Series II: Works by William Zinsser
Subseries A, Manuscripts
American Places, corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-7, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
American Places, corrected manuscript, Chps. 8-16 and "Acknowledgments", undated
Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Any Old Place With You, corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-4, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Any Old Place With You, corrected manuscript, Chps. 5-6, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Any Old Place With You, corrected manuscript, Chps. 7-9, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The City Dwellers, corrected manuscript, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Easy to Remember, corrected manuscript, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 6a. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Easy to Remember, author's correction on first proof, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 6b. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Easy to Remember, uncorrected proofs, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 6c. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Haircurl Papers, corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-6, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Haircurl Papers, corrected manuscript, Chps. 7-14, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Haircurl Papers, corrected manuscript, Chps. 15-20, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
How to Write a Memoir, audio tape, 1999, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 9a. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Lunacy Boom, corrected manuscript (1 of 2), undated
Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Lunacy Boom, corrected manuscript (2 of 2), undated
Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mitchell and Ruff, author's correction (first published as Willie and Dwike), undated
Box: 3, Folder: 11a. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (1st ed.), corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-12, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (1st ed.), corrected manuscript, Chps. 13-17 and "Sources", undated
Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (2nd ed.), corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-11, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (2nd ed.), corrected manuscript, Chps. 12-18 and "Bibliography", undated
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (5th ed.), corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-13, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (5th edition), corrected manuscript, Chps.14-22, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (6th edition), revision of 5th ed. ms, Chps. 1-17, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (6th ed.), revision of 5th ed. ms, Chps. 18-24 and "Sources", undated
Box: 3A, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (6th ed.), corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-14, undated
Box: 3A, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well (6th ed.), corrected manuscript, Chps. 15-24, undated
Box: 3A, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Paradise Bit, corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-6, undated
Box: 3A, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Paradise Bit, corrected manuscript, Chps. 7-11, undated
Box: 3A, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Paradise Bit, corrected manuscript, Chps. 12-16, undated
Box: 3A, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Paradise Bit, corrected manuscript, Chps. 17-20, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pop Goes America, corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-6, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pop Goes America, corrected manuscript, Chps. 7-11, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pop Goes America, corrected manuscript, Chps. 12-17, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Road to Timbuktu (unpublished), corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-6, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Road to Timbuktu (unpublished), corrected manuscript, Chps. 7-13 and "Epilogue", undated
Box: 4, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Seen Any Good Movies Lately?, corrected manuscript, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spring Training, corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-8, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spring Training, corrected manuscript, Chps. 9-19, "Epilogue" and "Sources", undated
Box: 4, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Weekend Guests, corrected manuscript, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Willie & Dwike, corrected manuscript, Chps. 1-5, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Willie & Dwike, corrected manuscript, Chps. 6-7, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Willie & Dwike, manuscript, 2 IBM DisplayWrite disks, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Writing With a Word Processor, corrected manuscript, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Writing About Your Life, final manuscript, 2004
Box: 12, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Writing Places, final manuscript, 2008-10-01
Box: 12, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Writing Places, 4 CD set, 2009
Box: 13 (Material Type: Audio)
Extent
4 sound discs (cd) 4 CDs, 5 hours
Zinsser on Friday, manuscript from blog, 3 folders, 2010-2011, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 14-16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well and How to Write a Memoir, 3 CD set, 2003
Box: 13 (Material Type: Audio)
Extent
3 sound discs (cd) 3 CDs, 2.5 hours
Subseries B, Various writing projects
Book reviews and articles about books/writers, 1960-1996, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Travel articles - places (1 of 2), 1952-1997, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Travel articles - places (2 of 2), 1952-1997, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Profiles - people (1 of 2), 1960-1995, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Profiles - people (2 of 2), 1960-1995, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Free-lance articles and assorted pieces (1 of 3), 1956-1988, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Free-lance articles and assorted pieces (2 of 3), 1956-1988, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Free-lance articles and assorted pieces (3 of 3), 1956-1988, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York Herald Tribune articles (5) on Mau Mau War New York Herald Tribune articles on the South Seas, 1954 , 1956, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Horizon articles, 1958-1967, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Saturday Evening Post articles, 1962-1967, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Look columns, 1967, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Life columns (1 of 2), 1968-1972, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Life columns (2 of 2), 1968-1972, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York Times, Home Section columns, 1977, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Refractory & Brake Co. articles and Annual Reprot (sic), 1969-1972, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Museum for Modern Art manuscript, unpublished article for Life, 1962, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Herald Tribune Days manuscript, unpublished memoir, 1972, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Car Nut manuscript, unpublished children's book, 1971-1973, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Western as a Ritual Art Form of America, outline and notes for tv program, 1957, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sunday television scripts, 1963-1964, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Humor in Public Television: Is There Any Hope? report, 1969, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On Writing Well audio script, Nov. 1990, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Introduction to Landmarks Exhibit, Municipal Arts Society, manuscript, June 1965, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 62 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pamphlets and letters, Book-of-the-Month Club, NY Public Library, 1966-1997, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 63 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
60th Anniversary Exhibit, Book-of-the-Month Club, NY Public Library (1 of 3), 1986, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 64 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
60th Anniversary Exhibit, Book-of-the-Month Club, NY Public Library (2 of 3), 1986, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 65 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
60th Anniversary Exhibit, Book-of-the-Month Club, NY Public Library (3 of 3), 1986, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 66 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tour de Force, Town and Country, Apr. 1999, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 66a. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Healing Moment, Princeton Alumni Weekly, May 19, 1999, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 66b. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
A Christmas Memoir, Town and Country, Dec. 1999, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 66c. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Field of Tin, The Atlantic Monthly, July/Aug. 2001, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 66d. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conversations with Arnold Roth and Bill Zinsser, Audio CD, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 66e. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Articles, 2 folders, 1999-2009, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 12-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Work as songwriter and musician, 1999-2003, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conversations: Arnold Roth & Bill Zinsser, 2001
Box: 13 (Material Type: Audio)
Extent
1 sound disc (cd) total time: 41.31
What's the Point: A Musical Revue about a Summer Community, CD, 2003
Box: 13 (Material Type: Audio)
Extent
1 sound disc (cd)
Subseries C, Scrapbooks
Scrapbook: Education articles (mostly), New York Herald Tribune, 1946-1947, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook I: Movie reviews/columns, New York Herald Tribune, 1954-1956, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook II: Movie reviews, New York Herald Tribune, 1956-1957, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook III: Movie reviews/editorials, New York Herald Tribune, 1957-1958, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook IV: Editorials/columns (article/subject list), New York Herald Tribune, 1958-1959, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries D, Reviews and press comments
Reviews and Press: Inventing the Truth (editor, 1st ed.), 1985, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 67 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Inventing the Truth (editor, 2nd ed.), 1987, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 68 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Extraordinary Lives (editor), 1988, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 69 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Spiritual Quests (editor), 1988, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 70 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Paths of Resistance (editor), 1989, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 71 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Worlds of Childhood (editor), 1990, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 72 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: They Went (editor), 1991, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 73 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Any Old Place With You, 1957, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 74 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Seen Any Good Movies Lately?, 1958, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 75 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: The City Dwellers, 1962, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 76 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Five Boyhoods, 1962, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 77 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Weekend Guests, 1963, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 78 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: The Haircurl Papers, 1964, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 79 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Pop Goes America, 1966, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 80 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: The Paradise Bit, 1967, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 81 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Annual Reprot (sic), 1969, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 82 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: The Lunacy Boom, 1970, inclusive
Box: 8, Folder: 83 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: On Writing Well (1st and 2nd eds.), 1976 , 1980, inclusive
Box: 8, Folder: 84 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: On Writing Well (3rd, 4th, 5th eds.), 1985 , 1990 , 1995, inclusive
Box: 8, Folder: 85 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Writing With a Word Processor, 1983, inclusive
Box: 8, Folder: 86 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Willie & Dwike, 1984, inclusive
Box: 8, Folder: 87 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Writing to Learn, 1988, inclusive
Box: 8, Folder: 88 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Spring Training, 1989, inclusive
Box: 8, Folder: 89 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: American Places, 1992, inclusive
Box: 8, Folder: 90 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews and Press: Speaking of Journalism, 1994, inclusive
Box: 8, Folder: 91 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries E, Lyrics
Songs written by Zinsser, undated
Box: 8, Folder: 92 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)