Manuscripts

Publications

Description: Clippings of Babitz's writing for Coast magazine, Vogue, and others; issues of a KPFK program featuring her artwork; and two copies of Manifesto LAX, which featured contributions from Ronee Blakley, Ron Cooper, Carrie Fisher, Steve Martin, Terry Melcher, Ed Ruscha, and others. There are also other collected publications which may have served as research material or another purpose.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1970s-1990s
Call number: mssBabitz
Creator: Babitz, Eve(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Eve Babitz through Glenn Horowitz Bookseller with support from Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield, November 2021.; gift of Mirandi Babitz, December 2024.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Oversize photographs

Manuscripts

Unused images from Eve's Hollywood, including family photographs and shots of Hollywood High School. Also includes oversize photographs of Eve Babitz, her friends, and negatives used in Manifesto LAX.

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Articles and stories N-W

Manuscripts

Primarily typescript drafts and photocopy drafts of articles and stories, many of which appeared in magazines or the 2019 collection I Used to Be Charming. Grouped alphabetically with a few titles housed separately in original folders or housing: A New Yorker's Foolproof Guide to L.A., Power Seducts, The Ruscha Rainbow, and Valley High. Many stories in this box document Babitz's 1997 accident and recovery, including The Raymond, Waiting for Songs, and Weathering Heather. Some drafts include notes from publishers and revisions.

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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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Publications

Manuscripts

Clippings of Babitz's work, as well as book reviews and some biographical articles about her. Included are copies of Babitz's first published article, The Sheik, for Rolling Stone in 1972; Jim Morrison is Dead and Living in Hollywood, and I Was A Naked Pawn for Chess, both for Esquire in 1991; and several issues of The Flyer, an editorial supplement to Rolling Stone covering Southern California.

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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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Photographs

Manuscripts

Photographs and negatives of Eve Babitz, her family and friends, and the Los Angeles area, including hundreds taken by Babitz of friends and gatherings during the years 1969-1972. Photo subjects from this time include Jackson Browne, the Byrds, Black Oak Arkansas, Glenn Frey, Steve Martin, Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons (38 images), and Dan Wakefield; and several Los Angeles locations including Echo Park and the Griffith Observatory. There are also photos from the late 1980s of friends and gatherings and a trip to Miami. Family photographs include Eve Babitz from childhood to the 2000s, her cats, her parents Sol and Mae Babitz, sister Mirandi Babitz, and their family home. Scrapbooks and photo albums feature snapshots of friends and family, with one album dedicated to the Slow Days, Fast Company book release party in 1977. There is also significant material related to dance in Los Angeles, which appears to be related to Babitz's book Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night.

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