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Daniel Curzon Papers, 1950s-2014GLC 52
Finding aid prepared by Tim Wilson James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA, 94102 (415) 557-4400 [email protected] 2015
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 1 1950s-2014GLC 52 Title: Daniel Curzon Papers, Date (inclusive): 1950s-2014 Collection Identifier: GLC 52 Creator: Curzon, Daniel Physical Description: 87.0 boxes + oversized material in flat files Contributing Institution: James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA, 94102 (415) 557-4400 [email protected] Abstract: Daniel Curzon (pseudonym of Daniel Brown) is a novelist, playwright and educator. His novels include Something You Do in the Dark, From Violent Men, and The World Can Break Your Heart. The Curzon Papers contain draft manuscripts for books, plays, songs, and articles by Curzon; personal and professional correspondence; mailing lists and clippings related to the management of IGNA (International Gay News Agency); clippings and reviews regarding Curzon's work; audiovisual materials; correspondence and legal materials related to a case against City College of San Francisco and the Teacher Review website; and photographs. Physical Location: The collection is stored onsite. Languages represented: Collection materials are in English. Access The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance. Publication Rights Copyright and literary rights for Curzon's published and unpublished works are retained by Daniel Curzon. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Daniel Curzon Papers (GLC 52), Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library. Provenance Papers donated by Daniel Curzon, 1996, 2004-2005, 2014. Future additions expected. Biographical note Daniel Curzon is a novelist, playwright and educator. He was born Daniel Russell Brown. He received his Ph.B. from University of Detroit in 1960, his M.A. from Kent State University in 1961, and his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1969. He has taught at several universities since 1962; his longest tenure has been with City College of San Francisco as an instructor in English since 1980. His plays have been produced by Theater Rhinoceros, New Conservatory Theater, New City Theater, Above Board Theater, the Fringe Festival in San Francisco and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Curzon's notable novels include: Something You Do in the Dark (1971), The Misadventures of Tim McPick (1975), From Violent Men (1983), The World Can Break Your Heart (1984), Curzon in Love (1988), and Not Necessarily Nice: Stories (2000). His plays include: Sex Show: Comedy Madness (1977), Last Call (1981), Cinderella II: Happily Ever After (musical, 1984), No Mince Pies (musical, 1986), The Hit (1997), and Godot Arrives (1999). The information for this biographical sketch was drawn from Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Scope and Contents The collection contains draft manuscripts for articles and books by Daniel Curzon (pseudonym of Daniel R. Brown), personal and professional correspondence, mailing lists and clippings related to the management of IGNA (International Gay News Agency), drafts and final manuscripts of Brown's academic work, class notes and material for courses taught by Brown, audiovisual materials, photographs, and realia. There is some correspondence with authors and academics such as Joyce Carol Oates, Louie Crew, William N. Harlowe, Isabel Gilbert, Morris Kight, and John Gilgun, among others. A few boxes contain songs written by Curzon and materials related to his work with Dan Turner. In addition, there is material related to Curzon's legal case against City College of San Francisco and the Teacher Review website. The collection also includes some 1970s issues of gay newspapers and magazines. Arrangement The collection has not been processed. Box inventories reflect the original order as received from the donor. Most cartons contain a mixture of materials. Subjects and Indexing Terms
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 2 1950s-2014GLC 52 Curzon, Daniel--Archives International Gay News Agency. Gay authors--United States--Archives. Gay college teachers--United States--Archives. Gay dramatists--United States--Archives. Gay novelists--United States--Archives.
1996 Accession
Physical Description: 24.0 cubic feet
Box 1 Manuscripts by Curzon Scope and Contents Drafts and final versions of manuscripts written by Curzon/Brown. Folders are in no particular order and many include fragments of larger works. Also includes a few calendars in box 10.
Box 1 "Not Sold in Stores, or Skullduggery" (4 folders) Box 1 "Danny Boy (Danish Radio [script], 1992" Box 1 "People Do Things to Each Other." Also titled "What are Lovers For?" (2 copies in 5 folders) Box 1 "The Y" (2 copies in 4 folders) Box 1 "The Misadventures of Tim McPick" (3 copies in 6 folders) Box 1 "An Education Among the Carnivores" (2 folders) Box 1 "Something You Do in the Dark" [book jacket] Box 2 "The Y (Revised draft)" (2 folders) Box 2 "Interview with Daniel Curzon" [IGNA] Box 2 "Theatre Wonderful" Box 2 "Things" and "Things That Need to be Said" [columns] Box 2 "The Celebrity and the Fan" Box 2 "One Career in Literature: Touching and Amusing Anecdotes about the Novels of Daniel Curzon" Box 2 "Skin Tight" [screenplay] Box 2 "Queer Comedy, or The Misadventures of Tim McPick" (early draft). (2 folders) Box 2 "Sperm in Wrong Places (or A Crooked Eye)" (3 folders) Box 2 "The Artist" Box 2 [Unknown ms. located between "The Artist" and Part III "Every Boy Should Have a Hero"] Box 2 "Part III Every Boy Should Have a Hero" Box 2 "Future Meetings with My Unknown Son" [play] Box 2 [Notes on a play, possibly "Future Meetings with My Unknown Son"] Box 2 "The Future Will Take Care of Itself" [title page] Box 2 "Man and Wife" (alias Daniel Kaufman) Box 2 "Epiphany" Box 2 "Shakespeare Lives! (or the State of the Art)" [uncorrected rough draft] (3 folders) Box 2 "Gay additions to Shakespeare Lives! (later dropped)" Box 2 [Review of Fielding Gray by Simon Raven] Box 2 "The Importance of Being Honest" Box 2 "Taboo. In Which All is Explained; the Epilogue"
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Box 2 "The Ulcer" Box 2 "Claudette and the Three Bullies" or "The Tasteful Transvestite and the Three Bullies" Box 2 "Gee, May I Have Your Autograph" Box 2 "Something You Do in the Dark" (4 folders; folder 3 contains G. P. Putnam correspondence re: revisions) Box 2 "Don't Rub Me the Wrong Way" (3 copies in 3 folders) Box 2 "Read Any Bad Books Lately?" Box 2 "Beauty Is Its Own Excuse for Being" Box 2 "Let's Make Babies, Darling" Box 2 "Whither the Houseboy?" Box 2 "The Missing Houseboy" Box 2 "The Tasteful Transvestite Goes to the Vatican" Box 2 [Review of Paul Monette's The Long Shot] Box 2 [Review of three one-act plays performed by One Act Theatre Company] Box 3 [From Violent Men. "SF." Draft storyline] Box 3 "Barbarians" [A.k.a. From Violent Men] (8 folders) Box 3 "From Violent Men" velo-bound mss. Box 3 "From Violent Men" drafts, 1992-1994 (3 folders) Box 3 "The Man Who Said What He Thought" [fragment] Box 3 "Comeback" by Curzon and Dan Turner Box 3 [Review of Hector Arce's The Secret Life of Tyrone Power] Box 3 [Poetry]. "I am a Man," "Go Do It," "You Gotta," "A Guy I Know," some notes on "Comeback" (George and Rosalind play) Box 3 "Comeback" [fragment] Box 3 "Heritage" Box 3 "An Interview with Playwright Caryl Churchill" Box 3 [Review of "The Club"] Box 3 [Review of Joyce Carol Oates' Unholy Loves]. Also contains notes on From Violent Men Box 3 [Review of S. Steinberg's A Fairy Tale] Box 3 "Mini-Book Reviews" Box 3 "What It's Like to Live in San Francisco: Nostalgia for the Present" Box 3 [Review of "American Quartet"] Box 3 "Free and Easy" Box 3 [Review of "A Prayer for My Daughter"] Box 3 "David Hockney" Box 3 "Ron Dwyer" [notes] Box 3 "Cruising" and letter William Friedkin Box 3 "A Ramble with Alice through Real-Land: the State of Literary Politics" Box 3 [Review of "I Love My Wife" starring the Smothers Brothers] Box 3 "The $oft $ell" [The Soft Sell] Box 3 [Review of Arthur Laurents' The Enclave at Theatre Rhinoceros] Box 3 "Tina (a monologue)" Box 3 "The Hobbit Script" [notes] Box 3 "Sex and Violence" Box 3 "Claudette Goes to Iran" Box 3 "Welcome to the Music of Curzon and Turner" Box 3 "Craft" re: Oliver Cromwell Box 3 "No Mince Pies" [Storyline of musical by Curzon and Dan Turner. Cp. The Rule of the Saints, or the Believers] Box 3 "Theatre Roundup" [column] Box 3 "The Reverend Rat" Box 3 [Review of Peter Ackroyd's Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag] Box 3 "Who's Afraid of Beauty?" or "Ernie and Margaret vs. The World" Box 3 "That Old College Try" [Review of Robert Graham's Sins of the Father at Theatre Rhinoceros]
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Box 3 "With and Without Love" or "The Birthday Girl" or "Of Love and Drugs" or "A Family Album" Box 3 [Notepad. Contains notes on From Violent Men] Box 3 "A Gay Fabliau" Box 3 "Preface" [to a collection of Curzon's stories and plays] Box 3 "Henry IV, Part III" rough draft Box 3 "Ernie's" or "The Baron Dances" Box 3 [Misadventures of] "Tim McPick" [corrections] 1979 Box 3 "Filmstrip Treatment: Learning and Memory" 1979 Box 3 "Filmstrip Treatment: Slanted Writing" 1979 Box 3 "Success" [song by Curzon and Dan Turner, 1978] Box 3 "Sharing" Box 3 "Comments on Last Call by the author" [Review of One-Act Theatre Co. II's production] Box 4 "The Rule of the Saints" or "Believers" by Curzon and Dan Turner (musical re: Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans) Box 4 "Parasites in Paradise: Life in Gay San Francisco" Box 4 "Why I Am and Ex-Catholic" Box 4 "Last Call" Box 4 "The Gems of Jerry Falwell" [book review] Box 4 [Notes on S.F. Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk, Harry Britt, plastique--probably for From Violent Men] Box 4 "The Joyful Blue Book of Gracious Gay Etiquette" Box 4 "Partial Vision" (Margaret and Ernie) Box 4 "The Honeymoon is Over" [poem] Box 4 "Boys" [Don't Jump Rope?] corrections Box 4 "My Favorite Place in San Francisco" Box 4 [Review of the Great American Rascal] Box 4 [Review of The Dan White Incident by Steve Dobbins] Box 4 "The Murder of Gonzago, a Comedy" or "Playwrights" Box 4 "Why I Wrote From Violent Men" Box 4 " The Lord May Barf by Gordon Meretricious" Box 4 "Felicity Peccadillo" Box 4 " A Boy's Own Limp Wrist" by Edmund Wimp Box 4 " Rubyfruit Discomfort by Rita Mae Blunt" Box 4 "A Guest for Dinner" Box 4 "The Morning Show" Box 4 "Carl" Box 4 "Lover" Box 4 "Why We Came to Sodom" or "Slouching Toward Sodom" Box 4 " Tails of the City by Heritage Twinklefluff" Box 4 "Bugs" Box 4 [Review of The Tempest] Box 4 "Bay Area Playwrights Festival 3" Box 4 "The Trial of the Black-Eyes" Box 4 [Review of King Lear] Box 4 "Ernie and Margaret vs. The World" [notes] Box 4 [From Violent Men. Notes] Box 4 [Reviews of Winterplay and Much Ado About Nothing] Box 4 [Reviews] Box 4 "Preface" [to From Violent Men] Box 4 "Beer and Rhubarb Pie" [fragment] Box 4 [Fragment of Stewart and Grey story] Box 4 "The Chancellor..." [probably part of the recognizing evil when we see it ms.] Box 4 "We Don't Need You" or "Flying Penis," 1994 Box 4 "Nerd" or "Dazzling Sunbeam," 1994 Box 4 "Champs" or "It's Only a Game," 1993 Box 4 "Victim of B.J. (Blowjob)," 1993
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Box 4 "Flossie, Harelip, and Other Non-Bunnies" or "Remedial Creative Writing" or "The Flosser, the Psycho, and the Harelip with an Attitude," 1993 Box 4 "Sabbatical Report: Second Half of Split (Spring 1993)," 1993 Box 4 "The Facts of Life," 1995 Box 4 [From They to He], 1993 Box 4 [Notes: review of Outing Goethe] Box 4 "The Audience," 1996 Box 4 "The Way We Really Live," 1996 Box 4 "Body and Soul," 1995 Box 4 "Anything that Won't Say No," 1994 Box 4 "Five Planets in Your House of Fame" or "The End of the Millennium," 1995 Box 4 "A Little History #1," 1996 Box 4 "Lost Opportunities," 1994 Box 4 "Role Model," 1994 Box 4 "The End of the Story," 1994 Box 4 "Because I Can't Explain," 1994 Box 4 "Apology," 1994 Box 4 "O.J. Agonistes," 1994 Box 4 "Nostalgia and Discontent," 1995 Box 4 "Really Bad Idea #...," 1996 Box 4 "His Aching Man Member," 1996 Box 4 "ISMS" or "The Problem with Lynn," 1994 Box 4 "Only the Good Parts," (one character name Ivy) Box 4 "Kiss My Black Ass" or "The Optimist" Box 4 "Vegetable Rights," 1994 Box 4 "A Penny for Your Thoughts," 1994 Box 4 "The Housewife and the Homosexual (Twenty-five years later)" Box 4 "The Hit," 1994 Box 4 [Notes on "The Haves and Have-Nots"] Box 4 "Donor Daddy" Box 4 "Shakespeare Lives!" or "Shakespeare Spotted Alive in New York Theatre District" (2 folders), 1989 Box 4 [The World Can Break Your Heart]. [fragment] Box 4 "The World Can Break Your Heart" or "Boys Don't Jump Rope" (folders 1-3), 1984 Box 5 "The World Can Break Your Heart" (folders 4-7), 1984 Box 5 "Boys Don't Jump Rope" velo-bound ms. (Re-titled "The World Can Break Your Heart") Box 5 "Boys Don't Jump Rope" (7 folders) Box 5 "Human Warmth and Other Stories" Box 5 "Among the Carnivores" (2 folders) Box 5 "Among the Carnivores" [fragment] Box 5 "Something You Do In the Dark" (2 copies: 1 camera-ready) (4 folders) Box 6 "Only the Good Parts (plus some agents' letters)" Box 6 "Draft Only the Good Parts (novel)" Box 6 "Superfag" (2 folders) Box 6 "Possible typeset novel Superfag" Box 6 "Possible Part II" [Superfag] Box 6 "Not Sold in Stores (or Die Trying)" (7 folders; folders 3, 5-7 removed to "mold box") Box 6 "Dropping Names: memoirs [of] Daniel Curzon" (5 folders) Box 7 "The World Can Break Your Heart" velo-bound ms. Box 7 "Boys Don't Jump Rope" velo-bound ms. (Blue cover) [marked on page 1 "Use NC newer version"] Box 7 "Boys Don't Jump Rope" velo-bound ms. (no cover) [marked "Early version of The World Can Break Your Heart"] Box 7 "Boys Don't Jump Rope" velo-bound ms. (black cover) Box 7 "Dropping Names" (2 folders) Box 7 "Curzon in Love" (4 folders)
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Box 7 "Superfag" [notes] (2 folders) Box 7 "Gaymes" flyer and program. (Lists one-act play "Your Town" by Curzon) Box 7 "Among the Carnivores" (5 folders) General note Includes: corrections (folder 3) and typescript (folders 4-5).
Box 8 "Shakespeare Lives!" (2 folders) Box 8 "Immortality" Box 8 "Skin Tight" (rough draft) Box 8 "Future Meetings with My Son" [fragment] Box 8 "Immortality" Box 8 "The Gripes of Wrath" Box 8 "The Reverend Rat" or "Who, What, Where, When and Why" Box 8 "When Bertha Was a Pretty Name, a Comedy" Box 8 "Cinderella II" (4 folders. Folder 3 also titled "Just a Pretty Face," Folder 4 rough draft) Box 8 [Several 1 pages mss. Re: homosexuality in Rome, Greece, and in The Bible] Box 8 "Sweet Fifteen: an Erotic Comedy in Four Scenes" by Rod Comesallot (B.H. Apkinson?) Box 8 Miscellaneous Box 8 [Notes for piece on acting?] Box 8 "Endangered Species" Box 8 "Interview with Jon Sugar" Box 8 "'How to Read the Critic' by B.F. Martin" Box 8 "Shakespeare Lives!" [notes] Box 8 "Things That Need to Be Said" [columns] Box 8 [Reviews] Box 8 "Interview with Daniel Curzon by Bruce Billings" Box 8 "Felicity's Whore" or "How He Got Where He Is: the Life of Dennis Stupor" Box 8 "Virility" Box 8 "Among the Carnivores" (6 folders) Box 8 "Heritage" Box 8 "Comeback" and songs by Curzon and Dan Turner Box 8 "Rich and Famous" or "One Woman" or "Comeback" Box 9 "The Y (final version best copy)" (2 folders), 1975 Box 9 "Homosexuality and the Creative Impulse" Box 9 [Reviews] Box 9 "Mr. Right (or Gods Like Men)" Box 9 "Religious Types I Have Known" Box 9 "Don't Rub Me the Wrong Way" Box 9 "Partial Vision" Box 9 "Your Town" [fragment] Box 9 "'The Ugly Girl' by Janet Taylor" Box 9 "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" Box 9 "Fiance" [fragment] Box 9 "Bobbie" Box 9 "'With Liberty and Justice For All' : Homosexuals Should Stay in the Army" Box 9 "Want to Rut Yourself Raw in Asia" Box 9 "How Will We Recognize Evil When We See It...And What Will We Do About It If We Do" Box 9 "Old Soldiers Never Die" Box 9 "A Gay Fabliau" Box 9 "Two Bartenders, a Butcher, and Me" Box 9 "Something You Do In The Dark" foreword Box 9 "Look! See the One-Armed Man" Box 9 "Jaguar Stories" [notes] Box 9 "Son of Sex Show" [notes] Box 9 "Legend"
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Box 9 "The Future Will Take Care of Itself" by D. Brown Box 9 "The Persistence of Memory" by D. Brown Box 9 "The Old Man and the Dragon" by D. Brown Box 9 "Brutes" by D. Brown Box 9 "Sex Made Simple: For Classroom Use" Box 9 "Giving, Getting" by D. Brown Box 9 "Human Warmth" Box 9 "In a Five and Ten Cent Store" Box 9 "The Ways Men Shall Touch" Box 9 "Body and Soul" Box 9 "VD (a skit)" Box 9 "Beneath the Surface" Box 9 "The Happiest Time in My Life" by D. Brown Box 9 "In the Heat of the Day" by Craig Lauxes [a.k.a. D. Curzon?] Box 9 "Many Times Before Their Deaths" by D. Brown Box 9 "Pages of a Diary" by D. Brown Box 9 "The Girl in the White Raincoat" Box 9 "Reviewers as Bullies" Box 9 "A Modern Love Story" by D. Brown Box 9 "Love Is Not Enough" Box 9 "You've Got Me" [poem] Box 9 "The Y" [fragment] Box 9 "Something You Do in the Dark" [fragment] Box 9 "A Christmas Miracle at the B.O.O.M." Box 9 "The Tigers or the Lady" or "Best Girl" Box 9 "The Pipsqueak II" Box 9 "In Memory of J. Edgar Hoover" Box 9 "Why I Killed Joyce Carol Oates: a memoir" Box 9 "The Vegetable Lover" Box 9 "If It Smells, This Must Be Bangkok" Box 9 "Gay Trash" Box 9 "Interview" with D. Curzon Box 9 "Man and Wife" Box 9 "The Horror" Box 9 "Vita Brevis, Ars Longa" by Craig Lauxes [a.k.a. D. Curzon], 1964 Box 9 "Music Hath Charms" by D. Brown Box 9 "The Balance of Nature" by D. Brown Box 9 "Deliver Us From Evil" Box 9 "The Man Who Said What He Thought" Box 9 "The Biggest Post-Hoc Fallacy of All Time," and "The Beloved" [notes] Box 9 "The Hideous Beast" Box 9 "Victor" Box 9 "Mating" Box 9 "The Essential Fag" Box 9 "The Sissy and the Pilot" Box 9 "Wooing" or "Duel" Box 9 "The Y" [fragment] Box 9 "Problems of Writing Gay Literature" Box 9 "Lewd and Lascivious Conduct" Box 9 "The Housewife and the Homosexual" Box 9 "Family Pornography" Box 9 "Politics: a skit" Box 9 "S and M" Box 9 "How Do You Think You'd Feel If You Were Queer" Box 9 "Sex Education" Box 9 "A Matter of the Heart" Box 9 "Misadventures of Tim McPick" [movie treatment] Box 9 "Holding the Mirror Up to Life"
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Box 9 [Story with Harold, Edith, Joyce, Fred. Fragment] Box 9 "Corrections" [Novel with Roger, possibly Fiance?] Box 9 "A Crooked Eye" (3 folders) Box 10 "The Gay Engagement Calendar" (2 copies) contains photo. of Curzon Box 10 Calendar September 1984-September 1985 [annotated] Box 10 Calendar 1982 [annotated] Box 10 Calendar 1980 [annotated] Box 10 University of Maryland. University College. Far East Division. 20th Anniversary commemorative volume Box 10 "Superfag" [notes] Box 10 "A Literary Double Standard" Box 10 "The Business, the Soldier, and the Pimp" Box 10 [Printed interviews and articles. Clippings] Box 10 "The Artist" Box 10 "How To Read the Critics" Box 10 "Kingsfield in Love" ["Paper Chase" story] Box 10 "Love Is Not What They Say It Is" [becomes "Curzon In Love"] Box 10 "Try Atheism" Box 10 "Politics (a bicentennial skit)" Box 10 "On Being a Gay Teacher" Box 10 "What Can We Learn From Gay Writing: an Interview with Daniel Curzon" Box 10 "The $oft $ell" [The Soft Sell] Box 10 "The 1978 Achievement Awards" Box 10 "The Beautiful Bag Man" Box 10 "Do We Need a Wholesome Gay Literature?" Box 10 "God," 1993 Box 10 [Poem], 1993 Box 10 "In 1692" or "My Client," 1993 Box 10 "The Last War" Box 10 "Discontents" Box 10 "I Was Shocked, Appalled..." Box 10 "Sour Grapes," 1993 Box 10 "God Called. Elmer Answered" Box 10 "The New Zoo Story," 1993 Box 10 "Listen, Christians..." [notes], 1993 Box 10 "Portrait of a Philistine Examining David Hockney" Box 10 "The Y" [fragment] Box 10 "Something You Do in the Dark" [fragment] Box 10 "With Liberty and Justice for All" [fragment] Box 10 [Reviews] Box 10 [Fragments of several stories and plays] Box 10 [Songs] Box 10 "The Proper Mate Choosing" Box 10 "The Little Blue Book of Gay Etiquette" Box 10 "Once Upon a Time There Was a Gay Writer who Committed Suicide..." Box 10 "Beer and Rhubarb Pie and Teacups" "Art We Can Be Proud Of" "Rich and Famous" [or "Comeback"] Box 10 "Art We Can Be Proud Of" Box 10 "Rich and Famous" [or "Comeback"] Box 10 "Beneath the Surface" Box 10 "Holy Communion" Box 10 "Shivers" Box 10 "From Violent Men" [fragment] Box 10 "Something You Do in the Dark" [fragment] Box 10 [On Tattooing] Box 10 "Hand in Hand" Box 10 [Play fragment. Characters: Sam, Herman, Gene, Katerina, Priscilla] Box 10 "Sour Grapes" (3 drafts)
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Box 11 Academic Work by Brown
Box 11 "Swift's Excremental Repetition" Box 11 Correspondence--Louie [Crew] re: military education assignments Box 11 Correspondence--University of Maryland. Department of the Army Box 11 "Visions of the Grotesque in Crane and Norris" Box 11 [Papers for Kent State and Wayne State] 1960-1961 Box 11 "Nathanael West : the War Within" (first draft) 1969 Box 11 Academic Papers (2 folders) Box 11 "The Appeal of Mendeville's Travels" Box 11 "Nathanael West: the War Within: Naturalism and Existentialism Defined" Box 11 [Exams taken by Daniel Brown] Box 11 12 notebooks of various sizes Box 11 "Rejection slips" Box 11 [Academic Papers] Box 11 Notebook Box 11 Black folder with academic papers Box 11 Manila folder with notebook Box 11 Blue folder with "The Future will Take Care of Itself" Box 11 "Shorthand" notebook Box 11 [4 journal articles by or about Joyce Carol Oates] Box 11 "Student Power--How Much is Enough?" Box 11 Academic Papers Box 11 4 notebooks Box 11 Letter from Barb Lanctot and A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas Box 11 4 pamphlets with articles by Joyce Carol Oates Box 11 Wayne State University Commencement program, 1969 Box 12 Notebooks Box 12 English 57 Lecture notes Box 12 Student examinations Box 12 Course dittos
Box 13
"Among the Carnivores" [flyer]
Box 13
Correspondence
Box 13
"Sex Show" [review]
Box 13
[Audition poster for "Last Call"]
Box 13
"Curzon ISBN information"
Box 13
"Curzon flyer"
Box 13
Two drawings of Daniel Curzon by Don Bachardy, 1975
Box 13
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Bill--Photocopy of "Among the Carnivores"
Box 13
Wanda Pettway
Box 13
[Printed items re: publishing, COSMEP]
Box 13
"Career" and "Plans" [biographical]
Box 13
Photocopy of Edward Carpenter
Box 13
Gay Academic Union
Box 13
Correspondence, etc.
Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 13
1968 International Guild Guide, 1968
Box 13
Notes/Personal
Box 13
Miscellaneous Impersonal
Box 13
Miscellaneous Personal (?)
Box 13
Correspondence, 1969
Box 13
Correspondence, 1970-1971
Box 13
Book Printing
Box 13
Briggs Initiative
Box 13
Curzon Interviews
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Box 13
Vita Brevis, Ars Longa manuscript
Box 13
Periodicals: Rodale's Quinto Lingo
Box 13
Periodicals
Box 13
Passport
Box 13
Raphael's Astronomical Ephemeris of the Planets' Places for 1938
Box 13
Correspondence, photos., etc.
Box 14
Legal sized documents
Box 14
[Story for play with characters: Curzon, Jean-Michel, Jen, and Mere]
Box 14
[Review of "An Open Window : Conversations with Gore Vidal" by Lyle Stuart]
Box 14
"English 58 final exam"
Box 14
Brown / Academics [dittos, etc.]
Box 14
[Revisions and drafts of several manuscripts]
Box 14
"Notes for a new play. Titles: The Last Wasp, Prometheus Stuck, The Part-Timer"
Box 14
Screenplay [The Missing Houseboy or Whither the Houseboy?]
Box 14
"How Do You Think You'd Feel If You Were A Queer?" (2 versions)
Box 14
Book Ads/reviews
Box 14
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Notes
Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 14
"The Fatwa" [notes]
Box 14
"Something You Do In The Dark" [screenplay]
Box 14
"Shakespeare Lives!" [notes on plot]
Box 14
Song: "One Woman" for "Comeback" by Curzon and Turner
Box 14
"A Crooked Eye"
Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Box 14
[Printed article]
Box 14
[Notes]
Box 14
"Small Victories," 1993
Box 14
"Sour Grapes" [notes], [1993]
Box 14
[Curzon interview]
Box 14
Gay Literature class flyers
Box 14
Drawings by Daniel Brown (some subjects are taken from the sketch books following), 1970s
Box 14
5 books on sketching and drawing
Box 15
Correspondence (unsorted, folded in envelopes)
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Boxes 16-17 Publicity and reviews of Curzon's work. Reviews and articles by Curzon (Some appear in erotic magazines)
Box 18 IGNA, books and articles by Curzon, plastic face masks used in a play by Curzon, IGNA card file
IGNA
Box 19 IGNA files and releases. Newspapers, 1982-1983 Box 20 IGNA Newspapers (includes several issues of erotic magazines), 1980-1981 Box 21 IGNA correspondence and releases. Newspapers, 1980s Box 22 IGNA Newspapers, 1981-1984 Box 23 IGNA Newspapers, 1981-1982 Box 24 IGNA Newspapers, 1982-1983
Box 25
Writing / Manuscripts [folders set aside due to possible mold contamination]
Box 25
Wasps (6 drafts), 1993
Box 25
The Hamster, the Parrot, The Pig, The Snake, and the AIDS Widow (8 drafts), 1993
Box 25
Bad Puppet, or, Do Not Open This Box Whatever You Do (4 drafts), 1993
Box 25
His Aching Man Member (7 drafts), 1993
Box 25
The Writers and Artists Year Book (London: Adam & Charles Black), 1971
Box 25
An Actor Prepares (3 drafts), 1993
Box 25
A Murder Story (3 drafts), 1993
Box 25
Masturbator, or, The Stand Off (3 drafts), 1993
Box 25
A Bridge, or, Our Bridge, or, The Last War, (2 drafts), 1993
Box 25
Save Pet, or, Choice, or Ain't (3 drafts), 1992
Box 25
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Sammy, or Goofy (9 drafts), 1992
Box 25
Scratched (6 drafts), 1992
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Diversity (3 drafts), 1992
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Turd, or, The Punch Bowl, or, Punch (4 drafts), 1992
Box 25
Liberals (6 drafts, 1992
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Chickens (6 drafts), 1992
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Blackdog (5 drafts), 1992
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Whipped, or, Pussy Whipped (6 drafts), 1992
Not Sold in Stores "final polish, final draft," April 1992
Physical Description: 4.0 folders
Box 25
[Notes on a Shakespearean scene with King Henry, Flastaff, et al.]
Box 25
Etiquette [fragment]
Box 25
"Not Sold in Stores (or Die Trying)" (folders 3, 5-7)
Box 25
Boys Don't Jump Rope (374 p.)
Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 25
Boys Don't Jump Rope (velobound manuscript, 374 p.), undated
Oversize-box 26
Oversized Materials
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Related materials
See also GLC Flat files in M43.
Oversize-box 26
California Voice, June 3, 1983
General note
Cover story. Interview with Curzon. Cover shows John & Dan holding From Violent Men (moved from Box 70)
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Photos of two portraits of Daniel Curzon drawn by Don Bachardy [matted], February8 and March 2, 1975
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Earnest Players present Beneath The Surface. Midnight Thater by Daniel Curzon, poster by Jim Mabry (2 posters)
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Cover art "The Misadventures of Tim McPick," mock-ups for publications, 1975, 1980, undated
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Poster of gargoyle? holding shield with lambda emblazoned on it. Artist Musgrave, 1977
Oversize-box 26
Scrapbook pages with reviews, issues of newspapers with reviews and interviews, 1978-1987
2004-2005 Accession
Physical Description: 30.0 cubic feet
Box 27 [Novels, plays, writing]
Box 27 Cartoons by Daniel Curzon, Joe Kirby, Zad Johnson, et al., undated Box 27 Dropping Names-memoirs, undated Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 27 The Joyful Blue Book of Gracious Gay Etiquette-finished revision, January 2005 Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 27 Only the Good Parts, undated Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Box 27 Only the Good Parts-final version, April/May 1998 Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Box 27 Only the Good Parts-George Ziegler, undated Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 16 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Novels, plays, writing]
Box 27 Only the Good Parts, undated Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Box 27 Superfag-Printer's layout copy, November 5, 1995 Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 28
[Playscripts, novels, writing, correspondence]
Box 28
"Beastly Fables"
Box 28
"A Christmas Miracle at The Open Mess" (5 copies and an early draft)
Box 28
Copies of short stories and one-act plays published in different periodicals and magazines
Box 28
Correspondence, 1989-1999, undated
Box 28
"A History of Really, Really Bad Ideas"
Box 28
"If Shakespeare Came Back Today" (5 copies and 2 incomplete)
Box 28
"Last Call" (3 copies)
Box 28
"Margaret and Ernie vs. The World" (3 copies)
Box 28
"The Murder of Gonzago, A Comedy"
Box 28
"Not Sold In Stores, Or Skullduggery"-Edited
Physical Description: 4.0 folders
Box 28
Notes-Drafts
Box 28
One-Act Plays #1 (includes: "1000 Nights," "AIDS Sketch (from The AIDS Show)," "A Little History #1: How Gays Destroyed The Family," "An Actor Prepares (A One-Act Play)," "Air Rage," "Beer and Rhubarb Pie" (incomplete parts), "Boo!" "Carl," "Celebrities in Hell," "Don't Open This Box Whatever Your Do," "God Called, Elmer Answered" (2 copies), "Guest for Dinner," "Hand in Hand," "In A Five-and-Ten-Cent Store" (2 copies)
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 17 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Novels, plays, writing]
Box 28
One-Act Plays #2 (includes: "Life," "Love," "O.J. Agonistes," "The Billy Goat," "The Importance of Being P.C.," "The Robin Chatterton Chat Show," "Trust (A Monologue)," "S & M" (2 copies), "Schemers," "Script for video of An Irish Blessing," "Victim of B.J." (2 copies), "Void (Where Prohibited)," "War" (2 copies), "Your Town"
Box 28
"Pixies in Peril (A Parody of The Hobbit)" (original copy)
Box 28
"Sex Show"
Box 28
"Shakespeare Spotted in New York Theater District"
Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 28
Short Stories (includes "A Gay Fabliau," "A Murder Story" (4 copies), "Sexual Variety As a Way of Life," "Shakespeare Rap," "The Angels of Light," "The Ghoul," "The Girl in The White Raincoat," "The Horror" (2 copies), "The Trial of The Black-Eyes," "The Ugly Girl" (2 copies), "The Weird Animal Business" (2 copies)
Box 28
"So Middle Class"
Box 28
"Something You Do In The Dark" screenplay
Box 28
"Sour Grapes" #1 (2 copies)
Box 28
"Sour Grapes" #2 (2 copies)
Box 28
"The Tasteful Transvestite and Three Bullies" (7 copies)
Box 28
"The Weird Animal Business (A One-Act Play)" (11 copies)
Box 29 [Writings]
Box 29 "Plays by Daniel Curzon Available for Production" (List); "Daniel Curzon / Daniel R. Brown. Bibliography" (List. 2 copies); Copy of cover and back cover of "Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume II (1982-1983)" Box 29 Short plays: Producing with Poppy; Body and Soul; Trust; A Christmas Miracle at the B.O.O.M.; The Fly and The Bullfrog; The Golden Retriever and The Spotted Hyena Box 29 "Act II" (part of a play) Box 29 "Animal Farm" (2 copies) Box 29 "Avatars: In Which All Is Explained (First Version)," 1987 Box 29 Early Play "The Awakening"
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 18 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Writings]
Box 29 Beer and Rhubarb Pie, A One-Act Play Box 29 "Beer and Rhubarb Pie" (copies #1 and 2) Box 29 "Beer and Rhubarb Pie" (copies #3 and 4), 1998, undated Box 29 "Beneath The Surface (1978 version)," 1978 Box 29 "Beneath the Surface" Box 29 "The Birthday Girl" (2 copies), undated Box 29 Celebrities in Hell Box 29 "Cinderella II (Happily Ever After)" Box 29 "Comeback, A Musical Drama" Box 29 "Demons" Box 29 "Don't Rub Me The Wrong Way (a play in two acts)," undated Box 29 Everything You Need to Know About Finding a Mate Box 29 "Godot Arrives" Box 29 "Half to Death" Box 29 "Half to Death (A Thriller)" Box 29 "Half to Death (A Comedy Thriller)" [includes letter to Charles, June 17, 1991], 1991, undated Box 29 Hand in Hand Box 29 The Hit Box 29 "How to Murder Some of Your Very Best Friends" (2 copies) Box 29 "How to Murder Some of Your Very Best Friends" Box 29 If Shakespeare Came Back Tomorrow, If Shakespeare Were Alive Today Box 29 Immortality Box 29 The Importance of Being Honest Box 29 "The Importance of Being P.C.," undated Box 29 In A Five-And-Ten-Cent Store Box 29 Last Call and Sequel to Last Call Box 29 Life Box 29 "Margaret and Ernie vs. The World (3-Act Play)" Box 29 "The Murder of Gonzago. A Comedy. (4 characters)" Box 29 "The Murder of Gonzago. A Comedy (3-act play)" Box 29 "My Unknown Son or The Interrupted Hug" Box 29 "Not Sold in Stores or Skullduggery" #1 Box 29 "Not Sold in Stores or Skullduggery" #2 Box 29 A Penny for Your Thoughts Box 29 "Pixies in Peril" #1, undated Box 29 "Pixies in Peril" #2, undated Box 29 Really Bad Ideas Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 29 S and M Box 29 Simpson Agonistes Box 29 "So Middle Class, or The New Zoo Story" (2 copies), after 1998 Box 29 Sour Grapes Box 29 "Stuck," after 2003 Box 29 The Tasteful Transvestite and the Three Bullies Box 29 "The Third Part of Henry The Fourth [Discovered and Annotated by Daniel Curzon]"
Box 30 [Writings; correspondence]
Box 30 "The Third Part of Henry The Fourth by William Shakespeare, II [Discovered and Annotated by Daniel Curzon]" Box 30 "The Third Part of Henry The Fourth by William Shakespeare, II. 5 Acts . England, 15th Century, 20 Characters]" Box 30 "Very Nasty Indeed" (2 copies, second incomplete) Box 30 "Very Tasty Indeed"
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 19 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Writings; correspondence]
Box 30 Your Town Box 30 "Your Town" (3 copies) Box 30 Some Memoirs: Dropping Names and Unfinished Further Travels of Gulliver Box 30 3 gradebooks at City College, San Francisco Box 30 Correspondence to Daniel Curzon, 1993 Box 30 Correspondence, mostly to Daniel Curzon, 1993-1994 Box 30 Correspondence, mostly to Daniel Curzon, 1994-1995 Box 30 Correspondence, mostly to Daniel Curzon, 1995-1996 Physical Description: 4.0 folders
Box 30 Correspondence to and from Daniel Curzon, 1997-1998 Box 30 Correspondence to and from Daniel Curzon, 1998 Box 30 Correspondence, mostly to Daniel Curzon, 1999-2000 Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 31 [Play scripts, some published stories, poems] Unorganized
Box 32 [Plays, writing]
Box 32 Plays by Daniel Curzon Available for Production, undated Box 32 Correspondence and reader reports, 1988, 1990, 1998 Box 32 Dialogus Play Service & Publishing, Inc. Catalog of Plays, [1995?] Box 32 Animal Farm (2 copies), undated Box 32 Avatars: In Which All Is Explained, undated Box 32 Beneath the Surface; First Production cast list and theater information, undated Box 32 Beer and Rhubarb Pie, and Last Call (undated); staged reading announcement (1990), 1990, undated Box 32 Beer and Rhubarb Pie (newspaper clippings from The Alternate), undated Box 32 The Birthday Girl [also titled Please, Not To Us] (4 copies), undated Box 32 The Blasphemer (The Ayatollah's Edict) (2 folders, 1 copy in each), undated Box 32 Bobbie, undated Box 32 A Christmas Miracle at the B.O.O.M. (2 copies), undated Box 32 Cinderella: II (Happily Ever After), undated Box 32 Cinderella II (Happily Ever After) [Act 2 pages are 3-hole punched], undated Box 32 Everything You Need to know About Finding a Mate, undated Box 32 The FATWA (The Ayatollah's Edict) [also The Blasphemer. Includes correspondence with Cynthia White and S.F. Russell, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland], 1992-1993 Box 32 Godot Arrives, undated Box 32 Godot Arrives [gray report cover], undated Box 32 Godot Arrives "winner of National New Play Contest, 1999" Box 32 The Importance of Being Honest (5 copies), undated Box 32 Margaret and Ernie vs. The World [2 copies], undated Box 32 The Murder of Gonzago-A Comedy [2 act version], undated Box 32 The Murder of Gonzago-A Comedy [annotated], undated Box 32 My Unknown Son, or the Interrupted Hug, undated Box 32 My Unknown Son, or the Interrupted Hug [yellow cover], undated Box 32 My Unknown Son [printed from Lodestar Quarterly website], 2003 Box 32 Pixies in Peril-A comedy in two acts, undated Box 32 Please, Not To Us by Keenesha Good [Lesbian version of The Birthday Boy. See also The Birthday Girl], undated Box 32 Reverend What's His Name (photocopies of play printed in West Coast Plays), undated Box 32 S and M, undated
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 20 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Plays, writing]
Box 32 Sex Show skits (2 copies) [Body and Soul; Beastiality; Desert Isle; The Ways Men Shall Touch; The Fiance; Mr. Right; Bobbie; What Did They Do In Gomorrha? Somewhere Over The Rainbow; How Sex Affects the Weather; VD; Family Pornography; Sex Education, undated Box 32 [Simpson Agonistes] [O. J. Simpson play. Spiral bound notebook with notes on trial, news coverage, variant endings to play], 1995 Box 32 [Simpson Agonistes ] O. J. [Simpson] Play, pages 28-95, undated Box 32 Simpson Agonistes [includes letter from The New Conservatory Theatre Center, September 5, 1995], 1995 Box 32 Son of Shaw (8 copies. One copy marked: "Incorporated into Murder of Gonzago, 2 act verson"), undated Box 32 Stuck, undated Box 32 Stuck (2 copies), undated Box 32 The Third Part of Henry the Fourth, undated Box 32 The Third Part of Henry the Fourth (oversized paper, 11 x 17-inches), undated Box 32 Very Tasty Indeed (A Thriller, with Possibly Comic Overtones), undated Box 32 When Bertha Was a Pretty Name, undated Box 32 When Bertha Was a Pretty Name [post-it from Phoebe to Fran], undated Box 32 When Bertha Was a Pretty Name, 1998 Box 32 Your Town, [1977?] Box 32 Your Town (3 copies), undated Box 32 Your Town, with first production information, undated
Boxes 33-35
Published books and articles by Curzon
Box 36
Books and articles inscribed to Curzon
Box 37 [Correspondence and manuscripts/writing]
Box 37 Correspondence about Curzon's case against military over academic freedom. Defense by Society for Individual Rights, 1974 Box 37 Correspondence. Copies of letters and postcards from Christopher Isherwood, 1974, undated Box 37 Correspondence. "Interesting early letters, 1970-1971. 1) from editor at Putnam about Something You Do In The Dark; 2) to a man who reported "gay" activity--he later came out!! 3) to John [who?] refers to Oates," 1970-1971 Box 37 Correspondence. "Letters of recommendation including Oates (later removed from file) from her husband, too--Ray Smith; 2) graduate school transcripts, Wayne State University," 1969 Box 37 The Y. "Edited ms. of The Y (unpublished novel), written in early 1970s" "2nd last draft," early 1970s Box 37 The Y. "Edited ms. of The Y (unpublished novel)," undated Box 37 The Y. "1) marked 2nd last draft of The Y (unpublished novel); 2) notes," 1973 Box 37 The Y (unpublished novel) [typed, in box], undated Box 37 Typed ms. of Tim McPick (novel) corrected, undated Box 37 Gay liberation in England, early 1970s, newspapers, flyers, etc. Gay Liberation Front issues, etc., early 1970s Box 37 Typed manuscript of short story "The Artist" (based on Oates), late 1960s-early 1970s Box 37 Drawings done by Curzon (includes a cartoon or two), London, 1970-1971 Box 37 Chapter from Curzon's doctoral dissertation on Nathanael West, 1969 Box 37 Astrological chart (done by Professor Russell Durning), 1967-1968 Box 37 Writing, photo: 1) article "Swift and the Limitations of Satire"-later published; 2) last page of story [which?] 3) photos of staff University of Maryland, Far East Division, 1969? or 1972, undated
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 21 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Correspondence and manuscripts/writing]
Box 37 Maybe the first published interview of Curzon in Gay Liberator (Detroit) regarding Something You Do In The Dark, undated Box 37 Materials on Something You Do in the Dark: 1) including contract via agent Blanche Gregory; 2) some reviews; 3) New York Times ad; 4) fake headline-first test of pen name (Curzon), 1971-1972 Box 37 Writing: 1) essay on being a writer; 2) essay/travel piece on Japan; 3) travel/on Paris "Gay Paree"; 4) essay "Lust as A Way of Life"; 5) "Letter" from London; 6) Satire of revewers. "Read Any Bad Books Lately?" and "A Reviewer Remembered," 1971-1972 Box 37 Early writings, early 1970s: 1) "Whatever Happened to Queens?" 2) "How Do You Think You'd Feel If You Were a Queen?" 3) "Jobs in Britain"; 4) "Hey There, Sports Fans" (comedy?); 5) "A Matter of the Heart," early 1970s Box 37 Curzon's written notes on 1) The World Can Break Your Heart; 2) Ideas for movies he was in, undated Box 37 Final section of Among the Carnivores typed manuscript, 1976 Box 37 Writing: 1) ms. of short stories "Wee Beasties" published in a Detroit Gay Liberator (early 1970s) "mystery" (mock); 2) edited manuscript of short story "Life" (included in Perverts); 3) short story (rejected) "Vita Brevis, Ars Longa," early 1970s Box 37 Manuscript drafts of screenplay: She Slept with the Writer (finished later), 1997
Box 38 [Correspondence and manuscripts/writing]
Box 38 Letters to Daniel Curzon (Brown): Ralph A. Horn about his music (songs), Christmas cards, handwritten notes on TeacherReview.com, 1997-1998 Box 38 Manuscripts: 1) Play: 1001 Nights at the House of Pancakes; 2) Songs (new and revised), 1996-1997 Box 38 Phone messages/notes, circa late 1980s-early 1990s Box 38 More drafts of Godot Arrives (winner of the National New Play Contest, 1999), August 1997 Box 38 Screenplay drafts: Love Is Just Around the Corner (Later called: This Little Nightmare: Called My Life), May 1997 Box 38 Daniel Curzon and Isabel Gilbert. More drafts of This Little Nightmare: Called My Life, early 1997 Box 38 Songs. New and Revised: "And I'll Get Rid of This Pain", "Your Doggy Bone", "You'll Have to Get Hugged...", etc., 1997 Box 38 Songs (words and music by Curzon): "An Irish Blessing" a great song!! August 1997, "Rock Hard" ("Your Doggy Bone"), "Let's Make Love Again", "The Story of Ida Vanola," 1997 Box 38 Songs. New and Revised: "She's Got the Pretties...", "Words", "Even Little Babies", etc., 1998 Box 38 Manuscript drafts of Godot Arrives (which won the National New Play Contest, 1999), 1997 Box 38 Publications: GPU News (June 1975 (contains review of Gay Literature magazine on p. 17, also May 1976); In Unity Metropolitan Community Church (1975); Gay Academic Union (1974); 4) Fag Rag (1976); 5) Gay Sunshine (Spring 1976); Campaign (British, May 1976, mentions Gay Literature, p. 24) 1974-1976
Box 39 [Early gay publications; manuscripts/writing]
Box 39 Early gay publications: Gay Sunshine, 1973-1976; GPU News, April 1976 contains story by Richard Hall; Annotated articles by Curzon; some class assignments for Gay Literature at Fresno State (1975), 1973-1976 Box 39 Various gay publications: 1) "Ask No Man Pardon" Elsa Gidlow; 2) "Dream of the Traveler" Richard McCann; 3) The Gay Question : A Marxist Appraisal by Bob McCubbin; 4) Gayellow Pages (Winter 1973); 5) Manroot 10 (poems, 1975), circa 1973-1976
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 22 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Early gay publications; manuscripts/writing]
Box 39 Early gay magazines: GPU News, RFD, Vector, College English, Fag Rag (I'm not in this, I think)," 1974-1976 Box 39 Gay publications: 1) Margins (Lesbian issue) 1975; 2) The Advocate (1976); 3) RFD 1975; 4) Gay News (London, number 51); 5) Alternative to Alienation, number 6, November-December 1975; 6) Vector (no Curzon material) 1976; 7) Gay Liberator (Joe Fiore, Detroit) 1975; 8) Seattle Gay News 1976, 1975-1976 Box 39 Early magazines: 1) GPU News (October 1975) contains no Curzon material; 2) Christopher Street July 1976 contains no Curzon material; 3) In Tandem; 4) The Liberty Express; 5) Entertainment West; 6) Fag Rag 1974; 7) Female Impersonator News; 8) GCN; 9) Gay Sunshine (Summer 1975, Spring 1975), 1974-1976 Box 39 Arcadie: revue litteraire at scientifique, #225 (September 1972), #277 (November 1972). French gay journal. Contains article on Something You Do in the Dark, 1972 Box 39 Early gay newspapers: 1) Gayzette; 2) Advocate; 3) Drummer, undated Box 39 Gay Liberator newspaper (Detroit), early 1970s Box 39 Manuscript drafts of short stories/also published stories, 1998- 1) "The Tasteful Transvestite Goes to the Vatican" 2) "His Achy Man Member"; 3) "Ain't"; 4) "Liberals"; 5) GPU News contains "The Businessman, the Soldier, and the Pimp" (Dec. 1975); 6) GPU News contains "How Will We Recognize Evil" (September 1975), 1975, 1998, undated Box 39 Songs, 1997. Revised ones. Written originally with Dan Turner in 1983-1984. "One Woman" (1978?); "Sorrows" (Curzon alone, 1977?), 1977-1997 Box 39 Non-fiction drafts: "Discontents"; "False Assumptions of Teacher Review," undated Box 39 Play manuscripts ( 1001 Nights at the House of Pancakes; An Actor Prepares; My Unknown Son, 1977- ; College English, November 1974 contains poem, 1974-1977, undated Box 39 Articles about gay life annotated by Curzon. "Body Politic" and others (1976). Jan Morris (prepay to write Comeback), 1976 Box 39 Articles: "Differential Diagnosis" TV and TS annotated by Curzon; On bisexuality annotated by Curzon; Exam question from a course (not Curzon's) at Fresno State; Curzon appears as speaker at St. Louis Gay People's Association, 1975 or 1976; Sexual Law Reporter, 1975-1976; Gay Post, 1975-1976
Box 40 [Correspondence, publications, manuscripts/writing]
Box 40 Correspondence from Tricia and Zack Johnson, March 18, 1991 Box 40 Curzon biography page, [2001] Box 40 From Violent Men review in California Voice, May 20, 1983 Box 40 Western Gay Academic Union newsletter, vol. 1 (3), July 1977. Includes reference to Something You Do in the Dark (2 copies), July 1977 Box 40 Afterword by Curzon (fading photocopy), undated Box 40 The Blasphemer (2 copies), undated Box 40 A Christmas Miracle at the B.O.O.M. ( Gay Sunshine), January-February 1974 Box 40 Curzon's review of Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood, undated Box 40 [Cinderella II. Act II], undated Box 40 "The Cosmopolitan Novel: James and Lewis" by Daniel R. Brown ( Sinclair Lewis Newsletter, vol. 1 (1)), Spring 1969 Box 40 Damaged Fairies (photocopies), undated Box 40 Do We Need A Wholesome Gay Literature? (4 copies), undated Box 40 A Fool's Audition, [2001] Box 40 "From Satire to the Absurd in Nathanael West's A Cool Million," undated Box 40 Review by Curzon: Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning by Mark Thompson ( Los Angeles Times, p.13 Book Review section), July 26, 1987 Box 40 The Girl in the White Raincoat, undated Box 40 God, I Hate Most Poetry, undated Box 40 Godot Arrives, after 1999? Box 40 Godot Arrives. Act II, undated Box 40 Godot Arrives (2 copies), undated
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 23 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Correspondence, publications, manuscripts/writing]
Box 40 "Greed and Glamour: Trashy Novels and What They Mean" ( Bay Area Reporter), January 22, 1987 Box 40 The Gripes of Wrath ( Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 15 (3)). Photocopy, October 1988 Box 40 Growing Up Gay in Michigan, speech given at the University of Michigan, 1981 Box 40 Homosexuality and the Creative Impulse, undated Box 40 The Horror (2 copies), undated Box 40 Review of Hotel Paradiso at A.C.T., undated Box 40 How Do You Think You'd Feel if You Were A Queer?, undated Box 40 In a Five-And-Ten-Cent Store, undated Box 40 In Memory of the Late J. Edgar Hoover. Photocopy, undated Box 40 John Gettys, undated Box 40 The Joyful Blue Book of Gracious Gay Etiquette [mock up], undated Box 40 "A Look at Archetypal Criticism" by Daniel Russell Brown (Reprint from The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 28 (4)) (2 copies), Summer 1970 Box 40 A Look at Recent History, undated Box 40 Lust As A Way of Life, undated Box 40 Mindgames, written by D. M. Hariton. First draft, July 19, 1990 Box 40 The Monster in the Wood, Summer 1997 Box 40 The Murder of Gonzago--a comedy, undated Box 40 My Babies by Danielle (Womb of) Steel, undated Box 40 "The Natural Man in John Steinbeck's Non-Teleological Tales." Photocopy, undated Box 40 One Career in Literature: Touching and Amusing Anecdotes About the Novels of Daniel Curzon (paper delivered on a panel called "Novelists on Writing and Publishing Novels" at the Modern Language Association convention, Los Angeles), December 1983 Box 40 1001 Nights at the House of Pancakes: a play in vignettes, undated Box 40 "Parades and Parasites in Paradise: Life in Gay San Francisco" ( Gay News), October 30-November 12, 1981 Box 40 Paul Welles tribute, undated Box 40 The Pipsqueak (Two Days Later), undated Box 40 The Pipsqueak Murder (Two Days After), undated Box 40 Playwrights' Theatre. One Act. Article on Playwrights' Unit with photo of Curzon, et al., undated Box 40 The Problems of Writing Gay Literature ( Margins), Spring 1975 Box 40 S and M, undated Box 40 Sex Show flyer with notes on verso regarding order of skits, undated Box 40 The Shark of Recognition, undated Box 40 "The Sheep and the Bad Shepherd: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts" with critical review by PMLA, 1975 Box 40 Plays: 1) Eye to Eye; and 2) Skin Tight. Notes, correspondence, contracts, drafts, with Isabel Gilbert, 1985-1991 Box 40 Skin Tight [overview] with Isabel Gilbert, undated Box 40 Skin Tight by Daniel Curzon and Isabel Gilbert, 12/3 Box 40 Skin Tight (2 copies, 1 is annotated) with scleroderma advertisement, undated Box 40 Skin Tight (screenplay, revised), November 20, 1992 Box 40 Skin Tight (screenplay). Second version with Isabel Gilbert, undated Box 40 Eye to Eye (a screenplay with authentic hypnosis) by Daniel Curzon and Isabel Gilbert, undated Box 40 "Some of Your Best Friends Are Perverts" by Curzon (in Small Press Review, p1) photocopy, October-November 1977 Box 40 A Streetcar Named Viagra (2 copies), 2003 Box 40 Stuck, with Curzon biography sheet, [2001] Box 40 That All-Important Job Interview, undated Box 40 The Third Part of Henry the Fourth, undated Box 40 This Little Nightmare (Called My Life) by Isabel Gilbert and Daniel Curzon, undated Box 40 The Trial of the Black Eyes, undated Box 40 Two Short Stories by Daniel Curzon: The Child Molester; Pity (2 copies), undated
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 24 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Correspondence, publications, manuscripts/writing]
Box 40 The Ugly Girl, undated Box 40 Victor (from Mae West Is Dead, Faber & Faber, London, 1983 and from the Kansas Quarterly), 1983 Box 40 "The War Within Nathanael West: Naturalism and Existentialism" by Daniel R. Brown ( Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 20 (2), Purdue University). Photocopy, Summer 1974 Box 40 What's Wrong with Gay Life: a short story ( Vector), May 1975 Box 40 Why I Am An Ex-Catholic ("In My Opinion" Gay News, vol. 5 (25)), October 2-15, 1981 Box 40 Why We Came to Sodom ( North American Review) (2 copies), December 1983
Box 41
Legal documents, correspondence, research regarding law suit against City College of San Francisco and Teacher Review
Box 42
Legal documents, correspondence, research regarding law suit against City College of San Francisco and Teacher Review
Box 43 [Law suit, Correspondence, publications, manuscripts/writing, computer disks]
Box 43 Correspondence and documents regarding law suit against City College of San Francisco Box 43 Getting Gay In New York poems by George Whitmore (first edition), 1976 Box 43 The Advocate (early issue), Curzon published articles here, from London, helped pay bills; 2) early The Sentinel Box 43 Early gay magazines: Gay Sunshine, Spring 1974; GPU News, Feb 1976; Portuguese Club Ainda Ha Amigos; Emily Dickinson poetry Box 43 Curzon columns and reviews, 1970s-1990s Box 43 Computer disks Physical Description: 6.0 folders
Box 43 Correspondence, 1997 Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 44 [Correspondence, publications, manuscripts/writing]
Box 44 Columns, reviews, correspondence, 1970s-1990s Physical Description: 6.0 folders
Box 44 James White Review (2 copies), Fall 1990 Box 44 Heaven, the musical, undated Box 44 This Little Nightmare: Called My Life, undated Box 44 Correspondence, etc. Box 44 Simpson Agonistes Box 44 A Thankless Child [Die Trying] final revised, August and September 2002 Box 44 Wayne State University and University of Detroit graduation certificates and grades, 1960, 1964 Box 44 Publicity Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 44 Publications Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 25 1950s-2014GLC 52 [Columns and reviews—complete newspaper issues]
Box 45 [Columns and reviews—complete newspaper issues]
Box 46 [Correspondence, publicity]
Box 46 Publicity about Curzon's books, undated Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Box 46 Correspondence, 1974-1990s Physical Description: 9.0 folders
Boxes 47-48 Correspondence, 1974-1990s
Oversize-box 49 Oversized [Scrapbooks and drawings by Daniel Curzon and his son, Zachary Johnson; drawings by Douglas Riseborough ("tricked" several times)]
Box 50
Correspondence (in accordion file)
Box 51
Correspondence
Box 51
Letters to Curzon: from mother, sister, some on Gay Literature, Stephen Wright, 1971-1974
Box 51
Letters: Dan Allen (lover of Richard Hall), Joe Fiori (fist fan), Morris Kight, The Advocate publisher David Goodstein (lawsuit), William N. Harlowe, Louie Crew, 1972-1974
Letters: Jonathan Katz, William Harlowe,
Box 51
Agents, Family (mother, sister), editors, 1978-1979
Box 51
Carl Morse (poet), John Gilgun, Robert Prager, et al., 1990
Box 51
Letters: John Gilgun, agent George Ziegler (New York), Paths Untrodden, Rich Rubin, 1990-1991
Box 52
Music / Songs by Curzon [tapes, CDs]
Box 53
Music / Dan Turner. Lead sheets, tapes
Box 53
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 26 1950s-2014GLC 52 Oversized [Scrapbooks and drawings by Daniel Curzon and his son, Zachary Johnson; drawings by Dougla...
Cinderella II (Happily Ever After) [script]
Box 53
Shakespeare Rap by Curzon and Dan Turner (2 copies)
Box 53
[Songs / Lyrics by Curzon]
Box 53
Lead sheets A-M
Box 53
Lead sheets Cinderella II
Box 53
Dan Turner's papers on musicals / Comeback production, 1980-1981
Sondheim, Stephen (photocopy of letter 1980)
Audiotapes
Physical Description: 6.0 audiotapes
Box 53
Scoring (piano)
Box 53
New Turner melodies (2?) Along with Practice of "Movers"
Box 53
Scoring: Winner--Dan Humming (A); blank (B)
Box 53
Scoring Cinderella II
Box 53
Music to score (piano); blank (B)
Box 53
Scoring--Cindy. Dan Humming
Box 54
Books by Curzon
Box 55
Correspondence
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 27 1950s-2014GLC 52 Oversized [Scrapbooks and drawings by Daniel Curzon and his son, Zachary Johnson; drawings by Dougla...
Box 55
Letters from Joyce Carol Oates [Joyce Smith], 1965-1974, 1984
Box 55
Joyce Carol Oates letters [photocopies of letters to Curzon, some photocopies of Curzon's letters to Oates], 1968-1984
Box 55
Gay Literature magazine, 1975-1976
Box 55
Book sales, correspondence and Gay Literature, 1976-1977
Box 55
Letters and cards to Daniel Curzon: Robert Patrick (playwright), Steve Abbott (poet), Richard Hall (writer), Jerry Roscoe (writer), Dean Goodman (actor), John Gilgun (writer), Paul Hunter (writer), Jesse Monteagudo (critic), arnold Goodman (agent), Ashley Books (publisher), 1979-1980
Box 55
Letters/notes from Stephen Sondheim, 1981-1990
Box 55
Letters: Jerry Roscoe (biog. of), Robert Prager (fan), Barbara Lanctot (friend), Dan Barrington (New York City play producer), literary agent George Ziegler, Isabel Gilbert, John Gilgun, 1988-1989
Box 55
Letters: John Gilgun, Guy Johnson (biog. of Oates), Louie Crew, Larry Myers, Robert Patrick, George Ziegler, Knights Press, 1988-1989
Box 55
Letters from: Carl Morse (editor/poet), John Gilgun, niece (Hall), Knights Press, Robert Prager ?, strange person (Rony Arn), Tropani (New York City director), 1989-1990
Box 56
Academic work / College
Box 57
Correspondence
Boxes 58-61
Correspondence (accordion files)
Boxes 62-63
Correspondence and manuscripts
Box 64
Correspondence and orders for Tim McPick
Box 65
Novel manuscripts
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 28 1950s-2014GLC 52 Oversized [Scrapbooks and drawings by Daniel Curzon and his son, Zachary Johnson; drawings by Dougla...
Boxes 66-67
Manuscripts and correspondence [?]
Box 68
Autographed books
Box 69
Manuscripts
Box 70
Correspondence, writings. J.C. Oates materials,
Box 70
Correspondence mostly to Daniel Curzon (Daniel R. Brown) including writer Ralph Horne, Shannon Moffat (transexual), Zach Johnson (his son); a few notes by Curzon on story ideas--handwritten), 1998-2000
Box 70
Drafts / Manuscripts of recent stories, some beast fables; and correspondence (e-mails, especially, some about Teacher Review and San Francisco City College lawsuit), 2001
Box 70
Poetry and Oates/Curzon fight letters
Box 70
Correspondence to and from Daniel Curzon, 2000-2001
Box 70
News/cover stories of Oates (1965, 1969), off-prints of two Oates scholarly articles, Don Bachardy Drawings catalog (The New York Cultural Center, 1974), photocopies of articles by Claude Summers, Raymond-Jean Ftontain, Thomas C. SPear, Jerry Rosco
Box 70
Manuscripts of stories and plays, 1990s, undated
General note
Folder also reads: "1) Cover John & Dan. California Voice, 1983." Oversized item was moved to Box 26.
Box 70
Correspondence: Robert Patrick (1993), R. A. Horne (1996, 2000?), Arthur Scheldinger, Jr., Leah Garchik, Peg Cruikshank, Zack Johnson, poor photocopy of Steinbeck letter, Camille Paglia, Jerry Rosco, Greg Johnson, Larry Myers, et al., 1990s-2000
Box 70
Curzon resume, [1981]
Box 70
Teaching evaluations, 1974, 1987
Box 71
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 29 1950s-2014GLC 52 Oversized [Scrapbooks and drawings by Daniel Curzon and his son, Zachary Johnson; drawings by Dougla...
Publicity
Box 72
Rough drafts of novel called "Tangled, Crooked, Anyhow," 2002
Box 73
Manuscripts
Box 73
The Y, August 9, 1973
Box 73
Shakespeare Lives! (or The State of the Art) "with author's notes," undated
Box 73
Shakespeare Lives! (or The State of The Art) [Bertha Klausner], April 11, 1987
Box 73
Superfag: a novel by Daniel Curzon, [1990-1992?]
Box 73
Fudgy the Elf, [1990-1992?]
Box 73
Superfag (A Hard Comedy): a novella by Daniel Curzon (2 drafts), [1990-1992?]
Box 73
Diary entry, Deddington, A Worm, 1992
Box 73
Drafts: Only the Good Parts; epistolary draft with Nan, Sandra, Dolores. Letters from Eric Glass, Ltd., 1990
Box 73
The Wimp "novelization of Pixies in Peril (never published)," undated
Not Sold in Stores, or Skulduggery: a novel. "Added first scene of Ivy as girl (keep)"
Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Not Sold in Stores, or Skulduggery: a novel
Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Box 73
Diary "C. C. Rice," Waggoner, Illinois, 1935
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 30 1950s-2014GLC 52 Oversized [Scrapbooks and drawings by Daniel Curzon and his son, Zachary Johnson; drawings by Dougla...
Box 73
Audiotapes and videotape,
Box 73
Isabel Gilbert--screenplay (5); Love Is Just Around the Corner (1); Zack and Dan (Hi8), undated, March 22, 1997, April 24, 1999
Physical Description: 6.0 audiotapes+ 1 videotape
Box 73
"Fruit Punch" hosted by Curzon, May 14, 1986; interview--Lee--Fruit Punch--KPFA, August 24, 1994; Fruit Punch, Dan Curzon hosting, March 17 and March 24 air check; Fruit Punch, the Last Show, July 26, 1995; Daniel Curzon, KPFA, June 1991, Dan Curzon as critic, FPFA, 1986-1995
Physical Description: 6.0 audiotapes
Box 73
Pat Tickner (1), Serramonte Ford, important dealership information (1), undated, 1987
Box 74
Manuscripts: Tangled Web, Only the Good Parts, Further Tales of Gulliver's Travels (unpublished), Endangered Species (unpublished)
Box 75
Correspondence (accordion files)
Box 76
"Current manuscripts (fiction)"
2014 Accession
Physical Description: 11.0 cubic feet
Reviews of Curzon's books, some writing by Curzon,
Box 77 Something You Do In The Dark, 1971- Box 77 Reviews of Curzon's books (including some early books) Box 77 Sex Show, 1977 Box 77 Your Town, 1978 Box 77 [Play reviews], 1980-1981, 1990 Box 77 Beneath the Surface, 1979 Box 77 Revolt of the Perverts, 1978 Box 77 Gay Etiquette Book, 1978 Box 77 The AIDS Show, and, City College Founders' Day program, 1984-2000 Box 77 The Misadventures of Tim McPick, 1975 Box 77 From Violent Men, 1983 Box 77 Human Warmth, 1981 Box 77 Superfag, 1996
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 31 1950s-2014GLC 52 Reviews of Curzon's books, some writing by Curzon,
Box 77 Contemporary Gay American Novelists Box 77 My Unknown Son, L.A., 1997 Box 78 Curzon in Love Box 78 My Unknown Son, L.A. (2 envelopes), 1997 Box 78 The World Can Break Your Heart, 1985 Box 78 Sex, Death & Aerobics, One-Act Festival, California Travel Troupe, February 2001 Box 78 Sexy Shorts, and, Actors in Briefs Box 78 Cinderella II, 1984 Box 78 Among the Carnivores, 1979 Box 78 1001 Nights at the House of Pancakes Box 78 Sour Grapes, October 1997 Box 78 The Attic Theatre. "So Middle Class" The New Zoo Story, June-July 1998 Box 78 Importance of Being P.C., Santa Cruz, 2004 Box 78 Last Call, Margaret and Ernie vs. The World (2 envelopes) 1981-1982 Box 78 One Man's Opinion, and San Francisco City College 50th anniversary show, 1984 Box 78 The Murder of Gonzago, 1986 Box 78 Really, Really Bad Ideas Box 78 Rude Awakenings, The New Zoo Story, Sept. 16- Oct. 9, 1993, Clara Studio, 1993 Box 78 Play Dead, Spring 1993 Box 78 West Coast Playwrights Workshop, 1987 Box 78 Animal Farm, 1983 Box 78 Programs, etc. Box 80 Clippings, 2000, 2006 Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Box 81 Saving Jane Austen, a novel, 2012 Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 81 "Christmas: Naughty and Nice." Old Port Playhouse, Portland, Maine, December 2009 Box 81 Something You Do in the Dark (includes original press release from 1971), 1971 Box 81 A Streetcar Named Viagra, written in 2002. First performed June 2012 at Ringwald Theatre, Ferndale, Michigan, June 2012 Box 81 Batperson and Robbie, New York City, September 2010 Box 81 The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, 2010 Box 81 Only the Good Parts, August 1997 Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 81 A Fool's Audition, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2010 Box 81 A Fool's Audition. Prize winner, 2001 Box 81 Godot Arrives, 2000, 2008-2009, 2012 Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 81 Not Necessarily Nice, 2000 Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 81 Cat Talk Cartoons Box 81 Batman and Robin. Winner second [round or read]. Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz Box 81 A Christmas Mistake. San Francisco Chronicle, 2005 Box 81 The Birthday Girl, 1982 Box 81 Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volumes I-VII (1977-2004), 1977-2004 Box 81 Wilma Loves Betty, Parodies (1991), and "Two Cents" in San Francisco Chronicle, 1991, undated Box 81 The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette, 2006 Box 81 Hard to Swallow, one-act contest winner, 2007 Box 81 Jack London Writers' Conference. Presenter, 2005 Box 81 In Hormel Collection, San Francisco Public Library
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 32 1950s-2014GLC 52 Reviews of Curzon's books, some writing by Curzon,
Box 81 What a Tangled Web. About Defamation, PC-ism, gay father/straight son Box 81 Don't Open This Box, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2001 Box 81 The Hit Box 81 Dropping Names: memoirs Box 81 Homosexual Acts (2 skits), 1991, New York City; and Don't Rub Me The Wrong Way reading, 1991, undated Box 81 Rankings of Daniel Curzon's Songs Box 81 Don't Rub Me The Wrong Way staged reading, Phoenix, April 1997 Box 81 Animal Farm, San Francisco Fringe, 2003 Box 81 Ten-Minute Play Festival "The History of Art Criticism", University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Fall 2012 Box 81 Very Nasty Indeed movie Box 81 Halfway to the Stars, 2013 Box 81 Commonwealth Club speech, August 21, 2014 Box 81 Reviews and correspondence Box 81 Email, correspondence, 2002-2008 Box 81 The Cat and the Mouse, a beastly fable Box 81 Not a Love Song Box 81 Taunting the Tiger Box 81 Writing, clippings, 2005, 2007, undated General note Includes: Pope Go Home!; Regarding Joyce Carol Oates Diaries; Curzon/Brown retirement noted in 2007; Reality Check; Detour Memphis; email correspondence, 2007; Chameleon Theatre Co.; Haworth Press, catalog of LGBT studies books; A Christmas Mistake; City College English Department newsletter, 2005.
Box 81 Fool's Audition Box 81 The Importance of Being Cecily, or Cecil, or Prizzy Box 81 Henry IV: Part III
Box 79 Books
Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Halfway to the Stars: Cable Car Tales of A Grumpy Gripman (San Francisco: IGNA, 2013) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Halfway to the Stars: Cable Car Tales of A Grumpy Gripman (Sweden: Wisehouse, 2014) Box 79 [Curzon, Daniel]. A Thankless Child by Amanda March (San Francisco: IGNA, 2013) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Saving Jane Austen (in lieu of galleys) (San Francisco: IGNA, 2012) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. What A Tangled Web: a non-fiction narrative (San Francisco: IGNA, 2005) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Dropping Names: the delicious memoirs of Daniel Curzon (San Francisco: IGNA, 2004) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. The Joy of Atheism (San Francisco: IGNA, 2014) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Beastly Fables (San Francisco: IGNA, 2012) [2 copies] Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette (Sweden: Wisehouse, 2014) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette (San Francisco: IGNA, 2006) Box 79 Gay Literature, Numbers 1-6 (1975-1976) (Fresno: State University of California). Edited by Daniel Curzon. Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume III, 1984-1988. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2003) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume VIII, 2004-2007. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2008) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume IX, 2000-2009. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2010)
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 33 1950s-2014GLC 52 Books
Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume X, 2010-2011. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2011) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon. Volume XI, 2011-2013. (San Francisco: IGNA, 2014) Box 79 Curzon, Daniel. Something You Do In The Dark. (New York: Lancer Books, 1971) [signed by Curzon] Box 79 Isherwood, Christopher. Ramakrishna and His Disciples. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970) Box 79 Isherwood, Christopher. Down There on a Visit. (New York: Popular Library edition, January 1963) Box 79 Isherwood, Christopher. A Single Man. (New York: Lancer Books, 1965) Box 79 Isherwood, Christopher. The World in the Evening. (New York: Popular Library edition, December 1955) Box 79 Isherwood, Christopher. Prater Violet. (New York: Modern Library, 1955) Box 79 Arcangelini, M.J. With Fingers at the Tips of My Words. (Mountain View, Calif.: Beautiful Dreamer Press, 2002) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon] Box 79 Lauritsen, John. The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein. (Dorchester, Mass.: Pagan Press, 2007) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon] Box 79 Lebowitz, Gina. Forty Different Words for Love. (Chapel Hill: Professional Press, 1996) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon] Box 79 Batchelor, Karen. Murder at Ocean View College. (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon] Box 79 Maupin, Armistead. Michael Tolliver Lives. (London: Doubleday, 2007) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon] Box 79 Abbott, Steve. Stretching the Agape Bra. (San Francisco: Angrogyne Press, 1980) [inscribed to Daniel Curzon] Box 79 The Gay Engagement Book. Compiled by Martin Greif (Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street Press, 1985) Box 79 The Gay Engagement Book. Compiled by Martin Greif (Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street Press, 1986) Box 79 The Gay Engagement Book. Compiled by Martin Greif (Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street Press, 1987) Box 79 Gala Review, vol. 3, no. 1 (January 1980). Daniel Curzon, associate editor. (San Francisco: Gay Atheists League of America, 1980)
Class Notes and Lectures
Box 80 Class Lecture notes. Daniel Curzon-Brown. English 35 A&B Box 80 Class Lecture notes. Daniel Curzon-Brown. English 1 A Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 80 Class Lecture notes. Daniel Curzon-Brown. English 1 B Box 80 Writing and sample stories for class critique Physical Description: 3.0 folders
Box 85 Photocopied articles and papers [for English 1A class, and others?], 1992-2007 Physical Description: 4.0 folders
Writing by Curzon (includes correspondence)
Box 80 What a Tangled Web. Edited down to 727 pages (last edit), February 28, 2003 Physical Description: 4.0 folders
Box 80 Performance and Mechanical Rights Royalties
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 34 1950s-2014GLC 52 Writing by Curzon (includes correspondence)
Box 83 Writing: In the Moment; The Busy Beaver; The Rat and the Terrier; The Spider and the Cat; Synopsis of Despicable Daughter; Star Fucked; Title pages for She Slept with the Writer and What Big Eyes You Have Box 83 The Organ Donor Box 83 Very Nasty Indeed Box 83 G.D. Arrives Box 83 The Birthday Girl Box 83 Toxic Princess Box 83 Mean Enough For Ya? London travel, 2014 Box 83 Lord Bracknell's Ways Box 83 Notes on Halfway to the Stars Box 83 Composition notebook. Notes on Preliminary hearing for John Gettys, 2004 Box 83 Such Bad Friends, 2013 Box 83 Halfway to the Stars: Cable car tales, 2013 Box 83 The Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon, vol. IX (2008-2009). Title pages Box 83 [Saving Jane Austen ? drafts] Physical Description: 5.0 folders
Box 84 Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda. Aka Asides, and [G.D.?] Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 84 Thirteenth Night, or Malvolio's Revenge (a problem play), 2011 Box 84 Star Fucked Box 84 More Oppressed Than Thou Box 84 A Peculiar Tale of a Peculiar Sec?ress? Box 84 Correspondence/contracts regarding recordings, 2005, 2009 Box 84 Correspondence (includes family tree DNA, audiorecording info, Neptune Society account summary with John Gettys, Thomas LeRoux probate document re: Curzon and Jeffrey Tung, etc.), 1999-2008 Box 84 Correspondence, 2005 Box 84 Correspondence, 2006 Box 84 Correspondence, 2007 Box 84 Correspondence, 2008 Box 84 Correspondence, 2008-2013 Box 84 Correspondence, 2009 Box 84 Correspondence, 2010 Box 84 Correspondence, 2011-2014 Box 84 Writers Guild of America, West, 2009-2013 Box 84 Songwriting agreement, CityLove Music, 2010 Box 84 Baker's Plays, 2010
Box 85
Financial Materials
Box 85
Bank of America mortgage
Box 85
Thomas LeRoux, attorney. Jeff Tung. Documents regarding Ann Shay estate, 2004-2008
Physical Description: 2.0 folders
Box 85
Estate of Ann Shay, 2005-2009
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 35 1950s-2014GLC 52 Writing by Curzon (includes correspondence)
Physical Description: 4.0 folders
Box 85
Daniel Brown/Curzon. Checking account receipts, 2004-2005
Photographs
Box 86 Empty envelopes Box 86 Fresno, 1974-1976 Box 86 Brighton with John Gettys, 1989 Box 86 1996 (includes son Zack); 1998 negatives, 1996, 1998 Box 86 Curzon, John Gettys, Zack, Bill Harlowe, N. Mallet, 1970-1997 Box 86 Zack (son), 1983-1997 Box 86 Curzon on Today show, May 9, 2000 Box 86 Color photocopies of scanned photos (8-1/2 x 11 inch paper) Box 86 St. Rose School, 1950s. Color photocopies of scanned photos (8-1/2 x 11 inch paper), 1950s Box 86 University of Detroit, Theater photos (college days), 1956-1960 Box 86 Photos [includes: Bill Harlowe, Curzon, Melissa (great niece), Zack, theatre marquee My Unknown Son opening night, etc.], 1969-1998 Physical Description: 4.0 folders
Box 86 Photos (early days with family to 1990s), [1950s?]-1990s Box 86 Photos of Daniel Curzon, age 39, by Daniel Travert, [1977?] Box 86 Photos of Curzon and Gettys, Lake Mead (2007), Hawaii, cruise, Sea Life Park with dolphins Box 86 Portland/Pacific Northwest (1997); Europe (2006), 1997, 2006 Box 86 Curzon in Asia, 1969, 1972-1974 Box 86 Safari Park, 2002 Box 86 Curzon and Elaine Mannon?, 1994? Box 86 Joan Dunham, 2000? Box 86 Dan Brown, 1983 Box 86 Farmersville and Detroit, Danny Brown and relatives, includes 1970s Box 86 Curzon publicity shots by John Gettys, late 1980s Box 86 Kent State, 1960 Box 86 Negatives Box 86 Framed photo: Curzon, with 3 others, New York City, 1998
Box 82 Audio-visual material
Box 82 City College of San Francisco. Board of Trustees meeting, (1/2-inch video VHS) (RT: 1:17:26), May 27, 1999 Box 82 Beer and Rhubarb Pie by Daniel Curzon (original). 30 minute tape (3/4-inch U-matic), undated Box 82 Beer and Rhubarb Pie by Daniel Curzon (copy). 27 minutes (3/4-inch U-matic), undated Box 82 Beer and Rhubarb Pie I. (3/4-inch Scotch UCA20S U-matic), Scene 1, 175- Scene 2, March 1981 Box 82 Cinderella II. (Beta. BASF L500HG), Pre,. Enhance audio. RT: 2:03:38, undated Box 82 Compilation of Survivor audition, Today Show, Fox News (1/2-inch video VHS), undated Box 82 I. Test Tape, January 28, 1981. B&RP [ Beer and Rhubarb Pie] opening title. (3/4-inch Scotch UCA20S U-matic), March 1981. WV3100, VO4800, 1981 Box 82 Daniel Curzon-Brown and Ryan Lathouwers, Today, (1/2-inch video VHS), May 9, 2000
Daniel Curzon Papers, GLC 52 36 1950s-2014GLC 52 Audio-visual material
Box 82 VMS Home Video Service. ABC. The View. (1/2-inch video VHS), May 9, 2000 Box 82 Discussing my lawsuit, The View, (2 DVDs), 2000 Box 82 Defamation Law Suit. FNC Fox News. RT: 02:48. (1/2-inch video VHS), May 8, 1998 Box 82 [Defamation Law Suit. FNC Fox News, RT: 02:48.] (2 DVDs), May 8, 1998 Box 82 Daniel. Dayside. Beyond Pix production services. (1/2-inch video VHS; and 2 DVDs), undated Box 82 [ The Today Show. Daniel Curzon-Brown ? information crossed out] (1/2-inch video VHS), undated Box 82 Visit with Zack; When Bertha Was a Pretty Name (first act). TDK MP-60. 8mm videocassette, July 23, 1988 Box 82 My Unknown Son. Marin Theatre Co. TDK MP-90. 8mm videocassette, August 7, 1987 Box 82 3 unlabeled DVDs, undated Box 82 Hard to Swallow, written by Daniel Curzon. The Chameleon Theatre Circle. Eighth Annual New Play Festival. Saturday. (DVD), February 10, 2007
Oversized Materials
Oversize-box 87
Posters for Shakespeare: The Revue; and, Playdead
Oversize-box 87
Correspondence, flyers for That Cro-Magnon Ping, 2008
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