The Between C & D Archive was acquired via purchase from Joel Rose and Catherine Texier in July of 1996. The collection included a complete set of Joel's copy of the magazine with all variants, correspondence, manuscripts, posters, business files, ephemera, including the computer used for the production of the magazine, and miscellaneous printed materials. The collection was built by the editors of Between C & D, Joel Rose and Catherine Texier, themselves established writers and longtime members of the New York literary scene. The collection was sorted by Marvin J. Taylor once it arrived at NYU. Printed materials were removed and catalogued in the Downtown Collection and are listed in BobCat. A special subject heading "Downtown Writers" was given to all materials in the collection as a means of retrieving all works about downtown New York. Archival materials were sorted into series and processed later. Oversized archival materials from the various series are located in an oversize box at the end of the collection.

The Between C & D Archive comprises incoming and outgoing correspondence and business files for both the magazine and the anthology; production files for the magazine; a complete run of the magazine with all variants; manuscripts, posters, and original art; ephemera, including the computer used in the production of the magazine; disks containing the print files for the magazine, outgoing correspondence, and other related data for both the magazine and anthology; and miscellaneous printed materials. The scope of the archive is comprehensive in that it contains all records and files of the magazine and anthology kept by Joel Rose and Catherine Texier, editors of the magazine. As much as possible, the editors' original organization of the material was preserved.

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS:

Series I: Correspondence and Business Files

Series I contains three boxes of business and correspondence related materials, including administrative and financial records, manuscripts and cover art, arranged alphabetically in keeping with the original order of the files as received.

Series II: Production Files

Series II contains three boxes of production related materials for Between C & D.

Series III: Complete set of Between C & D

Series III contains two boxes of Joel's copy of the complete set of Between C & D with all variants.

Series IV: Anthology

Series IV contains one box of materials relating to the Between C & D anthology, including manuscripts, the galley, author biographies, permissions, publicity, correspondence and contracts.

Series V: Ephemera

Series V contains three boxes of Epson computer components, including the keyboard and monitor, and one box containing the floppy disks on which are located the print files for the magazine and anthology as well as back-up mailing lists, administrative forms, outgoing editorial correspondence and author biographies for the anthology, as well as two small gray boxes of stamp art used in the production of the magazine.

Series VI: Printed Material

Series VI contains one box of miscellaneous printed materials arranged alphabetically. Included are various little magazines contemporaneous with Between C & D and often containing fiction by authors that appear in Between C & D.

Oversize: A flat oversize box at the end of the collection contains oversize materials from Series I, II and IV.