Finding Aid for the William Brandon Papers, 1936-1997
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Descriptive Summary
Title: William Brandon Papers
Date (inclusive): 1936-1997
Collection number: 716
Creator: Brandon, William, 1914-
Extent:
129 boxes (64.5 linear ft.)
and 13 oversize boxes
Abstract: William Edward Brandon (1914- ) was a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts (1966-67), California State University,
Los Angeles (1970-71), and California State University, Long Beach (1970-71, 1974-75). He wrote short stories, screenplays
and books including
The Dangerous Dead (1943),
The Men and the Mountain (1955),
The American Heritage Book of Indians (1961),
The Magic World (1971), and
The Last Americans (1971). The collection consists of literary manuscripts, correspondence, periodicals containing material by Brandon, and
ephemera.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of William Brandon, 1983-97.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], William Brandon Papers (Collection 716). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
709461
Biography
William Edward Brandon was born on September 21, 1914 in Kokomo, Indiana; attended public schools in Indiana and New Mexico;
visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts (1966-67), California State University, Los Angeles (1970-71), and California
State University, Long Beach (1970-71, 1974-75); author of
The dangerous dead (1943),
The men and the mountain (1955),
The American Heritage book of Indians (1961),
The magic world (1971), and
The last Americans (1971); moved to France, translating works from French, Latin and Greek; author of two screenplays and of several hundred
stories, anthologized in many collections.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of literary manuscripts, correspondence, periodicals containing material by Brandon, and ephemera. Most
of the correspondence is with or about Joseph T. Shaw.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Manuscripts (Boxes 1-5, 6-12, 14-21, 36-40, 44-45, 57, 61-65, 70-71, 73-75, 77, 80-82).
- Correspondence (Boxes 22-35, 39, 45-56, 58-62, 66-67, 69, 71, 73, 75-80).
- Ephemera (Boxes 42-44, 69, 77).
- Photographs (Box 59).
- Documents (Boxes 43-45, 69, 80-81).
- Personal (Boxes 43, 70, 82).
- Printed materials (Boxes 12-13, 41-42, 45, 58, 67-69, 72, 102-113).
- Unlisted (Boxes 83-101).
- Additions 1991 - Unlisted (Boxes 117-124).
- Additions 1994 - Correspondence, Manuscripts (Boxes 125-133).
Items Removed from Collection
(Street and Smith's) Cowboy Stories.
vol.28, no.1; vol.28, no.4; vol.31, no.4; vol.31, no.2.
July 1935, October 1935, April 1936, February 1937.
Ace-High.
vol.82, no.2
August 1938.
Big Book Western Magazine.
vol.4, no.5
June-July 1938.
Blue Book.
vol.93, no.4
August 1951.
Dan Dunn Detective Magazine.
vol.1, no.1; vol.1, no.2
September 1936, November 1936.
Detective Tales.
vol.49, no.3
June 1952.
Dime Detective.
vol.34, no.2
September 1940.
Dime Mystery.
vol.28, no.1; vol.39 no,2
November 1942, December 1949.
Double Detective.
vol.3, no.3; vol.4, no.2; vol.4, no.3; vol.4, no.4; vol.5, no.1; vol.7, no.6
February 1939, July 1939, August 1939, September 1939, December 1939, March 1943.
Mystery Adventures.
vol.4, no.4; vol.5, no.2; vol.5, no.3
December 1936, February 1937, March 1937.
Romantic Range.
vol.15, no.2; vol.15, no.3
December 1942, January 1943.
Street And Smith's Detective Story Magazine.
vol.163, no.5; vol.164, no.4; vol.164, no.6; vol.165, no.2; vol.166, no.5; vol.166, no.6
March 1942, August 1942, October 1942, December 1942, September 1943, October 1943.
Ten Detective Aces.
vol.33, no.1
July 1938.
Western Aces.
vol.12, no.1
October 1938.
[Flynn's] Detective Fiction Weekly.
vol.118, no.3; vol.120, no.3; vol.120, no.5; vol.121, no.2; vol.122, no.3; vol.123, no.4; vol.124, no.3,
March 26, 1938; June 18, 1938; July 2, 1938; July 23, 1938; September 10, 1938; October 29, 1938; December 3, 1938.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Brandon, William, 1914- --Archives.
Authors, American--West (U.S.)--Archival resources.
Indians of North America--West (U.S.).
West (U.S.)--History.
Box 1, Folder 1
The Battle of Calabash. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description: (Typescript copy, 14 leaves [9, 10, 12 missing])
Additional Note
Addressed to Jacques Chambrun, Incorporated, 745 Fifth Ave., New York City, 22.
Appeared in
Collier's, October 15, 1949.
Box 1, Folder 1
Five and Ten. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description: (Typescript, approximately 8,000 words, 27 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
With holograph revisions and notations in pencil.
Additional Note
Addressed as above. Appeared in
Detective Fiction Weekly, January 18, 1941.
Box 1, Folder 1
Hermione. Parts 1 and 2. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description: (Typescript, 7 and 5 leaves, bound in manila folder)
Scope and Content Note
Advance copy.
Additional Note
Appeared in
Harper's Bazaar, August 1955 and in
This Week, October 20, 1957.
Box 1, Folder 1
It's So Peaceful in the Country. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description: (Typescript, 15 leaves, bond in red wrapper)
Additional Note
Appeared in
Black Mask, November, 1943.
Box 1, Folder 2
The Man Who Was Afraid. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description: (Typescript carbon, 56 leaves)
Additional Note
Appeared in
Blue Book, December 1947.
Box 1, Folder 2
Sign. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description: (Typescript carbon, with one holograph insertion, 22 leaves)
Additional Note
Appeared in
Blue Book, June 1949.
Box 1, Folder 3
Correspondence with Philip Durham, v.p.
1958-
Physical Description: (6 items)
Scope and Content Note
Mostly
re Joseph T. Shaw and
The Black Mask.
Box 2
The Men and the Mountain: Fremont's Fourth Expedition. n.p.
ca. 1955
Scope and Content Note
2 manuscript drafts (Printer's typescript and first draft) and two sets of galleys.
Additional Note
First published by William Morrow and Company, New York, 1955.
Box 3
The Men and the Mountain. . .
Physical Description: (2 manuscript drafts)
Box 3
Shrike. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description: (172 leaves, typescript carbon)
Box 3
Blue Book (publication)
Scope and Content Note
Condensed to 30,000 words.
Box 4
Book of Indians. n.p.
ca. 1960
Physical Description: (ca. 500 leaves, typescript with holograph corrections)
Additional Note
First published by the American Heritage Publishing Company, New York, 1961.
Box 4
Dangerous Deed. n.p.
ca. 1943
Physical Description: (166 leaves, typescript carbon)
Additional Note
First published by Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1943.
Box 4
The Undecided. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description: (275 leaves, typescript carbon)
Scope and Content Note
3rd copy of 3rd draft.
Additional Note
Apparently unpublished.
Box 5
Book of Indians. n.p.
ca. 1960
Scope and Content Note
3 manuscript drafts with notes.
Box 6, Folders 1-2
Manuscripts to unidentified work(s?)
Box 6, Folder 3
Hermione Part 1
Scope and Content Note
Unedited advance copy.
Box 6, Folder 3
The Man Nobody Remembered
December 22, 1951
Physical Description: (Photocopy)
Additional Note
From
Saturday Evening Post.
Box 6, Folder 3
The Life and White Horse of Ind. Joe
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 6, Folder 3
The Great American Story
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 4
Princess Triplex
Scope and Content Note
Outline.
Box 6, Folder 4
Exiles
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 6, Folder 4
Parises
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 4
Berv Leery Journals (1939)
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 5
Avez-Vous Vu Hubert?
Physical Description: (p.1)
Box 6, Folder 5
Berv Leery Journals (1938-1939)
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 5
Berv Leery Journals (1971)
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 5
Princess Triplex
Scope and Content Note
Outlines.
Box 6, Folder 6
Frenchgirl
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 6
Princess Triplex
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 6
Parises
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 7
Avez-Vous Vu Hubert?
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 7
Parises
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 6, Folder 8
American Indians--The Real American Revolution
Physical Description: (Typescript and photocopy)
Box 7, Folders 1-5
Liberty and the New World [title changed from
New Worlds for Old]
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 8, Folders 1-4
New Worlds for Old
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 8, Folders 5-9
Liberty and the New World
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 1
American Indian USA
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 9, Folder 1
America in Utopia
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 9, Folder 2
American Indians: The Unamericans
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 2
American Indians: The Real Revolution
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 2
The New Americans
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 3
The New Americans
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes and typed draft.
Box 9, Folder 3
American Indians: The Alian Americans
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 9, Folder 4
American Indians: The Alien Americans
Physical Description: (Typed draft, typescripts, photocopy)
Additional Note
From unidentified magazine, December 12, 1969.
Box 9, Folder 5
The Unamericans
Scope and Content Note
Typed drafts.
Box 9, Folder 6
American Indians: The Alien Americans
Scope and Content Note
Typed drafts.
Box 10, Folder 1
The Magic World [An anthology of Indian literature]
Scope and Content Note
Drafts, correspondence with publisher (University of Oklahoma Press).
Box 10, Folder 2
The Grand Old National Game. .
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 10, Folder 2
Parises
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 10, Folder 2
The Skin Job Works
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 10, Folder 3
Has Anybody Here Seen Hubert?
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 4
Goodbye My Fancy [formerly titled
Princess Triplex]
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 4
Princess Triplex
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 4
Berv Leery Journals
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 5
Avez-Vous Vu Hubert?
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 5
Princess Triplex
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 10, Folder 5
Berv Leery Journals
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 11, Folders 1-5
The Fourth Expedition
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 11, Folder 6
With All My Heart
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 11, Folders 7-9
The Fourth Expedition[?]
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Additional Note
Starts with p.58.
Box 12, Folders 1-2
The Fourth Expedition[?]
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Additional Note
Starts with p.5.
Box 14, Folders 2-3
Step Step
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 14, Folders 4-12
The Second Step
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folders 1-3
The Second Step
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folders 4-5
A Matter of Communication
Scope and Content Note
Typed drafts.
Box 15, Folder 6
With All My Heart
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folder 7
A Matter of Communication
Scope and Content Note
Outline and typescript.
Box 15, Folder 8
Said Rabbit
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folder 8
Sunpah Adamah
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 15, Folder 8
New Worlds For Old
Scope and Content Note
Notes.
Box 15, Folder 9
New Worlds For Old
Scope and Content Note
Preface, acknowlegments, notes.
Box 16, Folder 1
Master Chester
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 1
Child of the North
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 1
T'As Pas Froid Cheri?
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 1
Pilgrim's Way
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 1
The Masca
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 2
Manuscript and typed draft (unidentified work)
Box 16, Folder 2
Spanish Lilac
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 2
T'As Pas Froid Cheri?
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 3
Project Echo
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 3
Torpito and the Joker (unpublished)
1952
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 4
The Princess in the Castle
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 4
Winter Way
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 16, Folder 4
Letters Persanes
Physical Description: (Photocopy, pp.28-37 and 204-213)
Box 16, Folder 5
Manuscript and typescript
Box 16, Folder 7
Copy for back jacket cover
Box 16, Folder 8
Paper read at national meeting of American Society for Ethnohistory
October 23, 1980
Box 16, Folder 10
Acknowlegements, copy for jacket cover; correspondence with Indian Historian Press
Box 17, Folder 1
American Indian USA
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 17, Folders 2-9
New Worlds For Old
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 1
The Grimley City Monster Story
Physical Description: (Typescripts)
Box 18, Folder 2
The Great Little Metaphysician
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2
The Bee At War
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2
The Grand Old National Game. .
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2
Contesting
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folders 2-3
T'As Pas Froid Cheri?
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2
Spanish Lilac
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2
The Grimley City Monster Story
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folder 2
Has Anybody Here Seen Hubert
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 18, Folders 4-7
The Magic World
Additional Note
Includes typescript, master draft, and correspondence with the publisher (William Morrow).
Box 18, Folders 4-5
“The Magic World - Dead Matter”
Scope and Content Note
Notation On Original Envelope.
Includes typescript, master draft, and correspondence with the publisher (William Morrow).
Box 18, Folder 6
Publisher's proof
Scope and Content Note
With attached business card of Daniel Johnson, managing editor of William Morrow.
Box 18, Folder 7
“The Magic World - Author's set”
Additional Note
Note On Original Envelope.
Box 19, Folders 1-6
New Worlds For Old
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 19, Folder 7
Goodbye My Fancy
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 19, Folders 7-9
Berv Leery Journals
Physical Description: (Typescripts)
Box 20, Folder 1
Berv Leery Journals
Physical Description: (Typescripts)
Box 21, Folders 1-3
Manuscripts continuing from Box 20:
Box 21, Folders 4-5
Unidentified works
Physical Description: (Typescripts)
Box 21, Folders 6-9
The Road to Quivera
Scope and Content Note
Typed draft.
Box 36, Folder 6
“Alibi”
Additional Note
Published in
Detective Tales,
November 1949.
Box 36, Folder 12
A Compliment to the Human Race
Box 36, Folder 17
The Girl Who Would Always Have Everything
Box 36, Folder 19
A Matter of Communication
Box 36, Folder 24
The Vision of Herman Willoughby
Box 36, Folder 26
[Untitled - 1 filler]
Scope and Content Note
Beginning, “Some years ago in New Mexico...”
Box 36, Folder 27
There'a a Great Day Coming
Box 37, Folder 3
Untitled
Scope and Content Note
Beginning, “The story of Claude Trundle...”
Box 37, Folder 4
[Untitled]
Scope and Content Note
Beginning “If, as seems incredible...”
Box 37, Folder 11
Johnny Fourteen and the Happy Wife
Box 37, Folder 13
San Francisco is a Nice Town
Box 37, Folder 15
[Untitled]
Scope and Content Note
Beginning, “The room was damp and cold.”
Box 37, Folder 18
I've Got a Secret
Additional Note
Also known as:
Wherever You Are
Box 37, Folder 19
Small Town in the West
Additional Note
Also known as:
A Look on the Outside
Box 37, Folder 21
[Untitled]
Scope and Content Note
Beginning, “My friend Sam Ireland...”
Box 37, Folder 23
Incomplete items, fragments
Box 37, Folder 24
A Complement to the Human Race
Additional Note
See also box 36.
Box 37, Folder 29
It's So Peaceful in the Country
Box 38, Folder 3
Now About Old Bill Williams
Box 38, Folder 10
[Untitled]
Scope and Content Note
Beginning, “The pier was a shed broken with barn doors.”
Box 38, Folder 11
I Can't Give You Anything
Box 38, Folder 13
American Indians and American History
Physical Description: (Photocopy)
Scope and Content Note
With correspondence.
Box 38, Folder 14
O'Brien. Teleplay by Bodeen DeWitt and Sidney Biddle. Meridian Productions no.54
Box 38, Folder 19
Underground
Additional Note
Also known as:
Mission to the Underground
Box 38, Folder 23
All the Pretty Little Horses
Box 39, Folder 4
A Woman Brushing Her Hair
Box 39, Folder 8
“The Windmill”
Additional Note
Published in
Blue Book.
Box 39, Folder 9
“Death Old Woman”
Additional Note
Published in
Adventure.
Box 39, Folder 10
Sequoya: A Man for our Season
Box 39, Folder 20
Act of Mercy. By William Brandon and Helen Taini (developed from an original story by William Brandon...)
Box 39, Folder 21
Son of Kings. By Helen Taini and William Brandon
Box 39, Folder 24
Catalina and the Hundred Years
Box 39, Folder 28
[Untitled]
Additional Note
Beginning, “The best of sentiment...”
Box 39, Folder 29
With All My Heart
Additional Note
Also known as:
A Matter of Communication.
Box 39, Folder 32
The Man Who Might Have Been
Box 40, Folder 1
Untitled holograph manuscript
Physical Description: (Manuscript is partially in Greek)
Box 40, Folder 3
[Untitled - incomplete]
Additional Note
Beginning, “My dentist's secretary in Madrid...”
Box 40, Folder 4
Untitled--with sketches, incomplete
Box 40, Folder 5
Concrete History
Additional Note
For Oakland Museum[?]
Box 40, Folder 6
Mexican World in California
Additional Note
For Oakland Museum[?]
Box 40, Folder 7
Spanish World in California
Additional Note
For Oakland Museum[?]
Box 44, Folders 1-2
Research notes and materials
Scope and Content Note
Includes printed material.
Box 44, Folders 4-6
Research notes and materials
Box 45, Folder 2
Music manuscripts--William Brandon, Mike King
Physical Description: (4 items)
Box 57
Various works
Physical Description: (Typescripts)
Scope and Content Note
Also, copies of
Saturday Evening Post Stories (
1956), and
Massachusetts Review.
Box 63, Folder 1
American Indians: the Real American Revolution
Box 70, Folder 2
Manuscripts, correspondence & family memorabilia
Box 73, Folder 1
Novel--partial manuscript (untitled)
Box 74, Folder 1
Miscellaneous filed with Indian world (Notes)
Box 75, Folder 3
Manuscripts with
Agent's Cover
Box 82, Folder 5
The Ballad of Bargain Day
Box 82, Folder 6
The Grand Old National Game is a Grand Old Game
Box 82, Folder 7
Research material--Francis Bloom & Gertrude Duby
Boxes 117-124
Santa Fe Trail, etc.; New World; Indians
Additional Note
Additions 1991.
Boxes 125-133
Correspondence and Manuscripts (73-92)
Additional Note
Additions 1994.
Boxes 134-135
Unlisted
Additional Note
Additions 1997.
Box 136, Folder 4
American Indians and Native Americans
Box 136, Folder 7
A Ballet (alternate title: Cibola)
Box 136, Folder 12
Bernalillo County (alternate title: Nightfall with Nighthawks)
Box 136, Folder 18
Christmas Comes but Once a Month
Box 136, Folder 19
Cibola (alternate title: A Ballet)
Box 136, Folder 22
A Compliment to the Human Race
Box 136, Folder 27
The Draft and the Riots 1863
Box 136, Folder 33
Fox on the Rocks (alternate title: The Fox and the Blues)
Box 136, Folder 37
The Ghost Takes Charge (alternate title: A Look at the Fire)
Box 136, Folder 41
The Great Little Metaphysician
Box 136, Folder 42
The Grimley City Monster Story
Box 136, Folder 48
How the Healer Caught Johnny Fourteen
Box 136, Folder 49
Hump and the Serpent's Tooth
Box 136, Folder 51
Indian History: Spanish Nebraska and the Pawnee Frontier
Box 136, Folder 52
Introduction to Alpheus H. Favour's Old Bill Williams, Mountain Man
Box 136, Folder 56
Johnny Fourteen and the Happy Wife
Box 136, Folder 57
The Key Behind (alternate title: Click-Click)
Box 137, Folder 2
The Life and White Horse of Ind. Joe
Box 137, Folder 8
Lucinda and the Happy Hippo/Lucinda and the Hippopotami (alternate title: Hermione)
Box 137, Folder 9
The Man Who Might Have Been
Box 137, Folder 10
Mario (alternate title: The Alarmist)
Box 137, Folder 17
The Mountain Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Box 137, Folder 18
Narcissus and the Yankee Trader
Box 137, Folder 21
The New World in the French Revolution of Ideas
Box 137, Folder 22
New Woman (alternate title: Memento)
Box 137, Folder 25
Oh My Grandpa/The Tiger's Eye
Box 137, Folder 29
Pass the Heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah
Box 137, Folder 30
Pat and Mike and the Flying Saucer
Box 137, Folder 34
Pilgrimage (alternate title: Pilgrim's Way)
Box 137, Folder 38
Revolution in the Second R
Box 137, Folder 39
Rougher, Roller, Rich Man, Chief
Box 137, Folder 41
Seam (alternate title: The Sweet Cheat Gone)
Box 137, Folder 42
Sequoya: A Man for our Season
Box 137, Folder 49
Some Historic Places Along the Santa Fe Trail
Box 138, Folder 1
Song for the Lute Viol (alternate title: A Matter of Communication)
Box 138, Folder 11
The Two of Them (alternate title: Kitty)
Box 138, Folder 12
The Vision of Herman Willoughby
Box 138, Folder 17
When the Saints Come Marching In
Box 138, Folder 24
The Wonderful Years in Secaucus
Box 138, Folder 26
The Writer's Craft (alternate title: Techniques)
Box 138, Folder 30
Book Review of Being Geniuses Together
Box 138, Folder 31
Exiles (Dance) (folder 1 of 2)
Box 138, Folder 32
Exiles (Dance) (folder 2 of 2)
Box 138, Folder 33
Exiles (contains: Photocopy of Printed Exiles Portion, Has Anybody Her Seen Hubert?, Berv in Love/French Girl/The Poet, Lia/Luv,
Son of Ubu)
Box 139, Folder 1
A Book of Hours (alternate title: The Thinker)
Box 139, Folder 2
The New World, Volume Two (folder 1 of 3)
Box 139, Folder 3
The New World, Volume Two (folder 2 of 3)
Box 139, Folder 4
The New World, Volume Two (folder 3 of 3)
Box 139, Folder 5
The New World, Volume One (folder 1 of 2)
Box 139, Folder 6
The New World, Volume One (folder 2 of 2)
Box 140, Folder 2
The Buffalo Singer (folder 1 of 2)
Box 140, Folder 3
The Buffalo Singer (folder 2 of 2)
Box 141, Folder 2
Transfer of Rights Concerning American Heritage Book
Box 1, Folder 4
Letters from and
re Joseph T. Shaw, during the latter's last months as editor of
Black Mask. New York
March-September 1936
Physical Description: (15 items)
Scope and Content Note
Also, letters from and
re Joseph T. Shaw while head of Publisher's and Author's Department, Wilson Powell, and Hayward. New York,
November 1936-November 1937.
Box 1, Folder 5
Letters from and correspondence with various persons. v.p.
v.d.
Physical Description: (1 item)
Scope and Content Note
Donald Kennicott. Sherman, Connecticut,
February 6, 1951.
Box 22, Folders 1-4
Correspondence
1930s-1940s
Box 22, Folder 5
Correspondence
1940s-1950s
Box 22, Folders 6-7
Correspondence, etc.
ca. 1952
Box 23, Folder 1
Correspondence, etc.
ca. 1952
Box 23, Folder 2
Brandon, R.C.
1940s-1960s
Box 24, Folder 3
Business correspondence
1961-1965
Box 25, Folders 1-5
Harriman, Caroline
1950s-1960s
Box 26, Folders 1-4
Harriman, Caroline
1950s-1960s
Box 27, Folders 1-2
Correspondence
1950s-1960s
Box 27, Folder 3
Correspondence - K - Judithe - Vom - Betty - Gina
1960s
Box 27, Folder 4
Correspondence - receipts, etc.
1959-1960
Box 33, Folders 1-2
Editors and publishers
1972
Box 33, Folders 3-5
Editors and publishers
1972-1973
Box 35, Folder 1
Correspondence
1950s-1970s
Box 45, Folder 3
Letters from students, Los Exploredores of Tulacitos
Boxes 46-54
Correspondence from William Brandon to family during World War II
(ca. 1940-1945)
Box 55
Correspondence with Jacques Chambrun, Incorporated (publisher)
re various works
(ca. 1939-1943)
Box 56
Correspondence
ca. 1945
Scope and Content Note
Including one folder of letters to Jacques Chambrun, Incorporated.
Box 59
Correspondence with Jacques Chambrun, Incorporated
1939-1943
Box 59
William Brandon's personal correspondence
ca. 1944
Box 60
Correspondence
ca. 1945
Additional Note
Materials received December 1988 Brieflisted dd, lh, dl, dt.
Box 61, Folders 1-2
Brandt & Brandt
1952-1954
Box 61, Folder 3
American Heritage Indians
1966-1971
Box 69, Folders 3-6
Brandt & Brandt
1953-1963
Box 71, Folder 5
Correspondence & memorabilia
Box 75, Folders 1-2
Brandt & Brandt
1949-1950
Box 77, Folder 1
Manuscripts, correspondence, memorabilia, etc.
Box 79, Folder 3
Brandt & Brandt/Harold Ober
1963-1966
Box 80, Folder 1
Editors, Publications
1970-71
Box 140, Folder 4
Correspondence Concerning American Heritage Dispute (folder 1 of 3)
Box 140, Folder 5
Correspondence Concerning American Heritage Dispute (folder 2 of 3)
Box 141, Folder 1
Correspondence Concerning American Heritage Dispute (folder 3 of 3)
Box 141, Folder 3
Correspondence with Professor Philip Durham
2/15/1973-1/25/1977
Box 141, Folder 4
Correspondence to Miss Dorothy Olding
Box 141, Folder 5
Letter to President John F. Kennedy Regarding Land Rights of Alaskan Native Peoples
Box 1, Folder 6
Newspaper clippings
Physical Description: (2 items)
Box 43, Folder 6
Taos Book Shop News, announcements, etc.
Box 43, Folder 7
Price lists, cruise information, etc.
Box 43, Folder 8
Research material
re Vietnam
Box 44, Folder 7
Research material
re atomic testing
Box 42, Folders 8-9
Ephemera by or about William Brandon
Scope and Content Note
Clippings.
Box 43, Folder 1
Documents
re R.C. Brandon
Box 44, Folder 3
Oakland Museum--exhibit schedules
Box 45, Folder 1
Complaint for divorce
November 23, 1959
Physical Description: (1 item)
Additional Note
Box 45 is oversize flat box
Box 69, Folder 2
Memorabilia
Scope and Content Note
Passports, identification, and photographs.
Box 81, Folder 5
Income tax evidence
1958 & 1963
Box 43, Folder 5
Notebook--chess games in progress?
Box 70, Folder 1
Student papers & family memorabilia
Printed Material: Articles, Stories by William Brandon
Box 41, Folder 12
Mystery of the Missing Face
Box 41, Folder 14
The Mystery of the Haunted Ring
Box 41, Folder 21
A Triple Cross for the Countess
Box 62, Folder 1
American Indians and American History
[Periodicals With Articles and Stories by William Brandon]
Box 1, Folder 7
Various periodicals
Physical Description: (5 items)
Scope and Content Note
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The Atlantic,
August 1957
-
Black Mask,
March 1939
-
Blue Book,
April 1943; April 1944 (2 items)
-
Collier's,
October 15, 1949
Box 1, Folder 8
Various periodicals
Physical Description: (7 items)
Scope and Content Note
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Esquire,
October 1941; October 1942 (2 items)
-
Harper's Bazaar.
August 1955
-
John Bull.
August 16, 1958
-
Saturday Evening Post.
December 22, 1951
-
This Week.
September 6, 1952; December 27, 1953 (2 items)
Box 12, Folders 3-8
Magazines With Articles or Stories by William Brandon
Physical Description: (All fragile)
Box 12, Folder 4
Black Mask
September 1940
Box 12, Folder 5
Adventure
September 3, 1919
Folder 6
Double Detective
May 1949
Box 12, Folder 7
Dan Dunn [vol.1, no.1]
September 1936
Box 12, Folder 8
Ranch Romances
October 2, 1936
Box 13, Folder 1-6
Magazines with Articles or Stories by William Brandon
Additional Note
(1-4 are fragile)
Box 13, Folder 1
Ranch Romances
August 1943
Box 13, Folder 2
Mystery Adventures Magazine
March 1937
Box 13, Folder 3
Detective Fiction Weekly
March 11, 1949
Box 13, Folder 4
Double Detective
June 1939
Box 13, Folder 5
Massachusetts Review
Spring 1976
Box 13, Folder 6
Massachusetts Review
Summer 1984
Box 41, Folder 1
“Witchcraft in the Library.” In
Star Weekly Magazine
January 5, 1957
Box 41, Folder 3
Treachery in the Desert. In
Star Weekly
January 24, 1953
Box 41, Folder 4
“The Man in Disguise.” In
This Week Magazine
December 4, 1956
Box 41, Folder 6
“The House of Time.” In
Dime Detective
September 1940
Box 41, Folder 7
“Girl With a Horse for Sale.” In
Collier's
December 25, 1948
Box 41, Folder 8
“False Face.” In
Detective Fiction Weekly
November 2, 1940
Box 41, Folder 9
“Light.” In
Good Housekeeping
Box 41, Folder 10
“The Flight.” In
Collier's
15 May 1948
Box 41, Folder 11
“Battle of Calabash.” In
Collier's
October 15, 1949
Box 41, Folder 15
“The Last Dive.” In
Argosy
April 1958
Box 41, Folder 18
“The Mystery of John Swift.” In
Blue Book
April 1943
Box 41, Folder 19
“An Heiress Runs Away.” In
Blue Book
January 1949
Box 41, Folder 20
“Old Pegleg.” In
Blue Book
September 1943
Box 41, Folder 22
“Two Thousand Miles from the Counting House.” In
American West
July 1968
Box 41, Folder 23
“How Near is the Morning.” In
American West
Winter 1965
Box 41, Folder 24
“American Indians and American History.” In
American West
Spring 1965
Box 41, Folder 27
“Paris in Spring.” In
Saturday Review
May 21, 1966
Box 41, Folder 28
“The Magic World, Six Indian Songs and Poems.” In
Nimrod
Spring/Summer 1972
Box 41, Folder 29
[Poems from
The Magic World]. In
Scholastic
January 31, 1972
Box 41, Folder 30
“Wild Horses of the West.” In
Sierra Club Bulletin
September 1972
Box 42, Folder 1
“The Life and White Horse of Ind. Joe..”
The Massachusetts Review
Spring 1970
Box 42, Folder 2
“Sappho and Other Stories.” In
The Massachusetts Review
Autumn 1967
Box 42, Folder 3
“Old Dog.” In
Reader's Digest
April 1957
Box 42, Folder 4
“The Trail to Santa Fe.” In
Blue Book
September 1949
Box 42, Folder 5
“Dust Devil.” In
Blue Book
September 1943
Box 42, Folder 6
“Hail to the Chief.” In
The Progressive
October 1970
Box 42, Folder 7
“The American Indians: The Un-Americans.” In
The Progressive
January 1970
Box 42, Folder 10
“The Men and the Mountain” by William Brandon. In
Books for Spring 1955
Physical Description: (p.36)
Box 45, Folder 4
“Don't Be Too Sure.” In
This Week
6 July 1958
Box 45, Folder 5
“Lucinda and her Happy Hippo.” In
This Week
October 20, 1957
Box 45, Folder 6
“As You Like it, Man.” In
Chicago Tribune Book World
December 31, 1967
Box 45, Folder 7
“The Wrong Kind of Girl.” In
Saturday Evening Post
March 3, 1956
Box 45, Folder 8
“Light.” In
John Bull
February 26, 1955
Box 45, Folder 9
“Witchcraft in the Library.” In
This Week
4 March 1956
Box 45, Folder 10
“Treasure Chest.” In
Collier's
July 18, 1953
Box 45, Folder 11
“The Trap.” In
Collier's
November 8, 1941
Box 45, Folder 12
“Brief Enchantment.” In
Saturday Evening Post
July 21, 1956
Box 45, Folder 13
“Come to the Fair.” In
Ladies' Home Journal
May 1956
Box 41, Folder 25
[Review of
Being Geniuses Together - Boyle, McAlmon]. In
The Progressive
September 1968
Box 41, Folder 26
Indian Summer - [book reviews]. In
Saturday Review
July 1968
[Various Periodicals and Pamphlets]
Box 42, Folder 11
Publications - no Brandon material[?]
Box 42, Folder 12
Monterey Foghorn
Physical Description: (6 issues)
Box 58
Issues of
American West magazine
Box 72, Folder 1
Publications, etc.
Scope and Content Note
-
Cosmopolitan
-
American West
-
Atlantic Monthly
-
Good Housekeeping