Paul Bowles Papers

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Paul Bowles Papers

1960 - 1985

Manuscript Collection Number: 163 Extent: 2.3 linear ft. Content: Correspondence and literary manuscript Access: The collection is open for research. Processed: Tim Murray and revised by Anita Wellner, August 1995

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Table of Contents

Biographical Note Scope and Contents Note Series Outline Contents List

Biographical Note

The American composer and author Paul Frederic Bowles was born in New York City on December 30, 1910. Bowles was published at age seventeen, abandoned college, and in 1929 began his life of travels with a trip to Paris, where he hoped to establish himself as a poet. Back in New York in 1930, he studied composition with Aaron Copland, whom he also accompanied to Yaddo, Paris, Berlin, and Tangier. With the support of Copland and Virgil Thomson, Bowles found work in New York writing incidental music and scores for ballet and theater. His successful career as a composer took off in the Depression with work for the Federal Theater Project (including music for Orson Welles's Horse Eats Hat) and the Federal Music Project. Bowles became one of the preeminent composers of American theater music, producing works for William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, and others. In the last decade, a resurgence of interest in Bowles's music has culminated in a number of major concerts and performances in the United States and Europe. In addition, a new generation of musicians has released several well-received recordings of Bowles's compositions.

In 1938, Paul Bowles married the aspiring writer Jane Auer, who shortly achieved critical acclaim for her first novel, Two Serious Ladies (1943). Inspired by Jane Bowles's success and her dedication to writing, Bowles began his own career as an author, eventually surpassing his already successful reputation as a composer. Since the 1940s, he has produced numerous works of fiction, essays, travel writing, poems, autobiographical pieces, and other works. Among Bowles's best-known fictional works are the novels The Sheltering Sky (1949), Let It Come Down (1952), The Spider's House (1955); and an early short story collection, The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950). A 1989 reprint of The Sheltering Sky and Bernardo Bertolucci's 1990 film version of the novel, starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich, revived international interest in Bowles, the writer.

Bowles is equally known as a prolific translator. He bestowed the title "No Exit" upon Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos and his 1946 translation of that play remains the standard version for English language productions. During the 1940s, Bowles translated the poems and stories of a wide variety of European and Latin American authors. Bowles taped and transcribed from the Moghrebi tales by Mohammed Mrabet and several other Moroccan story tellers; and his translations have broadened readership of Guatemalan author Rodrigo Rey Rosa. Bowles has translated several works related to North African culture and geography, and has generously introduced and prefaced photographic collections, travel writing, and stories by other authors who share those interests.

Paul and Jane Bowles spent much of their married life traveling throughout the world and in the late 1940s made Tangier, Morocco, their permanent home. Major figures in the world of letters and the arts and international "society" frequently visited them there. Jane Bowles died in 1973, and Bowles continued to reside in Tangier until his death on November 18, 1999.

Sources:

Miller, Jeffrey. Paul Bowles: A Descriptive Bibliography. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, 1986.

Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher. An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.

Scope and Content Note The Paul Bowles Papers consist of his correspondence with authors, publishers, other literary figures, and friends; also included are a group of Bowles's literary manuscripts.

Series Outline

I. Correspondence

1. General correspondence 2. Miscellaneous correspondence. 3. Publishing correspondence. 4 . Letters to Jane Bowles from Paul Bowles

II. Manuscripts

Contents List

Box -- Folder -- Contents

Series I. Correspondence, 1955-1985

General correspondence Consists of incoming correspondence from authors and other individuals of note. The series is arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically within each file. All letters are addressed to Paul Bowles unless indicated otherwise.

Burroughs, William S., 1914-

F1 1971 Oct 26 ACS 1p 1972 Apr 28 TLS 1p 1974 Apr 13 TLS 1p Dec 23 ACS 1p 1975 Feb 15 TLS 1p Nov 8 TLS 1p Dec 16 ACS 1p

F2 [1976 Mar 29] TC 1p 1976 Dec 24 TLS 1p 1977 Dec 23 ACS 1p 1978 Mar 6 TLS 1p May 13 TLS 1p 1979 Feb 26 TLS 1p

F3 1979 Jun 4 TLS 1p Jun 26 ACS 1p Nov 16 TLS 1p Dec 11 ACS 1p 1984 Jul 10 ACS 1p [1984 Dec 20] ACS 1p [n.d.] ACS 1p

Chester, Alfred, 1928-1971.

F4 1963 Jan 31 TLS 1p [1963 Mar 19] TLS 2p [1963 Apr 2] TLS 2p [1963 Apr 8] ALS 1p [1963 May 17] TLS 2p [1963 May 25] TLS 1p [1963 Jun 6] TLS 1p [1963 Jun 9] TLS 1p [1966 Feb 8] ALS 1p [1966 Mar 1] ALS 2p [1966 Mar 5] ALS 1p 1966 Jun 26 TLS 1p

F5 1967 Sep 8 ALS 1p [1968 Feb 5] ALS 1p 1968 Jun 5 ALS 1p Jul 19 ALS 1p Nov 3 ALS 1p Aug 20 ALS 2p 1969 Nov 25 ALS 2p

F6 1970 May 15 ALS 2p Jun 5 TLS 2p [1963] May 17 ALS 1p [n.y.] Aug 14 TLS 1p [n.d.] ALS 1p To Qaezzani, Mohamed Themi 1968 Jun 12 ALS 1p

Girodias, Maurice To Alfred Chester 1963 Dec 5 TLS 1p Dec 18 ALS 2p

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

F7 1968 May 25 ALS 1p Nov 11 ALS 1p Note: On the verso of a City Lights brochure. 1969 Jan 20 TLS 1p Jan 28 ALS 3p

F8 1969 Apr 1 TLS 1p Apr 14 TLS 1p May 2 TLS 1p May 11 TLS 1p Jun 19 TLS 1p Aug 1 TLS 1p Nov 11 TLS 1p Dec 9 TLS 1p

F9 1970 Feb 12 TLS 1p 1973 Apr 12 TLS 1p Jul 7 ALS 2p Aug 2 TLS 1p Sep 12 TLS 1p Sep 25 ALS 2p

Dusenbery, Gail Chiarrello To Paul Bowles 1969 Dec 17 TLS 1p

Phillips, Nancy To Paul Bowles 1973 May 16 TLS 1p

Ford, Charles Henri

F10 1960 Jan 24 ALS 3p Note: Includes a card photograph of Andrea (Andy) Cato taken by Ford. 1961 May 14 ALS 2p 1962 Aug 15 ALS 2p 1963 Aug 18 ALS 2p 1965 Sep 17 ACS 1p 1966 Jul 28 ACS 1p Oct 28 ALS 1p Note: Written on the verso of an announcement for Ford's "Spare Parts." Dec 12 ACS 1p Note: Written on verso of an announcement for a Ford exhibition.

F11 1967 Jan 11 ACS 1p Apr 17 ACS 1p 1969 Feb 2 ACS 3p Feb 9 ACS 1p Feb 19 ACS 1p Mar 15 ALS 1p Apr 16 ALS 1p Nov 15 ALS 3p

F12 1970 Feb 2 ALS 1p [Mar 3] ALS 2p May 4 ACS 1p Jun 5 ALS 1p Dec 16 ALS 1p 1971 Jan 3 ACS 1p 1972 Apr 11 ALS 1p Note: Includes an announcement for Ford's "Flag of Ecstasy."

F13 1972 May 17 ALS 1p Sep 24 ALS 1p Dec 24 ALS 2p 1973 Feb 7 ALS 2p Feb 13 ACS 1p Mar 28 ALS 2p Apr 24 ALS 1p May 23 ACS 1p May 29 ALS 2p Jun 17 ALS 2p Jul 2 TLS 1p Sep 7 ALS 2p F14 1974 Jun 3 ALS 2p Aug 10 ALS 2p Oct 26 ACS 1p 1975 Jan 2 ALS 1p Note: Written on verso of a copy of article from the Soho Weekly News titled "Ford Rides Again." Jan 22 ALS 2p Feb 3 ACS 1p May 30 ALS 2p Aug 1 TLS 1p Sep 22 ACS 1p Dec 13 ACS 1p 1976 [Jan 2] ANS 1p Note: On a calendar for Anthology Film Archives. Apr 11 ACS 1p May 15 ALS 1p Jun 18 ACS 1p Jul 25 TLS 1p

F15 1976 Aug 30 ACS 1p Oct 7 ALS 2p Nov 6 ALS 2p Nov 23 ALS 2p 1977 Feb 8 ALS 2p Apr 12 TLS 1p Note: On the verso of a Village Voice article. May 24 ALS 2p Jun 6 ACS 1p Jun 28 ALS 2p Dec 17 ACS 1p 1978 Jan 19 ALS 2p Mar 6 ALS 2p Jun 1 ACS 1p Aug 31 ALS 1p Sep 4 ACS 1p Oct 5 ALS 2p Dec 16 TCS 1p 1979 Apr 10 TLS 1p Jul [28] ACS 1p Aug 21 ACS 1p Oct 29 ALS 2p

F16 1980 Apr 10 TLS 1p May 29 ALS 2p Jul 7 ACS 1p Oct 27 ALS 1p Note: Written on the verso of a photocopy of the poem "Igloos of the Eskimos." 1981 Feb 5 ACS 1p Mar 17 ALS 2p Apr 21 ACS 1p Jul 3 ACS 1p Sep 18 ACS 1p

F17 1981 Oct 30 ACS 1p Dec 1 ACS 1p [1982 Mar 12] TCS 1p 1982 Aug 6 ACS 1p Sep 10 ALS 2p Oct 14 ALS 1p Oct 29 ALS 2p Dec 18 ALS 1p Dec 31 ALS 1p

F18 1983 Feb 3 ALS 1p Mar 7 ALS 2p Apr 17 ACS 1p Note: Written on the verso on an Alternative Press poem card by Ford. Jun 28 ACS 1p Aug 22 ACS 1p Oct 1 ACS 1p 1984 Jan 10 ACS 1p

F19 1984 Apr 9 ACS 1p May 11 ACS 1p [May 12] ACS 1p Jun 3 ALS 2p Jun 27 TLS 1p Jul 19 ALS 2p Dec 19 ANS 1p 1985 Jan 23 ALS 1p Note: On the verso is a photocopy image and a brief note from Ford. Feb 25 ALS 1p Note: Photocopy images and text on verso. Mar 12 ACS 1p Mar 25 ACS 1p Apr 11 TLS 1p [n.d.] ACS 1p [n.d.] ACS 1p

Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-

F20 1971 Dec 15 TLS 1p 1972 Jul 6 TLS 1p Dec 1 TLS 1p Dec 31 ALS 1p 1973 Feb 16 TLS 1p Jun 5 TLS 1p 1974 Jul 20 ALS 1p [n.d.] ACS 1p

Gysin, Brion

F21 1961 May 22 TLS 1p 1964 Jun 29 TLS 1p Dec [8] ACS 1p Dec 27 ALS 2p Note: To Jane Bowles. 1965 Jan 3 TLS 2p Mar 15 TLS 2p Jun 30 ALS 1p Jul 14 TLS 1p 1966 Sep 20 TLS 2p Oct 28 TLS 2p Nov 22 ALS 2p 1967 Jan 14 ALS 2p

F22 [1967 Mar 25] ACS 1p 1967 Apr 11 ALS 1p 1969 Feb 4 TLS 1p Aug 1 ALS 1p 1970 Nov 8 TLS 2p 1971 Jul 26 ALS 1p 1972 Feb 21 ALS 2p Note: Includes a photocopy of a photograph. 1973 Feb 11 ALS 1p Jun 11 ALS 2p

F23 1974 Dec 4 TLS 1p 1975 Feb 19 ALS 2p Mar 10 ALS 1p Apr 24 ALS 2p May 28 ALS 1p Jul 23 TLS 1p Note: Includes a copy of a letter from Joel Rubmir to Gysin (4p). 1976 [Jan 5] ACS 1p

F24 1976 Jun 22 ALS 1p Jul 22 ALS 1p Nov 12 TLS 1p Note: Enclosed is pencil and ink drawing by Gysin (signed and dated) titled "Roller Poem for Paul." Dec 5 ALS 1p 1977 Feb 9 ALS 1p Feb 14 TLS 1p Note: Enclosed are an announcement for an exhibition of Gysin's work and a medical document. 1978 Feb 28 ALS 1p Apr 10 ALS 1p May 25 ANS 1p

F25 1979 Jan 3 ACS 1p Note: Written on the verso of a postcard portrait of Gysin. Jan 8 ALS 1p Note: Enclosed is a program for "The Nova Convention" (1978), in which Gysin participated. [Jun 11] ACS 1p Note: Also bears a brief greeting from William Burroughs. [Jul 5] ACS 1p Sep 4 ALS 1p Sep 19 ALS 2p Oct 5 ACS 2p [Oct 10] ACS 1p

F26 1979 Nov 23 ALS 1p 1980 Mar 18 ALS 1p May 31 ALS 1p Nov 10 TLS 1p [1980] ACS 1p 1981 Feb 23 TLS 1p Sep 12 TLS 1p [Dec 29] ANS 1p Note: Note is written on a signed and numbered (12/20) poem/sketch by Gysin. 1982 Jul 26 ALS 1p 1983 Feb 7 TL 1p Note: Verso bears a photocopy of an article about Gysin. May 13 TLS 1p 1985 Mar 13 TLS 1p [n.d.] ALS 1p [n.d.] AL 1p Note: Written on the verso of Gysin's autograph transcription of a page from Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss.

Herlihy, James Leo.

F27 1965 Jul 16 TLS 1p 1966 Apr 3 TLS 1p Apr 26 TLS 2p May 31 TLS 1p Jun 19 ALS 1p Jul 21 TLS 1p Aug 8 TLS 1p Nov 12 TLS 1p Dec 19 TLS 1p

F28 1967 Feb 13 TLS 1p May 28 TLS 1p Jul 10 TLS 1p Aug 7 TLS 1p Aug 11 TLS 1p Sep 7 TLS 2p

F29 1967 Sep 16 TLS 2p [Nov 1] TLS 1p Nov 25 TLS 1p [Jan 10] TLS 1p [1968 Mar 28] TLS 1p 1968 Jun 8 TLS 1p Jul 19 TLS 1p

F30 1969 Nov 1 TLS 1p Dec 11 TLS 1p 1970 Jul 3 ALS 2p Aug 20 TLS 1p Oct 17 TLS 2p 1971 Nov 8 TLS 1p Dec 26 TLS 1p Note: Enclosed is a letter from Jay Caron-Brooke Associates to Herlihy. 1972 Jun 16 TLS 3p Aug 10 TLS 2p

F31 1973 May 31 ALS 1p Dec 8 TLS 1p 1974 Apr 3 ALS 1p 1975 Jun 8 TLS 1p 1976 Aug 31 TLS 1p Oct 31 TLS 4p

F32 1977 Mar 24 TLS 1p Apr 15 TLS 2p Jul 20 TLS 1p 1979 Jun 9 TLS 1p

F33 1984 Jul 13 TLS 2p Aug 9 TLS 2p [ca. 1967] TLS 1p [1967?] TLS 1p [n.d.] TLS 1p [n.d.] ALS 1p [n.d.] TLS 2p

Losey, Joseph

F34 1973 Apr 12 TLS 1p Apr 27 TLS 1p May 15 ALS 1p Jun 26 TLS 1p 1977 Aug 5 TLS 1p Aug 23 TLS 1p

Miller, Henry, 1891-

F35 1979 Aug 29 ALS 2p Sep 1 ACS 1p Roditi, Edouard

F36 1964 Feb 24 ALS 1p 1966 Dec 1 ALS 2p 1967 Jan 23 ALS 2p Feb 22 ALS 1p 1973 Jul 8 ALS 1p Sep 14 ALS 1p 1974 Jan 17 TLS 1p

F37 1974 Feb 26 ALS 1p Apr 16 ALS 1p 1975 Oct 3 ALS 2p Nov 18 ALS 1p [1976 Feb 11] ALS 5p 1976 Oct 16 TLS 2p Nov 2 ALS 2p

F38 1977 Feb 13 ALS 2p 1978 Jul 13 ALS 1p Sep 15 ALS 2p [1980] ACS 1p 1980 Mar 10 ALS 3p 1981 Mar 2 ACS 1p Note: Written on verso of Men-c-ard #2 (Menard Press), with poem "Sons of War" by Samih al-Qasim. 1982 Feb 8 ALS 2p

F39 [n.y.] Jun 17 ALS 1p [n.d.] ALS 1p [n.d.] ALS 1p [n.d.] ALS 2p [n.d.] ANS 1p Note: Written on the top of a TL (carbon) from Roditi to the Journal de Tangier (2p). [n.d.] ALS 2p [n.y.] Dec 12 ACS 1p [n.y.] Jul 28 ALS 1p [n.y.] Mar 31 ALS 1p

Rorem, Ned, 1923-

F40 1961 Jul 16 TLS 1p Aug 22 TLS 1p 1962 Jan 10 TLS 1p 1963 Mar 18 ALS 1p Note: Written on the verso of a photocopy of an article from The Village Voice. 1965 Mar 12 ALS 2p 1966 Apr 22 TLS 1p 1967 Jun 27 TLS 1p Jul 3 TLS 1p

F41 1967 Jul 5 TLS 1p Jul 24 TLS 1p 1968 Apr 1 TLS 1p Apr 26-27 TLS 2p Jul 12 TLS 1p 1969 Jun 28 TLS 1p [Aug 15] TLS 1p

F42 1970 Apr 19 TLS 1p Nov 22 TLS 1p 1971 Nov 6 TLS 1p 1973 Nov 7 ALS 1p 1974 Mar 15 TLS 1p 1975 Jul 24 TLS 1p

F43 1976 Mar 25 TLS 1p Apr 21 TLS 1p Jun 4 TLS 1p 1977 Apr 27 TLS 1p May 25 TLS 1p Aug 7 TLS 1p 1978 Feb 24 TLS 1p Mar 23 TLS 1p 1979 Feb 26 TLS 1p Mar 16 TLS 1p

F44 1979 Jun 25 TLS 2p Jul 26 TLS 1p Sep 26 TLS 1p

F45 1980 Jan 8 TLS 1p Aug 6 TLS 1p Sep 7 TLS 1p 1981 Apr 21 TLS 1p Oct 15 TLS 1p 1982 Mar TLS 1p

F46 1982 Mar 20 TLS 1p 1983 Jun 15 TLS 1p 1984 Jul 15 TLS 1p Nov 19 TLS 1p

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-

F47 1960 Apr 11 TLS 1p 1963 Aug 31 ALS 1p Sep 17 ALS 1p 1965 Nov 24 ALS 1p Dec 12 ALS 1p 1966 Feb 27 ALS 1p [Mar 12] Clipping 1p Note: Clipping of a New York Times review of Bowles's Up Above the Sky. Jun 8 ALS 1p

F48 1967 May 15 ACS 1p 1968 Aug 21 ALS 1p Aug 29 ALS 1p 1969 Apr 28 ALS 1p 1970 [Dec 16] ACS 1p 1973 Jun 2 TLS 1p Oct 6 ALS 2p

F49 1974 Apr 2 TLS 1p Jul 29 ALS 1p 1975 Jan 18 TLS 1p Aug 25 ALS 2p Dec 26 ACS 1p 1976 Nov 11 TLS 1p Nov 29 TLS 1p 1979 Dec 23 ACS 1p

F50 1982 Jun 8 ALS 1p Dec 1 TLS 1p 1983 Apr 4 TCS 1p 1984 May 7 ACS 1p 1985 Apr 5 TCS 1p [n.y.] Dec 24 ACS 1p [n.d.] ACS 1p

Vidal, Gore, 1925-

F51 [1969 Nov 29] ALS 1p [1970 Jul 15] ALS 2p 1978 [Mar 14] ALS 2p [May 8] ALS 2p [Aug] TLS 2p [Dec 13] ALS 2p 1979 [Oct 2] ALS 2p [Nov 13] ALS 2p

F52 1983 [Aug 31] ALS 2p [Dec 5] ALS 2p 1984 [Apr 30] TLS 2p [Jun 15] TLS 2p 1985 [Feb 18] TLS 2p [ca. 1985] TLS 2p [n.d.] ALS 2p [n.d.] ALS 2p [n.d.] TLS 2p [n.d.] TLS 2p

Waugh, Alec, 1898-

F53 [1968 Nov 7] ACS 1p 1969 Aug 11 ALS 1p 1970 Dec 26 ALS 1p 1971 [Jun 5] ACS 1p Oct 16 ALS 1p Dec 16 ALS 1p 1972 Aug 14 ALS 1p 1973 Mar 24 ALS 1p May 14 ALS 2p Dec 22 ALS 1p

F54 1974 Aug 3 ALS 1p 1975 Jul 26 ALS 1p Dec 22 ALS 1p 1977 Nov 20 ALS 1p 1978 Jan 6 ALS 1p 1979 Mar 7 ALS 1p Jul 28 ALS 1p 1981 Feb 23 AL 1p 1971 [Nov] ALS 1p [n.d.] ALS 1p [n.y.] Jan 27 ACS 2p [n.d.] ALS 1p

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.

F55 1958 May 25 TLS 2p 1969 Dec 11 TLS 1p Dec 23 TLS 2p 1970 Jan 28 TLS 1p May 9 TLS 1p Jul 15 ACS 1p Aug 24 TLS 1p Sep 3 TLS 1p Nov 11 TLS 1p

F56 1971 Nov 7 TLS 1p 1973 May 19 Telegram 1p Jun 24 TLS 3p 1974 Mar 25 TLS 3p Apr 5 TLS 1p 1976 Feb 27 TLS 2p Mar 21 TLS 1p Note: Includes a letter from Ardis Blackburn to Williams. 1979 Aug 31 TLS 1p 1981 Aug 20 TLS 1p [n.d.] ALS 1p [n.d.] TNS 1p

Series I.2. Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1975-1984 Small group of letters from authors and friends arranged alphabetically by author.

F57 Copland, Aaron, 1900- 1979 Feb 6 TLS 1p 1982 Nov 17 TLS 1p

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926- 1982 Aug 21 ACS 1p Note: Includes brief notes from Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky. 1984 Nov 7 ACS 1p

Purdy, James 1975 [Jul 6] ALS 1p Sep 9 TLS 1p

Sillitoe, Alan [1975 Apr 21] ALS 2p

Series I.3. Publishing Correspondence, 1955-1982 Publishers' letters to Paul Bowles, arranged by publisher and then chronologically.

F58 Herzer, A. E. (A. E. Herzer, Conzett & Huber) 1955 Mar 15 TLS 2p

Laughlin, James, 1914- (New Directions) 1964 Apr 21 TLS 1p 1968 Oct 28 TLS 1p 1969 Jan 6 TLS 2p 1971 Aug 26 TLS 1p

Cohen, Arthur Allen, 1928- (Holt, Rhinehart and Winston) 1968 Jan 10 TLS 1p

F59 Wenner, Jann (Rolling Stone) 1975 Mar 11 TLS 1p

Miller, Jeffrey, 1943- (Cadmus Editions) 1978 Feb 6 TLS 1p Dec 1 TLS 1p Dec 12 TLS 1p

Owen, Peter (Peter Owen Ltd.) 1978 Jul 3 TLS 1p

Martin, John (Black Sparrow Press) 1982 May 26 TLS 2p Series I.4. Paul Bowles letters to Jane Bowles, 1962-1968

F60 1962 Feb 23 TLS 1p [1965] Aug 11 ALS 2p 1966 Aug 15 TLS 1p Sep 3 TLS 1p Sep 22 TLS 2p Nov 6 TLS 1p Nov 19 TLS 2p 1967 Jan 31 TLS 1p 1968 Mar 10 TLS 1p Mar 15 TLS 1p [1968] Jun 3 TLS 1p

F61 [1968] Jun 11 TLS 1p 1968 Sep 7 ALS 2p Sep 17 TLS 1p Dec 23 ALS 2p [n.y.] Jan 9 ALS 2p [n.y.] Dec 9 TLS 2p [n.y.] Apr 29 TLS 1p [n.d.] TLS 1p [n.d.] TLS 1p [n.d.] TLS 1p [n.d.] TLS 1p [n.d.] TLS 1p

Series II. Manuscripts, 1973 and [n.d.]

Consists of manuscripts of Paul Bowles's writing. Titled manuscripts are arranged alphabetically. A substantial number of the manuscripts are written in notebooks. These notebooks have been assigned alphabetical codes, presumably by Bowles, and the notebooks are arranged by these codes. The titles of individual works within notebooks are listed when they can be identified; Bowles's exact title transcriptions are used when present. The manuscript for Jane Bowles's play, At the Jumping Bean, is also housed with this material and is filed at the beginning of the series.

F62 Bowles, Jane. At the Jumping Bean [play], [n.d.] Ts, 12 pp., corrected in Jane Bowles's hand. Accompanied by Paul Bowles's typed note of explanation.

Bowles, Paul

F63 The Spider's House [novel], [n.d.] -70 Ts [carbon], 450 pp., with 10 additional pages of typescript accompanying. Note: Photocopies of additional pages have been placed in the appropriate sequence within the manuscript. Oversize originals are in fragile condition and are housed separately in F. 70.

F71 Look and Move on with "Children Are Not Always Crazy," and -73 "The Laughing Weepers" Unbound sheets containing autograph drafts of these texts. Bowles appears to have used these sheets as a notebook. Following are descriptions of the individual texts.

F71 Look and Move On, [n.d.] Autograph manuscript, pp. 1-112, 61 leaves. First page contains Bowles's autograph notation indicating that this is a "Running translation of Mrabet's first Recording of Look and Move on."

F72 "Children Are Not Always Crazy," 1973 Jun 10 Autograph manuscript, 2 leaves. Bowles's autograph heading C3 appears at the top of the initial page; the draft is dated at the bottom of the final page.

Look and Move On, [n.d.] Autograph manuscript, 75 leaves, numbered pp. 113-246. Continues following the 2-page draft of "Children Are Not Always Crazy."

F73 "The Laughing Weepers," [n.d.] Autograph manuscript, 11 leaves, numbered pp. 1-18, with two unnumbered leaves.

F74 Notebook A Spiral-bound notebook, 84 leaves. Contains notes for Up Above the World.

6 F75 Notebook B 100 leaves. Contains notes taken in Thailand and notes for "At the Krungthep Plaza." Accompanied by two pages of Bowles's autograph notes and a telegram.

F76 Notebook C Bound notebook, 100 leaves. Contains Jilala Texts, The Chest, Earth [play], "Married with Papers," "The Qaftan," "Qrira," and "Chico."

F77 Notebook D Bound (top) notebook, 40 leaves. Contains running translations of Isabelle Eberhardt's stories "Outside," "Pencilled Notes," and "The Convert."

F78 Notebook F Bound notebook, 96 leaves. Contains "Three Girls," novel on U.S.A., Love with a Few Hairs, and "Sodi Mokhtar."

F79 Notebook G Bound notebook, 48 leaves. Contains running translation of stories from The Boy Who Set the Fire. Includes drafts of "Bohloul;" "Mehdi this son;" "The Saint by Accident;" "Si Ramadan;" "The Witch of Bouiba Del Hallouf, Alchagal, Larbi & Khemon;" "Mimoun the Fisherman;" and "The Boy Who Set the Fire."

F80 Notebook H Bound notebook, 86 leaves. Contains "Without Stopping," article for Omphales running translation, "Si Ramada," and "The Woman from New York."

F81 Notebook I 101 leaves, containing Love with a Few Hairs.

F82 Notebook J Spiral-bound, 43 leaves. Contains running translation of The Big Mirror.

F83 Notebook K Bound notebook, 62 leaves. Contains The Big Mirror.

F84 Notebook M 100 leaves, containing The Lemon. Alternate title, Day People and Night People, appears at beginning of text.

F85 Notebook N Bound notebook, 87 leaves. Contains notes on the Costa Del Sol Casablanca and running translation of Love with a Few Hairs.

F86 Notebook O Bound notebook, 46 leaves. Contains portion of unpublished novel by Mohamed Mrabet, and Jean Genet in Tangier.

F87 Notebook P, [n.d.] Bound notebook, 100 leaves. Contains The Lemon.

F88 Notebook R Spiral-bound, 40 leaves. Contains The Chest ("Karim," "The Hunter," "M'hend").

F89 Notebook S Bound notebook, 48 leaves. Contains autograph notes for Jean Genet in Tangier, by Mohamed Choukri and "For Bread Alone."

F90 Notebook T Spiral-bound, 92 leaves. Contains "Harmless Poisons," "Blameless sins," and The Big Mirror.

F91 Notebook U Bound notebook, 58 leaves. Contains The Chest [cover title]. Includes Bowles's translations of three stories from this collection by Mohammed Mrabet: "Zamar Zaman," "El Berred," and "Zoira;" all of which appear under different titles in the published collection.

F92 Notebook V Bound notebook, 100 leaves. Paul Bowles's autograph note on the initial page describes this notebook as "Other unpublished material by Mohammed Mrabet." Contains "Dead Men's Plants" (Bachir Alive and Dead), "Men are Lucky," "The Prophet's Slippers," The Boy Who Set the Fire ("Kif," "Doctor Safi," and "Moulay Abdelgadar").

F93 Notebook W Spiral-bound, 66 leaves. Contains "The Beach Cafe" (Mrabet corrected running translation).

F94 Notebook X Spiral-bound date book, 69 leaves. Contains Without Stopping.

F95 Notebook Y Bound notebook, 254 leaves. Contains Paul Bowles's autograph notes regarding Without Stopping. Text continued from Notebooks H, X and Z. Also includes biographical notes on Jane Bowles.

F96 Notebook Z 197 leaves, containing "M'Hashish," The Lemon, Without Stopping, and "Afternoon with Antaeus."

F97 Miscellaneous Empty file folder containing miscellaneous notes in the hand of Paul Bowles.