Manuscripts

Friends

Description: Prints and negatives of Babitz's friends from the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Suzanne, Antoinette, Sofie, Fritz, Carl Gottlieb, Jac Holzman, Judy Kinnamer, Danny O'Keefe, Ray Mungo, and others; and gatherings and events from the early 1970s, including Peter Alexander party and Betty Gold show. Envelopes with negatives only include Dianne Gardiner and Michael Elias.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1969-1971
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.

Correspondence - friends and family incoming/outgoing

Manuscripts

Incoming letters and cards from friends, some unsigned or unidentified; and the majority of Babitz's outgoing correspondence. Babitz's outgoing correspondence is primarily from the late 1960s to early 1970s and includes carbon copies, drafts, and unsent letters and postcards. There is also incoming and outgoing family correspondence (mid 1950s to mid 1960s) with her parents Sol and Mae Babitz, sister Mirandi Babitz, and a few other relatives.

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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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Friends, around town

Manuscripts

Loose prints and negatives of unidentified friends from the late 1960s and early 1970s, friends and gatherings in the 1980s, and a trip to Miami in the 1980s. Also includes prints and negatives of photographs Babitz took in Los Angeles around 1969 to 1970, including Echo Park, Griffith Observatory, and various locations on Sunset Boulevard.

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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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Dance research

Manuscripts

Primarily negatives and contact sheets but also a few prints of dancers at various Los Angeles locations, and some dance-related ephemera. Appears to be related to Babitz's book Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night.

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Correspondence and journal

Manuscripts

Brian G. Hutton incoming and outgoing correspondence, and Babitz's 1969-1970 personal journal.

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