Correspondence - friends incoming

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  Personal

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  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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  Correspondence - friends and family incoming/outgoing

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  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

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  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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  Eve Babitz, family, and art

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  Photographs of Eve Babitz from childhood through the 2000s, her family, and artwork. Artwork photographs include several prints of a Brian Jones collage, and a series of slides taken by Paul Ruscha.

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  Friends

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  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.

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  Articles and stories N-W

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  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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