Vance Bourjaily Papers, 1942-1984.
Novels: manuscripts, drafts, notes, proofs, etc.,
1944-80 (Brill Among The Ruins to The Man Who Knew Kennedy)
Catalog Number:M14.1
OSS Box 1 Brill Among the Ruins:
Folder 1 [Folders and envelopes, box 1]
2 Notes - odd [incorporated into Brill
Among the Ruins and Country Matters]
3 With Brill In Mexico [sent to Ed
Doctorow]
4 Robert Brill and the Lost Continent
5 [Folder] A - Actual inception of Brill
Among the Ruins
6 [Folder] B - 1958
7 [Folder] C - 1968
8 [Folder] D - 1968
9 [Folder] E - 1969
10 [Heavily annotated ts. pages to
accompany folders A-E]
OSS Box 2
Folder 1 [Folders and envelopes, box 2]
2 For a Lost Continent, With Brill in
Mexico
3 [Photocopies of sources]
4 Galley proofs (from Dial Press)
corrected by hand ...
5 [Page layouts]
6 [Note on back of box in which Brill ...
was enclosed]
OSS Box 3 Next to final typescript with
holograph corrections
OSS Box 4 Xerox with holograph corrections
OSS Box 5 Typescript with manuscript
corrections [by editor?]
OSS Box 6 Confessions of a Spent Youth:
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b.6
2 Notes used in Confessions [ca. 1950s]
3 Quincy at Yale - a Confession
4 The Fractional Man - Confession of
U.S.D. Quincy
5 Varieties of Irreligious Experiences
6 How the Great Ship Went Down - a
Confession of U.S.D. Quincy
7 [Layout pages]
8 [Reviews of Confessions]
9 [Typescript with manuscript
annotations, p. 1-159]
OSS Box 7 [Typescript with manuscript
annotations, p. 160-580]
OSS Box 8 [Incomplete carbon typescript with
manuscript annotations]
OSS Box 9
Folder 1 Proof [with author's holograph
corrections]
2 Master proof [with editorial
corrections] Aug 26, 1960
OSS Box 10 Master proof [with editorial
corrections] Sep 22, 1960
OSS Box 11 Country Matters:
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 11
2 3 letters from Harold Hughes when he
was Governor, and one ... when he
was Senator
3-4 Nick in Iowa - Correspondence and
Nathaniel West pages
5-7 Death in Africa
8 Field Trials
9 Something New for the Old Gun
10 Outdoors, for December
11 Outdoors ... August or September
12 Pigeons
13 Seawalking
14 The Miscellaneous Sportmen [and
correspondence]
15 Outdoors, November or December
16-17 Notes & drafts for Nick in Iowa (inc.
in Country Matters)
18 Corn of Coxcatlan, material & drafts -
June 1973
OSS Box 12
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, box 12
2 [Letter - Bourjaily to Geoff [?], Iowa
City, IA, Aug. 21, 1971]
3 For Ophelia [19 p. typescript with
holograph corrections]
4 For Ophelia [22 pp. typescript with
holograph corrections; and with
letter from Bourjaily to [?] Gould,
Iowa City, Iowa, March 11, 1972]
5 Country Matters [22 p. photocopy
(paste-up) of ts used by Audience
Magazine, with proofreaders notes]
6 Country Matters [Corrected galleys for
Audience Magazine, 9/6/71]
7-10 [Bourjaily's copy of] Xeroxes and
carbons ... Country Matters
OSS Box 13 [Typescript with manuscript
corrections]
OSS Box 14
1 Uncorrected galleys
2 Cover proofs
3-4 Master set, 1st pass
OSS Box 15 The End of My Life:
Folder 1-2 Italy - 1944 draft on which Scribners
bought option
3 Complete 1st draft, Spring 1946,
Virginia
OSS Box 16
Folder 1 [Publication contract with Scribner's]
2-3 Original manuscript (final draft)
4 [Corrected proofs]
5 [Uncorrected proofs]
OSS Box 17 A Game Men Play:
Folder 1 The More Fool [alternate beginning,
typescript with holographic
corrections]
2-4 The More Fool [typescript with
holographic corrections]
OSS Box 18
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 18
2 Notes, mostly from an early version ...
titled These Blue Girls
3-5 A Game Men Play [typescript with
holographic] new corrections or
revisions [ca. 1979]
OSS Box 19 A Game Men Play [editor's typescript
with manuscript corrections]
OSS Box 20 A Game Men Play - Dupe ms. [typescript]
OSS Box 21
Folder 1 [Correspondence, Bourjaily and Juris
Jurjevics, Sept. 11, 1978, and
Aug. 20, 1979]
2 The More Fool [box cover]
3 A Game Men Play [galley proofs]
OSS Box 22 The Hound of Earth:
Folder 1-2 The Hound of Earth [typescript with
manuscript corrections]
3 The Hound of Earth [carbon typescript
with manuscript corrections -
incomplete]
4 Reviews
5 Contract for the French edition
OSS Box 23 The Man Who Knew Kennedy:
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b.23
2-3 The Man Who Knew Kennedy - preliminary
work, early drafts
4 ... Stage just before the final draft
OSS Box 24
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 24
2 First, 2nd & 3rd drafts ...
cannibalized
3 The Man Who Knew Kennedy - Notes ...
4 [Typescript with holographic
corrections, pp. 21-179]
5 [Source material, N.Y. Times, Nov.
23-28, 1963]
6 [Source material, Post, May 6, 1967]
OSS Box 25
Folder 1-2 [Carbon typescript, printer's copy;
with letter from Mrs. Ernest
Hemingway]
3 [Reviews]
4 [Clippings]
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Novels: manuscripts, drafts, notes, proofs, etc., 1944-80 (Now Playing At Canterbury to The Violated)
Catalog Number:M14.1
OSS Box 26 Now Playing at Canterbury:
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 26
Notes & drafts of stories ...
2 The Fastest Jeep in the World
3 The Bride of Corinth
4 The Greatest Sopranos Who Ever Lived
Were A Couple of Guys Named Carl
and Casper
5 Aqui Estamos, Trabajandos ...
6 Circus - discarded story ...
7 The Greatest Sopranos
8 First & 2nd drafts - Fennellon's
Phunny Philology
9-10 Cross-refers to "Canterbury"
[Bourjaily's preface to F. Scott
Fitzgerald's Letters to his Daughter]
OSS Box 27
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, box 27
2-6 Canterbury next to final draft
[typescript, heavily revised]
OSS Box 28 Now Playing at Canterbury [Carbon
typescript with holograph
corrections, p. 1-600]
OSS Box 29
Folder 1 Now Playing At Canterbury [Carbon
typescript with holograph
corrections, p. 601-701]
2 [Letters from Richard Marek]
3 [Editor's notes]
4 For the Revenge Symposium [Bourjaily's
commentary on Newsweek's review]
5-7 Now Playing At Canterbury [Photocopy,
of typescript with editor's and
holograph corrections, p. 1-450
OSS Box 30
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 30
2-3 Now Playing At Canterbury [Photocopy,
of typescript with editor's and
holograph corrections, p. 451-701]
4 Now Playing at Canterbury, some notes
and drafts ... some pages pulled
from the final draft
5 Now Playing At Canterbury, some notes
and drafts ... Notes
6 Now Playing At Canterbury [correction
pages]
OSS Box 31 The Sun Follower:
Folder 1 Notes on Drafts 2 and 3 of my second
(unpublished) novel. (1948-50)
2 The Sun Follower - 2nd draft
3-4 The Hero of Friday Afternoon - 3rd
draft
5 [Critiques of ... - letters, notes,
etc.]
OSS Box 32 The Unnatural Enemy:
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 32
2 [Corrected typescript pages,
miscellaneous]
3 [Notes, etc.]
4 The Unnatural Enemy [21 p.]
5 Vance Bourjaily / for John Randolph
6 1st Draft of Chapter 4, In Fields Near
Home [typescript with holographic
corrections]
7 (Magazine form) Goose Pits ... as
returned by New Yorker
8 The Goose Pits [in The New Yorker,
November 25, 1961]
9 (Magazine form) ... The Unnatural
enemy - as returned by New Yorker
10 The Unnatural Enemy [in The New Yorker,
August 4, 1962]
11 The Unnatural Enemy [Reviews]
12 [Carbon typescript with extensive
holographic corrections, p. 1-85]
OSS Box 33
Folder 1 [Carbon typescript with extensive
holographic corrections, p. 120-235]
2 [Typescript and printed pages, some
manuscript corrections]
3 The Unnatural Enemy [galley proofs
with holographic corrections]
OSS Box 34 The Violated:
Folder 1 The Violated [typescript with editor's
annotations, preliminaries]
2-4 The Violated - Part 1, "Remembur my
frende ....." [typescript with
editor's annotations]
OSS Box 35
Folder 1-2 The Violated - Part 2, "...the tyme of
contynuance!..." [typescript with
editor's annotations
3 The Violated - Part 3, "...so help me
Gode, yt ys but a chery time.
Mankind" [typescript with editor's
annotations]
4 [Reviews]
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Stage and television scripts: drafts, notes, etc.,
1943-58
Catalog Number:M14.2
OSS Box 36 Stage scripts:
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 36
2 At Large [typescript carbon]
3 At Large - a play which was never
produced [mimeographed typescript]
4-7 The Lion and the Tigers [carbon
typescript]
OSS Box 37 Mr. In and Mr. Out:
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 37
2 H & F [notes, etc.]
3 H & F notes [etc.]
4 Mr. In & Mr. Out - notes, drafts,
records
5 Mr. In and Mr. Out - main line and
readings
6 Mr. In and Mr. Out - digressions
7 Mr. In and Mr. Out [carbon
typescript]
OSS Box 38
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 38
2 Scenes for a Summer Garden [carbon
typescript]
3 Time is a Dancer - 1943 [typescript]
4 Time is a Dancer [carbon typescript,
with annotations]
5 Time of Peace, written 1950-51 [carbon
typescript, with annotations]
6 Time of Peace, as produced off-Broadway
1953 (?) [typescript, heavily
annotated]
7 Violations On a Theft from Shakespeare
First draft [mimeographed]
OSS Box 39 Television scripts:
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 39
A Baby Named X
2 First draft, 3/14/56 [with
holographic corrections]
3 First draft, 3/14/56 [with
holographic and other manuscript
corrections]
4 First draft, 3/14/56 [photocopy]
5 The Big Frame, Justice #7 - First
draft, 11/1/55
Experiment
6 Outline [carbon typescript]
7 1st draft [typescript, with
holographic corrections]
8 1st revision [carbon typescript with
extensive holographic corrections
9 [Correspondence re Experiment]
OSS Box 40
Folder 1 Fatal Payment, Justice #1 - Revised
12/9/55
2 Going to Lunch [typescript]
Gretel
3 [First draft, with revisions, ca.
1955]
4 (Revised) August 21, 1955
Money For Sale
5 A Thousand Dollars A Minute - First
draft, 4/25/57
6 Revised, 5/17/57
OSS Box 41 Picaresque
Folder 1 [Typescript]
2 [Carbon typescript]
3 Sign Right Here, Justice #22 - First
draft, 2/15/56
4 Three Children - First draft, 10/28/57
OSS Box 42 Trick or Treat, Kraft Mystery Theater
Folder 1 First draft, 8/25/58
2 Revised, 8/29/58
3 Revised 9/2/58
4 Revised 9/5/58
Notes for plays never written:
5 The Danny Onion Story
6 Doctor Ben-San
7 The Fighter
8 The Gold Find
9 Love Story
10 [Miscellaneous]
11 The Range - December
12 Sam, Alone
13 Secrets
14 Vivian
15 The Woman On The Dock
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Poems: drafts and letters, 1945-66
Catalog Number:M14.3
OSS Box 43
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 43
The Cold Valley
2 Poems, 1945-46 (folder A) [carbon
typescript]
3 [Carbon typescript, c.2]
4 [Photocopy of manuscript - original
at University of Florida at
Gainesville]
5 Two dozen poems, 1947-53 (folder B)
6 [Correspondence with Donald Justice]
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Opera: libretto, audio tapes, etc., 1969-70
Catalog Number:M14.4
OSS Box 43 $4000 : An Opera In Five Acts
Folder 7 Introduction to a Libretto
8 [Mimeographed libretto, with
holographic rehersal notes]
9 Tapes ... of the University of Iowa
premier [i.e. rehersal]
10 [Appearance in] The North American
Review
11 [Copyright certificate]
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Other writings: drafts, correspondence, articles,
etc., 1942-84
Catalog Number:M14.5
OSS Box 44
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 44
2 As We Forgive Those [preliminary to The
End of My Life]
3 A Certain Kind of Work [1st, 2nd, and 2nd
revised drafts; notes]
4 A Certain Kind of Work [3rd and final
drafts; chapter from Confessions ...]
5 A City Lover [1sr draft, final draft
(Sept. 1966) and correspondence]
6 Contentment On Your Own Land [from
National Wildlife, August-September,
1972]
7 Dream Dropping [typescript and letter]
8 The Duchess [a.k.a] Ernie and Jake -
working m[anu]s[cript] and xerox
9 The Fractional Man [from The New Yorker]
OSS Box 45
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b.45
2 The Girl in the Abstract Bed - contract
3 Greece [notes, letters, etc., concerning;
ca. 1970]
4 Home Sweet Controversy : An Informal
History of an Unusual Firm of
Architects [carbon typescript, ca.
1951]
5 Home Sweet Controversy [correspondence]
6 In Memory of Robert F. Kennedy
[typescript with holographic
corrections, letters and notes]
7 In Memory of Robert F. Kennedy
[published form]
8 Letter to Lannoye [letters and drafts]
OSS Box 46
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b.46
2 Marijuana Politics : Iowa, 1973 [drafts,
photographs and article published in
Harpers]
3 Memoirs of an Ace [notes, 1st and final
drafts]
4 The Music Lesson [story derived from
The End of My Life; carbon typescript]
Not to Confound My Elders:
5-13 [Early draft, typescript]
14-16 [Photocopy of early draft]
OSS Box 47
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b.47
Not to Confound My Elders (cont.):
2-3 [Later draft, typescript - photocopies
of originals owned by the University
Florida at Gainesville]
4 Review for N.Y. Times of Baker's [Ernest]
Hemingway [ca.1969]
5 She Walks in Beauty [From the Bowdoin
Quill, Summer, 1942]
6 A Tender Lobe Story [carbon typescript]
7 [Three lectures in Spanish given by
Bourjaily in South America for the
State Department] 1959
8 What They Are Trying to Tell Us [1st
draft, revision]
9 What They Are Trying to Tell Us [from
The Chicago Tribune]
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Biographies, etc.: articles and essays, 1967-84.
Catalog Number:M14.6
OSS Box 48
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b.48
2 A Profile of Vance Bourjaily, by Lloyd
Maffitt [from The Iowan, Winter
1967-68]
3 [Bibliography of Vance Bourjaily, by
Presby, ca. 1968]
4 Interview with Vance Bourjaily,
Breadloaf, 1973 [audio tape and
photocopy of typescript]
5 Pretending to Be Arab : Role Playing in
Vance Bourjaily's 'The Fractional Man',
[by] evelyn Shakir - piece about
confession [1982]
6 In Interview [with Vance Bourjaily], by
Nancy Bunge [1983]
7 Interview [with Vance Bourjaily], by
William A. Farncis ... [1983]
8 First draft of a memoir written for ...
[Contemporary] Author's Autobiographies
series ...
9 Contemporary Authors - Autobiography
Series [offprint of Bourjaily's sketch
from] Volume 1 [1984]
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Newspapers and clippings, 1947-71
Catalog Number:M14.7
OSS Box 49
Folder 1 Portland Press-Herald, 9/20/47 [article
re Bourjaily]
New Castle [Va.] Record
2-20 12/25/47 - 4/29/48
San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday Leisure
section
21-33 2/1/49 - 3/26/50
34 Clippings, etc. - miscellaneous
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Letters, 1944-82
Catalog Number:M14.8
OSS Box 50 Correspondence of Bourjaily:
Folder 1 [Explanation by Bourjaily]
2 Whitney Balliett [1 letter]
3 Donald Barthelme [1 letter]
4 Ignacio Bernal [1 letter]
5 Thomas Boyle [1 letter]
6 Courtlandt D.B. Bryan [4 letters]
7 Frederick Busch [5 letters plus 1 short
essay]
8 Mary Carter [5 letters]
9 John Casey [5 letters, 1 postcard]
10 John Cheever [1 letter]
11 Cyrus Colter [2 letters]
12 Robert Coover [12 letters, 1 postcard]
13 Malcolm Cowley [1 letter]
14 John Culver [1 letter]
15 Jose Donoso [5 letters]
16 Andre Dubus [3 letters]
17 Fred Exley [5 letters, 1 postcard]
18 Tom Filer [1 letter]
19 William Price Fox [1 letter]
20 George Garrett [2 letters]
21 R. Gehman [1 letter]
22 Herbert Gold [3 letters, 1 postcard]
23 William Goldman [1 letter]
24 John Grivens [1 letter]
25 Joe Haldeman [1 letter]
26 Ron Hansen [1 letter]
27 Yvette Harland [1 letter]
28 Alan Harrington [2 letters]
29 William Harrison [4 letters,
1 postcard]
30 L. Rust Hills [1 letter]
31 John Clellon Holmes [3 letters]
32 Jane Howard [2 letters]
33 Senator or Governor Harold Hughes [3
letters]
OSS Box 51
Folder 1 John Irving [8 letters, 1 postcard, and
other information]
2 Donald Justice [2 letters]
3 Sue Kaufmannm [1 letter]
4 Larry L. King [2 letters]
5 Seymour Krim [5 letters]
6 Jack Lemmon [1 letter]
7 Norman Mailer [7 letters]
8 Dean Mallard [1 letter]
9 Richard Marek [1 letter]
10 William Maxwell [1 letter]
11 George McGovern [1 letter]
12 Thomas Mcguane [3 letters]
13 Robert Mezey [2 letters]
14 Merle Miller [3 letters]
15 P. Neill [2 letters]
16 George A. Plimpton [1 letter]
17 Richard Rhodes [1 letter]
18 Philip Roth [1 letter]
19 Mary Lee Sattle [5 letters]
20 Tobias Schneebaum [6 letters]
21 R. Sargent Shriver [3 letters]
22 James P. Sloan [1 letter]
23 George Starbuck [1 letter]
24 William Styron [1 postcard]
25 Harvey Swados [1 letter, 1 postcard]
26 Gore Vidal [1 letter]
27 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [17 letters,
1 photocopy]
28 Dan Wakefield [1 letter]
29 Bill Weaver [5 letters]
30 Thomas Williams [12 letters,
1 postcard]
31 Calder Willingham [1 letter]
32 R. Yates [1 postcard]
33 John Yount [15 letters]
OSS Box 52
Folder 1 Folders and envelopes, b. 52
2 Bowdoin College correspondence, 1944-61
3-7 Undated and miscellaneous correspondence
1964 - August 1973
Correspondence of Tina Bourjaily:
8 Donald Bartelme [1 letter]
9 C.D.B. Bryan [3 letters]
10 Bob Coover [1 letter]
11 Mrs. Ralph Elison [1 letter]
12 Lillian Hellman [1 letter]
13 Don Justice [1 postcard]
14 Norman Mailer [2 letters]
15 Tobias Schneebaum [3 letters]
16 Kurt Vonnegut [1 letter]
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Bowdoin College Library, 3000 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8421
email: scaref@bowdoin.edu / telephone: (207) 725-3288
©Bowdoin College 2004
Bowdoin College Library, 3000 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8421
email: scaref@bowdoin.edu / telephone: (207) 725-3288
©Bowdoin College 2004