The Inventory of the Francine du Plessix Gray Collection #1212 Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Gray, Francine du Plessix (1930- ) #112A I. MANUSCRIPTS A. Novels B. Non-Fiction C. Short Pieces D. Poetry E. By Others II. COLLEG8 WRITINGS A. Notebooks B. Short Stories III. CORRESPONDENCE A. Personal B. Professional IV. PRINTED MATTER A. By FdG B. Reviews C. Publicity D. Research E. Literary Meetings F. Miscellany V. PHOTOGRAPHS A. SOVIET WOMEN (Photos taken on research trip) B. For RAGE AND FIRE 1 C. New Delhi Conference 1982 D. FdG. & husband E. Others 2 Gray, Francine du Plessix (1930 - ) #112A Deposit December 1994 [Headings and comments in quotation marks by FdG.J Box 1 I. MANUSCRIPTS A. Novels 1. LOVERS AND TYRANTS, Simon and Schuster, 1976. a. Setting copy. Typescript with bolo. corr., revisions and editor's markings. 9 preliminary p. and 357p. (#1, 2) 2. OCTOBER BLOOD, Simon and Schuster, 1985. Box 10 a. Holograph notes in blue ink with (oversize) extensive corrections and deletions in red ink on yellow, oversized pad. (#1) Box 1 b. Early draft. Typescript, few corr., missing pages. Total 96p. (#3) c. Typescript draft with few bolo. corr. 18 6p. [Last p. includes typescript note: "(This is the penultimate chapter of Part II, which is the second of three parts.)" (#4,5) d. Typescript draft, April 1983. Photocopy, 205p. (#6, 7) Box 2 e. Setting copy. Typescript with bolo. instructions to printer, markings by editor. 9 preliminary p. and 298p. 2 small holo. notes and envelope included. ( #1, 2) f. List of guests invited to a party at Simon and Schuster, in honor of FdG, October, 1985. Typescript with holo. 3 Box 2 markings. Many of the pages are photocopies. Some duplicate lists of names . 4 Op . ( # 3 ) 3. WORLD WITHOUT END, Simon and Schuster, 1981. a. Setting copy. Typescript with holo. corr. and revisions. Instructions to printer. 10 preliminary p. and 435p. (#4, 5, 6) Box 3 B. Non-Fiction 1. ADAM AND EVE IN THE CITY, SELECTED NON­ FICTION, Simon and Schuster, 1987. a. "Materials for ADAM AND EVE IN THE CITY" were arranged by author in ext~ndable envelope file. Exterior flap of file had color postcard "Musician Angel" pasted on flap. Postcard and Table of Contents, typescript, lp. ( #1) "I Politics and Salvation:" "The Ultra-Resistance" Introduction, typescript, 3p. text, typescript 25p. ( #2) "Nixonland" Introduction, typescript, lp. text, typescript 13p. (#3) "The Harrisburg Seven" "Harrisburg: The Politics of Salvation" Introduction, typescript, 3p. text, typescript 4 9p. ( #4) "Blissing Out in Houston" Typescript, 2 9p. ( #5) "Moonies" Introduction typescript 2p. "Moonies: The Heavenly Deception", typescript 19p. ( #6) "II When Memory Fails: Vichy France and the Jews" "When Memory Goes: The Rise and Fall of Klaus Barbie." Typescript 71p. (#7) Reprint, Vanity Fair, Oct. and Nov. '4 Box 3 1983. Part I, Part II. ( #8) "III Place" Introduction, typescript 3p. ( #9) "On Safari, East Africa," 1975 Typescript 29p. (#10) "Jerusalem" "In Jerusalem," typescript 52p. ( #11) "In Prague" "Twelve Sites of Prague", 1984. Typescript 25p. (#12) "Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress" Typescript 62p. ( #13) "A Family of France" "The French, Portrait of a Country Through a Family." The New York Times Magazine, October 13, 1985. p. 26-28 and p. 117-127. Reprint. (#14) "Touring the New China" "The New China", typescript 13p. ( #15) "California: Fitter Than Thou," typescript l0p. (#16) "IV Arts and Letters" Introduction, typescript 2p. (#17) "William Bartram and On Memorizing Poetry." "William Bartram: Record of a Lost America," typescript Sp. "On Memorizing Poetry: For Lycidas is Dead," 6p. (#18) typescript "Thomas Merton and Black Mountain", typescript llp. (#19) "Thomas Merton:Man and Monk" typescript. [FdG lists "Black Mountain" not available] "God - Watching in America," typescript 7p. (#20) "V Living as a Woman" Introduction, typescript 2p. (#21) "Chanel and Jane Bowles" "Chanel: What is 'Style'?" 13p. "Jane Bowles Reconsidered," 6p. 5 Box 3 (#22) "Clare Booth Luce" "Clare Booth Luce and One of Her Admirers",typescript, 14p. (#23) "Margaret Atwood and Madame de Sevigne" "Margaret Atwood: Nature as the Nunnery," typescript, 6p. "Madame de Sevigne: Mother Love," typescript llp. (#24) "On Friendship, On Women's Rites, On Lying & Deceit" "On Friendship," [Commencement Address, Barnard College, 1978] typescript, l0p. "Women's Rites" [Commencement Address, Bryn Mawr College, 1980] typscript, l0p. (#25) [Author lists "On Lying and Deceit" not available here. See FdG's explanation in introduction, Box 3, #1. Available in Box 6, #11.] "VI BECOMING: AN ATTEMPT AT AUTOBIOGRAPHY" "Becoming," Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, volume 2, p. 179-201. Reprint." (#26) [End of FdG's file.] Box 4 The following nine folders include additional material related to the essays in AD.AM AND EVE IN THE CITY, but were not included in FdG's file. Here they have extensive holo. corr. Arranged alphabetically. b. "Becoming" CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Setting copy. Typescript with holo. corr. and instructions to printer. [See also Box 3, #26] (#1) c. "Blissing Out in Houston (Introduction)" 6 Box 4 Typescript 2p. [See also Box 3, #5] (#2) d. "A Family of France, First Drafts" [Kept in the order they were stapled together]. Typescript with extensive holo. corr. and revisions. 67p. [includes 2 half p.] [See also Box 3, #14] (#3) Box 10 (oversize) e. "Harrisburg: The Politics of Salvation." Research notes. Typescript with holo. corr. in bound spiral notebook. (#2) Box 4 f. "Nixonland." Typescript with holo. corr., 13p. [See Box 3, #3] (#4) g. "When Memory Goes: The Rise and Fall of Klaus Barbie." Related interviews. Tape transcripts, typescript in French. Interview with Rent Andrieu, 21p. [There are 2 pages numbered p. 3} Interview with Daniel Cordier 2p. fragment. [ See Box 3, #7, 8] ( #5) h. Setting copy [as yet untitled]. Editor's holo. instructions to printer. (#6,7,8,9) Box 5 2. DIVINE DISOBEDIENCE: PROFILES IN CATHOLIC RADICALISM. Knopf, 1970. Setting copy. Typescript with holo. corr. and instructions to printer. Working title: "Divine Disobedients." (#1,2,3,4) 3. RAGE AND FIRE: A LIFE OF LOUISE COLET: PIONEER, FEMINIST, LITERARY STAR, FLAUBERT'S MUSE. Simon and Schuster, 1994. Early Research Notes: a. 3 bound notebooks. Holograph. "Colet Research I - May-June '91 - Provence" Box 5 "Louise Colet Research Notes May/June 1991 II" "On Tracks of Flaubert - Bovary Colet Sites, Traveler Notes - III" (#5) 2 notebooks (#6) b. Yellow pads: Holograph research notes 2 pads (#7) 7 2 pads (#8) Box 5 c. "Earliest notes Louise", Holograph photocopy. ( #9) d. Holograph notes, l0p. ( #10) e. Typescript research notes, ca. 60p. (#11) Box 6 f. Typescript early notes, 83p. (#1) g. "Marieton's Notes for Biography of Louise Colet." Typescript (computer printout) with holograph markings in French, 16p. (#2) Box 10 (oversize) h. "Notes on Promenades en Hollande and I&.L Derniers Abbes. Holo. 23p. (#3) i. "She" holo. notes, 7p. (#4) Box 6 4. SOVIET WOMEN: WALKING THE TIGHTROPE. Doubleday, 1990. Research material: a. Typescript transcript of taped interview. "201A" 22p. b. "Recent Soviet Fiction Biographies." Typescript with holo. notations. Incl. several short stories by Russian authors, trans. into. English. ca. 130p. (#4) c. "Extra sets TRKATSK early Tashkent." Transcript (computer printout) of taped interviews by FdG: "Tashkent Day - Care Center Tape One," 14p. "Irkutsk Conversation with Psychologist." Sp. "Irkutsk, Editor, VOSTOCHNAYA IZVESTIA, tape one." 7p. "Tashkent." 24p. fragment, lp. ( #5) d. "Express Chronicle May 88" lp. Data about Soviet family. Typescript in 8 Box 6 English with some insertions in Russian and holo. markings, 13p. (#6) e. Typescript and printed photocopies in Russian. (#7) C. Short Pieces Essays, articles, reviews, speeches and other short pieces. 1. "Autobiography" [on the subject of] "First draft." Holo. in bound notebook and notes, 2p. ( #8) 2. "Library." Typescript with holo. corr. photocopy, 4p. (#4) 3. "The Louvre" research notes for an article for Cond6 Nast Traveler Magazine. Holo., 12p. (#10) 4. "On Lying and Deceit." Typescript with holo. corr. and deletions, 7p. (#11) 5. "On Josef Koudelka." Typescript photocopy, 8p. (#12) 6. "The Role of the Artist in Contemporary American Literature and Art: The Post- Modernist Age." 6p. on 3 leaves. ( #13) 7. "Summer." Typescript photocopy, l0p. (#14) 8. "Diverse Lecture Notes '71-72" [List provided by FdG] Typescript with holo. corr. ca. 53p. (#15) 9. WRITERS AT WORK: THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEWS. Fifth series, edited by George Plimpton. Viking Press, 1980. Introduction written by FdG. Typescript with holo. corr., llp. (#16) 10. "Contemporary Trends in American Fiction." Background material for a speech at the meeting, Tokyo, 1982. Holo., typescript with holo. corr. Some printed matter included. (#17,18,19) 9 Box 6 11. Book reviews: THE NAZI LEGACY: KLAUS BARBIE AND THE INTERNATIONAL FASCIST CONNECTION by Magnus Linklater, Isabel Hilton and Neal Ascherson. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. KLAUS BARBIE: THE UNTOLD STORY by Ladislas de Hoyos. W.H. Allen. THE CHILDREN OF IZIEU. Edited by Serge Klarsfeld. Harry N. Abrams. Ts. 23p. THE WAR: A MEMOIR. By Marguerite Duras Translated by Barbara Bray. Pantheon Books. Ts. 9p. (#20) 12. "Inspirational Aspect of Non-Fiction." Speech ("I have been asked to speak of writing non~fiction in relation to my personal writing about one episode of the Holocaust which took the lives of six million Jews ih World War II. And the question that most frequently asked ... my series on Klaus Barbie ... why did you gravitate to that subject .. )" Holo. notes Sp. on 4 leaves and typescript with holo. corr. l0p. Mimeographed typescript course syllabus "The Holocaust and Faith." University of Santa Clara. 3p. (#21) 13. "Klaus Barbie--Synopsis for Installment II." Typescript with holo. corr. 2p. [See Box 3 #8] (#22) 14. "A Revealing Interview with Francine du Plessix Gray." Reprinted from Transition, Winter 1977-78.