TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Administrative Information
Description of Series
I. Correspondence
II. Research Material
III. Transcripts of Interviews
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Alfred S. Shivers:
A Preliminary Inventory of His Collection of
Maxwell Anderson Research Materials at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research
Center
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| Creator: | Shivers, Alfred S.,
1929- |
| Title: | Alfred S. Shivers
Collection of Maxwell Anderson Research Materials
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| Dates: | 1970s-1980s |
| Abstract: | The collection consists of
correspondence, personal papers, family memoirs, photographs, and transcripts
of interviews with Anderson and with Anderson's family and friends compiled by
Professor Shivers for his three bio-bibliographical works on the
playwright. |
| Extent: | 4 boxes (1.68
linear feet) |
| Repository: | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
University of Texas at Austin |
This collection of research material on American playwright
Maxwell Anderson was compiled by Prof. Alfred S. Shivers of Stephen F. Austin
State University in preparing his three bio-bibliographical works on Anderson.
The collection is arranged in three series: Series I. Correspondence, Series
II. Research Material, and Series III. Transcripts of Interviews.
The correspondence in Series I. consists primarily of
Anderson's immediate and extended family members, as well as his former
students and theater colleagues. Series II. contains research material, listed
in the order in which Shivers arranged the folders. Included are personal
papers, family memoirs, photographs, and Anderson's 1956 oral history
interview. The last series contains transcripts of interviews with family
members and friend Lotte Lenya, among others.
Interview tapes and a video tape of Anderson's home movies,
received with the collection, have been transferred to the Ransom Center's
Sound Recordings and Photography and Film Department respectively.
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Availability:
Open for research
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Purchase, 2000 (Reg. no.14804)
Liz Murray, 2001
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I. Correspondence
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 1 | | Anderson, Alan |
| 2 | | Anderson, Donald |
| 3 | | Anderson, Gilda |
| 4 | | Anderson, Hesper |
| 5 | | Anderson, Jane McDill |
| 6 | | Anderson, John Kenneth |
| 7 | | Anderson, Lawrence |
| 8 | | Anderson, Mab |
| 9 | | Anderson, Margaret E.
Haskett |
| 10 | | Anderson, Quentin |
| 11 | | Axlrod, Libbe Higger |
| 12 | | Camp, Arthur |
| 13 | | Chambers, Glen Avery |
| 14 | | Chambers, Lela |
| 15 | | Cooper, Charles W. |
| 16 | | Hamilton, Lloyd R. |
| 17 | | Hargrove, Marion |
| Box | Folder |
| 2 | 1 | | Hulme, Kathryn |
| 2 | | Langer, Elinor |
| 3 | | Lenya, Lotte |
| 4 | | Loomis, Hallie (Craytor) |
| 5 | | Mulvehill, Tom |
| 6 | | Norvelle, Lee |
| 7 | | Odeski, Thomas F. |
| 8 | | Orms, Melvin T. |
| 9 | | Poor, Anne |
| 10 | | Reagan, Esther |
| 11 | | Waldo, Edna LaMoore |
| 12 | | Wharton, John F. |
| 13 | | Zimmer, Mrs. Margaret H. |
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II. Research Material
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| Box | Folder |
| 2 | 14 | | Breuer, Bessie. Photocopy of her novel
"Take Care of My
Roses" |
| | | Anderson, Maxwell |
| Box | Folder |
| 2 | 15 | | | Part of his diary,
photocopy |
| 16 | | | Poems in the diary of Josephine
Herbst |
| 17 | | Anderson, Hesper. Memoir
"Someone
Else" |
| 18 | | Chambers, Lela.
"Life," a
history of the Anderson family through 1975 |
| Box | Folder |
| 3 | 1 | | Movie promotion materials related to
the filming of MA's novel
"Morning, Winter
and Night" |
| 2 | | Birth certificates |
| 3 | | New City, N.Y. map |
| 4 | | Wm. Lincoln Anderson, letter relating
to him |
| 5 | | Death certificates |
| 6 | | Hesper's poems (copies) |
| 7 | | Emma Stephenson Harper's memoir of the
Anderson forbears |
| 8 | | Ethel Mae Chambers
"Out of Dark and
Bright," notes from memoir |
| 9 | | MA's transcript from Ohio State
University |
| 10 | | Picture of MA with article |
| 11 | | Marriage certificates |
| 12 | | Mab and Margaret's burials |
| 13 | | Max's funeral ceremonies |
| 14 | | MA's oral interview, May, 10, 1956 at
Columbia Univ. |
| 15-17 | | Photographs |
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III. Transcripts of Interviews
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| Box | Folder |
| 3 | 18 | | Anderson, Alan |
| 19 | | Anderson, Gilda |
| 20 | | Anderson, Hesper |
| Box | Folder |
| 4 | 1 | | Anderson, Kenneth |
| 2 | | Anderson, Lawrence |
| 3 | | Anderson, Lulu |
| 4 | | Anderson, Meg |
| 5 | | Anderson, Nancy |
| 6 | | Anderson, Quentin |
| 7 | | Anderson, Terence |
| 8 | | Chambers, Avery |
| 9 | | Chambers, Blanche |
| 10 | | Chambers, Lela |
| 11 | | Green, Paul |
| 12 | | Green, Mrs. Paul |
| 13 | | Hargrove, Marion |
| 14 | | Lenya, Lotte |
| 15 | | Sloane, Julie |
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