urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00336 Bernard Kops: A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to His Papers in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Finding aid created by Liz Murray Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 2003 Finding aid encoded by Gabriela Redwine, 12 September 2008 Finding aid written in English. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Kops, Bernard, 1926- Bernard Kops Papers (Addition) 1959-2003 10 boxes, 1 oversize folder (4.2 linear feet) This addition includes drafts of published and unpublished plays, stories, poetry, and notes for various projects. Also present is personal and career-related material such as articles, correspondence, and travel notes. English Scope and Contents

This addition to the Bernard Kops Papers at the Ransom Center includes drafts of published and unpublished plays, stories, poetry, and notes for various projects. Also present is personal and career-related material such as articles, correspondence, and travel notes.

The collection is arranged in three series: I. Works, II. Notes, and III. Personal and Career-Related.

The Works series contains primarily plays for stage, radio, and television, beginning with Kops' earliest works, Goodbye World produced in 1959 and David It Is Getting Dark, 1960, to various drafts of I Am Isaac Babel in 2003. Also of interest is his poetry, especially new unpublished poems completed as recently as 2002.

Series II contains notes for literary projects with typescript fragments interspersed. Articles, biographical information, correspondence, interviews, and travel notes are found in Series III. Personal and Career-Related. Kops' trip aboard the cruise ship Saga Rose, leading to an article in the Guardian, is particularly well-represented.

 Separated Material

Books received with the collection were transferred to the Ransom Center Library.

 Acquisition:

Purchase (Reg. no. 15181), 2003

 Access:

Open for research

 Processed by:

Liz Murray, 2003

 Container List Series I. Works 1 1-2 Anarchist B & B, play, revised typescript, fragments and notes 1 3 Androcles and the Lion, play, typescript 1 4 The Appointment, libretto, B.B.C. commission 1 5 The Boy Who Wouldn't Play Jesus, children's play, 1968, corrected typescript 1 6 By the Waters of Whitechapel, uncorrected proof, to p.28, 1969 1 7 Call in the Night, play, typescript 1 8 Colour Blind, Thirty Minute Theatre, radio play, B.B.C. 1 9-10 Congress in Manchester, radio play for B.B.C. and Thirty Minute Theatre, 1990 1 11 [The Dark Ages], play, incomplete typescript, 1965 1 12-13 David It Is Getting Dark, play, two typescript versions 1 14 Dreams of Anne Frank, Hampstead players flyer and information on the Hungarian performance with Roma cast 2 1 East End Tales, play, partial corrected typescript 2 2 Ezra Pound, teleplay, 1981 and rehearsal script, 1982, with related typescript prose fragment 2 Falling in Love Again 2 3-4 Typescript fragments and handwritten notes 2 5 Revised play script, B.B.C. Radio 4, July 2000 2 Golem, play 2 6 Typescript fragments and handwritten notes 2 7-8 Uncorrected typescripts, two versions 2 9 Goodbye World, play, typescript, 1960 3 I Am Isaac Babel, radio play 3 1-4 First handwritten notes through March-April 2003 3 5-6 Draft one, two typescript versions 3 7 Typescript before first revision 3 8 Notes and revised first draft, March-April 2003 3 9 Notes and ideas with second draft 3 10 Notes for third draft 3 11 I Grow Old, I Grow Old, radio script, 1979 3 12 I Want to Go Home, teleplay, camera script 4 1 Ich Bin Schon Ganz Zuhause, published play, 1985 4 2 In a Strange Land, teleplay, revised typescripts 4 3 The Jericho Players, revised radio script, 1996 4 4 More Than One Way Out, typescript synopsis, B.B.C. project, 1960 4 5 Moss, play, typescript 4 The Opening (American Play) 2002/3, play, subsequently titled Wasteland 4 6-8 Handwritten notes for "The Opening" 4 9 Notes and annotated draft, "Wasteland" 4 10-11 Typescript, with fragments, "Wasteland" 5 1 Typescript, "Wasteland" cont'd 5 2 Over the Rainbow, radio play, typescript 5 3 The Painting Class, notes for a projected play, 2003/04 5 4 Pictures at an Exhibition, treatment for a radio play 5 5 Playing Sinatra, play, revised typescript 5 Poetry 5 6 Notes and miscellaneous 5 7 Poems and handwritten notes 5 8 New unpublished poems, Sept.-Nov. 2002 5 9* Published poems in journals and newspapers [*oversize removed to Oversize Flat Files] 5 10 Unpublished poems 5 Riverchange, play 5 11-12 Notes 6 1 Notes, cont'd 6 2-3 Typescript fragments and notes 6 4 Various typescript versions 6 5 Rogues and Vagabonds, play, typescript 6 6* Shalom Bomb, autobiography, review and photocopy of dust jacket [*printed dust jacket removed to Oversize Flat Files] 6 7 Simon at Midnight, play, excerpted in Manna, Autumn 1984 6 8 A Small World, radio script, 1961 6 9-10 Stray Cats and Empty Bottles, teleplay 6 11 To the Land of Lost Birthdays, unpublished children's story, corrected typescript, 1972 7 1 The World is a Wedding, radio play, 1980 7 2 Yes from No-Man's Land, story excerpt in American Judaism, 1965 7 3-4 Abandoned projects, not pursued Series II. Notes 7 5 Notes on Ernst Toller's Masses Man 7 6-8 Handwritten notes 7 9 Miscellaneous typescript and handwritten notes 8 1-3 Miscellaneous notes and print material 8 4-5 Notes and information on China 8 6-7 South America project and Yangtze Series III. Personal and Career-Related 9 1* Articles by and about Kops, biographical information, and miscellaneous career-related material [*oversize article by Kops removed to Oversize Flat Files] 9 2 Correspondence 9 3 Interviews 9 4 Introduction to book of plays by Mike Leigh 9 5 O'Brien, Willis and stop motion animation 9 6* Programs, various events [*oversize removed to Oversize Flat Files] 9 Travel notes 9 7-8 Borneo, Feb. 2003 9 9-10 China, Yangtze notes, and Guardian article 10 1 China, Yangtze notes, and Guardian article, cont'd 10 2-6 Guardian, journey notes, Saga Rose cruise, 2001 10 7 Wayne State College 10 8 Workshop notes