Robert Raynolds: A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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I. Works

II. Correspondence, 1925-1972

III. Career-Related and Personal

Robert Raynolds:

A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center



	Creator:	Raynolds, Robert, 1902-1965
	Title:	Robert Raynolds Papers
	Dates:	1925-1972
	Abstract:	The collection includes Raynolds' published and unpublished novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction writings, including handwritten and typescript drafts of Raynolds's ten published novels, as well as correspondence and publication material. In addition there are drafts of his produced and unproduced plays, two published volumes of essays, articles, books reviews, letters to the editor, additional essays, and lectures.
	Extent:	71 boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, 8 galley folders (30 linear feet)
	Repository:	Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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American author Robert Raynolds is best known for his novels, although his last book, published posthumously in 1965 by the University of Texas Press, is a memoir of his friendship with novelist Thomas Wolfe. Other literary forms in his papers include plays, short stories, poetry, book reviews, essays, and lectures.

The collection is organized in three series: I. Works; II. Correspondence, 1925-1972; and III. Career-Related and Personal.

The largest series, Works, contains published and unpublished novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction writings. Subseries A. includes handwritten and typescript drafts of Raynolds's ten published novels, along with correspondence and publication material. His novel, Brothers in the West, received the 1931 Harper's Prize, and The Sinner of Saint Ambrose was selected for the Book of the Month Club in 1952. Settings for Raynolds's novels range from the American west and Mexico to the Roman Empire. Numerous unpublished novels, novel "starts," and his Thomas Wolfe memoir are also present.

Drafts of Raynolds's produced and unproduced plays are found in Subseries B, along with associated production material and correspondence. Numerous short stories are arranged by title in Subseries C and poetry in Subseries D. Two published volumes of essays, The Choice to Love and In Praise of Gratitude, are included in Subseries E, along with articles, books reviews, letters to the editor, additional essays, and lectures. The Works series concludes with general notes and research materials in Subseries F.

Th correspondence series consists primarily of letters from Raynolds's wife, Marguerite. Editors, agents, and publishers such as Harold Ober Associates, Harper & Row, Adrienne Morrison, Russell and Volkening, and William Morrow are also included. Additional correspondence has been cataloged individually and is described in the Ransom Center's card catalog.

Series III contains both personal and career-related material such as information about Raynolds, his community activities and memberships, political involvement, personal and financial papers, and lectureships at Columbia University.

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I. Works
		A. Books
			Brothers in the West (1931)
Box	Folder
1	1-4			Typescript drafts
	5			Page proofs, incomplete
				Galleys [removed to galley files]
Box	Folder
1	6			Correspondence
Box	Folder
2	1			Publicity
	2-3			Reviews
	4-5			Scrapbooks, Harper's Prize
	6			"From Paragraph to Novel," drafts and published excerpts, talk for Writer's Club at Columbia regarding writing of novel
	7			Play and opera adaptations by Raynolds and Helen Gholson Kittredge
Box	Folder
3	1-2		"Cuckoo Furioso," typescript drafts
	3-4		"Discovering Solitude," drafts
			"Enchanted Wine"
Box	Folder
3	5			Notes
	6			Handwritten draft
	7			Typescript draft
Box	Folder
4	1-2			Typescript drafts, revised
	3-4			Drafts and fragments
			Far Flight of Love (1957)
				Note cards [removed to Box 67]
Box	Folder
4	5			Outline
	6-8			Handwritten drafts
	9			Typescript draft
Box	Folder
5	1			Typescript draft
	2			Typescript draft fragment
	3			Pageant Press, publisher's file
	4-6			Correspondence, 1948-65
Box	Folder
6	1			Mailing and review lists
	2-3			Publicity and promotion
	4			Reviews
				Articles by Raynolds about Far Flight of Love
Box	Folder
6	5				"A Challenge in Free Enterprise"
	6				"My War for Love: A Scandal in Publishing"
	7				"Toward a Grand Decency in Literature"
	8				"The Uncorrupted Word"
			Fortune (1935)
Box	Folder
6	9			Notes
Box	Folder
7	1-5			Handwritten drafts
Box	Folder
8	1-5			Handwritten and typescript drafts
Box	Folder
9	1-3			Typescript drafts
	4-5			Draft fragments
	6			Correspondence
	7			Reviews
			"Joy Unconfined"
Box	Folder
10	1			Notes and handwritten draft
	2-3			Typescript drafts
			May Bretton (1944)
Box	Folder
10	4			Notes [note cards removed to Box 67-68]
				Outline [removed to oversize folder]
Box	Folder
10	5			Handwritten draft
Box	Folder
11	1-2			Handwritten draft (cont'd)
	3-5			Typescript draft
Box	Folder
12	1-5			Typescript draft
Box	Folder
13	1-3			Typescript draft
				Galleys [removed to galley files]
Box	Folder
13	4			Correspondence
	5			Reviews [scrapbook removed to oversize, Box 72]
Box	Folder
14	1		"Murder Without Remorse," typescript draft
			"My Brother Julian"
Box	Folder
14	2			Notes [note cards removed to Box 68]
	3			Preliminary sketch
	4			Handwritten draft
	5			Correspondence
			"Night Boss"
Box	Folder
14	6			Notes
	7-8			Handwritten draft
Box	Folder
15	1-2			Typescript drafts
	3		"A Number of Men," typescript draft
			The Obscure Enemy (1945)
Box	Folder
15	4-5			Notes [note cards removed to Box 69]
	6			Research materials
	7			Handwritten draft fragments
Box	Folder
16	1			Handwritten draft
	2-3			Typescript drafts
	4			Preface draft and jacket copy
				Galleys [removed to galley files]
Box	Folder
16	5			Correspondence
	6			Reviews
			"Once, on the Prairie"
Box	Folder
16	7			Handwritten draft
Box	Folder
17	1			Typescript draft and correspondence
	2			Typescript synopsis of play adaptation
			Paquita (1947)
Box	Folder
17	3			Notes [note cards removed to Box 69]
	4-6			Handwritten draft
Box	Folder
18	1-3			Typescript draft
	4-5			Typescript draft revisions
Box	Folder
19	1-3			Typescript draft
	4-5			Setting copy
Box	Folder
20	1			Setting copy, cont'd
				Galleys [removed to galley files]
Box	Folder
20	2			Correspondence
	3			Publicity
			The Quality of Quiros (1955)
Box	Folder
20	4-6			Notes
	7-8			Handwritten draft
	9			Typescript draft
Box	Folder
21	1			Typescript draft, cont'd
	2-5			Typescript drafts
Box	Folder
22	1-2			Typescript draft
	3			Draft revisions
				Galleys [removed to galley files]
Box	Folder
22	4			Correspondence
	5			Publicity and reviews [scrapbook removed to oversize, Box 72]
			Saunders Oak (1933)
Box	Folder
22	6			Notes
	7			Handwritten draft
Box	Folder
23	1			Handwritten draft, cont'd
	2			Typescript draft, first carbon
	3			Setting copy
	4			Page proofs, incomplete
				Galleys [removed to galley files]
Box	Folder
23	5			Reviews
	6			"Life Catches Up," play adaptation
			The Sinner of Saint Ambrose (1952)
Box	Folder
24	1-2			Notes and research material [note cards removed to Box 70]
	3-9			Drafts and revisions
Box	Folder
25	1-7			Drafts and revisions, cont'd
Box	Folder
26	1-4			Drafts and revisions, cont'd
	5			Setting copy
Box	Folder
27	1-2			Setting copy, cont'd
	3-4			Page proofs
	5			Correspondence
	6			Publicity
Box	Folder
28	1-3			Reviews [scrapbook removed to oversize, Box 72]
	4			Associated visual materials
	5			Newspaper serialization
			Story Song (1962)
Box	Folder
28	6			Notes
	7-8			Songs, drafts
Box	Folder
29	1			Handwritten draft
	2-7			Typescript drafts
	8			Correspondence
Box	Folder
30	1			Version titled "Shepherd Song and Evening Star"
	2			"Wonderful Campfire Night," selected and adapted from Story Song
	3			Publicity pieces by Raynolds
			Thomas Wolfe: Memoir of a Friendship (1965)
Box	Folder
30	4			Notes [note cards removed to Box 71]
	5-9			Drafts
Box	Folder
31	1-4			Drafts, cont'd
	5-7			Correspondence
	8			Illustrations and permissions
	9			Reviews
	10			Newtown Library exhibition description and photographs
			Novel starts
Box	Folder
32	1			"A Double Life: Carol and Gordon"
	2			"John Wallace: American"
	3			"Marguerite"
	4			"My Abominable Uncle"
	5			"My Point of View"
	6			"The Restoration of Love"
	7			"The Story of Alice Driessler"
	8			"Tom Storymaker"
	9			Research materials and notes
		B. Plays
Box	Folder
32	10		"Begin with Music," notes for a play
			"Blessed Are the Debonair" (Summer Song)
Box	Folder
32	11-14			Handwritten draft
Box	Folder
33	1-4			Typescript drafts, fragments, and revisions
	5			Correspondence
	6			Programs and reviews
			"Boadicea"
Box	Folder
33	7			Notes and research material
	8			Outline and handwritten first draft, Feb. 1938
Box	Folder
34	1-10			Handwritten and typescript drafts
Box	Folder
35	1-13			Typescript drafts, fragments, and revisions
Box	Folder
36	1			Page proofs
	2-3			Correspondence
	4			Production notes, set design, song arrangement
	5			Publicity and reviews
	6			Radio adaptation
			"Farewell, Villon"
Box	Folder
36	7			Notes
	8-12			Handwritten and typescript drafts
Box	Folder
37	1			Correspondence
	2			Programs and reviews
	3-5		"Pretty Norma Heath," drafts
			"Take All My Loves"
Box	Folder
37	6-7			Notes
	8-9			Handwritten draft
Box	Folder
38	1-8			Drafts, fragments, and revisions
Box	Folder
39	1			Revision, Sept. 1937
	2			Dramatists' Assembly, Stanford University, Etherege Award in Comedy, 1939
			"Thomas More"
Box	Folder
39	3			Notes
	4-6			Typescript drafts
	7			Correspondence
			"The Ugly Runts"
Box	Folder
39	8			Notes
Box	Folder
40	1-2			Notes, cont'd
	3-5			Handwritten drafts
	6-11			Typescript drafts
Box	Folder
41	1-2			Draft fragments and revisions
	3			Correspondence
	4			"On Producing 'The Ugly Runts'"
	5			Reviews
	6		Play starts, preliminary notes
		C. Short Stories
Box	Folder
41	7		Abide in My Heart at Peace
	8		Adobe Blond
	9		Aliens
Box	Folder
42	1		Angels Are Where You Find Them
	2		Annunciation with Violets
	3		Appleblossom Murder
	4		The Barking of a Dog
	5		Bells, Wheels and Whistles
	6		Between Laughter and Tears
	7		Black and White
	8		The Bottle from Home
	9		The Breaking Strain
	10		Bridle Your Fury with Love
	11		The Business Tree
	12		But Now He Sleeps Forever
	13		Childless Thought
	14		A Child's Story
	15		The Closing Episode
	16		The Comedian
	17		Country Fables
Box	Folder
43	1		Cove Girl
	2		A Dance at the Indian Woman's
	3		The Deep Dream
	4		Detour to Heaven
	5		Dream Kick
	6		Esteban
	7		Eternal Now in Comfort
	8		Forget It
	9		Girl of Earth
	10		Girl Who Went to Market
	11		Going Down
	12		Herman's Children
	13		His Heart Could Have No Fortune
	14		Horn by Night
	15		I'd Rather Fight
	16		In a Little Spanish Town
	17		In a Quiet Valley
Box	Folder
44	1		In Flight, in Hiding
	2		In Praise of Sane Readers
	3		In Sight of Long's Peak
	4		An Interesting Error
	5		Jane Dammit and the First Selectman
	6		Johnnie's Windowlamp
	7		The Lost Print
	8		Mariana and the Rat
	9		A Meeting in Omaha
	10		Men Who Dig Coal
	11		Mr. Dobbie
	12		Money for Years
	13		Montana Mischief
	14		The Near-Dead Man
	15		Night Story
	16		Nocturnal Errand
	17		Outrage My Soul
Box	Folder
45	1		Past Middle Age
	2		Pie and Strychnine (Buckshot)
	3		Policeman's Daughter
	4		Portrait of a Miner
	5		The Price of the Picture
	6		A Primitive Emotion
	7		The Prodigal Father
	8		Proletariat
	9		Puritan Wench
	10		The Quick and the Dead
	11		Red Jones, the Boatswain
	12		Remember the Blizzard?
	13		Rudolf Bindle
	14		Running in the Rain
	15		Save a Man's Life (Salvatore Gaboardi)
	16		The Soldier Was a Child
	17		Sombrero
	18		The Spanish Chair
	19		The Splendid Galleon
Box	Folder
46	1		They Saw a Star
	2		The Thirteen
	3		This Little Girl Went to Market
	4		Three Women
	5		U-Boat Bellyache
	6		Where There Is No Vision
	7		Winter Fire
	8		The Witchcraft Root
	9		Without Benefit of Freud
	10		The Wreath on the Floor
	11		Wyoming pastoral story with screenplay notes
	12-16		Early stories, notes, and unfinished drafts
		D. Poetry
Box	Folder
47	1		Correspondence, indexes, notes
	2-5		General poems
	6		In Memory of a Common Man
	7		Music Out of Earth
	8-9		Poems, 1925-1942
Box	Folder
48	1		War Song of the United Nations
	2		War Town
	3		Zilzain
		E. Other Writings
Box	Folder
48	4-5		Articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, etc.
			Essays
				The Choice to Love (1959)
Box	Folder
48	6-7				Notes [note cards removed to Box 70]
	8-11				Typescript drafts
Box	Folder
49	1-2				Typescript drafts, cont'd
	3-7				Draft fragments
	8-9				Setting copy
Box	Folder
50	1-2				Correspondence
	3				Publicity
				In Praise of Gratitude (1961)
Box	Folder
50	4				Notes [note cards removed to Box 71]
	5				Handwritten draft
	6				Typescript draft
Box	Folder
51	1-5				Typescript drafts
Box	Folder
52	1-7				Draft fragments
					Galleys [removed to galley files]
	8-10				Correspondence
Box	Folder
53	1				Publicity
	2				Reviews
	3				Reader's Digest version
	4				Published versions
				"The Song of a Companion of God"
Box	Folder
53	5-6				Notes
	7-10				Typescript drafts
Box	Folder
54	1-16				Typescript drafts and fragments
Box	Folder
55	1-3				Typescript drafts and fragments, cont'd
	4				Correspondence
	5				Christian Higher Education Fund
	6-7			Various essays
Box	Folder
56	1			Various essays, cont'd
			Lectures
Box	Folder
56	2-3			Columbia speech
	4-5			Various subjects
		F. Notes and Research Materials
Box	Folder
57	1-6		Notes, various subjects
Box	Folder
58	1-6		Notes, various subjects, cont'd
	7-8		Research material, clippings
Box	Folder
59	1-2		Research material, clippings, cont'd

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II. Correspondence, 1925-1972
Box	Folder
59	3	Clay, George
	4	Contracts and copyrights
	5	Harold Ober Associates, 1948-64
	6	Harper & Row, 1958-65
	7	Haydn, Hiram, 1951-64
Box	Folder
60	1	Morrison, Adrienne (Pinker and Morrison, Inc.)
	2	Publishers and editors
		Raynolds, Marguerite Gerdau, primarily to David and Robert Raynolds
Box	Folder
60	3-5		1926
	6-7		1928-1937
	8		1938-1939
	9-10		1940-1943
Box	Folder
61	1-2		1944-1958
	3		1962-1972
	4		Undated
	5	The Reader's Digest, 1957-65
	6	Russell and Volkening, Inc., 1941-65
	7	William Morrow & Co. Inc., 1931-63
	8	Various correspondents, 1925-72

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III. Career-Related and Personal
Box	Folder
61	9	Articles about Raynolds
	10	Autobiographical material
	11	Chrichton, Kyle, estate papers
		C. H. Booth Library
Box	Folder
61	12-13		1957-59
Box	Folder
62	1		1960-62
	2		1963-64
	3		1965
	4	Club and professional memberships
	5-6	Columbia University, lectureships, 1949-55
	7	The Dramatists' Guild
	8	Family papers
		Financial
Box	Folder
63	1		Business correspondence
	2-3		Royalties
	4-5		Tax returns
	6	Fulton, Robert (Skyhook project)
	7	Medical records and correspondence
Box	Folder
64	1	Obituaries
	2	Passports and miscellaneous items
	3	Photographs, publicity
	4-6	Post card collection
	7	Project in Support of Peace
	8	Reading course, 1960
		Trips
Box	Folder
65	1		Mexico
	2		Spain
	3-4		Miscellaneous
	5	Will
	6-7	Willkie campaign
Box	Folder
66	1-4	Willkie campaign, cont'd
Box
67-71		Note card files
Box
72		Oversize scrapbooks

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Robert Raynolds:

A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Robert Raynolds Papers--Folder List

I. Works

II. Correspondence, 1925-1972

III. Career-Related and Personal