Paul Bowles papers

The collection contains three manuscripts by Bowles (two short stories and one musical score) as well as a series of letters between him and his friend and fellow author, Lonnie Burr. The majority of the correspondence is authored by Bowles and includes several picture postcards from Morocco and other foreign locations. Also included in the collection are two letters Bowles wrote to the William Morris Agency. Issues addressed within the collection include the political situation in Morocco and the United States, descriptions of Morocco's Tangier peninsula, discussions of contemporary writers and their work and the personal lives of both Bowles and Burr. The addenda is comprised of three folders containing original and photocopies of Bowles' correspondence, 1967-1994; Lonnie Burr's writings about Bowles, 1968-1999; and the DVD "The Many Faces of Lonnie Burr, 1950 to 2008," 2008.