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John R. Hawkins '56 literary manuscript collection
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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041
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John R. Hawkins was born in 1934 and grew up in Massachusetts. He graduated from Haverford College with a degree in music in 1956; he met his long-time partner, diplomat James E. Baker, at Haverford. He was an editor with W. W. Norton, Downe Publishing, and the Franklin Library. He also earned a master's of social work and practiced as a psychotherapist. Hawkins died of lung disease in 2013.
The First Edition Society's initiative to publish a special edition of the works of more than 60 authors resulted in their correspondence with the editor of the publication, John R. Hawkins. Included in this literary manuscript collection are Simone de Beauvoir, John Cheever, John Kenneth Galbraith, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, John Le Carre, Norman Mailer, James Michener, Françoise Sagan, C.P. Snow, William Styron, Burbara Tuchman, John Updike, Leon Uris, and many others. Authors' typescripts for the preface to each represented work are also present in most instances.
The collection is formed around the correspondence of more than 60 authors with John R. Hawkins, editor of the First Edition Society of the Franklin Library located in Philadelphia. In most cases, this is combined with a 2-3 page preface, generally in typescript form to be published by the Society along with a work selected by the Society for a special edition.
Arrangement is alphabetical.
Gift of John R. Hawkins, 1992.
Original processing information unknown. Finding aid revised and collection reboxed by Lily Sweeney, September 2022.
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The collection is open for research use.
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Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Collection Inventory
This folder includes correspondence between John Hawkins and authors (and occasionally other members of the Franklin Library or other representatives of the author) regarding publication of the author's work in the Franklin Library's First Edition Society. Most entries in this folder also include the preface or foreword that each author wrote for the Society's Edition. Authors include: Robert Anderson, Louis S. Auchincloss, Vance Bourjaily, Dee Brown, Bruce Catton, John Cheever, Jane and Robert Coles, and Michael Crichton.
This folder includes correspondence between John Hawkins and authors (and occasionally other members of the Franklin Library or other representatives of the author) regarding publication of the author's work in the Franklin Library's First Edition Society. Most entries in this folder also include the preface or foreword that each author wrote for the Society's Edition. Authors include: J. P. Donleavy, Allen Drury, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner (there is no correspondence from Faulkner himself--Albert R. Erskine and Paul Gardner are the main correspondents), John Fowles, Antonia Fraser, John Kenneth Galbraith, Shirely Ann Grau, Gerald Green, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, and John Hersey.
This folder includes correspondence between John Hawkins and authors (and occasionally other members of the Franklin Library or other representatives of the author) regarding publication of the author's work in the Franklin Library's First Edition Society. Most entries in this folder also include the preface or foreword that each author wrote for the Society's Edition. Authors include: Justin Kaplan, Joseph P. Lash, John Le Carré, Anne M. Lindbergh, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, John Masters, Peter Matthiessen, Elsa Morante, and James Michener.
This folder includes correspondence between John Hawkins and authors (and occasionally other members of the Franklin Library or other representatives of the author) regarding publication of the author's work in the Franklin Library's First Edition Society. Most entries in this folder also include the preface or foreword that each author wrote for the Society's Edition. Authors include: Joyce Carol Oates, Alan Paton, Walker Percy, Philip Roth, William Safire, Françoise Sagan, Harrison Salisburg, William Saroyan, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Irwin Shaw, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Red Smith, and Charles Percy Snow.
This folder includes correspondence between John Hawkins and authors (and occasionally other members of the Franklin Library or other representatives of the author) regarding publication of the author's work in the Franklin Library's First Edition Society. Most entries in this folder also include the preface or foreword that each author wrote for the Society's Edition. Authors include: Stephen Spender, William Styron, Wallace Stenger, Irving Stone, Paul Theroux, and Barbara Tuchman.
This folder includes correspondence between John Hawkins and authors (and occasionally other members of the Franklin Library or other representatives of the author) regarding publication of the author's work in the Franklin Library's First Edition Society. Most entries in this folder also include the preface or foreword that each author wrote for the Society's Edition. Authors include: Leon Uris, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Eudora Welty, Jessamyn West, Morris West, Isabel Wilder, and Herman Wouk.
This folder includes correspondence between John Hawkins, other staff members of the Franklin Library, and authors about publication logistics including: printing, rights to publication, funding for the Society, and payments to authors.