Descriptive Summary
Boyle, Kay
Kay Boyle Papers,
1910-1992 and undated
A noted author, Kay
Boyle wrote for the New Yorker and won the O. Henry prize for best short story
of the year in 1934.
R 2.1
Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University
6 boxes and 6
oversized items (7.0 linear feet)
English.
Biographical Sketch
Kay Boyle was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1902, and grew up in
Cincinnati and Europe. She attended Columbia University and lived in Europe in
the 1920's and 1930's as part of the lost
generation of American ex-patriate writers. She was a noted author of
more than four dozen books including novels, poetry, short stories and essays.
Her short stories and novels usually deal with contemporary issues, often
concerning characters caught up in powerful political or social forces, such as
the rise of Nazism in Europe. Boyle's poetry and short stories appeared in such
magazines as Harper's and the New Yorker.
She won the O. Henry prize for best short story of the year, in 1934
for
The White Horses of Vienna and in 1941 for
Defeat. From 1963 until 1979 she taught
literature and creative writing at San Francisco University. Boyle had a great
commitment to social justice and was active in political affairs for most of
her life. She helped raise funds for the families of conscientious objectors
during World War I and protested U. S. involvement in Vietnam. She was also
instrumental in starting an Amnesty International chapter in San Francisco, and
her annual birthday party was a fund raiser for that organization. Even in
extreme old age she continued to write letters supporting social causes or
political candidates.
Her marriages to Richard Brault and Laurence Vail both ended in
divorce. Her third husband was Baron Joseph von Franckenstein, an Austrian
diplomat, whom she married in 1943. He worked for the U.S. Department of State
but was deprived of his job during the McCarthy era. Ms. Boyle also lost her
position as European correspondent for the New Yorker during that time after
being falsely accused of Fascist sympathies. She spent years of poverty and
hardship trying to clear her husband's name. He died in 1963. Ms. Boyle had
five children by Laurence Vail and Baron von Franckenstein. In her old age, her
son Ian Franckenstein cared for her. She died in 1992 at the age of 90.
Scope and Contents
The papers from Kay Boyle's collection consist of personal and
business correspondence, speeches, short stories, poetry, working notes,
leaflets, fund raising letters, pamphlets, essays, interviews, magazine and
newspaper articles, catalog pages, literary journals, magazines, address and
date books, calendars, official documents, contracts, notebooks, awards and
certificates, photographs, posters, a commonplace book, and manuscript versions
of stories and poems, some of which have not been published.
Organization
The collection was purchased in installments over a period of years.
The two largest collections came from Boyle's estate, and are arranged
according to her system, rather than alphabetically. There is also an Irish
linen handkerchief found with a letter from an Irish correspondent.
Index Terms
The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
developed.
Subjects (Persons)
Boyle, Kay,
1902-
Boyle, Kay, 1902-
--Archives
Boyle, Kay, 1902-
--Correspondence
Boyle, Kay,
1902- --Manuscripts
Boyle, Kay,
1902- --Literary collections
Subjects
Authors, American--20th
century
Women authors,
American--20th century
Women political
activists--United States
Acquisition
Purchases, 1988-1998
Access Restrictions
Open for research
Processed by
Cecilia George, 1999
Preferred Citation
Kay Boyle Papers, 1910-1992 and undated, Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
Texas
Additional Sources
Mellen, Joan.
Kay Boyle: Author of Herself. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
Spanier, Sandra Whipple.
Kay Boyle: Artist and Activist.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Critical Essays on Kay Boyle. Edited
by Marilyn Elkins. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1997.
For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
- Kay Boyle interview with Kay Bonetti [sound recording].
Columbia, MO: American Audio Prose Library, 1985.
Collection Inventory
1
1
Bricktop,
1968-71
1
2
Passport,
1949
1
2
Passport,
1986
1
3
Bower,
1944
1
3
Poem for Vida Tabrizi,
1975
1
3
Poem for Vida Tabrizi with
autograph corrections
1
4
Weiss, Karl,
1983
1
5
Letter from KB toMr.
Neugeboren,
1979
1
6
Mary Margaret,
1944
1
6
McBride,
1942
1
6
Laurence,
1965
1
7
Morrison, Toni,
undated
1
8
Reminiscence of Henry Miller, original corrected
typescript,
1980
1
9
Hartman,
1941
1
9
Promotional letters for
Primer for Combat,
1941
1
10
Amnesty International,
1973, notes in KB's hand
1
10
Sperisen, Albert,
1973-79
1
10
Greek Resistance,
1973, note in KB's hand
1
11
Commonplace Book,
undated
1
12
Independents for the Socialist Workers
Candidates,
1970
1
12
Gold, Herb (writer),
1981-84
1
13
Blues: a Magazine of New Rhythms,
1930, poem by KB on page 32
1
15
KB to Ashberry, John,
1981
1
16
Atwood, Margaret,
1981
1
17
Oates, Joyce Carol,
1975
1
18
Grenier, Fernand.
Francs-tireurs and Guerillas of
France,
ca. 1943
1
19
Notes for
A History of the German People,
undated
1
20
The Crosbys: An Afterward,
undated
1
22
Speech Against the Vietnam
War,
1965
1
22
Speech Against the Vietnam
War by KB,
1965
1
22
eleven typescript poems by KB,
1929-1939
1
23
KB to Miss Pruette,
1943
1
23
Collected Poems of Kay Boyle,
1991
1
24
Ginsberg, Allen,
1975
1
24
Exorcism, by Alan Ginsberg,
1974
1
25
Wilmer, Herbert,
1975
2
1
Abbot, Berenice (photographer),
1982
2
2
Albee, Edward (playwright),
1982-87
2
3
Baez, Joan Sr.,
1987-88
2
4
Finer, Ray,
1982
2
5
Fleiner, Adda and Jacques,
1982
2
6
Ford, Hugh (writer),
1979-84
2
7
Fowlie, Wallace (writer),
1984
2
8
Franckenstein, Ian (KB's son),
1987 and undated
2
9
Garchik, Leah and Jerome,
1981-88
2
10
Gutekunst, George,
1981-89
2
11
Goeser, Emilie and Ben (KB's grandchildren),
1975-88
2
13
Groening, Roger,
1984
2
14
Grumbach, Doris (novelist),
1982-87
2
15
Herman, Jan (writer),
1981-85
2
16
Hersey, John (novelist),
1981
2
17
Hoagland, Edward (novelist),
1981
2
18
Inada, Lawson (poet),
1983-88
2
19
Irving, John (novelist),
1981
2
20
Jolas, Maria (writer),
1982
2
21
Jordan, Fred (Grove Press),
1987
2
22
Kahler, Alice (wife of Erich Kahler),
1984
2
23
Kempner, Robert,
1987
2
24
Kennan, George (writer),
1981
2
25
Fleiner, Adda,
1985
2
25
Koch, David (Southern Illinois University),
1981-88
2
26
Koch, Kenneth (poet),
1982-83
2
27
A Lesson in Anatomy, typed
manuscript,
1987
2
27
Litwack, Leo (novelist),
1981-1983
2
28
McCartey, Nancy (aka Nancy Allitt), Irish feminist and
peace activist,
1981
2
29
McCord, Howard (poet),
1987
2
30
McCormick, Ken (Doubleday),
1983-88
2
31
MacLeod, Norman (poet),
1982
2
32
MacNiven, Ian (writer),
1978-88
2
33
Mainland, Nancy,
1988
2
34
Maruhn, Siegfried (writer),
1983-88
2
35
Matthiesen, Peter (novelist),
1981
2
36
Mellen, Joan (KB's biographer),
1987-90
2
37
Miller, Arthur (playwright),
1981
2
38
Miscellaneous Correspondence,
1984-89
2
39
Murray, Natalia Danesi (writer Janet Flanner's lover),
1983
2
40
New Directions Publishing (Peggy Fox),
1987-90
2
41
PEN (Christine Friedlander),
1981-84
2
42
Peyre, Henre (writer),
1982
2
43
Quinn, Bernadette (Irish feminist and peace activist),
1980-83
2
44
Raley, Duane,
1987-88 and undated
2
45
Rattray, David (writer),
1984
2
46
Reed, Ishmael (novelist),
1983
2
47
Robins, Natalie,
1987-88
2
48
Simic, Charles (poet),
undated
2
49
Stern, James (short story writer),
1982-90
2
50
Strand, Mark (poet),
1990
2
51
MacLeish, Archibald (poet),
1981
2
52
Terkel, Studs (writer),
1981-86 and undated
2
52
The Face on the Dime, by Studs
Terkel, typescript,
1981
2
53
Uchida, Yoshiko (writer),
1982-88
2
54
The Book of My Mother,
1980, notes
2
55
Two Men on Two Camels, unpublished
story, undated typescript
2
56
Mark Twain Quarterly,
Spring/Summer 1947
2
57
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,
1984
2
58
SUDWESTFUNK, Baden-Baden,
1991
2
59
They Are Another Nation, two working
drafts and final draft,
1980
2
59
Gatenby, Greg,
1980
2
60
A Memory, three corrected typscript
drafts and working notes,
1976
2
61
Charlie Chan, Moto, Kahn! Kung
Fu.... by Frank Chin,
undated
2
61
Frank Chin, recommendation for, typescript,
undated
2
62
Responses to Questions About the Nuclear
Threat,
1983
2
62
Responses to Questions About the Nuclear
Threat,
1983, Dennis Paalson, ed
2
63
James M.W. Borg, Inc., page advertising book by Nelson
Algren,
undated
2
63
So Long, Swede Risberg, by Nelson
Algren,
July 1981
2
63
Herman, Jan,
1981, contains information re Nelson Algren's
death
2
63
Articles relating to the death of writer Nelson Algren,
1981
2
63
>American Dialog,
Winter 1972
3
1
Barthelme, Donald (writer),
1981
3
2
Boyle, Hilary (Irish feminist and peace activist),
1982-84 and undated
3
3
Burke, Kenneth (writer),
1982
3
4
Bryant, Dorothy (writer),
1983-88
3
5
Calill, Carmen (Chatto and Windus, Publishers),
1984
3
6
Cheever, John (novelist),
1983
3
7
Chin, Frank (playwright),
1982-85 and undated
3
8
Ciardi, John (poet),
1981
3
9
Connell, Evan (novelist),
1981
3
10
Cosette, Amnesty International, San
Francisco,
1983-84 and undated
3
11
Cowley, Malcom (poet/writer),
1981-82
3
12
Detweiler, Joan (Kay Boyle's sister),
1989
3
13
Dorris, Michael (novelist),
1987
3
14
Dorn, Ed (poet),
1982
3
15
Ernst, Dallas (Max Errnst's daughter-in-law),
1984
3
15
Einsler, Helga,
1980-89
3
17
Broughan, Faysie (Irish peace activist),
1982-89
3
18
McGucken, Henry and Jacqueline,
1981-89
3
19
Miscellaneous (less important),
1979-89
3
20
North Point Press,
1983-87
3
21
Paley, Grace (short story writer and poet),
1989
3
22
Padgett, Ron (poet),
1983-87
3
23
Pollitzer, William,
1982-88
3
24
Renek, Morris (novelist),
1982-89
3
25
Seeger, Pete (songwriter),
1987
3
26
Sun and Moon Press (Douglas Messerli),
1983-84
3
27
Spanier, Sandra (wrote first full length book on KB),
1983-88
3
28
Vail, Devin (aka Devin Rosenblum, Kay Boyle's grandson),
1985-1991
3
29
Waldman, Giselle,
1983-89
3
30
Watkins Loomis Agency (Kay Boyle's literary agents),
1987-89
3
31
Wheeler, Monroe (writer),
1987
3
32
Wineapple, Brenda (author of biography of Janet Flanner),
1990-91
3
33
Wong, Shawn (writer and Kay Boyle's student),
1981-1990
3
34
Young, Al (poet),
1982
4
1
Codrescu, Andre (author, radio commentator),
1989
4
2
Covington, Leonora,
1989
4
3
Detweiler, Joan (Kay Boyle's sister),
1974-80
4
4
Detweiler, Joan (Kay Boyle's sister),
1923-74
4
5
Dorris, Michael and Erdrich, Louise (authors),
1987-89
4
6
Grumbach, Doris (author),
1988-89
4
7
Gunn, Alan (Professor of English, Texas Tech),
1988-89
4
8
McAlmon, Robert (letter from family about his books),
1988-89
4
9
Mellen, Joan (Kay Boyle's biographer),
1988
4
10
Rathke-Kohl, Sylvia,
1988-89
4
11
Olsen, Tillie,
1988-89
4
12
Renek, Morris,
1988-89
4
13
Shirer, William (author),
1981-89
4
14
Stern, James (author),
1983-88
4
15
Fortune cookie slips (Kay Boyle saved these, according to
Joan Mellen)
Box 4
16
Lost Generation,
undated
Esquire article
4
17
family photographs,
1913 and undated, one with autograph letter
attached
4
18
Miscellaneous letters,
1925-89
4
19
Four Address Books
4
20
Date Books for 1969, 1978, and 1979
5
1
letters from friends,
1988 and undated
5
1
letters from friends,
1988 and undated
5
1
French drinking song
5
2
letters from friends,
1987-89
5
2
Frances Steloff, obituaries,
1989
5
3
Kay Boyle, unattributed, undated article with
caricature
5
3
reviews of Kay Boyle's books
5
3
letters from friends,
1988-89
5
4
Marcel Duchamp, undated French newspaper
article
5
4
letters from friends,
1988 and undated
5
5
Eder, Richard,
1987
5
6
Tribute to Kay, by Jean Fitzgerald,
undated
5
6
Fitzgerald, Jean,
undated
5
6
Fitzmaurice, Jim,
undated
5
7
Goldman, Connie,
1989
5
7
Why Are We Here?,
1988, corrected photocopy,
1988
5
7
Goldman, Renee,
1989
5
7
Gunn, Alan,
1988
Box 5
7
Ted,
1988-89, re Kay Boyle's daughter and
granddaughter
5
7
Gross, Leonard,
1987, (has recollection of Kay
Boyle)
5
8
Hohri, William,
1988
5
8
Hatlen, Burton,
1988
5
8
Hart, Sara,
undated
5
8
Hewitt, Diana,
undated
5
8
National Council for
Japanese-American Redress,
May 1988
5
9
Janet,
1988
5
10
Kolia, undated manuscript letter in
French by Kay Boyle
5
10
Knoll, Erwin (editor of
The Progressive),
1988
5
10
Kemp, Edward,
1981
5
10
Koch, Katherine,
1981
5
11
Adda,
1988
5
11
Leeming, David (biographer of James Baldwin),
1988
5
11
Lau, Alan,
1992
5
11
LeDroulec, Pascale,
1987
5
12
McGraw, Jim,
1982-88
5
12
McCurtin, Peg,
1982
5
12
Berkely Monthly, typescript
of letter from Kay Boyle regarding Ezra Pound,
1985
5
13
Murillo, Rosario (Asociacion Sandinista),
1982
5
13
Murrao, Shig,
1992
5
13
Mitchell, Pat (NBC News),
1988
5
13
McDermid, Nancy (Dean of Humanities, San Francisco State),
1988
5
13
Milojevic, Kolia,
1988
5
14
Newgarden, Albert,
1988
5
14
Nichols, Bob (Grace Paley's husband),
1987
5
14
Nason, Emily (Kay Boyle's granddaughter),
1987
5
14
Bill, carbon, usigned, from
Kay Boyle,
1982
5
15
Honorary LL.D. degree, Southern Illinois University,
1982
5
15
Parish, Robert,
1981
5
15
Peterson, Kenneth,
1982
5
15
Stuart, Ken (editor, Horizon House Publishers),
1987
5
16
Robbins, Richard,
1989
5
16
Ryan, David,
1989
5
16
Davis, Bob, review of Kay Boyle's
Underground Woman,
undated
5
16
Rapaport, Richard,
1981, carbon of letter from Kay
Boyle
5
16
Madison, Vera
(1989)
5
17
Strauss, Roger (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux),
1988
5
17
Smock, Frederick (
The American Voice),
1988
5
17
Sternberg, Linda,
1981, signed carbon of letter from
KB
5
18
Treuhaft, Robert (attorney),
1982-87
5
18
Tyler, Shirley,
1982-87
5
18
Vail, Pegeen (Kay Boyle's granddaughter),
undated
5
19
Vail, Apple, undated manuscript notes by Kay
Boyle
5
19
Vail, Pegeen (Kay Boyle's granddaughter),
undated
5
19
Justine,
undated
5
20
Herbert Wilmer
(undated), manuscript notes by Kay
Boyle
5
20
St. Stephen's Green,
undated
5
20
Wilmer, Herbert, undated notes by Kay Boyle on back of
St. Stephen's Green
5
20
Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1988 reunion program
5
20
del Fante, Moira,
1988
5
20
Bradley, Mike (National Writers' Union),
1988
5
20
Winnick, Roy(biographer of Archibald MacLeish),
1981-82 Win
5
20
Egan, Andrea (president, National Writers' Union),
1987
5
20
MacLeish, Archibald,
1932-40, letters from KB
5
21
Zinneman, Fred (film producer),
1982
5
21
Yannick (Kay Boyle's
grandchild),
1987
5
21
Emily,
1987
5
22
Arkin, Steve,
1987
5
22
Adele,
undated
5
22
Amerkhanian, Charles (Pacifica Radio),
1987
5
22
Demy, Dale Stull (Author's Guild),
1987
5
23
Mahinske, Lars (Encyclopeida Brittanica),
1985
5
23
Aleskin, Peter,
1987
5
23
Burns, J.S.,
1984
5
23
Elaine,
1984
5
23
Brown, Peter (Padgett Press), 1984 carbon of letter from
KB
5
23
Kelly (Square One Productions),
1987
5
23
Brown, Constance,
1988
5
23
Baurle, Ruth,
1984
5
23
Bator, Paul,
1988
5
23
Bauersfield, Erik,
1987
5
24
Cesare, Valentine,
1984
5
24
Clark, Suzanne,
1988
5
24
Low-Heywood Thomas School, 1984 dedication
program
5
24
Cushman, Robin,
1988
5
24
Chavez, Cesar,
1988
5
24
Cohn, Alan,
1988
5
25
Groth, Gary (Fantagraphics Books),
1987
5
25
Wilson, U.S. Representative Tom
5
25
Davidson, Ann, 1987 review of Spanier's
Kay Boyle: Artist and
Activist
5
25
Davidson, Ann, 1987 reply to KB
5
25
Donato, Joan,
1984
5
25
Fitzmaurice, James,
19877-88
5
25
Downey, U.S. Representative Thomas,
1988
5
25
Dellums, U.S. Representative Ron,
1987
5
26
Koffler, Lionel, 1987 manuscript letter from
KB
5
27
Goodrow, Gary,
1984
5
27
Garrod, Mike,
1984
5
27
Gunn, Alan,
1988
5
27
Gallagher, Tess,
1986
5
27
Refusing Silence,
undated, by Tess Gallagher, inscribed
for Kay Boyle
5
28
Death of a Man, 1984 contract,
Harcourt Brace
5
28
Howard, Peter,
1988
5
29
Amerkhanian, Charles (Pacifica Radio),
1987
5
29
Lichtman, Trister and Levey, attorneys,
1987
5
29
Kilwein, Maurice,
1988
5
29
Levine, Abraham,
1987
5
30
Mills, Maragaret (American Academy of Arts and Letters),
1984
5
30
Mary Harris Award,
Mother Jones magazine,
1984
5
30
Reynolds, Richard,
Mother Jones magazine,
1984
5
31
Baldwin, James, recollection in
1987 letter signed Jim
and Fran
5
31
McGilliard, Tricia,
1984
5
31
McBrien, William (Twentieth Century Literature),
1980
5
31
McGraw, James,
1984-87
5
31
MacMillan,
1987 cancellation of contract for
Pinky in Persia
5
31
Eugene Celebration, by Tricia
McGilliard,
1984, dedicated to KB
5
32
Orwoll, Mark
1984
5
32
Hall, Mary,
1984
5
33
Pound, Ezra, in carbon of letter by KB,
1984
5
33
Pound, Ezra,
Poetic Madness or Political Treason,
by Carroll Terrell,
1983
5
33
Stuart, Ken (Paragon House Publishers),
1987
5
33
Garfield, Susan (Rockefeller Foundation),
1987
5
33
Renek, Morris and Palmer, Charlotte, recommendations in
KB's hand,
1987
5
33
Popper, George,
1988
5
33
Pinckney, Darryl (New York Review of Books),
1984
5
33
Troshinsky, Morton J., M.D.,
1984
5
33
Terrell, Carroll F., (Paideuma),
1984
5
33
Bailey, Thatcher (Bay Press),
1984
5
34
Kitchel, Elavietta,
1988
5
35
Steele, Max,
1988
5
35
Strauss, Roger (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux),
1986-88
5
35
Smith, Robert,
1988
5
35
Wilson, U.S. Representative Pete,
1988
5
35
Gomez, Linda (Time/LIFE),
1988
5
35
Shockley, Alonzo,
1984
5
35
Smock, Frederick (The American Voice),
1988
5
35
Galinsky, Hermann, undated draft of letter from Kay Boyle
regarding Apple Vail
5
36
Zukerberg, Emily,
1988 letter from KB
5
36
Ursil, Brian,
1988
5
36
Court, Kathryn (Viking Penguin),
1984
5
37
The Quarterback Speaks to His God,
by Herbert Wilner, 1984 appreciation by KB
5
37
Fraser, Diane (The Women's Foundation),
undated
5
38
Zukerberg, Emily,
1987-88
5
38
Weaver, U.S. Rep. James, copy of
1984 letter from KB
6
1
Cohn, Ruby (writer),
1987-90
6
2
Cowlings, Sharon (aka Bobby--
Kay Boyle's granddaughter),
1987-88
6
3
Deutch, Steve,
1981-89
6
4
Shirer, William (author),
1981-92
6
5
Vail, Clover (Kay Boyle's daughter),
1987-88
6
5
Thoshinsky, Morton, M.D.,
1984
6
5
Alice,
1987
6
5
Varga, Victoria,
1988
6
6
Vail, Kathe (Kay Boyle's daughter),
1988
6
7
Vail, Sinbad (Kay Boyle's stepston),
1982
6
8
Vonnegut, Kurt (author),
1981
6
9
undated typscript notes about Alcatraz Prison
6
9
Inside Alcatraz, souvenir booklet,
1974
6
9
Alcatraz--The Rock, souvenir
booklet,
1974
6
9
Alcatraz--The Rock, souvenir
booklet,
undated
6
9
mimeographed poems by Chinese prisoners on Angel Island,
1975
6
10
Untitled, beginning Dear Tom,
1989
6
10
Untitled, beginning Cruel, cruel is
the presence of weather,
1990
6
10
The Only Bird That Sang,
photocopy,
1930
6
10
Ode to a Maintenance Man and His
Family, manuscript,
1990
6
10
A Poem for Tom, seven manuscript and
one typscript version,
1990
6
10
The Crow, from Nov. 1990 issue of
The Redwoods Bark
6
11
typescript of speech for
Women Writers at Work series,
1978, with transcript of discussion
period
6
12
Letter to unattributed editor, regarding Ezra Pound,
undated
6
12
Kay Boyle to Editor of San Francisco Chronicle, photocopy,
1989
6
12
undated manuscript notes
6
12
Kay Boyle to Bill Clinton, manuscript letter,
1992
6
12
Dreyfous, Leslie,
Welcome to a Remarkable Retirement,
L. A. Times,
1992, (Kay Boyle at 90)
6
13
Undated typscript resume with biographical
notes
6
13
In Memory of Henry Miller by Kay
Boyle, undated typscript
6
14
Mainland, Nancy,
1984
6
15
Invitation to Kay Boyle's 88th birthday party from Amnesty
International
6
15
Sowa, Tom,
Writer Gives Teaching Experience an
F, Spokane Spokesman-Review,
1982
6
15
Segal, Clancy
Remembering the Kindness of Algren,
unattributed and
undated
6
15
Herman, Jan
Remembering Nelson Algren, San
Francisco Examiner,
1981
6
15
Notes and draft of letter by Kay Boyle to Pacific Bell re
war tax resistance,
1986
6
15
Invitation to farewell gathering for Kay Boyle,
1985
6
15
Weld, George (Nobel Laureate), photocopy of anti-war
speech,
undated
6
15
North Point Press, 1983 contract for
Being Geniuses Together
6
15
Dick, carbon of letter by KB,
1983 (with recollection of Samuel
Beckett)
6
15
1982 Program of presentation by Maya Angelou
6
16
articles and manuscript notes labeled
Notes for Articles,
1969-75 and undated
6
17
undated typed page from article on German
writers
6
18
Program for 1976 Asilomar Conference
6
18
Typescript with corrections of Kay Boyle's speech to the
1976 Asilomar Conference
6
19
A Tribute to Allen, first two pages
of undated essay by Kay Boyle
6
19
Morgan, Bill
1983
6
19
Ginsberg, Allen,
The Bricklayer's Lunch Hour, undated
prose poem
6
20
On Writing and Teaching, undated
typescript with corrections, by Kay Boyle
6
20
Undated, untitled typscript with corrections
by Kay Boyle on the topic of the writer's
voice
6
21
Notes in Kay Boyle's handwriting enumerating years of
residence in various European countries
6
21
Petition for divorce by Richard Brault,
1930
6
21
Copy of decree of divorce between Richard Brault and Kay
Boyle,
1931
6
21
Leon Sevestre,
1931 (letter to Richard Brault)
6
21
Statement of reasons for nullity of marriage according to
Roman Catholic Church
6
21
Divorce decree of Kay Boyle and Laurence Vail,
1943
6
21
Copy of Clover Vail's birth certificate,
1939
6
21
Copy of 1910 census enumerating Kay Boyle as daughter and
Howard and Katherine Boyle
6
21
Marriage licence for Kay Boyle and Joseph Franckenstein,
1943
6
21
Marriage certificate of Kay Boyle and Joseph
Franckenstein,
1943
6
21
Certification of marriage licences of Kay Boyle and
Richard Brault,
1947
6
22
Manuscript notes for
Heroines and Also Heroes
6
22
Heroines and Also Heroes, preface to
Pollitzer biography of Georgia O'Keefe,
1988
6
22
5 typed versions with corrections of
Heroines and Also Heroes,
1987
6
23
Trejo, Ruben,
1987
6
23
Trejo, Ruben, undated grant proposal
6
24
Donoghue, Denis:
She's Got Rhythm, review of book by
Marianne Moore, NY Review of Books,
undated
6
24
Typed extract of
Sane in the Asylum by James Scott
with manuscript notes,
undated
6
24
New York Story, two typed pages with
corrections,
1984
6
24
Mim,
1982
6
24
Folder of undated working notes
6
24
Noted with Pleasure, NY Times Book
Review,
1-6-85
6
24
NY Times Book Review,
7-15-84, interview with Kay Boyle regarding
Paris years
6
24
Picken, Margo:
The Betrayed People, NY Review of
Books,
undated, re East Timor
6
24
NY Times Book Review, undated letter praising Kay Boyle's
work
6
24
Mills, Kay:
Kay Boyle: A Writer's Duty to Speak for the
Disfranchised,
undated
6
25
1985 Calendar with manuscript notes
6
25
Smith, Grant,
1982
6
25
Unattributed,
undated (Grant Smith?)
6
26
Kay Boyle to Peggy Fox, New Directions Press,
1988
6
26
Hatlan, Burton,
1988, Analysis of Kay Boyle's
Death of a Man
6
26
Tyrol,
1934, by Kay Boyle
6
26
Shirer, William, copy of typescript regarding persecution
of Joseph Franckenstein,
1988
6
26
Kay Boyle to Burton Hatlan, manuscript letter,
1988
6
26
Kay Boyle to Grant Smith,
1982, Chair of English at Eastern Washington
University
6
27
Spiral notebook with manuscript notes describing a dream,
1981
6
27
Notebook with info on Algren Fund,
1981
6
27
Kay Boyle to PEN, regarding Algren award,
1981
6
27
Ohioana Book Award to Kay Boyle,
1989
6
28
She Was More Aborad than the Rest of Us
, unattriuted, undated appreciation of Kay Boyle
6
28
Preface to
Plagued by a Nightingale, three
corrected versions,
1980
6
29
Wong, Shawn,
Homebase, photocopy inscribed to KB,
1979
6
30
Quotes from Shawn Wong, manuscript
notes by KB,
19779
6
31
American Academy of Arts and Letters
1981 Exhibition
6
31
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
1979
6
32
Blue Ribbon Crossword Puzzles,
December 1991
6
33
address book,
undated
6
33
four small notebooks,
1949 and undated
6
34
datebooks for 1965, 1970, 1977, 1986
10
2
Esquire magazine photo spread [Kay
Boyle and members of
The Lost Generation]
oversize
10
2
Promotional broadside [German translation of
The Smoking Mountain]
oversize
10
2
broadside:
A Poem for February First, 1975
[autograph corrections and signature]
2 oversize
10
2
Portfolio of six poems by Boyle, Dickey, et al [two
windows folio II]
oversize
10
2
Irish linen handkerchief
oversize
1
26
Nelson algren's grave
1 print
1
26
Child doing gymnastics
1 print
1
26
Connie Brown, Joan Levine, Julie Rogers and
Robin
1 print
1
26
Connie Brown, Bob Brown, Joan Levine, and Julie
Rogers
1 print
1
26
Portrait of Kay Boyle
1 print
1
26
Peace Child International celebration
1 print
1
26
Family of Sharon Cowling [aka Bobby, Kay Boyle's eldest daughter]
7 prints
1
26
Ian Frankenstein [Kay Boyle's son]
1 print
1
26
William Shirer's house
1 print
1
26
Kathe Vail and family [Kay Boyle's daughter]
3 prints
1
26
Art exhibit by Ruben Trejo
17 prints
1
26
Leah and Jerome Garchik with child [Kay Boyle's
attorney]
1 print
1
26
House of George Gutekunst
1 print
1
26
Unidentified persons [Apple Vail's children?]
1 print
1
26
Ben and Emile Goeser [Kay Boyle's
grandchildren]
1 print
1
26
Children of Ben and Emile Goeser
1 print
1
26
Unidentified persons
1 print
1
26
Family of Howard McCord
1 print
1
26
Victor and Elizabeth Koch and children
5 prints
1
26
Ian Frankenstein [Kay Boyle's son]
5 prints
1
26
Family of Bernadette Quinn
1 print
1
26
Mary Quinn
1 print
1
26
Faysie Broughan and family
7 prints
1
26
Broughan family vacation pictures
2 prints
1
26
Frank Chin and baby son Sam Chin
2 prints
1
26
Kay Boyle with unidentified persons
4 prints
1
26
Hadley and Brian Spanier [children of Sandra Spanier, who
wrote book about Kay Boyle]
6 prints
1
26
Monroe Wheeler
1 print
1
26
Kay Boyle and Shawn Wong
2 prints
1
26
Kay Boyle with unidentified persons [Kay Boyle's children?
Found with letters to her sister, Joan Detweiler]
6 prints
1
26
Children of Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich
5 prints
1
26
Kay Boyle receiving honorary degree
1 print
1
26
Hatch Manor
1 print
1
26
Professor Alan Gunn [professor of English at Texas Tech,
friend of Boyle's]
3 prints
1
26
Kay Boyle's 87th birthday
7 prints
1
26
David Beer
1 print
1
26
Nelson Algren's house
2 prints