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Foreword: an unfinished story in an academic setting: autograph
Manuscripts
A collection of material assembled by Philip D. Nathanson related to the writer Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald). The collection includes drafts of novels, notebooks, screenplays, book reviews, essays, correspondence, and ephemera. The manuscript material includes drafts, notes, and introductions for the novels Black Money, The Galton Case, The Instant Enemy, and The Underground Man. Significant correspondents and companies in the collection include, among others: Don Freeman, Lydia Freeman, Douglas Heyes, Walter Hill, Marc Jaffe, Robert R. Kirsch, Margaret Millar, Dorothy Olding, Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Jack Smith, Harold Norling Swanson, Tracy Keenan Wynn, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Harold Ober Associates.
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