THORNTON WILDER PAPERS
YCAL MSS 108
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
PROVENANCE
OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS
CITE AS
RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS
PROCESSING NOTES
THORNTON WILDER (1897-1975)
DESCRIPTION OF THE PAPERS
Collection Series
Series I. Correspondence
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
FIRST NAME ONLY AND UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENCE
THIRD-PARTY CORRESPONDENCE
Series II. Writings
PLAYS: ORIGINAL WORKS BY THORNTON WILDER
“The Acolyte: A Play in One Act”
Alcestis
“The Alcestiad” (“A Life in the Sun”)
“The Alcestiad” (“A Life in the Sun”)
“Die Alkestiade” (opera version)
“All Old Houses Are Haunted”
The Angel that Troubled the Waters and Other Plays
“The Breaking of Exile”
“Bristol Island”
“Captain Cecelia”
“The Century Association As Our Sons Imagine It”
“The Correspondent”
“Cristallization”
“The Detective Story Mystery”
“The Dreamers”
“The Drunken Sisters”
“The Emporium”
“Geraldine de Gray”
“The Graves Family”
“The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden”
“The Hell of the Vizier Kabaar”
“High Noon–Sketches”
“Homage to P. G. Wodehouse”
“How Our fathers Imagine Dunster To Be”
“In Shakespeare and the Bible”
“The Incompleat Angler”
“Ira”
“Joan of Arc: Treatment for Motion Picture”
“July, August, September”
“The Last Word About Burglars”
“The Long Christmas Dinner”
The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays…
“Love and How to Cure It”
“M Marries N”
“The Marriage We Deplore”
“The Masque of the Bright-Haired”
“The Melting Pot”
The Merchant of Yonkers
The Merchant of Yonkers
The Matchmaker (revision of Merchant)
Hello Dolly! (musical version of The Matchmaker)
“Mr. Bozzy”
“Mrs. Gump”
“Noah’s Ark”
“Old Houses, Old Houses”
Our Town
Our Town: Adaptations
Our Town: Translations
Our Town: related material
“The Pilgrims”
Play compilations
Plays for Bleeker Street
“The Primrose Path”
“Pullman Car Hiawatha”
“Queens of France”
“The Reformers”
“Rivers Under the Earth”
“The Rocket”
“The Russian Princess”
The Seven Ages of Man
The Seven Deadly Sins
“Shadow of a Doubt”
Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth: Adaptations
The Skin of Our Teeth: Translations
The Skin of Our Teeth: Related Material
“The Soldier and the Geisha”
“Such Things Only Happen in Books”
“Three Minute Playlets for Three Persons:” collected ms.
“Three Minute Playlets for Three Persons:” single titles
The Trumpet Shall Sound
“The Unerring Instinct”
“Vecy-Segal”
“Villa Rhabani”
“The Wine of Violence”
PLAYS: ADAPTATIONS BY WILDER
“The Beaux Strategem” by George Farquhar
“A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen
“The Rape of Lucrece” by Andre Obey
“The Sea-Gull” by Anton Chekhov
Untitled and unidentified plays
NOVELS
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Adaptations
The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Translations
The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Related Material
“The Brotherhood of the Ascesis”
The Cabala
“Chinese Story”
The Eighth Day
The Eighth Day: Adaptations
The Eighth Day: Related material
“Geniver Wyatt”
Heaven’s My Destination
Heaven’s My Destination: Adaptations
The Ides of March
The Ides of March: Adaptations
The Ides of March: Translations
“New York”
Theophilus North
Theophilus North: Adaptations
Thornton Wilder Omnibus
The Woman of Andros
The Woman of Andros: Translations
“Zen”
OTHER WRITINGS
“The American Language”
“The American Loneliness”
“Aphorisms”
“As We Remember Him”
“The Care and Feeding of Lies”
“Christian Berard”
“A Diary: First and Last Entry”
“Don Quixote and Religion”
“Emily Dickinson, the Articulate Inarticulate”
“Essay on a Certain Disconnection in Americans”
“Exploration and Explanation”
“A Fable About Flora”
“Five Thousand Letters to Alexander Woollcott”
“Giordano Bruno’s Last Meal in Finnegans Wake”
“Goethe und die Weltliteratur”
“Harvard Commencement Address”
“A House in the Country”
“Imaginary Prefaces”
“James Beand Meets the Fl-m-ing I-n”
[James Joyce]
“The Language of Emotion in Shakespeare”
“Lawrenceville School”
“Leader”
“Das Leben der Amerikaner”
“Legends of the Oval”
“The Leviathan”
“The Life of Tom Everage”
“Loose Leaves from a French Diary”
Lope de Vega
“Lucas School”
“Madrigals”
“The Marriage of Zabett”
“Memorandum” (concerning Latin American trip)
“The Miracles and Death of Doma y Venuzias”
“Mouthfulls”
“The Myth and the Novel”
The Norton Lectures
“The Old Days”
“On Reading the Great Letter-Writers”
“Our Unknown Phrasemaker”
P.E.N. Latin America talks
Peace Prize Address
“The Planetary Mind”
“A Platform and a Passion Or Two”
“Playgoing Nights”
“A Playwright’s View of Brattle”
Poems
“Precautions inutiles”
“Preface to Three Plays”
“A Sapphic Ode”
“Sentences”
“The Shelley Centenary”
“The Silent Generation”
“Sofa Stuffed with Emeralds”
“Some Passages from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake”
“Some Thoughts on Playwriting”
“Stein Makes Sense”
“The Story of Caeone and Acuthina”
“The Three Plannings”
[Tribute to John Marin]
“Tribute to Dean Woodbridge”
“We Are the Planets”
“The Willow of Monterey”
“World Literature and the Modern Mind”
“XJB Broadcasting Station”
CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORKS BY OTHERS
Beer-Hofmann, Richard: Jacob’s Dream
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Swiss Books
Plutarch: Antony
Schiffeler, —-: Inns
Sophocles: Oedipus the King
Stein, Gertrude: Four in America
REVIEWS OF WORKS BY OTHERS
“Review of The Challenge”
“Review of The Girl in the Limousine”
[Review of] “The Letters of Henry James”
“Review of ‘Quick Work'”
“Review of Too Many Husbands”
UNTITLED INCOMPLETE WRITINGS
Untitled opera
Untitled poems
Untitled fragments
WRITINGS OF OTHERS: ON THORNTON WILDER
Adler, Henry
Andrews, Clark
Baker, John L.
Behrman, S. N.
Bryer, Jackson R.
Coe, Richard
Daniels, Mabel
Evarts, John
four quarters : Thornton Wilder number
Frenz, Horst
Gassner, John
Gibbs, Wolcott
Glenn, C. Leslie
Grebanier, Bernard
Isaacs, Edith J. R.
Kepes, Anna
Kosok, Heinz
Lerch, Emil
Lloyd, Allen Dennis
Mambrino, Jean
Marston, Donald
Mauranges, Jean-Paul
Phelps, William Lyon
Pini, Richard
Pixberg, Hermann
Popper, Hermine L.
Rogers, Vivian
Schlueter, Paul
Souvaine, Diane Loring
Stressau, Hermann
Time
Ulrich, Dorothy Livingston
Vega, Gloria Salvo
Viswanatham, K.
Woolcott, Alexander
WRITINGS OF OTHERS: NOT WILDER-RELATED
Abril, Xavier
Arjona, J. H.
Barish, Jonas A.
Behrmann, S. N.
Benet, Stephen Vincent [?]
Bruerton, Courtney
Bute, Mary Ellen
Castro, Americo
Boxer, C. R. and Cummins, J.S.
Davis, Martin and Reuben Hersh
de Bosis, Lauro
Dodson, Owen
Fichter, W. L.
Gallup, Donald C.
Goldstein, Malcolm
Hartner, Willy
Harris, F. B.
Hernandez, Jose A.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
Kirkpatrick, Ralph
Laserna, Mario
Leger, Fernand
Lerner, Daniel
Levin, Henry
Liebert, Herman W.
Lillie, Ralph S.
Lowrie, Walter
Montesinos, Jose F.
Morse, J. Mitchell
Nestroy, Johann
Newberry, S. D.
Pierson, George W.
Pound, Ezra
Silverman, Joseph H.
Simenon, Georges
Stein, Gertrude
Straight, Michael
Swan, Alfred W.
Talma, Louise
Trench, David
Viebrock, Helmut
Williams, Laura
Woodward, C. Vann
Woollcott, Alexander
Worthington, Mabel P.
Zabrsa, Angela
Zuckmayer, Carl
Unidentified
Series III. Personal Papers
APPOINTMENT BOOKS, ADDRESSES, ETC.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Honorary Degrees
Literary Honors from Colleges and Universities
AWARDS AND HONORS
Other Literary Honors
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
COLLEGE WRITINGS
Oberlin College
Yale College
FINANCIAL PAPERS
JOURNALS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS
General Journals
Autobiographical notes
Finnegans Wake Journals
LECTURE OUTLINES AND NOTES
MILITARY SERVICE PAPERS
NOTES AND NOTEBOOKS
PERSONAL APPEARANCES
TRAVEL DOCUMENTS
Series IV. Printed Material
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Thornton Wilder
Other Persons
Other Subjects
PAMPHLETS
PERIODICALS
PROGRAMS AND EXHIBITION GUIDES
THEATER PROGRAMS
Series V. Photographs
THORNTON WILDER
PHOTOGRAPHS OF OTHERS
PRODUCTIONS OF PLAYS BY WILDER
Alcestiade
“The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden”
“The Long Christmas Dinner”
Lucrece
The Matchmaker
The Merchant of Yonkers
Our Town
Plays for Bleeker Street
“Pullman Car Hiawatha”
“Seven Ages of Man: Infancy”
“Seven Ages of Man: Childhood”
“Seven Deadly Sins: Lust”
The Skin of Our Teeth
OBJECTS
HOUSES
Series VI. Memorabilia and Other Papers
Series VII. Audio Tapes and Other Recordings
AUDIO TAPES
SOUND DISCS
Series VIII. Thornton Wilder Papers Addition
FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE
OTHER CORRESPONDENCE
Oversize
Restricted Papers
Restricted Fragile
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