urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00308 Charles Bowden: A Preliminary Inventory of His Collection of Tennessee Williams in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Finding aid created by Hope Rider Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 2004 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 24 January 2008 Finding aid written in English. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Bowden, Charles Charles Bowden Collection of Tennessee Williams 1954-2004 5 boxes, 1 oversize folder (2.1 linear feet) The Charles Bowden collection contains materials related to Tennessee Williams and his plays. Bowden was the producer for the Broadway production of The Night of the Iguana and he and his wife, the actress Paula Laurence, were personal friends of Williams. English Scope and Contents

The Charles Bowden collection contains materials related to Tennessee Williams and his plays. Bowden was the producer for the Broadway production of The Night of the Iguana and he and his wife, the actress Paula Laurence, were personal friends of Williams. The collection is divided into two series: Series I. Tennessee Williams Plays, ca. 1964-1976; and Series II. Williams-Related Materials.

Series I. contains scripts and some production materials for plays including The Night of the Iguana, an unproduced musical version of Camino Real, and Slapstick Tragedy. Some of these scripts include multiple handwritten and typescript revisions by Williams.

Materials in Series II. include correspondence, clippings, photographs, and programs relating to Williams.

 Acquisition:

Acquired from Paula Laurence Bowden, 2004 (Gift 12414 and Reg. 15343)

 Access:

Open for research

 Processed by:

Hope Rider, 2004

Audio tapes received with this collection were transferred to the Ransom Center's Sound Recordings Collection. Posters, set designs, photographs by Bill Viggiano, and Williams ephemera were transferred to the Performing Arts Collection.

 Container List Series I. Tennessee Williams Plays, ca. 1964-1976 1 El Camino (musical based on Camino Real, ca. 1976) 1 Scripts 1 1 An Untitled Musical, photocopy, May 1976 1 2 El Camino, working title, photocopy 1 3 Revisions, typescript and handwritten 1 Casting 1 4 Actor biographies, clippings, notes 1 5 Director and design, clippings and correspondence 1 6 Contracts 1 7 Correspondence re Larry Arrick and Barbara Damashek arbitration 1 8 Financial documents 1 9-10 Production materials, clippings, correspondence 2 1 The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1964), typescript 2 2 A House Not Meant to Stand, photocopy, April 27, 1982, Maria St. Just's copy 2 3 Kingdom of Earth, typescript 2 4 The Negative, photocopy of revised typescript 2 The Night of the Iguana (1963) 2 5-7 Typescript pages with handwritten revisions 2 8 Typescript, "Final and approved New York playing version" 3 1 Film script 3 2 Newspaper clippings and programs 3 3 Photographs and slides of Iguana-related material 3 Out Cry (1973), early version titled The Two-Character Play 3 4 Typescript, July 1971 3 5 Typescript, August 31, 1971, with handwritten revisions 3 6 Handwritten revisions 3 7 Programs 3 8 Out Cry and Small Craft Warnings (1972), correspondence and clippings 3 Slapstick Tragedy (1965), includes The Mutilated and The Gnädiges Fräulein 3 Typescripts 3 9 "Original submission, April 1964" 3 10-11 "Rehearsal version, January 17, 1965" 4 1 "Rehearsal version," ca. March 1965 4 2-3 Pages with handwritten revisions 4 4 Accounting statements 4 5 Contracts 4 6 Production materials and correspondence 4 7 Summer and Smoke (1972) opera, clippings and program 4 8 This Is (An Entertainment), photocopy script "Key West, January 1974, first draft" 4 9 Two Plays (includes I Never Get Dressed Till after Dark on Sundays and The Day on Which a Man Dies), photocopy script ca. 1971 Series II. Williams-Related Materials 4 10* Awards for The Night of the Iguana [*oversize Drama Critic's Circle Award removed to oversize folder] 4 Correspondence 4 11 Bowden, Charles, Maria St. Just, and Tennessee Williams 4 12 St. Just, Maria, 1983-1993 4 13 Various correspondents, ca. 1964-1994 5 1 Five O'Clock Angel script by Kit Harvey and Maria St. Just, working draft photocopy ca. 1993 5 2 Leverich, Lyle, materials 5 3 Photographs, including Charles Bowden, Tennessee Williams, Audrey Wood, Rose Williams, and Maria St. Just 5 * Poster, "Maria St. Just Remembers Tennessee Williams" [*removed to oversize folder] 5 4-5 Theatre programs 5 Williams, Rose 5 6* Art work [*oversize removed to oversize folder] 5 7 Documents re. care, finances 5 8-10 Williams, Tennessee, clippings, correspondence, memorial programs, obituaries