Millicent Dillon: A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to Her Papers in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Millicent Dillon:

A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to Her Papers in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center



	Creator:	Dillon, Millicent, 1925-
	Title:	Millicent Dillon, Addition to Her Papers
	Dates:	1963-2002
	Abstract:	This addition to the papers of Millicent Dillon includes fiction and non-fiction, correspondence, and research material on Jane and Paul Bowles.
	Extent:	31 boxes, 1 galley folder (13.02 linear feet)
	Language:	English
	Repository:	The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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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.

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	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.

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Series I. Works
		Subseries A. Non-Fiction Monographs
			After Egypt: Isadora Duncan and Mary Cassatt (1990)
Box	Folder
1	1			Research material re Duncan, 1945
				Notebooks and notes, 1978-1987
	2				Correspondence chronology notebook, 1978-1987
	3				Research notebook, February-March 1985
	4				Working notebook, September 1985
	5				Preliminary notes, 1988
				Correspondence, 1984-1991
	6-8				Ca. 1984-1991
	9				Permissions, 1985-1990
Box	Folder
2	1				Permissions, cont'd
	2				Re Cassatt, 1984-1987
	3				Re Duncan, 1985-1986
	4				Re reviews, 1990-1991
				Manuscript
	5-7				“Final manuscript,” typescript
Box	Folder
3	1-3				Corrected printer’s proof
	4				Photographs of Cassatt and Duncan, copies
	5				Draft material not used in final version
	6			Post-production materials, reviews
			A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles (1980, reprinted 1998)
	7			Book proposal and correspondence, 1976
				Notebooks and note cards, 1976-1987
	8				September 25 - October 9, 1976, notebook
	9				February 1977, Tangier, notebook
Box	Folder
4	1				1977, note cards, “Paul and his fiction”
	2				September - November 1977, New York, notebook
	3				May - June 1979, Tangier, England, New York, notebook
	4				1979-1986, correspondence chronology, notebook
				Correspondence, 1976-1997
	5				Doubleday (Anchor edition)
	6-7				Film inquiries
	8-10				Foreign editions
Box	Folder
5	1-2				Foreign editions, cont'd
	3-7				Groffsky, Maxine, 1976-1987
	8				Harper & Row, Inc., ca. 1976-1982
	9				Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
	10				Holt Rinehart & Winston
	11				Kaplan, Pat
Box	Folder
6	1				Photos and permissions, 1977-1994
	2				Pociao (Sylvia de Hollanda), 1991-1997
	3				Reversion of rights, 1982-1987
	4				Shoor, Bernie and Edith, 1977
	5			Royalty statements, 1981-1986
			Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles (editor, 1985), correspondence
	6-7			Black Sparrow Press, 1982-1994
	8			Re Jane Bowles letters, 1979-2000
	9			Re publication, 1982-1987
	10-11		The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles (editor, 1994), correspondence, royalty statements
Box	Folder
7			You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles (1998)
	1			Advertising and reviews
	2			Book proposals and correspondence, ca. 1991
				Correspondence, 1987-2002
					Outgoing
	3					1991-1997
	4					Bowles, Paul, 1990-1998
					Incoming
	5					Bowles, Paul, ca. 1987-1998
	6					Fellowships, 1993-1994
	7					Knopf, re cancelled contract, 1996
						Publication
	8-9						Pre, ca. 1991-1998
	10						Post, 1998-2002
	11					University of California Press, 1996-2002
Box	Folder
8	1			Excerpt, correspondence and publication (Raritan, Winter 1998)
				Interviews, notes and transcripts
	2				Ardman, Carol, 1977-1992
	3				Beute, Dan, 1993
					Bowles, Paul, transcripts, 1992
	4-5					May 2-7
	6-7					May 8-13
	8					December 2-5
	9					December 6-10
Box	Folder
9	1					December 11-15
	2				Clark, Hanetta (“Valeska”), 1993
	3-4				Negri, Livio, interviews with Paul Bowles and Dillon, 1991
	5			Re music by Paul Bowles, articles, correspondence, programs, reviews
				Notebooks and journals
	6				1991-1992, HRC, Tangier
	7				1994, Atlanta
				Photographs of Paul Bowles
	8				By Dillon, Tangier, 1992
	9-10				By others, 1970s-1994
Box	Folder
10				Typescripts
	1-3				“First draft” sections
	4-6				“Second draft,” 1993-1994
Box	Folder
11	1-2				“Second draft,” cont'd
	3-5				Draft, October 1994
Box	Folder
12	1-3				“Edited manuscript”
	4-6				Version May 1995
Box	Folder
13	1-3				With handwritten changes
	4-6				“Final manuscript,” 1996
		Subseries B. Short Non-Fiction
			Articles and essays
Box	Folder
14	1			"Jane Bowles: Experiment as Character" (in Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction, 1989), correspondence
	2			"Keeper of the Flame" (The New Yorker, "The Talk of the Town," January 27, 1997), research, draft, publication, correspondence
	3-5			"The Marriage Melody" (in The Sheltering Sky, ed. Livio Negri, 1990), draft, publication, correspondence
	6			"Meeting Paul" (in Paul Bowles by His Friends, ed. Gary Pulsifer, 1992), draft, correspondence
	7			"The Mystery of Jane Bowles" (Marie Claire Japon, 1992), correspondence, draft, publication
	8			"On Hearing of the Death of Paul Bowles" (Threepenny Review, Spring 2000), correspondence, obituaries
	9			Program notes for Lyric Hammersmith production of Jane Bowles's In the Summer House, programs, reviews, correspondence, 1993
Box	Folder
15				Various
	1				1947-1959
	2				1958-1994
	3		Correspondence re essays and reviews, 1973-1983
	4		Interview with Gilbert Sorrentino, 1983, not published
	5		Panel on "Hitler Junge Quex," 1997
			Reviews
	6-7			Art, books, plays
	8			San Francisco Chronicle, ca. 1973-1975
			Stanford News Service, 1973-1983
	9			Correspondence, 1973-1983
	10			News Service releases, official copies, 1973-1983
Box	Folder
16	1			News Service releases, cont'd
				Newspaper tearsheets
	2				1974-1975
	3				1976-1981
	4				1982-1983, nd
			Student work
	5-6			Critical papers, M.A. program, 1963-1965
	7			"Five Sardonyx," Masters thesis, 1966
		Subseries C. Fiction
Box	Folder
17			Baby Perpetua and Other Stories (short stories, 1971)
	1			Notebook, 1965-1966
	2			Stories published in magazines, "Induce," 1969; "Rape," ca. 1967; "Second Bedroom," 1970
				Story drafts
	3				"Baby Perpetua"
	4				"Buttons Are Made of Animal Blood"
	5				"The Right to Refuse Service"
	6-7			Collection drafts
Box	Folder
18	1-2			Printer’s proofs
	3			Galley proofs
	4-5			Correspondence, reviews, royalty statements, ca. 1968-1973
			The Dance of the Mothers (novel, 1991)
				Novel drafts
	6				"We Are All Artists," early short story
	7-8				"Early manuscript," 1986
Box	Folder
19	1				Bound, ca. 1987-1988
	2-3				"Final manuscript"
	4			Correspondence, reviews, royalty statements
			Harry Gold (novel, 2000)
	5			Book proposals
				Correspondence
	6				Ballard, Augustus, 1983-1985
	7				Re Gold project
				Research materials
	8				Communism pamphlets
Box	Folder
20					Gold information, photocopies
						Articles by Gold, 1950
	1						"The circumstances surrounding my work as a Soviet agent," October 11, 1950
	2						"The early life of Harry Gold: A report," October 23, 1950
	3					FBI file on Gold
	4					Lawyer’s statement and notes
	5					Patent application and correspondence, ca. 1960s
	6-8					Pre-trial examination of Gold
Box	Folder
21	1					Prison correspondence, ca. 1950s
	2					Response to Invitation to an Inquest by Walter Schneir
	3					Trial documents, 1950
	4					Trial transcript
	5-6				Interview notebooks, 1984
	7				Notebook, 1984-1988
	8				Notes
Box	Folder
22	1				Santa Fe information
				Novel drafts
	2				Early drafts, fragments
	3-5				"Earlier draft"
	6-7				"Sent to publisher"
Box	Folder
23	1				"Sent to publisher," cont'd
			The One in the Back is Medea (novel, 1973)
	2-3			Correspondence, 1971-1977
				Novel drafts
	4-5				Drafts and notes
	6				Draft notebook, 1968
	7-8				"Original manuscript"
Box	Folder
24	1-3				Printer’s proofs
	*				Galleys [*removed to galley files]
	4				Corrections sent to editor
	5			Reviews
			Plays
	6			By the Water (1995), correspondence, typescript
	7			Inside (2000), correspondence, typescripts, 1998-2000
				Prisoners of Ordinary Need (1990)
	8				Correspondence, 1990
	9				Typescript
Box	Folder
25				She Is in Tangier (1989)
	1				Early version "The Double Heart," ca. 1985
					Revisions
	2					October 1985
	3					March 1986
	4					November 27, 1989
	5-7				Correspondence, 1983-1990
			Short stories
	8			"All the Pelageyas," published version (Ascent, 1979), typescript, correspondence
	9			"Cutaneous Horn," published version (The Threepenny Review, Winter 1983), typescript
Box	Folder
26	1			"Lost in L.A.," galley, correspondence, 1991-1992
	2			"Mingling," published version (Southwest Review, 2001), typescripts, proofs, correspondence
	3			"Monitor," published version (The Threepenny Review, Fall 1985), typescript, reviews, correspondence
	4			"Oil and Water," published version (Southwest Review, Spring 1990), typescript, correspondence
	5			"Risk of the Real, The," published version (Ontario Review, Fall-Winter 2001- 2002), drafts, galleys
	6			"Seeing, Being Minkin," typescript
	7			"Simple Direct Looks," published version (Southwest Review, Spring 1993), typescript, galley, correspondence
	8			"Staying," published version (Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2002), drafts, correspondence
	9			"Typecast," published version (The Threepenny Review, Spring 1997), typescript
Box	Folder
27				"Wrong Stories"
	1				Early version ("Do Us a Favor"), published version (Reed Magazine, 1980)
	2				Early draft, published version (Southwest Review, Winter 1988), galley, correspondence
				Various re short stories
	3				Correspondence, ca. 1978-1993
	4				Notebook, October 1965
	5				O. Henry Prize stories correspondence, royalty statements
	6				Rejections, ca. 1973-1992
	7				Revisions notebook, 1984-1985

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Series II. General Research Materials
Box	Folder
27		Bowles, Jane
	8-9		Correspondence re Jane Bowles, 1977-2000
Box	Folder
28	1		Feminine Wiles (1976), annotated by Dillon
	2		Short stories "Laura and Sally" and "Looking for Lane" (The Threepenny Review, 1984, 1987), typescript “Millicent’s copy”
	3		Songs
	4		Symposium on Jane Bowles (Lust & Gratie, 1985), correspondence, clippings, program
		Bowles, Paul
	5		Poetry and prose, photocopies, 1926-1980s
	6		"Points in Time," photocopy typescript
	7		"Six preludes" and "Sonata" (1949), photocopy score, published score
			Works annotated by Dillon
	8			The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950)
	9			A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962) and Unwelcome Words (1988)
	10			Let It Come Down (1952)
	11			The Sheltering Sky (1949)
	12			Up Above the World (1966)
Box	Folder
29	1			Without Stopping: An Autobiography (1972)
	2	Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher. An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles (1989), annotated by Dillon

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Series III. Correspondence
Box	Folder
29	3	Outgoing, 1980-2000
		Incoming
	4		A-B
	5		Brodkey, Harold and Ellen, 1985-2000
Box	Folder
30	1-2		C-E
	3		F-G
	4-5		Fainlight, Ruth, 1977-1999
	6		H-J
	7		K-L
	8		M-R
Box	Folder
31	1-2		Malin, Irving, 1983-1993
	3		Ryle, John, 1989-1994
	4		S-U
	5		Sager, Gordon
	6		W-Z
	7		Waugh, Virginia Sorenson
	8		Writers’ conferences and readings, ca. 1976-1992
	9		Unidentified

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Millicent Dillon:

A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to Her Papers in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Series I. Works

Series II. General Research Materials

Series III. Correspondence