean of Admissions) with a gout de risqué and rebelling against his reputation for high rectitude. Although sometimes referred to as 'the Kennedy story' the original impetus came from the much admired American University president who made obscene phone calls. Many pen and ink corrections, additions, scribbled ideas. While I was 'thinking' Stanford in the pages devoted to the unnamed university, I didn't make any major effort to describe the actual Stanford locale. I did, as I wrote, 'see' the English Department office, the Inner Quad, Tressider."

Box 33, folder 2

A Taste For Risk: Summary

Scope and Contents

Summary of the projected plot after writing only Chapters I and II. "Also SUMMARY of the final version. At a still earlier planning stage, March to April 1991, I considered making it a story of sexual obsession and frustration which would end in violence. 'Does he strangle her or kill himself?' In those notes the psychiatrist Kaplan, to some extent based on Dr. Irvin Yalom, advises the Dean to take a respite and go where nobody knows him. Yalom, who read a draft of the novel, said this was bad advice. He should stay and face his problems at home. (But then there would have been no love affair or novel. This would have been true of Marilyn Yalom's remark that he had plenty of opportunities to stop himself and was a 'jerk' because he didn't. Again no love story and no novel. Note. 3S pages of notes for March to April 1991 have not been put on deposit.)"

Box 33, folder 3-4

A Taste For Risk: Intense corrections of penultimate draft

Scope and Contents

360 pages.

Box 33, folder 5

A Taste For Risk: Offprint publication

Box 33, folder 6

A Taste For Risk: Two versions of afterword

Box 33, folder 7

A Taste For Risk: Notes midway through the book and El Centro

Box 33, folder 8

A Taste For Risk: Copy of original opening section

Box 33, folder 9

A Taste For Risk: Final version of first chapter

Box 36, folder 16

A Taste for Risk manuscript notes

Scope and Contents

Manuscript, pencil corrections and additions, penultimate version of the dreams, pp.286-295, to end A Taste for Risk.

Box 49, folder 6

Suspended Sentences marked proofs

Box 49, folder 7

Suspended Sentences - early version

Box 49, folder 8

Suspended Sentences - final version manuscript, 1 of 2

Box 50, folder 1

Suspended Sentences - final version manuscript, 2 of 2

Sub-Series 7. Other novels

Box 39, folder 19

Photo of cancelled pages of first novel The Past Must Alter

Scope and Contents

Scene of death of Kathryn, to some degree based on grandmother.

Box 49, folder 5

Abandoned section of 'The Past must Alter'

Box 48, folder 2

The Hunted early notes

Box 48, folder 3

The Hunted - handwritten manuscript

Box 23, folder 10

Personal Miscellany: Maquisard corrected proof

Scope and Contents

Corrected proof of 1995 50th anniversary edition with new foreword & afterword. A few 1945 reviews.

Box 38, folder 4

Page Proof of MAQUISARD (Presidio, 1995) 50th anniversary edition 1995

Box 12, folder 4-5

The Bystander

Scope and Contents

Setting copy for the printer of The Bystander with my many final penciled corrections, cuts, additions. And the copy reader's printing marks.

Box 46, folder 5

The Bystander - first draft 1958

Series 2. Unpublished works

Sub-Series 1. Still Talking/Mongol Orbit

Box 1, folder 2-5

Still Talking: Very early material

Scope and Contents

Fragments of earliest draft ("The Mosquito Coast"). Many outlines and notes. Long interview, not used, in which Guilloux (based on Georges Bidault) comes on board. Carswell broadcasts from an offshore island, based on CIA's Swan Island.

Box 1, folder 6-7

Still Talking: Large number of early notes for novel originally called The Radio Station 1962-1963

Scope and Contents

Mass of related notes on Carswell. Also ideas for unrelated novels called "The Intruder", "Three Loves" and (story) "Central Intelligence Agency." Ideas (1955) for novel "The Pardoner's Tale". Five alternative plots to consider.

Box 1, folder 8

Still Talking: Abandoned ending (244-288)

Scope and Contents

1968 liberation of UC Santa Cruz. See # 16, #24, #26.

Box 1, folder 9-13

Still Talking: Early struggles 1963

Scope and Contents

Many notes on characters. At one point Bertrand Russell, Arthur Cravan & Christine Keeler (Profumo scandal) were on board. Cravan will be of major importance in The Hotel in the Jungle.

Box 2, folder 1

Still Talking: Notes Feb. - June 1968

Scope and Contents

Many notes for The Wild Ones (ultimately The Mongol Orbit)

Box 2, folder 2

Still Talking: Various unused material

Scope and Contents

Report on ship by Gen. La Mettrie. Opening of a Still Talking. 20 heavily corrected pages.

Box 2, folder 3

Good copy (1-107) of a short The Mongol Orbit

Box 2, folder 4-6

Complete long version of Mongol Orbit 1972

Scope and Contents

260 pages. Also extras.

Box 2, folder 7-8

Still Talking: Early manuscript, many corrections in type and ink of Vestiges

Scope and Contents

Another example of "chaos of creation", struggles visible on the page.

Box 3, folder 1-2

Still Talking: Fairly early version of ship part of Still Talking

Scope and Contents

Incomplete

Box 3, folder 3

Still Talking: Material on struggles with Vestiges 1965-1968

Scope and Contents

Marvelous critique by Clive T. Miller, novelist, taught at Stanford. Also by novelist Alice Hoffman.

Box 3, folder 4-5

Still Talking: Good copy of 27 page opening of a ship version to be called "The Drunken Boat"

Scope and Contents

Also many pages of the 268 page version of ship section.

Box 4, folder 1-2

Still Talking: 281 page clean version of the ship section

Scope and Contents

First 28 typed pages lacking. These were to be replaced, in submissions, by offprint of "The Journey" as published in Partisan Review. "The Journey" has a view of devastated post-catastrophe Italy as seen from a plane.

Box 4, folder 3-5

Still Talking: "Interlude: The Captain's Dinner"

Scope and Contents

(Pp.183-223 of a fairly late version of the ship novel). Was intended to be a central chapter in which each character reveals his/her essential drives nature. Abandoned as too different from the rest of the book, but has good pages. # 14 also has very good extra copies of several sections.

Box 4, folder 6-8

Still Talking: Copy of the full final version (Ship+Mongols)

Scope and Contents

With cuts suggested by Mark Mirsky. editor of Fiction. Cuts were not made.

Box 4, folder 9

Still Talking: Outlines, notes, a few much corrected pages on discarded Santa Cruz ending

Scope and Contents

See #3, #24 and #26.

Box 5, folder 1

Still Talking: The Mongol Orbit, long version

Scope and Contents

Copy prepared for typist with cuts, pencil corrections. Pages have been cannibalized form the complete Still Talking, so the breaks in pagination. Marginal comments are probably by Clive Miller.

Box 5, folder 2

Still Talking: 41-PAGE STILL TALKING.

Scope and Contents

"Gordon Lish tried to cut novel to long story length for Esquire. 17B is my own effort to do it. As late as 1985 Lish tried to get the novel, 269 page version, published at Knopf. Said it 'went down to the wire with Gottlieb.'"

Box 5, folder 3

Still Talking; CABIN CHART of the ship in Still Talking (original and photo)

Scope and Contents

Bertrand Russell and Christine Keeler (of Profumo scandal) had cabins. Guilloux is given as "Bidault", on whom he was modeled.

Box 5, folder 4-8

Still Talking; Large collection of early Notes, Outlines, trial pages itemized on four enclosed packages

Box 5, folder 9-10

Draft of Still Talking, later than multilithed version

Scope and Contents

Ship only.

Box 6, folder 1-2

Still Talking; 280 page version

Scope and Contents

In a separate envelope within, pp.183-223, cut for aesthetic reasons but includes much good writing. "The Journey", Partisan Review, Winter 1967, was taken from this version.

Box 6, folder 3-4

Still Talking: Long attempted openings of ship story "The Recruiters" (35pp), "The Journey" (30pp), many cuts, corrections

Scope and Contents

Plus nearly 100 pages of groping text and notes and outlines, some from 1970. Two pages on theory of deterrence. The struggles of initial creation when working with a typewriter—ideas, characters, phrasing – particularly evident here.

Box 6, folder 5

Still Talking: 'An Afternoon in Provence' extracted as separate short story from Mongol Orbit section of long Still Talking

Scope and Contents

We met a scary "Guardian of the terrace" in Rabat, Morocco. Also concluding pages of long Mongol Orbit (272-285); they were perhaps to be offered as story.

Box 6, folder 6

Still Talking: Two provisional endings of Still Talking (ship only)

Scope and Contents

The ship goes to Santa Cruz CA to "liberate" the university (266-288) See #3, #16, #26. The other (247-269) is close to the definitive ending off Villefranche on the Riviera.

Box 6, folder 7

Still Talking: Large collection of typed notes 1963

Scope and Contents

"In which I'm groping to be define plot, situation, characters. Outlines for two sections never used: 'The Hold' a 'night club' where people escape above deck lives. A note: 'Is there really something there? Or is it simply the unconscious into which some can descend, others not?' Inter alia people were to recite autobiographies. Also notes on a story 'The Vacation' (of Carswell) in a sleazy town where he's suspected by authorities. A boxer who insists he has to tail him, which happened to me in Santo Domingo in 1959."

Box 6, folder 8

Still Talking: Very large collection of single-space notes

Scope and Contents

Outlines from 1967 with trial passages, some later abandoned, for Vestiges later to be called The Mongol Orbit. The chaos of creation on the typewriter, with incessant corrections, some also by pen or pencil. Also the abandoned ending of Still Talking with the ship and its deterrent hovering off Santa Cruz to "liberate" the university. A good parody of late 1960's absurdities. See #3, #16, #24.

Box 6, folder 9

Abandoned ending of Still Talking

Scope and Contents

With the ship and its deterrent hovering off Santa Cruz to "liberate" the university. A good parody of late 1960's absurdities.

Box 6, folder 10

Still Talking: Notes, outlines and pages

Scope and Contents

Trials of Creation for Vestiges.

Box 7, folder 1

Still Talking: Clean copy of final 147 pages of The Mongol Orbit

Scope and Contents

"It was cut both to compete for the Harvard Press and Heinz prizes as a novella and possibly to be combined with short stories as a book. Conceivably the longer version is better."

Box 7, folder 2-3

Still Talking: Clean copy of final short Still Talking (ship only) 269 pages.

Box 7, folder 4-6

Still Talking: Clean copy of complete Still Talking interlarding chapters of 27, 28

Scope and Contents

With material added and some from a longer Mongol Orbit. 454 pages.

Box 36, folder 31

4 pp. for draft of Still Talking

Scope and Contents

EXTREME EXAMPLE OF COMPOSITION/CORRECTION ON TYPEWRITER

Box 38, folder 16

"The Pilars of Hercules" chapter of STILL TALKING in Fiction vol.2, no.1, 1973 1973

Box 50, folder 2

Still Talking - misc.

Box 50, folder 3

Mongol Orbit - 147 page version 1995

Box 50, folder 4

Mongol Orbit - 158 page version 1996

Box 50, folder 5

Mongol Orbit manuscript

Box 50, folder 6

Vestiges - 214 page "revised version"

Box 51, folder 1

"Wild Ones: a composite"

Box 51, folder 2-3

Mongol Orbit - early notes

Box 51, folder 4

Still Talking notes

Box 51, folder 5

Vestiges - 180 page version

Box 51, folder 6

Still Talking material 1965

Box 51, folder 7

Still Talking first draft 1962-1963

Folder 52, folder 1-3

Still Talking - corrected working typescript

Folder 52, folder 4

Still Talking - early struggles 1963

Folder 52, folder 5

Still Talking - perfect copy of 269 page version

Box 53, folder 1

Still Talking - abandoned section manuscripts

Box 53, folder 2

Still Talking - 41 page compressed version

Box 53, folder 3-4

Still Talking - "Best copy, special paper"

Box 53, folder 5-6

Still Talking - final full version

Sub-Series 2. The Liberated Writer

Box 40, folder 1

"Liberated Writer" complete manuscript

Box 40, folder 3

"Liberated Writer" outlines

Box 40, folder 4

"Liberated Writer" chapters with corrections

Box 40, folder 5

"Liberated Writer" uncorrected first three chapters

Box 40, folder 6

"Liberated Writer" - complete

Box 40, folder 7

"Liberated Writer" - 3 chapters, 156 pages

Box 40, folder 2

"Discovering fictional world" uncorrected chapter

Box 41, folder 1

"Liberated Writer" chapter drafts

Box 41, folder 2

"Liberated Writer" first two chapter drafts

Box 41, folder 3

"Liberated Writer" complete draft

Box 41, folder 4

"Liberated Writer" correspondence

Box 9, folder 8

Manuscript of "Champion's Code" 1930

Scope and Contents

Story probably written spring of 1930. 16pp, a few ink corrections. Published in San Jose State college newspaper, serialized over two issues. I had sold the story to a friend for $15 (?). He submitted it to his English class. The enthusiastic teacher insisted it be published. My friend insisted it be published anonymously." ALSO CHAMPION'S CODE (Revised) 9pp. incomplete, with many pencil corrections, additions.

Box 8, folder 7

Fragment: "Hotel Netherlands" 1933-1934

Scope and Contents

Very early stage step toward THE PAST MUST ALTER

Box 9, folder 7

Manuscripts of unpublished early short stories 1930s-1940s

Scope and Contents

"Gloves" written 1939 or early 1940's, 10 pp. "Snake" written early 1940's, 10pp. "Where Do We Go From Here," 1938 or 1943, 14pp. Submitted to War Story Contest. Poor carbon. Related to "The Poetry of Flight", written in 1942 or 1943, but published only in the 1980's. In both stories had in mind my cousin Benjamin McCartney, a bombardier killed in the war. "The Hunted", 1943? 19 pages, a story drawn from the climax of the novel The Hunted. "A Room for Two," early 1940's 15 pages, pencil corrections. "Break in the Journey," 1938 or 1939, 6 pages.

Box 38, folder 10

"Analysis and isolation" manuscript 1940

Scope and Contents

Five pages pencil numbered 72-77, "about 1940, part of planned work of intellectual history. On paradox of simultaneous atonalism/sensibility. The book to discuss influence of 19th century ideas on 20th writers."

Box 8, folder 2

Aborted novel THE PORT OF VENUS 1945

Box 8, folder 6

Early note, manuscripts for books on Hardy, Conrad, Gide 1945

Scope and Contents

And for unwritten book on "Influence of Conceptions of Human Nature."

Box 36, folder 25

Large exploratory collection of notes for a novel 1950-1952

Scope and Contents

"some handwritten, 1950-1952, for a novel variously called The Vermillion Coast, Traven at Prades, Tolerated Zone, The Secret Country. The germs are here for Suspended Sentence, Still Talking, The Exiles, even The Hotel in the Jungle. Notes show a continuing interest in the psychology of disappeared men, including B.F. Traven. Notes partly reflect our own stay at Collioure and my trip to see the gypsy annual gathering at Saint-Maries de la Mer. They show too my sympathy for the independent minded neutralist intellectual. Further notes on the enclosed envelope. 'The Tolerated Zone' was an essay in which dissidents from both of the major powers would be forced to go."

Box 45, folder 6

The Secret Country manuscript, 1 of 2 1952

Box 46, folder 1

The Secret Country manuscript, 2 of 2 1952

Box 34, folder 6

Penciled notes for unwritten story 1950s

Scope and Contents

Unwritten story "about talent scout visiting writing classes. Had in mind one Frank Taylor whose visit to my students seemed to me objectionable."

Box 8, folder 3-4

Unpublished essays and stories

Scope and Contents

Crucial test lecture for Harvard (1941?) on 19th century lyric poetry". Lecture on Elizabethan poetry for English survey course. 1959: 10 Alternatives for next novel. What to write next? Introduction to ECRIT AUX USA. In English by me, for translator. Unpublished stories: "The Fall of Cherbourg", "Capasanto" (unfinished story based on blunder of John Foster Dulles). "To Pluck Bright Honor" (story). Cp. "Poetry of Flight", pub. 1980's. See below, 10. Commissioned essay 1946? (33 pages) on foreign policy toward France. For an anthology, never published, of essays by veterans on the countries in which they served. Essays: "What Kind of Intelligence Service", "Consent of the Governed" (self-government of nations). Lecture: "Conrad and the Gidean Acte Gratuit" (MLA, 1947). May be the lecture that got me tenure at Harvard. Reviews (pub. Times or Herald Tribune?) of Mauriac, Bassani. Essay or lecture of 1945: "La Philosophie du roman American". Essays (pub. Magasin des Lettres?) on "Arts et Lettres aux Etats-Unis" & essay on contemporary American novel.

Box 8, folder 5

Notes On Caribbean Conspiracy

Scope and Contents

"Historically interesting package. Two typescript versions of article, commissioned by Esquire editor Harold Hayes' letter (one editor query is 'Che Guevara' Raul Castro's wife?) Also rejection from Seymour Lawrence (Atlantic Monthly) Earlier met Jose Figueres and heard Fidel Castro talk at Harvard."

Box 8, folder 8-14

Various manuscripts

Scope and Contents

Uncut version of "Two Lives of Lya de Putti", notes on Masquisard, early outlines THE PAST MUST ALTER, THE TOUCH OF TIME, THE BYSTANDER.

Box 9, Folder 1

Various manuscripts

Scope and Contents

Uncut version of "Two Lives of Lya de Putti", notes on Masquisard, early outlines THE PAST MUST ALTER, THE TOUCH OF TIME, THE BYSTANDER.

Box 9, folder 2

Miscellaneous Manuscripts, various books, "Christine"

Box 9, folder 6

"The Two Lives of Lya de Putti" (37, 87 page versions)

Scope and Contents

Had planned a short book contrasting lives of Lya and Lois Moran. Shorter version published in The Southern Review.

Box 9, folder 9

Manuscript of "Turista"

Scope and Contents

Penultimate draft, 19 pages, with numerous penciled corrections, additions. Submitted the story to Story before going into the army in June, 1943. Was published by Story issue of the story! Reprinted in Best Short Stories of 1947, ed. Martha Foley.

Box 13, folder 7-8

Early and unpublished writing

Scope and Contents

Stories and essays at Stanford and Harvard seminar paper on Shakespeare, psychological analysis of Rousseau (in French).

Box 14, folder 5

Frank Story: Penciled outline

Box 15, folder 3

Manuscripts: Stories written in High School

Scope and Contents

"(I don't have ms. of 'the Last Trip', which won second prize in national high school competition for 1931. Published in volume of high school awards.) 'Champion's Code', 16 pp. May 1930 (junior year high school) Final and two heavily corrected drafts. I sold this story ($15?) to a friend who submitted it to his San Jose State English class. Teacher, over friend's protest, insisted on publishing it (anonymously) in college newspaper. 'Swing', 16pp., submitted to Fight Stories. Rejected with scrawled note: 'Nice idea. Try us again.' Idea came from mechanical instructions given by my Paris boxing teacher. My early impulses to write were related to my intense interest in boxing: attended fights in Paris in 1924-5 and 1928-9 and took boxing lesions in 1928-9. Organized boxing matches, at 14, among neighbors in attic of 645 Gerona, one of them Helen Mears, now Mrs. Wendell Gibson, still living two doors up the street. Enclose a ticket to the attic boxing matches I had printed in Paris. Went to the Stanford boxing matches in the old Pavilion with my freshman English teacher Yvor Winters. 'Ceasar Vincit' first draft. 13pp.+ pages of final? Historical fiction submitted as term paper for high school Latin class. Two high school stories: 'Champion for an Hour', 4pp.; 'There are Smiles', 5pp. May have been written to submit to magazine as 'short short stories'."

Box 34, folder 7

Proposal for unwritten book, THE ARTS OF FICTION

Scope and Contents

"(Knopf offered contract with good advance for such book in the 1950's.)"

Box 23, folder 11

Personal Miscellany: Notes for unwritten novel "A Short History of Moral Ambiguity"

Scope and Contents

Notes for unwritten novel and for autobiographical book, "A Short History of Moral Ambiguity". Proposals for books of essays, of short stories, on Lya de Putti. Typescripts of lectures, essays. Academic writings, talks.

Box 33, folder 10

Miscellaneous manuscripts

Scope and Contents

THE LISBON NOTEBOOK (1963) "Pen and pencil rough notes, while sitting in a cafe. First and last are notes for Vestiges, later The Mongol Orbit. Also 6 notes for a story 'The Condemned Man in Lisbon', imagining plight of Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King, who was still at large, finding himself in Lisbon."

Box 33, folder 11

Miscellaneous notes

Scope and Contents

ANNOTATED TEXT OF AND CLASS NOTES ON 'THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER". Notes, psychological and stylistic analysis, comparing Poe's story with Heart of Darkness, with Winters' "The Brink of Darkness", with Melville's "Town-Ho Story" in Moby Dick, with related notes on Hawkes' Second Skin. For course on Impressionist and Experimental Novel. ALSO NOTES ON MICHEL BUTOR, ON THE VOYEUR, ON SIMON, CONDUCTING BODIES.

Box 34, folder 1

Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts "of an article, 'Guide Michelin: 1928-1971' on hotels stayed in, published in Esquire. Also MANUSCRIPTS OF LECTURES, with pencil corrections and notations: 'The Vanishing Hero of the Modern Novel', 'The Critic's Pit and Pendulum: Conrad's Heart of -Darkness),' 'Visions of Violence in the Modern Novel'. Also MANUSCRIPTS OF ARTICLES: 'Journey to the Good Green Place' (became 'The View from the Persimmon Tree' in Southern Review and The Touch of Time) and 'Comparative Literature, Modern Thought and Literature' (about how I initiated the Modern Thought and Literature program), published in ed. Spariosu, Building the Profession."

Box 34, folder 2

Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes

Scope and Contents

MANUSCRIPT, "stamped with army approval, of article on Education for GI's, written Sept. 1944 between assignments, with agent's letter. ALSO Proposal, possibly 1950's, for anthology of poems of self-scrutiny. Considered it off and on, ever since."

Box 34, folder 5

Miscellaneous manuscripts

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts "of 1) Introduction to Gide. Dostoevsky (New Directions, 1961); 2) PROJECT FOR A BOOK, early 1940's (?): 'Toward the Modern Novel', with emphasis on psychology and spiritual history rather than novel as art; 3) Sample translation into French by Andre Jean of first chapter of Maquisard."

Box 36, folder 21

Unpublished, abandoned section of The Past Must Alter

Scope and Contents

"Carbon (haven't found original) of typescript, 146-201. Carefully and very conventionally written flashback on the mother's (Collier here, Diane in the published novel) family background, with her mother 'Kathryn Staunton' to some extent based on my grandmother. Collier and taken to Ferncliff (my grandmother's home) near Beaver Falls, Pa. Shrewd marginalia written in fine pencil. Too indulgent to be Winters'? Possibly by James Walker, who was in my freshman English class at Amherst. When he reviewed the published book he regretted that I had taken out some of the long Jamesian sentences."

Box 36, folder 27

Various manuscripts

Scope and Contents

"Page of June, 1959 notes in Santo Domingo on my trip commissioned by Esquire. Invasion mishaps influenced The Exiles. See mss. of article, 'Notes on Caribbean Conspiracy.'"

Box 36, folder 34

Manuscript of unpublished essay, "East Meets West in the Stanford Hospital"

Scope and Contents

In 1994 I was treated both by western medicine and by my acupuncturist daughter Nini. Title also refers to number of nationalities among my nurses.

Box 38, folder 5

Various manuscripts

Scope and Contents

Handwritten copying from Doucet library handwritten manuscript of Gide L'Immoraliste. Photocopying not allowed. Note Gide's crowding page in very important page 58.

Box 38, folder 7

Various manuscripts

Scope and Contents

Photo, "On the Composition of Dostoevsky's The Idiot Mosaic VIIi/1 and Introduction to that special issue based on Modern Thought Conference "The Creative Element in Literature & Ideas".

Box 39, folder 9

"Notes on my unusual concept of energy in fiction"

Box 41, folder 5-6

Essays for "Vanishing Anarchists, or, the Illuminating Distortion"

Box 47, folder 1

Vanishing Anarchists table of contents

Box 47, folder 2

Vanishing Anarchists assembly

Series 3. Nonfiction books

Box 14, folder 4

Projects for Non-Fiction books

Scope and Contents

Some from 1990's.

Box 36, folder 15

Working manuscript for chapter on The Possessed in The Triumph of the Novel

Box 13, folder 10

Critical analyses omitted from Triumph of Novel because of length limitation

Scope and Contents

Four on Dostoevsky, one on Dickens.

Box 9, folder 3-5

Working manuscripts: THE TRIUMPH OF THE NOVEL

Box 34, folder 4

Copies of the Touch of Time (1980) and Mirror and Mirage (1980)

Scope and Contents

"19 stories by writers who had taught at Stanford. Wallace Stegner, who had been very hostile to the 'Voice Project', declined to be in the anthology when he learned Voice Project writers (Hawkes, Charyn, Mirsky, Miller) would be included. MIRROR AND MIRAGE was put together hastily, on request, when Ezra Solomon failed to deliver a promised book."

Box 36, folder 1

Albert's prompt copy for performance of The Touch of Time

Scope and Contents

42 pages. "This traveling 'show' performed by Albert and Maclin, with slides, was the main component of our two and three day visits to small colleges or towns without colleges, high schools and, with Nini present, the Georgia State Prison and prison work camp. In each place we had a number of other sessions--poetry, creative writing, and discussions of literature. This was on a program for the National Endowment of the Humanities, and went on for more than a month. We were rehearsed at Princeton for most of a week by a lazy director who spent most of his time goofing off. He taught us how to join hands and bow at the end. Michigan, New York (Long Island), Florida, Georgia, South Dakota, Minnesota, Virginia. The exhausting tour, carrying our projector in rented cars and onto planes, went on for more than a month. After almost a month we insisted on having two days off, most of which we spent in a Chicago motel." 2. Typescript, 16 pages, of "Paris and My Lost Ancestors," first draft of "Paris, 1973" in The Touch of Time.

Box 36, folder 2

Proposed revision with Marjorie Ford of The Personal Voice 1995

Scope and Contents

A freshman English anthology published by Lippincott. Edited in 1962 by Albert, Maclin, John Hawkes and Claire Rosenfield. Also Reader's Guide prepared by Joseph Brown.

Box 36, folder 32

Addendum to introduction to The Personal Voice 1994

Scope and Contents

"My 1994 addendum to Introduction to The Personal Voice, edited by me, Maclin, John Hawkes and Claire Rosenfield and published by Lippincott. Marjorie Ford of the English Department and I planned a new edition, with a much updated table of contents. Considered too advanced for today's market."

Box 38, folder 12

Chart of conscious and more powerful subconscious drives or sublimated acts in Gide's The Immoralist

Series 4. Articles, offprints, and introductions

Box 34, folder 8

Typescript pages on "Dissolution Impulse" in Poe 1940s

Scope and Contents

1Opp. "For planned book on 20th century development of 19th century ideas. Very early (for me) psychological analysis."

Box 38, folder 8

Introduction to special issue of Daedalus (Spring, 1963) on 'Perspectives on the Novel' 1963

Box 34, folder 10

Typescript draft of introduction to THOMAS HARDY: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS (1963) 16 pages

Box 36, folder 19

Statement on Bruce Franklin firing. 1969

Box 39, folder 6

Review of Frederick Karl, Joseph Conrad, New Republic 1979-02-03

Box 34, folder 9

Typescript review of Albert Camus' A Happy Death

Scope and Contents

With ink corrections. Published in Esquire.

Box 34, folder 11

Typescript review of Jocelyn Baines' JOSEPH CONRAD, 3pp

Box 34, folder 12

Draft of "My Grande Naufrage: Fiction and Political Obsession"

Scope and Contents

48 pp. Cuts and corrections. Published, revised in Southern Review and in The Touch of Time.

Box 35, folder 1-3

Critical essays

Scope and Contents

"Albert Camus," Foreground (Winter, 1946) pp.45-59. (The first full-length article on Camus published in the United States.) Review of Albert Camus, A Happy Death, Esquire, June 1972. "Bleak House: Structure and Style," Southern Review V (April, 1969), No.2, 332-349. Also Afterword to Bleak House (Rinehart) "Discontinuities and Discoveries: Innovation in Recent American Fiction," Great Ideas Today, 1976, pp.108-150. "Hemingway at Stanford," California Magazine, Sept. 1985. "Notes on the Rhetoric of Anti-Realist Fiction," TriQuarterly 30 (Spring, 1974) pp.3-50. "Charyn's Azazian Prose," Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 1992). See also on Charyn in previous article. "The Novelist's Compact With The Devil," Book Guide, Boston Sunday Traveler, Sept. 12, 1971. "Prometheus and the Aeolian Lyre," Yale Review 1944, 482-497. "The Stage Dramas of Robert Bridges," The Southwestern Journal XV (Spring, 1935), No.2, 27-31. "Saul Bellow and the Activists: On The Adventures of Augie March," Southern Review Vol. 3 (July 1967), No.3, 582-596. Introduction The Adventures of Augie March (Fawcett, 1967). Review of Thomas Mann, The Confessions of Felix Krull, Virginia Quarterly Review (1974). "The Ivory Tower and the Dust Bowl," New World Writing: Third Mentor Selection (New York, 1953), 344-356. "The Illuminating Distortion," Novel: A Forum on Fiction Vol.5 (Winter, 1972), No. 2, 101-121. "The Dates of Some of Robert Bridges' Lyrics" Modern Language Notes LV (March, 1940), No.3, 199-200. "The Prose Style of John Hawkes," Critique Vol.VI (Fall, 1963), No.2, 19-29. "Second Skin: The Light and Dark Affirmation," Studies in Second Skin (Columbus, Ohio, 1971), pp.93-102. "The Illusion of Simplicity: The Shorter Poems of Thomas Hardy, "Sewanee Review Vol.LXII (July-Sept., 1964), No.3, 363-368. "From The Cannibal to Travesty," Canto Vol.1 (Spring, 1977), 172-80. "The Nigger of the Narcissus," Kenyon Review Vol.19 (Spring, 1957) No.2, 205-232. "Martin Chuzzlewit: The Novel as Comic Entertainment," Mosaic (Manitoba, July 1976) Reprinted in The Triumph of the Novel. "On the Composition of Dostoevsky's The Idiot," Mosaic Vol.8 (Fall, 1974), No. 1, 201-216. "Ennio Flaiano's The Short Cut," Rediscoveries 11, ed. D. Madden. "The Voice of Passionate Control," Southern Review On Winters.

Box 35, folder 4

Autobiographical articles

Scope and Contents

"Was Lya de Putti Dead at 22?" TriQuarterly Vol.17 (Winter, 1971) No.2, 255-283. "The Two Lives of Lya de Putti," Southern Review, 1984, 112-142. "Divided Selves," Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series: 2 (Chicago, 1985), pp.215-232. "Novitiate", Virginia Quarterly Review, 1945, pp.98-110. "My Grande Naufrage: Fiction and Political Obsession" Southern Review Summer, 1969, pp.15-40. Reprinted The Touch of Time. "The Vanishing Anarchists," Sewanee Review Vol.77 (Summer, 1969) No.3, 440-462. "On Conrad the Novelist," Conradiana Vol.19 (Spring, 1987), No. 1. "The Great Good Place Recaptured: Hotels, Chiefly European, 1924-1973," Esquire. "Comparative Literature, Modern Thought and Literature," ed. M. Spariosu, Building the Profession (Suny, 1994). On creating Modern Thought program, on my father's influence on me.

Box 35, folder 5

Introductions and afterwords

Scope and Contents

Conrad, A Personal Record (Marboro Vt., 1988). "Gide on Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky on Gide" Introduction to Gide, Dostoevsky (New Directions, 1961). Hardy, Return of the Native (Pocket Books, 1969), pp.5-31. Hardy, Return of the Native (Rinehart, 1950) revised and with new essay, "The Return of the Native Revisited" (1969). Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge (Washington Square Press, 1961). Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Harper). Dickens, Bleak House (New York: Rinehart, 1970). E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights. Gide, The Immoralist (Bantam Classic). Tomlinson, The Sea and the Jungle typescript. Hawkes, The Cannibal (New Directions, 1947 and 1962 addendum). ed. Albert J. Guerard, Introduction to Stories of the Double. ed. Albert J. Guerard, Introduction to issue on Perspectives on the Novel in Daedalus (Journal of the AMAS), 1963.

Box 14, folder 6-7

Autobiographical: Projects, Mss, notes for books & articles, letters, op-eds or articles on academy policy at Stanford

Box 23, folder 9

Personal Miscellany: Articles, lectures, projects, university op-eds

Scope and Contents

Seven articles (several in mss., one on development of Modern Thought and Literature). Texts of five lectures (with one on the satisfactions of teaching). Class handouts. Op-eds on university policy. Two projects for unwritten books on the novel.

Box 23, folder 5-8

Personal miscellany

Scope and Contents

Important Miscellany From Whole Career. Juvenilia, first published work, mss. of several lectures, 1959 inventory of interests, suppressed sections of The Exiles, unpublished article on Stanford hospital stay, reports for "Allied Intelligence Service," a contract, notes for public reading, several mss. of published articles.

Box 36, folder 5

Photocopy of Introduction to 'Sections from a New Novel by Clive T. Miller'

Scope and Contents

Published as a pamphlet by Identity (Cambridge, Mass. 1962). Novel published by Harper as This Passing Night."

Box 36, folder 28

Introduction or afterword on Joseph Conrad

Box 37, folder 1

Hard copies of magazines with early articles

Scope and Contents

"The Stage Dramas of Robert Bridges," The Southwestern Journal Vol. 15 (Spring, 1935), No.2, pp.3, 27-31. "My first published article. Continuation appeared in following issue. Article announced for The Lion and the Unicorn never appeared, as magazine ceased publication."; "The Last Opinions of Van Wyck Brooks," Rocky Mountain Review Vol. 6 (Winter, 1942), No.2, pp. l ,3.; "Criticism and Commodity" in special issue "Writers Under Thirty", New Republic Vol.105 (Dec.8, 1941), No.1410, pp.796-800.; "'Requiem for a Nun'" in special issue on William Faulkner, Harvard Advocate Vol.CXXXV (November, 1951), No.2, pp. 19,41-42.; "Lessons of the Master," review of The Journals of Andre Gide, Vol.III 1928-9 in The Nation (June 18, 1949), pp.689-690.; "Les Romanciers americains presentes par un des leurs," Temps Present, August 17, 1945. Clipping.; Review of Albert Camus, A Happy Death, Esquire Clipping "Comment" an editorial in Stanford Criteria, a literary supplement of Stanford Daily, Dec. 6, 1933. I edited this supplement which I believe had one or two more issues.; "The Artist as Man of Action," review of Andre Malraux, Antimemoires in Interplay Vol.] (January, 1968), No.6, pp.56-7.

Box 37, folder 2-3

Hard copies of articles and stories

Scope and Contents

"Miss Prindle's Lover" (story), WAKE 6 (Spring, 1948), 18-34. Slightly revised from its 1934 appearance in The Magazine.; "Robert Bridges," Virginia Quarterly Vol. 12 (July, 1936), No.2, 354-367. My first article in a national magazine.; "Varieties of Romanticism," Virginia Quarterly Vol. 15 (Summer, 1939), No.3, 462-466. Review of volumes of verse by W.C. Williams, Frederic Prokosch, Merrill Moore.; "A Perspective on Conrad," Western Review Vol. 14 (Winter, 1950), 151-153. Review of Walter Wright book on Conrad.

Box 37, folder 4-5

Articles in French periodicals

Scope and Contents

"Generally I had someone correct errors in French, sometimes translate an English text."; SIX ARTICLES ON CURRENT AMERICAN CULTURE (books, movies, etc) each entitled "Lettre d'Amerique' in SIX ISSUES of Le Magasin du Spectacle. Nos. 1-6 (Paris, April-October, 1946).; "Le Roman Americain depuis 1939", Les Langues Modernes 39e Annee (Oct. 1945) No.2, 111-120. Based on lecture for a "Quinzaine Anglo-Americaine".; "Puritanisme, Solitude, Violence," Confluences Ve Annee (Sept. 1945), No.7, 736-745. Translated by Pierre Desgraupes.; "La Jeunesse francaise (Vue par un Americain)", La Nef 2e Annee (Sept. 1945) No.20, 58-68. Translation of my Harper's article, "The Tough Young Men of France".

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Articles in French periodicals

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The "Unabomber", who read Conrad, and Conrad's Secret Agent

Box 39, folder 8

Op-ed: "Literature and Lost Human Capacities"

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"Paris of my Lost Ancestors"

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Draft of "Paris 1973", published in The Touch of Time.

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Op-eds for Stanford Daily

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Contra dismissal of Bruce Franklin, plea for Literature of the Imagination, on war, on purified university. Notes for a novel: "Ray in Lisbon". One page outline for Gabrielle in America (unwritten sequel to Gabrielle) CSLI contract for Hotel in the Jungle. Distinction "voice & style".

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Reprints

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Two Lives of Lya de Putti, Was Lya de Putti Dead 22? Hemingway at Stanford, Novelist's Compact with Devil, Review of Camus A Happy Death, Afterword Conrad A Personal Record, Brightness Falling through Darkened Air (war incident, 1944).

Series 5. Short stories

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Photocopy of first published story 'The Greatest of them All' Palo Alto High School Yearbook June 1930

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Also photo of high school story 'Champion's Code' published anonymously over two issues of San Jose State newspaper.

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Yearbook of Stanford writing 1933

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With story "Tragic Autumn" (later published in The Magazine) + poem "Night Song".

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Short story, "Diplomatic Immunity", Sequoia 1961

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A compressed version of part of The Exiles.

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Copies of published stories

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Photocopies from manuscript or from printed text. Page numbering was for a book of short stories. "Post-Mortem: The Garcia Incident" (Southern Review). "Miss Prindle's Lover" (The Magazine, 1933 or 1934). "The Lusts and Gratifications of Andrada" (Paris Review, Paris Review Fiction Prize for 1963). "The Poetry of Flight", written 1942 or 1943, published 1980's in one or two newspapers under a PEN award. "Suspended Sentence" (Sequoia). First chapter of novel by same name. "The Incubus" (Dial). "The Pillars of Hercules: A Divertissement" (Fiction). "The Journey" (Partisan Review). Abandoned opening of STILL TALKING. "Davos in Winter" (Hound and Horn) Won undergraduate story prize.

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Autobiographical material, including photo of earliest published story

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Essays and projects, including page of 1959 on competing plots to help me decide what next; it was The Exiles.

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Copies of Published Short Fiction

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First page of story "The Last Trip"

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Won 2nd prize in National Scholastic Awards. Published in book of prize-winning entries.

Series 6. Correspondence, proposals, and contracts

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Letter to father on international policy 1943

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"He was on Committee to Frame World Constitution chaired Robert Hutchins."

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Letter to Mark Schorer on possibility teaching at Berkeley 1946

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Carbons of recommendation for Hawkes fellowship 1961

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"Page of letter to Jonathan Kozol on his second novel (wrote first novel, A FUME OF POPPIES, in my class; letter to Herb Gold on his SALT (1961)"

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Letter to Clive Miller 1968

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Career advice. "A very close friend."

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Proposal for an anthology of fiction, 'Art, Vision, Voice' 1993

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"One that reflects my approaches to fiction. Also: Three proposals for a book on The Arts of Fiction"

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Copy of letter to David Packard Jr. on his father 1996-07-05

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"David Sr. lived in our attic 1933-4, 10 hours work a week for his room."

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Letters

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A Few Important Letters. McGeorge Bundy urging me to stay at Harvard. Copies of letters to John Updike, to Knopf editor regarding revision of The Hunted, to Steve Simmons.

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Publishing correspondence

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Letters submitting mss. and some letters of rejection. Letters on Gabrielle, A Taste for Risk, Still Talking, The Hotel in the Jungle.

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Collection of letters, mostly on publishing

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Letters to and from editors Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Michael Bessie, William Sloane, A.L. Hart, Joe Fox and others. Excellent long letters from my father on mss. of STILL TALKING, SUSPENDED SENTENCE and a proposed magnum opus on effect of general conceptions of human nature on action, events.

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Letters to and from publishers, agents

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Autobiographical miscellany: Letters re: Hotel in the Jungle

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Autobiographical miscellany: Letters re: Clyde Taylor

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Proposals for books, essays

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Including of article on my 1959 trip to Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic commissioned by Esquire: "Notes on Caribbean Conspiracy".

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Autobiographical miscellany

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An unpublished 1943 story. Several book contracts including for first novel. Wide variety of items of autobiographical interest.

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Various literary contracts

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Including original opening of Gabrielle, article for French journal on American literature, projects for anthology, Hawkes autograph comment on Hotel.

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Publishing correspondence

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"Long 1952 letter to agent on THE SECRET COUNTRY. Letters 1949 to and from Knopf personnel on NIGHT JOURNEY. Letter (1966) on revision of STILL TALKING from A.L. Hart Jr. (Little Brown) who had offered to give me contract on basis of first draft, but advised me to wait for revision and better terms. I agreed: a terrible mistake, as I am still looking for a publisher for it thirty years later. Several letters rejecting THE TOUCH OF TIME, STILL TALKING and (under several titles) what would become THE MONGOL ORBIT. Letter from Mark Schorer on NIGHT JOURNEY. Letter from Peg (Mrs. John) Saltonstall on SUSPENDED SENTENCE. Letter (1968) to Thomas Wilson (Athaneum) on literary plans: already thinking of relating Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Faulkner. (ALSO Appointment as visiting 'Distinguished Professor' in USSR. Declined; couldn't take Maclin.)"

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Handwritten note to Albert from Kathy Rampton

Box 36, folder 13

Harvard letter on sales of Hardy, Gide, Conrad the Novelist

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Letters and notes

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Letters on THE EXILES from David Caute, P.H. Newby and Richard Poirier. Notes for lecture/reading "The Making of a Novel" on the writing of The Exiles. Brief notes for another reading.

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Table of contents for proposed anthology of Fiction Art, Vision, Voice

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"Excellent idea but never proposed to publishers."

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Letter to Harvard colleague Perry Miller urging courses relevant to the problems of international order and the peace 1942

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"Letter to Alphonse Juilland with recollections of track and field at Stanford & Olympics, and my own inept H.S. running"

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Teaching kudos

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Thank you from students of Summer NEH 1978 Seminar, Dean Royden & President Lyman on teaching award 1978, evaluations for award by Larry Friedlander and unsigned. Letter from David Riesman re: summer seminar student.

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Group letter and text for Daily advertisement protesting visit of VP Humphrey

Series 7. Course materials

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Nostromo

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Victory

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Sound and Fury

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Absalom

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Light In August

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Nigger of Narcissus

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Lord Jim

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Secret Agent

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Conrad

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Shadow Line

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Under Western Eyes

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Faulkner

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Sanctuary

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - The Rescue

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - A Fable

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Course Notes: CONRAD AND FAULKNER - Miscellaneous

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Course Notes: Freshman English (as co-director)

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"A statement on envelope explains my motives for volunteering to direct Freshman English and my efforts to enrich the freshman year."

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Course Notes: Notes on novels for various courses

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"On Wuthering Heights, Man's Fate, Lafcadio's Adventures, Durrell's Justine, Far From the Madding Crowd. Harvard notes for a Short Novel course I created: Bellow, Joyce, Lautreamont, Radiguet, Melville (Billy Budd and Benito Cereno), Glenway Wescott."

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Course Notes: Humanities 63 at Stanford

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"Notes for some of my 1982 and 1983 lectures, third quarter (for me, Voltaire to Faulkner) of a freshman western culture course. Historical note: Woolf The Waves and Faulkner's Absalom. Absalom!. the two most difficult books were the student's favorites in a poll."

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Course Notes: Surviving notes for eight courses

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"From my first at Harvard, 'The Intellectual Background of English Literature: 1750-1850': (ca.1940) to my last at Stanford 'Authorial Voice in Verse and Prose' (1985). Seven of the eight courses were my own creation: i.e. new topics, course names."

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Course Notes: Surviving notes for eight courses

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Course Notes: Miscellaneous - Joyce, Barthelme, "Voice"

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"Notes on Barthelme and copy of Maclin's article on Barthelme. Lecture to Harvard-Radcliffe graduate students. Lecture on First Person Narration. Reading list and 80 page handout on Voice for last course at Stanford, English 219. Final report on the Voice Project to the U.S. Office of Education."

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Course Notes: The Brothers Karamazov

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Course Notes: Dostoevsky

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Course Notes: Dostoevsky

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Course Notes: English 236 reading list amd class schedule

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"Forms of the Modern Novel", with attached detailed notes for lectures on The Brothers Karamazov. "This course grew out of my Harvard course with the same title, Comparative Literature 166, at one time the largest elective in the college."

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Course Notes: Stendhal, Hawthorne, Lowry

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MIscellaneous course materials

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READING LIST FOR LAST HARVARD COURSE on "Forms of the Novel" (1960-1) also last Stanford course "Authorial Voice in Verse and Prose" (1985). "Reading lists, handouts for 'Impressionist and Experimental Novel' coursed levels and for course on American Experimental Fiction. Notes on my theory of anti-realism. Notes on John Barth, 'Life Story'."

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MIscellaneous course materials

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BASIC TRAINING (1943) TRAINEE COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES.

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Material on Modern Thought and Literature

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"Including initial statement of purpose, also material on conferences. I started this program as an alternative to what was then a restrictive, exclusively English/American and exclusive literature PH.D. See also 'Comparative Literature, Modern Thought & Lit'."

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Brochure for Freshman English 1966

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"This and Freshman Seminars were my major effort to improve freshman year, worked harder than at any time I can remembe

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Notes for lecture, outline, handouts for Impressionist and Experimental Novel course 1980s

Series 8. Writing and publicity about Albert J. Guerard

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Wilson Library Bulletin entry Mar. 1946

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"One page entry on me."

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Interview in Brown Review 1961

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Reviews of Triumph of the Novel

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Interviews, autobiographical articles, op-eds on academic policy, reviews of work, etc.

Box 24, folder 3

Personal Miscellany: General career summaries

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Article for Contemporary Authors Autobiography. Entry on me in Contemporary Novelists. Publicity photos. Two book covers.

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Review of Andre Gide by Thomas Mann

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A first page New York Times Book Review long review/article. Photocopy of the review as reprinted in Highlights of Modern Literature (New York, Mentor, 1954, pp.123-129) a collection of important Times reviews. ALSO one page article in Wilson Library Bulletin Volume 20 (March, 1944) No.7, 260.

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The Guerard chronicles

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"5 page account by my mother, Wilhelmina McCartney Guerard, of her family background. She refers to Catherine, an unpublished novel about her mother and father, signed 'Graham Munro'."

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"The Guerard Chronicles", 5 pages

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"My mother's recollections of the Scottish, Robertson family background."

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Publicity photo used for Gabrielle, Hotel in the Jungle

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Copy of Contemporary Novelists entry

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Statements on Albert as writing teacher by Hawkes, Updike, Doerr, Hoffman, Becker, Hass, Pinsky

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Autobiographical article (illustrated), "Divided Selves" in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, vol. 2, 215-232

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"Photo of ms + and printed article: 'From History to Myth to Fiction: The Hotel in the Jungle' Southwest Review Spring 1997. Posters for Modern Thought & Literature conferences I organized Poster announcing Modern Thought & Literature program."

Series 9. Lectures and speeches

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Lectures on the "Delta Queen" for Alumni Association. 1988

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Texts for eight public lectures

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Some with corrections or marginalia,

Box 24, folder 1

Personal Miscellany: Four lectures given at various universities

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Four lectures given at various universities. Early draft of proposal for book on writing, The Liberated Writer (165 pages done by 9/96). Reading list for one of my first Harvard courses and reading list for a Stanford course. Two book contracts.

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Alumni Lectures

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"Typists' chaotic rendering of Alumni College lectures."

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Lectures

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Lectures (both given a number of times in 1950's & 1960's) "'The Vanishing Hero of the Modern Novel", "Conrad and Faulkner Discover Themselves".

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Notes for first speech at first meeting of Academic Senate

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"Claude Simpson as chairman wanted a provocative opening to this very first meeting of the Senate. I talked on the danger of applied research in government contracts or at SRI where we could not be sure the research was not done for the CIA. I urged a total separation from SRI and suggested it be called Palo Alto Research Institute. President Sterling interjected 'Menlo Park'. In general I urged that the university as such, as opposed to individual faculty members, should avoid becoming an instrument of national policy."

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Lecture: "Conrad and Faulkner Discover Themselves"

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Notes for lecture to Harvard "Comparative Literature Club"

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Notes for Lecture to Harvard "Comparative Literature Club", probably early 1950's on "Facilities for Study of Modern and Contemporary Literature in France." "During my Fulbright year, in France I made a survey of libraries in provincial universities as well as in Paris. The facilities were generally very poor."

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Notes for public lectures

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"Probably 1950's, heavily pencil corrected and marked for timing. These lectures, in addition to making a plea for serious fiction, also defend the contemporary novel against charges of pessimism and unfairness to American society. The importance of pessimism and counter¬culture."; Lecture for Phi Beta Kappa on need to resist mass culture and on the serious vs. the commercial novel. "(I gave a series of lectures for several years in a Phi Beta Kappa program that involved visits to a number of colleges.)"; "'Some perils of novel reading' given, as I recall, to the entire freshman class at Smith College. A very packed lecture. Literature, especially the novel, in a post-war society."; "Short lecture (17 minutes) on the Anti-Hero."; "'The Idea of a Cultural Aristocracy' Reference dates it as post-Lolita. Another defense of 'high' un-commercial literature. Another version of this lecture, given at Boston University. Another version, 15 pages."; "A Phi Beta Kappa lecture on the Avant-Garde, particularly the novel but also in terms of Paris, the beats, etc. This lecture has some interest in terms of how things looked in the 1950's."; "Short PBK lecture on 'The Responsibilities of the novelist'"

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"Flying Carpets and Earthbound Critics"

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Lecture given at University of Iowa as Ida Beam visiting professor. Defense of anti-realism.

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Notes for Harvard lectures on James, Stendhal, Camus {Plague), Great Gatsby, Chants de Maldoror

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+ Stanford lectures on Conrad, Faulkner, Camus The Fall, Graduate Study in English.

Series 10. Miscellaneous materials

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"New England Under Water" 1936

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"I may have this book of excellent photographs in writing The Hunted. Although, I believe I did see the road to Northampton under water."

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"List of persons with whom I was in contact while working for the cultural relations section of the Paris USIS in 1945"

Box 53, Item 7

Women's Studies, vol. 5, no. 1 1977

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Fiction, vol. 10, nos. 1 & 2 1991

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The Quest of the Opal: a commentary on the Helmsman, by J.V. Cunningham

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"Touch of Time" tour poster

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