Manuscripts

Correspondence

Description: The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera. The largest group of letters are written to Aldiss' editors at Doubleday and Company, Inc.: Lawrence P. Ashmead, Diane Cleaver, and Cathleen Jordan. The letters deal with the following works by Aldiss: Barefoot in the Head, Billion Year Spree, Cryptozoic, Eighty-minute Hour, Moment of Eclipse, Report on Probability A, and Space Opera. Other correspondence includes letters from Margaret Aldiss to Diane Cleaver and Anne Borchardt to L.P. Ashmead. Also included: Billion Year Spree provisional outline; publicity questionnaire for Doubleday; Space Opera list of proposed contents; two folders of ephemera; dust jackets for Billion Year Spree and Report on Probability A; photocopies of reviews for Report on Probability A, and three photographs by Jerry Bauer of Brian Aldiss.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1965-1971
Call number: mssAldiss

Correspondence; ephemera

Manuscripts

The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera. The largest group of letters are written to Aldiss' editors at Doubleday and Company, Inc.: Lawrence P. Ashmead, Diane Cleaver, and Cathleen Jordan. The letters deal with the following works by Aldiss: Barefoot in the Head, Billion Year Spree, Cryptozoic, Eighty-minute Hour, Moment of Eclipse, Report on Probability A, and Space Opera. Other correspondence includes letters from Margaret Aldiss to Diane Cleaver and Anne Borchardt to L.P. Ashmead. Also included: Billion Year Spree provisional outline; publicity questionnaire for Doubleday; Space Opera list of proposed contents; two folders of ephemera; dust jackets for Billion Year Spree and Report on Probability A; photocopies of reviews for Report on Probability A, and three photographs by Jerry Bauer of Brian Aldiss.

mssAldiss

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Brian Wilson Aldiss letters to Doubleday and Company, Inc

Manuscripts

mssAldiss

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Seminole

Visual Materials

Portraits of Seminole ministers and college students; Baptist meeting house; churches. Views of John E. Brown, Secretary of tribe, and his family outside home; and Gen. John Peter Cleaver Shanks with unidentified white man and black man. Views of pioneer town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, ca. 1875, showing wooden storefronts, saloon, trade stores, spring water source, and townspeople gathered for photograph. People identified: James Factor; John Chupco; Rev. Mundy Durant (Black Baptist preacher); John Jumper and his new church; Rebecca Jumper; John F. Brown and family; Gen. John Peter Cleaver Shanks. Photographers/publishers: John K. Hillers; unidentified.

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Favorite Son/The Candidate - Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items. Correspondence with various publishers regarding Favorite Son/The Candidate: Doubleday & Co. (Walter Bradbury, Timothy Seldes), World Publishing Co. (William Buckley), G.P. Putnam's Sons, Times-Mirror Syndicate, New American Library, 4-page, largely negative critique of Favorite Son from Hy Cohen of Delacorte Press, etc.

mssLAT

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Bonelli, William - Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: In 1953, The Mirror exposed William Bonelli's Mafia connections and involvement in racketeering. In 1954, Bonelli, long-time member of the State Board of Equalization, authored a book, Billion Dollar Blackjack - the story of corruption and the Los Angeles Times. As the title suggests, this book was a strong condemnation of LAT and the Chandlers (publishers). Later Bonelli brought a lawsuit against The Mirror, another Chandler-owned newspaper, for "certain false published statements." This collection includes memos, letters, legal documents, press releases, etc. Also included is a complete copy of Los Angeles Underground (1954?), which reprinted the entire aforementioned book because, as the issue says, it was "suppressed in Los Angeles."

mssLAT

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-----. 2 photographs of Diana Levy and Ardie Allison in pas de deux from "Swan Lake," black and white; ([ca. 1947-1957])

Manuscripts

Note: the name on the verso of photos is Diane Gordon and Diane Levy; larger photo has autograph note on verso. Also: black-and-white print of smaller photo; original photos damaged.

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-----. 2 photographs of Diana Levy and Ardie Allison in pas de deux from "Swan Lake," black and white; ([ca. 1947-1957])