Main content

Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot

Notifications

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]181 South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19717-5267

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the University of Delaware Library Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
F0838
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
1 item (2 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0838, Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1953 february 10 (inclusive)
Creator:
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
Form:
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
One handwritten and signed letter written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot.

American composer and author Paul Frederic Bowles (1910-1999), whose best-known fictional work is the novel

The Sheltering Sky, is equally known as a prolific translator.

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

This handwritten and signed letter was written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot on stationery from "Treetops, Merriebrooke Lane, Stamford, Connecticut," the home of Libby Holman (Reynolds). Included with the letter is an envelope postmarked Greenwich, Conn., February 10, 1953.

The brief two-page letter mentions that Bowles is in the United States and traveling with Ahmed (Yacoubi). He requests a visit with Gadiot, first wife of Beat writer Terry Southern.

Box 56, F0838: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, January 2009.

Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, March 2009. Further encoded by George Apodaca, October 2015.

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

MSS 0164 Paul Bowles collection.

MSS 0163 Paul Bowles papers.

People
Subject

Publisher
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2009 March 4
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, http://library.udel.edu/spec/askspec/

Collection Inventory

Paul Bowles letter to Pud Gadiot, 1953 February 10.
Box 56 Folder F0838
Scope and Contents

One handwritten and signed letter written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot. The letter is written on stationery printed: "Treetops, Merriebrooke Lane, Stamford, Connecticut," the home then of Libby Holman (Reynolds). Included with the letter is an envelope postmarked Greenwich, Conn., February 10, 1953.

Physical Description

1 item (2 pp.)

Print, Suggest