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Born on February 19, 1902, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Kay Boyle has been known for her work and achievements as a poet, short story writer, novelist, journalist, teacher, and political activist. One of the most prominent American expatriates during the 1920s and 1930s, much of Kay Boyle’s work reflects the influences of that literary circle.
Kay Boyle’s first contribution to a national publication was a letter to the editor, published in Harriet Monroe’s
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in 1921. By 1922, with the support and encouragement of her mother, Boyle moved to New York City and began working for the fashion writer Margery Welles. Later that year she began working for Lola Ridge, the American editor of Broom, an art and literary magazine published by Harold Loeb in Rome and later in Berlin. While working in New York, Boyle had contact with many literary persons and developed her writing. In January of 1923, her poem, “Morning,” was published in Broom.In 1922, Kay Boyle married a French exchange student, Richard Brault. A 1923 visit to meet Brault’s family in Brittany, France, turned what was to have been a brief visit into a twenty-year stay in Europe. During her years in France, Boyle was associated with several innovative literary magazines and became acquainted with many of the literary figures writing for them. Her writing appeared in issues of
This Quarter, edited by Ernest Walsh, and transition, edited by Eugene Jolas. Through these editors and others she associated with such writers as James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Robert McAlmon, Emanuel Carnevali, and Harry and Caresse Crosby. It was the Crosby’s Black Sun Press that published Kay Boyle’s first book of fiction, Short Stories, in 1929. Crosby also published her translation of the first chapter of Rene Crevel’s Babylone as Mr. Knife and Miss Fork in 1931.In respect for her friendship with Emanuel Carnevali, Kay Boyle made a commitment to see to the posthumous publication of his autobiography. Her promise was realized in 1967, when
The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali was published. She compiled it from bits and pieces of writing Carnevali had sent through the ten years of their friendship.Robert McAlmon was Boyle’s lifelong friend.
Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930, McAlmon’s memoirs, was revised by Kay Boyle in 1968, with several supplementary chapters that chronicle her own experiences during the 1920s and 1930s.By the summer of 1928, Kay Boyle had met Laurence Vail, who was then Peggy Guggenheim’s husband. They were married in 1932. In addition to three children of their own, Boyle also cared for Vail’s two children from his marriage with Peggy Guggenheim, and her own daughter by Ernest Walsh, Sharon. Many of Boyle’s experiences during the 1920s found expression in her novels,
Plagued by the Nightingale (1931), Year Before Last (1932), Gentlemen, I Address You Privately (1933), and My Next Bride (1934).In 1934, Boyle compiled an anthology which was to have been titled “Short Stories 1934.” The original idea for the anthology was to gather 365 single-page stories to represent the year 1934 in fictional accounts. The anthology was eventually published in 1936 as
365 Days and included 97 stories by Boyle. Other contributors to the anthology included Nancy Cunard, Charles Henri Ford, Langston Hughes, James Laughlin, Robert McAlmon, Henry Miller, William Saroyan (who originally submitted 365 stories), Parker Tyler, and Emanuel Carnevali. The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories, also published in 1936, was a significant collection of Boyle’s short stories. The title story won the O. Henry Short Story Award for 1935. She continued to write short stories throughout her life, including a late collection, Life Being the Best and Other Stories (1988).In her later years, Kay Boyle was recognized for her political activism. Fostered by her mother in the belief that privilege demanded social responsibility, she championed integration, civil rights, the ban of nuclear weapons, and America’s withdrawal from Vietnam.
Kay Boyle died December 27, 1992, at the Redwoods, a retirement community in Mill Valley, California.
Maritine, James J. (ed.) American Novelists, 1910-1945. Part I. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 9. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981. Pages 83-92.Quartermain, Peter (ed.) American Poets, 1880-1945. Second Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1986. Pages 45-51.Rood, Karen Lane (ed.) American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 4. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980. Pages 46-56.
The Kay Boyle Papers, spanning the dates 1930–1991 (bulk dates 1960–1986), comprise over six linear feet of correspondence, manuscript drafts written by Boyle, research notes and articles collected by Boyle, and various ephemera.
The correspondence section includes letters from family and professional colleagues, with a significant collection of eleven letters from British writer, James Stern. Additionally, Series I includes letters from such literary notables as Maya Angelou, Ishmael Reed, and Virgil Thomson.
Series II, which consists of manuscript material written by Kay Boyle, includes articles, a play, book reviews, a novel, poems, and drafts toward several works of nonfiction. Research material and drafts of her unpublished histories, "The Noblest Witnesses: A Modern History of Germany" and "A History of German Women," comprise over four boxes of these papers. Boyle's one act play, "The Double Cage", based on the life and letters of Rosa Luxenburg, is also unpublished and the only play known to be written by Boyle. Drafts of Boyle's translation of Rene Crevel's
Babylon and Boyle's letters to Robert McAlmon, which were included in her revision of his Being Geniuses Together 1920-1930 are also included in this collectionSeries II also includes drafts of articles, poems, book reviews, speeches, and pages of the underground novel,
The Underground Woman, all written by Boyle. Although the majority of Boyle's articles concern topics related to Germany, there are essays in this section on the American male, American writers, and writing and language. Boyle's book reviews are almost exclusively related to books written by German authors. The section of lectures and speeches includes an eulogy for San Francisco mayor George Moscone, a speech delivered at a protest against the Vietnam war, and an address written for a 1991 meeting of Amnesty International.Drafts of three poems composed by Kay Boyle are found in Series II, including two titled "Sanci" and "Mothers." Several other poems, or fragments of Boyle's poems, are also available on the verso of notes found in the research file in Series VI.
Series III consists of two pieces about Boyle: an introduction to Sandra Spanier's biography,
Kay Boyle, and Helga Einsele's "A Friendship Across Two Continents." Series IV comprises miscellaneous items related to Boyle, including her 1976 passport, an appointment book (which includes thoughts about William Carlos Williams and Rene Crevel, as well as chapter outlines for The Underground Woman), a contract for the publication of Fifty Stories, an autograph notebook, and a copy of her lawsuit against The Paget Press. Series V includes a variety of journals, magazines, clippings, and tear sheets collected by Boyle. The material supports her research on Germany or pertains to social issues with which Boyle was concerned, such as the Vietnam War and labor issues.Series VI contains Boyle's file of research material arranged by subject. It includes her autograph notes and collection of articles toward her history of Germany. Because Boyle recycled paper by using the back, the notes in this file are occasionally written on the verso of poems or correspondence. These poems or letters are noted in the folder descriptions.
Boxes 1-15: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes Box 16: Shelved in SPEC MSS record center cartonsRemovals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases
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Collection Inventory
Includes a signed contract (1985) for Boyle's reading for the Library, letters, and a catalog.
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Autograph letter signed
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Letters from Boyle to the following individuals.
Autograph Letter (draft). Includes the James Joyce Foundation Newsletter (1984 Apr).
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Typed Letter (c) signed
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Autograph Letter (draft)
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Autograph Letter, Incomplete
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Letters concerning a publication in honor of James Stern
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Autograph Letter Signed
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Editor of
Exquisite Corpse.1p
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Typed Letter Signed, Includes photocopied clippings on Amnesty International, Chile, and North Point Press.
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Typed Letter Signed
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Typed Letter Signed, Includes a clipping, two photocopied articles and a check from Boyle.
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Typed Letter Signed, Includes clippings from the
Catholic Worker. Physical Description1p
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Autograph Letter Signed
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Editor of
Fine Print writes concerning Mr. Knife and Miss Fork2p
Includes a Typed Letter (c) to Max Ernst and the Autumn 1974 issue of
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Typed Letter Signed
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Autograph Letter Signed
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Includes copy of a Village Voice article, and copies of letters to Reed from David Marsh of Rolling Stone and Pat Strachan.
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Articles about Reed from
Jet Magazine and The Real Paper. Physical Description2p
Typed Note Signed
Includes photocopy of "Fighting Words on the Future of the Earth" by Russell Means from
Mother Jones.Typed Letter Signed
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Typed Signed Letter, Includes two photographs.
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Includes clippings and photocopy
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Includes a clipping
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Includes photograph.
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Includes a photocopy of an article by Thomson
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Includes typescript (photocopy) of Boyle's manuscript with autograph corrections and additions by Toomer.
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Typed Letter Signed, Includes photocopy list of copyrights for Boyle's material.
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Includes correspondence from Helga, Fred R. Griffith, Bob, Nancy G. Mc Dermid, Drury Contracting, a plumber, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, George Popper, Dorothy MacK..., Ellen Binder (PEN), and Herman Kogan. Also includes a few letters from Boyle to others and clippings.
Arranged in chronological order.
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Includes correspondence from Boyle's children and grandchildren as well as some photographs and artwork.
Includes letters from Boyle's daughter, as well as photographs and artwork by Colver Vail as a child. Also includes a 1950 issue of the
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago Physical Descriptionca. 60 pp.
Three poems by Rosenblum and two poems unidentified.
Photocopy of a letter-poem, signed by Boyle.
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Letter includes a photocopy of Boyle's first published poem, "Monody to the Sound of Zithers," as published in Poetry and typescript (photocopy) drafts of her poem, "A Lesson in Anatomy."
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Includes the correspondence among Boyle's daughter Katherine Vail, Vail's lawyers, Kay Boyle, and others concerning her divorce and related matters.
Clippings concerning her performance in Peter Ustinov's "Romanoff and Juliet."
Letters written while a student at the University of Connecticut
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Letters from Paris
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Letters, photographs, and artwork
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Includes photographs which include Kay Boyle, clippings, drawings and art by "Bootsie" and Ian Franckenstein as children, and an English report by Devin Rosenblum
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Includes material toward an unpublished book on the history of Germany, a work on "A History of German Women," her translation of Crevel's Babylon, a play entitled "The Double Cage," an update of McAlmon's
Being Geniuses Together, draft pages for The Underground Woman, plus articles, book reviews, lectures and miscellaneous writings.An unpublished work on the history of Germany from Charlemagne to the eve of World War II. The subject file contains portions of the research material Boyle gathered towards this work.
Typescript (carbon) which states the purpose and extent of the project
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Typescript with autograph corrections and revisions
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Autograph, typescript, and clippings of research, with a typescript (carbon) untitled poem that begins "The bugles of headlines blow in the gutter"
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Autograph, typescript, and printed material
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Typescript and autograph notes
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Typescript, autograph, and printed material
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Typescript with extensive autograph revisions and additions, bears the note: "To follow the Formation of the Modern States"
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Autograph and typescript notes and text to be inserted at various points in the draft
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Typescript and typescript (carbon) drafts for this excerpt, also titled "Excerpt From Work in Progress." Each draft varies, covering different segments of German history. Drafts bear autograph revisions
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Typescript and typescript (carbon) draft bearing autograph revisions, with many added pages and two copies of the introduction and chapter one
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Typescript and typescript (carbon) draft for pages 126-245, with autograph revisions. Bears the note: "December 6th, 1963, revised copy"
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Typescript and typescript (carbon) draft with autograph revisions
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Typescript (carbon) with a few typescript pages, all bearing extensive autograph revisions
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Typescript and typescript (carbon) draft pages with autograph revisions. Pages 1-35, 64-120 and miscellaneous pages
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Four typescript or typescript (carbon) copies, with one draft bearing autograph corrections and additions
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Two typescript and one typescript (carbon) drafts of the index, all with autograph corrections and additions
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Copy of issue #3 of Prose, which includes Boyle's article, "Introduction to a Modern History of Germany."
Research materials, notes, correspondence, translations of texts from German, typescripts about noted German women, printed material, and an essay, "An Excerpt From a History of German Women." Folders of general material are followed by folders of notes about individual women, which are arranged alphabetically by name.
The letters discuss a proposed book on German women and contain statistics on German women in academic roles
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Typescript, typescript (carbon), and typescript (photocopy) drafts, some bearing autograph corrections and revisions
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Typescript and typescript (carbon) drafts (most bearing autograph revisions) of essays on German women, possibly for chapters for "A History of German Women." Titles include "Statistics about Women in German Parliaments 1919-1953" and "The Parliamentary Work of Women Under the Weimar Republic." Also includes an untitled essay concerning the German Women's Movement.
Autograph and typescript (carbon) notes, plus a copy of the article, "The Suffrage Movement in Western Europe," and the pamphlet, "Was Is, Was Will, Was Tut: Die Westdeutsche Frauenfriedensbewegung?" Also includes a letter from Elly Steinmann to Boyle
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Translation of a letter from Bonhoeffer and typescript (carbon) drafts concerning Bonhoeffer
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Autograph notes, clippings, and typescript draft, with autograph corrections, of a chapter on Huch
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Letters from Helga Kuhnert, photocopy of an article concerning the Kempner family, and a typescript draft of Boyle's chapter on Kempner
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Written by Ruth and Robert Kempner, this mimeographed study of women in Nazi Germany in divided into four parts. Copies bear page markers and autograph notes made by Kay Boyle
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Includes correspondence between Boyle and "Nele," articles and notes of research on Kollwitz, a typescript titled "The Diary and Letters of Kathe Kollwitz," and translations of some of Kollwitz's letters
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Photocopy of an article on Lange and a typescript draft of the chapter "The Childhood of Helene Lange"
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Autograph notes and photocopied articles
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Includes letters from Helga Kuhnert and Robert Kempner, photocopied articles, and typescript drafts of the chapter, "Lydia Rabinowitch-Kempner"
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Typescript draft of a chapter on Clara Schumann
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Includes a letter from Helga Kuhnert, photocopied articles, autograph notes, and a typescript of Boyle's chapter on von Arnim
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A copy of
Bertha von Suttner und ihre Tochter - Ein Versuch, written by Dr. Klara-Marie Fassbinder, with a letter and partial translation of this booklet by Sarah Agnes Marshall Physical Description73 leaves
Material towards an article on German post-war literature
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Kay Boyle's translation from French of Rene Crevel's Babylon. Although first translated by Boyle in 1930, only chapter one was published by the Black Sun Press as Mr. Knife and Miss Fork (1931). The drafts included here were published in 1985 by North Point Press as the complete text of Crevel's Babylone.
Includes photocopies of Boyle's letters (1930s) to Caresse Crosby about
Mr. Knife and Miss Fork, as well as correspondence with A. Watkins, Sandra Kirschenbaum, David Rattray. Also includes articles about Crevel, the copyright registration for Babylon (1978), a contract, portions of an interview with Crevel by Rattray, and a translation of Etes-Vous fons? (Are You Mad?) Physical Description81 leaves
Notes by Boyle toward the preface, tear sheets of articles and a photocopy of Crevel's "The Negress in the Brothel" (translated by Samuel Beckett)
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Typescript draft
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Numerous autograph, typescript, typescript (carbon), and typescript (photocopy) drafts, most of which extensive autograph additions and revisions
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Typescript (carbon) draft of Boyle's translation, with a few typescript (photocopy) pages
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Typescript draft, with some typescript (carbon) and typescript (photocopy) pages added, all bearing extensive autograph corrections and revisions. The draft includes both duplicate pages and missing pages
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Typescript (carbon) draft, with some typescript and typescript (photocopy) pages inserted. The draft bears extensive autograph revisions and has duplicate pages interleaved
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Typescript, typescript (carbon), and typescript (photocopy) draft pages, with extensive autograph revisions
A one-act play based on the life, personality, and letters of Rosa Luxemburg.
Includes autograph research notes, letters from Gerry Lukeman, and several articles
Physical Description61 leaves
Typescript, typescript (carbon), and typescript (photocopy) drafts bearing autograph revisions, including several miscellaneous pages
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Written by Robert McAlmon,
Being Geniuses Together 1920-1930, was revised with supplementary chapters by Kay Boyle and published by Doubleday in 1968.Also includes a clipping
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Published by Doubleday in 1975.
These pages refer to Shawn Wong and Edward Guerrero
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Boyle wrote numerous articles on a wide variety of topics, ranging from the American male to the German language.
Three typescript or typescript (photocopy) drafts, with extensive autograph revisions, and a copy of a letter from Boyle to "Paul"
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Typescript and typescript (photocopy) pages of a draft bearing extensive autograph revisions, and including Boyle's "Excerpt From a Long Poem for Samuel Beckett"
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The article celebrates the League's 50th anniversary. Includes correspondence with officials of the League about the article, research notes, and a draft of the article
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Typescript (carbon) draft, with autograph revisions
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Autograph notes, typescript (carbon) draft of the article, and copies of the issue of
Foreign Policy Bulletin (1960 Apr 15), in which the article appeared (24 leaves).Typescript draft, bearing autograph revisions
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Four typescript drafts, bearing extensive autograph revisions. Represent three different versions and include added pages. The first version is incomplete
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Autograph and typescript drafts, bearing autograph revisions
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Typescript (carbon) draft and letter
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Typescript (carbon) draft and clipping
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Typescript (carbon) draft with autograph revisions
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Typescript (carbon) draft with autograph revisions and clipping
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Includes two typescript poems titled "Sanci" and "Mothers," plus a typescript (carbon) of an anagram wedding message for Boyle's grandson Benjamin Goeser.
Public presentation given by Boyle, ranging from formal lectures to remarks at the memorial service for San Francisco mayor George Moscone.
Autograph first draft of Boyle's address to Amnesty International on March 9, 1991, at "Plough and Stars," San Francisco, California. Read in absentia.
Typescript and typescript (photocopy) draft
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Includes typescript (carbon) and (photocopy) drafts of her eulogy and the poem, "A Poem for George Moscone, Assassinated November 27, 1978," plus a photograph of Moscone and Boyle, and newsletters and flyers
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A signed typescript draft with some typescript (photocopy) pages, all bearing autograph revisions
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Typescript (carbon) draft, bearing autograph revisions and the note: "Lecture at Herald Tribune"
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Typescript, typescript (photocopy), and typescript (carbon) drafts, bearing extensive autograph revisions. Includes a story, "Where It Is Always Spring," an introductory paragraph, and a draft of autobiographical information
Typescript (carbon) draft, bearing autograph revisions and a copy of Liberation
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Autograph and typescript drafts, bearing extensive autograph revisions. Includes introductory comments, a section of commentary about writers and writing, and excerpts from Boyle's history of Germany
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Photocopied letter which concerns the Franckenstein scholarship at Low-Heywood Thomas School
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Signed typescript (carbon) draft
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Autograph pages from a notebook with corrections and revisions
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Includes a letter from a University of Delaware student bearing an autograph note by Boyle, a depiction of the development of the short story, plus notes
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Autograph and typed photocopies of drafts of letters to Ann Davidson and Paul Pintarich. The letters respond to their reviews of Spanier's biography of Boyle and also defend her mid-forties novels about France and the Resistance. Also includes a letter from Pintarich, copies of the reviews, and biographical information on Boyle
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Includes autograph notes and typescript (photocopy and carbon) notes regarding the Christian Church, poetry, and Somerset Maugham, plus a quote from Samuel Beckett, and comments on writing
Generation Without Farewell Physical Description4 leaves
Typescript (photocopy) with autograph revisions made by Boyle
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Includes a typescript (photocopy) with extensive corrections and revisions made by Boyle, a typescript (photocopy) with autograph corrections, and one page of revisions suggested by Boyle
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Includes a tear sheet of a crossword puzzle (
The New York Times Magazine) which includes a reference to Boyle and a photocopy of an editorial from The Torch regarding Boyle's 1986 visit at Valparaiso University.Issued to Kay Boyle Franckenstein
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Small leather notebook with autograph notes, listing telephone numbers and information about Madame DuPont and other individuals.
Appointment book containing autograph notes and a diary kept by Boyle. Includes material dated 1971-1972, 1978, 1980 and 1984. Entries mention Maud Gonne, Harry Moore, Henry Miller, West With the Night by Beryl Markham, and Howard Nemerov's Figures of Thought. Also mentioned are Gerassi, William Carlos Williams, Ian, Rene Crevel, as well as comments on faith, and writing. A poem titled "The Road" is present, as are chapter outlines for The Underground Woman
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Contract between Boyle and Penguin Books Limited (England) for hardcover and paperback editions of Boyle's
Fifty Stories Physical Description4 leaves
Typescript copy of the lawsuit and correspondence related to Boyle's legal action (handled by Jerome M. Garchik) against Paget Press for printing an excerpt from
Being Geniuses Together without permission and including a photograph of Kay Boyle. The excerpt appeared as the preface to Confessions of a Harvard Man (memoir of Harold Stearns) Physical Description28 leaves
Photograph of a military supply operation
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Autograph list made by Boyle on a manilla folder
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Boyle's autograph notes written in May 1977, for her doctor, in which she describes her medical problems. Also includes notes made by Boyle's daughter, describing her mother's behavior following her surgery on October 10, 1990.
Telephone book
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Autograph note of appreciation with various signed messages
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Christmas messages on an oversize scroll, one says: "Ho Chi Minh Kay Boyle is Going to Win!"
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Empty notebook, packets of mounting corners, paper bag and a scarf
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Includes journals, magazines, tear sheets, and clippings, on topics related to Germany and social issues.
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Issues include the Vietnam War, peace, and labor relations
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A file of research material on a variety of subjects, most of which Boyle used in writing chapters of her unpublished history of Germany. Includes autograph notes, clippings, tear sheets, as well as typescript and typescript (carbon) draft pages. Some poems and drafts of letters are found on the verso of some of the notes. Such items are noted in the folder list.
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with untitled autograph poem and typescript (carbon) poem titled "Print From a Lucite Block."
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with typescript poem, bearing autograph corrections, titled "Rendezvous."
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