Robert Payne: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Payne, Robert, 1911-1983 Title: Robert Payne Collection Dates: 1918-1969, undated Extent: 20 record center cartons, 20 galley files (gf), 3 oversize folders, (osf) 1 document box,1 oversize box (osb) (25.62 linear feet) Abstract: Robert Payne (born Pierre Stephen Robert Payne) was an English novelist and historian. His collection consists mainly of manuscripts and miscellaneous material relating to his novels and biographies. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-3210 Language: English, German, French, Russian, and Italian Access: Open for research. Part or all of this collection is housed off-site and may require up to three business days' notice for access in the Ransom Center's Reading and Viewing Room. Please contact the Center before requesting this material: [email protected]. Administrative Information Acquisition: Purchase and gift, 1965, 1967 (R2562) Processed by: Jamie Kirkham, Heather Bollinger, 2012 Note: This finding aid replicates some information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Payne, Robert, 1911-1983 Manuscript Collection MS-3210 2 Payne, Robert, 1911-1983 Manuscript Collection MS-3210 Works: [Unidentified article on Atlantis], Tccms/ inc [14pp], nd. Container 1.1 [Unidentified article on failings of American motion pictures], Tccms/ inc [6pp], nd. [Unidentified article on first edition of T. E. Lawrence’s seven pillars of wisdom], 2 Tms/ fragments [1p each], 1 Tccms/ fragment [1p], nd. [Unidentified article on the Jews, Islam and The Koran], A and Tccms/ notes [9pp], nd. [Unidentified article on Julius Caesar and Cleopatra], Tccms/ inc [7pp], Ams/ notes [9pp], nd. [Unidentified article on The Sahara], Tms/ inc [10pp], nd. [Unidentified article on the Sybarites], Tccms/ inc [5pp], nd. [Unidentified article on translation], Tccms/ inc [4pp], nd. [Unidentified history of art: Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded pages with A Container emendations [601pp], nd. 1.2-4 Container [Untitled article on Gloucester fisherman], Tccms (12pp), nd. 1.1 [Untitled article on Israeli irrigation pipeline to the Negev], Tccms [4pp], nd. [Untitled article on the Holy Land], Tccms (7pp), nd. [Untitled article on national flags], Galley proofs with A corrections [4pp], nd. [Untitled article on planet Venus], Tccms (6pp), nd. Container [Untitled book from Russian by unidentified author], Tms/ inc [88pp], nd. 1.5 Container [Ancient Greece: Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded pages [49pp], nd. 1.7 Container [Ancient Greece] There was a dawn in Greece, Tccms [632pp], [c. 1963]. 1.8-10 Container [Ancient Rome], Tccms/ inc with few duplicated and galley sheets [328pp], nd. 1.11-12 3 Payne, Robert, 1911-1983 Manuscript Collection MS-3210 Ancient Rome, Page proofs [177pp], nd. Container osb 1 Ancient Rome: [Fragments], Tccms, duplicated and galley proof/ fragments with A Container revisions [209pp], nd. 1.13 An anthology of the poetry of the Western World from the earliest times to the Container present: [Rejected pages], Tms/ Xerox copies and Tccms/ pages [69pp], nd. 1.14 Aristophanes in New York, Tccms [2pp], nd. Container 1.6 The birth of Venus [play], Tccms [126pp], nd. Container 1.15 [The birth of Venus: Notes and discarded pages], Ams/ notes [93pp], T and Tccms/ Container discarded pages, nd. 1.16 The blue mountains, Tccms (52pp), [1942-1943]. Container 1.17 Boris Pasternak, Galley proofs [10 sheets], nd. Container gf 18 Boris Pasternak, Tccms [1p], nd. Container 1.6 Boris Pilnyak, Tccms (15pp), nd. [Brave Harvest: summary], Tccms with Tcc note [9pp], nd. Container Caravaggio, Tms with A revisions [406pp], 1968. 1.19-20 Container [Caravaggio: Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded pages [141pp], nd. 2.1 Container [Caravaggio] The swashbuckler, Tccms [400pp], nd. 2.2-2.3 Container [Caravaggio] The swashbuckler: [Summary], Tms (10pp), nd. 2.4 Catherine the Great, Tccms [1p], nd. Container 1.18 [Chiang Kai-shek], Tccms/ inc [77pp], [1946]. Container 2.5 Chiang Kai-shek, Tccms [423pp], nd. Container 2.6-2.7 Container [Chiang Kai-shek: Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded pages [129pp], nd. 2.8 [China awake], Tccms/ inc [40pp], 1945. Container 2.9 [Chinese diaries, 1941-1946] The phoenix in flames, T and Tccms/ fragments Container 4 Payne, Robert, 1911-1983 Manuscript Collection MS-3210 [Chinese diaries, 1941-1946] The phoenix in flames, T and Tccms/ fragments Container [33pp], nd. 2.10 Container [The Christian centuries], Tms/ inc with A emendations [625pp], nd. 2.11-13 Container [The Christian centuries], Tccms/ inc [590pp], nd. 2.14-16 Container The Christian centuries, Galley proofs with A corrections (142pp), nd. gf 5 The Christian centuries, Page proofs on galley sheets with A corrections and Container emendations and Tms/ insert [211 sheets], nd. gf 2 Container The Christian centuries, Page proofs/ inc on galley sheets [194 sheets], 1966. gf 4 [The Christian centuries: Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded pages [128pp], Container nd. 2.17 The Christian centuries: [Fragments], Tccms/ fragments [55pp], Page proof/ Container fragments on galley sheets [19 sheets], nd. 2.18, gf 3 Cleopatra, Tms (11pp), [1960]. Container 1.18 Communism: Dinosaur or octopus, Tccms (3pp), nd. Concord Bridge by Howard Horne [pseud.], Galley proofs with A emendations and Container corrections (104 sheets), 1952. gf 6 Container [The dead], Tms/ inc with A revisions [186pp], [1927-1928]. 2.19-20 Death of an empress: A play in three acts, Tccms with A title pages and A revisions Container [106pp], nd. 3.1 Container [Diary], T and Tccms/ copy/ fragments [123pp], 1946-[1947]. 3.2 [Dostoyevsky: A human portrait (fragments)], Tms, Tccms and Tccms/ Photostat/ Container fragments [15pp], nd. 3.3 Dostoyevsky: The last days, Tms/ thermofax copy (31pp), Galley proofs [8 sheets], Container nd. 3.5, gf 1 Dostoyevsky: The last days [Summary], Tccms (3pp), nd. Container 3.4 The Dowager Empress Tzu His, Tccms [1p], nd. Container 1.18 5 Payne, Robert, 1911-1983 Manuscript Collection MS-3210 Container The Emperor of China: [A play in five acts], Tms with A noteI [64pp], [1947]. 3.7 Eva Peron, Tccms [1p], nd. Container 3.6 [Forever China: Excisions], Printed fragments [approx. 100 fragments], nd. Container gf [Forever China (French translation)], Galley proofs (60pp), nd. 1 The fortress, Tccms with Tcc inserts [362pp], nd. Container 3.8-9 Container The fortress, Tccms with Tcc inserts [365pp], nd. 3.10-11 Container [The fortress: Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded pages [158pp], nd. 3.12 [Fragments], 3 T and Tccms/ fragments [15pp], nd. Container 3.6 Container The freedom of man: An anthology, Tccms [210pp], [1940]. 3.13 Gandhi, Galley proofs (3 sheets), 1969 September 11. Container gf 1 The gentle and the tough, Tccms [2pp], nd. Container 3.14 [Gershwin: Fragments], T and Tccms/ fragments [3pp], nd. Gladiators, Tccms [8pp], nd. The high malady by Boris Pasternak, Tccms with A workings (5pp), nd. Container [The image of Chekhov], Ams with A revisions [889pp], nd. 3.15-19 Container The image of Chekhov, Tms with A revisions and printer’s markings [483pp], 1962. 3.20-21 [The image of Chekhov] The face of Chekhov, Tccms with A emendations [484pp], Container nd. 4.1-2 [In search of peace: Fragments and notes], Ams/ notes [approx. 60pp in notebook], Container Tccms/ fragments [39pp], [1949]. 4.3 Introduction [to The island: A Journey to Sakhalin by Anton Chekhov], Tccms Container [38pp], nd. 4.4 6 Payne, Robert, 1911-1983 Manuscript Collection MS-3210 Irma, Tccms with A note on title page [161pp], [1929]. Container 4.5 Container The isles of Greece, Tms with A revisions and printer’s markings [246pp], nd. 4.6-7 The isles of Greece, Tccms/ inc [219pp], nd. Container 4.8 The lamb, T and Tccms/ summary/ inc [53pp], nd. Container 4.10 Laurence Sterne, Tccms (8pp), nd. Container 4.9 Lawrence of Arabia: [A triumph], Printed with A revisions, T and Tccms/ additions Container and inserts [246pp], nd. 4.11 Lawrence of Arabia: A triumph [Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded pages Container [134pp], nd. 4.12 Leonidas, Tms/ inc (19pp), [1938]. Container 4.9 The life and death of Lenin, Tms with A revisions, printer’s markings and Tms/ Container Xerox copies [approx. 970pp], 1963. 4.13-15 Container The life and death of Lenin, Tccms/ inc [494pp], nd. 4.16-17 The life and death of Lenin, Proof copy loosely laid in hard cover and dust jacket Container (672pp), 1964. 5.1-2 [The life and death of Lenin: Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded pages Container [33p], nd. 5.3 [The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi], Tms with A revisions/ inc/ Xerox copy Container [approx. 665pp], nd. 5.4-6 Container The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi, Tccms [1094pp], nd. 5.7-11 Container The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi, Proofs/ Xerox copies/ inc [40 sheets], nd. 5.12 The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi, Page proofs/ Xerox copy with A Container emendations (682pp on 345 sheets), 1969. 5.13-14 Container [The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi: Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded 5.15, 6.1-2 pages with A emendations [708pp], nd. Container The Lord Jesus, T and Tccms with A revisions and printer’s markings [487pp], nd. 6.3-4 7 Payne, Robert, 1911-1983 Manuscript Collection MS-3210 Container [The Lord Jesus] Behold the lamb in whom we are anointed, Tccms [495pp], nd. 6.5-6 Container The Lord Jesus: [Discarded pages], T and Tccms/ discarded pages [89pp], nd. 6.7 Lost treasures of the Mediterranean World, Tms with A revisions and printer’s Container markings [203pp], 1962.