urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00390 Millicent Dillon: A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to Her Papers in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Finding aid created by Hope Rider and Liz Murray Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 2005 Finding aid encoded by Katy Hill, 4 August 2008 Finding aid written in English. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Dillon, Millicent, 1925- Millicent Dillon, Addition to Her Papers 1963-2002 31 boxes, 1 galley folder (13.02 linear feet) This addition to the papers of Millicent Dillon includes fiction and non-fiction, correspondence, and research material on Jane and Paul Bowles. English Scope and Contents

This addition to the papers of Millicent Dillon includes fiction and non-fiction, correspondence, and research material on Jane and Paul Bowles. The accretion is arranged in three Series: I. Works, II. General Research Materials, and III. Correspondence.

The works in Series I. are organized in three Subseries: A. Non-Fiction Monographs, B. Short Non-Fiction, and C. Fiction. The biographical monographs in Subseries A. reflect Dillon's interest in the life and writings of Paul and Jane Bowles, Mary Cassatt, and Isadora Duncan. Notes, drafts, proofs, interviews, royalty statements, reviews, and correspondence are present. Titles include After Egypt: Isadora Duncan and Mary Cassatt (1990), A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles (1980, reprinted 1998), Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles (editor, 1985), The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles (editor, 1994), and especially well-represented, You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles (1998). The latter includes correspondence between Dillon and Paul Bowles, as well as transcripts of Dillon's interviews with Bowles, and her photographs of Bowles.

Subseries B. Short Non-Fiction contains Dillon's articles, essays, and reviews for various publications. Also present are correspondence, interviews, and articles written during her employment with the Stanford News Service from 1973-1983. Student papers from 1963-1965 and Dillon's 1966 Masters thesis Five Sardonyx, containing early versions of five stories later published in Baby Perpetua and Other Stories, conclude this subseries.

Dillon's fiction, in Subseries C., includes novels, short stories, and plays. Material for the novels The Dance of the Mothers (1991), Harry Gold (2000), and The One in the Back is Medea (1973) includes drafts, proofs, correspondence, reviews, and royalty statements. A considerable amount of Harry Gold research material is also present. Also in this series are typescripts and correspondence for radio and stage plays, By the Water (1995), Inside (2000), Prisoners of Ordinary Need (1990), and She Is in Tangier (1989). Dillon's short stories include the collection Baby Perpetua and Other Stories (1971), as well as individual stories listed alphabetically under the "Short stories" heading. Of these, all five of Dillon's O. Henry Award winners are present: All the Pelageyas, Monitor, Wrong Stories, Oil and Water, and Lost in L.A.

Series II. contains research material related to Dillon's writing on Jane and Paul Bowles, ranging from correspondence to annotated works. This material pertains to the life and work of the Bowleses in general, rather than to a specific work, and thus it is not included with individual titles in Series I.

The correspondence in Series III. includes both outgoing and incoming letters from Dillon's friends and literary associates.

 Acquisition:

Purchase, 2003 (Reg. no. 15075)

 Access:

Open for research

 Processed by:

Hope Rider and Liz Murray, 2005

Items received with the papers, transferred to appropriate departments within in the Ransom Center, include an oil painting of Jane Bowles by Maurice Grosser, books, and Paul Bowles interview tapes.

 Container List Series I. Works Subseries A. Non-Fiction Monographs After Egypt: Isadora Duncan and Mary Cassatt (1990) 1 1 Research material re Duncan, 1945 1 Notebooks and notes, 1978-1987 1 2 Correspondence chronology notebook, 1978-1987 1 3 Research notebook, February-March 1985 1 4 Working notebook, September 1985 1 5 Preliminary notes, 1988 1 Correspondence, 1984-1991 1 6-8 Ca. 1984-1991 1 9 Permissions, 1985-1990 2 1 Permissions, cont'd 2 2 Re Cassatt, 1984-1987 2 3 Re Duncan, 1985-1986 2 4 Re reviews, 1990-1991 2 Manuscript 2 5-7 “Final manuscript,” typescript 3 1-3 Corrected printer’s proof 3 4 Photographs of Cassatt and Duncan, copies 3 5 Draft material not used in final version 3 6 Post-production materials, reviews 3 A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles (1980, reprinted 1998) 3 7 Book proposal and correspondence, 1976 3 Notebooks and note cards, 1976-1987 3 8 September 25 - October 9, 1976, notebook 3 9 February 1977, Tangier, notebook 4 1 1977, note cards, “Paul and his fiction” 4 2 September - November 1977, New York, notebook 4 3 May - June 1979, Tangier, England, New York, notebook 4 4 1979-1986, correspondence chronology, notebook 4 Correspondence, 1976-1997 4 5 Doubleday (Anchor edition) 4 6-7 Film inquiries 4 8-10 Foreign editions 5 1-2 Foreign editions, cont'd 5 3-7 Groffsky, Maxine, 1976-1987 5 8 Harper & Row, Inc., ca. 1976-1982 5 9 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 5 10 Holt Rinehart & Winston 5 11 Kaplan, Pat 6 1 Photos and permissions, 1977-1994 6 2 Pociao (Sylvia de Hollanda), 1991-1997 6 3 Reversion of rights, 1982-1987 6 4 Shoor, Bernie and Edith, 1977 6 5 Royalty statements, 1981-1986 6 Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles (editor, 1985), correspondence 6 6-7 Black Sparrow Press, 1982-1994 6 8 Re Jane Bowles letters, 1979-2000 6 9 Re publication, 1982-1987 6 10-11 The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles (editor, 1994), correspondence, royalty statements 7 You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles (1998) 7 1 Advertising and reviews 7 2 Book proposals and correspondence, ca. 1991 7 Correspondence, 1987-2002 7 Outgoing 7 3 1991-1997 7 4 Bowles, Paul, 1990-1998 7 Incoming 7 5 Bowles, Paul, ca. 1987-1998 7 6 Fellowships, 1993-1994 7 7 Knopf, re cancelled contract, 1996 7 Publication 7 8-9 Pre, ca. 1991-1998 7 10 Post, 1998-2002 7 11 University of California Press, 1996-2002 8 1 Excerpt, correspondence and publication (Raritan, Winter 1998) 8 Interviews, notes and transcripts 8 2 Ardman, Carol, 1977-1992 8 3 Beute, Dan, 1993 8 Bowles, Paul, transcripts, 1992 8 4-5 May 2-7 8 6-7 May 8-13 8 8 December 2-5 8 9 December 6-10 9 1 December 11-15 9 2 Clark, Hanetta (“Valeska”), 1993 9 3-4 Negri, Livio, interviews with Paul Bowles and Dillon, 1991 9 5 Re music by Paul Bowles, articles, correspondence, programs, reviews 9 Notebooks and journals 9 6 1991-1992, HRC, Tangier 9 7 1994, Atlanta 9 Photographs of Paul Bowles 9 8 By Dillon, Tangier, 1992 9 9-10 By others, 1970s-1994 10 Typescripts 10 1-3 “First draft” sections 10 4-6 “Second draft,” 1993-1994 11 1-2 “Second draft,” cont'd 11 3-5 Draft, October 1994 12 1-3 “Edited manuscript” 12 4-6 Version May 1995 13 1-3 With handwritten changes 13 4-6 “Final manuscript,” 1996 Subseries B. Short Non-Fiction Articles and essays 14 1 Jane Bowles: Experiment as Character (in Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction, 1989), correspondence 14 2 Keeper of the Flame (The New Yorker, The Talk of the Town, January 27, 1997), research, draft, publication, correspondence 14 3-5 The Marriage Melody (in The Sheltering Sky, ed. Livio Negri, 1990), draft, publication, correspondence 14 6 Meeting Paul (in Paul Bowles by His Friends, ed. Gary Pulsifer, 1992), draft, correspondence 14 7 The Mystery of Jane Bowles (Marie Claire Japon, 1992), correspondence, draft, publication 14 8 On Hearing of the Death of Paul Bowles (Threepenny Review, Spring 2000), correspondence, obituaries 14 9 Program notes for Lyric Hammersmith production of Jane Bowles's In the Summer House, programs, reviews, correspondence, 1993 15 Various 15 1 1947-1959 15 2 1958-1994 15 3 Correspondence re essays and reviews, 1973-1983 15 4 Interview with Gilbert Sorrentino, 1983, not published 15 5 Panel on "Hitler Junge Quex," 1997 15 Reviews 15 6-7 Art, books, plays 15 8 San Francisco Chronicle, ca. 1973-1975 15 Stanford News Service, 1973-1983 15 9 Correspondence, 1973-1983 15 10 News Service releases, official copies, 1973-1983 16 1 News Service releases, cont'd 16 Newspaper tearsheets 16 2 1974-1975 16 3 1976-1981 16 4 1982-1983, nd 16 Student work 16 5-6 Critical papers, M.A. program, 1963-1965 16 7 Five Sardonyx, Masters thesis, 1966 Subseries C. Fiction 17 Baby Perpetua and Other Stories (short stories, 1971) 17 1 Notebook, 1965-1966 17 2 Stories published in magazines, Induce, 1969; Rape, ca. 1967; Second Bedroom, 1970 17 Story drafts 17 3 Baby Perpetua 17 4 Buttons Are Made of Animal Blood 17 5 The Right to Refuse Service 17 6-7 Collection drafts 18 1-2 Printer’s proofs 18 3 Galley proofs 18 4-5 Correspondence, reviews, royalty statements, ca. 1968-1973 18 The Dance of the Mothers (novel, 1991) 18 Novel drafts 18 6 We Are All Artists, early short story 18 7-8 Early manuscript, 1986 19 1 Bound, ca. 1987-1988 19 2-3 Final manuscript 19 4 Correspondence, reviews, royalty statements 19 Harry Gold (novel, 2000) 19 5 Book proposals 19 Correspondence 19 6 Ballard, Augustus, 1983-1985 19 7 Re Gold project 19 Research materials 19 8 Communism pamphlets 20 Gold information, photocopies 20 Articles by Gold, 1950 20 1 The circumstances surrounding my work as a Soviet agent, October 11, 1950 20 2 The early life of Harry Gold: A report, October 23, 1950 20 3 FBI file on Gold 20 4 Lawyer’s statement and notes 20 5 Patent application and correspondence, ca. 1960s 20 6-8 Pre-trial examination of Gold 21 1 Prison correspondence, ca. 1950s 21 2 Response to Invitation to an Inquest by Walter Schneir 21 3 Trial documents, 1950 21 4 Trial transcript 21 5-6 Interview notebooks, 1984 21 7 Notebook, 1984-1988 21 8 Notes 22 1 Santa Fe information 22 Novel drafts 22 2 Early drafts, fragments 22 3-5 Earlier draft 22 6-7 Sent to publisher 23 1 Sent to publisher, cont'd 23 The One in the Back is Medea (novel, 1973) 23 2-3 Correspondence, 1971-1977 23 Novel drafts 23 4-5 Drafts and notes 23 6 Draft notebook, 1968 23 7-8 Original manuscript 24 1-3 Printer’s proofs 24 * Galleys [*removed to galley files] 24 4 Corrections sent to editor 24 5 Reviews 24 Plays 24 6 By the Water (1995), correspondence, typescript 24 7 Inside (2000), correspondence, typescripts, 1998-2000 24 Prisoners of Ordinary Need (1990) 24 8 Correspondence, 1990 24 9 Typescript 25 She Is in Tangier (1989) 25 1 Early version The Double Heart, ca. 1985 25 Revisions 25 2 October 1985 25 3 March 1986 25 4 November 27, 1989 25 5-7 Correspondence, 1983-1990 25 Short stories 25 8 All the Pelageyas, published version (Ascent, 1979), typescript, correspondence 25 9 Cutaneous Horn, published version (The Threepenny Review, Winter 1983), typescript 26 1 Lost in L.A., galley, correspondence, 1991-1992 26 2 Mingling, published version (Southwest Review, 2001), typescripts, proofs, correspondence 26 3 Monitor, published version (The Threepenny Review, Fall 1985), typescript, reviews, correspondence 26 4 Oil and Water, published version (Southwest Review, Spring 1990), typescript, correspondence 26 5 Risk of the Real, The, published version (Ontario Review, Fall-Winter 2001- 2002), drafts, galleys 26 6 Seeing, Being Minkin, typescript 26 7 Simple Direct Looks, published version (Southwest Review, Spring 1993), typescript, galley, correspondence 26 8 Staying, published version (Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2002), drafts, correspondence 26 9 Typecast, published version (The Threepenny Review, Spring 1997), typescript 27 Wrong Stories 27 1 Early version (Do Us a Favor), published version (Reed Magazine, 1980) 27 2 Early draft, published version (Southwest Review, Winter 1988), galley, correspondence 27 Various re short stories 27 3 Correspondence, ca. 1978-1993 27 4 Notebook, October 1965 27 5 O. Henry Prize stories correspondence, royalty statements 27 6 Rejections, ca. 1973-1992 27 7 Revisions notebook, 1984-1985 Series II. General Research Materials 27 Bowles, Jane 27 8-9 Correspondence re Jane Bowles, 1977-2000 28 1 Feminine Wiles (1976), annotated by Dillon 28 2 Short stories Laura and Sally and Looking for Lane (The Threepenny Review, 1984, 1987), typescript “Millicent’s copy” 28 3 Songs 28 4 Symposium on Jane Bowles (Lust & Gratie, 1985), correspondence, clippings, program 28 Bowles, Paul 28 5 Poetry and prose, photocopies, 1926-1980s 28 6 Points in Time, photocopy typescript 28 7 Six preludes and Sonata (1949), photocopy score, published score 28 Works annotated by Dillon 28 8 The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950) 28 9 A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962) and Unwelcome Words (1988) 28 10 Let It Come Down (1952) 28 11 The Sheltering Sky (1949) 28 12 Up Above the World (1966) 29 1 Without Stopping: An Autobiography (1972) 29 2 Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher. An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles (1989), annotated by Dillon Series III. Correspondence 29 3 Outgoing, 1980-2000 29 Incoming 29 4 A-B 29 5 Brodkey, Harold and Ellen, 1985-2000 30 1-2 C-E 30 3 F-G 30 4-5 Fainlight, Ruth, 1977-1999 30 6 H-J 30 7 K-L 30 8 M-R 31 1-2 Malin, Irving, 1983-1993 31 3 Ryle, John, 1989-1994 31 4 S-U 31 5 Sager, Gordon 31 6 W-Z 31 7 Waugh, Virginia Sorenson 31 8 Writers’ conferences and readings, ca. 1976-1992 31 9 Unidentified