The Inventory of the Seymour Epstein Collection
The Inventory
of the
Seymour Epstein
Collection
#78
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR
September 1964 - July 1968
Box 1 I. WRITINGS
A. Books: Novels, Stories
1. CAUGHT IN THAT MUSIC (Novel) Viking, 1967.
Setting copy. Typescript with printer's marks 405 p. (#1, 2)
2. LEAH (Novel) Little, Brown, 1964.
Setting copy. Typescript with printer's Box 2 marks. 361 p. (#3, Box 2 #1)
3. A PENNY FOR CHARITY (Short Stories) Little Brown, 1965
Setting copy consisting of 5 preliminary pages and stories:
"In The Deep Sea" Carbon typescript 22 p. (#2)
"Wheat Closed Higher" Carbon typescript 21 p.
"Wreckers" Photocopied pages
"Ride Back from Lenox" Carbon typescript 15 p.
"Come to the Fair" Photocopied pages (#3)
"Summer Place" Photocopied pages from Antioch Review
"Playground, Parties and the Primordial Molecule" Photocopied pages
"Mr. Isaacs" Photocopied pages
"Jingle Bells" Photocopied pages
"Happy Birthday" Photocopied pages
"Chateaubrand" Photocopied pages
"My Brother's Keeper" Photocopied pages from Antioch Review
"Sunday" Carbon typescript 15 p.
"A Penny for Charity" typescript 13 p. Box 2
4. PILLAR OF SALT, Scriber, 1959.
Setting copy. Typescript with printer's marks, 301 p. (#4, Box 3, #1)
Box 3 5. THE SUCCESSOR, Scribner, 1961
Setting copy. Typescript with printer's marks. Layout for preliminary pages 394 p. (#2, 3)
B. Short Stories
1. "Each Man in His Time" Carbon typescript 20 p. 1 p. typescript, Redbook 1964.
2. "The Girl With the Golden Hair" carbon typescript 20 p. (#4) January 1962.
3. "Happy Birthday" Typescript 13 p. (#6) Short Story I 1958
4. "Jingle Bells" carbon typescript 15 p. (#7) Short Story I 1958
5. "Playgrounds, Parties and the Primordial Molecule" Typescript, (#18) 17 p. Short Srory ! and Esquire
6. "Wheat Closed Higher Cotton Was Mixed" galleys (#9) From Best American Short Stories, 1962, originally in Redbook.
7. "The Wreckers" First published short story. Antioch Review, Summer 1954. Carbon typescript, 16 p. (#10)
C. LECTURES AND REMARKS at New School Creative Writing Class (#11)
1. "Characterization" Remarks, Spring '64. Typescript 2 p.
2. "A Touchstone in Fiction Writing" Lecture, Spring '64 Typescript 5 p.
3. "Writing as Recall" Remarks, Fall '64. Typescript 5 p. EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR
Addenda: August 1971
Box 4 A) THE DREAM MUSEUM. Viking Press, 1971.
Carbon typescript with holograph corrections, 356 pp.
B) Reviews by SE, 1967-1970. All are carbon typescripts with holograph
correctio.is.
1) ADA by Vladimir Nabakov for The Denver Quarterly, 7 pp.
2) THE WAR GAME by Patke Contemporary Films for Playb.£Y_, 1 p.
3) THE EXPERIMENT by Patrick Steve Gatling for Playboy, lp~
4) THE ENTRANCE TO PORLOCK by Frederick Buechner for Playboy~ 1 p.
5) THE PROMISE by Chaim Potock for Playboy, 2 pp.
6) WASHINGTON, D.C. by Gore Vidal for Playboy, 2 pp.
7) SUPERSWINE by Richard Carter for Playboy, 1 p.
8) THE MAN WHO KNEW KENNEDY by Vance Bourjaily for PlaybE.Y_, 2 pp.
9) THE STORY THAT ENDS WITH A SCREAM AND EIGHT OTHERS by James Leo
Herlihy for Playb~, 1 p.
10) GOING ALL THE WAY by Dan Wakefield for Playboy, 1 p.
11) THE LAST GENTLEMAN by Walker Percy for Pla~, 2 pp.
12) SINGLE FILE by Norman Fruchter, for Playboy, 1 p.
13) THE PARAGON by John Knowles for Plyboy, 1 p.
14) DELIVERANCE by James Dickey for Playboy, 1 p.
15) A SEA CHANGE by J,R.Salamanca for Playboy, 2 pp.
16) FOURTH STREET EAST by Jerome Weidman for Playboy, 1 p.
17) NOWHERE MAN by Thomas Curley for Playboy, 1 p.
18) PICTURES OF FIDELMAN, AND EXHIBITION by Bernard Malamud for
Playboy, 1 p.
19) MY DARLING FROM THE LIONS by Alice Denham for Playboy, 2 pp.
20) WE BOMBED IN NEW HAVEN by Joseph Heller for Playboy, 1 p.
21) ORIANE by Sigrid de Lime for Playboy, 2 pp. page 2
EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR Addenda: August 1971
22) THE PRISONERS OF QUAI DONG by Victor Kalpacoff for Playboy,
2 pp.
23) MAIGRET IN VICHY and THE PRISON by Georges Simenon; SIMENON
IN COURT by John Raymond for Playboy, 3 pp.
24) IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY by William Goss for
Playboy, 1 p.
25) THE STEAGLE by Irvin Faust for Playb~, 2 pp.
26) TEITLEBAUM'S WIDOW by Wallace Markfield for Playboy, 2 pp.
27) THE TALKIN§ TREES AND OTHER STORIES by Sean O'Faolain for
Playboy, 1 p.
28) MAX JAMISON by Wilfrid Sheed for Playboy, 1 p.
29) TWO SISTERS by Gore Vidal for Playboy, 1 p.
30) RICH MAN, POOR MAN by Irwin Shaw for Playboy, 1 p.
31) DOWN ALL THE DAYS by Christy Brown for Playboy, 1 p.
32) ISLANDS IN THE STREAM by Ernest Hemingway for Playboy, 2 pp.
33) THE GOY by Mark Harris for Playboy, 1 p.
34) THE FRENCH LIEUTENANTS WOMAN by John Fowles for Playboy, 2 pp.
35) MARY by Vladimir Nabokov for Playboy, 1 p,
36) JEREMY'S VERSION by James Purdy for Playb.£¥_, 1 p.
37) ONE VERY HOT DAY by David Halberstam for Playboy, 2 pp.
38) O, FOR A MASTER OF MAGIC by John Greenfeld for Playboy, 1 p.
39) THE FIRST CIRCLE AND THE CANCER WARD by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
for Playboy, 3 pp.
40) NEST IN A FALLING TREE by Joy Cowley for The New York Times
Book Review, 3 pp.
41) ONE VERY HOT DAY by David Halberstam for The Saturday Review of
Literature, 2 pp. page 3
EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR Addenda: August 1971
42) WHY ARE WE IN VIETNAM by Norman Mailer for Playboy, 2 pp.
43) THE FIXER by Bernard Malamud for Playboy, 2 pp.
44) A TREE OF FIRE by Alan Sillitoe for Playboy, 1 p.
45) THE MANOR by Isaac Bashevis Singer for Playboy, 2 pp.
46) THE CLAIMANT By Hollis Alpert for Playboy, 2 pp.
47) DEBRIS By Brock Brower for Playboy, 1 p.
48) A MEETING BY THE RIVER By Christopher Isherwood for Playb£Y_, 2 pp.
49) LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE by John Barth for Playboy, 2 pp.
50) AN ANTIQUE MAN by Merrill Joan Gerber for Playboy, 3 pp.
51) STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING by Samuel Beckett for Playboy, 1 p.
52) WHEN SHE WAS GOOD by Philip Roth for Playboy, 2 pp.
53) THE ICE-CREAM HEADACHE AND OTHER STORIES by James Jones for
Playboy, 1 p.
54) THE FLOATING OPERA anonymous for Playboy, 1 p.
55) BLADE OF LIGHT 6y Don Carpenter for Playboy, 2 pp.
56) ONWARDS by Nat Hentoff for Playboy, 1 p.
57) THE TRIUMPH by John Kenneth Galbraith for Playboy, 2 pp.
58) UNSPEAKABLE PRACTICES, UNNATURAL ACTS By Donald Barthelme for
Playboy, 1 p.
59) SNOW WHITE by Donald Barthelme for Playboy, 3 pp.
60) OFFICE POLITICS by Wilfrid Sheed for Playboy, 4 pp.
61) DUBLINERS and GIACOMO JOYCE by James Joyce; JAMES JOYCE AND
HIS WORLD by Chester G. Anderson for Playb~.Y., 3 pp.
62) A SENSE OF DARK by William Malliol for Playboy, lp
63) THE ESTATE By Isaac Bashevis Singer for Playboy, 2 pp.
64) THE MUSIC SCHOOL by John Updike for Playboy, 2 pp.
65) THE BIRDS FALL DOWN by Rebecca West for Playboy, 2 pp. page 4
EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR Addenda: August 1971
66) THE SECRET SWINGER by Alan Harrington for Playboy, 2 pp.
67) THE PYRAMID by William Golding for Playboy, 2 pp.
68) SHADOW OF MY BROTHER by Davis Grub for Playb~, 2 pp.
69) OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY by Jerome Weidman for Playboy, 2 pp.
70) AFTER THE WAR by Daniel Stern for Commonweal, 2 pp.
71) MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET By Saul Bellow for ~layboy, 2 p.
72) SICK FRIENDS by Ivan Gold for Playboy, 2 pp. =
73) STELMARK by Harry Mark Petrakis for Playboy, 1 p.
74) BULLET PARK by John Cheever for Playboy, 2 pp.
75) THE FILE ON STANLEY PATTON BUCHTA by Irvin Faust for Playboy, 1 p
EPSTEIN, Seymour
Addenda:
March 1973-February 1974
Manuscripts
A. THE DREAM MUSEUM. Viking Press, 1971.
Box 5: 1. Original version. Typescript with holo. corr., 402 p.
(Folders lll-112)
Boxes 5-6: 2. Revised version. Typescript with holo. corr., 361 p.
(Box 5, /13; Box 6, Ill)
Box 6: 3. Final, edited version. Setting copy of the typescript with
holo, corr. & printer's markings, 363 p. (/12-/13)
B. LOOKING FOR FRED SCHMIDT. Doubleday, 1973. (Earlier title:
MAKING CONTACT).
Box 7: 1. Original manuscript. Typescript with holo. corr., 405 p., with
1 p. holograph annotation by SE laid in. (/11-/12)
2. Misc. pages from original version. Typescript with holo. corr.,
132 p., with 1 p. holograph annotation by SE laid in. (113)
Box 8: 3. Setting copy of typescript with holo. corr. & printer's
markings, 417 p. (/11-/13)
4. Reader's galleys. (114)
Box 9: 5. Reader's page proofs. (Ill)
6. Doubleday form memorandum, Sept. 22, 1973.
Epstein, Seymour
Addenda: January 1980
I. MANUSCRIPTS OF NOVELS
Box 9 A. CAUGHT IN THAT MUSIC. Viking, 1967.
Carbon typescript with some halo. corr., 405 p. and 1 prelim. p. (#2)
B. THE EIGHTH DAY. Unpublished, "became the precursor of 'From The
Sidelines'" 1977-1978.
1. Typescript with some halo. corr., 359 p. and 1 prelim. p. (#3)
2. Carbon typescript with some halo. corr., 359 p. and 2 prelim. p. (#4)
Box 10 C, FROM THE SIDELINES.
1. Typescript with halo. corr, 420 p. and title p., 1979. (#1)
2, Typescript rewrite of second half, with halo. corr., 227 p. incl.
title p. (t/2)
D. GAME WITH MIRRORS. Unpublished, 1976.
Typescript with some halo. corr., 268 p. and 4 prelim. p. (#3)
E. LOOKING FOR FRED SCHMIDT. Doubleday, 1973.
Carbon typescript with some halo. corr., 404 p. and 3 prelim. p. (#4)
Box 11 F. LOVE AFFAIR. Doubleday, 1978.
1. First draft. Typescript with extensive halo. corr., 376 p. and title
p. (Ill)
2. Carbon typescript with some halo. corr., 429 p. and 2 prelim. p. (#2)
Epstein, Seymour
Addenda: December, 1983
Box 11 I. MANUSCRIPTS
A. Short Pieces
1. "Bellow's Gift," carbon typescript with some holo. corr.,
26 p. 1975 (Published in The New University Quarterly) (#3)
2. "By the Sea," (a short story published in The Denver
Quarterly, 1983), photocopy of typescript with some holo.
corr., 26 p. (#4)
3. "Hello Columbus." Parody on Philip Roth (Published in THE
BRAND-X ANTHOLOGY OF FICTION, Apple-Wood Books, 1983),
carbon typescript with holo. corr., 13 p. (#5)
4. "The Jewish Writer and the Jewish Critic," typescript with
holo. corr., 19 p. 1975 (#6)
B. Speeches
1. "The American Jewish Theme: End of An Era," carbon
typescript with holo. corr., 21 p. Nov. 2, 1977. (#7)
2. "The Writer as Teacher." 1981. (t/8)
a. Typescript with holo. corr., 27 p.
b. Offset typescript, with holo. corr. and cover pages,
23 p. on 13 leaves.
C. Book Reviews by Seymour Epstein
1. Review of THE DEAN'S DECEMBER by Saul Bellow (appeared in
The Denver Quarterly, 1983), carbon typescript with holo. Epstein, Seymour Addenda: December, 1983 p. 2
C. Book Reviews by Seymour Epstein (cont.)
1. corr., 11 p. (//9)
II. PRINTED MATERIAL
1. "Bellow's Gift," Sheets from The New University Quarterly
(Bristol, England), Summer 1977, 17 p. (#10)
2. "By the Sea," in The Denver Quarterly, Summer 1983
p. 94 (#11)
EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR
Addenda: February 1985
Box 11 I. MANUSCRIPTS
A. Novel: A SPECIAL DESTINY. Unpublished.
1. Revised partial typescript with bolo. corr., ca. 150 p., variously paginated.
prelim. to "dispossession" (#12) 10 to "trace" (#13)
Box 12 2. Typescript with hole. corr., ca. 335 p., variously paginated.
prelim. top. 124 (#1) p. 125-336 (#2)
B. Short Pieces
1. "Bellow's Gift", article, The New University Quarterly, 1975.
a. Holograph notes re. Saul Bellow and "Moses Herzog", 13 p. (#3)
b. Typescript with holo. corr., interleaved with notes entitled "Humboldt's Gift", ca. 25 p.
2. "By the Sea", short story, The Denver Quarterly, 1983.
a. Untitled typescript with holo. corr., ca. 30 p.
b. Typescript with a few bolo. corr., ca 30 p.
3. "State of the Art", unpublished essay, 1981. Carbon typescript with holo. corr., 6 p.
C. Book Reviews
1. Undated book reviews by Seymour Epstein, 2 p. each.
a. THE BACKSLIDER, Crawford. Carbon typescript with bolo. corr. (#4)
b. JESSICA FAYER, L'Heureux.
i. New York Times payment request for review of Jessica Fayer Epstein, Seymour #78 6/1/07 Preliminary Listing
Added to Box 20
I. Manuscripts. A. Novels by SE. 1. CONCEALMENTS, TS, 319 p., unpublished as of 5/14/07. [F. 6-7] 2. CONFESSIONS OF JERRY ATRICK: ESSAY ON THE TRIVIA OF GETTING OLD, TS, 243 p. [F. 8-9] 3. HOSTAGES, TS with holograph notes, 327 p., unpublished as of 5/14/07. [F. 10-11] 4. MOSAICS: A MEMOIR, TS with holograph notes, 250 p., unpublished as of 5/14/07. [F. 12-13] 5. THE PARTING GUEST, TS with holograph notes, 330 p., unpublished as of 5/14/07. [F. 14-15]
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I. Manuscripts. A. Unpublished Novels. Box 21 1. FIELDS OF GRAVITY, TS, 354 p., 2001. [F. 1-3] 2. FRED, TS, 319 p., 2005-2007. [F. 4-6] 3. THE SEARCH, TS, 333 p., 2009-2010. [F. 7-8] 4. A SHALLOW MAN, TS, 358 p., 2007-2010. [F. 9-11] 5. Re: “Bea and Edward,” TS, 330 p., 2002-2004. [F. 12-13] B. Short stories. 1. “Starbucks,” TS, 17 p., 2008. [F. 14] 2. Re: written in last year of SE’s life, TS, 171 p., n.d. C. Fragments. 1. “Fred,” TS, 30 p., 2007-2008. [F. 15] 2. “Friendship,” TS with holograph notes, 9 p. n.d 3. “A Moment in Time,” TS, 9 p., 2002. 4. “The Voice,” TS with holograph notes, 17 p. n.d. 5. “White Mist,” TS, 23 p., 2008-2009. 6. Re: last few years, TS, 6 p, n.d. 7. Re: memoir beginnings, TS, 27 p., 2010-2011. D. Speeches. 1. “The ‘Jewish’ Novel,” TS with holograph notes, 4 p., 3/12/1990. 2. “Speech to JCC’s in Detroit and St. Louis,” TS with holograph notes, 14 p. n.d. 3. “The Writer As Teacher,” TS with holograph notes, 27 p., 4/28/1981. 4. “The Writer As Teacher,” TS, 23 p., 1981. E. Essay, re: aging, 4 p. n.d F. Poem by unknown student, “Toast for Sy,” 1 p. n.d.
II. Professional Materials. A. Itinerary for Jewish Book Festival, 1986.
III. Correspondence. A. “Letters, Ads, Obits,” file, 1959-2010; includes printed material; professional material; notables include: [F. 16] 1. Yates, Richard. B. General, 1986.
IV. Printed Material. A. Files, may include correspondence; manuscripts.
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1. “Reviews of Seymour Epstein’s Novels and Short Stories,” 1959-1967, includes manuscripts. [F. 17] 2. “Reviews Written by Seymour Epstein and Miscellaneous,” 1973-1987. [F. 18] B. Journals. 1. 1954-1969, 5 Journals. [F. 19-20] Box 22 2. 1970-2002, 11 Journals. [F. 1-6] C. Magazines (16), 1958-1968. [F. 7-11] D. Pamphlets (2), 1981-1986. E. Poster, n.d.
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