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Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Separated Material
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Series I. Tennessee Williams Plays, ca. 1964-1976
Series II. Williams-Related Materials
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Charles Bowden:
A Preliminary Inventory of His Collection of Tennessee Williams in the
Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
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Creator: |
Bowden, Charles |
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Title: |
Charles Bowden Collection of Tennessee
Williams |
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Dates: |
1954-2004 |
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Abstract: |
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. |
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Extent: |
5 boxes, 1 oversize folder (2.1 linear feet) |
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Language: |
English |
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Repository: |
The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities
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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.
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Access:
Open for research
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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. |
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Acquired from Paula Laurence Bowden, 2004 (Gift 12414 and Reg. 15343)
Hope Rider, 2004
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Series I. Tennessee Williams Plays, ca. 1964-1976 |
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Folder |
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"El Camino" (musical based on Camino
Real, ca. 1976) |
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Scripts |
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"An Untitled Musical," photocopy, May 1976 |
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"El Camino," working title, photocopy |
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Revisions, typescript and handwritten |
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Casting |
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Actor biographies, clippings, notes |
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Director and design, clippings and correspondence
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Contracts |
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Correspondence re Larry Arrick and Barbara Damashek
arbitration |
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Financial documents |
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9-10 |
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Production materials, clippings, correspondence |
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Folder |
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The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
(1964), typescript |
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A House Not Meant to Stand, photocopy,
April 27, 1982, Maria St. Just's copy |
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Kingdom of Earth, typescript |
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"The Negative," photocopy of revised typescript |
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The Night of the Iguana
(1963) |
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Typescript pages with handwritten revisions |
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Typescript, "Final and approved New York playing version"
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Folder |
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Film script |
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2 |
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Newspaper clippings and programs |
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Photographs and slides of Iguana-related material |
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Out Cry (1973), early version titled
The Two-Character Play |
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Typescript, July 1971 |
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Typescript, August 31, 1971, with handwritten revisions
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Handwritten revisions |
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Programs |
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Out Cry and Small
Craft Warnings (1972), correspondence and clippings
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Slapstick Tragedy (1965), includes The Mutilated and The Gnädiges Fräulein |
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Typescripts |
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"Original submission, April 1964" |
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"Rehearsal version, January 17, 1965" |
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Folder |
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"Rehearsal version," ca. March 1965 |
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2-3 |
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Pages with handwritten revisions |
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Accounting statements |
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Contracts |
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Production materials and correspondence |
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Summer and Smoke (1972) opera, clippings
and program |
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This Is (An Entertainment), photocopy
script "Key West, January 1974, first draft" |
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Two Plays (includes I Never Get Dressed Till after Dark on
Sundays and The Day on Which a Man
Dies), photocopy script ca. 1971 |
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Series II. Williams-Related Materials |
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Folder |
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10* |
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Awards for The Night of the Iguana
[*oversize Drama Critic's Circle Award removed to oversize folder]
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Correspondence |
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Bowden, Charles, Maria St. Just, and Tennessee Williams
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St. Just, Maria, 1983-1993 |
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Various correspondents, ca. 1964-1994 |
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"Five O'Clock Angel" script by Kit Harvey and Maria St. Just,
working draft photocopy ca. 1993 |
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Leverich, Lyle, materials |
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Photographs, including Charles Bowden, Tennessee Williams, Audrey
Wood, Rose Williams, and Maria St. Just |
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Poster, "Maria St. Just Remembers Tennessee Williams" [*removed
to oversize folder] |
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Theatre programs |
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Williams, Rose |
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Art work [*oversize removed to oversize folder] |
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Documents re. care, finances |
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Williams, Tennessee, clippings, correspondence, memorial
programs, obituaries |
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