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Series II: Manuscripts

Scope and Contents note

Series II contains the mss. of Paulson's translations of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg and other Scandinavian authors. Subseries A contains Paulson's translations of Ibsen, as well as miscellaneous Ibsen ephemera collected by Paulson; the ephemera includes playbills, postcards and criticism. Series II, Subseries B contains Paulson's mss. translations of Strindberg; subseries C contains the same material, this time in drafts prepared for publication. Subseries D contains Paulson's translations of Vilhelm Moberg, Knut Hamsun, Gustav Geijerstam and other Scandinavian authors. Subseries E contains miscellaneous manuscripts.

Subseries A: Henrik Ibsen

Brand: The Shrieve. Trans. Miles M. Dawson, n.d.

Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bergwitz, Jon K. Henrik Ibsen: I sin Avstamning Norsk eller Fremmed?, 1916

Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Doll's House (Act III)

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ghosts (synopsis)

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ghosts

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hedda Gabler (I)

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hedda Gabler (II)

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

John Gabriel Borkman

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Master Builder (I)

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Master Builder (II)

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Master Olaf

Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Peer Gynt

Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rosmersholm

Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

When We Dead Awaken

Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ostvedt, Einar. Henrik Ibsen og hans Barndomshjem i Skien og Gjerpen; Henrik Ibsen og hans barndomsmiljo, 1958

Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biography of Ibsen

Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ibsen Memorial Committee Letterheads

Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ibsen Memorial Performance

Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Playbills (var. Ibsen plays), 1935-1970

Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Postcard depicting Ibsen's home near Skien, Norway (blank)

Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries B: August Strindberg

Alone (I)

Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Alone (II)

Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Alone (III)/ Days of Loneliness

Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Alone (IV) / The Wolves Are Howling

Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Alone (V) / Days of Loneliness

Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Alone (VI) / Days of Loneliness

Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

An Attempt at Reform

Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Black Glove

Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Buried Premises (I)

Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Buried Premises (II)

Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

China

Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queen Christina of Sweden

Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Comrades (I)

Box: 5, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Comrades (II)

Box: 5, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Crimes and Crimes (I)

Box: 5, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Crimes and Crimes (II)

Box: 5, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Crimes and Crimes (III)

Box: 5, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Creditors

Box: 5, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

To Damascus, Part I.

Box: 5, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Dance of Death

Box: 5, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Dream Play (I)

Box: 6, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Dream Play (II)

Box: 6, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Dream Play (III)

Box: 6, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Easter

Box: 6, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Erik XIV

Box: 6, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The First Warning

Box: 6, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Ghost Sonata

Box: 6, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Great Highway (I)

Box: 6, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Great Highway (II)

Box: 6, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Great Highway (III)

Box: 6, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Great Highway (IV)

Box: 6, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hellas (Socrates)

Box: 7, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hermione

Box: 7, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hemsoborna

Box: 7, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jubal without a Self

Box: 7, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miss Julie (I)

Box: 7, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miss Julie (II)

Box: 7, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Lamb and the Beast

Box: 7, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letters to Harriet Bosse

Box: 7, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Memorandum to the Members of the Intima Theatre

Box: 7, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Modern Scandinavian Plays

Box: 7, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Christ Trilogy

Box: 7, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Moses / Through the Desert to Ancestral Lands

Box: 7, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Nightingale of Wittenberg

Box: 7, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Outlaw

Box: 7, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Pelican

Box: 8, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poems

Box: 8, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Scapegoat (I)

Box: 8, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Scapegoat (II)

Box: 8, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Scapegoat (III)

Box: 8, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Shakespeare's Outlook on Life"

Box: 8, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stormclouds (I)

Box: 8, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stormclouds (II)

Box: 8, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Stronger

Box: 8, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Swanwhite

Box: 8, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Vestman's Sealing Adventure

Box: 8, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Historical Plays

Box: 8, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Historical Plays

Box: 8, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries C: Paulson's mss. drafts for publication

Eight Expressionist Plays (I)

Box: 9, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eight Expressionist Plays (II)

Box: 9, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eight Expressionist Plays (III)

Box: 9, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eight Expressionist Plays (IV)

Box: 9, Folder: 62 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eight Expressionist Plays (V)

Box: 9, Folder: 63 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Natives of Hemso, Ch. I-IV (I)

Box: 10, Folder: 64 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Natives of Hemso, Ch. V-VII (II)

Box: 10, Folder: 65 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Natives of Hemso, Ch. I-IV (III)

Box: 10, Folder: 66 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Natives of Hemso, Ch. V-VII (IV)

Box: 10, Folder: 67 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Natives of Hemso, Ch. I-IV (V)

Box: 10, Folder: 68 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Natives of Hemso, Ch. V-VII (VI)

Box: 10, Folder: 69 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Natives of Hemso (VII)

Box: 10, Folder: 70 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

One Act Prose Plays (I)

Box: 11, Folder: 71 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

One Act Prose Plays (II)

Box: 11, Folder: 72 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

One Act Prose Plays (III)

Box: 11, Folder: 73 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

One Act Prose Plays (IV)

Box: 11, Folder: 74 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

One Act Plays (I)

Box: 11, Folder: 75 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

One Act Plays (II)

Box: 11, Folder: 76 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

One Act Plays (III)

Box: 11, Folder: 77 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Strindberg Reader (I)

Box: 12, Folder: 78 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Strindberg Reader (II)

Box: 12, Folder: 79 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Strindberg Reader (III)

Box: 12, Folder: 80 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Strindberg Reader (IV)

Box: 12, Folder: 81 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Strindberg Reader [proofs] (V)

Box: 12, Folder: 82 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries D: Paulson's translations of Vilhelm Moberg, Knut Hamsun, Gustav Geijerstam and others.

Geijerstam, Gustav. Big Klaus and Little Klaus (I)

Box: 13, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Geijerstam, Gustav. Big Klaus and Little Klaus (II)

Box: 13, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Geijerstam, Gustav. Big Klaus and Little Klaus (III)

Box: 13, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hamsun, Knut. Plays.

Box: 13, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Heden, Erik. Strindberg: An Index of his Achievement

Box: 13, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Moberg, Vilhelm. What's Yours is Mine.

Box: 13, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Oh, Olga. Judge Not!

Box: 13, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (I)

Box: 13, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (II)

Box: 14, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries E: Miscellaneous Mss.

Summary of criticism on Strindberg's The Father

Box: 15, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eyes in the Dark

Box: 15, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fourth of July

Box: 15, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Grass

Box: 15, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

In the Dark

Box: 15, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Introductions

Box: 15, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

To Amandus Johnson, Pioneer

Box: 15, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Lady with the Leaking Valve / The Graft of Mrs. Plummer

Box: 15, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

One Less

Box: 15, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poem by Paulson [xerox]

Box: 15, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

John Rockefeller as told by George Cohan

Box: 15, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Snake Pit

Box: 15, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Strindberg biography

Box: 15, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Swedish Captain

Box: 15, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Viking Flowers

Box: 15, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lagerlof, Selma. The Hobgoblin of Toreby

Box: 15, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notes and Fragments of Plays

Box: 15, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Berendsohn, Walter. Misc. Criticism

Box: 15, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mansfield, Richard. Poems.

Box: 15, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Vowles, Richard B. Introduction to Strindberg

Box: 15, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Charles XII

Box: 15, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unidentified mss., fragments

Box: 15, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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