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Separated Material
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Description of Series
Series I. Works, ca. 1967-2003
Series II. Correspondence, 1975-2002
Series III. Personal and Career-Related, ca. 1950s-2003
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Peter Matthiessen:
A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to His Papers in the Manuscript
Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
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Creator: |
Matthiessen, Peter (1927- ) |
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Title: |
Peter Matthiessen, Addition to His
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Dates: |
1950s-2003 |
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Abstract: |
This collection of Peter Matthiessen
Papers is an addition to accessions received in 1995 and 1998, for which preliminary
inventories are also available. Included are recent works, articles and essays,
correspondence, personal and career-related material, books, and audio cassettes. |
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27 boxes, 1 oversize box (13.10 linear feet) |
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Language: |
English |
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Repository: |
The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center |
This collection of Peter Matthiessen Papers is an addition to accessions received in
1995 and 1998, for which preliminary inventories are also available. Included are
recent works, articles and essays, correspondence, personal and career-related
material, books, and audio cassettes.
The Papers are organized in three series: Series I. Works, ca. 1967-2003 (bulk
1997-2003); Series II. Correspondence, 1975-2002; and Series III. Personal and
Career-Related, ca. 1950s-2003.
The Works Series includes research material, notes, typescript drafts, and
publication material for recent books in Subseries A: Birds
of Heaven: Travels with Cranes (2002), Bone by
Bone (1999), End of the Earth, Voyages to
Antarctica (2003), and Tigers in the Snow
(2000). Also present are galley proofs for Killing Mr.
Watson (1990) and an excerpt from Lost Man's
River (1997).
Subseries B includes articles for Audubon, Outside, and The New
Yorker. Titles include "The Last Great
Strand" for Audubon (1967); "Burning Bright" (2002), "Footprints in the Last Wild Place" (2003), and "Mean Spirit" (1995) for Outside; and "Tiger in the Snow" for
The New Yorker (1997). Considerable material is
included for "In the Great Country," Matthiessen's
contribution to the book Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:
Seasons of Life and Land (2003).
The correspondence in Series II. includes personal and literary letters from notables
such as Edward Abbey, John Barth, Kay Boyle, Benjamin Bradlee, Bill Clinton, Peter
Coyote, Don DeLillo, Alex and Eugenie Dolberg, John Elder, Victor Emanuel, William
Gaddis, George Garrett, Martha Gellhorn, Allen Ginsberg, Nadine Gordimer, Peggy
Guggenheim, Joseph Heller, Edward Hoagland, John Irving, Peter Jennings, Timothy
Leary, Norman Mailer, Frank McCourt, W.S. Merwin, Peter Nabokov, Philip Roth, Salman
Rushdie, James Salter, Charles Simic, Wiliam Styron, Studs Terkel, Paul Theroux,
Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Penn Warren, and Howard Zinn. There is a small number of
letters written by Matthiessen to others, as well as family correspondence.
Material in Series III., Personal and Career-Related, includes articles about
Matthiessen, awards, interviews, photographs and slides, public appearances, and
works of others. Awards include the Cooper Prize (2001), Heinz Award (1999), and the
Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award (2002), among others. Visual images include
photographs from Matthiessen's Paris Review days in
the 1950s and his recent appearance at the 2000 Texas Book Festival. Public
appearances include benefits, conferences, lectures, memorials, readings, and
seminars.
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Access:
The material is in good physical condition and is open for research
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Books and audio cassettes received with the Papers were transferred to appropriate
departments within the Ransom Center. |
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Purchase, 2004 (Reg. no. 15198)
Alex Jasinski and Liz Murray, 2004
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Series I. Works, ca. 1967-2003 |
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Subseries A. Book-length Works |
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Birds of Heaven: Travels with
Cranes (2002) |
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Proposals, outlines, and research |
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3 |
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Early drafts, including magazine versions |
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Draft with editor's comments; working title "Travel with
Cranes" |
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1-4 |
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Corrected typescript drafts, various chapters |
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1-4 |
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Corrected typescript drafts, cont'd |
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Setting copy |
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Setting copy, cont'd |
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2-3 |
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Mixed drafts and page proofs |
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Corrected page proofs, various sections |
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Illustrations and maps, drafts and proofs |
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First pass page proofs, 4/30/01 |
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First pass page proofs, cont'd |
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2-3 |
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Author's proofs, second pass, 8/14/01 |
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4-5 |
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Second pass master proofs of revised first pass pages
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Master pages, proofs, 9/11/01 |
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Reviews |
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Bone by Bone
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Corrected typescript drafts |
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4-6 |
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Various sections, 9/96 |
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Various sections, 9/96, cont'd |
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Complete draft, 9/96 |
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Revised draft, July-August 1998 |
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Setting copy, November 1998 |
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Setting copy, cont'd |
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Proofs, master set, first pass, December 1998 |
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Uncorrected proofs, 2/24/99 |
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Corrected pages from publisher, March 1999 |
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6 |
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Blue line proofs and dust jacket |
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Reviews |
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Dust jacket copy and proofs for The
Cloud Forest, The Peter
Matthiessen Reader, and The Snow
Leopard (Czech translation) |
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End of the Earth, Voyages to
Antarctica (2003) |
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1-3 |
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Research material |
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4 |
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Photographs of Antarctica, esp. penguins |
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Outlines and notes |
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Corrected typescript drafts |
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7 |
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"Cambell and Enderby" and explorer sections
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"The Last Clean Land" |
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Part 1, "Macquar2" |
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Part 1, variant draft |
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Part 2, early drafts |
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"Worst Journey," footnotes |
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Partial draft |
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Mixed typescript pages and notes |
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Draft, 4/7/02 |
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Part 1, 4/7/02 |
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Part 2, April-May 2002 |
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Part 1, Nov. 2002 |
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Draft fragments, Dec. 2002 |
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Parts 1-2, author's copy, 12/2/2002 |
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Part 2, 1/25/03 |
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Drafts, Jan. 29-31, 2003 |
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Part 1, draft 3, author's clean copy,
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Parts 1-2, draft 3, Byers copy, 3/20/03 |
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Partial draft, 4/1/03 |
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Draft with note from Steve Byers |
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Lightly corrected draft |
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Page proofs, incomplete |
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Galleys [*removed to oversize box 28] |
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Killing Mr. Watson
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Galley proofs |
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Reviews |
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Lost Man's River
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Excerpt in The Paris
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Articles and reviews |
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Tigers in the Snow
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4-5 |
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Research material |
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Research material, cont'd |
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Corrected typescript drafts and notes |
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Corrected typescript drafts and notes, cont'd |
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Corrected typescript, with Becky's notes |
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Uncorrected typescript |
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Setting copy, 8/23/99 |
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Corrected page proofs, partial |
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1-3 |
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Corrected page proofs |
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Reviews and publicity |
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Subseries B. Articles and essays, 1967-2003 |
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"Burning Bright," for
Outside, Oct. 2002 |
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"In the Great Country," in
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons
of Life and Land (2003) |
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Notes |
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Research material |
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Research material, cont'd |
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Galleys [*removed to oversize box 28] |
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"Footprints in the Last Wild
Place,"Outside, Feb. 2003, proofs for
adapted essay |
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"The Last Great Strand,"Audubon, March/April 1967, published
version |
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"Mean Spirit,"Outside, Oct. 1995, published version
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"Tiger in the Snow,"The New Yorker, Jan. 6,
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Drafts |
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Drafts, cont'd |
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Uncorrected proofs |
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Series II. Correspondence, 1975-2002 |
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A-C, including |
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Abbey, Edward |
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Abbot, John |
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Babenko, Hector |
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Baekeland, Tony |
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Barth, John |
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Bass, Rick |
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Boyle, Kay |
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Bradlee, Benjamin |
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Brooks, Allan |
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Campbell, William |
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Carney, Frederika |
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Clinton, Bill |
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Cole, John |
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Coyote, Peter |
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Crews, Harry |
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"Adventurer of the Soul: Peter
Matthiessen's Life in the World," documentary film project
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D-F, including |
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Davis, Paul |
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DeKooning, Lisa |
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Delano, Frank |
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DeLillo, Don |
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Dickey, Patsy |
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Dillard, Annie |
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Doig, Ivan |
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Dybek, Stuart |
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Elder, John |
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Emanuel, Victor |
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Erdrich, Louise and Dorris, Michael |
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Fisketjon, Gary |
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Fuller, Blair |
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Dolberg, Alex and Eugenie |
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Family and personal |
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G-L, including |
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Gaddis, William |
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Gallagher, Tess |
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Garrett, George |
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Gellhorn, Martha |
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Gerber, Dan |
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Gibson, Margaret |
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Ginsberg, Allen |
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Goldman, Amy |
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Gordimer, Nadine |
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Gray, Francine |
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Guggenheim, Peggy |
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Hall, Oakley |
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Heller, Joseph |
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Hoagland, Edward |
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Humes, Harry |
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Iyer, Pico |
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Jennings, Peter |
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Jones, Kaylie |
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Kidder, Tracy |
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LaDuke, Winona |
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Leary, Timothy |
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Lopez, Barry |
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Lord, Sheridan |
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Harrison, Jim |
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Indian Country |
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Irving, John |
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MacLehose, Christopher |
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Mailer, Norman |
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McClatchy, J. D. |
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McCourt, Frank |
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McGuane, Tom |
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McKibben, Bill |
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Meidav, Edie |
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Merchant, Ismail |
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Merwin, William (W.S.) |
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Miles, Hugh |
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Morris, William |
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Moynihan, Daniel P. |
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Nabokov, Peter |
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Ortiz, Simon |
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Matthiessen, Peter (outgoing) |
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Norman, Howard |
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Parnall, Peter |
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Paulsen, Frederik |
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Peacock, Doug |
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Peterson, Roger Tory |
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Porter, John Edward |
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Rafelson, Bob |
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Rattray, David |
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Rattray, Everett |
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Reid, Robert |
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Remnick, David |
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Rogers, Pattiann |
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Roth, Philip |
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Roy, Arundhati |
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Rushdie, Salman |
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St. John, David |
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Salter, James |
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Schainberg, Larry |
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Schaller, George |
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Sefina, Carl |
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Shaw, Adam |
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Shawn, William |
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Sheed, Wilfrid |
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Sifton, Elizabeth |
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Silko, Leslie Marmon |
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Simic, Charles |
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Snyder, Gary |
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Southern, Terry |
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Sproul, Barbara C. |
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Stanton, Doug |
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Steele, Max |
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Stegner, Lynn |
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Steinberg, Saul |
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Stern, Richard |
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Stone, Robert |
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Straus, Roger W. Jr. |
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Strete, Craig |
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Styron, Tom |
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Styron, William |
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Sullivan, Phil |
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Theroux, Paul |
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Turner, Frederick |
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Turner, Jack |
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Turner, Kay |
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Vonnegut, Kurt |
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Warren, Robert Penn |
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Wenning, Bobby and Claire |
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White, Randy Wayne |
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Williams, Joy |
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Williams, Terry Tempest |
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Winter, Evelyn |
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Winter, Paul |
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Woiwode, Carole and Larry |
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Wright, Charles |
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Young, Nancy |
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Articles about Matthiessen [*oversize removed to box 28]
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Awards |
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Cooper Prize, Society of American Historians, 2001
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Heinz Award, Heinz Foundation, 1999 |
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Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, Lannan Foundation, 2002
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Various awards, including Distinguished Service Award
(Society for Conservation Biology, 1999), Edith Wharton Citation of
Merit for State Author (N.Y. State, 1995), John Hay Award (Orion
Society, 1999) |
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"The Art of Fiction CLVI,"
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"The Art of Fiction CLVII"
in Paris Review, #150, Spring 1999 |
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Miscellaneous material, articles on others, Royal Opera Program
"Sophie's Choice" |
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Photographs and slides |
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1950s, from "Paris Review...Early
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1995, Matthiessen at his desk in Sagaponack, in Jill
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1999-2000, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Photographs
of Members, photocopied booklet |
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1999 and 2001, expeditions |
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2000, Texas Book Festival |
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Undated, Cincinnati Zoo |
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Benefits, conferences, lectures, memorials, readings,
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"An Evening with William
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Miles, Hugh and Houseman, Chip. "Spirit of the Snow Leopard," proposed film |
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Pizzey. "Birds of
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Plimpton, George. "An Interloper
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