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2003 Texas Book Festival Catalog, Including Flyers from Robert Flynn’s Reading at Southwestern Writers Collection, 2003
File — Box: 2006, Folder: 25
Dates:
2003
“4801-C Boyle Street” Apartment in Forth Worth, undated
File — Box: 1855, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Materials retrieved from Hard Scrabble in June 2014. Personal papers of John Graves includes his letters home to his family from Rice University, 1938-1939; significant correspondence with Samuel Hynes and John Schaffner; letters from his time spent in Spain, 1953-1954, as well as travel documents and receipts, and correspondence from his latter years, 2006-2013. Also included are magazines featuring articles by Graves, original Russell Waterhouse drawings for Goodbye to a River, and some...
Dates:
undated
A - Ag
File — Box: 98, Folder: 1
Correspondents
Abbas, Meriam, 2004; Abrahams, Harris, S., 1994; Ada, Alma Flor & Isabel Camoy, 1995; Adams, Jan, 2005; [Agin], María Elina, undated; Agosin, Marjorie, undated; Aguero, Kathleen, 1989-1990; Aguilar, Richard (Cousin), 1994; Aguilar, Valenzuela, 2004; Aguilar-San Juan, Karin, 1990; Aguilera, Amadeo (notice of passing), 1993
Dates:
1980 - 2013
A - Arteseros, 1976-2001, undated
File — Box: 22, Folder: 2
Series Description
From the Series:
The Correspondence series contains letters that highlight Graves’ writing career, with letters to and from publishers, agents, fellow writers, fans, event organizers and others. Insights into Graves’ personal life and thoughts are also found in letters between Graves and longtime friends and family members. Graves kept carbon copies and later computer printout copies of many of his letters to others, so the researcher gets both sides of the letter-writing dialogue, in these folders and...
Dates:
1976-2001, undated
"A Beginning for Something" - corrected typescripts (of two different pieces), undated
File — Box: 10, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
The Other Writings series is devoted to the many short stories, essays, book introductions, tributes, and unpublished pieces written by Graves, and spans almost six decades. This series is also the largest in the collection, filling eleven document boxes, plus oversize. The works within it arearranged alphabetically by title, usually according to the official published title, but sometimes by a book title if Graves’ piece is an untitled introduction, or a draft title if the piece is...
Dates:
undated
“A Bloody Dark Pastryman: Cormac McCarthy’s Recipe for Gunpowder and Historical Fiction in Blood Meridian” Reprint of article published in Mississippi Quarterly , 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Contents
Accompanied by 1992 note to Bill Wittliff.
Dates:
1989
A Blue Balloon Birthday - typescript draft
File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Series Description
From the Series:
Annotated drafts, typescripts, page proofs, galleys, correspondence, and notes represent the creation and development of Medearis’ children books. Materials have been arranged in chronological order, beginning with the earliest dates. Extensive annotated drafts and correspondence with editors and illustrators makes this series highly illustrative of Medearis’ working process. Additional publisher and editor correspondence can be found in the Correspondence series, and Publicity...
Dates:
1991
A Book Magazine; The Bloomsbury Review, Volume 26 Issue 4, July/August 2006
File — Box: 4, Folder: 13
Series Description
From the Series:
This series concerns materials associated with Frank Waters and the Frank Waters Foundation, Alexander Blackburn, Geoffrey and Mary Torrence, and Barbara Waters, Frank Waters' wife. These are organized chronologically within their grouping.
Dates:
July/August 2006
A Book of Days for the Literary Year (with Querry annotations), 1985
Item — Box: 9, Folder: 2
Series Description
From the Series:
This series consists of correspondence, notes and research material, draft manuscripts, final copies, and publicity related to Querry’s five major books. Correspondence may include personal- and publisher-related letters, contracts, permissions, and/or financial documents related to his books and notes and research material may contain newspaper clippings, journal articles, books, VHS tapes, and/or government bulletins. Of special note is that Querry has signed most of the final copies....
Dates:
1985
“A Classroom on Grand Avenue", 1992
File — Box: 264, Folder: 3
Series Description
From the Series:
Reader Correspondence, 1990-2013, is arranged chronologically. Each year is separated into letters from individuals and letters from classes. The individual letters are typical fan letters and document the effect her writing has had on her readers. The class letters are often packets sent by teachers containing letters from students who have read her works in class, and sometimes thank-you letters from students whose class Cisneros visited. When known, the school name is included in the...
Dates:
1992
“A Cloudy Day”
File — Box: 24, Folder: 2
Sub-Series Description
From the Sub-Series:
Individual handwritten and typed poems, and hand-bound books of poetry, comprise this subseries. Many of the individual poems are accompanied by drafts, some are single copies. Individual poems are arranged alphabetically, followed by books of poetry, also arranged alphabetically. See also Series 2 : Personal, Subseries C: Scrapbook, for early drafts of poetry.
Dates:
undated
“A Correspondence of Forms”, undated
File — Box: 30, Folder: 17
Sub-Series Description
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries includes drafts and typescripts of four speeches which address Vliet’s writing process and influences. Also included here is the author’s acceptance speech for the 1978 Texas Institute of Letters Award received for his novel, Solitudes.
Dates:
undated
A Correspondence to Professor Sture Allen, From Mrs. Geoffrey Torrence of Athena School, undated
File — Box: 4, Folder: 17
Series Description
From the Series:
This series concerns materials associated with Frank Waters and the Frank Waters Foundation, Alexander Blackburn, Geoffrey and Mary Torrence, and Barbara Waters, Frank Waters' wife. These are organized chronologically within their grouping.
Dates:
undated
“A Country Called Texas” (chapter in 4th grade Texas history textbook, by Angela and Michael Medearis) - Correspondence
File — Box: 12, Folder: 7
Series Description
From the Series:
Annotated drafts, typescripts, page proofs, galleys, correspondence, and notes represent the creation and development of Medearis’ books for young readers. Materials have been arranged in chronological order, beginning with the earliest dates. Extensive annotated drafts and correspondence with editors and illustrators makes this series highly illustrative of Medearis’ working process. Additional publisher and editor correspondence can be found in the Correspondence series, and Publicity...
Dates:
1995
“A Country Called Texas” (chapter in 4th grade Texas history textbook, by Angela and Michael Medearis) - Page layouts (oversize)
File — Box: 36, Folder: 7
Series Description
From the Series:
Annotated drafts, typescripts, page proofs, galleys, correspondence, and notes represent the creation and development of Medearis’ books for young readers. Materials have been arranged in chronological order, beginning with the earliest dates. Extensive annotated drafts and correspondence with editors and illustrators makes this series highly illustrative of Medearis’ working process. Additional publisher and editor correspondence can be found in the Correspondence series, and Publicity...
Dates:
1995
“A Country Called Texas” (chapter in 4th grade Texas history textbook, by Angela and Michael Medearis) - Typescript drafts
File — Box: 12, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
Annotated drafts, typescripts, page proofs, galleys, correspondence, and notes represent the creation and development of Medearis’ books for young readers. Materials have been arranged in chronological order, beginning with the earliest dates. Extensive annotated drafts and correspondence with editors and illustrators makes this series highly illustrative of Medearis’ working process. Additional publisher and editor correspondence can be found in the Correspondence series, and Publicity...
Dates:
1995
“A curriculum vitae,” “Dual citizenship,” “Inventing a Past,” (lecture), and other essay drafts. 47 pages. Red soft cover, September 2004
File — Box: 20, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates:
September 2004
A Day at the Fair
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains manuscripts, research notes, correspondence with editors, magazines, reviews, and drawings. Some examples of the material that can be found here are: correspondence between the editor of Omni magazine and the author resulting in changes in the short story, "Diner"; research notes on the Big Thicket (used as a setting in two of Barrett's westerns, Snaketown and Lone...
Dates:
1941-1992; Majority of material found within 1973-1992
"A Defining Confluence" essay y McMurtry. Facsimile, 3 pages, July 13, 2014
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Sipper Collection is comprised of over 100 letters from Larry McMurtry to Ralph Sipper ranging from 1982-2018. Arranged chronologically, they document McMurtry’s practice of and thoughts on book selling and buying. Frequent topics include the sale of screenplays, his work in the film business, and mutual acquaintances in the literary world.
Dates:
July 13, 2014
“A Dog in the Hand, and other pointers from the bird-dog man of Texas,” in Esquire, October 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Series Description
From the Series:
This series surveys Bass’ works from his earliest published pieces to his more recent articles and stories. In this series are manuscripts for The Watch, Oil Notes, The Ninemile Wolves, Winter: Notes from Montana, as well as notes for The Deer Pasture and short stories published in Platte River. The series also contains numerous short stories and essays, research notes, journal notes, reviews,...
Dates:
October 1989
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