Series II: Published and Unpublished Works
Scope and Content note
Series II: Published and Unpublished Works, contains reviews pertaining to Dowell's published works, and some correspondence, mostly from friends or admirers regarding a particular novel, short story, etc. This series is divided into two subseries: Subseries A: Novels and Short Stories; and Subseries B: Plays and Dramatic Writings. The bulk of Dowell's published works is novels; unpublished material consists of plays, poems, and miscellaneous writings. Much of the materials in Subseries B are copies of Dowell's published novels or plays which he used as research material for other projects. The series also contains The Great Godalmighty Bird- a long, unpublished play with songs, personal correspondence, lists of scenes for the plays and themes, and short two- or three-character plays.
Offsite boxes & barcodes
Series II, Subseries A: Box 1 - Barcode: 31142042236581 Box 2 - Barcode: 31142042236599 Box 3 - Barcode: 31142042236607 Box 4 - Barcode: 31142042236615 Box 5 - Barcode: 31142042236623 Box 6 - Barcode: 31142042236631 Box 7 - Barcode: 31142042236649 Box 8 - Barcode: 31142042236656 Box 9 - Barcode: 31142042236664 Box 10 - Barcode: 31142042236672 Box 11 - Barcode: 31142042236680 Box 12 - Barcode: 31142042236698 Box 13 - Barcode: 31142042236706
Series II, Subseries B: Box 1 - Barcode: 31142042236714 Box 2 - Barcode: 31142042236722
Subseries A: Novels, Short Stories and Other Writings
Scope and Contents note
(1949 - 1986)
Cancer: 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
City Sundays: 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Great Godalmighty Bird: 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ham's Gift: 1977, 1977
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ham's Gift [German translation] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
I Envy You Your Great Adventure: 1966-68, 1974, 1966-1974
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
If Beggars Were Horses: 1975, 1975
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
In The Mood: [1966-68], 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Moon, The Owl, My Sister: 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
My Father was a River: 1978, 1978
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Silver Swanne: 1979, 1980, 1979-1980
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Silver Swanne: [notes] [ca. 1979], 1979
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Kid's Brother [later, Wool Tea]: 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Writings as Yet Unfound in a Kentucky Cave n.d. [later, Writings on a Cave Wall 1985, 1985
Box: II.A.1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One of the Children is Crying/The Grass Dies. [British ms.]: ca. 1968, 1968
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One of the Children is Crying/The Grass Dies. [carbon ms.]: ca. 1968, 1968
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One of the Children is Crying/The Grass Dies [clippings]: 1967, 1968, 1967-1968
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Grass Dies [correspondence]: 1964-1965, 1964-1965
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One of the Children is Crying [correspondence]: 1967, 1967
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One of the Children is Crying [correspondence]: 1968-1975, 1968-1975
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One of the Children is Crying [corrected ts, p 1-126]: ca. 1968, 1968
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One of the Children is Crying [corrected ts, p 126-230]: ca. 1968, 1968
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One of the Children is Crying [Reviews] 1987, 1987
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One of the Children is Crying [Title page, ad card & quote page] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs October Was Here [ts. carbon]: ca. 1974, 1974
Box: II.A.3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs October Was Here [ts. annotated]: ca. 1974, 1974
Box: II.A.3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs October Was Here [notes and fragments]: n.d., undated
Box: II.A.3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs October Was Here [early version]: n.d., undated
Box: II.A.3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs. October Was Here [miscellaneous]: n.d., undated
Box: II.A.3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs. October Was Here [miscellaneous]: n.d., undated
Box: II.A.3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs. October Was Here [miscellaneous]: n.d., undated
Box: II.A.3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs October Was Here [miscellaneous; clippings]: 1973, 1974, 1973-1974
Box: II.A.3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs October Was Here [correspondence]: 1970-1978, 1970-1978
Box: II.A.3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [Ian]: ca. 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [The Keepsake]: 1973, 1973
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [The Surgeon]: ca. 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [Webster's story (1)]: 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [Webster's story (2)]: 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [Webster's story (3)]: 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [fragments] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [fragments] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [correspondence]: 1973, 1975, 1976, 1973-1976
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [clippings]: 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [Up At Claudo's] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [1]: ca. 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [2]: ca. 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [3]: ca. 1976, 1976
Box: II.A.5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Island People [scrapbook]: 1976, 1977, 1976-1977
Box: II.A.5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Too Much Flesh and Jabez [notes and fragments]: 1977, 1977
Box: II.A.6, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Too Much Flesh and Jabez [Edmund White's notations]: 1977, 1977
Box: II.A.6, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Too Much Flesh and Jabez [correspondence]: 1977, 1977
Box: II.A.6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Too Much Flesh and Jabez [clippings]: 1977, 1978, 1981, 1977-1981
Box: II.A.6, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black on White [original ms. p. 1-135]: ca. 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black on White [original ms. p. 136-252]: ca. 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black on White [ms. p. 1-141]: ca. 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black on White [ms. p. 142-283]: ca. 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black [notes and fragments] ca. 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black on White [contract and correspondence]: 1982, 1983, 1982-1983
Box: II.A.7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black on White [correspondence]: 1983, n.d., 1983
Box: II.A.7, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black on White [clippings]: 1983, 1984, 1983-1984
Box: II.A.7, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [ms.] (part 1: p. i-iii, 1-138): ca. 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.8, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [ms.] (part 2: p. 139-220) ca. 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.8, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [ed. draft 1]: 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.8, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [ed. draft 2]: 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.8, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [Afterword by Bradford Morrow]: 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.8, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [Show proof]: 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.8, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [reviews]: 1987, 1987
Box: II.A.8, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black on White [galley proof. p.1-125]: 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White on Black on White [galley proof. p.126-251]: 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Silver Swanne [unbound copy]: 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Silver Swanne [unbound copy]: 1983, 1983
Box: II.A.9, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [galley proof (revise) ]: 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [galley proof (revise) ]: 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Houses of Children [annotated galley proof]: 1986, 1986
Box: II.A.9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Autobiography [fragments] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.10, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
A Dark Book [later, A Star Bright Lie] [ts] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.10, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
A Dark Book [1st draft] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.10, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memoir about Carl Van Vechten n.d., undated
Box: II.A.10, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
What I Did On My Vacation n.d., undated
Box: II.A.10, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [Willow's Story] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.11, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass n.d., undated
Box: II.A.11, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [fragments] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.11, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [Discards? Edited] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.11, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
And What of the Valley? n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Black Conductor n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Boy n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Boy of My Dreams n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cat n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Chris n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Dedication & Elegy (to Tam): ca. 1978, 1978
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Diary of a Bigot n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Dory [formerly, The Gag & Puke] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Geisha n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
I Am n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Indian Giver n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Intruder n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ivy: n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Jenny Come Home [Bobby Dowell aged 12] ca.: 1949, 1949
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Landlords n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Liars Cookbook n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Long Weekend n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mademoiselle du Paris n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Maya [see also, Up at Claudo's] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Moetter n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Miscellaneous Writing (1): 1968, n.d., 1968
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Miscellaneous Writing (2) n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Miscellaneous Writing (3) n.d., undated
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Miscellaneous Writing (4): 1985, n.d., 1985
Box: II.A.12, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Old Woman in a Garden: ca. 1962, 1962
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Other Room n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poems A-G: 1964, 1982, n.d., 1964-1982
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poems H-L n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poems M-R: 1960, 1964, 1978, 1979, n.d., 1960-1979
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poems S-Z n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poems: Miscellaneous n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Polish Story n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Snap n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Twenties n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Up at Claudo's n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled ["I have wanted to see three things"]: 1965, 1965
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled ["It was the day he arranged..."] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled ["It's the noise"] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled ["Men go to work."] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled ["My first editor"] n.d., undated
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Yetta Arenstein Memorial: 1965, 1965
Box: II.A.13, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries B: Plays and Dramatic Pieces
Gentle Laurel [later, Eve of the Green Grass]. 1965, 1965, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gentle Laurel [later, Eve of the Green Grass]. 1965, 1965, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [ms.]. 1965, 1965, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green grass [notes and fragments]. 1965, 1965, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [Act 1 and background notes]. 1965, 1965, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [Revised by Bert Slaff]. 1965, 1965, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [Act 1&2 and notes]. 1965, 1965, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [Act 1&2 and explanatory notes], 1965, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [Act 1. Incomplete]. 1965, 1965, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Eve of the Green Grass [correspondence & writings]. 1962, n.d., 1962, inclusive
Box: II.B.1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ah, Wilderness [newspaper article]: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Beautiful Dreamer [C. Dowell?]. 1959, 1959, inclusive
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Beautiful Dreamer [variant version] [1959], undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Call back April: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Chloe: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cora's Pill: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Crystal Tree [by Coleman Dowell?]: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Crystal tree [by Doris Julian]. 1956, 1956, inclusive
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Great Godalmighty Bird n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Haymarket [musical play]. 1958, 1958, inclusive
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Indian Giver: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Little Maggie: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mrs October Was Here: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Paul and Paul's Super Ego: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Penthouse: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Shangri-La: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sleeping Rock: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tropicana: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled murder mystery: n.d., undated
Box: II.B.2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
