Finding Aid for the Ray Bradbury Papers LSC.0471
Finding aid prepared by Yvonne Schroeder, July 1960; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2002.
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Ray Bradbury papers
Creator:
Bradbury, Ray
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0471
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1950-1960
Abstract: Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920- ) has authored numerous novels, short stories, plays, films, poems, and articles, including
he Martian Chronicles (1950),
Dandelion Wine, and
Something Wicked this Way Comes. The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera by and related to Ray Bradbury.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ray Bradbury Papers (Collection 471). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Ray Bradbury, 1956.
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Biography
Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, August 22, 1920; started his writing career in 1943; the winner of various
awards, he is known primarily for writing fantasy and science fiction stories; he has authored numerous novels, short stories,
plays, films, poems, and articles, including
The Martian Chronicles (1950),
Dandelion Wine, and
Something Wicked this Way Comes.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera by and related to Ray Bradbury. Includes various titles including
The Martian Chronicles. Also includes a copy of
Moby Dick screenplay and a radio script for the
The Whole Town's Sleeping.
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Related Material
The Dogs That Eat Sweet Grass [oral history transcript] / Ray Bradbury, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1961. Available at UCLA Library
Special Collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Typescripts.
Authors, American -- Archives.
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012--Archives.
box 1
he Martian Chronicles. Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York,
1950.
General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph corrections and printer's notations. 293 leaves.
box 1
he Martian Chronicles.
General Physical Description note: Corrected galley proofs. 66 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
Also: 15 leaves of page proofs with printer's notations (not text).
box 2
Moby Dick. Los Angeles,
November 14, 1956.
General Physical Description note: [Screenplay] Mimeographed. In green paper binder. 148pp.
Scope and Contents note
Final - but
not final shooting script - this is mimeographed copy of script as started October 7, 1953 and finished April 16, 1954 - by R.
Bradbury - Huston, later, in shooting film - made some deletions & changes./ R.B.
box 2
The Murderer. In
he Golden Apples of the Sun published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, Manuscript dated
1953. June 1, 1952.
General Physical Description note: Typescript with extensive holograph corrections. 17 leaves. In yellow paper binder.
Scope and Contents note
First draft.
box 2
The April Witch.
General Physical Description note: 31 leaves total. Both typescripts together in green paper binder. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
First draft of first, original, unused version - plus first draft of second, entirely different version - R.B.. Published
in
Golden Apples of the Sun.
box 2
The Flying Machine.
October 17, 1950.
General Physical Description note: Typescript with corrections. 13 leaves. In orange paper binder.
Scope and Contents note
First draft. Published in
Golden Apples of the Sun.
box 2
And the Rock Cried Out.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (partly carbon). Extensive corrections.
Scope and Contents note
First 3 drafts of story/ Progressively cut and edited. Published in
Farenheit 451 - 1953 by Ballantine Books, Incorporated, New York.
box 3
Summer Night.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (some carbon) and mimeographed. 25 leaves. In yellow paper binder.
Scope and Contents note
First draft... published in
McCalls as
The Whole Town's Sleeping/ will appear as part of Doubleday book
Dandelion Wine, May 1957.
box 2
he End of the Beginning.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon) with corrections. Second draft. 9 leaves. In yellow paper binder.
Scope and Contents note
Published in
A Medicine for Melancholy, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1959.
box 2
The Pipe Organ.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon). 9 leaves. In green paper binder.
Scope and Contents note
Original version, 1952. Published in
A Medicine for Melancholy, 1959, and in
Collier's 1954 under the title The Marriage Mender.
box 2
The Magical Kitchen.
General Physical Description note: Typescript with corrections. First leaf has numerous holograph comments and markings on both sides. 12 leaves. In blue paper
binder.
Scope and Contents note
First draft. To appear 1957 in
Dandelion Wine.
box 3
The Sound of Thunder. Los Angeles,
January 23, 1952.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon) with extensive corrections. 20 leaves. In yellow paper binder.
Scope and Contents note
Published in
Collier's, 1952.
box 2
The Dwarf.
May 28, 1952.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (partly carbon) with extensive holograph corrections. 25 leaves. In orange paper binder.
Scope and Contents note
2nd draft. First leaf has explanatory note.
box 2
he Fox in the Forest. Venice, California,
February 3, 1950.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (some carbon) with occasional corrections. 37 leaves. In green paper binder.
Scope and Contents note
Final draft.
box 3
he Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone.
General Physical Description note: 24 leaves. In orange paper binder. Typescript with extensive corrections.
Scope and Contents note
Second leaf has many holograph notations and markings and is entitled The Incredible Death of Dudley Stone. Dated June 1952-June
1953.
box 2
he Great Collision of Monday Last.
December 9, 1955.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon). 12 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
Next to final draft - R.B.
box 2
he First Night of Lent; a one-act play.
December 1958-January 1959.
General Physical Description note: Typescript with extensive corrections. 31 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
First draft.
box 3
A Wild Night in Ireland.
December 16, 1958.
General Physical Description note: Typescript with some corrections. 12 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
First draft. Based on a fragment of conversation with Ben Maddow, returned from Ireland, at lunch, December 15, 1958.
box 2
Biographical comments by various persons.
1951-59.
General Physical Description note: Typescripts. 7 items. In folder.
box 1
Ephemera. Newspapers and magazines with material about and by Ray Bradbury.
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 1
Other Worlds; Science Stories. vol.1 no.3 ().
March 1950
Scope and Contents note
Contains Punishment Without Crime by Ray Bradbury. pp.6-13.
box 1
Galaxy: Science Fiction. vol.1 no.5 ().
February 1951
Scope and Contents note
Contains The Fireman by Ray Bradbury. pp.4-61.
box 1
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. vol.32 no.4 .
October 1958.
Scope and Contents note
Contains The Town Where no one Got Off by Ray Bradbury. pp.108-114.
box 1
he Science Fiction Galaxy. Permabooks, New York,
1950.
Scope and Contents note
Contains reprint of King of the Grey Spaces by Ray Bradbury. pp.208-226.
box 2
Correspondence.
1951- .
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
box 3
Bradbury, Ray,
A Medicine for Melancholy. Los Angeles,
1920- . 1959.
General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph corrections. 289 leaves.
- First published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1959.
- This is a collection of short stories, previously published in periodicals.
- Final typescript from which type was set.
box 3
--- ---- Another copy.
General Physical Description note: 65 sheets. Galley proofs with corrections in ink.
box 3
--- ---- Another copy.
General Physical Description note: 81 sheets. Page proofs with a few corrections in red pencil.
box 3
--- Interview made by the Oral History Program, UCLA. Los Angeles,
1961.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon) 462 leaves. 28cm.
- This is the unedited transcript of the tapes, now erased.
- Interview conducted by Craig Cunningham, January 12-April 11, 1961.
- Transcribed by Joyce Doetkott, October 30, 1961-April 11, 1962.
General note
Transferred to the University Archives
box 3
---
he Whole Town's Sleeping. n.p.,
1958.
General Physical Description note: Mimeographed with corrections in red and black pencil. 20 leaves. 28cm.
Scope and Contents note
A radio script broadcast on Suspence, August 31, 1958. This is apparently the copy used by the producer-director, William
Robson.
