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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Philip Durham papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0824
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1956-1970
Abstract: Philip Durham (1912-1977) was a professor of American literature at UCLA (1953-1976), Fulbright professor of American literature
at the University of Helsinki(1955-56) and the author of several books. The collection consists of manuscripts, proof sheets,
correspondence, books (many edited or with a forward by Durham), magazine articles, and research materials.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Philip Durham, 1960-1966.
[Identification of item], Philip Durham Papers (Collection 824). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Brook Whiting, December 1963. Additions by Manuscripts Division staff, August 1982.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9912178923606533
Durham was born February 7, 1912 in Portland, Oregon; BS, Linfield College, 1935; MA, Claremont Graduate School, 1946; Ph.D,
Northwestern University, 1949; member of faculty, Elmhurst College, 1949-51; instructor (1953-55), assistant professor (1955-61),
associate professor (1961-66), professor (1966-76), and professor emeritus (1976-77), UCLA; Department of English; Fulbright
professor of American literature, University of Helsinki, 1955-56; author of several books, including:
American Fiction in Finland (with Tauno F. Mustanoja, 1960),
Down these Mean Streets a Man Must Go: Raymond Chandler's Knight (1963),
The Negro Cowboys (with Everett Jones, 1965), and
The Western Story: Fact, Fiction, and Myth (1975); died March 27, 1977.
Collection consists of manuscripts and proof sheets for Philip Durham's
The Negro Cowboys, and
Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go. Manuscripts also include
American Fiction in Finland, The lost cowboy (an article), and
The Adventures of the Negro Cowboys. The collection also contains correspondence, books (many edited or with a forward by Durham), magazine articles, and research
materials.
Arranged in the following series:
- American Fiction in Finland (Boxes 1,15).
- Down these Mean Streets a Man Must Go : Raymond Chandler's Knight (Boxes 1,2,4).
- Correspondence (Boxes 1-3,5,7,10).
- Adventures of the Negro Cowboys (Box 4).
- The Negro Cowboys (Boxes 5-6,8-12).
- Killer in the Rain; Deadwood Dick on Deck (Box 7).
- Ex libris Philip Durham (Boxes 13-15).
- Topical office files (Boxes 15-16).
- Research material and card index on western life (Box 17).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
African American cowboys -- Research.
Manuscripts for publication
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles--Faculty
Chandler, Raymond
Durham, Philip--Archives.