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Anais Nin Papers
A Guide and Inventory
SPEC.RARE.CMS.51



Overview of the Collection:

Repository:Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Identification:SPEC.RARE.CMS.51
Creator:Anais Nin
Title:Anais Nin Papers
Dates:1946-1973
Quantity:1 Box
Description:Collection includes literarature, galley proofs, production files, journal copies, and correspondence.


Folder Listing:

Folders 1-11:
  1. Realism and Reality (Alicat Bookshop "Outcast" chapbook, 6)
    • Copy (without wrappers) with marked passages and with page of holograph. Pasted to verso of t.p. of a copy of On Writing.
  2. Seduction of the Minotaur
    • Carbon ts. Paginated 141-286
    • p.141-208 = ca. last 3d. of Seduction (p.111 of published book)
    • p. 209 - 241 = "Sabina" (Chicago Review 15: 3, p.45-)
  3. On Writing
    • Photocopy of ts. For Daniel Oliver Associates issue (A11a).
    • Photocopy of Daniel Oliver Associates issue.
    • Carbon ts. For Alicat Bookshop issue
  4. The Diary (1934-1939)
    • Uncorrected galleys
  5. "From Diary 4: Varda"
    • Photocopy: Published in "Under the Sign of Pisces 2:2, Spr. 1971
  6. "On Gaston Bachelard"
    • Photocopy. Published in Pisces 3:2, Spr. 1972
  7. "On Women's Liberation"
    • Ts. Published in Pisces 2:1, Winter 1971
  8. "Commencement Address, Philadelphia College of Art, June 1, 19793"
    • Ts. (revised transcription). Published in Pisces 4:4, Fall 1973
  9. Production File for A Spy in the House of Love
    • Includes correspondence, jacket proof, etc.
  10. Correspondence file for Nuance (Sans Souci Press, 1970)
  11. Correspondence with Peter Israel, William Targ.

Under the Sign of Pisces copy (Except for Nin ms, listed earlier)

Folders 12-17:
  1. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter, 1970)
  2. Vol. 3, no. 1 (Winter, 1972)
  3. Vol. 3, no. 4 (Fall, 1972)
  4. Vol. 4, no. 2 (Spring, 1973)
  5. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Summer, 1973)
  6. Vol. 4, no. 4 (Fall, 1973)

Under the Sign of Pisces (correspondence)

Folders 18-19:
  1. Benjamin Franklin V
  2. Miscellaneous

Ladders to Fire

Folders 20-21:
  1. Option Letter & Memorandum of Agreement, 1962
  2. Gunther Stuhlmann/Peter Owen Correspondence, 1990-91 (4 Letters from Stuhlmann to Owen)

Paris Revisited

Folders 22-23:
  1. Galley Proof, Capra, 1972
  2. Page proofs, Capra, 1972

Seahorse: The Anais Nin / Henry Miller Journal

  1. Volume 1, Number 1
    February 21, 1982
    Founder, Editor and Publisher: Richard R. Centing, The Ohio State University Libraries






Page last revised: Nov. 10, 2014

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