James M. Cain Papers
A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of
Congress
Prepared by Allan Teichroew
Manuscript Division,
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2008
Contact information:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division,
2009
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009011
Title: James M. Cain Papers
Span Dates: 1901-1978
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1925-1978)
ID No.: MSS47399
Creator:
Cain, James M. (James
Mallahan), 1892-1977
Extent: 30,000
items;
94 containers;
36 linear feet
Language: Collection material in
English
Repository:
Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Author, journalist, and
screenwriter. Correspondence, writings, legal and financial records, family
papers, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Cain's work as a
journalist and to his career as a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped
by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
Personal Names
Angoff, Charles, 1902-1979--Correspondence.
Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956.
Bergman, B. A.--Correspondence.
Boddy, E. Manchester (Elias Manchester)--Correspondence.
Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977.
Cairns, Huntington, 1904-1985--Correspondence.
Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959--Correspondence.
Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977--Correspondence.
Cummings, Constance, 1910---Correspondence.
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979--Correspondence.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Gibbs, Wolcott, 1902-1958--Correspondence.
Goetz, Ruth--Correspondence.
Griffith, La Nora--Correspondence.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Hornblow, Arthur, 1893-1976--Correspondence.
Hume, Paul, 1915-2001--Correspondence.
Kahn, E. J. (Ely Jacques), 1916---Correspondence.
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984--Correspondence.
Knopf, Blanche W., 1894-1966--Correspondence.
Krock, Arthur, 1886---Correspondence.
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974--Correspondence.
Madden, David, 1933---Correspondence.
Malcolm, Gilbert, 1892-1965--Correspondence.
Markey, Morris, 1899-1950--Correspondence.
McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980--Correspondence.
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Correspondence.
Nathan, Robert, 1894-1985--Correspondence.
Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971--Correspondence.
O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991--Correspondence.
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938---Correspondence.
Owens, Hamilton, 1888-1967--Correspondence.
Raphaelson, Dorothy Wegman--Correspondence.
Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983--Correspondence.
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973--Correspondence.
Sammons, Wheeler, 1889-1956--Correspondence.
Sinclair, Robert B., 1905-1970--Correspondence.
Stallings, Laurence, 1894-1968--Correspondence.
Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990--Correspondence.
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1882-1958--Correspondence.
Vidal, Gore, 1925---Correspondence.
West, Rebecca, 1892-1983--Correspondence.
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985--Correspondence.
White, Katharine Sergeant Angell--Correspondence.
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972--Correspondence.
Wolfe, Tom--Correspondence.
Organizations
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.--Correspondence.
H.N. Swanson, Inc.--Correspondence.
Harold Ober Associates--Correspondence.
Washington College (Chestertown, Md.)
Subjects
American literature.
American mercury (New York, N.Y. : 1924)
American newspapers--New York (State)--New York.
American periodicals.
Authors--Societies, etc.
Authorship.
Censorship.
Motion picture plays, American.
New York world.
Obscenity (Law)
Universities and colleges--Maryland--Chestertown.
Related Names
Cain, Elina Sjöstedt Tyszecka. Elina Sjöstedt Tyszecka Cain papers.
Cain, Florence Macbeth, 1891-1966. Florence Macbeth Cain papers.
Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977. Institute. 1976.
Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977. Mignon. 1962.
Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977. Past all dishonor. 1946.
Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977. Postman always rings twice. 1934.
Pringle, Aileen, b. 1895. Aileen Pringle papers.
Occupations
Authors.
Journalists.
Screenwriters.
Provenance:The papers of James M. Cain, author, journalist, and screenwriter,
were given to the Library of Congress by Cain and his literary executor, Alice
M. Piper, between 1966 and 1986. An addition was given by Bruce Howard and I.
Michael Schulman in 1983, and other material was purchased in 1983 and
1991.
Processing History:The collection was processed in 1977 and expanded between 1982 and
1995. The finding aid was revised in 2008.
Additional Guides:A description of the James M. Cain Papers was published in
Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division,
1983, pp. 26-29.
Transfers:Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other
custodial divisions of the Library. Prints and photographs have been
transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division. Phonodiscs have been
transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the James M. Cain
Papers.
Copyright Status:Copyright in the unpublished writings of James M. Cain in these papers
and in other collections in the custody of the Library of Congress is reserved.
Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division for further information.
Access and Restrictions:The Cain Papers are open to research. Researchers are advised to
contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are
stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for
research use.
Preferred Citation:Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the
following information: Container number, James M. Cain Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
| Date |
Event |
| 1892, July 1 |
Born, Annapolis, Md. |
| 1910 |
A.B., Washington College, Chestertown, Md. |
| 1917 |
M.A., Washington College, Chestertown, Md. |
| 1917-1918 |
Reporter,
Baltimore American
|
| 1918-1919 |
Served with Headquarters Troop, 79th Division, American
Expeditionary Forces
|
| 1918-1923 |
Reporter,
Baltimore Sun
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| 1919 |
Editor-in-chief,
Lorraine Cross, official newspaper of the
Seventy-ninth Division, American Expeditionary Forces
Published with Gilbert Malcolm a history of Headquarters
Troop, 79th Division, American Expeditionary Forces
|
| 1920 |
Married Mary Rebekah Clough (divorced 1923) |
| 1923-1924 |
Professor of journalism, St. John's College, Annapolis,
Md.
|
| 1924-1931 |
Editorial writer,
New York World
|
| 1927 |
Married Elina Sjöstedt Tyszecka (divorced 1942) |
| 1930 |
Published
Our Government. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, a
collection of satirical essays that first appeared in the
American Mercury
|
| 1931 |
Managing editor,
New Yorker
Moved to Hollywood, Calif.
|
| 1931-1948 |
Magazine writer, syndicated columnist, and scriptwriter for
motion picture studios
|
| 1934 |
Published
The Postman Always Rings Twice. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf
|
| 1936 |
Began "Double Indemnity" (published in book form in 1943) as
serial in
Liberty
|
| 1937 |
Published
Serenade. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
|
| 1941 |
Published
Mildred Pierce. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
|
| 1944 |
Married Aileen Pringle (divorced 1947) |
| 1946 |
Published
Past All Dishonor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
|
| 1947 |
Married Florence Macbeth (died 1966) |
| 1948 |
Moved to Hyattsville, Md.
Published
The Moth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
|
| 1953 |
Published
Galatea. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
|
| 1962 |
Published
Mignon. New York: Dial Press
|
| 1965 |
Published
The Magician's Wife. New York: Dial Press
|
| 1976 |
Published
The Institute. New York: Mason/Charter
|
| 1977, Oct. 27 |
Died, Hyattsville, Md. |
The papers of James Mallahan Cain (1892-1977) span the years
1901-1978, with the bulk of the items concentrated in the period 1925-1978. The
collection is divided into Parts, A, B, and C and includes two small portions,
Parts D and E, added in 1993 and 1995. Parts A and B contain six series each:
Family Papers, General Correspondence, Writings, Financial Records, Legal File,
and Miscellany. The first two parts are closely related and overlap
chronologically. For example, a copy of a Cain letter might be in Part A, while
the original of the reply is located in Part B. For the convenience of readers
using Part B, therefore, the organization of the two parts is the same. Parts C
through E were separate additions to the collection and consist entirely of
writings.
Best known today for his hard-bitten "tough guy" novels, Cain was
already past forty when he published his first novel,
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934). It was an instant
best-seller. Before that he had trained as an opera singer, but failing, as he
said, to make the grade, he drifted briefly into the insurance business, tried
several years of college teaching, and then became a journalist in 1919. In
Baltimore, where he worked for two city dailies and wrote occasional pieces for
the
American Mercury, Cain met H. L. Mencken. Though sparse
for Cain's early years, the letters in the Family Papers and General
Correspondence series give valuable information about most aspects of his entry
into journalism. The earliest exchange with Mencken in the collection is dated
1930, but the previous decade is represented by the numerous reminiscences that
Cain furnished to scholars, friends, and literary acquaintances.
Also in the papers is retrospective evidence of the six years,
1924-1931, Cain spent as editor of the
New York World. Especially significant is his post-1930s
correspondence with and about Walter Lippmann, Arthur Krock, B. A. Bergman, and
Herbert Bayard Swope. The paper folded in 1929, and after ten unhappy months as
editorial helpmate ("26th Jesus," he called it) at Harold Ross's
New Yorker, Cain left for Hollywood. Writing screenplays,
his appointed task, soon disillusioned him, but the salaries were generous and
in Southern California he found the time and material to complete his novels.
Included in the Writings series are early holographs, typescripts, proofs, and
other manuscripts of Cain's many novels, shorter fiction, film scripts, stage
plays, and numerous nonfiction pieces. Among the more significant manuscripts
are those of his unfinished autobiography and the various drafts of
Postman, Past All Dishonor, Mignon, and
The Institute.
The richest part of the collection is the General Correspondence
series. The letters are longer and more numerous after 1948, when Cain was
married to former opera singer Florence Macbeth and moved to Hyattsville,
Maryland. Among the correspondents are Charles Angoff, E. Manchester Boddy,
Joan Crawford, Ruth Goetz, Allan Nevins, Seán O'Faoláin, Samson Raphaelson and
Dorshka (Dorothy Wegman) Raphaelson, Edward G. Robinson, Laurence Stallings,
Barbara Stanwyck, Rebecca West, and Katharine Sergeant Angell White and E. B.
White. In later years, Cain wrote frequently about the giants of literature he
had met -- Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Sinclair
Lewis, and Michael Arlen. Among a younger generation of writers with whom he
corresponded were Tom Wolfe (a Cain revivalist), David Madden, Gore Vidal, and
Joyce Carol Oates. Also in the collection are the letters of Huntington Cairns,
Raymond Chandler, James T. Farrell, Wolcott Gibbs, La Nora Griffith, Arthur
Hornblow (1893-1976), Paul Hume, E. J. Kahn, Constance Cummings Levy, Carey
McWilliams, Gilbert Malcolm, Morris Markey, Hamilton Owens, Wheeler Sammons,
Robert B. Sinclair, and Edmund Wilson.
Another topic reflected in these papers is the business aspect of
Cain's more than four decades in the writing trade, as documented in income tax
records, royalty statements, and correspondence with publishing concerns and
agents such as Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., H. N. Swanson, Inc., and Harold Ober
Associates. The correspondence with Knopf (both Alfred and Blanche) is personal
as well as professional, chronicling Cain's progress as a writer. In the 1940s
he led a controversial fight to protect authors' rights and earnings through a
centralized authority that would represent writers in the courts, in contract
negotiations, and in congressional legislation. Information on this effort is
located throughout the General Correspondence. In the Legal File are documents
regarding a law suit against Cain for alleged plagiarism, a case he won, and
some material pertaining to obscenity cases that plagued him and other writers
of the 1930s and 1940s.
Cain was married four times. There is a substantial amount of
correspondence with his second and third wives, Elina Sjöstedt Tyszecka and
Aileen Pringle, a silent-screen star, but the largest portion of the family
papers concerns his fourth wife Florence Macbeth's singing career and the
personal and financial papers from her previous marriage. Another topic of
importance is Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, where Cain studied and
taught and where his father, James William Cain, was president. The elder Cain
wrote an unpublished manuscript on the financial history of the United States
that his son donated to the Library of Congress as a separate collection.
The collection is composed of fifteen series arranged in four
parts:
Part A:
Part B:
Part C:
Part D:
Part E:
| Container |
Series |
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| BOX 1
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Correspondence and a small subject file. |
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The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of family
member and chronologically therein. The subject file is arranged by name of
family member and contains, in this part, a manuscript about Cain's father.
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| BOX 1-6
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Letters sent and received with related matter and enclosures. |
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Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization and
chronologically therein.
|
|
| BOX 7-34
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Holographs, typescripts, proofs, and other manuscripts of novels,
plays, film scripts, short fiction, and nonfiction writings.
|
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Arranged according to type of writing and alphabetically by title
therein. If known, the published title precedes the working title(s) Cain used.
Also includes miscellaneous research material and some printed copies of Cain's
shorter works, especially newspaper columns.
|
|
| BOX 35-37
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Correspondence, bills, receipts, income tax data kept on card
files, and other related matter.
|
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically
therein.
|
|
| BOX 38
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Case file material pertaining to an obscenity suit. |
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| BOX 38-43
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Awards, address cards, clippings, and miscellaneous printed and
near-print matter and various mementos.
|
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material. |
|
| BOX 44-50
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Correspondence and a small subject file. |
|
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of family
member and chronologically therein. The subject file is arranged alphabetically
by name of family member and thereunder by type of material, including
manuscripts, address books, correspondence, notes, lists, questionnaires,
research data, certificates, miscellaneous financial matter, legal files, and
other printed and near-print material. Most of the papers in the subject file
belonged to or concern Cain's fourth wife, Florence Macbeth.
|
|
| BOX 51-63
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Letters sent and received with related matter and enclosures. |
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Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization and
chronologically therein.
|
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| BOX 63-74
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Holographs, typescripts, proofs, and other manuscripts of novels,
plays, film-scripts, short fiction, and nonfiction writings.
|
|
Arranged according to type of writing and alphabetically by title
therein. If known, the published title precedes the working title(s) Cain used.
Also includes unarranged "outsheets," or discarded pages and miscellaneous
material such as research notes, interviews, and story ideas.
|
|
| BOX 75-79
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Correspondence, bills, receipts, card files of income tax data,
and related matter.
|
|
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically
therein.
|
|
| BOX 79-80
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Correspondence, legal briefs, contracts, leases, will and
testament, divorce judgments, and miscellaneous material.
|
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material. |
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| BOX 81-85
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Address cards, documents and certificates, medical data, Christmas
gift lists, clippings, and miscellaneous printed and near-print matter.
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material. |
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| BOX 86-92
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Holographs and typescripts of Cain's unpublished autobiography, a
holograph of an article on H. L. Mencken titled "Mr. M," and various holographs
and typescripts of unpublished novels.
|
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Arranged according to category of writing and alphabetically by
title therein.
|
|
| BOX 93
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Typescript drafts of articles and a memorandum concerning
Our Government.
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Arranged alphabetically by title of writing. |
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| BOX 94
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Typescripts, carbons of typescripts, and a tear sheet of articles,
film-scripts, and other writings by Cain and by Henry Myers.
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Arranged alphabetically by name of author and therein by
title.
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| Container |
Contents |
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| BOX 1
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Part A: Family Papers,
1927-1953
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Correspondence and a small subject file. |
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The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of family
member and chronologically therein. The subject file is arranged by name of
family member and contains, in this part, a manuscript about Cain's father.
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| BOX 1
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Correspondence, 1927-1953,
undated
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Cain, Elina Sjöstedt Tyszecka
(second wife), 1927-1944, undated
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Cain, Genevieve (sister),
1941-1951, undated
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Cain, Mrs. James W. (mother),
1943-1953, undated
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Cain, Virginia (sister),
1941-1943
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Holmes, Henrietta and Judson,
1944
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McComas, Rosalie Cain (sister),
1934-1949, undated
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Sjöstedt, Sofia, 1939-1943
(mother of second wife)
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Subject file, |
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Cain, James William (father),
memoir by James M. Cain, undated
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| BOX 1-6
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Part A: General
Correspondence,
1925-1960
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Letters sent and received with related matter and enclosures. |
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Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization and
chronologically therein.
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| BOX 1
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"A" miscellaneous,
1934-1952
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American Authors' Authority,
1946-1947
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American Mercury, 1945-1952
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Angoff, Charles,
1934-1947
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"B" miscellaneous, 1934-1954,
undated
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| BOX 2
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Bassler, Robert and Joan,
1942-1948
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Bergman, B. A.,
1934-1946
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Blizzard, Rae, 1946 |
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Boddy, E. Manchester,
1942-1948
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"C" miscellaneous, 1934-1960,
undated
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Cairns, Huntington,
1950-1951
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Catlin, Fulton, 1938 |
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Chandler, Raymond,
1944
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Clothier, William J.,
1945
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Crawford, Joan, 1946 |
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"D-E" miscellaneous, 1934-1937,
undated
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(2 folders)
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Erkko, Eero,
1941-1946
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"F" miscellaneous, 1934-1955,
undated
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Farrell, James T.,
1942-1943
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Fitzpatrick, Clarke J.,
1934-1946, 1951
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"G" miscellaneous, 1934-1955,
undated
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Gibbs, Wolcott,
1934-1944
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Goetz, Ruth, 1936-1949,
undated
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Goodman, Philip,
undated
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Griffith, La Nora,
1948-1950
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"H" miscellaneous, 1933-1950,
undated
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H. N. Swanson, Inc., 1942-1959
See Container 5, Swanson
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Harold Ober Associates, 1943-1959
See Container 4, Ober
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Hayes, Ralph,
1936-1947
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Hopkins, Harry Powell,
1934-1952
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Hunt, Rockwell D.,
1939-1945
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| BOX 3
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"I-K" miscellaneous, 1934-1951,
undated
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(2 folders)
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Knopf, Alfred A. and Blanche W.,
1929-1952, undated
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(4 folders)
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Krock, Arthur,
1934-1947
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"L" miscellaneous, 1934-1959,
undated
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Lardner, John, 1959 |
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Laurence, Vincent,
1943
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| BOX 4
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Lippmann, Walter,
1933-1947
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Los Angeles Times, 1934-1947, undated
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"M" miscellaneous, 1930-1954,
undated
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(2 folders)
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Malcolm, Gilbert,
1937-1949
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Markey, Morris, 1942-1951,
undated
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Mencken, H. L.,
1934-1950
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Mignon, Francois,
1950-1951
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Moley, Raymond,
1944-1947
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Morris (William) Agency,
1938-1944
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Morrow (William) &
Co., 1934-1944
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Myers, Henry,
1934-1942
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"N" miscellaneous, 1934-1959,
undated
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Nathan, Robert and Janet,
1944-1947, undated
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Nevins, Allan, 1948 |
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New York Times Book Review, 1950
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Newsweek, 1946
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"O" miscellaneous, 1934-1950,
undated
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Ober (Harold)
Associates, 1943-1959
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| BOX 5
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O'Faoláin, Seán,
1939-1942
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Owens, Hamilton and Olga,
1934-1951, undated
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"P" miscellaneous,
1932-1955
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Palmer, Paul,
1927-1945
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"Q-R" miscellaneous, 1934-1950,
undated
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Raphaelson, Samson and Dorshka
(Dorothy Wegman), 1934-1951
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Rathbone, Robert,
1941-1948
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Roberts, George,
1948-1949
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Robinson, Edward G.,
1944
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Ross, Harold,
1937-1951
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Ruby, Harry,
1944-1950
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"S" miscellaneous, 1925-1955,
undated
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(2 folders)
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Sammons, Wheeler,
1947-1950
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Saturday Evening Post, 1947
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Screen Writers' Guild, 1938-1953,
undated
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Sergeant, Winthrop,
1949
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Seward, William W.,
1950
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Sinclair, Robert B.,
1944-1951
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Sirich, Edward and Marjorie,
1934-1949, undated
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Stallings, Laurence,
1944-1946
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Stanwyck, Barbara,
1944-1960
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Swanson (H. N.) Inc.,
1942-1959
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Swope, Herbert Bayard,
1936-1946
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| BOX 6
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"T" miscellaneous, 1933-1955,
undated
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Targ, William, 1943-1947,
undated
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Time, 1944
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"U-W" miscellaneous, 1934-1954,
undated
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(4 folders)
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Wald, Jerry,
1944-1947
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Washington College, Chestertown,
Md., 1942-1959, undated
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West, Rebecca, 1945 |
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White, E. B. and Katharine
Sergeant Angell, 1941-1944, undated
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Who's Who in America, 1939-1945
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William Morris Agency, 1938-1944
See Container 4, Morris
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William Morrow & Co.,
1934-1944
See Container 4, Morrow
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Wilson, Carey, 1944-1947,
undated
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Writers' War Board,
1942-1946
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Unidentified, 1934-1955,
undated
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| BOX 7-34
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Part A: Writings File,
circa
1925-1977
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Holographs, typescripts, proofs, and other manuscripts of novels,
plays, film scripts, short fiction, and nonfiction writings.
|
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Arranged according to type of writing and alphabetically by title
therein. If known, the published title precedes the working title(s) Cain used.
Also includes miscellaneous research material and some printed copies of Cain's
shorter works, especially newspaper columns.
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| BOX 7
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Novels |
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The Butterfly
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(7 folders)
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Cloud Nine ("The Purification")
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(1 folder)
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| BOX 8
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(1 folder)
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The Enchanted Isle ("The Mink Coat")
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Galatea ("The Slim Girl")
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(3 folders)
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| BOX 9
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(3 folders)
|
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The Institute
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|
(2 folders)
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| BOX 10
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(5 folders)
|
| BOX 11
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(7 folders)
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| BOX 12
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(8 folders)
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| BOX 13
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(5 folders)
|
|
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Jealous Woman ("The Lady Waiting Upstairs," "The
Modern Cinderella," and "Nevada Moon")
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(2 folders)
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| BOX 14
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(4 folders)
|
|
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Love's Lovely Counterfeit
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|
(2 folders)
|
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| BOX 15
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The Magician's Wife ("Pagliaccio")
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(2 folders)
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|
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Mignon ("The Silver Mountain" and "The Pie
Rat")
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|
(4 folders)
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| BOX 16
|
(6 folders)
|
| BOX 17
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(5 folders)
|
| BOX 18
|
(9 folders)
|
| BOX 19
|
(8 folders)
|
| BOX 20
|
(4 folders)
|
|
| BOX 21
|
The Moth
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|
(5 folders)
|
| BOX 22
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(2 folders)
|
|
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Past All Dishonor ("Pot of Gold")
|
|
(6 folders)
|
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| BOX 23
|
The Postman Always Rings Twice ("Bar-B-Q'")
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
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Rainbow's End
|
|
(5 folders)
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| BOX 24
|
(5 folders)
|
|
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Serenade ("Sombra y Sol")
|
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| BOX 25
|
Sinful Woman ("At the Galloping Domino" and
"Sierra Moon")
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Unidentified fragment, pp.
387-396
|
|
|
Plays |
|
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"Buggy Ride" |
|
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"Clouds Over the
Continent"
|
|
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"The Concertmaster" |
|
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"First Mortgage" |
|
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"40 Hommes, 8
Chevaux"
|
|
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"The 49'ers" |
|
(6 folders)
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| BOX 26
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(3 folders)
|
|
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"Give Me One Day" |
|
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"The Guest in 701" |
|
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"Jubilee" |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
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"The Lifeline" |
|
(2 folders)
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| BOX 27
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(2 folders)
|
|
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"Lone-Star" |
|
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"Marble Halls" |
|
(3 folders)
|
|
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"Petting Party" (revised
version by Orrie Lashin)
|
|
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"The Postman Always Rings
Twice"
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
"7-11" |
|
|
Unidentified play in German and
English
|
|
|
Film scripts |
|
|
"Algiers," Pepe le Moko")
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
"Beachcomber" |
|
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"Build My Gallows
High"
|
|
(1 folder)
|
| BOX 28
|
(1 folder)
|
|
|
"Flame of Louisiana" ("Well of
Enchantment"), by Drexel W. Truitt
|
|
|
"Golden Venus" |
|
|
"The Glass Heart" |
|
|
By Cain |
|
|
By Marty Holland |
|
|
"The Governor
General"
|
|
|
"The Gypsy Wildcat" |
|
| BOX 29
|
"Hot Bus," with Herman
Michelson
|
|
|
"I Know You," by Keith Frings,
with breakdown by Cain
|
|
|
"Mister Sugar" |
|
|
"Money and the Woman," by
Robert Presnell, based on
Liberty serial by Cain
|
|
|
"The Moon, Their
Mistress"
|
|
|
"Pepe le Moko" |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
"Serenade," by Elliot Paul,
based on Cain's novel
|
|
| BOX 30
|
"The Shanghai Gesture," from
play by John Colton with the collaboration of Jules Furthman, Karl Vollmoeller,
and Geza Herczeg
|
|
|
"Ten Days of
Heaven"
|
|
|
Undated version |
|
|
1938 version |
|
|
"The Victoria Docks at
8"
|
|
|
By Cain |
|
|
By Rufus King, screen
treatment by Robertson White
|
|
|
"Wings of the Dove," breakdown
by Cain
|
|
|
Short fiction |
|
|
"Badger Game" |
|
|
"The Bishop's Hair
Shirt"
|
|
|
"Boatride" |
|
|
"Boogie-Woogie
Hour"
|
|
|
"Breakfast at
Bombo's"
|
|
|
"The Celebrity" |
|
|
"Comeback" |
|
|
"The Contralto" |
|
|
"Diving Venus" |
|
|
"Everything But the Truth"
("The Annapolitan")
|
|
|
"The Feud" |
|
|
"Fruit Flies" ("The Foundation
of Life")
|
|
|
"The Game of Skill" |
|
|
"The Ghost" |
|
|
"The Girl in the Storm" ("The
Storm")
|
|
|
"Guns" |
|
|
"Hip, Hip, the Hippo"
|
|
| BOX 31
|
"Hit and Run" |
|
|
"Hit, Run, and
Repent"
|
|
|
"The Jinniwink" |
|
|
"Joy Ride to Glory" |
|
|
"The Minstrel Boy" |
|
|
"Mistake in
Identity"
|
|
|
"Mommy's a Barfly" |
|
|
"Normal Indemnity" |
|
|
"The Old Hag" |
|
|
"Pastorale," |
|
|
"Pretty Puma" |
|
|
"The Renumbered
Page"
|
|
|
"Slave Girl" |
|
|
"Spangles" |
|
|
"The Star" |
|
|
"Stick-Up" |
|
|
"The Trumpeter" |
|
|
"The Whale, the Cluck, and the
Diving Venus"
|
|
|
Unidentified
fragments
|
|
|
Nonfiction |
|
|
Aphorisms written or collected
by Cain
|
|
|
"Armageddon: 1952" |
|
|
"Avis Rara" |
|
|
"Bonds" |
|
|
Book reviews |
|
| BOX 32
|
"Camera Obscura" |
|
|
"The Champion Catch-as-Catch
Can Plain and Fancy Word Doubter This Side of Kingdom Come" ("Will You
Hold")
|
|
|
"Charles Laughton: A
Reminiscence of a Revelation" ("Laughton")
|
|
|
"Christmas Past-'Silent Night
1918'" ("The Christmas I Best Remember")
|
|
|
"Close Harmony" |
|
|
"Coal Baron" |
|
|
"The Critics" |
|
|
"The Danger of
Treason"
|
|
|
For Men Only, introduction
|
|
|
"The Gentle Side of W. C.
Fields" ("Fields" and "Correction for the Record")
|
|
|
"The Girl in the Storm" ("The
Storm")
|
|
|
"Give Clothes" |
|
|
"The Holluschickle" |
|
|
"How to Tell Good Art from
Bad"
|
|
|
"I Punditti" |
|
|
"Job No. 1" |
|
|
Newspaper columns, 1929-33,
undated
|
|
|
"O Say Can You Sing It" ("The
Dawn's Early Light," "Our Anthem Is Singable," and "Our Anthem, Right or
Wrong")
|
|
|
"Oh les Crepes-Suzettes" ("Les
Crepes-Suzettes")
|
|
|
"Preface" (introduction to
unidentified anthology of four Cain novels, circa 1940)
|
|
|
"Preface to the 50th
Anniversary Edition,
Who's Who in America
|
|
|
"The Raccoon Always Rings
Twice" ("Trouble in Paradise, Or It Never Rains But It Pours")
|
|
|
"Remembrances of Kann's Past"
("Kann's: A Memoir")
|
|
|
"Re Sinclair Lewis" |
|
|
Review of Civil War
books
|
|
|
"Sabres and Armor" |
|
|
"The Sour Note" |
|
|
"Spaghetti" |
|
|
"Spirits" ("How to Make a Mint
Julep")
|
|
|
"That Which I Should Have Done
I Did Not Do" ("Great Expectations of 1976")
|
|
|
"Them Ducks" |
|
|
"Treason by Any Other Name"
("Treason: An Anachronism?")
|
|
|
"U.S.A.: Round
Trip"
|
|
|
"Walter Lippmann Had Style"
("Walter Lippmann: A Memoir")
|
|
|
"What Price
Chinchilla?"
|
|
|
"Where the Wild Things Are"
("The Wildlife Preserve")
|
|
| BOX 33
|
Miscellaneous |
|
|
Research note cards
|
|
|
Meat ("Magician's
Wife")
|
|
|
Red River
("Mignon")
|
|
| BOX 34
|
Red River
("Mignon")
|
|
| BOX 35-37
|
Part A: Financial
Records,
1934-1960
|
|
Correspondence, bills, receipts, income tax data kept on card
files, and other related matter.
|
|
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically
therein.
|
|
| BOX 35
|
Correspondence and related
matter
|
|
|
Bank of America |
|
|
Bills and receipts |
|
|
Dean Witter &
Co.
|
|
|
Gang and Kopp, Attorneys at
Law
|
|
|
Hanna and Morton,
Lawyers
|
|
|
Income tax |
|
|
Watkins, David |
|
| BOX 36
|
Income tax file |
|
|
1944-1952 |
|
| BOX 37
|
1953-1960 |
|
| BOX 38
|
Part A: Legal File,
1946-1947
|
|
Case file material pertaining to an obscenity suit. |
|
| BOX 38
|
Obscenity suit, Marcel Rodd case,
1946-1947
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
| BOX 38-43
|
Part A: Miscellany,
circa
1930-circa 1960
|
|
Awards, address cards, clippings, and miscellaneous printed and
near-print matter and various mementos.
|
|
Arranged alphabetically by type of material. |
|
| BOX 38
|
Awards and assorted notes, cards,
lists, and related matter
|
|
|
Printed matter |
|
|
Clippings |
|
|
American Authors' Authority
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
| BOX 39
|
The Butterfly
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Galatea
|
|
|
Mildred Pierce
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
Past All Dishonor
|
|
(1 folder)
|
| BOX 40
|
(1 folder)
|
|
|
The Postman Always Rings Twice
|
|
(4 folders)
|
| BOX 41
|
(4 folders)
|
|
|
Serenade
|
|
(1 folder)
|
| BOX 42
|
(4 folders)
|
|
|
"7-11" |
|
|
Sinful Woman
|
|
| BOX 43
|
Unidentified |
|
(6 folders)
|
|
| BOX 44-50
|
Part B: Family Papers,
1901-1977
|
|
Correspondence and a small subject file. |
|
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of family
member and chronologically therein. The subject file is arranged alphabetically
by name of family member and thereunder by type of material, including
manuscripts, address books, correspondence, notes, lists, questionnaires,
research data, certificates, miscellaneous financial matter, legal files, and
other printed and near-print material. Most of the papers in the subject file
belonged to or concern Cain's fourth wife, Florence Macbeth.
|
|
| BOX 44
|
Correspondence |
|
|
Cain, Elina Sjöstedt Tyszecka
(second wife), 1946-1974, undated
|
|
|
Cain, Genevieve (sister),
1945-1951
|
|
|
Cain, Mrs. James William
(mother), 1945-1953
|
|
|
Cain, Virginia (sister),
1943-1953
|
|
|
Girvin, Lois, 1956-1976,
undated
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Holmes, Henrietta, 1966-1977,
undated
|
|
|
Macbeth, Florence (fourth
wife), 1946-1950, undated
|
|
|
McComas, Rosalie Cain (sister),
1946-1977
|
|
(4 folders)
|
|
| BOX 45
|
Pringle, Aileen (third wife),
1948-1976, undated
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
Rutledge, Christine,
1966-1971
|
|
|
Tyszecka, Leo and Edie
(children of second wife), 1937-1977
|
|
|
Other, 1947-1969 |
|
|
Subject file |
|
|
Cain, James William |
|
|
Lecture on the Bible as
literature
|
|
|
Memories of St. John's
College, Annapolis, Md., by Ned Duval
|
|
|
Macbeth, Florence |
|
|
Address book and
cards
|
|
|
Concert history compiled by
Cain
|
|
|
Correspondence,
1946-1950
|
|
|
Notes, lists, and
miscellany
|
|
|
Questionnaires |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
| BOX 46
|
Research cards compiled by
Cain
|
|
| BOX 47
|
Correspondence, 1901-1971,
undated
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
Death, 1966 |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Family history |
|
|
Financial and
legal
|
|
|
Atwater Kent
estate
|
|
|
Bills and
receipts
|
|
(1 folder)
|
| BOX 48
|
(1 folder)
|
|
|
Family burial
plots
|
|
|
General correspondence,
1934-1954
|
|
|
Income taxes |
|
|
Macbeth, Alice |
|
|
Passports |
|
|
Spotswood, N.J., estate,
1922-1956
|
|
(3 folders)
|
| BOX 49
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Will and
testament
|
|
|
Miscellaneous |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Poetry, notes, and
writings
|
|
|
Scripts and
lyrics
|
|
|
Whitwell, Edward |
|
|
Correspondence with D.
Philip Dear, 1939-1940
|
|
|
New York Coliseum, Inc.,
1932-1938
|
|
|
Passports and immigration
papers
|
|
|
Royal Institute of British
Architects, 1933-1941
|
|
| BOX 50
|
Starlight Amusement Park,
1939-1940
|
|
|
War service,
1939-1940
|
|
|
Miscellaneous |
|
|
Printed matter |
|
|
Christian Science
scripture
|
|
|
Clippings |
|
|
Programs |
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
Scrapbook |
|
| BOX 51-63
|
Part B: General
Correspondence,
1920-1978
|
|
Letters sent and received with related matter and enclosures. |
|
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization and
chronologically therein.
|
|
| BOX 51
|
"A" miscellaneous, 1922-1977,
undated
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Angoff, Charles, 1957 |
|
|
Arlen, Michael,
1967-1971
|
|
|
"B" miscellaneous, 1938-1976,
undated
|
|
(4 folders)
|
|
|
Baker, Carlos,
1963-1964
|
|
|
Bartholomew, Ed and Sophie,
1955-1975
|
|
|
Bassler, Robert and Joan,
1959-1977, undated
|
|
|
Beard, Dita, and family,
1972-1976, undated
|
|
|
Bell Flowers,
1967-1974
|
|
|
Bergman, B. A., 1961-1976,
undated
|
|
|
Bernstein, Hazel, 1966-1969,
undated
|
|
| BOX 52
|
Bliven, Bruce,
1974-1975
|
|
|
Blizzard, Rae,
1953-1975
|
|
|
Boddy, E. Manchester,
1952-1967
|
|
|
Bode, Carl, 1952-1976,
undated
|
|
|
Bono, Chastity, 1975 |
|
|
Brinkley, David,
1967-1972
|
|
|
Brittain, Joan, 1971 |
|
|
Buyers, Ethel, 1966-1967
|
|
(4 folders)
|
|
|
"C" miscellaneous |
|
|
1946-1976 |
|
(3 folders)
|
|
| BOX 53
|
Undated |
|
|
Cairns, Huntington,
1950-1976
|
|
|
Caitlin, Fulton,
1961-1964
|
|
|
Chamberlain, John E.,
1951-1976
|
|
|
Cohen, Ilene,
1971-1973
|
|
|
Cooke, Charles, 1969 |
|
|
Crawford, Joan,
1962-1975
|
|
|
Culligan, Glendy,
1963-1965
|
|
|
Cummings, Constance
See Container 56, Levy, Constance Cummings
|
|
|
"D" miscellaneous, 1949-1977,
undated
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
Deck, Robin,
1973-1976
|
|
|
Decker, Karl, regarding Mona Lisa
article, 1946-1947
|
|
|
Devlin, Bernadette,
1971-1972
|
|
|
Dial Press, 1961-1976,
undated
|
|
|
Donley (R. A.) &
Son, 1963-1977
|
|
|
Dunklee, Leona, and family,
1967-1977
|
|
|
"E" miscellaneous, 1947-1977,
undated
|
|
| BOX 54
|
"F" miscellaneous, 1950-1977,
undated
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Family Weekly, 1966-1968
|
|
|
Fan mail, 1952-1977, undated
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Fitzpatrick, Clarke J.,
1951-1970, undated
|
|
|
"G" miscellaneous, 1954-1976,
undated
|
|
|
Gale, Frank, 1942 |
|
|
Gibbs, Wolcott,
1950-1958
|
|
|
Gibson, Daniel Z.
1952-1974
|
|
|
Goetz, Ruth, 1951-1976,
undated
|
|
|
Goodman, Philip, 1930 |
|
|
Griffith, La Nora and William,
1952-1957
|
|
| BOX 55
|
"H" miscellaneous, 1924-1977,
undated
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
H. N. Swanson, Inc., 1948-1976
See Container 61, Swanson
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
Harold Ober Associates
See Containers 58-59, Ober
|
|
|
Hayes, Ralph,
1959-1975
|
|
|
Higginbotham, Maurine, 1972-1977,
undated
|
|
|
Hornblow, Arthur, Jr.,
1966-1976
|
|
|
Hume, Paul, 1951-1974 |
|
|
Hyattsville, Md., post office,
1967-1974
|
|
|
"I-K" miscellaneous, 1950-1977,
undated
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Kahn, E. J.,
1962-1965
|
|
|
Knopf, Alfred A. and Blanche
W.
|
|
|
1933-1968 |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
| BOX 56
|
1969-1976, undated |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Krock, Arthur,
1942-1974
|
|
|
"L" miscellaneous, 1950-1977,
undated
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Lardner family,
1956-1976
|
|
|
Levy, Constance
Cummings, 1969-1977, undated
|
|
|
Lewis, Carroll and Jane, and
family, 1964-1977
|
|
|
Library of Congress,
1920-1975
|
|
|
Lippmann, Walter,
1933-1974
|
|
| BOX 57
|
Lowdermilk (W. H.)
& Co., 1951-1969
|
|
|
"Mc" miscellaneous,
1950-1977
|
|
|
McAleer, John J.,
1973-1976
|
|
|
McConnell, Martha,
1960-1975
|
|
|
McGrory, Mary,
1969-1975
|
|
|
McLain, Joseph H.,
1973-1977
|
|
|
McWilliams, Carey,
1956-1975
|
|
|
"M" miscellaneous, 1946-1977,
undated
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
Madden, David, 1961-1975,
undated
|
|
|
Malcolm, Gilbert,
1953-1965
|
|
|
Markey, Morris and Helen,
1949-1956, undated
|
|
|
Martinetti, Ronald, 1969-1975,
undated
|
|
|
Maryland Arts Council,
1971-1977
|
|
| BOX 58
|
Mason/Charter--Mason/Lipscomb,
1973-1977
|
|
|
Mayfield, Sara,
1968-1970
|
|
|
Mencken, August and H.L.,
1930-1960
|
|
|
Meriman, regarding Herman
Menkiewicz, n.d
|
|
|
Mignon, Francois,
1950-1963
|
|
|
Moley, Raymond, 1965 |
|
|
Morris (William)
Agency
|
|
|
General, 1930-1953 |
|
|
Haggard, Edith,
1934-1935
|
|
|
Myers, Henry, 1951-1974,
undated
|
|
|
"N" miscellaneous,
1950-1977
|
|
|
Nash, Ogden, l967 |
|
|
Nathan, Robert, 1975 |
|
|
Nevins, Allan,
1959-1965
|
|
|
New York Times Book Review, 1950-1970
|
|
|
Newsweek, 1962
|
|
|
"O" miscellaneous,
1969-1975
|
|
|
Oates, Joyce Carol,
1970
|
|
|
Ober (Harold)
Associates
|
|
|
1950-1958 |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
| BOX 59
|
1960-1975 |
|
(4 folders)
|
|
|
O'Faoláin, Seán and Julia,
1977
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Owens, Hamilton and Olga,
1950-1970
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"P" miscellaneous, 1946-1977,
undated
|
|
(2 folders)
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Pierson, Robert Hunter,
1950-1962
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Playboy, 1963-1978
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Posner, Barbara and Don,
1949-1975, undated
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"Q-R" miscellaneous, 1948-1977,
undated
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|
(3 folders)
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| BOX 60
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R. A. Donely & Son, 1963-1977
See Container 53, Donely
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Raphaelson, Samson and Dorshka
(Dorothy Wegman), 1945-1976, undated
|
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Rathbone, Robert,
1950-1968
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Reading, William R., and family,
1957-1976, undated
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Resek, Lura,
1966-1972
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Roberts, George, 1951-1970,
undated
|
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|
Ross, Harold, 1952 |
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Ruby, Harry, 1963 |
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|
"S" miscellaneous, 1946-1977,
undated
|
|
(3 folders)
|
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Sammons, Wheeler (
Who's Who in America), 1945-1959
|
|
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Santelmann, William F. H.,
1943-1944
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Saturday Evening Post, 1946-1967
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Schonthal, Ruth,
1967-1977
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Schulberg, Budd P.,
1959-1969
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| BOX 61
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Sergeant, Winthrop,
1963-1973
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Seward, William W.,
1950-1975
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Silberman, James H.,
1962-1964
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Sinclair, Robert B. and Heather,
1956-1977
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Sirich, Edward and Marjorie,
1951-1963, undated
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Spellman, Gladys,
1975-1977
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Stallings, Laurence, 1963-1968,
undated
|
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Stanwyck, Barbara,
1950-1958
|
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Steiner, George,
1968-1973
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Swanson (H. N.) Inc.,
1948-1976
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(3 folders)
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"T" miscellaneous,
1942-1947
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Tankersley, Fay,
1969-1972
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Time, 1950-1974
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Traver, Paul,
1963-1977
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Tydings, Millard and Joseph,
1950-1970
|
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|
"U-V" miscellaneous, 1950-1975,
undated
|
|
|
University of Maryland, College
Park, Md., 1952-1977
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| BOX 62
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Van Wyck, Terry,
1970-1975
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Vidal, Gore, 1975 |
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"W" miscellaneous, 1923-1977,
undated
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(2 folders)
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W. H. Lowdermilk & Co.,
1951-1969
See Container 57, Lowdermilk
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Wald, Jerry,
1957-1962
|
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Walt, James,
1956-1960
|
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Washington College, Chestertown,
Md., 1952-1977
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Washington Post, 1952-1977
|
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Washington Star, 1952-1975
|
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West, Rebecca,
1960-1976
|
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White, E. B. and Katharine
Sergeant Angell, 1954-1977
|
|
|
Who's Who in America, 1960-1975,
undated
|
|
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Wilder, Isabel,
1975-1977
|
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|
William, George H.,
1965-1971
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William Morris Agency
See Container 58, Morris
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Wolfe, Tom, 1965-1968 |
|
| BOX 63
|
Wood, Lois B.,
1951-1952
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Woodward and Lothrop,
1965-1977
|
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Wyatt, Victoria,
1971-1976
|
|
|
Wycherly, Alan,
1963-1969
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|
|
"X-Z" miscellaneous,
1938-1977
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|
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Unidentified |
|
| BOX 63-74
|
Part B: Writings File,
circa
1925-1977
|
|
Holographs, typescripts, proofs, and other manuscripts of novels,
plays, film-scripts, short fiction, and nonfiction writings.
|
|
Arranged according to type of writing and alphabetically by title
therein. If known, the published title precedes the working title(s) Cain used.
Also includes unarranged "outsheets," or discarded pages and miscellaneous
material such as research notes, interviews, and story ideas.
|
|
| BOX 63
|
Plays |
|
|
"The Butterfly" (adapted from
Cain novel by Ramón Gordon), 1962
|
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|
"The Defalcation" |
|
|
"The 49'ers" |
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
"Galahad Rides
Again"
|
|
(1 folder)
|
| BOX 64
|
(5 folders)
|
|
|
"The Guest in 701" |
|
(3 folders)
|
| BOX 65
|
(9 folders)
|
| BOX 66
|
(8 folders)
|
| BOX 67
|
(8 folders)
|
| BOX 68
|
(1 folder)
|
|
|
"The Postman Always Rings
Twice"
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
"Restitution in
Full"
|
|
|
"Sacred and Profane
Love"
|
|
|
Film scripts |
|
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"Congressional Investigation,"
television pilot
|
|
|
"Hayworth Story,"
prospectus
|
|
|
Suggested story line for Jack
Benny show
|
|
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Unidentified fragment regarding
"The Great Gatsby," prospectus
|
|
|
Short fiction |
|
|
"Afternoon at the
Beach"
|
|
|
"Blackmail" |
|
|
"The Circus Girl" |
|
| BOX 69
|
"The Dainty Little
Thing"
|
|
|
"Days" |
|
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"Dennis" |
|
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"Dreams" |
|
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"The Frogs" |
|
|
"The Guest in 717" |
|
|
"Guest Stars" |
|
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"Hatcheck Girl" |
|
|
"Hideaway" |
|
|
"Mignon" |
|
|
"Minor Child" |
|
|
"One of Eve's
Family"
|
|
|
"Payment in Full" |
|
|
"Power" |
|
|
"Serpent of the
Nile"
|
|
|
"The Shark" |
|
|
"Stick Up" |
|
|
"Suburbia" |
|
|
"Sunny" |
|
|
"Tawny Blonde" |
|
|
"Teche" |
|
|
"Vagabonds" |
|
|
"What Will Mildred Do
Next?"
|
|
|
"Yegg Chick" |
|
|
Nonfiction |
|
|
"Animals/Birds/Fish/Insects/Reptiles Do the Strangest
Things"
|
|
|
"Avis Rara" |
|
|
"Anecdote" |
|
|
Blurb for
The Detective by Roderick Thorp
|
|
|
"Coal Baron" |
|
|
"The End of the
World"
|
|
|
Foreword to Civil War Round
Table yearbook
|
|
|
Foreword to
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, by B.
Traven
|
|
|
"From the Kibitzer's
Angle"
|
|
|
"Good News" |
|
|
"Hallowe'en, 1971" |
|
|
[Henry Mencken] |
|
|
"Home Sweet
Homework"
|
|
|
"How We Used to Pass the
Time"
|
|
|
"Memoir" |
|
| BOX 70
|
"Nicky" (with Florence
Macbeth)
|
|
|
"Note on Norman
Mailer"
|
|
|
"The Pax" |
|
|
"Sliced Peaches for
Desert"
|
|
|
"Suffer the Little
Children"
|
|
|
"Sunken Treasure" |
|
|
"The Sweet Singers" |
|
|
"That Was
Hollywood"
|
|
|
"Thornton" |
|
|
[Vincent Laurence] |
|
|
"Washington Gridders Beat U. of
Md. 17-0, Upset Victory Ends 1905 Season"
|
|
|
Outsheets |
|
(5 folders)
|
| BOX 71
|
(5 folders)
|
| BOX 72
|
(5 folders)
|
|
|
Miscellaneous |
|
|
Interviews |
|
|
Backas, Margot,
1975
|
|
|
"Today Show,"
1969
|
|
|
Story and play
ideas
|
|
|
Unidentified
typescripts
|
|
|
Research |
|
|
Clippings |
|
| BOX 73-74
|
Note cards |
|
| BOX 75-79
|
Part B: Financial
Records,
1933-1977
|
|
Correspondence, bills, receipts, card files of income tax data,
and related matter.
|
|
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically
therein.
|
|
| BOX 75
|
Automobile |
|
|
Checkbook stubs, 1943-1969
|
|
(6 folders)
|
|
|
Contributions |
|
| BOX 76
|
Income tax file |
|
|
1935-1953 |
|
(18 folders)
|
|
| BOX 77
|
1954-1961 |
|
(9 folders)
|
|
| BOX 78
|
1962-1975 |
|
(13 folders)
|
|
| BOX 79
|
1976-1977 |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
Life insurance,
1966-1967
|
|
|
Property insurance,
1945-1971
|
|
|
RCA |
|
|
Royalties, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,
1933-1965
|
|
|
Watkins, David,
1950-1976
|
|
|
Miscellaneous |
|
|
Bill, statements, and related
matter
|
|
|
Correspondence |
|
| BOX 79-80
|
Part B: Legal File,
1933-1977
|
|
Correspondence, legal briefs, contracts, leases, will and
testament, divorce judgments, and miscellaneous material.
|
|
Arranged alphabetically by type of material. |
|
| BOX 79
|
Assault and battery case,
1972
|
|
|
Beatty & McNanee,
1960-1971
|
|
|
Brylawski, Fulton,
1951-1977
|
|
| BOX 80
|
Gang, Martin,
1938-1973
|
|
|
Caro case |
|
|
Contracts, 1937 |
|
|
Correspondence, 1934-1951
|
|
(4 folders)
|
|
|
Scripts, 1944-1949 |
|
|
Miscellaneous |
|
|
Copyright law, 1975 |
|
|
Correspondence |
|
|
Divorce from Aileen Pringle,
1946
|
|
|
Leases and contracts,
1936-1967
|
|
|
Will and testament,
1946-1948
|
|
| BOX 81-85
|
Part B: Miscellany,
circa
1920-1977
|
|
Address cards, documents and certificates, medical data, Christmas
gift lists, clippings, and miscellaneous printed and near-print matter.
|
|
Arranged alphabetically by type of material. |
|
| BOX 81
|
Address cards |
|
| BOX 82
|
Christmas and other
lists
|
|
|
Documents and
certificates
|
|
|
Medical reports |
|
|
Printed matter |
|
|
Clippings |
|
(6 folders)
|
| BOX 83
|
(9 folders)
|
|
|
Pamphlets, flyers, cards, and
related matter
|
|
|
Announcements |
|
(2 folders)
|
|
| BOX 84
|
Authors' League of
America
|
|
|
Cards |
|
|
Civil War
Roundtable
|
|
|
Dramatists Guild |
|
(4 folders)
|
|
| BOX 85
|
Maryland Arts
Council
|
|
|
Mason/Charter--Mason/Lipscomb |
|
|
Programs and
playbills
|
|
|
Screen Writers'
Guild
|
|
|
Trip to Mexico,
1937
|
|
|
Washington College,
Chestertown, Md.
|
|
|
Unarranged |
|
(3 folders)
|
|
| BOX 86-92
|
Part C: Unpublished
writings,
circa 1940-1977
|
|
Holographs and typescripts of Cain's unpublished autobiography, a
holograph of an article on H. L. Mencken titled "Mr. M," and various holographs
and typescripts of unpublished novels.
|
|
Arranged according to category of writing and alphabetically by
title therein.
|
|
| BOX 86
|
Autobiography |
|
|
"Cain and Cain" |
|
|
"The Cat, the Fiddle, the
Moon"
|
|
(8 folders)
|
| BOX 87
|
(8 folders)
|
|
|
Nonfiction, "Mr. M" |
|
|
Novels |
|
|
"Beauty, Booty, and
Blood"
|
|
| BOX 88
|
"The Cocktail
Waitress"
|
|
(6 folders)
|
| BOX 89
|
(9 folders)
|
|
| BOX 90
|
"The Forbidden
Game"
|
|
|
"Jinghis Quinn" |
|
(5 folders)
|
| BOX 91
|
(6 folders)
|
| BOX 92
|
(4 folders)
|
|
|
"The Kingdom by the Sea" ("The
Foundling")
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
"The Unregistered
Guest"
|
|
| BOX 93
|
Part D: Writings,
1948
|
|
Typescript drafts of articles and a memorandum concerning
Our Government.
|
|
Arranged alphabetically by title of writing. |
|
| BOX 93
|
"The Annapolitan"n ("Everything
But the Truth")
|
|
|
"The Dangers of Treason,"
1948
|
|
|
Our Government, memorandum regarding,
undated
|
|
|
"Sabres and Armour,"
undated
|
|
| BOX 94
|
Part E: Writings,
1942-1956
|
|
Typescripts, carbons of typescripts, and a tear sheet of articles,
film-scripts, and other writings by Cain and by Henry Myers.
|
|
Arranged alphabetically by name of author and therein by
title.
|
|
| BOX 94
|
By Cain |
|
|
"Brush-Fire,"
undated
|
|
|
"The 49'ers," undated
|
|
(2 folders)
|
|
|
"Galahad Rides Again,"
undated
|
|
|
"The Guest in 701," 1956,
undated
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
|
"The Modern Cinderella,"
undated
|
|
|
"Mommy's a Barfly,"
undated
|
|
|
"Pay-Off Girl,"
1952
|
|
|
"Signal Corps Story,"
1942
|
|
|
By Myers, Henry, "The Spaghetti
Aria," undated
|
|
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