The Inventory

of the

James Leo Herlihy

Collection

#1510

Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

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HERLIHY, JAMES LEO

Gift of 1967

# 107

1. MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Novel, first draft. Original typescript. Holograph corrections throughout. 299 p.

2. MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Novel, final draft. Original typescript. Holograph corrections throughout. 299 p.

3. ALL FALL DOWN. Novel, second draft. Carbon typescript. 311 p.

4. ALL FALL DOWN. Novel, final draft. Carbon typescriP.t. 310 p.

5, TERRIBLE JIM FITCH. One act play, three drafts. Typescripts with holograph c~rrections. 186 p.

6. Love and the Buffalo. Short story, two drafts. Typescripts with holograph corrections. 48 p.

7. Fright of Mrs. Yeager. Short story, two drafts, and one carbon copy. Typescripts with holograph corrections. 68 p.

8. A Ceremony for the Midget. Short story, two drafts and carbons. Typescripts with holograph corrections. 64 p.

9. Day of the Seventh Fire. Short story, two draft.s. Typescript with holograph corrections. 53 p. ·

10 "UTBU" Play, four drafts. Original typescripts with holograph corrections (156 p.) plus carbon and xerox copies.

11. "Streetlight Sonata"

12. "Streetlight Sonata" corrections.

Play.

Play. 99 p.

Carbon typescript 99 p.

Mimeograph copy with holograph

13. "The Moon in Capricorn" Play. carbon typescripts with holograph corrections. 107 p. ~

14. "The Moon in Capricorn" Play. Carbon typescripts 107 p.

15. "The Black Nun" Play. Carbon typescripts. 148 p.

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16. THE WITCH BRIDE. Unfinished novel. Typescript with holograph corrections. 94 p.

17. "A Breeze from China" Play, two drafts. Abandoned. Typescripts with holograph corrections. 244 p.

18. "Box 704" Television play. Five mimeograph and carbon copies, two containing holograph corrections. 98 p. each

19. Weeping in the Chinese Window. holograph corrections.

Short story. 19 p.

Carbon typescript with

20. The Astral Body of a U.S. Mail Truck. with holograph corrections.

Short story. 33 p.

Two typescripts

21. Love Letter to a Madwoman. Short story. Original typescript with holograph corrections. 10 p.

22. Laughter in the Graveyard. Short story. Original t·ypescr ipt. 20 p.

23. "Crazy October" Play, three original typescript drafts with holograph corrections. 333 p. One carbon copy with holograph corrections.

24. "Blue Denim." Play, three or more drafts in typescript, mimeograph, and carbon, holograph corrections. 99 p. each.

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25. Reviews, clippings, broadsides, photographs, programs, 4 volumes. (Including Mr. Herlihy's separation from the U.S. Navy, July 14, 1946. Pasadena Playhouse Associa~ion Certificate of Arts in Theatre. June 4, 1950.) ·

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A. Novels

HERLIHY, JAMES LEO

Addenda: September 1970

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1. ALL FALL DOWN. 1960.

First draft. Typescript with holograph corrections, ca. 350 p. (#1).

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2. MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Simon & Schuster, 1965. (Also titled: MIDNIGHT BOY)

Second draft, 1964. Carbon typescript with a few holograph corrections, 300 p. (#2)

3. PATIENCE-ON THE MICKMACK. "Novel-in-progress, 1961"

Typescript with holograph corrections, 123_p. (#3)

4. STRANGERS FROM HOME. ca. 1952-1953.

Typ$script with few holograph corrections, 212 p.

5, A SUMMER FOR THE DEAD.

Typescript with a few holograph corrections, 70 p.

( #1).

Carbon typescript with holograph corrections, 1 p. (#2)

6. THE WITCH BRIDE. Part One-Birth, 1951.

Carbon typescript, 86 p. (#3)

B. Plays

1. "Bad Bad Jo-Jo." (#4)

a. Typescript with holograph corrections, ca. 25 p.

b. Photocopy of typescript with holograph corrections, 2 p.

2. "The Black Nun." 1955. (#5)

a. Carbon typescript, 150 p.

b. Carbon typescript wi~h holograph corrections, 150 p.

c. Copyright registration.

3. "Blue Denim" 1955. (#6)

a. Early draft titled "The Children"s Comedy" Carbon typescript, 115 p.

b. Copyright registration titled "The Sleepwalkers' Children."

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4. "Box-Seven-O-Four" Television play, 1956.

Typescript, 80 p. (#1)

5. "A Breeze From China," 1957.

Carbon typescript with a few holograph corrections, 122 p. (#2)

6. "The Giant and the Ragpicker." 1956.

Typescript with holograph corrections, ca. 125 p. (#3)

7. STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME. of plays.

Simon & Schuster, 1969. Collection

Setting copy composed of typescript with holograph corrections, tearsheets and photocopies from published editions of "Laughs, Etc.," "Terrible Jim Fitch," and "Bad, Bad Jo-Jo." (#4)

8. "Streetlight Sonata", 1949. (#5)

a. Typescript mimeograph with holograph correction, 79 p.

b. Typescript, bound, ca. 80 p. Including:

3 photographs

1 playbill

2 clippings

5 Telegrams, June 1950

1 ALS, Cornthwaite, Bob to JLH, June 1950.

C. Short Fiction (#1)

1. "The Autobiography of Terrible Jim Fitch." Typescript with holograph corrections, 34 p.

2. "Casualty." 1950. Typescript with holograph correction, 10 p.

3. "The Jazz of Angels." Carbon typescript, 11 p.

4. "Laughter In the Graveyard." Carbon typescript, 20 p.

5. "Party Line." Also titled,, "Telephone Portrait of Scotty and His Three Women."

a. Typescript with holograph corrections, 6 p.

b. Typescript photocopy with holograph corrections, 6 p.

6. "The Sleep of Baby Filbertson." 1953. Typescript with holograph corrections, 19 p.

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D. Poem

"Sonnet." 1949. Typescript, 1 p. (#2)

E. Film Treatment

"The Scarlet Lily" by Edward P, Murphy. Treatment by JLI-L Carbon typescript, 54 p. (#3)

F. Unidentified prose

Typescript with holograph corrections, ca, 300 p. (#4)

G, Critical papers

1. On: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James joyce, 1947. Typescript with holograph corrections, 22 p.

2. On: TIME MUST HAVE A STOP by Aldous Huxley. Typescript with holograph corrections, 29 p.

H. Printed Material by JLH

1. "E Il Vento Disperse La Nebbia." Anna Bella, Milan, March 10, 1963.

2, "Off-Broadway: Little Theatre Show Business." Center, New York City, September 1954.

3. "The Fright of Mrs. Yeager." Esquire, October 1965.

4. "Pretty of the Bus." Eve, Venice, California, April 1958.

5, "The Day of the Seventh Fire." Florida Quarterly, Summer 1967.

6. "The Astral Body of a U.S. Mail Truck" Mademoiselle, February 1963.

7. "Es Ist So Hubsch Im Bus Bei Nacht." Der Monat, Berlin, February 1960.

8. "A Summer for the Dead." Paris Review, Summer 1955.

9, "Laughs, Etc." Playboy, July 1967, ,,

10. "Box Seven-0-Four," Practical English. New York City and Dayton, Ohio. September 13, 1956.

11. "Terrible Jim Fitch," Rogue, New York City, October 1967.

I. Biographical data.

Current Biography, September 1961,

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Addenda: January 1971

THE SEASON OF THE WITCH. Simon & Schuster, 1971.

First draft, Typescript and carbon typescript with holograph corrections, ca. 750 p.

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HERLIHY, JAMES LEO #107

Addenda: Jan. 1996

I. CORRFSPONDENCE A 20 TLS from James Kirkwood to JH

1. n.d. (10) 2. July 1977 3. Aug. 1977 (2) 4. Sept. 1979 5. Jan. 19, 1985 6. April 5, 1985 7. Jan. 1, 1986 8. Sept. 9, 1988 9. Oct. 31, 1988

B. Poems sent from James Kirkwood to JH, typescript, n.d. 1. "A_ngels" 2. "Leaves" 3. "Love PJ:fair" 4. "Mildred told me ... " 5. "A Poem a Day Keeps the Doctor Away" 6. "What I'd rather be ... " 7. "Whjlst Walking Through the Woods" 8. ''Wishes"