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Journal, 1969-1970

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Description: Excerpt of Babitz's diary, published in the Paris Review, vol. 67, no. 254 (Winter 2025), pages 73-92. The diary excerpts range from September 19, 1969 to March 24, 1970. The entries highlight Babitz's insecurities as a writer, her work as a collage artist, and her interactions with notable people like Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, Harrison Ford, Michael Jackson, and others. Includes an introductory note by the editors.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 2025.
Call number: 657343
Creator: Babitz, Eve(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Sandra Brooke Gordon, January 2026.

Friends

Manuscripts

Prints and negatives of Babitz's friends, and some commissioned work for Atlantic records. Includes "Anne and Don", "Marva", Black Oak Arkansas, Jackson Browne, Byrds, Ron Cooper, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, Eagles, Harrison Ford, Noel Harrison, Brian Hutton, Annie Leibovitz, Steve Martin, Gram Parsons (38 images), Linda Ronstadt, J.D. Souther, Bucky Wilkins, and Dan Wakefield.

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Correspondence - friends incoming

Manuscripts

Primarily incoming correspondence from Babitz's friends, admirers, and publishing contacts, including Larry Bell, Joseph Cornell (12 items including envelopes and inserts, plus photocopies), Jean Francois Dalle, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, Peter Eden, "F" (unidentified), Paul Glass, Joseph Heller (6 items including envelopes, plus photocopies), Seymour Lawrence, Erica Spellman (ICM), Leah Spinrad, Paul Ruscha, Dan Wakefield, Victoria Wilson (Knopf), and Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone). There is back and forth correspondence in a few instances. Also included is a folder of other publishing-related correspondence, and get-well faxes and letters Babitz received after her 1997 accident.

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Eve Babitz collage

Visual Materials

A collage by Eve Babitz that likely depicts Henry James and Edith Wharton and was gifted by the artist to her former partner and fellow writer Dan Wakefield. The female figure has been cut out of the photographic print and an image of clouds at sunset has been placed in the negative space. Babitz's signature and date are at the lower right corner. The collage is mounted on a board.

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Personal

Manuscripts

Incoming and outgoing correspondence with friends, family, and publishing contacts, including Joseph Cornell (12 items including inserts and envelopes, plus photocopies), Peter Eden, Paul Glass, Joseph Heller (6 items including envelopes, plus photocopies), Dan Wakefield, and Jann Wenner; and her father Sol Babitz, mother Mae Babitz, and sister Mirandi Babitz. A folder of get-well letters and faxes following her hospitalization in 1997 includes notes from Jackson Browne, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, Don Henley, Annie Leibovitz, Steve Martin, Van Dyke Parks, and many others. Also includes several notebooks and datebooks, biographical and family materials, personal items, and audiovisual materials.

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Biographical and family

Manuscripts

Materials related to Babitz's childhood and school days, including a handmade card for her father, a single diary page, report cards, and yearbooks. Also includes her passports, astrology charts, business cards, miscellaneous notes and receipts, and materials related to Marcel Duchamp events in which Babitz was asked to participate. Some family related items include a Bach workbook written by Sol Babitz and a family calendar, cookbook, and genealogy by Mirandi Babitz.

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Notebooks, address books, datebooks

Manuscripts

Babitz's address books and datebooks from the 1960s to the 1990s, and a few diary-type notebooks from the 1960s to the 1990s. Several of the datebooks are crammed with phone numbers, appointments, and observations; notebooks are sparser.

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Journal, 1969-1970

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