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



	Creator:	Russell, Ross, 1909-2000
	Title:	Ross Russell Papers
	Inclusive Dates:	ca. 1920s-1980,
	Abstract:	The papers contain correspondence, research materials, lecture notes, and manuscripts and drafts of books, screenplays and articles. Also included are unfinished works of fiction and non-fiction, photographs, legal papers, transcribed interviews, and promotional literature for Dial recordings.
	Extent:	58 boxes, 2 oversize folders (24.36 linear feet)
	Repository:	Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Scope and Contents

The papers of Ross Russell, best known as a jazz journalist, jazz historian, and the founder of Dial Records, contain correspondence; research materials; lecture notes; manuscripts and drafts of his published books ( The Sound, Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest, and Bird Lives!), as well as of screenplays, articles, and numerous unfinished works of fiction and non-fiction (most prominently an in-depth biography of Raymond Chandler); photographs; legal papers; royalties; reviews; transcribed interviews; and promotional literature for Dial recordings. The papers remain in the same order as received, and loosely reflect the following divisions: I. Correspondence, II. Jazz Writings, III. Business Records, IV. Academic Papers and Other Writings, V. Photographs, VI. Addenda.

Of special interest are letters in the correspondence files from Russell's fellow jazz historians throughout the United States and Europe. These correspondents include nearly every major figure concerned with jazz criticism and history, such as Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Max Harrison, Charles Delaunay, Rudi Blesh, Leonard Feather, Ralph Gleason, André Hodeir, Gunther Schuller, Nat Hentoff, Marshall Sterns, and Ira Gitler. There is additional correspondence from and interviews with such jazz luminaries as John Lewis, Cootie Williams, Sonny Criss, Bud Freeman, Don Lanphere, Hampton Hawes, Fats Navarro, Jessie Price, Jay McShann, Gene Ramey, Kenny Clarke, Chan Richardson, Red Rodney, and most importantly, Charlie Parker, interviewed in a backstage dressing room between sets.

Between 1949 and 1951, Dial Records expanded its scope to include contemporary classical music. Because of these business dealings, the collection also includes letters and manuscripts from Ernst Krenek and Rudolph Kolisch, as well as seventeen letters from Arnold Schoenberg.

The archive also includes a number of photographs which were reprinted in Russell's published jazz studies. Also present are other prints, proof sheets, and contact sheets produced from photographs by Russell, along with photographic essays of the 1968, 1970, 1971, and 1974 Monterey Jazz Festivals, as well as the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival, the 1967 Dixieland Festival at Disneyland, and the 1969 Jazz by the Bay Festival. The Russell files also include candid photographs of the Modern Jazz Quartet, Louis Bellson, Sonny Criss, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Handy, Hampton Hawes, Harold Land, Don Lanphere, Tony Ortega, Jessie Price, Archie Shepp, and Randy Weston.

The sale of the Russell Collection was handled by Laurence McGilvery, who provided a box-by-box inventory of the original 15 cartons of papers. The collection has since been rehoused into archival containers, and the following folder list compiled. Since the papers have been accessed using the McGilvery list for several years, this new folder list includes references to the box and folder numbers given in the McGilvery list.

Held separately in the Ransom Center are 3500 LP recordings and 78 RPM discs (1,500 of which are jazz related), and reel-to-reel and cassette tapes. Included are many Dial test pressings of jazz recordings by such masters as Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, and Red Rodney, as well as recordings of works by Schoenberg and other mid twentieth century classical composers. The Library holds 265 books, which deal primarily with jazz and jazz-related topics. Some 400 periodicals, including complete or nearly complete runs of Jazz Review, Clef, Record Changer, and Jazz Record, as well as booklets, pamphlets, programs, and record catalogs are also present.

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Restrictions

Access:

Open for research

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		Lawn, Richard. "From Bird to Schoenberg: The Ross Russell Collection,"Perspectives on Music, ed. Dave Oliphant and Thomas Zigal (Austin: Humanities Research Center, 1985), pp. 137-147.
		"Introduction,"The Bebop Revolution in Words and Music, ed. Dave Oliphant (Austin: Humanities Research Center, 1994), pp. 7-9.

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Ross Russell Papers--Folder List



I. Correspondence
		Chronological files
Box	Folder
1	1		Pre World War II (to mother, Marguerite Russell; fiction writing, jazz, travels); 1-1
	2		World War II (to Marguerite Russell; war experiences, Tempo Music Shop, Dial Records, etc.); 1-2
	3		(to Marguerite Russell; golf courses, etc.); 1-3 1955-
	4		(also earlier letters from various correspondents); 1-4 1959-1965
	5-6		(to and from variety of friends); 1-5 Late 1960s
		Jazz correspondence
Box	Folder
1	7		1-6, Prior 1940
	8		1-7, 1940-19--?
	9		1-8, Prior 1950
	10		1-9, To 1967
Box	Folder
2	1-2		General, 1-10 (late 1960s and on)
	3	Jazz collectors; 1a-1
	4	Special (from James Brooks, David Douglas Duncan, Philip Guston, etc.); 1a-2
	5	Incomplete (partial letters; one from Martin Williams); 1a-3
	6	Miscellaneous (politics, products, etc.); 1a-4
		Individual correspondents
			B-K
Box	Folder
2	7			Baldrige, Dale; 1a-5
	7			Cash, Walter; 1a-6
	7			Freeman (Freedman?), Marvin; 1a-7
	7			Gutekunst, George; 1a-9
	7			Holmes, Campbell; 1a-10
	7			Jaeggi, Solveigh; 1a-11
	7			Kendall, Lydia Marcus; 1a-12
	7			Kirby, Marshall; 1a-13
	7			Kline, Hoyte; 1a-14
	8		Goldman, Albert; 1a-8
	9		Kuehl, Linda; 1a-15
			M-W
Box	Folder
3	1			Mitchell, Bruce and Mitchell, Olivia Dehn; 1a-16
	1			Morrison, Allan (incomplete; needs to be gathered together or cross-referenced); 1a-17
	1			Romero, Don; 1a-19
	1			Ruder, Barney; 1a-20
	1			Russell, Mary (stepmother); 1a-21
	1			Russell, Sanders (brother); 1a-22
	1			Templin, Yvonne; 1a-23
	1			Wallace, Royce; 1a-24
	1			?, Scott (Ponderosa Products); 1a-26
	2		Phillips, Lee; 1a-18
	3		Woods, Chan Richardson Parker (Charlie Parker's last wife); 1a-25
		Jazz correspondents
			A-G
Box	Folder
3	4			Abercrombie, Gertrude; 1b-1
	4			Balliett, Whitney; 1b-2
	4			Blesh, Rudi; 1b-3
	4			Chamberlain, Safford; 1b-4
	4			Evans, Chris; 1b-7
	4			Evans, Philip R.; 1b-8
	4			Evensmo, Jan; 1b-9
	4			Feather, Leonard; 1b-10
	4			Freeman, Bud (Fay); 1b-11
	4			Gardner, Mark; 1b-12
	4			Geisler, George; 1b-13
	4			Gleason, Ralph; 1b-14
	4			Gottlieb, Lou; 1b-15
	5		Davies, Gordon; 1b-5
	6		Delaunay, Charles; 1b-6
			H-M
Box	Folder
3	7			Harrison, Max; 1b-16
	7			Hentoff, Nat; 1b-17
	7			Hodeir, André; 1b-18
	7			Johnson, Cone; 1b-19
	7			Keo, Willy; 1b-20
	7			Larson, Paul; 1b-21
	7			Marco, Marco di; 1b-22
	7			Michaelis, Kurt; 1b-23
	7			Mialy, Louis-Victor; 1b-24
	7			Mitz, Victor; 1b-25
			O-W
Box	Folder
4	1			Owens, Tom; 1b-26
	1			Reines, Lewis; 1b-28
	1			Russell, William; 1b-29
	1			Schuller, Gunther; 1b-30
	1			Stearns, Marshall and Stearns, Jean; 1b-31
	1			Turetzky, Bertram; 1b-32
	1			Westerberg, Hans; 1b-33
	1			Wilder, Lee; 1b-34
	2		Räftegård, Börje; 1b-27
	3		Williams, Martin; 1b-35

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II. Jazz Writings
		Writing and research
Box	Folder
4	4		Downbeat; 2-1
	5		Hawes, Hampton; 2-2
	6		Navarro, Fats; 2-3
	7		Price, Jesse; 2-4
	8		Rando, Doc; 2-5
	9		Stabile, Dick; 2-6
	10		West Coast Bop; 2-7
	11		Jazz & Blues; 2-8
	12		Jazz Hot; 2-9
	13		Simmons, Sonny; 2-10
	14		Jazz Quarterly; 2-11
	15		Jazz Review; 2-12
	16		Jazz Review (articles, 1960); 2-13
	17		Orkester Journalen; 2-14
	18		Record Changer series; 2-15
Box	Folder
5	1		Jazz articles (index); 2-16
	2		New York Times Book Review; 2-17
	3		BBC (two interviews); 2-18
			Reminiscing in Tempo; 2-19
Box	Folder
5	4			1 (Reminiscing on Tempo); 2-20
	4			REM - hold; 2-21
	5		Young, Lester; 2-22, 2-24
	6			2 Gin Pr Pre-test; 2-23
	7		Armstrong, Louis; California; 2-25; 1937
			Liner notes
Box	Folder
5	8			Porter, Bob (Phoenix Record Co.); 2a-1
	9			Garner, Erroll; McGhee, Howard; 2a-2
	10			Simmons, Sonny; 2a-3
	11			Tatum, Art; Norvo, Red; 2a-4
	12		Record reviews (carbons); 2a-5
	13		Tempo Music Shop; 2a-6
Box	Folder
6	1		Bebop instrumental stylists; 2a-7
	2			Allison, Mose; 2a-8
	3			Shaking hands with the piano players; 2a-9
	4			Davis, Miles; 2a-10
	5			Garner, Erroll (article); 2a-11
	6			McShann, Jay; 2a-12
	7			Ledbetter, Huddie (for Texas Historical Association); 2a-13
	8		Jazz articles and criticism; 2a-14
	9		New directions in jazz criticism; 2a-15
	10		Misc. published jazz pieces; 2a-16
	11		Jazz articles, unpublished and incomplete; 2a-17
	12		Jazz short fiction; 2a-18
	13		Dear Old Southland (from The Sound); 2a-19
	14		Mama don't allow no dancin' (from The Sound?); 2a-20
	15		Play red, up comes black; 2b-1
	16		New York places; 2b-2
	17		Los Angeles places; 2b-3
	18		Jazz humor; 2b-4
Box	Folder
7	1-2		Jazz programs, leaflets; 2b-5
	3		Jazz book lists; 2b-6
	4		Discography (record lists); 2b-7
	5		Jazz clippings (1930s); 2b-8
	6		Jazz clippings; 2b-9
	7		Blues (reference); 2b-10
	8		Blues (Joe Turner); 2b-11
		The Sound
Box	Folder
7	9		Master plot; 2b-12
	10		Revision of opening (Chapter One); 2b-13
	11		Revision (J. Ellison); 2b-14
	12		Repair and corrections; 2b-15
Box	Folder
8	1		Discarded openings; 2b-16
	2		Salvage from The Sound (unpublished sequences); 2c-1
	3		Big Ball (possible salvage); 2c-2
	4		Unused sequences; 2c-3
	5		The Hipsters (old correspondence prior Dutton); 2c-4
	6		Correspondence (Dutton); 3-1
	7		Correspondence (other than Dutton); 3-2; 1960-1961
	8		Meadow, Noel; 3-3
	9		Comments and criticism; 3-4
	10		Reviews; 3-5
Box	Folder
9	1		Magazines
	2		New York, 3-6; 1961;
	3		Mailing lists; 3-7
	4		Screenplay (trial continuity); 3-8
	5		Screen adaptation; 3-9
	6		Loose signatures of printed edition; 3-10
	7-9		Original manuscript; 3-11
		Jazz Style in Kansas City & the Southwest
Box	Folder
10	1		Jazz in Kansas City (A); 3a-1
	2		Scenes fictive; 3a-2
	3		Research materials, chapter outlines; 3a-3
	4		Research photostats; 3a-4
	5		Dickert, Richard; 3a-5
	6		McShann, Jay (interviews); 3a-6; 1969
	7		Price, Jesse (interview); 3a-7; 1970
	8		Permission to quote; 3a-8
	9		Discography; 3a-9
	10		Photo arrangements; 3a-10
	11-12		Photos (Kansas City, B; permission for use of most must be obtained from Duncan Scheidt, Indianapolis); 3a-11
	13		Index; 3a-12
Box	Folder
11	1		Hold; 3a-13
	2		Modern jazz style reference material; 3b-1
	3		Hold; 3b-2
	4-6		Manuscript pages; 13b-3
	7		Page proofs; 3b-4
Box	Folder
12	1		Page proofs (cont'd); 3b-4
	2		Bibliography (3 x 5 cards); 3b-5
	3		Correspondence (University of California Press, KC book); 3b-6
	4		University of California Press catalogue; 3b-7
	5-8		Original manuscript; 4-1
Box	Folder
13	1		Reviews; 4-2
		Bird Lives! (Charlie Parker)
Box	Folder
13	2		Parker magazine article; 4-3
	3		Parker magazine article (Bird and Sartre); 4-4
	4		Dictionary of American Biography; 4-5
	5		Grove Dictionary of Music; 4-6
	6		Yardbird in Lotus Land; 4-7
	7		Yardbird (mechanics); 4-8
	8		Bird Lives! (versions A, B, C, D, E); 4-9
	9		Unlabelled folder containing VIII A: The Forties (extracted from "Bebop instrumental stylists"?) plus part of Bird manuscript; 4-10
	10		Parker's mood; 4a-1
	11		bop era musicians; 4a-2 ; 1940s
	12		Parker magazine references; 4a-3
	13		Downbeat; 4a-4
Box	Folder
14	1		Newspaper clippings (envelope from Martin Williams); 4a-5
	2		Reference material (current); 4a-6
	3		Kansas City places; 4a-7
	4		TOBA (Theatre Owners' Booking Association); 4a-8
	5		Savoy recording dates; 4a-9
	6		Parker liner notes reference; 4a-10
	7		Jazz at the Philharmonic; 4a-11
			Interviews
Box	Folder
14	8			Mail interviews out; 4a-12
	9			Bellson, Louis; Lanphere, Don; 4a-13
	10			Clarke, Kenny; 4a-14
	11			Criss, Sonny; Gitler, Ira; Schlitten, Don; 4a-15
	12			Daniels, Ernest; 4a-16
	13			Hawes, Hampton; 4a-17
	14			Leonard, Harlan; 4a-18
	15			Lewis, John; 4a-19
	16			Ortega, Anthony (interview, record date); 4a-20
	17			Williams, Cootie; 4a-21; (Dec. 27, 1968)
	18			Misc. interviews, Los Angeles; 4a-22
	19			Misc. interviews, Kansas City; 4a-23
	20			Minor interviews; 4a-24
	21-22			Parker chronology; 4b-1
Box	Folder
15	1-2			Yardbird correspondence; 4b-2, 4b-3
	3			Evaluations (musical)
	4			Bibliography; 4b-4
	5			Parker (art); 4b-5
	6			Bird Lives! critiques, letters in; 4b-6
	7			Parker Discography (solos)
	8			Auditions (Parker); 4b-8
	9			Parker solos; 4b-9
	10			Saxophone; 4b-10
	11			Benedetti; 4b-11
	12			Parker unpublished reference (Parker signed documents, Emry Byrd holograph, Chan Richardson (Woods) letters, Lee Phillips letters, etc.; 4b-12
Box	Folder
16	1-2			Promotion; 5-1
				Reviews
Box	Folder
16	3				Index; 5-2
	4				No stats; 5-3
	5-7				U.S.; 5-4
	8				Foreign; 5-5
	9				Set reviews; 5-6
	10				Review photostats (U.S.); 5-7
Box	Folder
17	1				Review photostats (U.S., cont'd); 5-7
	2				Review photostats (foreign); 5a-1
	3			Ricker-Bock-Russell old filmscript; 5a-2
	4			Screenplay; 5a-3
	5			Screenplay 2 (copy); 5a-4
	6			Copy screenplay (another copy?); 5a-5
	7			Be-Bop (Lofaro-Levine screen play); 5a-6

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III. Business Records: Publishing and Recording Activities
		Contracts, film and record
Box	Folder
17	8		Option agreement (film); 5a-7
	9		Models, clippings, actors, directors; 5a-8
Box	Folder
18	1		Dial Mechanical Rights (contains contracts signed by Parker and others, an early letter by Chan Richardson (Woods), two holograph documents by Parker, further correspondence with Emry Byrd, correspondence concerning Parker's release from Camarillo State Hospital, Calif., into Russell's custody, etc. This and similar material in the Parker unpublished reference folder have been left as last arranged by Russell and should probably be reorganized and interfiled); 6a-1
	2		Recording agreement; 5a-9
	3		Warner Bros. Parker box set brochure notes; 5b-1
	4		Producers; 5b-2
		Agents
Box	Folder
18	5-7		Goldfarb, Bob; 5b-3, 5b-4
	8		Burger, Knox; 5b-5
	9		Seligmann and Collier; 5b-6
Box	Folder
19	1		John Farquharson Ltd. (plus dead file, Johnson, John); 5b-7
	2		La Nouvelle Agence; 5b-8
	3		Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale (Linder, Erich); 5b-9
	4		Kern Associates, Tokyo; 5b-10
		Publishers
Box	Folder
19	5		Popular Library; 5b-11
	6		University of California Press; 5b-12
	7-8		Quartet Books Ltd.; 6c-1
	9		Werner Soderstrom; 6c-2
	10		Filipacchi (French contract, Bird Lives!); 6c-3
	11		Tristan Forlaget, Kobenhavn; 6c-4
	12		Gidlunds Forlag; 6c-5
	13		Europe (agents and publishers); 6c-6
	14		Schoenberg, Arnold (and other correspondence regarding Dial classical catalog); 6a-15
	15		Book accounts, contracts; 6b-1
	16		Royalties; 6b-2
		Litigation (see also folders 53.7-54.2)
			Reisner
Box	Folder
19	17			Reference (loose material, probably copies of Reisner sources); 6b-3
Box	Folder
20	1			Shaw-Williams; 6b-4
	2			Hentoff, Baroness; 6b-5
	3			Bibliography (periodicals); 6b-6
	4			Evaluations (personal); 6b-7
	5			Copies of Reisner sources; 6b-8
	6			Permission to quote (this and at least part of the Reisner reference folder should probably be refiled with other Bird Lives! research materials); 6-3
	7			Vs. Reisner; 6b-9
	8			Supporting documents; 6b-10
	9			Misc. correspondence; 6b-11
	10			Defects; 6b-12
	11			Hill, William Murray; 6b-13
	12			Brown and Martin; 6b-14
	13			Copy settlement agreement (includes most of David Cutler file, i.e., Clyde S. Munsell law firm); 6b-15
	14			Copyright law, cases, decisions; 6b-16
	15			Correspondence; 6b-17
	16			Vs. Reisner (new material from English jazz periodicals); 6b-18
	17			Gehman, Richard (magazine article on Parker); 6b-19
	18			Expenses; 6b-20
	19		Libel, privacy, etc.; 6-1
	20		Legal problems (clippings); 6-2
Box	Folder
21	1		McKay (publishing firm); 6-4
	2		Expose article re McKay; 6-5
	3		Hentoff, Nat; 6-6
	4		Quartet Books Ltd.; 6-7
	5		Oak Lawn Books; 6-8
	6		Kluger, Richard, correspondence; 6-9
			Rodney, Robert "Red"
Box	Folder
21	7			File description; 6-10
	8			Biography (copy); 6-11
	9			Men's magazine; 6-12
	10-11			Correspondence; 6-13
	12			Rodney; 6-14
	13			Notes (Las Vegas); 6-15
	14			Reference; 6-16
	15			Chronology; 6-17
		Record companies
Box	Folder
22	1		Magazine reviews (clippings of Dial releases); 6a-2
	2		Discography (Dial); 6a-3
	3		Dial discography reference; 6a-4
	4		Discography (Dial; Parker); 6a-5
	5		Dial classics; 6a-6
	6		Tapes (DLP); 6a-7
	7		Steuermann, Edward (recording date); 6a-8
	8		Webern (recording date); 6a-9
	9		Schuller, Gunther (recording date; Schoenberg quintet); 6a-10
	10		Ajemian, Majo (recording date; Hovhaness masters); 6a-11
	11		Mavra (recording date; Craft); 6a-12
	12		Renard session; 6a-13
	13		Goodman, Saul (recording date; Bartok, two pianos); 6a-14
	14		Dial parts; 6a-16
	15		Comet masters; 6a-17
	16		Dial (logos, catalogs, labels); 6a-18
	17		Labels (10" 78 rpm jazz; 1000 series, 750 series); 6a-19
	18		Dial leasing; 6a-20
Box	Folder
23	1		Williams, Tony (world's leading authority on Parker discography and proprietor of Spotlite Records, UK); 6a-21
	2		Educational Media Associates of America Inc. (Kolisch memorial); 6a-22
	3		Dial masters (catalog); 6a-23
	4		Spotlite correspondence; 7-1
	5		Spotlite (current); 7-2
	6		L & W Printery, Inc.; 7-3
	7		Spotlite flyers; 7-4
	8		Spotlite labels
	9		Blank shipping orders; 7-5
	10		Packaging; 7-6
	11		Spotlite invoices, inventory, journal; 7-7
Box	Folder
24	1-2		Spotlite invoices, inventory, journal (cont'd); 7-7
	3-4		Spotlite paid invoices, vouchers, etc.; 7-8
	5		Spectra A & R; 7-9
	6		Contracts, rights, titles; 7-10
	7		Spotlite masters (licensing; Martial Solal and Joe Albany); 7-11
	8		201 Solal, Martial (Ornithology); 7-12
	9		202 Albany, Joe (Old, Old Friends); 7-13
	10		203 Solal, Martial (Monuments); 7a-1
	11		204 Solal, Martial ('Round Midnight); 7a-2
	12		Solal, Martial; 7a-3
	13		Studio log (bound); 7a-4
		Distributors
Box	Folder
24	14		Correspondence (distributors and record companies); 7a-5
Box	Folder
25	1		Caplin, Arnold (Biograph Records, Historical Records); 7a-6
	2		Koester, Bob (Delmark Records); 7a-7
	3		Onyx/Schlitten (Don Schlitten, Prestige Records, etc.); 7a-8
	4		Porter, Bob (Prestige Records, Phoenix); 7a-9
	5		Zimmerman, Art (Zim Records); 7a-10
	6-7		Accounts paid, 7a-11; 1975
		Discography and tapes (see also 22.2-22.4)
			Tapes
Box	Folder
25	8			Master; 7a-12
	9			Parker, Charlie; Williams, Tony; 7a-13
	10			Parker, Charlie; Lanphere, Don; 7a-14
	11			Lanphere, Don (notes, studio log); 7a-15
	12			XL 153 master file (this and following folders apparently relate to courses bearing the same names or numbers filed under "Jazz Classes"); 7a-16
	13			X 472 master; 7a-17
	14			Blues tapes; 7a-18
	15			History of Jazz in Kansas City and the Southwest; 7a-19
	16			Modern jazz style; 7a-20
	17			Africa; 7a-21
	18			Joy; 7a-22
	19	Records; 7a-23

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IV. Academic Papers & Other Writings
		Jazz classes
Box	Folder
25	20		Correspondence (academic courses); 7a-24
	21		The Thirties (master); 7a-25
	22		XL 132 (Jazz course); 7a-26
	23		XL 153 (Jazz course); 7b-1, 7b-2
Box	Folder
26	1		X 426; 7b-3
	2		X 471; 7b-4
	3		X 472; 7b-5
	4		X 472 (modern jazz); 7b-6
	5		X 473 (Kansas City); 7b-7
	6		Definitions in jazz; 7b-8
	7		Blues course; 7b-9
	8		Photo 70; 7b-10
	9		Photo course notes (appear to cover several courses); 7b-11
	10		Fictive techniques; 7b-12
	11		UCSD Extension (detective story); 7b-13
		Writing files
Box	Folder
26	12		Writing techniques; 7c-1
	13		Literary notes; 7c-2
	14		Sample paragraphs; 7c-3
	15		Poetics; 7c-4
	16		Popular novels (notes); 7c-5
Box	Folder
27	1		Books read; 7c-6
	2		Authors (biographies); 7c-7
	3		Books (orders and purchases); 7c-8
	4		First editions; 7c-9
		Language files
Box	Folder
27	5		Root families; 7c-10
	6		Latin/Greek; 7c-11
	7		Select Latin; 7c-12
	8		French; 7c-13
	9		Italian; 7c-14
	10		Spanish; 7c-15
	11		Vocabulary; 7c-16
		Autobiography; 8-1
Box	Folder
27	13		Chronology; 8-2
	14		Miscellaneous material; 8-3
	15		Russell PR material; 8-4
	16		Characters; 8-5
	17		Tropics; 8-6
	18		Leicester Country Club; 8-7
	19		Russell family photos; 8-8
	20		Miscellaneous photos of Russell and others; 8-9
	21		Theta Delta Chi; 8-10
Box	Folder
28	1		Los Angeles; 8-11
		Saga
Box	Folder
28	2		A; 8-12
	3		Research; 8-13
	4		Scenes; 8-14
	5		Chapters outline; 8-15
	6		Mystery plot line; 8-16
	7		Revelation sequence; 8-17
	8		Cast; 8-18
	9		Sets; 8-19
	10		Miscellany; 8-20
	11		Uncle Clint; 8-21
	12		Grandma; 8-22
		Miscellaneous
Box	Folder
28	13		West Indies; 8-24, 8-25?
	14		Sample ads (model cars); 8-26
			Baja
Box	Folder
28	15			Biblio (Baja California, Mexico); 8-27
	16			Travel; 8a-1
	17			Missions; 8a-2
	18			Treasures; 8a-3
	19		Entertainments; 8a-4
	20		Name bank; 8a-5
	21		Mitton, Pat (federal prisoner, San Diego County Jail); 8a-6
	22		Estate of Gordon, Jack (deceased composer; based partly on Rothko case?); 8a-7
	23		Night After Night; 8a-8
	24		Spivey (black skip tracer); 8a-9
Box	Folder
29	1		Go Bust material (exclusion from father's estate, stock market, etc.); 8a-10
	2			Chapters, copy; 8a-11, 8a-12 (both folders empty)
		Book ideas
Box	Folder
29	3		Ideas (new books and articles); 8a-13
	4		How to; 8a-14
	5		Condominiums (article); 8a-15
	6		Copy of Inside Golf magazine; 8a-16
	7		Jazz books; 8a-17
	8		Meatball; 8a-18
	9		Modern jazz style (with Bertram Turetzky); 8a-19
	10		O'Keeffe, Georgia; 8a-20
	11		Kanarek, Irving (defender of Charles Manson); 8a-21
	12		Dysinger, Susan; 8a-22
	13		Charlie Parker music 1 (this and following folder may be course material); 8a-23
	14		Music, biography, 1 (Parker); 8a-24
	15		Who you are (musician, put-on artist); 8a-25
		Unpublished fiction
Box	Folder
29	16		Pulp Fiction 8-23 (1930s);
	17		Red Azalea (complete); 8a-26
	18		Maritime unions (research material); 8b-1
Box	Folder
30	1		The God That Failed; 8b-2
	2		Goodbye to Bohemia (two novels in folder; the second contains character studies of friends from college and early life); 8b-3
	3		The Girl Who Liked Muscles (erotic novel); 8b-4
	4		The Good Samaritans; 8b-5
	5		My Collar Got Dirty; 8b-6
	6		Call Girl; 8b-7
	7		The Gold-Plated Melody; 8b-8
	8-9		The Big Jackpot
Box	Folder
31	1-2		The Big Jackpot (cont.)
	3-9		The Disc Jockey (earlier title: Big Payola)
	3			Manuscript (chapters 1-8; 126 pp.); 8b-9?
	4			Copy manuscript; 8c-1
	5			Pages recopied; 8c-2
	6-7			Big Payola (hold); 8c-3
	8			Scenes and incidents; 8c-4
	9			Chapters 9 and 10; 8c-5
	10		Boy Singer; 8c-6
Box	Folder
32	1		Stand-up comic novel; 8c-7
	2		Clippings, posters, miscellaneous correspondence (three letters; one from Noordberg, J. W.)
	3		Street Shares; 9-1, 9-2?, 9-3?
			Raisin' Dust (earlier title: Clay Pigeon)
Box	Folder
32	4			Four issues of Dirt Bike magazine; 9-4
	5			Outline (Clay Pigeon); 9-5
	6			Brock; 9-6
	7			Raisin' Dust 1, 2, 3; 9-7
	8			Folder 5 (from empty set of 9 folders, numbered 4-14); 9-8
	9			Baja 1000 material (clippings
	10			XYZ (Clay Pigeon); 9-10
	11			Hold (Clay Pigeon)
			Cross Hairs
Box	Folder
32	12			Two gun catalogues; 9-1
	13			Outline; 9-2
	14			Cast; 9-3
	15			Baja California Sur (booklet published by AAA); 9-4
	16			Eight folders (no contents in 6-8); 9-5 to 9-9
	17			Hold; 9-10
	18			XYZ; 9-11
			Pious Fund
Box	Folder
32	19			Plot; 9-12
	20			Research; 9-13
Box	Folder
33	1			Baja California guide book; 9-14
	2			Nine folders (no contents in 5-9); 9-15 to 9a-3
	3			Hold; 9a-4
		Chandler, Raymond (biography material)
			The Day They Cleaned Up L.A.
Box	Folder
33	4			Outline; 9a-5
	5			Data file; 9a-6
	6			Five folders; 9a-7 to 9a-11
	7			Hold; 9a-12
			Los Angeles crime
Box	Folder
33	8			Crime index; 9a-13
	9			Police Department; 9a-14
	10			Police interviews; 9a-15
	11			1920s miscellaneous (Arbuckle, Phillips, et. al.); 9a-16
	12			Post-Taylor, Normand-Dines (famous crimes); 9a-17
	13			Post-Taylor (1930s; Minter et. al.); 9a-18
	14			Taylor (newspapers); 9a-19
	15			Body politic (corruption); 9a-20
	16			Raymond-Clinton recall; 9a-21
	17			Crawford; Spencer; Clark (famous crimes); 9a-22
	18			The Critic of Critics (sample pages); 9a-23
Box	Folder
34	1			Boss criminals and master gamblers; 9a-24
	2			Hoods; 9a-25
	3			Gambling ships; 9a-26
	4			Sets (gambling casinos); 9a-27
	5			Pete, Julian; Lavine, Morris (stock swindle); 9a-28
	6			The Great Los Angeles Bubble; 9a-29
	7			Chandler biography (version of chapter 8); 9a-30
	8			Stephens, Joe (interview, Los Angeles Police Department); 9b-1
	9		Los Angeles crime books, miscellaneous; 9b-2
	10			Siegel, Bugsy; 9b-3
	11			Bruneman-Caress; 9b-4
	12			Thicker 'N Thieves; 9b-5
	13			Beverly Hills Is My Beat; 9b-6
	14			Me, Detective; 9b-7
	15			The Los Angeles Murders; 9b-8
	16			Angel City in Turmoil; 9b-9
	17			Crime -- B (magazines); 9b-10
				Crime -- C (contains five folders):
Box	Folder
34	18				Miscellaneous L.A. crimes, California crime commission; (1930s)Cohen (post-war crime); Misc. L.A. crimes; (1949-1950)Southern California crime C; 9b-11; (1940s)
			General reference materials
Box	Folder
34	19			Sets (actual); 9b-12
	20			Sets (field notes); 9b-13
	21			Sets (fiction); 9b-14
	22			Chateau Bercy; 9b-15
	23			Residences (Chandler residences; Cathedral City); 9b-16
	24			Field; 9b-17
	25			Cast (actual); 9b-18
Box	Folder
35	1			Cast (fiction); 9b-19
	2-3			Tie-ins (contains 8 folders):
	2-3				Chandler's murderesses;
	2-3				Jewel robberies;
	2-3				Bay City;
	2-3				Dr. Doper (sanitaria);
	2-3				Mystics;
	2-3				Raffles;
	2-3				Cops;
	2-3				Tie-ins missing; 9b-20
	4			Untitled look at Raymond Chandler (Evens, Philip; original typescript), 1968
	5			Taylor case (how mined); 10-2
	6			Taylor, William Desmond (A); 10-3
	7			Taylor book references; 10-4
	8			Philip, Marlowe; 10-5
	9			Marlowe (evolution); 10-6
	10			Marlowe (lifestyle); 10-7
	11			Eye (Marlowe); 10-8
	12			Key documents; 10-9
	13			Library; 10-10
	14			UCLA Research Library; 10-11
	15			Reference books; 10-12
	16			Bibliography; 10-13
	17			Bibliography (books consulted); 10-14
	18			Material checked; 10-15
	19			Analysis of fiction; 10-16
	20			Reviews, critical opinions; 10-17
	21			Style; 10-18
	22			Art; 10-19
Box	Folder
36	1			Exhibits (art); 10-20
	2			Photo section; 10-21
	3			Tape and film; 10-22
				Interviews
Box	Folder
36	4				In; 10-23
	5				Leads; 10-24
	6				Interviews?; 10-25
	7				Hollywood; 10-26
	8				San Diego; 10-27
	9				Correspondence (outgoing); 10-28
	10			General correspondence regarding Chandler (James M. Cain, George Harmon Coxe, others); 10-29
	11			Ground Observer Corps; 10-30
	12			Durham, Philip (author ofDown These Mean Streets); 10b-1
				Correspondence
Box	Folder
36	13				Evans, Philip (London, not the same person filed under "Individual jazz correspondents"); 10b-2
	14				Gardner, Mark; 10b-3
	15				Giudice, Renate (Mainz); 10b-4
	16				Guymon, Ned; 10b-5
	17				Knopf, Alfred A.; 10b-6
	18			MacShane, Frank (author of The Life of Raymond Chandler); 10b-7
	19			Genre; 10b-8
	20			Genre 1 (history); 10b-9
	21			Genre (C); 10b-10
	22			Picaresque; 10b-11
	23			Innocence; 10b-12
				Pulp magazines, contains:
Box	Folder
36	24				Dime Detective;
	24				Black Mask;
	24				Authors ( Black Mask school, bios);
	24				Pulp magazines (want list); 10b-13
				Fiction, contains: 1933-1935
Box	Folder
36	25				5 "Guns at Cyrano's";
	25				7 "Nevada Gas"; 10b-14
	26			Fiction, contains: 1936-1937
	26				10 "Goldfish";
	26				20 "I'll Be Waiting"; 10b-15
				The Big Sleep, contains: 1939
Box	Folder
37	1				Sources;
	1				Doheny Estate (Greystone Park);
	1				3 "Finger Man";
	1				4 "Killer in the Rain";
	1				11 "The Curtain"; 10b-16
	2			Farewell, My Lovely, contains: 1940
	2				Sources;
	2				Mike Mazurki (actor);
	2				8 "The Man Who Liked Dogs";
	2				12 "Try the Girl";
	2				13 "Mandarin's Jade"; 10b-17
	3			The High Window, 10b-18; 1942
	4			The Lady in the Lake, contains: 1943
	4				Sources;
	4				Thelma Todd;
	4				16 "Bay City Blues";
	4				17 "The Lady in the Lake";
	4				21 "No Crime in the Mountains";
	4				Film; 10b-19
	5			The Little Sister, 10c-1; 1949
	6			The Long Goodbye, 10c-2; 1953
	7			Playback, 10c-3; 1958
	8				Sources, versions; 10c-4
	9			22 "The Pencil"; 10c-5
	10			23 "The Poodle Springs Story"; 10c-6
	11			Raymond Chandler Speaking; 10c-7
	12			Fiction (non-mystery); 10c-8
	13			Non-fiction (magazine); 10c-9
	14				The Armchair Detective; 10c-10
	15					Stripped pages; 10c-11
	16				The Simple Art of Murder (influences from essay by Thomas De Quincey); 10c-12
			Correspondence
				Chandler, Raymond (copies)
Box	Folder
37	17				10c-13; 1930s
	18				10c-14; 1940s
Box	Folder
38	1				(cont'd); 10c-14; 1940s
	2			Knopf, Alfred A. (includes Chandler documents); 10c-15
	3				10c-16; 1950 to end
	4				Extracts from Knopf correspondence; 10c-17
	5				Letters (complex dates) Knopf?; 10c-18
	6				Index; 10c-19
	7			BBC; 10c-20
			Film
Box	Folder
38	8			Hollywood; 11-1
	9			Untitled film folder; 11-2
	10			The Big Sleep; 11-3
	11			The Long Goodbye; 11-4
	12			The High Window
	13			Farewell, My Lovely; 11-5
	14			Other films; 11-6
	15-16		Chronology, (sources); 11-7; 1950-
Box	Folder
39	1-2		Chronology (in box); 11a-1
			Raymond Chandler: A Biography, chapters completed
Box	Folder
39	3			C proposal; 11a-2
	4			Ray Chandler; 11a-3
	5			1; 11a-4
	6			2; 11a-5
	7			3, contains:
	7				Early years (boyhood, World War I);
	7				Dulwich;
	7				Wodehouse;
	7				Bloomsbury;
	7				California, 1912-1921;
	7				Chandler before Marlowe; 11a-6
	8			4; 11a-7
	9			5, contains:
	9				Chandler personal items (1920-1932);
	9				Petroleum history;
	9				Dabney Oil Co.;
	9				Dabney probate; 11a-8
	10			6, contains:
	10				Gardner, Erle Stanley ( "The Invisible Ring");
	10				1 "Blackmailers Don't Shoot";
	10				2 "Smart Aleck Kill";
	10				9 "Pick Up on Noon Street";
	10				15 "The King in Yellow"; 11c-2
	11			7 (STET Doheny/Hancock folder); 11b-1
	12			8 (contains 6, Spanish Blood); 11b-2
	13			9, contains:
	13				14 "Red Wind";
	13				18 "Pearls Are a Nuisance";
	13				19 "Trouble Is My Business"; 11b-3
	13			(no number 10 folder)
	14			11; 11b-4
Box	Folder
40	1			Three folders (no contents in 2 and 3); 11b-5
	2			Revised pages to be photostatted; 11b-6
	3			Extra photostats; 11b-7
	4			Copy; 11b-8
	5-6			Loose pages (probably discarded sheets); 11b-9
			Chandler biography (original manuscript)
Box	Folder
40	7			Chapters; 11b-10
	8			Chapter 1; 11b-11
	9			Chapter 2; 11b-12
	10			Chapter 3; 11b-13
	11			Chapter 4; 11b-14
	12			Chapter 5; 11c-1
	13			Chapter 6; 11c-3
Box	Folder
41	1			Chapter 7; 11c-4
	2			Chapter 8; 11c-5
	3			Chapter 9; 12-1
	4			Chapter 10; 12-2
	5			Chapter 11; 12-3
	6			Chapter 12; 12-4
	7			Chapter 13; 12-5
	8			Chapter 14; 12-6
	9			Chapter 15; 12-7
	10			Chapter 16; 12-8
	11			Chapter 17; 12-9
Box	Folder
42	1-12			Xerox Manuscript, Chapters 1-12 (no chapter 8); 12a-1
Box	Folder
43	1-2			Xerox Manuscript, Chapters 13-14; 12a-2
	3			Refile (miscellaneous); 12b-1
		Hammett, Dashiell
Box	Folder
43	4		Chronology; 12b-2
	5		Correspondence; 12b-3
	6		Outline (divisions, chapters; Hammett and Ambler, Eric); 12b-3
	7		Chronology (empty file); 12b-3
	8		Bibliography, reference; 12b-3
	9		Leads, interviews; 12b-3
	10		Materials, reference; 12b-3
	11		Miscellaneous; 12b-3
	12		Reviews by Hammett; 12b-3
	13		Reviews of Hammett; 12b-3
	14		Ambler, Eric; 12b-3
		Bird Lives! manuscript; 12c-1
Box	Folder
44	1		Part One
	2		Part Two
	3		Part Three
	4		Part Four
	5		Acknowledgements, bibliography, etc.

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V. Photographs
		Monterey Jazz Festival
Box	Folder
45	1		(contact prints, programs); 13-1; 1968, September
	2		(programs, etc.); 13-2; 1968
	3		(extra prints); 13-3; 1968
	4		(contact prints); 13-4; 1970
	5-6		(prints); 13-5, 13-6; 1970
	7		(clippings, etc.); 13-7; 1971, September 18
	8		(McShann; prints); 13-8; 1971
	9		(no photos); 13-9; 1974
	10		Bongo session (prints); 13-10
		Newport Jazz Festival
Box	Folder
46	1		13-11; 1957
	2		(manuscript, clippings, etc.; no photos); 13-12; 1958
	3-4		(Newport on Tour; San Diego Sports Arena); 13-13, 13-14; 1968
	5	Jazz by the Bay, (prints); 13-15; June 1969
	6	Jazz by the Bay, (8 x 10 proofs); 13-16
		Dixieland at Disneyland
Box	Folder
46	7		(prints); 13-17; 1967
	8		(proof sheets)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ross Russell:

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

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Ross Russell Papers--Folder List

I. Correspondence

II. Jazz Writings

III. Business Records: Publishing and Recording Activities

IV. Academic Papers & Other Writings

V. Photographs