Manuscripts

Family material, ephemera, and photographs

Description

The family material includes correspondence and other family-related material (1939-2015); the correspondence includes letters, notes, cards, postcards, photocopies, and faxes. Correspondents include Albert Eugene Theroux, Anne Dittami Theroux, Alexander Theroux, Anne Theroux, Louis Theroux, Marcel Theroux, and Paul Theroux.

The family-related material includes an early draft of Theroux's archive of his works and papers, genealogies, and Theroux's school papers.

The ephemera includes printed articles, interviews, clipppings, publicity material, book tour information, and printed magazines (1961-2015).

The photographs include Theroux family albums, photographs taken by Graham Greene and Barbara Greene, travel photographs, Paul Theroux with various writers and notable people, and Theroux family photographs (1935-2015).

Type

Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)

Date

1939-2015

Call number

mssTheroux

Family: Hawaii photographs

Manuscripts

The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera of Paul Theroux. His works are often semi-autobiographical and are based on his experiences living and traveling around the world. He is noted for his rich, sometimes ironic, description of people and places. The material comprises almost his entire career as a writer and includes multiple drafts of various works from working notebooks to printed galleys. The collection includes novels (1967-2016), short story collections (1972-2014), non-fiction and travel books (1972-2016), and shorter works including reviews, articles, short stories, plays, and lectures (1960-2015); the collection also includes Theroux's working and travel notebooks (1968-2014). The collection also contains professional papers and business correspondence (1963-2015), with publishers, agents, other authors and reader's letters; included in this material are letters from, among others, Eve Auchincloss, Peter De Vries, Margaret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Blanche C. Gregory, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Company, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Oliver Sacks, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, William Styron, and Auberon Waugh. There is also a smaller amount of family material and personal correspondence (1939-2015), with family and friends; this correspondence includes Eugene Theroux, Alexander Theroux, Peter Theroux, Marcel Theroux, Louis Theroux, Anne Theroux, and various other family members. The ephemera consists of photographs, printed material and magazines (1941-1915).

mssTheroux

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