Guide to the Harriet Doerr Papers, 1976-1996
Guide to the Harriet Doerr Papers, 1976-1996
Collection number: M0668
Department of Special Collections and University ArchivesStanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Tim Noakes and Mara Holian
- Date Completed:
- 1996
- Encoded by:
- Steven Mandeville-Gamble
- Consider This, Señora
- Stones for Ibarra
- Miscellaneous Stories
- Albert Guerard Corrections
- Manuscripts and Translations
- Interviews and Talks
- Correspondence
- Hallmark TV Film of Stones for Ibarra
- Newsclippings and Magazine Articles
- I. The Tiger in the Grass (including stories, Mss, etc.)
- II. Consider This, Señora (including stories, corrections, and reviews)
- III. Stones for Ibarra (title pages, last chapter)
- IV. Miscellaneous Short Stories (including class comments and corrections)
- V. Readings, Signings, and Promotionals
- VI. Professional Correspondence
- VII. General Correspondence
- VIII. Computer Disks
Original papers, materials from Accessions 1993-119, 1994-025, 1994-038
Consider This, Señora: Book Jacket Designs
Consider This, Señora, Chronology
Consider This, Señora, Katherine Andres - notes, revisions
Consider This, Señora, Dedication
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller: Untitled
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "Please," "Letters from Mexico," "400 block, 3:30pm"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "Visitors"
Scope and Content Note
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "Solitary Confinement"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "The Seasons"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "The Picnic in the Wildflowers"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "A Little Kiss"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "The Local Train," "Landmarks," "Notes from a Mexican Village," "At the Villa"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "You May Wait in a Private Room"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "Carnations"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "The Christmas Centerpiece," "The Extinguishing of Aunt Alice," "First Find All the White Pieces"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "Handling Time," "The Local Train"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "The Wax Flowers"
Early Stories with comments by Clive Miller, "Loreto," "Lunch with the Bishop," "Wetback," "Take it One Day at a Time," "Humiliation"
Yolla Bolly Press: Under the Aztec Sun (galley proofs)
Stanford Sequoia, 1987:"Ibarra: Pages from a Notebook"
Stones for Ibarra (stories): comments by Billy Abrahams, Alice Adams, and Ernest Gaines
Comments by John L'Heureux : "Wetback," "Visitors," "Kid Muñoz," "The Local Train," "At the Villa," "First Find all the White Pieces," "Landmarks"
Comments by John L'Heureux, "The Baptists," "Immense Distances, Extraordinary Events," "Loreto," "Lunch with the Bishop," "Parts of Speech"
Comments by John L'Heureux, "Calling from Loreto"
Comments by John L'Heureux, "The Priests' Picnic," "The Red Taxi"
"Picnic at Amapolas": class comments
"Picnic at Amapolas", final versions
"Easter Weekend": revised and final versions
"Goya and the Widow Bowles": original
"Goya and the Widow Bowles", revised and final versions
"A Over Middle C": revised and final versions
"Truckloads of Tuberoses": revisions
"Another Short day in La Luz": revised and final versions
"Bud on the Side of the Angels": revised and final versions
"Exit the Widow": comments and final version
Writing Course by John L'Heureux: Comments, Examination, Essay
"The Bandstand at the Square": comments and revisions
"As it Happened": comments and revisions
Catalogue: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, spring 1993
VUELTA
Submitted to the Henfield Foundation: "The Red Taxi," "The Baptists," "The Doctor of the Moon"
Stones for Ibarra: class comments on stories
"The Evertons out of Their Minds": comments and revisions
"A Clear Understanding": comments and revisions
"The Life Sentence of Jose Reyes": comments, revisions, and final versions
"Kid Muñoz"; revisions and final version
"The Inheritance": comments and revisions
"Pray for Us, Fathers": revisions
"Pray for Us, Fathers", comments and revisions
"The Red Taxi": last revisions and final
"Parts of Speech": comments and revisions
"Parts of Speech": comments and revisions
"The Thorn on the Blown-Glass Lamp": comments and revisions
"The Night of September Fifteenth"
"Christmas Messages": comments and revisions
"Lunch with the Bishop": comments and revisions
"Calling from Loreto": comments and revisions
"The Priests' Picnic": comments and revisions
"The Priests' Picnic": comments and revisions
"The Baptists": class comments
"The Doctor of the Moon": comments and revisions
"The Doctor of the Moon": comments and revisions
"Immense Distances, Extraordinary Events": comments and revisions
"Immense Distances, Extraordinary Events": comments and revisions
"Bring Stones," "To Know Its Ways"
"Bring Stones": comments
Albert Guerard Corrections: "The Local Train"
Albert Guerard Corrections, "A Clear Understanding"
Albert Guerard Corrections, "Parts of Speech"
Albert Guerard Corrections, "The Priests' Picnic"
Albert Guerard Corrections, "Immense Distances, Extraordinary Events"
Albert Guerard Corrections, "The Life Sentence of Jose Reyes"
Albert Guerard Corrections, "The Inheritance"
Albert Guerard Corrections, "Lunch with the Bishop"
Albert Guerard Corrections, "The Baptists"
Albert Guerard Corrections, "Pray for Us, Fathers"
Albert Guerard Corrections: "The Doctor of the Moon"
New Fiction Catalog: Harcourt Brace
Consider This, Señora: editorial suggestions by Katherine Andres
Stones for Ibarra: Mss (cover page - p.84)
Stones for Ibarra, (pp. 85-213)
Consider This, Señora: Mss with corrections (a)
Consider This, Señora, Mss with corrections (b)
Consider This, Señora, Galley revisions, (title page - p.68)
Consider This, Señora, Galley revisions (p.69-end)
Stones for Ibarra: French translation by Pascale Hubert Liebler
Stones for Ibarra, galley (iii - p.69)
Stones for Ibarra, galley (p. 70-160)
Stones for Ibarra, galley (p.161-220)
Stones for Ibarra, galley (p.221-278)
Stones for Ibarra, Notes and correspondence re. Manuscript sent to Viking Press (includes characters and chronology)
Stones for Ibarra, Viking Press Manuscript (copy): (title page - p.69)
Stones for Ibarra, Viking Press Manuscript (copy), (p. 70-145)
Stones for Ibarra, Viking Press Manuscript (copy), (p.146-220)
Stones for Ibarra, Viking Press Manuscript (copy), (p.221-278)
Stones for Ibarra: Correspondences re. Spanish translation
Stones for Ibarra, Spanish translation: Ch.I - Ch.VI
Stones for Ibarra, Spanish translation, Ch.VII - Ch.X
Stones for Ibarra, Spanish translation, Ch.XI - Ch.XVII
Letters re. French Publication: Thierry de Navacelle, Michel Deguy
Consider This, Señora: galley (title page - p.65)
Consider This, Señora, galley (p. 66-131)
Consider This, Señora, galley (p.132-222)
Consider This, Señora, Corrections by John L'Heureux of text (title page - p.65)
Consider This, Señora, Corrections by John L'Heureux of text, (p. 66-155)
Consider This, Señora, Corrections by John L'Heureux of text, (p.156-246)
Consider This, Señora, Cork Smith corrections of text (title page - p.65)
Consider This, Señora, Cork Smith corrections of text, (p. 66-155)
Consider This, Señora, Cork Smith corrections of text, (p.156-246)
Harcourt Brace: Correspondence and computer disk
Consider This, Señora: Repro Dupe (title page - p.194)
Consider This, Señora, Repro Dupe (p.195-240)
Consider This, Señora, Proof (title page - p.49)
Consider This, Señora, Proof, (p. 50-139)
Consider This, Señora, Proof, (p.140-222)
Consider This, Señora: Repro Dupe (title page - p.100)
Consider This, Señora, Repro Dupe, (p.101-241)
Consider This, Señora, Master Galley (p. 1-55)
Consider This, Señora, Master Galley, (p. 56-110)
Consider This, Señora, Master Galley, (p.111-170)
Interview
Pen West: Wallace Stegner
The National Undergraduate Literature Conference: Ogden, UT- 4/13/90
Pasadena Weekly, 6/13/86
Tell Me a Story (public radio), Marjorie Leet
Katherine Henderson, Univ. of Kentucky
Friends of CalTech Libraries
KCET: Take Five, 11/27/89
SCRIPPS College Talk
Talks: Old Mill, Polytechnic, The Wednesday Club
Telephone interview with Jim Pappas: 1/9/85(Penguin Contemporary Authors Series)
Santa Barbara Writer's Conference
Talks (1984):Town Club, Parachutists, Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena Arts Council, Williams Book Store, San Francisco State Univ.
Invitations to speak: declined or pending
Pasadena City College: 5/4/85
Southern California Booksellers (10/12/84); San Diego and Southern California Booksellers Association (9/6/84)
Bookstores: readings, signings
Pasadena Public Library; Pasadena 100th Anniversary, Friends of the San Marino Public Library
Literary Women's Conference; Malibu Public Library; PEN, LA Center
Literary Women, Long Beach: 1/19/85
Radio: KCRW (Connie Goldman)
Sacred Heart Preparatory (4/29/86); Stanford University Bookstore (4/30/86); Stanford University, CROW (4/30/86)
The Music Center Book Fair Panel (6/8/86)
Declined Interviews and talks
Writers at work: Salt Lake City, Park City (July 10-14, 1985)
Purdue
Syracuse University
Cornell University: Kenneth McClare
University of California, Santa Barbara: 11/7/85
University of Iowa
Notes for talks
Pasadena Smith Club: 10/18/87:Valley Hunt
Brandeis University National Women's Committee: Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 11/6/86
SCRIPPS talk: 10/10/86
Jim Krusoe: Santa Monica Writers Workshop, 1987
Invitations to speak: declined or postponed
Reed College; California State University at Northridge; Multnomah County Library
University of Arizona: 10/11/87
CalTech (Friends of the Library): 12/8/89
Reed College; Multnomah County Library
U.C. Berkeley Women Writers at Work: 11/11/89
Cerritos College, 1990
UCLA (3/90); LA City College (5/89)
Radio & TV interviews
The Writer; Fiction Network Magazine
Friends of Mexico; Manhattan Theater Club 1990
Writers at Work Conference, 1985
"Fiction at the Folger," & LA Times article, 1984
Westridge Alumnae Reunion Day, 4/89
Proceedings (Series II, no.36): American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters
Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, 6/14/85
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 5/85
Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards, 3/15/85
National Book Critics Award: nomination
The American Book Award
The LA Times Book Review, 9/23/84
"Hope and Despair in Contemporary American Culture...," Bruce McIver, "A Voice of One's Own: Contemporary Short Fiction...," Ann Harleman Stewart
Requests for blurbs
Requests to write
The National Book Foundation
Correspondence: 1980-1983
Correspondence, 1/84
Correspondence, 2/84
Correspondence, 3/84
Correspondence, 4/84
Correspondence, May - Sept., 1984
Correspondence, Oct. - Dec., 1984
Correspondence, Jan. - Feb., 1985
Correspondence, March - May, 1985
Correspondence, June - Aug., 1985
Correspondence: Sept. - Dec., 1985
Correspondence, Jan. - April, 1986
Correspondence: May - Dec., 1986
Correspondence, 1987
Correspondence, 1988-1989
Correspondence, No Date
Correspondence, "Picnic at Amapolas," (Spring, 1986):Answered
Copies of letters: 4/18/86-9/4/86
Reading Groups
Letters, 1987
Letters
Letters: Reid Austin, Ernest Kroll, Grant Munro, Marcia Davenport
Letters and answers
Copies of letters: 8/22/84-3/4/86
Letters to Press
Pictures - Hallmark: Arizona, 11/87
Stones for Ibarra: Titus Productions, Hallmark - Early Script Suggestions
Hallmark Promotional
Hallmark Pictures
Tucson
Stones for Ibarra: TV Script
Stones for Ibarra, Final script
Stones for Ibarra, Cast, Shooting schedule
Stones for Ibarra, Cast & revisions
Stones for Ibarra, USA Today
Best Seller Lists
Pasadena Weekly: Larry Wilson
Peninsula Times Tribune; Palo Alto Weekly, Stanford Daily
Newsclippings
Los Angeles Times
Newsclippings: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose
Newsclippings, Palo Alto Weekly (Dec. 1979, 1981)
Newsclippings
Newsclippings, Los Angeles
Miscellaneous: reviews, correspondence
Mexico City News (Morelia)
The Cresset
Newsclippings: Los Angeles Times
Miscellaneous newsclippings
Best Seller lists
Interviews
American Academy of Arts & Letters: 5/85
Newsclippings: New York Times
Westridge School
American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters
The New Yorker: 12/24/90, 2/17/86
The Sequoia: Winter, 1978
The Ark River Review: vol.5:2
Newsclippings: San Jose Mercury News, Pasadena Star News (Earthquake)
From Aida Ferrarone: Noticias del Mundo
Pending: Ann Gardner (film)
Hallmark: Stones for Ibarra
CBS Broadcast Group
Yolla Bolly Press: Under the Aztec Sun (1)
Yolla Bolly Press: Under the Aztec Sun (2)
Yolla Bolly Press: Under the Aztec Sun (3)
Miscellaneous Publicity
Contemporary American Fiction
Publicity: Viking, Penguin
Viking Promotion
Miscellaneous clippings
The Atlantic, 4/91
The Los Angeles Times Magazine, 7/2/89
Ladies Home Journal, 7/85
Quarterly West, Autumn 1978
The Hudson Review, Autumn 1984
Image, 5/3/87
Stanford Magazine, Spring 1989
The Book of the Month Club News, 4/88
Peninsula, 3/87
California, 1/84
Ms., 1/84
Vanity Fair, 1/84
The New Yorker, 1/16/84
Mademoiselle, 2/84
Mature Outlook, Fall 1984
Vogue, 12/83
The New Republic, 1/30/84
The New Yorker, 12/24/84(p.31)
The New York Times book review
The Book Review: The Los Angeles Times
The Christian Science Monitor
Adenda, materials received 4/30/96, Accession 96-068
Series I: The Tiger in the Grass (published 1995)
"The Tiger in the Grass": corrections and revisions
"The Tiger in the Grass", final draft
"The Tiger in the Grass", background research
"Please"
"Flowering Stick"
"From Paris to Savigny-sur-Seille"
"Carnations"
"The Christmas Centerpiece"
"The Extinguishing of Great Aunt Alice"
"Low Tide at Four"
"Like Heaven"
"Seasons"
"Local Train"
"The Watchman at the Gate"
"Way Stations": early versions and revisions
"Way Stations", later versions and O'Henry copy
"Saint's Day": class comments
"Saint's Day": class comments
"Consider This, Señora" (later "Sun, Pure Air, and a View"): comments by class, L'Heureux
"Consider This, Señora" (later "Sun, Pure Air, and a View"): comments by class, L'Heureux
"Consider This, Señora" (later "Sun, Pure Air, and a View"): later versions
"Consider This, Señora" (later "Sun, Pure Air, and a View"): final draft
"Sleeve of Rain"
"Edie: A Life": class comments
"Edie: A Life", comments by L'Heureux
"Edie: A Life", original poem and more drafts
The Tiger in the Grass: Table of Contents and Dedication pages
The Tiger in the Grass, first TMS with corrections (Parts I & II)
The Tiger in the Grass, first TMS with corrections (Part III)
The Tiger in the Grass, first TMS with corrections (Parts IV & V)
The Tiger in the Grass: early Mss (Parts II & III)
The Tiger in the Grass: early Mss (Parts IV & V)
The Tiger in the Grass, original Viking Mss (Parts II & III)
The Tiger in the Grass, original Viking Mss (Parts IV & V)
The Tiger in the Grass, Viking Mss with corrections, 5/19/95,(p.i-89)
The Tiger in the Grass, Viking Mss with corrections, 5/19/95(p.90-167)
The Tiger in the Grass, Copy Editing pages with corrections, 6/15/95,(p.i-89)
The Tiger in the Grass, Copy Editing pages with corrections, 6/15/95,(p.90-167)
The Tiger in the Grass: rough pages/galley proofs, 7/25/95,(p.i-88)
The Tiger in the Grass, rough pages/galley proofs, 7/25/95(p.89-206)
The Tiger in the Grass, Rough pages/galley proofs corrections
The Tiger in the Grass, page proofs, 8/31/95,(p.i-90)
The Tiger in the Grass: page proofs, 8/31/95,(p.91-209)
The Tiger in the Grass, Viking edition (book)
Series II: Consider This, Señora
"Picnic at Amapolas": original and notes
"Easter Weekend"
"Goya and the Widow Bowles"
"A Over Middle C"
"Truckloads of Tuberoses"
"Another Short Day in La Luz"
"Bud on the Side of the Angels"
"Exit the Widow"
"The Bandstand in the Square"
"The Bandstand in the Square", larger font-size copies
"As It Happened"
Consider This, Señora: copy editing corrections
Consider This, Señora, promotions
Consider This, Señora, reviews (6/93-8/22/93)
Consider This, Señora, reviews (8/27/93-12/94)& no date
Consider This, Señora: best seller lists
Series III: Stones for Ibarra
Stones for Ibarra: title pages
Stones for Ibarra, last chapter ("To Know Its Ways")
Series IV: Miscellaneous Short Stories
"400 Block, 3:30pm"
"Alta Mira"
"The Baptists"
"A Clear Understanding"
"Dear Dr.Hadley"
"Handling Time"
"Houses"
"Landmarks: Ibarra - Pages from a Notebook"
"Letters from Mexico"
"Loreto"
"Lunch with the Bishop"
"One Day at a Time"
"My Aunt Alexa": class comments
"The Rearrangement"
"Reincarnations"
"Santa Felicia"
Series V: Readings, Signings, and Promotionals
Reading at "The Y," 1991-1992
National Kidney Foundation Authors' Luncheon, 5/94
Harvest, 1994
Tucson book signings, 11/95
Series VI: Professional Correspondence
The Atlantic: Michael Curtis, 1986-1991
Darhansoff & Verrill Publishing, 1995
Doubleday Publishing, 1988
Epoch, 1987
Harleman, Anne, 1993
The Huntington: Robert Middlekauf, 1984
The Los Angeles Times, 1989
Sayre, Constance
The Sequoia, 1986
W.W. Norton Publishing: Janet Sternberg, 1987-1993
The Writer, 1984-1985
Yolla Bolly Publishers: Under an Aztec Sun, 1988-1992
Series VII: General Correspondence (mostly fan letters), 1988-1996
Correspondence: 1988-1992
Correspondence, 1988-1992envelopes
Correspondence, 1/93-8/93
Correspondence, 1/93-8/93envelopes
Correspondence, 9/93
Correspondence, 9/93envelopes
Correspondence, 10/93-12/93
Correspondence, 10/93-12/93envelopes
Correspondence, 1/94-4/94
Correspondence, 1/94-4/94envelopes
Correspondence, 5/94-12/94
Correspondence, 5/94-12/94envelopes
Correspondence, 1995-1996
Correspondence, 1995-1996envelopes
Correspondence, no date
Photos removed from letters
Series VIII: Computer Disks
Computer disks (probably containing drafts of stories)