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THE NELSON ALGREN COLLECTION:
GUIDE AND INVENTORY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview of the Collection
Biography of Nelson Algren, 1909-1981
Scope and Contents
Statement of Arrangement
Administrative Information
Index Terms
Detailed Description/Box and Folder Listing


Overview of the Collection:

Repository:Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Identification:Spec.rare.cms.60
Creator:Nelson Algren
Title:Nelson Algren Collection
Dates:1920-1983
Quantity:23 l.f.
Description:Literary manuscripts and correspondence of Nelson Algren.


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Biography of Nelson Algren, 1909-1981

Nelson Algren (1909-1981) is most famous as the author of The Man with the Golden Arm, a novel which won the first National Book Award ever granted (1950). Algren's career spanned over five decades and included four other novels, three travel books, and several collections of short stories. (Songster-Burnett) His most productive years were 1940-1960 when four novels and a prose-poem, "Chicago: City on the Make," were published. The 50s were also the years of the McCarthy era. Algren was always politically engaged with the left, although he did not believe in rigid party alliances or unexamined allegiances. His friendship with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, his later travels to Southesast Asia and the Far East, his continued concern about those oppressed by legal and political systems, were part of a lifetime commitment to observing and recording social processes in an implicitly political frame. (Ingraham)

Sources:
Catherine Ingraham. Writing in the First Person, Nelson Algren, 1909-1981. [An exhibiton, February 20 - May 21, 1988.] Chicago: Chicago Public Library, 1988.

Jennifer Songster-Burnett. "The Nelson Algren Collection at Ohio State."Tracings 5.1 (Winter 1990).

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Scope and Contents

Chiefly literary manuscripts and correspondence; also includes scrapbooks, clippings and photographs. Correspondents include: Simone de Beauvoir, Kay Boyle, Van Allen Bradley, Donadio and Associates, James T. Farrell, Martha Gellhorn, Maxwell David Geismar, Madeleine Gobeil-Trudeau, Ernest Hemingway, Ingersoll and Brennan, Herman Kogan, Ken McCormick, Carl Sandburg, William Saroyan, William Targ, Carl Weissner and Joel Wells.

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Statement of Arrangement

Book manuscripts (chronological); short stories, essays, articles (chronological); poetry; reviews; correspondence; personal memorabilia. (All published work keyed to Nelson Algren: A Descriptive Bibliography by Matthew J. Bruccoli, 1985. Bruccoli numbers are listed following book manuscript titles.

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Index Terms

Authors, American--20th century
Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

"The Nelson Algren Collection at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of the Ohio State University."

Acquisition Information

The Ohio State University Libraries purchased from Nelson Algren his personal papers and manuscripts in two lots, 1961 and 1965. These initial Algren archives were enriched, in 1982, by the acquisition of manuscripts, memorabilia, letters and library owned by Nelson Algren at the time of his death in May 1981.

Processing Information

The Nelson Algren Papers were processed by Laura Pringle De La Vars in 1982-1984.

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Detailed Listing/ Box and Folder Listing:


Somebody in Boots.(Bruccoli A1)


Box 1


  1. AMs (pencil). Title:[See contents below]
    2. Date: Ca. 1930-1934
    Collation: 17 pp. on 11 unnumbered leaves; 26.8 x 20.3; white University bond.
    Contents: Very early draft of one portion. Three possible titles at head of 1st p.: CHRIST/IS THE HEAD OF THIS/HOUSE ; THE UNSEEN HOST/AT EVERY MEAL ; THE SILENT LISTENER TO EVERY CONVERSATION. In upper right margin of leaf 11: 3.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: There was a windowless cavern...held on till his hands

  2. Ts (carbon and ribbon). Title: Sweat
    3. Date: Ca. 1931
    Collation: 5 pp. on 5 leaves numbered 1-5; white Hammermill bond; on verso of letterhead of the American Radio and Television Agency.
    Contents: Draft, extensively revised. Used in Somebody In Boots, pp. 268-73. p. 1-4, blue carbon; p. 5, black ribbon. At bottom of p. 5 in NA hand: -about 1930 [?]/Algren [also:] 30
    Versos: p. 5 in NA hand: 119 So. Wells/3rd. Floor/Needle Trades Workers/ International Union
    Keywords: straining Frantically, Costigan woke in...he straightened up he coughed.

  3. Ts (ribbon).Title: [no title supplied]
    4. Date: Pre 1935
    Collation: 14 pp. on 14 leaves numbered [1] 2-14; yellow typing paper (badly browned). Brittle, badly chipped.
    Contents: Draft, moderately revised. Subsequently revised and used as Chapter 11 of Somebody of Boots. At head of p.1 title has been crossed out in pencil. Written in: Cass McKay; at foot of p. 14: HOIST IN CHICAGO /35/Algren/From SOMEBODY IN BOOTS, a novel. Lower 80% of p. 2 pasted over original leaf.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Out of a two-bit flop ... hands took him from behind.

  4. Ts. (ribbon).Title: As Straws in a Storm/(For the Embattled Transients of America)
    5. Date: Ca. 1934-1935. Collation: 4pp. on 4 leaves numbered [1]-4; off white lightweight bond, partial watermark only.
    Contents: Draft of unused fragment, extensively revised and extended in holograph.
    Versos: 1. Practice typing (?) 2. 2 lines unidentified ts. 3. 1 line unidentified ts. 4. From/"Somebody in Boots"/Algren; Also a note asking someone to compare piece with the original.
    Keywords: Listen to us, you ones...Piedad! oh Santo Dios! Piedad

  5. Author's galley proof.Title: Some body in Boots
    6. Date: 11 Feb 1935
    Collation: 1 unnumbered leaf, torn and missing bottom; 20.5 x 15.5, 15.5 x 15.5; white (badly browned).
    Contents: Beginning of Somebody in Boots. Stamped at top: [AUT]HOR'S PROOF/FEB 11 1935/HARRIS WOLFF ESTATE [and] initialed: "M/L"
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Listen to us, you ones...[ ] beome strong [ ] songs.) Your [ ] (These [...]

  6. AMsTitle: the Rules of Court
    7. Date: Ca. 1931-1932
    Collation: 2 pp. on 1 unnumbered leaf; 20 x 12.7; white ruled (watermark undeciphered).
    Contents: Rules for the Alpine, Texas county jail, made up by inmates. Note at end of p. 2 in NA hand: He is espeshully [sic] great/ [???]/with [??]; accompanied by TNs: This set of rules for jailhouse conduct/ I took with me when I was released/from the County Jail of Alpine, County./Cordially/[signed] Algren.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Man Found Guilty of Breaking...must, report to court.

  7. ALsTitle: [None]
    8. Date: 16 Aug 1932
    Collation: 2 unnumbered leaves; 21.5 x 14; white
    Contents: Letter from Isador Scunofsky (?) to I. Katch or Frank Seliger (?). Includes envelope and TNs, NA to L.D. Feldman, 29 Oct 64, explaining letter.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Mr. I Katch or/Mr...favor-Friendly/yours/Isador Scunofsky [?]

  8. Ams (pencil and ink)Title: [None]
    9. Date: Ca. 1933.
    Collation: 19 unnumbered leaves in 2 pocket sized notebooks, each bound at top; 14.5 x 9.5; white (badly yellowed).
    Contents: Notes made by Algren and used as source material for Somebody in Boots and later for A Walk on the Wild Side. Accompanied by TLs, NA to Bill Targ (?), 8 Oct 19[65?], explaining the notebooks.
    Versos: None
    Keywords: Italian colony in Dallas/is...[illegible] 1124/Dearborn

  9. Ts (ribbon and carbon)Title: [None]
    10. Date: 1965
    Collation: 57 leaves; various pagings; various papers
    Contents: Represents at least 25 drafts of preface to paperback edition, many extensively revised. Accompanied by part of Russell &Volkening envelope addressed to NA dated March 12, 1965 and labeled: Introduction/to Berkeley Books/paperback edition/of Somebody in Boots
    Versos: Many TLs; some misstarts of related and unrelated material; pages from other mss., perhaps Who Lost An American?; some unidentified; drawing of cat with text: FAT CAT MUGS BENDYK/I AM ALWAYS HUNGRY! AND,/I LOVE TO WATCH THE BIRDS,/AND I WAKE UP AUNTY BETTY EVERY/MORNING BY STEPPING ON HER/FACE.
    Keywords: I wonder whether there stands...times. It's protagonit [sic], Cass McCkay [sic]

  10. Ts (ribbon)Title: Byron's advice
    11. Date: Ca. 1965
    Collation: 1 unnumbered leaf; yellow (badly browned).
    Contents: In verse. At foot of page in NA hand in crayon: from/Somebody In Boots-/[signed] Algren
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Keep things going up buddy, ...Up, I said UP/N

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Never Come Morning. (Bruccoli A2)


  1. Ts (ribbon and carbon)Title: Harlots and Hunted
    2. Date: Ca. 1940-1942
    Collation: 178 pp. on 166 leaves numbered [i, ii], 1-45, [46], 47-108, [104], 105-154, [155], 156-166; white bond.
    Contents: Early draft, very lightly revised. On p. 39 in NA hand: This wasn't used in/"Never Come Morning."/It seems to be the/original of the story in/"Neon Wilderness"/called "Kingdom City/to/Cairo"/--Algren-but/it/was/originally/written/for/NCM; at head f p. 156: These pages are from an early/version of "Never Come Morning,"/when the Girl's name was "Minnie-Mae" and the boy's was "Bruno/Paycheck:/--Algren; accompanied by two additional notes by NA.
    Versos: In NA hand at foot of p. 45: early version of Never Come Morning. ; at foot of p. 108: a second early version of Never Come/Morning. ; at foot of p. 154: variant 3 of Never Come Morning. ; at foot of p. 166: Excerpt from/Never Come Morning.
    Keywords: THEY TEASED EACH OTHER, BICKERED...FOUGHT CHALKY TUCKER THAT TIME.

  2. Ts (ribbon)Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1940-1942
    Collation: 6 pp. on 6 leaves numbered 64, 69, 71, 76-77; white bond (yellowed).
    Contents: Fragment of early draft, moderately revised.
    Versos: p. 6 in NA hand: Pub in Never Come Morning.
    Keywords: "YOU'RE SCARIN' THE FISHES."/THEY ...CITY, BENEATH A COALSMOKE SKY.

  3. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1940-1942
    Collation: 2 pp. on 2 leaves numbered 489, 491; white bond (yellowed).
    Contents: Fargment from unidentified draft of Never Come Morning, heavily revised.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: THE ROOMS OF THE WOMEN...FOR LESS THAN A SECOND..

  4. Ts (ribbon)Title: Never Come Morning
    5. Date: Ca. 1942
    Collation: 160 pp. on 160 leaves numbered [-], [i-vi], [1]-2, 1-5. 3-149; white bond and onion skin (yellowed).
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of the setting copy; light editorial corrections. Signed by NA on title page.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Between the police and the...hour, Bruno heard the police...

  5. Ts (black and red ribbon)Title: [None].
    6. Date: Ca. 1942
    Collation: 151 pp. on 151 leaves numbered 150-299; white bond and onion skin (yellowed).
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of the setting copy; light to moderate editorial corrections. Pp. 205, 211, 218, and 219 contain paste-ons.
    Versos: Pp. 189 and 217: misstarts.
    Keywords: Ca. 1942

  6. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    7. Date: Ca. 1942
    Collation: 109 pp. on 109 leaves numbered 300-408; white bond (yellowed).
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of the setting copy; light to moderate editorial corrections.
    Versos: P. 307: misstart.
    Keywords: the soldier packed into her...twenny-one [sic] anyhow."/And the bell.

  7. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    8. Date: Ca. 1940-1950 [?].
    Collation: 92 pp. on 92 leaves numbered 1-[46], 1-[46]; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: 2 copies of the film script for Never Come Morning. Accompanied by holog. note in NA hand: FILM/script/for/N.C.M.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: FADE IN: FULL SHOT. Intersection...go out one by one

  8. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    9. Date: Ca. 1941.
    Collation: 19 pp. on 18 leaves numbered 247-249, 252, 278-288, [-], 289-291; white bond (yellowed).
    Contents: Unused excerpt from draft of Never Come Morning; moderately revised; holograph notes by NA in margins; at head of p. 249 in upper right margin in NA hand: elsewhere/ -part of/story of/boy who/wished/only to/swear.
    Versos: Misstarts from other drafts.
    Keywords: THAT WAS THE ROUGHEST HUMAN...HELD UNSTEADILY IN A FOG.

  9. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    10. Date: Ca. 1941
    Collation: 28 pp. on 28 leaves numbered 436-441, 448-449, 451A, 452-460, 461A-461B, 462-467, 468A-468B; white bond (yellowed).
    Contents: Unused excerpt from draft of Never Come Morning; subsequently revised for use as a short story never published (pagination indicates originally intended for use in novel); at head of p. 448 in NA hand: Unused insert from/Never Come Morning
    Versos: at foot of p. 441 in NA hand: Notes taken on S. State street/not used.
    Keywords: DOOR- IF I C'D BRING...LONG SMOKE TRAILING BACK TOWARD [...]

  10. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    11. Date: Ca. 1940-1942
    Collation: 2 pp. on 2 leaves numbered [-], 11; (p.11) 37.5 x 20.5; white bond (badly yellowed).
    Contents: Pages from unidentified draft of Never Come Morning; moderately revised.
    Versos: Pages from other drafts.
    Keywords: "Can I say somethin'?"/Go...stop them," he told Nevers.

  11. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    12. Date: Ca. 1939-1940.
    Collation: 3 pp. on 3 leaves numbered [-], [-], 2; white bond; 1. 1 is on verso of Schumacher & Joffe Consulting Chemists & Engineers letterhead.
    Contents: Notes for Never Come Morning; accompanied by note of explanation by Algren.
    Versos: 1. 1: drawing of male head with Army type helmet.
    Keywords: July 7/when I'm wrong...IS THE 29TH DISTRICT POLICE.

  12. TLsTitle: [None]
    13. Date: 7 September 1940 -13 February 1946.
    Collation: 46 pp. on 39 unnumbered leaves; various papers.
    Contents: 20 TLs which includes protest letters and editorial responses. Accompanied by two explanatory notes.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Dear Nelson: By now the...then come forward and say: [....]

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The Neon Wilderness. (Bruccoli A3)


Box 2


  1. Tearsheets. A Bottle of Milk for Mother.Title: Biceps
    2. Date: Ca. 1941-1947
    Collation: 16 pp. on 8 leaves numbered 713-728; 25.5 x 17.5; off-white Warren's Old Style bond.
    Contents: Tearsheets from The Southern Review with revisions incorporated into The Neon Wilderness version of "A Bottle of Milk for Mother."
    Versos: None
    Keywords: TWO MONTHS after the Polish...all down the shadowed wall.

  2. Ts (ribbon). Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone.Title: [None]
    Date: Ca. 1942-1946
    Collation: 2 pp. on 2 leaves numbered 250-251; white bond.
    Contents: Fragment from the short story "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone"; light revisions; in left margin of 1. 1 in NA hand: elsewhere; at head of 1.1 in NA hand: Part of story from/Neon Wilderness-"Please/don't talk about/me when I'm gone"-[signed] Algren
    Versos: 1. 2: page 223 of unidentified piece [the story line is that of either "The Captain has Bad Dreams" or "The Captain is Impaled" but the page # is too high for either].
    Keywords: "If you're not real careful...lips didn't move when he [...]

  3. Ts (carbon). El Presidente de Mejico.Title: EL PRESIDENTE DE MEJICO
    4. Date: Ca. 1935-1947
    Collation: 3 pp. on 3 leaves numbered [1], 8, 14; white bond (discolored); BERKSHIRE BOND/USA.
    Contents: 3 uncorrected pages of a story originally published in Somebody In Boots, and revised from the Windsor Quarterly publication of "Thundermug." Story allegedly drawn from Algren's personal experiences while staying in the Alpine County (Texas) Jail.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Portillo, a bridegroom of six...odor of iodine began filling [...].

  4. Ts (ribbon). From Kingdom City to Cairo.Title: [None]
    5. Date: Ca. 1940-1947.
    Collation: 8 pp. on 8 leaves; white bond (discolored).
    Contents: Moderately revised draft of "Kingdom City to Cairo; accompanied by TNs, NA to Lew Feldman, 20064: Dear Mr. Feldman,/Here is an early version of a story that/ended up in The Neon Wilderness as Kingdom City to Cairo./ Cordially,/ [signed] Nelson Algren
    Versos: 1. 8: at foot of page in NA hand: Unpublished and unfinished [inaccurate-while it was not used in Never Come Morning, as it was originally intended, Algren revised it for use in The Neon Wilderness.]
    Keywords: AT THE END OF THE...ON THE COLLAR, AND WEPT.

  5. Proofs (from The American Mercury). The Children.Title: Playtime a story
    6. Date: Ca. 1943-1947.
    Collation: 5 pp. on 5 leaves numbered 001-005; off-white bond.
    Contents: Slightly revised proofs of "Playtime" from The American Mercury for use in The Neon Wilderness as "The Children"; typed in upper left margin of 1. 1: AMERICAN MERCURY; stamped at head of 1. 1: DUPLICATE; stamped in upper right margin of 1.1: INGERSOLL & BRENNAN/ 11 WEST 55 STREET/ NEW YORK CITY/[JUN?] 16 REC'D
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Two weeks before Thanksgiving/the...be Hiawatha on/Thanksgiving Day.

  6. Ts (ribbon). Design for Departure.Title: FLIGHT
    7. Date: 1942.
    Collation: 19 pp. on 19 leaves numbered 1-19; white bond (discolored).
    Contents: Moderately revised draft of the short story published as "Design for Departure" in The Neon Wilderness; stamped in upper right margin: INGERSOLL & BRENNAN/11 WEST 55 STREET/NEW YORK CITY
    Versos: 1.19 at foot of page in NA hand: Pub in The Neon Wilderness.
    Keywords: Sharkey called the child Littlebit...arms of her very own.

  7. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    8. Date: Ca. 1945-1946 Collation: 174 pp. on 174 leaves; numbering nonsequetial (see below); various papers.
    Contents: Incomplete, uncorrected and unrevised draft of The Neon Wilderness; contains: "The Captain Has Bad Dreams" (pp. [1]-23); "Depend on Aunt Ellie" (pp. [1]-23); "He Couldn't Boogie Woogie Worth a Damn" (pp. [1]-16); "A Lot You Got To Holler" (pp. 2-18); "The Face on the Barroom Floor" (pp. [1]-19); "Kingdom City to Cairo" (pp. [1]-11); "That's the Way It's Always Been" (pp. [1]-15); "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (pp. [1] -12); "Million Dollar Brainstorm" (pp. [1]-14); Pere Venceremos" (pp. [1]-6); "No Man's Laughter" (pp. [1]-9); "Design For Departure" (pp. [1]-34).
    Versos: 1. 1: notes from a police line up [?]; 2 misstarts.
    Keywords: They come off the streets...is puttin' in the fix.

  8. Ts (ribbon). (setting copy)Title: The Neon Wilderness
    9. Date: Ca. 1946.
    Collation: 136 pp. on 136 leaves numbered 1-66, 66A, 67-135; white Cortez/H bond (discolored) and grey BERKSHIRE BOND/USA.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 containing the setting copy of The Neon Wilderness; light editorial corrections and notations; story contents: "The Captain Has Bad Dreams," "How the Devil Came Down Division Street," "Is Your Name Joe?," "Depend on Aunt Ellie," "Stickman's Laughter," "A Bottle of Milk for Mother," "He Couldn't Boogie-Woogie Worth a Damn," "A Lot You Got To Holler," "Poor Man's Pennies"; possible titles on 1.1 upper right margin: [and] The Neon Wilderness; 1. 1 is a paste on; continuous pagination added in upper right corner of leaves.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: They come off the streets...I still can't figure out.

  9. Ts (ribbon). (setting copy)Title: [None]
    10. Date: Ca. 1946.
    Collation: 131 pp. on 131 leaves numbered 136-149, 149A, 150-265; various papers (discolored).
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 containing the setting copy of The Neon Wilderness; light editorial corrections and notations; story contents: "The Face on the Barroom Floor," "The Brother's House," "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone," "He Swung and He Missed," "El Presidente de Mejico," "Kingdom City to Cairo," "That's The Way It's Always Been," "The Children," "Million-Dollar Brainstorm," "Pero Venceremos," "No Man's Laughter," "Katz"; continuous pagination added in upper right margin of leaves.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: A long generation ago, back...'n how easy/ it was."

  10. Ts (ribbon). (setting copy)Title: [None]
    11. Date: Ca. 1946.
    Collation: 64 pp. on 64 leaves numbered 266-329; various papers (discolored).
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 containing the setting copy of The Neon Wilderness; light to moderate editorial corrections and notations; continuous pagination added in upper right margin of leaves; final leaf is a paste on.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Although Sharkey was the little...the Jew./So help me.

  11. Galley proofs.Title: The Neon Wilderness
    12. Date: November-December 1946.
    Collation: 101 pp. on 101 leaves numbered [i-vii], [i-ix], [i-iii], 1-83; white bond and coated paper (slightly yellowed).
    Contents: Galley proofs of The Neon Wilderness; moderate editorial corrections; title changed from So Help Me to The Neon Wilderness; pages marked with the final book pagination.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords:

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The Neon Wilderness.(Bruccoli A3.3a).


  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1958-1960.
    Collation: 6 pp. on 6 leaves numbered [1]-6; white bond (discolored); permanized/PLOVER BOND/25% COTTON RAG/USA
    Contents: Heavily corrected draft of the introduction to the 1960 edition of The Neon Wilderness.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I never look behind me,"...That we are all survivors [...].

  2. Ts (ribbon).Title: THE NEON WILDERNESS
    3. Date: Ca. 1959-1960.
    Collation: 7 pp. on 7 leaves numbered [1]-7; white light-weight bond; EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/BERKSHIRE
    Contents: Late, uncorrected and unrevised draft of the introduction to the 1960 edition of The Neon Wilderness.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I never look behind me,"...any old moon at all.

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The Man With the Golden Arm.(Bruccoli A4).


  1. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1946-1947.
    Collation: 102 pp. on 102 leaves numbered 3-37, 39-55, 61-66, 69-74, 77-93, 97-100, 102-107, 110-122, 124; yellow bond (discolored); several 11. torn and chipping.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 of a very early uncorrected draft of The Man With the Golden Arm.; early character names are Molly as Dovie Weaver, Schwiefka as Kinsella, and Antek as Bruno.
    Versos: misstarts on 11. 28, 34, 42, and 47
    Keywords: on his cap with the...her own voice wakened her.

Box 3


  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1946-1947. Collation: 120 pp. on 120 leaves numbered 125-144, 166-215, 217-219, 222-233, 235-251, 253-271; yellow and white bond (discolored); some: DATA/VALLEY PAPER CO./RAG COTTON/USA
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of a very early draft of The Man With the Golden Arm.; lightly corrected and revised.
    Versos: misstarts on 11. 69, 78, 106.
    Keywords: Before her eyes could make...my alotment and my old

  2. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. late 1947.
    Collation: 119 pp. on 114 leaves; noncontinuous pagination ranging from 36-484; white and yellow bond (discolored); various papers.
    Contents: Early, incomplete draft moderately/heavily revised; Dovie Weaver has been changed to Dovie Breedlove and Bruno has been changed to Antek.
    Versos: total of 19, as follows: pp. 47, 52, 75, 370, 471 misstarts; pp. 335, 337-340, 345 pp. from an earlier draft of MGA (probably the same draft); pp. 336, 341 appears to be from a review of Something Wonderful to Happen (which appeared late in 1955?); p. 342 TLs, Alice Dickey (Midwest Writers Conference) to NA, 20047, 1 p.; TL, Ingersoll & Brennan to NA 13047, p. 1 only; p. 352 TLs Jean Malaquais to NA, 15047, 1 p.; pp. 349-351 from unidentified piece about American writers.
    Keywords: henna rinse. Yet here, toward...the switch had been pulled

  3. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: The Walls
    4. Date: Ca. 1947-1948.
    Collation: 143 pp. on 142 leaves; noncontinuous pagination ranging from 1-199; white and off-white bond (discolored); various papers.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of an early, incomplete draft; moderate revisions; Dovie Breedlove has been changed to Molly; many page numbers have been changed; on p. 63 are 3 small sketches of Asian women; at head of p. 123: THE BELOVED
    Versos: p. 43 mostly illegible verse; p. 52 in NA hand: Majcinek/Machine; p. 198 in NA hand: Question: should there be a killing of N.L.?
    Keywords: "Ain't nothing on my record...he didn't care if the

  4. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    5. Date: Ca. 1947-1948.
    Collation: 159 pp. on 152 leaves numbered 200, 201A, 201B, 202-214, [-], 215-216, [-], 217-247, 249-251, 254-255, 271-272, [-], 273, 275-283, 287-291, [-], 293-303, 307-309, 310-315, [-], 316, 318-321, 324-327, 331-334, 355, [-], 356-359, [-], [-] 360, 365, 376-377,379-387,389, 390-391, 393-399, 402-403, 406-407, 409, 411-413, 417-424, 426-429; white Indemnity Bond/Rag Content (discolored) and yellow bond (browned).
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of an early, incomplete, moderately revised draft of The Man With the Golden Arm; many page numbers changed.
    Versos: pg. 208: sketches possibly of MGA characters; pg. 273: in NA hand: Unpublished from Man with the Golden Arm.
    Keywords: dealer took ninety percent; it...greedy gesture, not only ruined

  5. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1947-1948.
    Collation: 114 pp. on 113 leaves numbered 430-492, [-], 493-510, 512-513, 515-518, 526-536, 539-553; yellow bond (badly browned).
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of an early, incomplete, moderately revised draft of The Man With the Golden Arm; all page numbers have been changed; pg 497 is a photocopy of original; on pg. 526 in NA hand in upper right: FOR STORY of/Dog & Cat Hospital; in left margin in NA hand: Cass/McKay
    Versos: Pp. 432, 496: misstarts.
    Keywords: Frankie's chances for beating the...gain the confidence of drunkards; [...]

  6. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    7. Date: Ca. 1948.
    Collation: 151 pp. on 151 leaves numbered 1-16, 18-55, 55, 56-60, 60A, 60B, 61-149; white bond (discolored); Indemnity bond/RAG CONTENT
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of an incomplete, late draft of The Man With the Golden Arm; stamped on p.1 in upper right: INGERSOLL & BRENNAN/ 11 WEST 55 STREET/NEW YORK CITY
    Versos: few misstarts.
    Keywords: The great city had made...want to send him tapping

  7. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    8. Date: Ca. 1948.
    Collation: 137 pp. on 137 leaves numbered 150-155, 157-174, 174A-174H, 175-221, 223-265, II, 266-271, 291-299; white bond (slightly discolored); Indemnity Bond/RAG CONTENT
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of an incomplete, late draft of The Man With the Golden Arm; light-moderate revisions and corrections; light editorial comments; text is continuous through 221-223.
    Versos: Misstarts.
    Keywords: downstairs for coffee./"Next time...he didn't mean to run-"

Box 4


  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1948.
    Collation: 155 pp. on 155 leaves numbered 300-454; white bond, Frontenae Bond
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of an incomplete, late draft of The Man With the Golden Arm; light corrections by Algren and editor; page numbers 441-454 changed.
    Versos: Misstarts.
    Keywords: Frankie signalled [sic], with a finger...The captain wept./Dry tears.

  2. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1948.
    Collation: 119 pp. on 115 leaves numbered 2-28, 30, 32-50, [-] 51-60, 60A, 60B, 61, [-], 62-79, [-], 80, [-], 81, 83-84, 88[85], 86-128; yellow bond (badly browned); edges chipping, paper brittle.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a carbon copy of previous draft; incomplete; moderate-heavy corrections.
    Versos: p.67 various dates in NA hand.
    Keywords: "My wife, that's all."/"Hell...especially for Frankie and Vi.

  3. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    Date: Ca. 1948.
    Collation: 143 pp. on 143 leaves numbered 129-134, 136-147, 149-151, 156-174, 174A, Mollie 2-Mollie 4, Mollie 6-Mollie 9, 174I, 175-182, 184-200, 238-243[201-206], 207-221, 223-244, 246-248, 302[249], 250-253, 255-256, 258-263, 265-271, 275-276, 280; yellow bond (badly browned); edges chipping, paper brittle.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a carbon copy of previous draft; incomplete; moderate-heavy corrections; in upper right corner of p. 136 possible title
    Versos: pg. 180: misstarts of TL, NA to Ken Millar, 24Ag[48].
    Keywords: He shuffled, cap pulled low...orange of the young Negro's [...]

  4. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    Date: Ca. 1948. Collation: 135 pp. on 132 leaves numbered 281-282, 284-285, 287-301, [-], 302-303, 305-315, 317-318, 320-324, 326, 328-353, 357[355]-362, 365-367, 371-384, 463[385]- 465[387], 388-396, 399-401, 403, 412-415, [-], 416, 424-426, 429-430, [-], 431-434, 441-446, 454[447], 455[448], 449, 451-454; yellow bond (badly browned); edges chipping, paper brittle.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a carbon copy of previous draft; incomplete; moderate-heavy corrections; possible titles on several pages; head of p. 341 in NA hand: THE PURSUER TITLE/THE PURSUED
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: sweater standing out strong and... The captain wept./Dry tears.

  5. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1948-1949.
    Collation: 88 pp. on 88 leaves numbered 460-462, 465-549; yellow bond (badly browned).
    Contents: Fragment from unidentified draft of The Man With the Golden Arm (approximate date and length of text puts it in this position).
    Versos: p. 473 and 504: misstarts; p. 487 misstart of TL, NA to Ken [Millar or McCormick], 30D[48].
    Keywords: "Can I have coffee now, ..." Gentlemen, the case is closed."

  6. Ts (carbon).Title: SOME CATS SWING LIKE THAT
    7. Date: Ca. 1948.
    Collation: 275 pp. on 275 leaves numbered [i-iii], 1-73, 76-274; white lightweight bond; many corners folded and tearing.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 of an incomplete, late draft of The Man With the Golden Arm; light corrections and revisions; on title page in NA hand: title/changed to/"Golden/Arm"/later-/[signed] Algren; Ingersoll Brennan stamp in upper right corner of title page; occasional typed notes in margins pertaining to plot development.
    Versos: Few misstarts.
    Keywords: The captain never drank. Yet...floor. Is good enough for [...]

  7. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    Date: Ca. 1948.
    Collation: 270 pp. on 270 leaves numbered 275-345, [-], [-], 347-492, 497-547; white lightweight bond; many corners folded and tearing.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of an incomplete, late draft of The Man With the Golden Arm; light corrections and revisions; occasional typed notes in margins pertaining to plot development.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Mrs. No-Good on floor." And..."Gentlemen, the case is closed."

Box 5


  1. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    Date: Ca. 1948.
    Collation: 91 pp. on 91 leaves numbered 1-6, 8-16, 19-21, 24-43, 45-80, 82-96, 99, 105-108; yellow bond (badly browned) and white bond (discolored); white only: EATON'S/CORRASABLE/BOND/USA/BERKSHIRE
    Contents: Late fragment of an unidentified draft of The Man With the Golden Arm; light corrections; placed with drafts because of the length.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: The captain never drank. Yet, ...a better summer night than [...]

  2. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. December 1948.
    Collation: 145 pp. on 145 leaves numbered 1-14, 17-86, 99-123, 125-126, 128-130, 130-137, 139-161; yellow bond (badly browned).
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a very late, incomplete, uncorrected draft of The Man With the Golden Arm.
    Versos: pg. 72: misstart of TL, NA to C.R. Byrne, 1D48; rest misstarts of text.
    Keywords: The captain never drank. Yet, ...I'm goin' to town/to."

  3. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. December 1948.
    Collation: 133 pp. on 133 leaves numbered 166-187, 190-204, 206-231, 233-243, 248-291, 294-309; yellow bond (badly browned).
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a very late, incomplete, uncorrected draft of The Man With the Golden Arm.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Some mornings there were no...the gang plank without looking back.

  4. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    5. Date: Ca. December 1948.
    Collation: 144 pp. on 144 leaves numbered 310-316, 318-382, 391, 399-466, 468-469, 505, 525; yellow bond (badly browned).
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a very late, incomplete, slightly corrected draft of The Man With the Golden Arm; some text illegible due to typeovers using carbon.
    Versos: pg. 318: Tls, NA to Scott Williamson, 7D[48?], 1 p.; pg. 505: pg. 356 from a much earlier draft; pg. 525: unnumbered pg. from an earlier draft.
    Keywords: Once they're on board they...left foot and supported himself.

  5. Ts and AMs. (layout of prelims)Title: THE MAN/WITH/THE GOLDEN/ARM
    6. Date: Ca. June 1949.
    Collation: 11 pp. on 11 unnumbered leaves; various papers.
    Contents: Layout of preliminary pages of The Man With the Golden Arm; extensive editorial notation; title change on 1. 9 from: NIGHT WITHOUT MERCY to: THE MAN/WITH/THE/GOLDEN/ARM.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: ...Act of Contrition, ooo

  6. Ts. (setting copy and proofs of prelims)Title: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
    7. Date: Ca. 1949.
    Collation: 23 pp. on 23 unnumbered leaves; various papers.
    Contents: Draft, setting copy, and proofs of preliminary pages; proofs are signed; many marginal notes; all originally from a large grey envelope marked in green ink: Golden Arm; accompanied by 2 telegrams from Ken McCormick dated 21048 and 26S49 (second is congratulations for book).
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: All names appearing in this...New York, N.Y. Used by permission.

  7. Ts (ribbon and carbon-black and blue).Title: [None]
    8. Date: Ca. 1947-1949.
    Collation: 116 pp. on 116 leaves; various pagings; various papers.
    Contents: Fragments from numerous drafts of The Man With the Golden Arm; lightly corrected; on 1. 1 in upper left corner NA hand: Early Draft
    Versos: 6; p. 53: TL, to Jack [Conroy], 7Ja48, p. 1 only; rest misstarts and pp. from other drafts.
    Keywords: The captain never drank. Yet, ...Pittsburgh, "/Sparrow consoled the cabbie

  8. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    9. Date: Ca. 1947-1949.
    Collation: 45 pp. on 45 leaves; various pagings; various papers.
    Contents: Small fragments and miscellaneous pages from various, unidentified drafts of The Man With the Golden Arm; roughly in order by page number.
    Versos: All misstarts or pp. from earlier drafts except the following: 1. 6: possibly from a draft of a review of Limbo Tower by William Lindsay Gresham, pub. May 1949 (Bruccoli D80); 1. 19: TLs, John Meyer to NA [?], pre-Ja 1948; 1.24: pg. 1 of an unidentified piece about Paris and prostitutes; 1. 25: opening quote for MGA.
    Keywords: route," he told Frankie now, ...came to his death/on

  9. AMs and Ts (carbon).Title: EPITAPH: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
    10. Date: Ca. 1946-1949.
    Collation: 8 pp. on 7 unnumbered leaves; various papers (discolored); brittle and chipping.
    Contents: 2 carbon copies of the poem "Epitaph: the man with the golden arm" and title pg.; 1 p. with the heading: Two Dreams of; holograph variation of the lyrics to "Lili Marlene"; 2 carbon copies of the book's opening quote; opening p. for Part 2.
    Versos: 1. 2: table of contents for MGA; 1. 3: insert for "Suddenly It's Spring" - crossed out.
    Keywords: It's all in the wrist...after day./-F. Scott Fitzgerald

  10. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    11. Date: Ca. 1946-1949.
    Collation: 75 pp. on 73 leaves; various pagings; various papers (discolored); most very brittle; 11. 6, 8, 9 all on verso of Schumacher & amp; Joffe ltrhd.
    Contents: Unused fragments from various drafts of The Man With the Golden Arm; from a manila envelope that was identified in NA hand as: Unpublished/Golden Arm Materials/; many notes concerning use and corrections; 11. 1-3 are very early- typed using the all caps typewriter Algren used for NCM.
    Versos: total of 12; 1. 4: TLs, NA to Marion, 16Je[47?]; 1. 5: Misstart of a review of So Joined [1948]; 1. 7: misstart of TL, 7-1-43; 1.11: Note in NA hand: Unused part of Man with Golden Arm; 1.18 and 28: pp. 7 and 8 from an Army story about Katz; 1.31: note in NA hand: Unused from Man With the Golden/Arm.; 1.32: beginning of a film synopsis of MGA; 1.35: note in NA hand: Unused From Man with the Golden Arm; 1. 45: misstart of p. 463 of another draft and note in NA hand: From/Man with the/Golden Arm.; 1.46: misstart of p. 253 of another draft and a note in NA hand: From/Man with the/Golden Arm.
    Keywords: HALLWAY. YET SHE NEVER WASHED, ...to cut off the run

  11. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    12. Date: Ca. 1947-1956.
    Collation: 66 pp. on 58 leaves; various pagings; various papers (discolored).
    Contents: Extensive notes on dialect, idioms, and characters for The Man With the Golden Arm; last 8 leaves appear to be for the film version of MGA; most are heavily annotated, corrected and otherwise marked on by NA in various colors of pencil and ink; 1. 2: top half torn off; 1. 37: NP clipping about a thief, weighing machine card pasted on; 11. 38-39: headed: local stuff; 1.40: at head of p. in NA hand: Vivi Vivens- see Watch out For Daddy. ; 11. 46-47 are attached, folded size is 8.5 x 11.
    Versos: total of 5; 11. 43-44: pp. 17 and 20 of "The Captain is Impaled" or "The Captain Has Bad Dreams"; 1.49: misstart; 1. 52: p. 2 (or 22) from "Never Say Brother" or "A Lot You Got to Holler"; 1.53: misstart.
    Keywords: Sparrow's ambition is to go...a taunt and/a caress

  12. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    13. Date: Ca. 19 February 1946- 9 October 1952.
    Collation: 42 pp. on 39 unnumbered leaves; various papers (discolored).
    Contents: Notes from police line ups that Algren attended to gather source material for many of his pieces- mostly used in MGA; heavily annotated; folder is divided into undated material (front) and dated material (back); 1.5 is only a 1/2 of a page; 1.21 on verso of Schumacher and Joffe ltrhd.
    Versos: total of 28: 1.2: pg. 153 of a draft of MGA; 1.3: misstart from "El Presidente de Mejico"; 1.4 : p. 7 of "A Poor Man's Pennies"; 1.5: misstart of a review of Double Image; 1.8 p. 2 of "Million Dollar Brainstorm"; 1.9: p. 10 of "He Couldn't Boogie Woogie..."; 1.10 telephone message; 1.11: misstart of unidentified; 1.12: p. 1 of "Face on the Barroom Floor"; 1.16: p. 23 of unidentified; 1.17: p. 2 of unidentified- all caps typewriter; 1.20: p. 2 of "The Brother's House"; 1.22: misstart of unidentified; 1. 23: misstart from "The Heroes"; 1.24 disclaimer for NCM; 1.25: p. 6 from "A Lot You Got to Holler"; 1.26: p. 2 from "Katz"; 1.27: TL, NA to Ken [McCormick], 13S[47?]; 1.28:misstart TL; 1.30: p. 145 from periodical; 1.31: p. 144 from peiodical [?]; 1.32: p. 66 from MGA; 1.33: p. 231 from MGA; 1.34: TLs, Lucy LInscott [Ingersoll and Brennan] to NA, [pre-1947]; 1.35: mimeo of radio script; 1.36: p. 2 possibly from a draft of "Things of the Earth..." (in which case show up material would technically be the verso); 1.37: p. 3 possibly from a draft of "Laughter in Jars..."
    Keywords: SHOWUP/waive the felony 'n... going to know the all."

Box 6


  1. Clippings, etc.Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1945-1949.
    Collation: 47 pp. on 47 unnumbered leaves; various papers; brittle and discolored.
    Contents: Miscellaneous items from newspapers, etc. pertaining to MGA; also included is a coroner's report and hearing transcript for Chester M. Witwicki.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Pre-Lent/feast for/city Poles...Kisses/Bettyo/Betty Patterson

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Chicago: City on the Make.(Bruccoli A5).

  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 20 May 1937-1940.
    Collation: 16 pp. on 16 unnumbered leaves; various papers; extremely brittle and badly chipped.
    Contents: Very early poetry connected with Chicago: City on the Make; moderate-heavy corrections, revisions, and annotations; few notes directed to a specific, but unidentified reader; accompanied by newspaper clipping (20[MY]37) titled: ARVEY PREPARES/RESIGNATION, BUT/CHANGES MIND
    Versos: 1.5: at head of page: A leross [?] For Peter,/By/Ella S. Edwards; 1.14: at head of page in NA hand: Early version of/City on the Make/Algren [signed]
    Keywords: this overweight prarie village whose...be scornful of them all.

  2. Ts (carbon).Title: WILLING HANDS AND HONEST HEARTS
    Date: Ca. 1950-1951.
    Collation: 31 pp. on 31 leaves numbered [1], [-]-30, [-]; white, lightweight bond (discolored); very brittle.
    Contents: An early, very lightly corrected draft of Chicago: City on the Make; stamped in upper right hand corner of 1.1: INGERSOLL & BRENNAN/11 WEST 55 STREET/NEW YORK CITY; accompanied by a typed note: NOTE:/ANOTHER, LONGER DRAFT WILL BE SUBMITTED/BY NELSON ALGREN/ [Ingersoll & Brennan stamp] ; in NA hand on note: Early version of/"City on the Make"/-Algren [signed]
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: I. The Hustlers/To the east...divided your heart./For keeps

  3. Ts (carbon).Title: Willing Hands and Honest Hearts
    4. Date: Ca. 1950.
    Collation: 28 pp. on 28 leaves numbered 1-28; white LAW BOND (discolored).
    Contents: Early, short, lightly corrected draft of Chicago: City on the Make.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: To the east were the...keeps and a single day.

  4. Ts (photocopy).Title: COlD SUN [holog]
    5. Date: Ca. 1950-1951.
    Collation: 40 pp. on 40 leaves numbered [1]-14, 19-44; white photocopy paper (yellowed).
    Contents: Incomplete draft of Chicago: City on the Make; heavily corrected and revised; Algren's name in upper right corner of all leaves; at head of 1.1 in NA hand: 2nd Version; several possible titles in NA hand in margins of 1.1: Children of the Cold Sun; Cold Sun and [...] [...] Towers; Children of the Cold Air [?]; Cold Sun; Mayor's pride
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: I. The Hustlers/To the...lot you got to holler.

  5. Ts (ribbon).Title: CITY ON THE MAKE
    6. Date: Ca. 1951.
    Collation: 28 pp. on 28 leaves numbered [1]-12A, 12B-27; white bond (discolored); brittle and chipping.
    Contents: Incomplete, moderately-heavily corrected draft; lower 1/3 of 1.1 is a paste on.
    Versos: 11.1 and 27: misstarts; 11.2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 20, 21: pages from previous drafts - text crossed out; 1.22: TNs, Tom DeGrath [?] to NA, ca. Mr51; 1.23: TNs, Madeleine Brennan [Ingersoll & Brennan] to NA, 6Mr51.
    Keywords: I. The Hustlers/To the east...your patch too, don't you

  6. Ts (setting copy).Title: Chicago: City on the Make
    7. Date: 14 May 1951.
    Collation: 53 pp. on 53 leaves numbered [-], [-], 1-51; white bond (discolored); various papers; some badly wrinkled.
    Contents: Type setting copy with extensive editorial notation.
    Versos: 1.7: misstart.
    Keywords: I. The Hustlers/To the...keeps and a single day.

  7. Galley proof.Title: Chicago: /City On The Make
    8. Date: July 1951.
    Collation: 19 pp. on 19 leaves numbered 1-19; 60 x 15.2; tan paper (badly yellowed).
    Contents: Galley proofs of Chicago: City on the Make; moderate editorial revisions and corrections; accompanied by paper attached to 1.1: RUNNING HEADS/Left Side: Only - see special layout
    Versos: 1.1: notes and figures.
    Keywords: To the east were the...keeps and a single day.

  8. Layout of prelims.Title: Chicago: City On The Make
    9. Date: August 1951.
    Collation: 25 pp. on 25 unnumbered leaves; various papers (most discolored).
    Contents: Printer's layout of preliminary pages; extensive editorial notes and corrections.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: #945-8/Chicago: City/On the...neon, its own peculiar wilderness

  9. Ts (ribbon).Title: Willing Hands and/Honest Hearts
    10. Date: February 1951.
    Collation: 32 pp. on 31 leaves numbered [1]-3, [-], 4-31; various papers; many paste ons; extremely brittle, edges tearing and chipping.
    Contents: Moderately revised, middle draft of Chicago: City on the Make.
    Versos: 11.1 and 2: TL, A.S. Gourfain, Jr. to NA, 27 February 1951; 1.22: p. from another draft.
    Keywords: To the east were the...divided your heart./For keeps.

  10. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    11. Date: Ca. 1950.
    Collation: 78 pp. on 77 leaves; various pagings; various papers.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 containing fragments from miscellaneous drafts of Chicago: City on the Make; most extensively corrected and revised; 1.37 is one a partial leaf ; top 50% of 1.38 is a paste on.
    Versos: 11.21 and 37: pp. from other drafts; 11.22, 38, and 51: misstarts; 1.59: figures; 1.61: TLs, Frederick Brisson to NA, 20Je50; 1. 62: TLs, Madeleine Brennan [Ingersoll & Brennan] to NA, 12My50; 1. 74: unidentified piece about writers.
    Keywords: The City By Night/The...get to be twenty-one anyhow."

  11. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    12. Date: Ca. 1950.
    Collation: 106 pp. on 105 leaves; various pagings; various papers; extremely brittle and chipping.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 containing fragments from miscellaneous drafts of Chicago: City on the Make; most extensively corrected and revised; several partial pp. and paste ons.
    Versos: 1. 1: TL carbon, Madelein Brennan [Ingersoll & Brennan] to Robert Knittel, 11S50; 11. 3, 8, 68, 69, 78, 103: pp. from other drafts; 1.26: misstart; 1.33: TL carbon, Madeleine Brennan [Ingersoll & Brennan] to Erich Linder, 15S50; 1.47: sales report for NCM; 1. 48: TLs, Ben [] to NA, ca. 1950; 1. 50: p. 1 of bio of William Weitling; 1. 67: TL carbon, Madeleine Brennan [Ingersoll & Brennan] to Erich Lindner, 21S50.
    Keywords: jobs were so common they...be Do-Gooders. a fresh note

  12. Ts (ribbon).Title: Willing hand &/honest hearts
    13. Date: February 1951.
    Collation: 49 pp. on 49 leaves; various pagings; yellow bond (badly browned); extremely brittle, edges tearing and chipping.
    Contents: Fragments from numerous, closely related drafts; heavily corrected and revised; several possible titles at head of 1.1: outlaws/I[.] the Castoffs; [illegible]; Hustlers
    Versos: 1.3: TLs, A.S. (Ed) Gourfain, Jr. to NA, 22F51, p. 2; 1.4: TLs, Madeleine Brennan (Ingersoll & Brennan) to NA, 20F51; 1.5: misstart; 1.7: TLs, Madeleine Brennan (Ingersoll & Brennan) to NA 2F51, p. 1; TLs, Harry Sions (Holiday) to NA, 1F51; 1.33: TLs, Noel Behn to NA, 24F[51]; TNs, Margaret Ackerman to NA, 21F51; 1. 44: p. 21 of another draft - crossed out; 1. 47: TL, [Harry Sions] to NA, 27F51, p. 1.
    Keywords: I. To the...in Europe can find roots.

  13. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: The Hustlers
    14. Date: Ca. 1950.
    Collation: 48 pp. on 47 leaves; various pagings; various papers (discolored); paste ons.
    Contents: Fragments from various drafts of CCM; all contain moderate-heavy corrections.
    Versos: 1. 4: TLs, Thaleia Selz to NA, 4N50; 1. 6: TLs, Dudley Frasier to NA, 13N50; 1. 8: TLs, Edmund Hartman to NA, 6N50; 1. 10: p. 6 from "Are You A Christian?"; 1. 13: TLs, Paul [Engel?] to NA, 3050; 1. 14: list of Algren's published pieces; 1. 19: p. 37 from another draft; 1. 21: p. 17 from another draft; 1. 35: p. 33 from another draft; 1. 37: p. 15 from another draft (fragment included in this folder); 1.40: p. from another draft.
    Keywords: To the east were the...wooded, boulevards lanes of acres

  14. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    15. Date: Ca. 1951.
    Collation: 1 p. on 1 leaf numbered 40; white copy paper.
    Contents: Single page from an unidentified middle draft of Chicago: City on the Make; appears to have been crossed out before copying.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: If we could stop boasting...stewbums and grinning ginsoaks, outlaws

  15. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    16. Date: Ca. 1950-1951.
    Collation: 51 pp. on 50 leaves; various pagings; yellow bond (badly browned); paste ons; 11. extremely brittle, edges chipping and tearing.
    Contents: Pages from various drafts of CCM; moderate-heavy corrections.
    Versos: 1. 2: TL carbon, Luise Sillcox to Madeleine Brennan, 1My50, p. 2 only; 1. 3: p. 6 from an unidentified piece about a trapper named Gascoigne; 1. 4: ALs, B to A [Algren], ca. 1950; 1. 7: TL carbon, Luise Sillcox to Madeleine Brennan, 1My50, p. 1 only; 1. 8: p. 3 from another draft; 1. 9: Madeleine Brennan (Ingersoll & Brennan) to NA, 15My50; 1. 12: TLs, [?] to NA, 22Je50, p. 1 only; 1.16 and 17: Gladys Weisbart to NA, ca. 1950; 1. 19: notes seemingly unrelated to text; 1. 27: p. 17 from another draft; 1. 31: TL carbon, Lewis Allen to NA, 20N50; 1. 39: p. 39 from another draft.
    Keywords: The pig-wallows are paved, the...remember./Just your dirty heart.

  16. Ts (ribbon).Title: THE CITY BY NIGHT
    17. Date: Ca. 1947-1950.
    Collation: 5 pp. on 5 unnumbered leaves; white EATON'S/BERKSHIRE BOND (discolored).
    Contents: Single pp. and a small fragment from closely related drafts of CCM; all heavily corrected.
    Versos: 1. 3: TLs, Ken McCormick to NA, 21Mr50; 1. 4: TLs, Pauline Dawson to NA, 16My50; 1. 5: Vets Administration statement.
    Keywords: By night the city begins...most coherently when he said.

  17. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    18. Date: March 1951.
    Collation: 2 pp. on 2 leaves numbered 21-22; white Old Treaty/ opaque bond (discolored).
    Contents: 2 pp. from a draft of Part 5 of CCM; uncorrected.
    Versos: 1. 1: TNs, Harry Sions to NA, 23 Mr51; 1. 2: p. 12 from another draft.
    Keywords: Yet it isn't any tougher...ancient box-car perverts who fought

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Chicago: City on the Make.(Bruccoli A5.2).

  1. Envelope.Title: City on the Make
    2. Date: 1961.
    Collation: 1 p. on 1 unnumbered leaf; manila envelope; 18. 3 x 30.
    Contents: Front of envelope (back was removed) that contained much of the 1961 ed. of CCM.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: [None]

  2. Ts (ribbon).Title: [title crossed out]
    3. Date: April 1961.
    Collation: 27 pp. on 23 leaves numbered [1]-23; white bond (discolored).
    Contents: Moderately revised draft of the introduction to the 1961 edition of CCM; accoompanied by front of manila envelope, typed on mailing label: ORIGINAL OF INTRODUCTION/TO RYAN EDITION OF/CITY ON THE MAKE./April 1961
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "What is literature?" Jean-Paul...idea/ a little unusual./END

  3. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    Date: Ca. 1961-1962.
    Collation: 19 pp. on 10 leaves numbered 1-6, 21, 28-29, 31, 345; white TA-NON-KA/BOND (discolored).
    Contents: Heavily corrected and revised, incomplete draft of the 1961 edition of CCM.
    Versos: 1. 10: TLs, Paul Herr to NA, 29Ja62.
    Keywords: "What is literature?" Jean-Paul...

  4. Ts (ribbon).Title: I cannot sleep for the loop-bound...
    5. Date: Ca. 1940-1960.
    Collation: 6 pp. on 5 unnumbered leaves; various bond papers; leaves extremely brittle, edges badly chipped.
    Contents: Very early drafts of pieces eventually used in epilogue of the 1961 edition of CCM; all heavily corrected.
    Versos: 1. 1: part of a poem titled "McGuire's Girl"; heavily corrected and crossed out.
    Keywords: I cannot sleep for the ...a [...] of you'/Da-aaady-

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Chicago: City on the Make. (Bruccoli A5.2b2)


  1. Ts (carbon).Title: Come in at the Door
    2. Date: Ca. 1961.
    Collation: 6 pp. on 6 leaves numbered 18N-24; lightweight white bond.
    Contents: Late draft of the 1961 edition of CCM epilogue, "Ode to Kissassville"; moderately corrected.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: City of the big grey-flannel ...saying. Man, I just can't.

  2. (galley proofs).Title: COME IN AT THE DOOR
    3. Date: Ca. 1961.
    Collation: 13 pp. on 13 unnumbered leaves; 43.5 x 17; coated paper.
    Contents: Galley proofs of the epilogue of the 1961 edition of CCM; titled Ode to Lower Finksville, but crossed out; 1. 7 has additions and revised in Ts and holograph; at head of 1. 1: page proof; at head of 1. 7: THE SMILES THAT DRAIN THRO GH [sic] GIN/4 MIN; probably intended for use as a reading.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: The perch have disappeared. Our...rain that lightly rains regret.

  3. (newspaper clippings).Title: [None]
    4. Date: 1964-1970.
    Collation: 16 pp. on 16 unnumbered leaves; various sized clippings.
    Contents: Newspaper clippings apparently used as source material for a late edition of CCM; all from an envelope on which Algren had written: 4TH EDITION/of/City on the/Make [there is no 4th edition of CCM recorded, Bruccoli lists the 2nd ed. published in 1968 and the 3rd in 1983, after Algren's death. It may be that Algren was referring to the 3rd, since the 1961 ed. was not technically a seperate ed.]
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: -

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A Walk on the Wild Side. (Bruccoli A6).

  1. Ts, AMs, and book.Title: ANGEL'S TRADE
    2. Date: January 1954.
    Collation: 337 pp. numbered 3-322 + 17 end papers; 21.5 x 14; white bond (slightly yellowed); in fair condition, spine broken and loose; DJ badly discolored, torn, and very fragile.
    Contents: The earliest draft of A Walk on the Wild Side; revisions made directly in a copy of Somebody in Boots; virtually every page and all end papers contain writing; list of possible titles inside front cover; accompanied by SIB dust jacket, 2 11. Ts.; note on part of a manilla envelope in NA hand: CASS McKAY/1ST draft of rewrite/ January 1954
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Cass's predicament is that he...of the two town restaurants

Box 7


  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: FINNERTY'S BALL/or/The Spanish Hankercher
    2. Date: Ca. 1953-1954.
    Collation: 90 pp. on 88 leaves numbered [1], 3, 5-7, 10, 12, 16-17, 20-27, 31, 33-35, 37, 42, 49-51, 53-68, 76, 80, 92, 94, 97-98, 101-102, 119-120, 122, 126, 130-131, 133, 141, 142, 182, 192, 2 [194], 3/195, 5/197, 198, 7/199, 200, 206, 239, 253-266, 268-279; white and yellow bond (discolored); many paste ons.
    Contents: Early, incomplete draft of WWS; accompanied by ALs, NA to Bill [Targ?], 8064.
    Versos: 11. 63, 65-73, 88: all pp. from The Man With the Golden Arm filmscript; 11. 64, 74: pp. from another draft of WWS; 1. 75: p. from unidentified piece; 1. 76: TLs, Madeliene Brennan [Ingersoll & Brennan] to NA, 7D54; 1. 83: ALs, Durker [?] to NA, 6Ja53.
    Keywords: Why Fitz Linkhorn turned out...Mae was snoring softly,/- space

  2. Ts (ribbon).Title: FINNERTY'S BALL/or/The Spanish Hankercher
    3. Date: Ca. 1954.
    Collation: 87 pp. on 83 leaves numbered [1], 103-105, 107-112, 112-113, 120, 154-156, 160-163, 166-179, 179A, 180-191, 193, 195-198, 200-204, 204-212, 218-224, 228-236; yellow bond (badly browned); many paste ons.
    Contents: Early incomplete draft of WWS; heavily revised and corrected; at the head of 1. 1 in NA hand: Dear Bill -/This is an/early version of/"Walk on the/Wild Side"/Nelson [signed]
    Versos: 11. 13, 37-40, 42, 45: pp. from unpublished essay titled "A Walk on the Wild Side"; 1. 16: partial page probably from SIB; 11. 33, 47, 81-83: pp. from other drafts.
    Keywords: Why Fitz Linkhorn turned out...was ahead of/his time

  3. Ts (ribbon).Title: FINNERTY'S BALL
    4. Date: Ca. 1954-1955.
    Collation: 114 pp. on 111 leaves numbered [1]-12, 12a, 13-42, 42a, 43-55, 55a, 56-66, 62-63 [1 page], 64-67, 68A-I, 69-110; various papers; many paste ons and staple ons.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a moderately revised draft of WWS; in left margin of 1. 1 in NA hand: Early/Version- Algren [signed]; at head of 1. 1 in NA hand: late draft/ (next to last); also at head of 1. 1:
    Versos: 1. 30: page probably from "Watch Out for Daddy" crossed out; 11. 35-36, 64, 94: pp. from The Man With the Golden Arm filmscript; 1. 50: p. 52 of unidentified piece.
    Keywords: Why Fitz Linkhorn turned out...in the lap and wash.

  4. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    5. Date: Ca. 1954-1955.
    Collation: 113 pp. on 111 leaves numbered 111-167, 168A-I, 169-206, 206a, 207-211; various sizes; yellow typing paper (badly browned); many paste ons.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a moderately revised draft of WWS.
    Versos: 1. 42: TNs, NA to Jake, [D54]; 1. 43: TNs, NA to Hank, [D54]; 1. 44: TNs, NA to Gene, [D54]; 11. 62, 64, 67: pp. from other drafts; 11. 63, 75-76, 78: pp. from MGA filmscript; 1. 66: p. 4 of an unidentified newsletter.
    Keywords: The whole town was in...tie it about/her waist.

  5. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1954-1955.
    Collation: 105 pp. on 104 leaves numbered 214-248, 248a-d, 249-283, 283a, 284-294, 298-313; various papers; many paste ons and staple ons; in fair condition.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a moderately revised draft of WWS.
    Versos: 11. 2, 16-17, 35: pp. from MGA filmscript; 11. 40-41, 51, 89-90, 93: pp. from another draft; 1.52: TNs Ralph Newman to NA, 11Ja55; 1. 92: TLs, William Targ to NA, 14Ja55; 1. 96: ANs, F.K. Westerling to NA, 29Jy[46?].
    Keywords: It was striped green and ...To be drunken./Forever drunken.

  6. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    7. Date: Ca. 1953-1954.
    Collation: 117 pp. on 117 leaves numbered 12-15, 17-130; white coated paper (discolored); many paste ons; some 11. with loose leaf holes punched in the left margin.
    Contents: Early, heavily corrected and revised, incomplete draft of WWS; protagonist is still Cass McKay.
    Versos: 1. 7: note in NA hand: 8:49- The Jugglers/Palace; total of 85 versos are pp. from an unidentified mimeograph.
    Keywords: You don't have one day...had no windowsat all

  7. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    8. Date: Ca. 1955-1956.
    Collation: 124 on 124 leaves numbered 1-124; white Clearweave/Bond (discolored).
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a late draft of WWS; virtually no corrections or revisions.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Why Fitz Linkhorn turned out...you lay your money down

Box 8


  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1955-1956. Collation: 175 pp. on 175 leaves numbered 125-299; white Clearweave/Bond (slightly discolored).
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a late draft of WWS; virtually no corrections or revisions.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: where it's everything but square...a slight tremor just then

  2. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1955-1956.
    Collation: 151 pp. on 151 leaves numbered 300-304, 309-347, 355-461; white EAGLE/ACCEPTANCE BOND (slightly discolored).
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a late draft of WWS; several pp. missing;virtually no corrections or revisions.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Down the long hall Floralee's...of honey mesquite comes strongest

  3. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    4. Date:
    Collation: 151 pp. on 151 leaves numbered [1]-151; yellow bond (badly browned).
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 of a late draft of ; very light corrections and revisions.
    Versos: 1. 58: in NA hand figures and note regarding what appears to be ship fare.
    Keywords: Why Fitz Linkhorn turned out...in the whole dern town."

  4. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    5. Date: Ca. 1956.
    Collation: 153 pp. on 153 leaves numbered 152-254, 256-305; yellow bond (browned).
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of a late draft of WWS; light editorial type corrections and notations.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: The woman studied the certificate...with death, felt with death

  5. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1956.
    Collation: 135 pp. on 134 leaves numbered 1-9, 9A, 10-104, 104A, 105-123, 130, 125, 125A, 127-132 (text continuous through out of sequence pagination); various papers; many paste ons; in fair condition, some tears and chipping.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 4 of a typist copy of WWS; moderately revised ; many page numbers changed; note in NA hand at head of 1. 1: Jean-/Pay no heed to/my numbering/system. When you/come to things/like '9A'- just/make it '10' et seq./Thanks-Nelson [signed]/copy 1
    Versos: 11. 29-30, 35, 51,62-63: pp. from a mimeo of a radio script; 11. 95, 119, 134: misstarts; 1. 123: p. 34 of a piece (not NA) about a tin soldier being eaten by a fish; 1. 126: notes and in NA hand: A Walk on the Wild Side/by/Nelson Algren
    Keywords: Why Fitz Linkhorn turned out...was Huey Long or Old

  6. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    Date: Ca. 1955-1956.
    Collation: 107 pp. on 107 leaves numbered 133-143, 145-193, 193A, 194, 194A-194D, 195-223, 223A, 224-226; various papers (most discolored); many paste ons; in fair condition.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 4 of a typist copy of WWS with moderate revisions and corrections.
    Versos: 11. 57, 87, 103: mimeo pp. from a radio script; 1. 77: notes crossed out; 11. 83-86: pp. from MGA flimscript; 1. 92: TLs, Max Pfeffer to Jack Conroy, 3Je55; 1. 102: TLs, Timothy Seldes to NA, [Ap/My 1955]; 1. 105: TLs, Ken McCormick to NA, 10My55.
    Keywords: Dominion giving things away again ...the best I can offer."

  7. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    8. Date: Ca. 1955-1956.
    Collation: 82 pp. on 82 leaves numbered 237-244, 244A, 245-247, 248-249 [one page], 268-276, 276A-276B, 277-280, 282-283, 283A, 284-289, 289A, 290, 290A-290C, 291-294, 294A, 295, 295A, 296B, 297-313; various papers (most discolored); many paste ons and staple ons; in fair-good conditions, some edges chipping and tearing.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 4 of the typist copy with moderate revisions and corrections.
    Versos: 1. 9: mimeo p. from radio script; 11. 21-22: pp. from another draft; 1. 65: notes; 1. 78: additional text crossed out.
    Keywords: "I had one who wouldn't...show that love had i [...]

  8. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    9. Date: Ca. 1955-1956.
    Collation: 63 pp. on 63 leaves numbered 314-315, 315A, 317-330, 330A, 331, 331A, 332-373; various papers (most discolored); many paste ons; in fair condition, edges chipping and tearing; 11. 1, 5, 7 on verso of Hotel Lincoln ltrhd.
    Contents: Folder 4 of 4 of the typist copy with moderate revisions and corrections.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: lightened his head a little...had died in Dove too.

  9. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
    10. Date: Ca. 1956.
    Collation: 91 pp. on 91 leaves numbered [i-v], 1, 1A, 2-85; various white bond and yellow bond (most discolored); many paste ons and inserts.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 5 of the type setting copy with extensive editorial markings.
    Versos: 1. 37: in NA hand: Nelson Algren [signed]/c 1956 A [...] Canada
    Keywords: He's just a poor lonesome...He had caught something alright.

  10. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    11. Date: Ca. 1956.
    Collation: 125 pp. on 125 leaves numbered 86-130, 130A, 131-210; white bond (discolored); many paste ons and inserts.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 5 of the type setting copy with extensive editorial markings.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "Extryordinary!" the old man seemed...Gross squeaked with mocking

  11. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    Date: Ca. 1956.
    Collation: 127 pp. on 127 leaves numbered 211-235, 235A, 236-359; white onion skin (discolored); many paste ons and inserts.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 5 of the type setting copy with extensive editorial markings.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Welma the wulcanized woomin! Ain't...Since Jesus came to stay!"

Box 9


  1. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1956.
    Collation: 115 pp. on 115 leaves numbered 360-383, 383A, 384-460, 265-277 [text continuous through change in pagination]; white onion skin (discolored); many paste ons and inserts.
    Contents: Folder 4 of 5 of the type setting copy with extensive editorial markings.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "Honey, dear, run upstairs like...once,," her voice turned faintly

  2. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1956.
    Collation: 29 pp. on 29 leaves numbered 278-306 [text in continuous from previous folder]; white Caravan Onion Skin (slightly discolored); many paste ons and inserts; generally in fair condition except last 2 11. which are badly torn.
    Contents: Folder 5 of 5 of the type setting copy with moderate- extensive editorial markings.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: wistful, "I was workin' out...fun," she told Hallie then

  3. (Galley proofs).Title: A WALK/ON THE/WILD/SIDE
    4. Date: 1956.
    Collation: 33 pp. on 33 leaves numbered 7, 9-11, 16-18, 20, 29, 31-32, 34-36, 38-39, 44-45, 50, 53, 59, 63, 71, 81, 83, 91-92, 98-99, 103-104, [-], [-]; white (discolored) paper; 63 x 18; bottom 25% of 1. 18 cut off, 11. 32-33 cut off at top and bottom leaving less than 50% of each; generally in good condition.
    Contents: Incomplete galley proofs of WWS.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: All was well, for what...spent thousands on my education."

  4. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    5. Date: CA. 1952.
    Collation: 28 pp. on 28 leaves numbered 133-160; white bond and white ruled (discolored); generally in good condition.
    Contents: Early draft of a portion of WWS with heavy revisions; subsequently revised for use as pp. 120-131 in the book, as well as in "Mr. Goodbuddy and the Mighty Dripolator" (C63); accompanied by: TNs, NA to Bill [Targ?], ND.
    Versos: 11.1 and 28: pp. from another draft; 11. 4-8, 11-18, 20-27: pp. from an essay on Socialism by Algren probably written while in college.
    Keywords: Cass couldn't catch a single...time to be moving on.

  5. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1952-1955.
    Collation: 13 pp. on 13 leaves numbered 1-9, 10A, 10B, 11-12; white bond and coated paper (most discolored); some pp. from notebook.
    Contents: Early draft of a portion of WWS with heavy revisions and corrections; at head of 1. 1 in NA hand: Double-spaced. Single copy. Number as you go.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Why Stuart McKay turned out...the house stood- page 8 [added holg. illegible]

  6. Ts (ribbon).Title: Vera Cruz
    7. Date: Ca. 1954.
    Collation: 36 pp. on 36 leaves numbered 1-4A, 4B, 5-7, 7B, 8-23, 25-35; various papers, most from loose leaf notebook.
    Contents: Early fragment of a draft of WWS with heavy corrections and revisions.
    Versos: 11. 22, 24, 29-34: all pp. from an unidentified mimeo.
    Keywords: The old way west had...him go, just as though

  7. Ts (ribbon).Title: FINNERTY'S BALL/or/The Spanish Hankercher [sic]
    8. Date: Ca. 1953-1955.
    Collation: 13 pp. on 13 leaves numbered [1], 2-4, 6, 11-12, [13], 2-4, 17-18 [text is continuous through change in pagination]; various bond typing papers.
    Contents: Early fragment of a draft of WWS with heavy corrections and revisions; in upper left corner of 1. 1 in NA hand: early/version/1/Algren [signed]
    Versos: 1. 5: illegible holog. in NA hand; 1. 6: continuation of added text crossed out; 11. 8-11: pp. from another draft.
    Keywords: Why Fitz Linkhorn turned out...he was completely hairless then.

  8. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    9. Date: Ca. March 1955.
    Collation: 11 pp. on 11 leaves numbered 156-166; various bond typing papers.
    Contents: Fragment of a fairly early draft of WWS with heavy corrections and revisions.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: those of home, he always...all his women to dolls

  9. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    10. Date: Ca. July 1955.
    Collation: 37 pp. on 34 leaves numbered 20, 26, 28-29, 35-37, 39, 44-46, 48, 52, 56, 68, 73-74, 86, 88-91, 93, 101-102, 111-115, 116A, 116B; yellow bond (badly browned); many paste ons and type overs; 1. 8 only partial leaf.
    Contents: Fragment of a draft of WWS with heavy corrections and revisions; in the upper right corner of 1. 1: Si ERES Cliente/No me PIDAS F[]ADO/Si NO LE ERES/CON MAS RAZON
    Versos: 11. 10 and 23: additional text crossed out; 1. 12: TLs, Philip Stevenson to NA, Ca. 1955; 11. 22 and 33: pp. from another draft.
    Keywords: over, before the dancing was...pleading over the shoulder look

  10. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    11. Date: Ca. 1954-1956.
    Collation: 40 pp. on 38 leaves numbered 168-185, 194-202, 212-221, 223; various bond typing papers (most discolored); use of black and red typewriter ribbon; many paste ons.
    Contents: Fragment of a draft of WWS, subsequently revised for use in the book as pp. 202-231, as well as in "A House of A Hundred Grassfires" published in Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters (Bruccoli incorrectly states that this episolde was deleted from WWS; see pp. 217-231 in 1st edition).
    Versos: 1. 28: page from another draft.
    Keywords: Behind the eyes of the...pleading over the shoulder look

  11. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    12. Date: Ca. 1954-1955.
    Collation: 15 pp. on 15 leaves number 203-216; various bond typing papers; many paste ons (1. 1 paste on separated).
    Contents: Fragment of a draft of WWS with heavy corrections and revisions.
    Versos: 1. 6: TLs, Ben[?] to NA, 17Ag[54/55]; 1. 10: page from another draft.
    Keywords: to her fingertips. The pupils...with Finnerty my old man."

  12. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    13. Date: Ca. 1955.
    Collation: 54 pp. on 54 leaves numbered 17-25, 43-45, 29-41, 42-50, 52-59, 62-72; yellow bond (badly browned); various sizes; many paste ons.
    Contents: Fragment of a draft of WWS with moderate corrections and revisions.
    Versos: 11. 22, 32-33: pp. from other drafts.
    Keywords: "Did you not know I...let het [sic] go at last.

  13. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    14. Date: Ca. 1953-1956.
    Collation: 20 pp. on 17 leaves; various pagings; various papers (most discolored) and sizes; many paste ons; in poor condition, edges chipping and tearing.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 4 of miscellaneous pages from various drafts of WWS most with heavy corrections and revisions; accompanied by ANs in NA hand: Loose pages for/early version of/ "Walk on the Wild Side"/-Algren [signed]
    Versos: 11. 2, 5, 10, 11, 15, 17: pp. from other drafts; 1. 9: text in verse form- incomplete; 1. 12 and 16: pp. from a radio script.
    Keywords: its scent wasn't delicate as...let het [sic] go at last.

  14. Ts (ribbon).Title: [title crossed out]
    15. Date: Ca. 1953-1956.
    Collation: 115 pp. on 106 leaves; various pagings; various papers (most discolored) and sizes; many paste ons; in fair condition, edges chipping and tearing.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 4 of miscellaneous pages from vaious drafts of WWS most with heavy corrections and revisions; accompnied by ANs in NA hand: Dear Bill,/I don't have any way of/putting the enclosed pages/ in sequence because they/are loose pages from/several versions of "Walk on/the/Wild/Side"-/Nelson [signed]
    Versos: 1. 46: ALs, Joe Diggles to NA, 24Je55.
    Keywords: Why Fitz Linkhorn had turned...as he spilled the southern

  15. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    16. Date: Ca. 1953-1956.
    Collation: 133 pp. on 132 leaves; various pagings; various papers (most discolored) and sizes; many paste ons; in fair condition, edges chipping and tearing.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 4 of miscellaneous pages from various drafts of WWS most with heavy corrections and revisions.
    Versos: 1. 26: ALs, James Blake to Amanda Algren, 14My54; 1. 31: ALs Ken[?] to NA, ND.
    Keywords: waters from palm to palm. ...stick flicked between her eyes-

  16. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    17. Date: Ca. 1954-1955.
    Collation: 8 pp. on 8 leaves; various pagings; various papers (discolored).
    Contents: Folder 4 of 4 of miscellaneous pp. from various drafts of WWS all with heavy corrections and revisions.
    Versos: 1. 5: TLs, Warren Roberts to NA, 19My55.
    Keywords: day for Oliver/the deal...cleaned no tanks for Rome.

  17. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    18. Date: Ca. 1954-1955.
    Collation: 8 pp. on 8 [mostly] unnumbered leaves; various papers (discolored).
    Contents: Notes relating to WWS with heavy corrections; in upper right corner of 1. 1: July 26 - Aug 9/1954/Brownsville/New Orleans/St Louis [sic] ; NP clipping re: smoking marijuana attached to 1. 7.
    Versos: 1. 3: TLs, Louise Thomas to NA, 17D54; 1. 4: TLs, Madeliene Brennan [Ingersoll & Brennan to NA, 11Ja55; 1. 5: page from unidentified Ms.; 11. 6-7: pp. from other drafts of WWS.
    Keywords: lonches [sic]y snwiches [sic]/salt on...had to be straightened out.

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A Walk on the Wild Side. (Bruccoli A7).

  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: Terasina's Song
    2. Date: Ca. 1959-1960.
    Collation: 9 pp. on 9 unnumbered leaves;various papers (discolored); in poor condition, extrememly brittle, edges chipping and tearing.
    Contents: Lyrics written by Algren for the musical stage version of WWS based on the book; most are typist copies version of WWS based on the book; most are typist copies with moderate revisions and corrections; at head of 11. 1, 2, 8 in NA hand: 2 copies/double space; at head of 1. 7 in NA hand: Soliloquy/of the circus/Strongman/Professional/wrestler/Reduced/TO/begging on/a roller-skates/platform/1 one at the/hip and one/at the knee
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Shut the door on the...dancers move again./- Nelson Algren

  2. (Printed program).Title: A Walk on the Wild Side
    3. Date: Ca. 1960.
    Collation: 28 pp. on 24 unnumbered leaves; 35.4 x 21.5 and 28 x 45; gold bond and white photocopy paper.
    Contents: 4 single leaf programs from the musical stage version of WWS; 1. 1 is signed by Algren in center of page.
    Versos: 1. 2 at foot of page in NA hand: These are the/Lyrics I wrote/for a musical/version of/"Walk on the Wild/Side"-/Nelson Algren [signed]
    Keywords: [None]

  3. Ts (ribbon).Title: Lonely Pianolo
    4. Date: Ca. 1959-1960.
    Collation: 6 pp. on 5 unnumbered leaves; various bond typing papers; in poor condition, extremely brittle, edges chipping and tearing.
    Contents: Unused lyrics for the musical stage version of WWS with heavy corrections and revisions; several are typist copies; at head of 1. 1 in NA hand: Cathy-/2 Copies?/Double spaced; at head of 1. 5 in NA hand: 2 copies double spaced; alternate title at head of 1. 1 crossed out: HOUSE OF THE HUNDRED FIRES
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Here at the end of...And cop the whole lot.

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Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters.(Bruccoli A8).

  1. Ts (ribbon). The House of the Hundred Grassfires.Title: [None]
    2. Date: 1962.
    Collation: 33 pp. on 33 leaves numbered 1-33; white bond typing paper; FOUR STAR BOND/SOUTHWORTH CO. USA; ACCEPTANCE BOND/COTTON CONTENT USA
    Contents: Draft of the short story "The House of the Hundred Grassfires" with heavy corrections and revisions; typed note at the head of 1. 4: This page belongs in the revised version of the/section from Walk on the Wild Side which appeared/in The Book of Lonesome Monsters-Algren [signed]
    Versos: 5 misstarts.
    Keywords: It was during that rumorous...white folks are up to."

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Who Lost an American? (Bruccoli A9).

  1. Ts (ribbon and carbon). Title: New York: Rapietta Greensponge, Girl Counselor,/Comes to My Aid.
    2. Date: Ca. April-May 1963.
    Collation: 142 pp. on 142 leaves numbered [i], 1-9, 9A, 10-20, 20A, 21-22, 22A, 23-27, 27A, 28-38, 38A, 39-82, 82A, 83-97, 98A-98D, 99-115, 116A-116B, 117-120, 120A-120C, 121-127; various papers; blue typewriter ribbon; some paste ons.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 of the typesetting copy of Who Lost An American?; light corrections and revisions by Algren; editorial notations; galley pg. numbers added to text.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: When I recall today what...when they had first met.

  2. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. April-May 1963.
    Collation: 167 pp. on 167 leaves numbered 128-182, 183A-183B, 184-194, 194A, 195-277, 277A, 278-285, 285A, 286-289, [-]; various white bond; some paste ons.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of the typesetting copy of Who Lost An American?; light corrections and revisions by Algren; editorial notations; galley pg. numbers added to text.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "That was for Baby," she...beat of one toneless drum.

  3. Ts and AMs.Title: Who Lost An American?
    4. Date: Ca. 1963.
    Collation: 13 pp. on 13 unnumbered leaves; various sizes and colors of heavy tracing and lightweight coated paper.
    Contents: Layout of preliminary pages for typesetting; editorial corrections and notations; accompanied by cover of manila folder with note in upper left in NA hand: Nelson Algren/Chicago Oct/26/1967;and note not in NA hand: TM and/LAYOUTS/OF SECTION TITLES/to Algren,/Who lost an/American
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: [None]

  4. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: Who Lost An American?
    5. Date: Ca. April-May 1963.
    Collation: 90 pp. on 90 leaves numbered [i-xi], 1-79; various papers and sizes; 11. 18-21, 24 on versos of American Totalisator Company, Inc. intracompany correspondence forms.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 of the typesetting copy of the final four Chicago chapters of WLA?; heavily corrected and revised by both Algren and editors; all page numbers have been changed from what would have been sequential for the book to beginning with 1.
    Versos: Misstarts.
    Keywords: [after all preliminary pp.] A winter of a single...the range, and hard times.

  5. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. April-May 1963.
    Collation: 76 pp. on 76 leaves numbered 80-155; various white bond papers.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of the typesetting copy of the final four Chicago chapters of WLA?; heavily corrected and revised by Algren and editors; all page numbers have been changed from what would have been sequential for the book to beginning with 1.
    Versos: Misstarts.
    Keywords: in town became a world...to impede his next leap.

  6. Galley Proof.Title: WHO LOST AN AMERICAN?
    Date: 10 August 1962.
    Collation: 118 pp. on 40 unnumbered leaves (eventual book pages numbered in galley- 3 numbers per page); 63 cm. x 19 cm.; white bond (yellowing); some edges chipped and several pp. cut.
    Contents: 2 copies of galley proofs only for Chicago sections of WLA?; includes prelims; moderate editorial type corrections by Algren on copy 1 and editor on copy 2; copy 2 stamped in red: MASTER PROOF; 1. 1 (paste on): Being a guide to the seamier sides: [...]
    Versos: 1. 118 stamped in red: MASTER PROOF/AUG 10 1962
    Keywords: A winter of a single... to impede his next/leap.

  7. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    8. Date: Ca. January-February 1962.
    Collation: 80 pp. on 80 leaves numbered 292-303, 304A-304B, 305-307, 308A-308B, 309-311, 312A-312B, 313-326, 328-344, 346-347, 348A-348B, 349-357, 357B, 357A-358D, 359-361, 361-364 [text continuous through duplication of p. 361]; various papers and sizes; in fair condition; moderate use of paste ons.
    Contents: Typist copy of the Chicago I, II, IV chapters fro WLA?; on 1. 1 in upper right in NA hand: Dear Anne-Two/copies, on bond, will be all I'll need of/this piece-Nelson; at head of 1. 4 in NA hand: Dear Anne- Two copies/both on bond will be/enough-/N.
    Versos: 1. 62: TLs, Bob (The Nation) to NA, 5F62; 1. 68: TNs, Norman Eddy to NA, 14Ja62; 11. 2, 7-11, 15-17, 20, 244, 32, 35, 46, 48, 60, 69: all misstarts or text crossed out.
    Keywords: A certain man was once...tense as a coiled spring."

Box 10


  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1963.
    Collation: 12 pp. on 12 leaves numbered 5-6, 11-20; white bond; in good condition.
    Contents: Fragment from Chapter 1 ("New York:...") with minor corrections in NA hand.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: We shook hands with alacrity...if I'd be able to

  2. Ts (blue ribbon).Title: The South of England: circle and come back.
    3. Date: Ca. September 1961.
    Collation: 33 pp. on 33 leaves numbered [-], 1-11, 12A, 13-20, 23-34; various bond typing papers.
    Contents: Draft of Chapter 4 ("The South of England...") heavily revised and corrected; subsequent revised for publication.
    Versos: 1. 2: TL, Esquire to NA, 25S61; 1. 3: pg. from itinerary for symposium in Ann Arbor; 1. 4: Bios of authors participating in symposium; 1. 8: p. 4 from unidentified piece; 1. 15: TLs, Harding Lemay (A.Knopf) to NA, 28S61; 1. 29: TLs, Robert Cohen to NA, 25S61; 1. 23-26: all misstarts or text crossed out.
    Keywords: Now I had once been...slipped out with the slipstream.

  3. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1962.
    Collation: 23 pp. on 23 leaves numbered 2-24; white Raceaway Bond/RAG CONTENT/VALLEY PAPER CO./USA.
    Contents: Incomplete, uncorrected late draft of Chapter 4 ("The South of England...").
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: our nurse's disdain for their...slipped out with the slipstream.

  4. Ts (carbon).Title: The Girl Below The Black Coiffure
    5. Date: Ca. September 1960.
    Collation: 4 pp. on 4 unnumbered leaves; white bond; SWAN/[picture of a swan]/LINEN/100% RAG (only 3 11.).
    Contents: Early draft of poem used as the closing of the Paris chapter of WLA?; lines and stanzas numbered for revision; additional holog. text illegible.
    Versos: 11. 1-3: TLs, Dan McCullough to NA, 13S60; 1. 4: Ts, poem by Joan Kerckhoff with AN, Joan Kerckoff to NA, [S60].
    Keywords: There are sad little signs...girl with a black coiffure. [+ illeg. hollog.]

  5. Ts (blue ribbon).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. July 1961.
    Collation: 30 pp. on 30 leaves numbered 2-21, 22A-22B, 23-30; yellow bond (badly browned).
    Contents: Incomplete draft of Chapter 10 (Istanbul:..."); heavily corrected and revised.
    Versos: 1. 7: TNs, Jenora Parker (for [Edward] Williams) to NA, 18Jy61.
    Keywords: anybody were confirmed./he stopped...beat of a toneless drum.

  6. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    7. Date: Ca. February 1961.
    Collation: 42 pp. on 42 leaves numbered 18-39, 41-49, 51-54, 56-60, 80; various sizes; bond typing paper (badly greened).
    Contents: Incomplete draft of "Chicago IV"; heavily corrected and revised; page numbers changed.
    Versos: 11. 33-34: ALs, JB [James Blake?] to Dian Dealer [NA], 27F61 [on Mid-American Fallout Shelters Corp. purchase order form].
    Keywords: I was brough to...of the Playboy Key Club.

  7. Ts (carbon).Title: II. Catch Him Before I Steal More.
    Date: Ca. 1962.
    Collation: 16 pp. on 16 leaves numbered [1], 2-11, 13, 8-10, 13; white EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/BERKSHIRE.
    Contents: 2 incomplete carbon copies of "Chicago II" from WLA?
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Chicago is fond of the...key clubs, doorman and bar.

  8. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    9. Date: Ca. 1962.
    Collation: 12 pp. on 12 leaves numbered 339-340, 353-362; white EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/BERKSHIRE.
    Contents: Incomplete, uncorrected copies of "Chicago II" and "Chicago IV".
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Chicago is fond of the ... than just a gentleman's club.

  9. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    10. Date: Ca. March 1962.
    Collation: 7 pp. on 7 leaves numbered 1-7; white bond (slightly yellowed).
    Contents: Fragment from "Chicago IV"; heavily corrected and revised.
    Versos: 1. 4: TLs M.C. March to NA, 8Mr62.
    Keywords: A week before he died...from the fedneralized [sic] years, who [...]

  10. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    11. Date: Ca. 1963.
    Collation: 13 pp. on 13 leaves numbered 12-17, 18-24; white FOUR STAR BOND (yellowed).
    Contents: 2 fragments from WLA?; lightly corrected and revised.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Ca. 1963.

  11. Ts (carbon).Title: The Irishman In The Grotto, The Man In The Iron Suit,/ And The Girl in Gravity-Z; Or How Dingdong Daddyland Strangely/Changed Into Pingpong Playboyland: The Playboy MagazineStory
    12. Date: Ca. 1962-1963.
    Collation: 48 pp. on 48 leaves numbered [i-iii, 1], 2-23, 1-17, 19-23; white lightweight bond (yellowing).
    Contents: 2 carbon copies of "Chicago IV" from WLA?; second copy incomplete; pagination suggests that these were intended for separate publication; at the head of 1. 1 in NA hand: Wolfe; at the head of 1. 2: I. The Door To Dingdong Daddyland; at the head of 1. 3: The Door To Pingpong Playboyland.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Now I can tell you...stacked/from basement to roof.

  12. Ts (mimeo).Title: [None]
    13. Date: Ca. 1962-1963.
    Collation: 93 pp. on 93 leaves numbered [1], 2-48, [1], 2, 6-48; white mimeo paper.
    Contents: 2 mimeo copies of the Chicago sections of WLA?; copy 1 lightly corrected; copy 2 incomplete; pagination suggests that these were intended for use as separate pieces; accompanied by note in NA hand on part of a manila folder: Playboy Section of/Lost American; and: SHLepKon [?]
    Versos: 1.1: p. 1 from another draft.
    Keywords: A week before he died...be murder in the first.

  13. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    14. Date: Ca. 1961-1963.
    Collation: 47 pp. on 47 leaves; various pagings; various papers.
    Contents: Miscellaneous pages from various drafts of WLA?; most heavily corrected and revised; in upper right corner of 1.1 stamped: INGERSOLL & BRENNAN/ 19 WEST 55 NEW YORK 19
    Versos: 1. 6: p. 127 from another draft; 1. 7: p. 25 from another draft; 1. 9: TLs, Carey Williams to NA, ND, p. 2 only; 1. 16: p. 31 of draft of one of the Chicago sections; 1. 28: p. 5 from unidentified piece about Hemingway.
    Keywords: Summer on Seventy-First Street, when...thought resentfully, who were they

  14. Guide books, maps, clippings, etc.Title: [None]
    15. Date: Ca. 1962-1963.
    Collation: 1 clipping, 5 guide books and pamphlets, 1 pc, 2 menus;various sizes.
    Contents: Source material for WLA?; guide books for: Istanbul, Crete-Greece, Encyclopiedic Istanbul, Athens, Istanbul; pc not addressed or signed to NA [?]: in order to you see/the motor boat [greek name] with its/little boats where you fished a night. ; 2 menus: 1 from Hotel Cosmos [French] and 1 from TURISTIK/MESHUR TARIHI; 1 New York Times article; accompanied by note in NA hand: These are guide/books used in/writing "Who/Lost An American"-/ Algren [signed]
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: TURKISH HOLIDAY/MASKS 'MALAISE'/New...

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Notes From a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way.(Bruccoli A12).

  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: NOTES FROM/A SEA DIARY: /Hemingway [sic] All The Way
    2. Date: Ca. 1965.
    Collation: 92 pp. on 92 leaves numbered [i-iv], 1-4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10, 1-79; various sizes and papers.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of the preliminary page layouts and the setting copy of NSD; moderately corrected; page numbers changed and galley page numbers marked in text.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: [after 13 prelim. pp.] An esssay on Ernest Hemingway...on the door for Concannon.

  2. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1965.
    Collation: 91 pp. on 89 leaves numbered 80-165, 166-167 [one page], 168, 169-170 [one page]; various bond papers.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of the setting copy of NSD; moderate editorial notes and corrections; page numbers marked in text.
    Versos: 1. 25: on left margin in NA hand [?]: SEA DIARY/ 16-30.
    Keywords: "Nepal gel very strong," she...any cost than to starve."

  3. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1965.
    Collation: 130 pp. on 130 leaves numbered 131-300; various bond papers.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of the setting copy of NSD; moderate corrections and notes by editors and NA; attached to 1. 103 not in NA hand: Caps and punctuation as/original- but how/about couriousity (this page)/hapzard of haphazard (p. 275) [added in NA hand:] Set as is
    Versos: 1. 44: on left margin in NA hand: SEA DIARY/31-60
    Keywords: CAGE 10/Nancy's parents died....No Chowchow Papa You Give.

  4. (Uncorrected proof in galley form).Title: NOTES FROM/A SEA DIARY: Hemingway All The Way
    5. Date: Ca. April-May 1965.
    Collation: 88 pp. on 88 leaves numbered [i-iv], 1-84; 63 cm x 19 cm; white bond; in fair condition, edges chipping and tearing.
    Contents: Galleys identified on 1. 1 with typeset paste-on from G.P. Putnam's Sons: NOTE: This is UNCORRECTED PROOF
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: An essay on Ernest Hemingway...No Chowchow Papa You Give.

  5. (Corrected page proofs in galley form).Title: NOTES FROM A SEA DIARY:/Hemingway All The Way
    6. Date: 4 May 1965.
    Collation: 84 pp. on 84 leaves numbered [i-iv], 1-84; 63 cm x 19 cm; white bond (browning); in poor condition, paper brittle and edges chipping and tearing; few paste ons.
    Contents: Corrected page proofs in galley form; editorial and NA corrections and notes through out.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: An essay on Ernest Hemingway...No Chowchow Papa You Give.

Box 11


  1. (Galleys).Title: NOTES FROM A SEA DIARY:/Hemingway All the Way
    2. Date: 18 May 1965.
    Collation: 80 pp. on 80 leaves numbered [1-10], 11-254; 63 cm x 19 cm; white bond; in good condition.
    Contents: Galleys for NSD with light editorial corrections.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: An essay on Ernest Hemingway...No Chowchow Papa You Give.

  2. Ts (carbon).Title:PREFATORY
    3. Date: Ca. 1963-1964.
    Collation: 8 pp. on 8 leaves numbered 1-8; white Majestic/Legal Linen/ 100% RAG CONTENT
    Contents: Draft on the preface to NSD lightly corrected and revised; signed by NA at foot of 1. 8; in upper left corner of 1. 1 in NA hand (erased but still visible): Early version/Nelson Algren [signed]
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: An essay on Hemingway is...from critics peddling sterility.

  3. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: THE LAST STITCH IS THROUGH THE NOSE/ (Notes From A Sea Diary)
    4. Date: Ca. 1963-1965.
    Collation: 18 pp. on 18 leaves numbered [-], [-], 1-15, [-]; various bond papers; in grey Russell and Volkening wrappers; many paste ons.
    Contents: Draft of the 2nd chapter of NSD; subsequently revised for use in the book; this version apparently was intended for separate publication.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: It was such a hell...stitch be through the nose.

  4. Ts (carbon).Title: Ding-Dong Tinkle-Hinkle, The Finkified LaSagna [sic] and the Paperfish King
    5. Date: Ca. 1963-1965.
    Collation: 3 pp. on 3 leaves numbered [1], 2, 7; white Gibralter Onion Skin (beginning to brown).
    Contents: Incomplete, early draft of "July 6th..."; with heavy revisions and corrections; subsequently revised for use in NSD; (apparently intended for separate publication but, this version is not similar to the version published in Dial.)
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: I once went to New ...all catches fire anymore

  5. Ts (carbon).Title: THE LION OF KOWLOON GROWLED LOW
    6. Date: Ca. 1965.
    Collation: 20 pp. on 20 leaves numbered [-], [-], 1-17, [-]; white bond typing paper (slightly yellowed).
    Contents: Revised version of "July 9th: Concannon Gets the Ship in Trouble or Assy-end up on Hophang Rd"; in Russell and Volkening wrappers; pagination indicated this piece was intended for separate publication
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: The blood on my shirt...so young yet so old.

  6. Ts (blue and black ribbons).Title: OLD MAN, YOU'LL LOSE YOUR GOOD THING SOON
    7. Date: Ca. 1964-1965.
    Collation: 17 pp. on 17 leaves numbered [i, ii], 1-14, 16; white Majestic/Legal Linen/100% RAG CONTENT.
    Contents: Incomplete, moderately revised version of "Into the Gala Day"; pagination indicates intended for separate publication; in Russell and Volkening wrappers; on cover in center, in NA hand: old version
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: This street, when the land...lost your good thing now.

  7. Ts (ribbon).Title: NIGHT IN THE GARDENS OF HORN AND HARDART
    8. Date: Ca. 1964-1965.
    Collation: 11 pp. on 11 leaves numbered [-], 1-9, [-]; white bond typing paper.
    Contents: Lightly revised draft of "The Real Thing in Kitsch", subsequently revised for use in Notes from a Sea Diary...; pagination indicates intended for separate publication; in Russel and Volkening wrappers.
    Versos: 1. 6: misstart.
    Keywords: I once had a drink...hell of a thing alright.

  8. Ts (carbon).Title: WAS THAT IN MACAO OR SAIGON?
    9. Date: Ca. 1964-1965.
    Collation: 28 pp. on 28 leaves numbered [-], [-], 1-25, [-]; white bond typing paper.
    Contents: Lightly to moderately revised draft of the first section of "The Quias of Calcutta"; subsequently revised for use in Notes from a Sea Diary...
    Versos: 1. 15: TLs, Sylvia to NA, 30Ap.
    Keywords: Nobody knows why crows pursue...sailed./Into the gala day.

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The Last Carousel. (Bruccoli A13).


  1. Ts (ribbon).Title: THE LAST CAROUSEL
    2. Date: Ca. August-September 1973.
    Collation: 121 pp. on 121 leaves numbered [i-vi], 2-35, 37-116 [text continuous]; white EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/USA/BERKSHIRE; paste-ons.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 5 of the type setting copy of The Last Carousel; moderate to heavy editorial notations and corrections; pagination changed to be continuous; accompanied by 2 leaves (one yellow and one white regarding editorial notes on Ms. and a portion of paper box, in NA hand: LAST/CAROUSEL/-/ALGREN/TEL. collect: (201)/345-3549-/38 Quinn St. Paterson/N.J.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: We'll fight you on condition...since revising Heller's estimate.

  2. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. August-September 1973.
    Collation: 134 pp. on 134 leaves numbered 117-250; white EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/USA/BERKSHIRE.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 5 of the type setting copy of The Last Carousel; moderate to heavily editorial notations and corrections.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "Dear Mr. Algren," a young...you're crazy about/raw fish.

  3. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. August-September 1973.
    Collation: 226 pp. on 226 leaves numbered 251-261, 264-378; white EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/USA/BERKSHIRE.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 5 of the type setting copy of The Last Carousel; incomplete (missing pp. 263, 264); moderate to heavy editorial notations and corrections.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: HOW DO I LOOK BOYS...sign on the unshaken waters.

  4. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    5. Date: Ca. August-September 1973.
    Collation: 151 pp. on 151 leaves numbered 379-523, 525-527, 529-531; white EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/USA/BERKSHIRE.
    Contents: Folder 4 of 5 of the type setting copy of The Last Carousel; incomplete (missing pp. 524, 528); moderate to heavy editorial notations and corrections.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Other springs have come on...he would never see again.

  5. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. August-September 1973.
    Collation: 130 pp. on 130 leaves numbered 532-605, 607-661, [662] (text continuous); white EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/USA/BERKSHIRE.
    Contents: Folder 5 of 5 of the type setting copy of The Last Carousel; moderate to heavy editorial notations and corrections.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: The 9th race prices flash...rain that lightly rains regret

Box 12


  1. Ts. and clippings.Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1959-1973.
    Collation: 8 unnumbered leaves, clippings from The Atlantic Monthly publication of "Home to Shawneetown", and Boxing Yearbook 1959;
    Contents: 2 typed 11. headed: boxing stuff; all 11. heavily revised in NA hand.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: [None]

  2. Ts (red ribbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1960-1970.
    Collation: 11 pp. on 11 leaves numbered 1-11; various sizes; yellow bond typing paper (badly browned); many paste ons; 11. in fair condition, extremely brittle.
    Contents: Early, incomplete, heavily corrected and revised draft of "Hand in Hand Through the Greenery With the Grabstand Clowns of Arts and Letters"; subsequently revised for use in The Last Carousel.
    Versos: 1. 9: holograph notes- illegible, crossed out.
    Keywords: "Dear Mr. Algren, "a young...who never think at all.

  3. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: The Girl From Meaderville
    4. Date: Ca. 1969.
    Collation: 20 pp. on 20 11. numbered [i], 1-19; various sizes; white and yellow bond typing paper (most badly browned); many paste ons.
    Contents: Fairly early, moderately revised draft of "Come In If You Love Money"; subsequently revised for use in The Last Carousel.
    Versos: 1. 1: Photocopy of The Helmet Press title, dated 6S69, crossed out with brown crayon; 1. 20: unfinished TL to Joel Wells.
    Keywords: Butte is a place where...most./But money mattered more.

  4. Ts (ribbon).Title: Come In If You Love Money
    5. Date: Ca. 1973.
    Collation: 22 pp. on 22 11. numbered [i], [1]-20; white EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/USA/BERKSHIRE.
    Contents: Final, uncorrected draft of "Come In If You Love Money"; pagination indicates this piece was intended for separate publication.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Butte, Montana, hasn't had a...most./Yet money mattered more.

  5. Ts (ribbon).Title: What Country Do You Think You're In?
    6. Date: Ca. 1972.
    Collation: 9 pp. on 9 11. numbered [-], [1]-8; white EATON'S/EMINENCE/BOND/USA/BERKSHIRE
    Contents: Final uncorrected draft of "What Country Do You Think You're In?"; intended for separate publication; accompanied by a publication submission card listing dates submitted, published and returned.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: In the season of the...you think you're in, buddy?"

  6. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    7. Date: Ca. 1969-1972.
    Collation: 7 pp. on 7 11. numbered [1], 5-10; white bond.
    Contents: Moderately corrected draft of "The Police and Mama Sans Get It All", subsequently revised for publication in The Last Carousel; 2 titles crossed out at head of p. 1:
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Xuong's nose had no bridge...bed and into a wife's.

  7. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    8. Date: Ca. 1970-1973.
    Collation: 74 pp. on 74 11. numbered [1]-3, 5-75; white bond typing paper;stained.
    Contents: An incomplete version of "The Cortez Gang, susequently revised for publication in The Last Carousel; accompanied by part of a manila envelope on which is written in NA hand: GREGORIO/CORTEZ; and typed in LR: E-BR/Mr. Nelson Algren/82 Maple/Hackensack, New Jersey 07604
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: In the country of El...to Rogers, and Rogers came.

  8. Ts (ribbon).Title: The sequence of events leading to the pursuit of Gregorio Cortez
    9. Date: Ca. 1970.
    Collation: 24 pp. on 24 11. numbered [i], 1-23; yellow bond typing paper (badly browned); very brittle.
    Contents: Lightly corrected draft of "The Cortez Gang" subsequently slightly revised for publication in The Last Carousel; accompanied by TLS, NA to Phil, ND (re: topical significance of Cortez vis a vis "Cesar Chavez"
    Versos: 1. 9: notice in Spanish of Chicago Health Clinics.
    Keywords: The brothers Cortez, Romuldo and...on a little sorrel mare.

  9. Ts (carbon).Title: [title crossed out]
    10. Date: Ca. 1970.
    Collation: 13 pp. on 13 11. numbered [1], 2-12, 6; white bond typing paper (discolored).
    Contents: Heavily revised and corrected draft of "The Ryebread Trees of Spring" subsequently revised for publication in The Last Carousel.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Other Springs have come on...last, the paid informer lies.

  10. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    11. Date: Ca. 1950-1960.
    Collation: 3 pp. on 3 11. numbered 37-29; various sizes; yellow bond typing paper (badly browned); poor condition, extremely brittle, chipping, and tearing.
    Contents: Early, lightly corrected and revised draft of "Go! Go! Go! Forty Years Ago" subsequently revised for publication in The Last Carousel.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Brooklyn fans that year for...then left to stand fift[]

  11. Ts (ribbon).Title: BALLET FOR OPENING DAY:/ The Swede was a hard guy
    12. Date: Ca. 1970-1973.
    Collation: 48 pp. on 48 11. numbered [-], [-], 1-44, [45], [46]; white bond typing paper.
    Contents: Fairly early uncorrected draft of "Ballet For Opening Day..."subsequently revised for publication in The Last Carousel.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "He had grown up believing...blowing forever/Away from home.

  12. Ts (ribbon).Title:Beth-Mary and the Frog in Ice
    13. Date: Ca. 1958.
    Collation: 11 pp. on 11 11. numbered 1-2, 4, 8, 15, 31, 59, 61, 63, 75-76; white bond typing paper (yellowed).
    Contents: Very early draft of "Watch Out For Daddy"; moderate-heavy corrections and revisions; susequently revised for publication in The Last Carousel.
    Versos: 1. 3: TL, NA to Neville Armstrong, 18F58, unfinished.
    Keywords: "Here's one broad had no...your arms off your stomach."

  13. Photocopy.Title: DEAD OF NIGHT
    14. Date: Ca. 1960s.
    Collation: 11 pp. on 11 11. numbered [627]-637; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Photocopies of pp. from The Permanent Playboy revised; title on 1. 1 crossed out; subsequently revised as the middle section of "Watch Out For Daddy".
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Stuff is making a regular...law had wanted all along.

  14. Ts (blue and black ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    15. Date: Ca. 1952-1972.
    Collation: 51 pp. on 51 11. numbered 9A, 9B, 10-23, 20-24, 24-26, 25-29, 31-45, 39-41, 5, 29A, 34, 37, [-]; various sizes; various papers.
    Contents: Fragments and single pp. of various early drafts of "Watch Out For Daddy", all heavily corrected and revised; at head of 1. 32: III. It's Us Cats Got to Suffer; accompanied by 2 newspaper clippings: one title "Rules of the House"- a list of 19 rules for a brothel and a small clipping dated Ag 10, 1952 about weather changes. (The material in this folder is more extensive than the Playboy story. Originally this was probably the novel about prostitution that was started in the 1950s while writing A Walk on the Wild Side.)
    Versos: 1. 23: AN, NA to Rooney, ND, unfinished; 1. 40: TLs, Canidida Donadio to NA, 13S63; 1. 48: p. 4 of unidentified piece about singers; 1. 49: p. 23 of WWS essay.
    Keywords: I lay back and waited...if/[...]that Beth-Mary.

  15. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    16. Date: Ca. 1950s.
    Collation: 4 pp. on 4 unnumbered leaves; white bond typing paper.
    Contents: Notes used for "Watch Out For Daddy" annotated and revised in several colors of ink and pencil.
    Versos: 11. 2-3: mimeo of unidentified piece about Martin; 1. 4: p. 12 of WWS essay.
    Keywords: local/she was like lost...

  16. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    17. Date: Ca. 1950.
    Collation: 10 pp. on 10 11. numbered 3-5, 8-12, [-], [-]; yellow bond typing paper (badly browned); very poor condition, brittle, chipped
    Contents: Early draft of the poem "Tricks Out of Times Long Gone"; heavily corrected and annotated in various colors of ink.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: ...their[?] losses are sitll lost[?]

  17. Ts (ribbon).Title: Tricks out of Times Long Gone
    18. Date: Ca. 1968.
    Collation: 10 pp. on 10 11. numbered [1]-5, 4-8; yellow and white bond typing paper (discolored); paste ons; in poor condition, brittle, chipped, and torn.
    Contents: Later draft of the poem "Tricks Out of Times Long Gone"; moderate to heavy corrections and revisions in various colors of ink.
    Versos: 1. 1: TLs, Harvey Walther, Jr to NA, 21F68; 1. 6: TLs, Bill McGarigle to NA, ND, p. 2 only.
    Keywords: Again that hour when taxies [sic]...pimp of you/Da-a-addy da-a-addy

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Calhoun. (Bruccoli A14).


  1. Ts (photocopy and ribbon).Title: CHINATOWN/A Novel of Suspense
    2. Date: Ca. 1979.
    Collation: 157 pp. on 157 11. numbered [i]-[iv], 1-26, 22, 28-37 [text continuous], 37A, 38-81, 81A-81E, 82-148; white bond and photocopy paper [four prelim. pp. are manila construction paper, added pp. are Ts on bond].
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of the copy of Calhoun presented to the German translator, Carl Weissner; unsigned note on title page in NA hand: This copy is for/Carl Weissner; in lower left of title page: Candida Donadio and Associates/111West 57th Street/New York, NY 10019. (This copy is not the earliest draft of The Devil's Stocking, but because this copy was given to Weissner it is filed under Calhoun, the German translation published two years prior to The Devil's Stocking.)
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the...my fists. Not by guns"

  2. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1979.
    Collation: 164 pp. on 164 leaves numbered 149-184, 184A-184J, 185-222, 222A, 223, 223A, 224-260, "261-265" [one page], 266-301; plus 3 unnumbered chapter opener pp.; white photocopy bond.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of the copy of Calhoun presented to Carl Weissner; many page numbers changed.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Ca. 1979.

  3. Ts (photocopy and carbon).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1979.
    Collation: 128 pp. on 128 11. numbered 302-340, 342-396, 396A, 397-426; plus 3 unnumbered chapter opener pp.; white photocopy and bond.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of the copy of Calhoun presented to Carl Weissner; many page numbers changed.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Vincent DeVivani, a corrupted...Everything, everything is the same.

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The Devil's Stocking. (Bruccoli A14.2).


Box 13


  1. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1976.
    Collation: 110 pp. on 110 leaves numbered [i], 1-48, 50-110 [text appears to be continuous]; white bond typing paper.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a version of The Devil's Stocking, lightly corrected and revised in various colors of ink; many page numbers changed; accompanied by a small newspaper clipping about Carter conviction being upheld. (From Weissner things.)
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I dreamed I was on...gotten it off the bartender

  2. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1976.
    Collation: 98 pp. on 98 leaves numbered 111-151, "152-153" [one page], 154-165, 166A-166E, 167-205; white bond typing paper.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a version of The Devil's Stocking, lightly corrected and revised in various colors of ink; many page numbers changed. (From Weissner things.)
    Versos: misstarts.
    Keywords: "There was no bartender to...of the tape, were they?"

  3. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1976.
    Collation: 104 pp. on 104 leaves numbered 206-309; white bond typing paper.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a version of The Devil's Stocking, lightly corrected in various colors of ink; many page numbers changed. (From Weissner things).
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I don't believe so."/"You...can get its boots on."

  4. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: THE FIGHTER/and/THE WHORE
    5. Date: Ca. 1977-1978.
    Collation: 146 pp. on 146 leaves numbered 1, 4-22, 24-27, 28A, 28D [text appears to be continuous], 29-148; white bond typing paper.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 of a version of The Devil's Stocking, lightly corrected;many page numbers changed; accompanied by part of a manila envelope addressed to NA and in NA hand: 1st FICTIONAL VERSION/of/THE FIGHTER/and/THE WHORE
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the...mist. After they had been

  5. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1977-1978.
    Collation: 135 pp. on 135 leaves numbered 149-170, [171], [172], 173-186, [187], 188-214, [215], 216-257, [258], 259-262, [263], 264-269, [270], 271], [272], [273], 274-275, [276]-[281], 282, [283]; white photocopy paper and bond typing paper.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of a version of The Devil's Stocking, lightly corrected; most page numbers have been changed.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: ordered to lie down on...there was to say./1997.

  6. Ts (ribbon, carbon, & photocopy).Title: The Fighter
    7. Date: Ca. 1978
    Collation: 104 pp. on 104 leaves numbered [i-ii], 1-101, plus 2 unnumbered chapter opener pp.; white photocopy and bond; title page on Candida Donadio & Associates 1trhd; chapters marked by roman numerals on pages from a top bound spiral notebook.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a fairly late version of The Devil's Stocking; lightly corrected many page numbers changed.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the ... we'd been permitted to hear."

  7. Ts (ribbon, carbon, & photocopy).Title: [None].
    8. Date: Ca. 1978.
    Collation: 139 pp. on 139 leaves numbered [i], 102-111, 111A, 112-170 [original], 170 [pc]-190, 191-236, plus one unnumbered chapter opener; white photocopy and bond; chapters marked by roman numerals on pages from a top bound spiral notebook.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a fairly late draft of The Devil's Stocking; lightly corrected; many page numbers changed.
    Versos: 1. 94: holog. note whited out.
    Keywords: The wall is thirty feet ... admits to having been mistaken

  8. Ts (ribbon, carbon, & photocopy).Title: [None].
    9. Date: Ca. 1978.
    Collation: 87 pp. on 87 leaves numbered 237-316, plus 7 chapters marked by roman numerals on pages from a top bound spiral notebook.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a fairly late draft of The Devil's Stocking; lightly corrected; many page numbers changed.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: The public clamor for an ... can get it's boots on.

  9. Ts (ribbon & photocopy).Title: [None].
    10. Date: Ca. 1978.
    Collation: 121 pp. on 121 leaves numbered 1-7, 9-76, 80-111, 111A, 112-123, plus 3 unnumbered chapter openers; various sizes; white photocopy and bond; 1. 1 stained and torn at bottom, LR corner missing.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 of a draft of The Devil's Stocking (very close in sequence to previous draft); slight corrections and revisions; some page numbers changed from previous draft.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the ... come on down with me."

  10. Ts (ribbon & photocopy).Title: [None].
    11. Date: Ca. 1978
    Collation: 203 pp. on 203 leaves numbered 124-305, 291-292 [misnumbered text is continuous], 308-309, plus 7 unnumbered chapter openers; various sizes (most 8.5" x 11"); white photocopy and bond.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of a draft of The Devil's Stocking (very clost in sequence to previous draft); slight corrections and revisions; some page numbers changed from previous draft.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "Of the pitiful wage paid ... strength to climb this one."

  11. Ts (photocopy)Title: Chinatown
    12. Date: Ca. 1979.
    Collation: 193 pp. on 193 leaves numbered [i-vi], 1-24, 25A, 25B, 26-171, plus 5 unnumbered chapter openers; white photocopy paper; title page on Candida Donadio & Associates ltrhd.
    Contents: Folder 1-2 of a draft of The Devil's Stocking; light editorial corrections; many page numbers in blue ink; in UL of title page in unidentified hand (possibly Candida Donadio's): ->HOLDSHELF; in UR of title page 1st draft superceded 10 October 1979 by 2nd draft
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the ... mist. After they had been"

  12. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    13. Date: Ca. 1979.
    Collation: 148 pp. on 148 leaves numbered 172-185m 185B, 187-214, 215A-215B, 216-295, 296A-296B, 297-311, plus 6 unnumbered chapter openers; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of a draft of The Devil's Stocking; light editorial corrections; many page numbers in blue ink.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: As illiterate in Yiddish as ... I don't think she will.

Box 14


  1. Ts (photocopy).Title: CHINATOWN
    2. Date: 31 October 1979.
    Collation: 154 pp. on 154 leaves numbered [i-viii], 1-81, 81A-81D [orig.], 81D [pc]-81E, 82-140; white photocopy paper; title page on Donadio & Associates ltrhd.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a draft of The Devil's Stocking; on title page in unidentified hand (possibly either Donadio or NA): REVISED[circled]; in UR in unidentified hand: OCT 31 [1979]/EntErEd 426 pg ms./(no covEr lEttEr)/ms prEviously submittEd -/5/1/79 now rEvisEd in rEsponsE/to DF lEttEr/TO HOLD/TC; accompanied by end strip from light- weight paper box, in NA hand: CHINATOWN/by/NeLsoN ALgReN; (on left side in black marker): DeAd; in UR 2nd/Revised
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the...him. He had/been lying."

  2. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    3. Date: 31 October 1979.
    Collation: 140 pp. on 140 leaves numbered 141-222, 222A, 223, 223A, 224-260, 261-265 [one page], 266-279, plus 3 unnumbered chapter openers; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a draft of The Devil's Stocking.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: One the day that Calhoun...

  3. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    4. Date: 31 October 1979.
    Collation: 149 pp. on 149 leaves numbered 280-339, 340-341 [one page], 342-396, 396A, 397-426, plus 3 unnumbered chapter openers; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a draft of The Devil's Stocking.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "Brothers!" Calhoun was interrupted by...

Box 15


  1. Ts (photocopy).Title: THE DEVIL'S STOCKING
    Date: Ca. 1979-1980
    Collation: 159 pp. on 159 leaves numbered [i-viii], 1, 1, 1-13, 14A, 15-26, 27-28-29-30 [one page], 31-33, 34=35 [one page], 36-42, 43A-43C, 44-51, 52=54 [one page], 55-56, 57=58 [one page], 59-148, 149-50 [one page], 151-155; white photocopy paper; title page is photocopy of Donadio & Associates ltrhd; some pages are poor quality copies and difficult to read.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a photocopy of "2nd revised draft" of The Devil's Stocking; 1st version to use the title The Devil's Stocking; accompanied by and end strip from a light-weight paper box, in NA hand: The Devil's Stocking/2nd revised draft
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the...of these young men?

  2. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca 1979-1980.
    Collation: 150 pp. on 150 leaves numbered 156-189, 190A-190J, 191-198, 199-200 [one page], 201-218, 220-229, 230A-230C, 231-239, 240-241 [one page], 242-267, 268A-268B, 269-291, plus 4 unnumbered chapter openers; white photocopy paper, some pages are poor quality copies and difficult to read.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a photocopy of "2nd revised draft" of The Devil's Stocking; text appears to be continuous through the pp. 218-220.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: are suave, well-dressed, self-assured. Iello, ...did not hear that Iello

  3. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1979-1980.
    Collation: 133 pp. on 133 leaves numbered 292-310, 311A-311B, 312-314, 315A-315B, 316-327, 328-329 [one page], 330A-330B, 331-370, 371-372 [one page], 373-374, 375-376 [one page], 377-421, plus 4 unnumbered chapter openers; white photcopy paper, some pages are poor quality copies and difficult to read.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a photocopy of "2nd revised draft" of The Devil's Stocking.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: The public clamor for an...And everything remains the same.

  4. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: [None]
    5. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 127 pp. on 127 leaves numbered 1-37, 37-103, 107-129; white bond EAGLE-A/Trojan Bond/25% COTTON FIBER (slightly discolored) and photcopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of the "semi-final" version of The Devil's Stocking; incomplete.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the...is addressed to the witness."

  5. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 146 pp. on 146 leaves numbered 130-222, 222A, 223, 223A, 224-261, 266-278; white bond and photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of the "semi-final" draft of The Devil's Stocking; incomplete; light to moderate corrections and revisions.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "It is not to my...charge, deepened. It was their

  6. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: [None]
    7. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 140 pp. on 140 leaves numbered 279-418; white bond and photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of the "semi-final" draft of The Devil's Stocking; light to moderate corrections and revisions.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: friends who were now being...Kerrigan left without shaking hands.

Box 16


  1. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 139 pp. on 139 leaves with various paginations; white bond and photocopy paper, some pages are poor quality copies and difficult
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of an incomplete draft of The Devil's Stocking; lightly corrected.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "Ruby didn't wait for Riccardo...the face, he was still

  2. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 128 pp. on 128 leaves with various paginations; white bond and photocopy paper, some pages poor quality copies and difficult to read.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of an incomplete draft of The Devil's Stocking; lightly corrected.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: so drunk that he was...is the time for weirdoes."

  3. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 179 pp. on 179 leaves with various paginations; white bond and photocopy paper, some pages poor quality copies and difficult to read.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of an incomplete draft of The Devil's Stocking; lightly corrected.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "The lid is about to...Everything Everything is the same.

  4. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: THE DEVIL'S STOCKING
    5. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 152 pp. on 152 leaves numbered [-], 1-42, 42-56, 57-58 [one page], 59-148, 149-150 [one page], 151-152; white bond and photocopy, some pages poor quality copies and difficult to read; title page on Donadio & Associates letterhead.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a late draft on The Devil's Stocking; lightly corrected.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the...to all charges without recommendation."

  5. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 159 pp. on 159 leaves numbered 153-190, 190a-190I, 190D, 190F, 191-199, 201-213, 213-227, 227A-227C, 228-234, 234-236, 236A-236C, 237-238, 238B, 239-240-241 [one page], 242-254, 254-267, 268B, 269-296; text is continuous through some breaks in pagnation; white bond and photocopy paper, some pages poor quality copies and difficult to read.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a late draft of The Devil's Stocking; lightly corrected.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: The most incredible thing you...doubt had they heard it?"

  6. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title: [None]
    7. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 130 pp. on 130 leaves numbered 292-310, 311A-311B, 312-314, 315A-315B, 316-370, 371-372 [one page], 373-374, 375-376 [one page], 377-421; text is continuous through breaks in pagination; white bond and photocopy paper; some pages poor quality copies and difficult to read.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a late draft of The Devil's Stocking; lightly corrected.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "If there is a possibility...And everything remains the same.

Box 17


  1. Ts (ribbon and photocopy).Title: THE DEVIL'S STOCKING
    2. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 140 pp. on 140 leaves numbered 1-43, 44A-44C, 45-56, 57-58 [one page], 59-139; white bond and photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a late draft of The Devil's Stocking, identified by NA as "SEMI-FINAL/VERSION"; only 1. 1 is original, other page numbers changed before photocopying; accompanied by portion of light grey cardboard box in which the ms. was originally found, in NA hand: SEMI-FINAL/VERSION; and an end piece from box in unidentified hand (NA?): Algren old version
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the...to Mr. Escortez or to

  2. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 151 pp. on 151 leaves numbered 139-149, 151-190, 190A-190H, 191-228, 229A-229C, 230-235, 236A-236B, 237-238, 239-240-241 [one page], 242-267, 268A-268B, 269-276, plus 3 unnumbered chapter openers; text continuous through breaks in pagination; white photocopy paper; some pages poor quality copies and difficult to read.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a late draft of The Devil's Stocking; page numbers changed before photocopying.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: someone else?"/"Never. No way." ...what the prisoners might do."

  3. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 147 pp. on 147 leaves numbered 277-281, 283-310, 311A-311B, 312-314, 315A-315B, 316-331, 333-356, 358-370, 371-372 [one page], 373-374, 375-376 [one page], 377-421, plus 4 unnumbered chapter openers; text is continuous through some breaks in pagination; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a late draft of The Devil's Stocking; page numbers changed before photocopying.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Max Epstein,/now acting now...And everything remains the same.

  4. Ts (photocopy).Title: THE DEVIL'S STOCKING/a novel of suspense
    5. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 146 pp. on 146 leaves number [i-vii], 1-23, 23-42, 43A-43C, 44-56, 57=58 [one page], 59-137; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of late draft of The Devil's Stocking; the only difference between this draft and previous drafts is the number and the order of the pages.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the ...down the sidewalk on the

  5. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 150 pp. on 150 leaves numbered 138-148, 149-150 [one page], 151-189, 190A-190G, 191-239, 240A-240B, 241-267, 268A-268B, 269-274, plus 6 unnumbered chapter openers; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a late draft of The Devil's Stocking.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: inside of the shadows. He...handed down the decision limiting

  6. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    7. Date: Ca. 1980.
    Collation: 155 pp. on 155 leaves numbered 275-310, 311A, 212-314, 315A-315B, 316-333, 333-370, 371-372 [one page], 373-374, 375-376 [one page], [377]-421, plus 5 unnumbered chapter openers; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a late draft of The Devil's Stocking.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: the administration's powers of censorship...

Box 18


  1. Ts (photocopy).Title: THE DEVIL'S STOCKING
    2. Date: Ca. 1983.
    Collation: 136 pp. on 136 leaves numbered [i-x], [1]-7, 1-26, 27-28-29-30 [one page], 31-33, 34=35 [one page], 36-42, 43A-43C, 44-51, 52-53-54 [one page], 55-56-57-58 [one page], 59-124; white photocopy paper except 1. 1 which is orange.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a photocopy of very late draft of The Devil's Stocking incorporating photocopies of pages from many previous drafts with few or no changes; extensive editorial notations on original; many page numbers rewritten; includes interview by W.J. Weatherby, but not the forward by H. Mitgang; note on 1. 1 (not NA): ORIG/Devil's/Stocking/Master for/Todd
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: He certainly took Dylan Thomas's...Eighteenth and Broad, we came

  2. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1983.
    Collation: 156 pp. on 156 leaves numbered 125-148, 149-150 [one page], 151-162, 162A, 163-190, 190A-190E, 190G-190I, 191-198, 199-200 [one page], 201-202, 203-204 [one page], 205-217, 218-219 [one page], 220-229, 230A-230C, 231, 231A, 232-239, 240-241 [one page], 242-249, 249A, 250-264, 265A, 265, 266-268, 268A, 269-271; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a photocopy of a very late draft of The Devil's Stocking incorporating photocopies of many pages of previous drafts with few or no changes.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: up against the same white...realest of all. Amnesty was

  3. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1983.
    Collation: 157 pp. on 157 leaves numbered 272-291, 291A, 292-310, 311A-311B, 312-315, 315A-315B, 316-327, 328-329 [one page], 330A-330B, 331-349, 349A, 350-370, 371-372 [one page], 373-421; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a very late draft The Devil's Stocking incorporating photocopies of many pages of previous drafts with few or no changes.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Ca. 1983.

  4. Ts (photocopy).Title: THE DEVIL'S STOCKING
    5. Date: 17 March 1983.
    Collation: 147 pp. on 147 leaves numbered [i-ix], [1]-7, [-], 1-26, 27-28-29-30 [one page], 31-33, 34=35 [one page], 36-42, 43A-43C, 44-51, 52-53-54 [one page], 55-56, 57-58 [one page], 59-135; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of a photocopy of the final draft of The Devil's Stocking; heavy editorial notation on original; same as previous draft except for note on 1. 1 (not NA): final CE Ms/approved by/Candida/Donadio/3-17-83/(note of approval in/production file.) ; note in red pencil to Candida Donadio from LS on dedication page; accompanied by a portion from light grey cardboard box with note in black marker (not NA): The Devil's Stocking/X C of C.E MS Approved by Agent
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "I was nervous in the...vehicle in Saddlebrook, New Jersey?"

  5. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    6. Date: 17 March 1983.
    Collation: 137 pp. on 137 leaves numbered 136-148, 149-150 [one page], 151-162, 162A, 163-190, 190A-190E, 190G-190I, 191-198, 199-200 [one page], 201-202, 203-204 [one page], 205-218, 220-230, 230A-230B, 231, 231A, 232-239, 240-241 [one page], 242-249, 249A, 250-264; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of a photocopy of the final draft of The Devil's Stocking; heavy editorial notation on original.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "The charge is larceny, not...bronzed. It'll/bring good luck."

  6. Ts (photocopy).Title: [None]
    7. Date: 17 March 1983.
    Collation: 161 pp. on 161 leaves numbered 265A, 265-268, 268A, 269-291, 291A, 292-310, 211A-311B, 312-315, 315A-315B, 316-327, 328-329 [one page], 330, 330A, 331-349, 349A, 350-370, 371-372 [one page], 373-421; white photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of a photocopy of the final draft of The Devil's Stocking; heavy editorial notation on original.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: "The lid is about to...And everything remains the same.

Box 19


  1. Setting copy. Ts (ribbon and photocopy).Title: THE DEVIL'S STOCKING
    2. Date: Ca. 1983.
    Collation: 125 pp. on 125 leaves numbered A, [B], C-J, [1]-9, J-1, K-Q, 1-26, 27-28-29-30 [one page], 31-33, 34=35 [one page], 36-43, 43A-43B, 44-51, 52-53-54 [one page], 55-56, 57-58 [one page], 59-76, 76A, 77-96, 96A, 97-99, 99A; white bond and photocopy paper; pp. 76, 76A, 85, 93, 95, 96, 96A all original, rest photocopies.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of the setting copy of The Devil's Stocking; heavy editorial notation; contains original foreward by H. Mitgang and interview by Weatherby.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: [after prelims., foreward, and interview] "I was nervous in the...afraid of --me--I have

  2. Setting copy. Ts (ribbon and photocopy).Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1983.
    Collation: 158 pp. on 158 leaves numbered 100-148, 149-150 [one page], 151-162, 162A, 163-190, 190A-190I, 191-198, 199-200 [one page], 201-202, 203-204 [one page], 242-249; white bond and photocopy paper.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of the setting copy of The Devil's Stocking; some 11. have editorial notes yellow paper added.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: no fear at all."/"Here...Bergen County jail for/burglary.

  3. Setting copy. Ts (ribbon and photocopy).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1983.
    Collation: 178 pp. on 178 leaves numbered 249A, 250-264, 265A, 265-268, 268A, 269-291, 291A, 292-311, 311A, 312-314, 314A, 315, 315A-315B, 316-324, 324A, 325-327, 328-329 [one page], 330, 330A, 331-349, 349A, 350-370, 371-372 [one page], 373-404, 406-421; white bond and photocopy.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of the setting copy of The Devil's Stocking; incomplete (p. 405 missing); heavy editorial notation.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Dovie-Jean had stared unbelievingly at...At everything remains the same.

  4. Printer's design for preliminary pages.Title: THE DEVIL'S STOCKING.
    5. Date: Ca. 1983.
    Collation: 20 pp. on 10 unnumbered leaves (folded in half); 28.2 cm x 21.8 cm; white tracing paper (slightly yellowed).
    Contents: Mock-up of preliminary pages of The Devil's Stocking with design instructions in the margins.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: [None]

  5. Galley proofs.Title: The Devil's Stocking
    6. Date: 12-13 April 1983.
    Collation: 149 pp. on 149 leaves numbered [i-ii], 1-3, 144-146, 4-140, 140A, 141-143; 42.8 cm x 28 cm; white bond; edges chipped
    Contents: Galley proofs with heavy editorial notations; each page stamped in upper right: MASTER
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: The Devil's Stocking Chinatown/The...And everything remains the same.

  6. Galley proofs.Title: [None]
    7. Date: 23 May 1983.
    Collation: 151 pp. on 151 leaves numbered 1-5, 7, 9-12, 15-115, 119-168, 171-181, 185-194, 197-234, 237-259, 263-278, 281-308; 43 cm x 28 cm; white bond (slightly yellowed); edges bent and fragile.
    Contents: Corrected galley proofs of The Devil's Stocking; light editorial marks and notations.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Foreward/by Herbert Mitgang/The...And everything remains the same.

  7. Page proofs.Title: The Devil's Stocking
    8. Date: Ca. May-June 1983.
    Collation: 121 pp. on 121 leaves numbered i-iii, [iv], v-ix, 1-5, 7, 9, 9-13, 15-115; various sizes; white coated (matte finish) paper; pp. 6, 8, 14 are blank in the book therefore not included in the page proofs.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 3 of the page proofs for The Devil's Stocking.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: [after prelims., foreward, and interview] "I WAS NERVOUS in the...courageous battle against juvenile delinquency."

  8. Page proofs.Title: [None]
    9. Date: Ca. May-June 1983.
    Collation: 113 pp. on 113 leaves numbered 117, 119-169, 171-181, 183, 185-195, 197-217, 219-234; various sizes; white coated (matte finish) paper; pp. 116, 118, 170, 182, 184, 196, 218 are blank in the book therefore not included in the page proofs.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 3 of the page proofs for The Devil's Stocking; light editorial notations and corrections.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: MULTITUDES HAVE MOUNTED this midnight...as one of Calhoun' s guards

  9. Page proofs.Title: [None]
    10. Date: Ca. May-June 1983.
    Collation: 71 pp. on 71 leaves numbered 235, 237-259, 261, 263-279, 282-309; various sizes; white coated (matte finish) paper; pp. 236, 260, 262, 280 are blank in the book therefore not included in page proofs.
    Contents: Folder 3 of 3 of the page proofs for The Devil's Stocking.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: THE FIRST TASTE of freedom...And everything remains the same.

  10. Ts (ribbon, carbon, and photocopy).Title:The Devil's Stocking
    11. Date: Ca. 1981.
    Collation: 83 pp. on 83 unnumbered leaves; white EAGLE-A/Trojan Bond.
    Contents: Title pages, preliminary pages and chapter headings.
    Versos: 2 misstarts.
    Keywords: [None]

Box 20


  1. Blues.Title: The Devil's Stocking
    2. Date: Ca. 1983.
    Collation: 246 pp. on 123 leaves numbered [i-x], 1-246; light green paper stapled together at gatherings.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 of The Devil's Stocking blues.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: [after foreward] The world of Nelson Algren (1909-1981)...

  2. Blues.Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1983.
    Collation: 162 pp. on 81 leaves numbered 247-[309]; light green paper stapled together at gatherings.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of The Devil's Stocking blues.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: eyes goggling in astonishment. He...And everything remains the same.

  3. Ts (carbon).Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1976.
    Collation: 69 pp. on 69 leaves numbered 1-3, 3-33, 35, 35-62, 65-70; white and yellow bond.
    Contents: Early, incomplete non-fiction version of The Devil's Stocking.
    Versos: 2 misstarts.
    Keywords: Shortly after eight pm, on...that the sen-/Newspaper inserts [NA holog]

  4. Ts (ribbon).Title: FIRSt STORy/on/Carter
    5. Date: Ca. 1975-1976.
    Collation: 109 pp. on 109 leaves numbered 1-10, 13-31, 53-63, 64-65, [one page], 66-68, 69A-69B, 70-112; white and yellow bond.
    Contents: Moderately corrected and revised, early draft of non-fiction piece on Carter; many loose and stapled in negative photocopies of newspaper clippings; accompanied by the front of a manila envelope from the LA times to NA with note in NA hand: FIRST STORy/on/Carter
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: SHortly after eight pm., on..."but I hate the sons of bitches."

  5. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    6. Date: Ca. 1975-1976.
    Collation: 111 pp. on 111 leaves; various paginations; white bond paper; some paste ons.
    Contents: Folder 1 of 2 of an incomplete early nonfiction version of The Devil's Stocking; contains some material from original trial transcripts; moderately revised and corrected.
    Versos: 1. 50: p. 240 from another draft.
    Keywords: "Rubin (Hurricane) Carter showed up...time he expected he would

  6. Ts (ribbon and carbon).Title: [None]
    7. Date: Ca. 1975-1976.
    Collation: 55 pp. on 55 leaves; various paginations; white bond; some paste ons.
    Contents: Folder 2 of 2 of an incomplete early nonfiction version of The Devil's Stocking; 11. 45-46 are photocopies of Carter's fight record.
    Versos: 11. 12, 14, 17, 18: pp. from an unidentified piece titled "Slow Suicide"; 11. 45-46: notes by NA; 11. 48-52: unidentified filmscript; 1. 54: list of Algren's books through 1973.
    Keywords: have to serve time and...about, to several cell-mates, is

  7. Ts (ribbon).Title: [None]
    8. Date: Ca. 1975-1976.
    Collation: 104 pp. on 104 leaves numbered 366-469; white bond.
    Contents: A portion of an uncorrected early draft of the non-fiction version of; accompanied by a small brown paper with a note (NA hand?): ALGREN/Typescript of portion/of
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Shortly after eight pm. on...years ago as only ten.

  8. Ts (ribbon and photocopy).Title: [None]
    9. Date: Ca. 1975-1980.
    Collation: 20 pp. on 20 leaves; various paginations; various sizes; some pp. poor quality photocopies and difficult to read.
    Contents: Miscellaneous page from miscellaneous draft of The Devil's Stocking; moderately corrected and revised.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Red wakened suddenly, in a...I would/have killed somebody.

  9. Photocopies. Title: [None]
    10. Date: Ca. 1966-1970.
    Collation: 139 pp. on 139 leaves; various paginations; various papers.
    Contents: Trial transcripts used as source material for The Devil's Stocking; accompanied by a note in NA hand: Xeroxes/Rubin Carter/Case
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: PASSAIC COUNTY COURT/LAW DIVISION...WAYNE J HOUSE/certified shorthand Reporter

  10. Photocopies.Title: [None]
    11. Date: Ca. 1966-1970.
    Collation: 133 pp. on 133 leaves; various paginations; white bond.
    Contents: Trial transcripts and court proceedings used as source material for The Devil's Stocking; 1. 1 splattered with red-brown paint.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Valentine-direct/Mr. Humphreys: The...

Box 21


  1. Photocopies.Title: [None]
    2. Date: Ca. 1966-1972[?].
    Collation: 128 pp. on 128 leaves; various paginations; white bond.
    Contents: Trial transcripts and court proceedings used as source material for; occasional marks in margins.
    Versos: 1. 16: listing of names and addresses.
    Keywords: PASSAIC COUNTY COURT/LAW DIVISION...the connection between the proven

  2. Photocopies.Title: [None]
    3. Date: Ca. 1966-1972.
    Collation: 185 pp. on 185 leaves; various paginations; white bond.
    Contents: Trial transcripts and court proceedings used as source material for.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: Valentine-direct/window out towards...there at there Night Spot

  3. Photocopies.Title: [None]
    4. Date: Ca. 1972-1975.
    Collation: 42 pp. on 42 leaves; various paginations; 38.5 cm x 21.6 cm; white bond.
    Contents: Trial transcripts and court proceedings used as source material for.
    Versos: None.
    Keywords: STATEMENT OF ALFRED PATRICK BELLO...to try to identify anyone




Preliminary Inventory for Folders 247-730
Box and Folder Listing:

Folders Numbered 247-255

  1. Single Exit
  2. "Beasts of the Wild"
  3. "Beasts of the Wild"
  4. "All Through the Night"
  5. "Erik Dorn: A Throusand and One Afternoons in Nada"
  6. "The True Sotry of Bonnie and Clyde"
  7. "Otto Premingers Strange Suspenjers"
  8. "Otto Premingers Strange Suspenjers"
  9. "Salomon and Morris: Two Patriots of the Revolution"


Box 22


Folders Numbered 256-314
  1. "So Help Me"
  2. "So Help Me"
  3. "So Help Me"
  4. "So Help Me"
  5. "Forgive The, Lord"
  6. "Lest the Traplock Click"
  7. "The Brothers' House"
  8. "Makers of Music"
  9. "Home and Goodnight"
  10. "Travelog"
  11. "A Bottle of Milk for Mother"
  12. "Biceps"
  13. "Local South"
  14. "Epitaph: The Man with the Golden Arm" (* in Thurber case, drawer 8)
  15. "The Captain is Impaled"
  16. "Things of the Earth: A Groundhog View"
  17. "Great Writing Bogged Down in Fear"
  18. "Hollywood Djinn with a Dash of Bitters"
  19. "Eggheads are Rolling: The Rush to Conform"
  20. "Mr. Goodbuddy and the Mighty Dripolator"
  21. "Mr. Goodbuddy and the Mighty Dripolator"
  22. "Lovers, Sec-Fiends, Bugs in Flight"
  23. "Lovers, Sec-Fiends, Bugs in Flight"
  24. "All Through the Night"
  25. "All Through the Night"
  26. "Say a Prayer for the Guy"
  27. "Say a Prayer for the Guy"
  28. "Say a Prayer for the Guy"
  29. "Say a Prayer for the Guy"
  30. "Goodbye to Old Rio"
  31. "Goodbye to Old Rio"
  32. "Goodbye to Old Rio"
  33. "Goodbye to Old Rio"
  34. "Nelson ALgren writes Impression of Series"
  35. "Down with all Hands"
  36. "Down with all Hands"
  37. "Remembering Richard Wirght"
  38. "Controversy:... is Raisin in the Sun a Lemon in the Dark?"
  39. "Moon of the Backstretch: Still and White"
  40. "Moon of the Backstretch: Still and White"
  41. "The Peseta with the Hole in the Middle, Part I"
  42. "The Peseta with the Hole in the Middle, Part I"
  43. "They're Hiding the Ham on the Pinball King or Some Came Stumbling"
  44. "They're Hiding the Ham on the Pinball King or Some Came Stumbling"
  45. "You Have Your People and I Have Mine"
  46. "You Have Your People and I Have Mine"
  47. "You Have Your People and I Have Mine"
  48. "The Moon of King Minos"
  49. "God Bless the Lonesome Gas Man"
  50. "Tricks Out of Times Long Gone"
  51. "Tricks Out of Times Long Gone"
  52. "Tricks Out of Times Long Gone"
  53. "Seville: The Peseta with the Hole in the Middle, Part II"
  54. "Whobody Knows My Name or how to be a Freedom-Rider without Leaving Town"
  55. "Hemingway all the Way: NOtes froma Sea Diary"
  56. "Down with Cops"
  57. "Down with Cops"
  58. "Down with Cops"
  59. "Nobody Knows"


Box 23


Folders Numbered 315-337
  1. --
  2. "A Ticket on Skoronski"
  3. "A Ticket on Skoronski"
  4. "A Ticket on Skoronski"
  5. "A Ticket on Skoronski"
  6. "The Emblems and Proffs of Power"
  7. "Home to Shawneetown"
  8. "I Know They'll Like Me in Cholon"
  9. "The Wandering Critic: That was no Albatross"
  10. "The Decline and Fall of Dingdong-Daddyland"
  11. "The Decline and Fall of Dingdong-Daddyland"
  12. "The Decline and Fall of Dingdong-Daddyland"
  13. "The Decline and Fall of Dingdong-Daddyland"
  14. "The Decline and Fall of Dingdong-Daddyland"
  15. "Letters from Saigon"
  16. "They don't want to belong to us: Itinerant Journalist goes Bamboo"
  17. "Seven Feet Down and Creeping" or "The Leak that Defied the Books"
  18. "Get All the Money" (1 of 4)
  19. "Get All the Money" (2 of 4)
  20. "Get All the Money" (3 of 4)
  21. "Get All the Money" (4 of 4)
  22. "Get All the Money"
  23. "Get All the Money" (1 of 4)


Box 24


Folders Numbered 338-371
  1. "Get All the Money" (3 of 4)
  2. "Get All the Money" (4 of 4)
  3. "Get All the Money"
  4. "Get All the Money"
  5. "Get All the Money: Horse Racing Notes"
  6. "Playing the Ponies with a Pair of Experts"
  7. "Moon of the Arfy-Darfy"
  8. "Moon of the Arfy-Darfy"
  9. "Previous Days"
  10. "Cop Mentality"
  11. "Swan Lake Re-Swum"
  12. "Ipso Facto"
  13. "Ipso Facto"
  14. "The Cockeyed Hooker of Bugis Street"
  15. "The Country of Kai-Li"
  16. "The Country of Kai-Li"
  17. "Ode to an Absconding Bookie"
  18. "Word Game/Best Novels of World War II"
  19. "$22.50 by Weiboldts"
  20. "$22.50 by Weiboldts: A Story from Life's Other Side"
  21. "Meow, Baby"
  22. "Ein Mann und Seine Welt"
  23. "Ein Mann und Seine Welt"
  24. "There will be no more Christmases"
  25. "A Parisian Rendevous: The Clothes of Others" ["Last Rounds?"]
  26. "Walk Pretty all the Way"
  27. "So Long Swede Risberg"
  28. ["Matters of Manhood"], Review of "Summer Street"
  29. Chicago Review in an Anthology ("No Lorngette for Bessie")
  30. review of Catch 22 mss
  31. "Ride on an Elephant"
  32. "The Question of Simone de Beauvoir"
  33. Review of Boss: Richard J Daley of Chicago
  34. Review ofA Peep into the Twentieth Century by C. Davis


Box 25


Folders Numbered 372-380
  1. "A Waugh in Shoulder Padding"
  2. Review of The Last Tango in Paris and The Last Hemorrhoid Hunt or "Kiss-Kiss Bang-Bang Goes Arty-Arty"
  3. "Get All the Money" - Review of The Exorcist
  4. "The Lesser Gatsby" - Review of The Great Gatsby
  5. "Studs Terkel: The Survival of One of the Fittest"
  6. "Vietnam Memoirs Ambush the Emotions"
  7. "Magicians Image of Reality"
  8. "A Memorable American Comedy by an Original Sotryteller"
  9. "A Memorable American Comedy by an Original Sotryteller" Review of Suttree by Cormac NcCarthy


Box 26


Folders Numbered 381-387
  1. "African Abstractions"
  2. "African Abstractions" - Review of A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
  3. "Savage Views of America"
  4. "Hemingway's Poetry Shows Papa with his Bones Picked Clean"
  5. "The Trials of Two Fictional Lawayaers"
  6. "Liberating Vision of Richard Wright"
  7. "A Tense Novel of Ireland Guaranteed to Anger All Sides"


Box 27


Folders Numbered 388-423
  1. "Modern India Comes Alive in a Burst of Surrealism"
  2. "Islanders Surrounded by Loose Ends"
  3. "Folder for unpublished pieces"
  4. "A lot You Got to Holler"
  5. "All Night Blues"
  6. "Alumuncar"
  7. "An American Diary"
  8. "An American Diary"
  9. "The Artist as Prey"
  10. "The Artist as Prey or How to be a Critic Through Punch Drunk"
  11. "As Walt Might Have Put It"
  12. "At the Sign of the Neon Cat"
  13. "Autobiographical Sketch Fragment"
  14. "Autobiographical Sketch - Babu and Paterson"
  15. "Autobiographical Sketch - Incomplete"
  16. "Barcelona: The Bright Enormous Morning"
  17. "Barefoot Boy with Shoes On"
  18. "Before Sleep"
  19. "The Bloody Battle of Schlitz's Bar"
  20. "Bouncer"
  21. "But the Lighting is till by Gas"
  22. "The Chair"
  23. ["A Child"]
  24. "A Child and a Woman"
  25. "Christmas Carol"
  26. ["Christopher"]
  27. "Clocks in Chicago"
  28. "Cock Fight and inserts"
  29. "The Commerce of Illinois"
  30. ["Company"]
  31. "Company"
  32. ["Company"]
  33. "Dialogue at the Carefree Corner"
  34. "Early essays and poems"
  35. "Easy-Duty Johnson's Striped-Ass Baboon"
  36. "The Edge of the Shelf - Xeroxs"


Box 28


Folders Numbered 424-437
  1. "The Edge of the Shelf - Xeroxs"
  2. "The Edge of the Shelf - Xeroxs"
  3. "The Edge of the Shelf - In and Out of the Greenery with Joe Garagiola"
  4. "The Edge of the Shelf - In and Out of the Greenery with Kukla, Fran, and Ollie"
  5. "Entrapment"
  6. "Escape - or the Woman?"
  7. "Fifty - Fifty"
  8. Review of the The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  9. "Frank Lloyd Wright Liked Architecture"
  10. "From Thunder to Four Cold Bars"
  11. "...the girl of old Marseille [sic]
  12. "The girls who come to get tattooed because of the pain the needle gives"
  13. "Good Guys Gone Before"
  14. "Goodbye Lilies Hello Spring - three drafts


Box 29


Folders Numbered 438-443
  1. "Hanged Men and Other Losers"
  2. "Hanged Men and Other Losers"
  3. "Hanged Men and Other Losers"
  4. "Hanged Men and Other Losers"
  5. "Hanged Men and Other Losers"
  6. "Hanged Men and Other Losers"


Box 30


Folders Numbered 444-512
  1. ["Hard Survivors"]
  2. "Hate Don't Make No Noise. Anatomy of a New Ghetto."
  3. "Hearing the Rush of City Waters"
  4. "Home and Goodnight"
  5. "Hopers"
  6. "Whatever you do, the midwife warned..."[suspected to be a review of A House for Mr. Biswas]
  7. "Hustler's Hearts"
  8. "I am not a man to go through the world
  9. "I Forget the Name of the Picture"
  10. "I Hear the Monkey Scratching (but I'd never let him in)"
  11. "I needed three thousand dollars"
  12. "I Still Want My Good Conduct Badge"
  13. "I was a Happy Chaukah Soldier for the US$ and A [sic]"
  14. "It Ain't What You Rung For"
  15. ["It was Raining"]
  16. ["I've Made an Appointment..."]"
  17. "Jungle Vengeance"
  18. "Katz's Door
  19. "Katz's Sisters/Blackout"
  20. "The King of the Indoor Thieves"
  21. "L"
  22. "Legless Man"
  23. "Lightless Arena"
  24. "The Lightless Room"
  25. "Little Lester"
  26. ["Little Lester"]
  27. "Little Men of the Rain"
  28. "Little Mr. Gorshkov"
  29. "Little Mr. Lowitz"
  30. "Local South"
  31. "Love in the Iron Rain"
  32. "Time and Charges [Love in an Iron Rain]"
  33. "Love in the Iron Rain"
  34. "Love on the Rue"
  35. "Mama and the Mammy Freak"
  36. "The Man in the Hotel Mirror"
  37. "The Man in the Hotel Mirror"
  38. "The Maquereax"
  39. "Mary"
  40. "The McAllen County Shill"
  41. "Me and My Big Mouth"
  42. "Memory of Chicago"
  43. Misc. Notes
  44. "The Middlewight from Needles"
  45. "The Monkey Never Dies"
  46. "The Moon is Only a Child"
  47. "Moon of the Arfy-Darfy (verse)
  48. ["My Old Man's Old Man"]
  49. "My Old Man's Old Man"
  50. ["My Uncle Adolph"]
  51. "The Mythical People"
  52. "Poetry"
  53. "The Neon Wilderness or Who Past-Posted Broter B.?"
  54. "Never Say B[rother]"
  55. "Never Say B[rother] (I Was a Convict)
  56. "News Flash"
  57. ["Nick"]
  58. ["Nick"]
  59. ["Nick's Brothers"]
  60. "No More Whorehouses"
  61. "No More Whorehouses"
  62. "Nobody Knows Where Charlie's Gone"
  63. "Nobody Knows Where Charlies' Gone"- Unpublished story; later draft than folder 472
  64. Northloop Nightspot
  65. Now Said O'Lovingly, LLD
  66. O Shining City Seen of John
  67. Officers and Men
  68. "Old friend, false friends, no friends at all"
  69. --


Box 31


Folders Numbered 513-567
  1. "On the Cholon Side"
  2. ["Opening Day, Saturday, April 26"]
  3. "Others"
  4. "Others"
  5. "The Pachuacan Touch: Federation of the Lost" [A Walk on the Wild Side essay]
  6. "Paper Daisies"
  7. "Pay What You Like"
  8. "Poems"
  9. "Portrait of a Boy"
  10. "Queenie"
  11. "The Red Lights Gleamed"
  12. "The Seventh Son"
  13. ["She Lives Beneath the Tunnel of the El"]
  14. "Short Stories"
  15. "Sigle Exit/Warning"
  16. "Smart Nigger"
  17. "Some Cats Swing Like That"
  18. "The Spanish Jackpot"
  19. "Star and Garter"
  20. "Stoopers, Sorters, Shoeboard-Watchers"
  21. "Stoopers, Sorters, Shoeboard-Watchers"
  22. "Horsetrack Fragment"
  23. "Stoplight"
  24. "Suddenly It's Spring"
  25. "Summer Night" - Poem
  26. ["That Was No Town"]
  27. "That's how it is in the Orient, Men"
  28. "There are easier things, believe me"
  29. "The Thousand Blades of Jean Paul Satre
  30. "Time of Trust"
  31. "Traces of H"
  32. "Traces of H"
  33. "Traces of H"
  34. ["Two candidates were locked..."]
  35. "A Valentine for Baldy"
  36. ["The Vedreyevs"]
  37. "View from the Third Floor"
  38. ["Vivi Vivens"]
  39. "A Walk on the Wild Side" (essay)
  40. "A Walk on the Wild Side" (essay)
  41. "A Walk on the Wild Side" (material)
  42. "A Walk on the Wild Side"
  43. "A Walk on the Wild Side" (fragments and misc. pages)
  44. "A Walk on the Wild Side" (fragments and misc. pages)
  45. "Watch Out for What You Pray For
  46. "When I sat in the chair of my sunlit choice"
  47. ["When I was a Farm Boy"]
  48. "Where Dark Trees Weep"
  49. "Where's the Picadilly?"
  50. "The Whitelegged Women in the Summer Sun"
  51. "Who Do You Want to Go With?"
  52. "Winners"
  53. "A Woman Named Mary
  54. "You Got to Be Careful
  55. "Proposed Anthology


Box 32


Folders Numbered 568-600
  1. "Proposed Anthology
  2. "Proposed Anthology"
  3. ["A Good Guy"]
  4. ["A Year"]
  5. ["All This"]
  6. ["An Oversized Party"]
  7. ["Anytime you don't like the way things are done around here"]
  8. ["Any bar can be friendly"]
  9. ["Brother"]
  10. ["Dick Daley"]
  11. ["In the crotch of night"]
  12. "Little Ben"
  13. ["Men Speak Publicly..."] (Vietnam fragament)
  14. "Musee Grevin"
  15. "New Year's Day, 1960"
  16. ["Nobody in Stahouska's Family"]
  17. [Of Turf - Colored Carpeting..."]
  18. "Pass-O"
  19. ["The Prostitute..."]
  20. ["Resounding with a riot..."]
  21. ["Royko"]
  22. "Sales Meeting"
  23. Unidentified
  24. ["Sleeping or eating or counting their money"] - fragment
  25. ["Some left fielder Shoeless Joe"]
  26. ["National League Territory"]
  27. "The Fight: The Boy with the Cro[ss]"
  28. ["Nephew and Uncle"]
  29. ["There Lived Near the Chicken Ring..."]
  30. ["V-E Day"]
  31. "When a Dust Storm Hits"
  32. "You Leave Me Cold"
  33. Miscellaneous, unidentified pages


Box 33


Folders Numbered 601-615 - Correspondence: Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren
  1. June 17, 1947
  2. June 20, 1947 - August 10, 1947
  3. August 13, 1947 - October 23, 1947
  4. October 27, 1947 - December 11, 1947
  5. December 15, 1947 - January 26, 1948
  6. January 31, 1948 - April 2, 1948
  7. April 4, 1948 - October 8, 1948
  8. August 8, 1948 - October 8, 1948
  9. October 15, 1948 - December 11, 1948
  10. December 15, 1948 - February 16, 1949
  11. February 18, 1949 - September 27, 1949
  12. September 30, 1949 - December 7, 1949
  13. December 10, 1949 - January 28, 1950
  14. January 29, 1950 - April 3, 1950
  15. April 10, 1950 - June 14, 1950


Box 34


Folders Numbered 616-628
  1. June 16, 1950 - November 19, 1950
  2. December 1, 1950 - March 13, 1951
  3. March 27, 1951 - August 24, 1951
  4. September 4, 1951 - April 2, 1952
  5. May 4, 1952 - December 31, 1953
  6. January 17, 1954 - September 1, 1955
  7. November 3, 1955 - November 5, 1960
  8. November 16, 1960 - November 1964
  9. Unmatched envelopes - misc. and two undated letters
  10. Lauren's Dissertation (1-151) Vol. 1
  11. Lauren's Dissertation (152-307)
  12. Lauren's Dissertation (308-459) Vol. II
  13. Lauren's Dissertation (460-626)


Box 35


Folders Numbered 629-641 - Correspondence
  1. Algren Correspondence A-F
  2. Donadio and Associates - Correspondence - August 1969-June 1970
  3. Donadio and Associates - Correspondence - July 1970 - May 1971
  4. Donadio and Associates - Correspondence - July 1971 - October 1972
  5. Donadio and Associates - Correspondence - February 1973 - June 1974
  6. Donadio and Associates - Correspondence - August 1974 - December 1978
  7. Donadio and Associates - Correspondence - January 1979 - January 1981
  8. Algren Correspondence G-L
  9. Madeline Gobeil (1961-1964)
  10. Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn Hemingway
  11. Algren Correspondence Ma-Mu
  12. Kenneth McCormick (June 1947 - November 13, 1949)
  13. Kenneth McCormick (November 15, 1949 - September 29, 1954)


Box 36


Folders Numbered 641-650 - Correspondence
  1. Mike Murphy
  2. Correspondence N-W; Playboy magazine (including 2 types of scripts)
  3. William Targ (ND - December)
  4. William Targ (January 1955 - May 10, 1981)
  5. William Targ (1947-1973)
  6. William Targ (1947-1973)
  7. Henrietta Weigel (MMs.191)
  8. Correspondence - Carl Weissner
  9. Correspondence - Joel Wells
  10. Unidentified (fully or partially) Correspondence


Box 37


Folders Numbered 651 - 663
  1. Review of Somebody in Boots by Edith Wilson
  2. Page 2 of review of Never Come Morning by Richard Wright
  3. "Nelson Algren" by George Bluestone
  4. "Alexander Bergman File
  5. Madeleine Gobeil's interview with Jean Genet
  6. "Carter" by Jan Herman Other Writers Mss.
  7. [Eastland] Other writer's Mss.
  8. The Sixteenth Round by Rubin Carter. Source material fro The Devil's Stocking 1-5
  9. The Sixteenth Round by Rubin Carter. Source material fro The Devil's Stocking 2-5
  10. The Sixteenth Round by Rubin Carter. Source material fro The Devil's Stocking 3-5
  11. The Sixteenth Round by Rubin Carter. Source material fro The Devil's Stocking 4-5
  12. The Sixteenth Round by Rubin Carter. Source material fro The Devil's Stocking 5-5
  13. --


Box 38


Folders Numbered 664 - 692
  1. Notebook - early
  2. "The Man with the Golden Arm"
  3. "The Addicts"
  4. "When I heard the church-bell chime, eleven..."
  5. Red pen drawing of a street scene
  6. "Her nakedness to him was more than nakedness"
  7. "Somebody in Boots"
  8. "Kitty-Houston
  9. Pencil drawing and "To work in..."
  10. "Cat One"
  11. "I have my stepfather to thank..."
  12. Mermaid Ballet for "Love in the Iron Rain"
  13. "Linkhorn's Folly"
  14. "Come in if you love money" Notebook B
  15. Notebook C
  16. Notebook - "Sag Harbor?"
  17. Science fiction parody - Notebook
  18. Notes
  19. Chicago Board of Heath V.D. Program and Misc. field notes
  20. "Boxing Miscellaney"
  21. "Biceps" - Radio Script and Misc.
  22. "The Man with the Golden Arm - Screenplay, by Algren and Paul Trivers
  23. "The Man with the Golden Arm - Film Script, incomplete/unpublished
  24. Vincent Ciucci information
  25. Helen Zingler
  26. Paula - Notes
  27. ["English Girl" note] Misc.- notes
  28. "A Glossary of Racing Terms"
  29. Radio script in German


Box 39


Folders Numbered 693 - 730
  1. "The Chicago Evening News"
  2. Autograph book - January and February 1923
  3. "The Hibbard Herald" 1924
  4. Record book - "The Uptown Arrows" 1925
  5. Two grade books, June 1923 - 1927
  6. "The Native Son" Program and playbill
  7. Admission card to police line-ups
  8. Boilermaker's and Helpers Local Union NO. 363 receipt
  9. Notice of Classification
  10. The History of the 125th Evacuation Hospital
  11. U.S. Army - Separation Qualification Record
  12. The Chicago Public Library - Program of Activities 1947-1948
  13. Beauvoir/Algren Diary May-July 1948
  14. "The Man with the Golden Arm" play and film material
  15. The Sixth Annual Missouri Writer's Workshop June 16-21, 1952
  16. The Role of the Writer in America - a literary symposium sponsored by Esquire magazine and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
  17. I.F. Stone's Weekly, July 2, 1962
  18. "Cahokia Downs Handicaps and Stakes" 4th-6th Issues
  19. U.S. Passports (2)
  20. Two Authors Guild membership cards
  21. Arlington Park Program - August 3, 1967
  22. Poster for 1967, Warner Bros. movie "Bonnie and Clyde" starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
  23. The Winning Ticket - Cheiu Hoi Program
  24. Empty
  25. Empty
  26. Newspaper illustration - "Previous Days"
  27. Print of flowers on windowsill overlooking water with ship on red cardboard
  28. Sketch - memorabillia
  29. German lottery flyer
  30. Little Guide to Paris and Surroundings - Paris Guide Book
  31. Playbill cover for "Finian's Rainbow"
  32. Miscellaneous and correspondence
  33. Der Mann mit dem Goldenen Arm/Nelson Algren
  34. "Weltpremeier: Nelson Algren's Letzter Roman Erscheint Zuerst Auf Deutsch"
  35. "Calhoun" introduction
  36. Algren photos/Carl Weissner file
  37. Miscellaneous memorabillia
  38. Contracts


Box 40

Photographs


Box 41 - 43

Scrapbooks


Box 44-50

Unprocessed material: Contains books in translation, books from Algren's personal library, photo album, records, tapes, audio cassettes, folders of worksheets, miscellaneous


Box 51-54

Unprocessed material: contains clippings, tearsheets, reviews, working copies of Section C, negatives, worksheets, miscellaneous



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