This series primarily contains materials related to the production of Davis' published works. The series includes manuscripts, setting copies, proofs, corrections, notes, and related correspondence.
There is additional material related to Davis' published works in Series II: Professional Files.
This series contains business files, as well as files on other professional subjects, including files related to specific writing projects. These files were filed and received separately from records related to the publication of Davis' books, which are filed in Series I: Book Production and Related Materials.
These files contain records related to smaller writing projects, such as articles, blurbs, essays, fiction for journals and magazines, memorials, prefaces, readings, reviews, and talks. Files on smaller projects often contain both business correspondence and manuscripts, proofs, reviews, and related material together in the same file. There are files related to specific publications, publishers, and other projects, such as Flaubert and Proust. There are also general files on anthologies and magazine work. In addition, there are chronological files related to Davis' literary agent, Denise Shannon Literary Agency (DSLA), as well as miscellaneous business files.
There are some articles and interviews related to Davis in the professional files. These are frequently filed by either publication name or the name of the interviewer, but there are also some general files for interviews, while others are filed with the general readings files. There are additional published interviews filed with Series VIII: Publications.
The series also contains files related to specific panels, readings, talks, and other events. Most of these are filed by the name of the event or its location, although there are also general files for readings, residencies, talks, and interviews. Files related to master and similar classes – both business files and teaching files – are filed with Series V: Teaching Files.
The series also contains files related to fellowships, grants, and other awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Guggenheim, MacArthur Fellowship, National Book Award, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), PEN, and the Pushcart Prize.
There is some correspondence with individuals on professional subjects in this series, but most files for individual correspondents were filed with Davis' personal correspondence.
Files were arranged alphabetically; miscellaneous business files follow at the end of the series.
Box 50 Folder 3
92nd Street Y--Flaubert, 2010
Box 50 Folder 4
92nd Street Y Reading, 2001 November 5
Box 50 Folder 5
Alamar, Osama. Fullblooded Arabian--Correspondence and Notes Re: Preface, 2013
Davis wrote the preface for this collection.
Box 50 Folder 6
Albert, Elisa--Comment for After Birth, 2014
Box 50 Folder 7
Albers, Patricia, 2009
Biographer to Joan Mitchell
Box 50 Folder 8
Alfred A. Knopf, 1983-1984
Correspondence with Gordon Lish
Box 50 Folder 9
Alison Maclean Films Inc., 2012
Box 50 Folder 10
Almost No Memory--Hope Hale Davis (HHD) Notes on, 1995, undated
Box 118
Almost No Memory--in Conjunctions (13), 1989
Go Away; Soon After Falling Asleep; How He is Often Right. There are some notes indicating stories were used and /or combined for Almost No Memory.
Box 50 Folder 11
America Awards (Judging), 1995
Box 50 Folder 12
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2011
Box 50 Folder 13
American Letters and Commentary
, 1997
Box 50 Folder 14
"This American Life", 1999
Box 50 Folder 15
American Literary Translators Association, 1983
Box 50 Folder 16
The American Scholar--"Tom Sawyer", 2004
Box 50 Folder 17
American University of Paris, 2008
Box 50 Folder 18
American University of Paris--Visit, 2008
Dan Gunn - Cahiers - Beckett, etc.
Box 50 Folder 19
Antioch Review
, 1986
Box 50 Folder 20
Artforum / Joan Mitchell piece et al, 1995-1997
Box 50 Folder 21
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Events, 2008 January-February
Box 50 Folder 22
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Recording Agreement, 2009
Box 50 Folder 23
Augenbraum, Harold, 2008-2011
Box 50 Folder 24
Bard College Reading with Rae [Armantrout], 2008 October 2
Box 50 Folder 25
Barnes, Julian--Letter in Response to Review, 2011 January 27
Davis' letter to Barnes, with draft. Related to Madame Bovary.
Box 50 Folder 26
Bauman / Woodruff, 1997-2002
Box 50 Folder 27
Baxter, Charles and memory anthology, 1998
Box 50 Folder 28
Bennington College Job Discussion, 2009
Box 50 Folder 29
Bennington College Reading, 2009 May
Box 50 Folder 30
Berlin Lit. Festival, 2001
Box 50 Folder 31
Best American Poetry
, 2008
Box 50 Folder 32
Best American Short Stories, 1997
Box 51 Folder 1
Bible / Religion /The Five Gospels, 1996-1998, undated
Notes; appear to be related to essay work on the Bible.
Box 51 Folder 2
Binghamton University--Writing by Degrees, 2002
Box 51 Folder 3
Bibliofind.com
Box 51 Folder 4
Blanchot, Maurice--Aminadab Evaluation (Nebraska), 1999
Box 51 Folder 5
Blanchot, Maurice--Celui qui ne m'accompagnait pas, 1987
Box 51 Folder 6
Blanchot, Maurice--Death Sentence
Drafts, some pages with P.A.'s suggestions
Box 51 Folder 7
Blanchot, Maurice--Kevin Hart Book, Nowhere Without No, 2003, undated
Box 51 Folder 8
Blanchot, Maurice--The Last Man--Columbia University Press Correspondence and Reviews, 1986-1987
Box 51 Folder 9
Blanchot, Maurice--"The Madness of the Day", 1975, undated
Drafts and correspondence
Box 51 Folder 10
Blanchot, Maurice--"Reflection on Nihilism"--Davis' translation, with corrections, undated
Box 51 Folder 11
Blanchot, Maurice--When the Times Comes (Station Hill Press), 1982-1984
Box 51 Folder 12
Blanchot, Maurice--Letters to Davis (Partial, Xerox) and From [Davis] (Copy), 1980-1981, undated
Two copies of outgoing letters from Davis, and one partial letter from Blanchot (photocopy)
Box 51 Folder 13
Blanchot, Maurice and Michel Leiris--Letters from, 1975-1991
In French. These are primarily from Blanchot. Items related to Leiris are primarily empty envelopes.
Box 51 Folder 14
Blanchot, Maurice--Materials, 1978-2003
Reviews, correspondence, etc.
Box 51 Folder 15
Blanchot, Maurice--Miscellaneous, 1978-1980, undated
Appears primarily related to Death Sentence
Box 51 Folder 16
Blanchot, Maurice--Miscellaneous Business, 1980-1981, undated
Box 51 Folder 17
Blueflower Arts, 2007-2009
Box 51 Folder 18
Blurbs--Requests and Responses, 1993-2009
Box 122 Folder 1
Blurb Requests--Miscellaneous, 2007-2010
Mold remediation was performed on this material in 2023. Although all materials can be used in the reading room, patrons that are sensitive to mold may still experience a reaction to materials that have been cleaned.
Box 51 Folder 19
Bodega [Magazine], 2012
Box 51 Folder 20
Bokmagasinet (Norway)--Article on Lydia Davis, 2013
Box 51 Folder 21
Bomb
, 1999
Box 51 Folder 22
Boyer Place, 1987
Box 51 Folder 23
Brazil--Serrote, 2010
Box 122 Folder 2
Break It Down--Jacket Proof, [1996]
Mold remediation was performed on this material in 2023. Although all materials can be used in the reading room, patrons that are sensitive to mold may still experience a reaction to materials that have been cleaned.
Box 52 Folder 1
Bridge Scenes at the Center for Fiction (Mercantile Library), 2011
Box 52 Folder 2
Bronk, William, 1995-1999
Box 52 Folder 3
Brown University, 1997
Box 52 Folder 4
Brown University Visit, 2010 October
Box 52 Folder 5
Bulletin Board, circa 1993-1994
Slips from bulletin board
Box 52 Folder 6
Burning City Anthology--Reprint of Fague Translations, 2011
Box 52 Folder 7
Business Income--Itemized, 2006
Box 118
Butor, Michel. The Spirit of Mediterrarean Places, in Rudman, Mark, ed. Secret Destinations: Writers on Travel (Peqoud 19/20/21), 1985
By Davis - To Reiterate. Also, Davis' translations of Michel Butor's The Spirit of Mediterrarean Places. Both include handwritten corrections.
Box 52 Folder 8
Cahiers Series, 2007
Relates to Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red.
Box 52 Folder 9
Calder and Boyars, 1973
Box 52 Folder 10
Cambridge Literary Review--Lydia Wilson, 2012
"Revise:1" and "Revise:2"
Box 52 Folder 11
Camilleri, Jean-Luc, 2010
Box 52 Folder 12
Can't and Won't--Readings Folder, 2007-2013, undated
Folder contains annotated typescripts of stories, together with lists of venues and stories read there.
Box 52 Folder 13
Careau, Rachel, 2009
Box 52 Folder 14
Careau, Rachel--Translation, 2009-2010
Manuscript of Lewinter translation with A's handwritten comments
Box 52 Folder 15
Careau, Steve--Manuscript Draft with Comments by Cole and Davis (AC and LD)
Box 52 Folder 16
Careau, Steve and Rachel, 2012-2015
Writing and correspondence relating to, or by, Rachel Careau. A lot of it has marks of comments by Davis and /or Alan [Cote].
Box 52 Folder 17
Case Western Reserve, 2011
Box 52 Folder 18
Chadwick Manuscript, 1991
Box 52 Folder 19
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, circa 1999
Box 52 Folder 20
Chicago Humanities Festival, 2003
Box 52 Folder 21
Clear Cut Press, circa 2000-2003
Box 52 Folder 22
The Coffin Factory
, 2012
Box 52 Folder 23
The Coffin Factory #2--Snijders Trans., 2011
Box 52 Folder 24
Cogolin Festival III, 1986
Literary Festival. In French.
Box 52 Folder 25
Colette--Used Notes, circa 2022
Notes for the preface, written for Rachel Careau's translation of Colette's Chéri and The End of Chéri.
Box 52 Folder 26
Columbia University--Mellon Search, 2011
Box 52 Folder 27
Columbia University Talk, 2010 March 25
Box 52 Folder 28
Columbia University Press--Blanchot, 1985
Box 52 Folder 29
Columbia University Press--William Germano, Kristin Ross, 1985, 2004
Box 52 Folder 30
Columbia University Press--XYTranslation, 1992-1997
Box 53 Folder 1
Concordia University, Quebec, Canada, 2011 November 3-6
Box 53 Folder 2
Confessions of a Translator--Rough Pages, circa 1994
Box 6 Folder 5
The End of the Story--Notes for Confessions of a Translator and/or The End of Story, undated
"Notes - Some relevant to Confessions of a Translator some also turned into The End of the Story, checked Summer 2007." On index cards; these were originally in small card box and have been rehoused.
Box 53 Folder 3
Conjunctions
, 1993-1995
Box 53 Folder 4
Conjunctions--25th Anniversary Issue, 2006
Contributed "Reducing Expenses" and "Burning Family Members"
Box 53 Folder 5
Conjunctions--Brad Morrow, 1988
Box 53 Folder 6
Conjunctions--"Reversible Story", 2012
Box 53 Folder 7
Contracts--Miscellaneous, 2014-2017
Magazines, composers, etc.
Box 53 Folder 8
Contracts--Miscellaneous, 2017-2019
Box 53 Folder 9
Cornell University, 2010 September 30-October 1
Box 53 Folder 10
Cornell University--Jonathan Safran Foer, 1998-1999
Box 53 Folder 11
Coromandel Express--Gregory Leroy, 2000
Box 53 Folder 12
Business (Miscellaneous Criticism) and Reader's Reports and Blurbs, 1986-1995
Box 53 Folder 13
Criticism (Literary Criticism, Critical Theory), 1986-1988
Box 53 Folder 14-15
Culinary Institute of America (CIA) Reading, 2008 September 11, 2 folders
Box 53 Folder 16
D.C. Heath and Company, 1991
Box 53 Folder 17
Dahlberg--Conjunctions article, 1997
Box 53 Folder 18
The Daily Telegraph
, 2012 January 14-15
Clipping of Davis' story "The Landing"
Box 53 Folder 19
"Decision" Magazine [Germany]--Stefanie Weh, 2009
Box 53 Folder 20
"Decision" Magazine [Germany]--Stefanie Weh, 2009
Box 55 Folder 1
Denise Shannon--Submissions, 1999
Box 55 Folder 2
Denise Shannon Literary Agency (DSLA), 2009
Box 55 Folder 3
Denise Shannon Literary Agency (DSLA), 2010
Box 55 Folder 4
Denise Shannon Literary Agency (DSLA), 2011
Box 55 Folder 5
Denise Shannon Literary Agency (DSLA), 2012
Box 55 Folder 6
Denise Shannon Literary Agency (DSLA), 2013
Box 55 Folder 7
Denise Shannon Literary Agency (DSLA), 2014
Box 55 Folder 8
Denise Shannon Literary Agency (DSLA), 2017
Box 55 Folder 9
Denise Shannon Literary Agency (DSLA), 2019
Box 53 Folder 21
Detrez, Conrad--A Weed for Burning--Correspondence and Reviews, 1983-1984
Box 53 Folder 22
Detrez, Conrad--Zone of Fire, 1984-1986
Box 53 Folder 23
Dialogue with Someone on Restaurant Menu, 1965?
Handwritten dialogue by Davis, on a menu
Box 53 Folder 24
DimeStories--National Public Radio (NPR), 2008
Box 53 Folder 25
Dinner Party, 1995
Box 53 Folder 26
dOCUMENTA (13) (Kassel, Germany), 2012 June
Box 53 Folder 27
Doubletake, 1996
Box 53 Folder 28
Downtown Review--John Pruitt, 1980-1981
Box 53 Folder 29
"Du" Magazine Interview and Stories, 2010
German language publication in Switzerland
Box 53 Folder 30
Duke University--Trip to, 2012
Box 53 Folder 31
E.P. Dutton--Paul de Angelis, 1985
Box 53 Folder 32
The Ecco Press, 1997-1998
Box 54 Folder 14
The End of the Story--Catalogue Copy and Cover Ideas
Box 122 Folder 3
The End of the Story--Jacket Proof, [1996]
Mold remediation was performed on this material in 2023. Although all materials can be used in the reading room, patrons that are sensitive to mold may still experience a reaction to materials that have been cleaned.
Box 54 Folder 15
The End of the Story--Readers' Notes and Mine, 1993 December - 1994 February
Box 54 Folder 16
The End of the Story--Relic
Old cardboard box (1/2 - collapsed) which appears in the novel.
Box 54 Folder 17
[The End of the Story?]--Garth Tschernisch and Margaret Kearney Letters and Other Novel Material, 1982-1992, undated
Box 53 Folder 33
Essays One Material, 2019, undated
Note on placements; cards used to organize essays
Box 54 Folder 18
Fan Correspondence, 2007-2011
Box 54 Folder 19
Fan Correspondence (General) (To Me), 1998-2018
Box 54 Folder 20
Fan Correspondence (to Davis), 2004
Box 55 Folder 10
Fargue Translations
Box 55 Folder 11
Fairleigh Dickinson Reading, 2007
Box 55 Folder 12
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG), 2009
Box 55 Folder 13
Feed Magazine--Interview, 2000 July
Box 55 Folder 14
FenceMagazine and Anthology, 2008-2013
Box 55 Folder 15
Article on Short Fiction, undated
Box 55 Folder 16
Business (Miscellaneous Fiction), 1986-1994
Box 55 Folder 17
Fiction International--Roger Cunniff, Harold Jaffe, 1983-1985
Box 55 Folder 18
The Figures, before 2004
Box 100 Folder 49
Fink, Tom, 2006
His class' papers on Davis' stories
Box 100 Folder 50
Fink, Thomas--Student Papers on Davis' Stories, 2009?
Box 55 Folder 19
Fisher, Steven--Stories, 2010?
Flaubert, Gustave--Files, 1995-2011, undated
This set of files was stored together in one box; the files have been left in their original order.
Box 87 Folder 1
Translation--Davis Interview, 1995
Box 87 Folder 2
Translation--Multilingual Product Literature
Product information in English and in French
Box 87 Folder 3
Madame Bovary--Reviews and U.S. Articles, 2010-2011
Box 87 Folder 4
Revisions for Next Paperback Edition or Critical Edition
Box 87 Folder 5
Flaubert Revisions for Paperback, 2010-2011
Box 87 Folder 6
Madame Bovary--Reviews and Articles U.K., 2010-2011
Box 87 Folder 7
Madame Bovary--Paperback (pb) Edition (First), 2011
Box 87 Folder 8
Madame Bovary--Penguin, 2010-2011
Box 87 Folder 9
Madame Bovary--Notes (Material for), 2007, undated
Box 87 Folder 10
Madame Bovary--Record of Work Time / Calendars, 2008-2011
Box 87 Folder 11
La Vie Quotindienne en 1830--Notes
Box 87 Folder 12
Madame Bovary--Post Production
Box 87 Folder 13
End Notes--Material Used
Box 87 Folder 14
Flaubert--Madame Bovary--Intro to Film (Inc. Fact Check)
Box 87 Folder 15
Flaubert--Articles, 1997-2010
Box 87 Folder 16
Eutresol(s) and qualriemes é tages
Box 87 Folder 17
Madame Bovary--Intros
Other introductions, with Davis' annotations and notes
Box 87 Folder 18
Madame Bovary--Excerpts, 2010
Box 87 Folder 19
Thirwell, Adam and D. Nabokov, 2007-2008
Interview with Wyatt Mason about translation and D. Nabokov and review of Miss Herbert
Box 87 Folder 20
George Eliot Vocab and Phrases
Box 87 Folder 21
Madame Bovary--Early Draft of Intro and Notes
Box 87 Folder 22
Flaubert--Définitifs (Brouillons), 2007
Box 87 Folder 23
Flaubert--Brouillons, 2006-2007
Box 87 Folder 24
Madame Bovary--Different Versions
Copied back in 1982 or 1983 for class
Box 87 Folder 25
Madame Bovary--Corrected End Notes, 2010 April 11
Box 87 Folder 26
Madame Bovary--Travel Pages, 1st Draft, 2007
Box 87 Folder 27
Madame Bovary--Draft 1
Consists of a few typescript pages
Box 87 Folder 28
Madame Bovary--1st Draft, Handwritten, Part I Chapter 8
Box 87 Folder 29
Madame Bovary--Julian Barnes Review, 2010-2011
Includes the published review, Davis' reactions (notes), a published letter to the editor, and Barnes' personal letter to Davis
Box 87 Folder 30
Flaubert--Emails, 2007-2010
Box 87 Folder 31
Madame Bovary--Miscellaneous Notes
Box 87 Folder 32
Madame Bovary--Notes
Box 88 Folder 1
Flaubert--Miscellaneous to Sort, 2011, undated
Box 88 Folder 2
Madame Bovary--Miscellaneous, 2006-2010
Box 55 Folder 20
Flamme Forlag (Norway)--Cows Chapbook, 2012
Box 55 Folder 21
Four Walls Reading and Shirley Irons, 1996 March 10
Box 55 Folder 22
Frémon, Jean--Enchéances, ts., 8 pp.
Box 55 Folder 23
Frémon, Jean--"Equation" from Distant Noise, circa 2003
File includes correspondence, manuscript, and related materials.
Box 55 Folder 24
French Embassy, 1983
Box 55 Folder 25
French Photography
, 1978-1979
Correspondence related to the book
Box 55 Folder 26
French-American Foundation, 1992
Box 55 Folder 27
French Publisher's Agency, 1994
Box 55 Folder 28
French Publishers' Agency--François-Marie Samuelson, 1984-1987
Box 56 Folder 1
Friedman, Michael, 2009
Box 56 Folder 2
Fund for Poetry, 1992
Box 56 Folder 3
Galassi, Jonathan--Award
Davis' statement on Galassi for award
Box 56 Folder 4
Gavronsky, Serge--Letter About Novel Solène, 2016-2018
Box 56 Folder 5
Gerry Mulligan
, 2008-2009
Box 56 Folder 6
Gesture Zine
, 2012
Box 56 Folder 7
Giroud, Françoise--Marie Curie: A Life (Homes & Meier), 1984-1985
Box 56 Folder 8
González Matute, Ana Rosa, 1996-2004
Correspondence, along with a draft of translation of a story of hers
Box 56 Folder 9
Grandbois, Daniel, 2008
Box 56 Folder 10
Granta Publications, 1999
Box 56 Folder 11
Granta--The Dreadful Mucamas, 2011
Box 56 Folder 12
Graywolf Press--The Business of Memory, 1998-1999
Box 56 Folder 13
Green Mountain Review
, 2012
Box 56 Folder 14
Guggenheim, 1984-1997
Box 56 Folder 15
Guggenheim Foundation--Joel Conarroe, 2001
Box 56 Folder 16
Hambone and Nathaniel Mackey, 1997-1998
Box 56 Folder 17
Harper's Magazine
, 1998
Box 56 Folder 18
Harvard Newsletter, 2002
Indentifying Davis as a McLean alumnus
Box 56 Folder 19
Harvard Review
, 2009
Box 56 Folder 20
Hawkes, John, 1982
Box 56 Folder 21
Hendrix-Murphy Foundation, 2010
Box 56 Folder 22
Hendrix-Murphy Foundation (Arkansas), 2010
Box 56 Folder 23
Hollins University, 2011 December 1-2
Box 56 Folder 24
Huet, Michel--The Smallest Fire in the World, 1997
Box 56 Folder 25
Hull Projects--"Blind Date", 1997
Box 56 Folder 26
Index Interview with Thad Ziolkowski, circa 1995
Box 56 Folder 27
Indiana Review 1/2 K Prize (Judge), 2008-2009
Box 56 Folder 28
Indiana University, 2009 April
Box 56 Folder 29
Ingram Merrill Foundation--Correspondence About Grant, 1985-1987
Box 56 Folder 30
Insider Prize, 2017
"Prison writing manuscripts, 2017." Manuscripts, with cover letter.
Box 56 Folder 31
Institute of Contemporary Art (University of Pennsylvania), 2009
Box 56 Folder 32
International Writers Center (Washington University in St. Louis), 1999
Box 56 Folder 33
Interstice, 1997
Box 56 Folder 34
Interviews (LBD), 1997-2007
Box 57 Folder 1
Jin, Ha--In the Pond--Photocopy of Corrected Proofs, circa 1998
Box 57 Folder 2
Job Offers / Opportunties, 2000-2006
Box 57 Folder 3
Job Offers and Applications, 1998-2006
Box 57 Folder 4
Johns Hopkins University--Dixon Reading Series, before 2004
Box 57 Folder 5
Johnson State College, 2011
Box 57 Folder 6
Jouve, Jean-Pierre, 1995-1997
Box 57 Folder 7
Joyful Noise Essay / Moody Letters, 1996-1997
Box 57 Folder 8
Juniper Summer Writing Institute (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), 2008
Box 57 Folder 9
Juniper Summer Writing Institute, 2009
Box 57 Folder 10
Kelly Writers House Reading, 2010 April 7
Box 57 Folder 11
Knight, Christopher--Interview Essay, 1998-1999
Box 57 Folder 12
Kore Press Chapbook Contest, 2007-2008
Box 57 Folder 13
Lancaster Literary Guild, 2008 September
Box 57 Folder 14
Lang, David, 2000
Box 57 Folder 15
Lang, David--Compositions, 2011
Box 57 Folder 16
Lannan Foundation, 1998-2002
Box 57 Folder 17
Lannan Foundation, 2012 May
Box 57 Folder 18
Latour, Bruno (Harvard University Press), 1994-1995
Box 57 Folder 19
Ledig House Dinner and Participants, 2007 October 21
Box 58 Folder 1
Leiris, Michel, 1997-1999
Box 58 Folder 2
Leiris, Michel--Biffures, 1984-1991
Box 58 Folder 3
Leiris, Michel--Brisees, 1984-1991
Box 58 Folder 4
Leiris, Michel--Fourbis, 1989-1995
Correspondence with Paragon House
Box 58 Folder 5
Leiris, Michel--Journal, 1993-1994
Box 58 Folder 6
Leiris, Michel--Other Texts, undated
Box 51 Folder 13
Blanchot, Maurice and Michel Leiris--Letters from, 1975-1991
In French. These are primarily from Blanchot. Items related to Leiris are primarily empty envelopes.
Box 58 Folder 7
Leiris, Michel--National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Application, circa 1985
Box 58 Folder 8
Leiris, Michel--Notes and Letters--Miscellaneous, 1989-1991, undated
Box 58 Folder 9
Leiris, Michel--Yale Journal of Criticism, 1995
Published extracts from Scraps with translator's note by Davis
Box 57 Folder 20
Lennon, J. Robert--Pieces for the Left Hand, 2008
Manuscript, with letter, grammar corrections, and blurb.
Box 58 Folder 10
Leonard Lopate Show, 2010 June 8
Box 58 Folder 11
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Anthology, 2009
Kasia Boddy, ed. "Diasagreement"
Box 58 Folder 12
Letter to a Funeral Parlor (Actual Letter), 2003
Related to the funeral of Robert Gorham Davis, Davis' father.
Box 58 Folder 13
Letters of Complaint (Others), 2002-2006
Box 58 Folder 14
Lévy, Justine--Le Rendez-vous (Simon & Schuster), 1995-1999
Library, Town of Esopus Port Ewen, 1998-2000
Box 58 Folder 15
Library, Town of Esopus Port Ewen, 1998-2000
Box 58 Folder 16
Writers at the Library--1998 and General, 1998-1999
Box 58 Folder 17
Writers at the Library, 1999
Box 58 Folder 18
Writers at the Library, 2000
Box 59 Folder 1
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers Award, 1997-1998
Box 59 Folder 2
Liss Fain Dance Company, 2011
Permissions. Includes DVD.
Box 59 Folder 3
Correspondence--Miscellaneous Literary, 2009
Box 59 Folder 4
Letters, others (literary), 1980s
Primarily correspondence with Eric Basso
Box 59 Folder 5
Miscellaneous Literary To Sort, 1998-2006
Recommendation letters have been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 59 Folder 6-7
Correspondence--Literary--Miscellaneous, 1998-2013, 2 folders
Box 59 Folder 8
Mementoes (Literary) [see also readings], 1987-2000, undated
Programs, fliers, etc. related to Davis
Box 59 Folder 9
Literary Mementoes [see also readings], 2001-2017
Includes brochures, clippings, fliers, invitations, programs, for various events involving Davis.
Box 59 Folder 10
Litscher, Hans-Peter--Translations, 1986
Box 59 Folder 11
Little Star--Kjellberg, 2009-2011
Box 59 Folder 12
Lloyd-Butler, Mary, 2012
Box 59 Folder 13
Los Angeles Review--"Sentence and the Young Man", 2009
Box 59 Folder 14
Lotus Club Info, 2012
Box 59 Folder 15
Loyola College--Reading, 2001 April
Box 59 Folder 16
Luna Tack--David Duer, 1985
Box 60 Folder 1
MacArthur, 2003-2008
Recommendation / nomination letters have been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 46 Folder 3
MacArthur Fellowship, 2003-2008
Recommendation / nomination letters have been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 60 Folder 2
Magazine Fiction Publications and Anthologies, 1984-1987
Box 60 Folder 3
Magazine Publishers (SHR, Granta), 1999
Box 60 Folder 4
Mag and Anthology Publications, and Broadcasts, 2005-2006
Box 60 Folder 5
Mag and Anthology Pubs, 2006-2007
Box 60 Folder 6
Magazines Soliciting Work, 1997-2001
Box 60 Folder 7
Mags Soliciting Work, 2003
Box 60 Folder 8
Mags Soliciting Work, 2004-2006
Box 60 Folder 9
Mags Soliciting Work, 2007
Box 60 Folder 10
Mags Soliciting Work, Miscellaneous, 2008-2009
Box 60 Folder 11
Major, Aurelio, 2005-2006
Attempted translation of poems
Box 60 Folder 12
Malmö / Copenhagen, 2007-2008
Box 60 Folder 13
The Marlboro Press, 1983-1996
Box 60 Folder 14
The Marlboro Press--Austryn Wainhouse, 1983-1985
Box 60 Folder 15
Marsilio Publishers--Chateaubriand's Vie de Rancé, 1992
Box 60 Folder 16
McCaffery Interview, 1992-1996
Box 60 Folder 17
McCaffery Interview
Interview with Larry McCaffery and Edie Jarolim. Manuscript with extensive revisions of my own comments and some of their questions.
Box 60 Folder 18
McCaffery Interview Material, 1993, undated
Box 60 Folder 19
McPherson and Company--Bruce McPherson, 1985
Box 61 Folder 1
McSweeney's / Eggers, 1999-2001
Box 61 Folder 2
[McSweeney's]--Eggers, Dave--Email Correspondence, 2003
Box 61 Folder 3
McSweeney's--Dave Eggers, 2004
Box 61 Folder 4
McSweeney's--Compilation of Davis Material for Website, 2003
Box 61 Folder 5
McSweeney's--"Marie Curie", 2000, undated
Box 61 Folder 6
McSweeney's--Snijders Translation, 2012
Box 60 Folder 20
"Meeting Abraham Lincoln" and Notes About Process, 2006
Essay; published in Harvard Review
Box 45 Folder 5
Memorial Tributes, 1999, 2003
Contains memorial tributes for Maurice Blanchot and William Bronk.
Box 61 Folder 7
Memory Essay ("Remember the Van Wagenens"), 1999
Box 61 Folder 8
Metro Times Literary Quaterly--George Tysh, 1997
Box 61 Folder 9
Miami Book Fair, 2009
Box 61 Folder 10
Millenium, 1995
"As I Was Reading" essay for 2000andWhat? anthology. Includes correspondence and corrected manuscripts and proofs.
Box 61 Folder 11
Monette, Madeleine, 1989-1991, undated
Correspondence, manuscript with corrections, etc.
Box 61 Folder 12
Moyer Bell Limited--Britt Bell, 1985
Box 61 Folder 13-14
National Book Award, 2007, 2 folders
Box 61 Folder 15
National Book Foundation, 2009
Box 61 Folder 16
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Translation Grant, 1985
Box 61 Folder 17
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fiction Application, 1988
Box 61 Folder 18
National Endowment for the Arts--Grant, 1988 December 30
Box 61 Folder 19
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Panel Material and Correspondence, 1990
Box 61 Folder 20
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fiction Panel, circa 1991
Box 61 Folder 21
National Endowment for the Arts--Translation Panel, 1992 May-June
Box 61 Folder 22
National Endowment for the Arts--Submission, 1994 May
Box 61 Folder 23
"Negative Emotions", 2007
Box 61 Folder 24
Neue Rundschau--"East Nassau", 2008
Box 61 Folder 25
New American Writing
, 2012
Box 61 Folder 26
New Directions Reading, 2011 December
Box 61 Folder 27
New Directions--"Our Village", 2012
Box 61 Folder 28
New Ohio Review--Berlin Piece, 2009
Box 61 Folder 29
New School, 2008 Septmber 22
Box 61 Folder 30
The New School--General, 2009
Box 61 Folder 31
The New School--Writing Program, 2008 June 5
Box 61 Folder 32
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Application, 1991, 1995
Includes sample of From Stefan, A Novel, 20 pp.
Box 61 Folder 33
New York Institute for the Humanities (NYIH), 2000-2001
Box 62 Folder 1
New York Magazine
, 2011 January
Clipping of short paragraph by Davis.
Box 62 Folder 2
New York Review of Books--Stendhal Introduction, 2001
Box 62 Folder 3
New York Times Book Review--Ashbery - Rimbaud, 2011
Davis' review of Ashbery's translation of Rimbaud's Illuminations. Includes correspondence, clippings, and drafts.
Box 62 Folder 4
New York Times Christmas Story, 2009
Box 62 Folder 5
New York University--Mellon Seminar, 2012
Snijders - Cheever - Davis translation
Box 62 Folder 6
New York University--Readings, 2008 February 7 and June 19
Box 62 Folder 7
New York University (NYU)--Writers in New York Reading, 2009 June 17
Box 62 Folder 8
New Yorker
, 1976-1977
Box 62 Folder 9
New Yorker--Alomar Preface, 2013-2014
Box 62 Folder 10
New Yorker--Book Club, 2009
Box 62 Folder 11
New Yorker--Submissions and Rejections, 1980-1990
Correspondence with Daniel Menaker and Pat Strachan
Box 62 Folder 12
New Yorker--"Thyroid Diary", 2000 September
Box 62 Folder 13
Noon
, 1999-2000
Includes correspondence and proofs
Box 62 Folder 14
Noon
, 2008
Box 62 Folder 15
Noon #6, 2005
Box 62 Folder 16
Noon #10, 2009-2010
Box 62 Folder 17
Noon #12--Snijders Translations, 2012
Includes correspondence, corrected manuscript, and corrected proofs.
Box 62 Folder 18
North Point Press, 1984-1987
Box 62 Folder 19
North Point Press--Jack Shoemaker, 1983-1987
Box 62 Folder 20
Notre Dame, 2007
Box 62 Folder 21
Nunez, Sigrid. Sempre Susan--A Memoir of Susan Sontag--Corrected Proofs, 2010
Proofs with Davis' corrections and notes. Includes covering letter from Nunez.
Box 62 Folder 22
Ohio University Spring Literary Festival (Athens, OH), 2010 May 5-7
Box 62 Folder 23
Ottotole, 1985-1986
Box 62 Folder 24
Oxford Expenses, 2016 May
Box 62 Folder 25
The Paris Review
, 1983
Box 62 Folder 26
Parnassus--H. Leibowitz, 1986
Box 62 Folder 27
Parnassus / Herb Leibowitz, 1986-1988
Box 62 Folder 28
PEN / Hemingway Award (Judging), 1997
Box 62 Folder 29
PEN Mag Fundraising Reading, 2009 February 24
Box 62 Folder 30
PEN Proust Evening, 2000 october 25
Box 62 Folder 31
PEN Syndicated Fiction, 1984
Box 62 Folder 32
PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, 1983-1984
Box 63 Folder 1
Penn State University, 2009 March 3-7
Box 63 Folder 2
Perloff, Marjorie, 1985-1991
Box 63 Folder 3
Philadelphia Free Library Reading, 2009 November 12
Box 63 Folder 4
Piauí (Brazil), 2008
Box 63 Folder 5
Poetics Journal--Lyn Hejinian, 1985-1986
Box 63 Folder 6
Poetics Journal Archive, 2010
Box 63 Folder 7
Poetics Journal / Wesleyan, 2010
Box 63 Folder 8
Poetry Mag--Trans[lation] Issue, 2008
Box 63 Folder 9
Pomona Interest, 2009
Box 63 Folder 10
Portland Arts and Lectures, 2009
Box 63 Folder 11
Press Contacts, undated
Box 63 Folder 12
PreviewPort.com, 2000
Box 63 Folder 13
Princeton--Hodder Fellowship, 1982
Box 63 Folder 14
Princeton Reading, 2008 December 3
Proust, Marcel--Files, 1989-2015 [Bulk: 1996-2006]
These files were kept together as one set. They have been left in their original order.
Box 88 Folder 3
Proust Talk II (Chicago) (30 minutes) "Hammers and Hoofbeats", undated
Box 88 Folder 4
Proust Talk II, 2003-2015
Box 88 Folder 5
An Alphabet of Proust Translation Problems, 2004, undated
Box 88 Folder 6
NEST Article: "Proust's Bedroom", 2000
Box 88 Folder 7
Articles--Proust
Box 88 Folder 8
André Aciman--New York Reivew of Books--Review and Kaplan, 2005-2007
Box 88 Folder 9
Proust--Conjunctions (Steeples Passage), 2002
Box 88 Folder 10-12
Proust--Emails, 1998-2006, 3 folders
Box 88 Folder 13
Proust--Reviews, 2002-2009
Box 88 Folder 14
Proust--Drafts of Pages, Footnotes, Corneille Quotes
Box 88 Folder 15
Proust--Essays and Magazine Correspondence, 2000-2001
Box 88 Folder 16
Proust in The Literary Review, 2002
Box 88 Folder 17
Proust--Nabokov Passage from Pale Fire Given to Me at Reading
Box 88 Folder 18
Proust--Preface for Penguin
Box 89 Folder 1
Richard Howard's Version (Paris Review), 1989
Box 89 Folder 2
Penguin Catalogue, 2004
Box 89 Folder 3
Proust Talks and Notes, 2005-2008, undated
Box 89 Folder 4
Swann's Way--Reviews U.S. (Viking Edition), 2003-2006
Box 89 Folder 5
Proust Talk #1 (Port Ewen), 1999 Spring
Box 89 Folder 6
Proust Talk #2 (State University of New York (SUNY) Albany), 2000 February
Box 89 Folder 7
Proust Talk #3 (New York Institute for the Humanities (NYIH), 2000 April 7
Box 89 Folder 8
Proust Talk #4 (Bard), 2000 April 25
Box 89 Folder 9
Proust Talk #4 (Revised), 2002
Box 89 Folder 10
Proust Talk #5 (Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Program), 2000 June 12
Box 89 Folder 11
Proust Talk #6 (PEN / Proust Evening), 2000 October 25
Box 89 Folder 12
Close Translation of Proust (Paris) (Talk - Too Long), 2008
Box 89 Folder 13
Proust Talk II (Nanterre), 2015
Box 89 Folder 14
The Way by Swann's (UK)--Interview, 2001 Fall
Box 89 Folder 15
Proust--Translation--UK Correspondence, etc., 1996-2002
Box 89 Folder 16
The Way by Swann's (UK)--Reviews, 2002
Box 89 Folder 17
Swann's Way (Viking)--Inteviews, 2003 Fall
Box 89 Folder 18
Proust--Printed Material, 1980s, 1999-2006
Box 89 Folder 19
Proust Material, 2000-2005
Box 89 Folder 20
Miscellaneous Proust Material (To Be Sorted), 2002-2003, undated
Includes corrected drafts, others' suggestions, Davis' notes, A's notes, revisions, and corrected galleys
Box 90 Folder 1
Proust, 2002-2005
Includes correspondence and Proust-related emails
Box 90 Folder 2
Proust Material (General), 2000, undated
Includes some correspondence
Box 90 Folder 3
Proust, Miscellaneous, 1998-2005, undated
Includes correspondence, Davis' notes, and drafts of talks
Box 90 Folder 4
Proust Material (Miscellaneous), 2003-2006, undated
Includes correspondence, chart of vocabulary and pages of expressions, and corrected galleys
Box 90 Folder 5
Supplementary Proust Talk Material
Box 90 Folder 6
Luke Sandford's Comments - Proust
Box 90 Folder 7
Pound Translation of Proust Passages
Box 90 Folder 8
(Notes on) Mancrieff
Box 90 Folder 9
Proust--MKE Problems, 2005
Box 90 Folder 10
Proust--Examples
Box 90 Folder 11
Proust--Revisions for the American Edition (Hardcover), 2004, undated
Box 90 Folder 12
Proust--Revisions for the Viking Paperback, 2004
Box 90 Folder 13
Proust Notes
Box 90 Folder 14
Proust--Chez Swann, 2000 December 19, 1 3" floppy disk
Copied 12/19/00. 2nd draft to p. 343. 1st draft p. 343 to p. 420.
Proust, Marcel--Additional Files
Box 118
In Conjunctions (38), 2002
Marcel Proust, from The Way by Swann's, translated by Davis. Includes handwritten revisions.
Box 90 Folder 15
Marcel Proust--Swann's Way--Book Jackets for Book Series, circa 2003
Box 90 Folder 16
Marcel Proust / Stendhal--Davis' Introductions
Manuscripts for introduction to Swann's Way and Stendhal's The Life of Henry Brulard
Box 90 Folder 17
Proust Poems--Augenbraum Anthology, 2012
Box 90 Folder 18
Proust--Printed Material, 2003-2004
Clippings, programs, etc.
Box 90 Folder 19
Proust Revisions, 2010-2011
Box 90 Folder 20
Rostand, Robert (Trans. of Proust), undated
Box 90 Folder 21
Proust Talks--Drafts, 2000, undated
Drafts of Proust Talk 3 and 4. There are also some papers related to her translation of Swann's Way, including the introduction and note on the translation.
Box 90 Folder 22
Proust Talks--Drafts, 2003
"On the Pleasures of Teaching Proust" for the New School.
Box 90 Folder 23
Proust Talk I: Close Translation, 2003, undated
Box 90 Folder 24
Proust Talk I (Oxford), 2004 June 19
Box 90 Folder 25
Proust Talk I (Boston), 2005 February 11
Box 63 Folder 15
Pushcart Prize XXXIV, 2009
Box 63 Folder 16
Pushcart Prize XXXVI, 2011
Box 63 Folder 17
Pushcart and Tuten Readings, 2011 December 4
Box 63 Folder 18
Quick Fiction, 2006
Box 63 Folder 19
Quignard, 1987-1988
Box 63 Folder 20
Rafferty, Charles--The Smoke of Horses--Notes, possibly for blurb, circa 2017
Box 63 Folder 21
Random House French Poetry--Reviews of, 1982-1984
Box 63 Folder 22
Rare Books
Box 63 Folder 23
Raster (Dutch), 2008
Box 63 Folder 24
Raster Magazine--Dutch Serial Rights to 3 Stories, 2009
Box 64 Folder 1
Souvenirs of Readings, etc., 1983-1988
Box 64 Folder 2
Readings--Miscellaneous, 1986-1997
Box 64 Folder 3
Readings, Residencies, etc., 1998-1999
Box 64 Folder 4
Readings and Residencies, etc., 1999-2000
Box 64 Folder 5
Readings, Talks, and Interviews, 2002-2003
Box 64 Folder 6
Readings, Talks, Interviews, and Awards, 2003-2004
Box 64 Folder 7
Readings, 2000-2009, undated
Box 64 Folder 8
Readings, Talks, and Interviews, 2004-2005
Box 64 Folder 9
Readings, Talks, and Residencies,, 2005-2006
Box 64 Folder 10
Readings, Talks, Etc., 2006-2007
Box 64 Folder 11
Readings--Possible Miscellaneous, 2006
Box 64 Folder 12
Readings and Talks / Visits--Miscellaneous, 2007
Box 64 Folder 13
Readings--Lists of Stories Read, 1992-1998, undated
Box 59 Folder 8
Mementoes (Literary), 1987-2000, undated
Programs, fliers, etc. related to Davis
Box 59 Folder 9
Literary Mementoes, 2001-2017
Includes brochures, clippings, fliers, invitations, programs, for various events involving Davis.
Recommendations
Box 94 Folder 2
Recommendations, 1990s
Box 94 Folder 1
Recommendations, 2000s
Box 94 Folder 3
Recommendations, 2010s
Box 94 Folder 4
Recommendations, 1989-2001
Box 94 Folder 5
Gardner, Justine (rec), 2009
Box 94 Folder 6
Ha Jin (Emory University), 1998
Box 94 Folder 7
Locasio, Lisa--Recommendation, 2009
Box 94 Folder 8
Ben Marcus--Guggenheim Recommendation, 2008
Box 94 Folder 9
Miller, Christopher--Bennington Eval., 2009
Box 63 Folder 25
Red Hook School, 1987
Box 63 Folder 26
Red Weather--Kim Lyons, 1985
Box 63 Folder 27
Reve, Gerard--The Evenings, 2014
Rough draft of sample. First draft - a few pages (Du. translation).
Box 63 Folder 28
Reve, Gerard--De avonden, 2014
Notes on time for translating pages
Box 63 Folder 29
Richmond, University of, 2007
Box 63 Folder 30
Rochester Arts and Lectures, 2011
Box 63 Folder 31
Röggla, Kartrin / Röggla Translation Project, 2002-2006
Box 65 Folder 1
Royalties--Miscellaneous, 2013-2019
Box 65 Folder 2
Royalties and Fees--Miscellaneous, 2014-2019
Box 65 Folder 3-4
Royalty Statements--Miscellaneous, 2018-2019, 2 folders
Box 63 Folder 32
Royet-Journoud--Dediction to, 1984
Photocopy of handwritten book dedication
Box 63 Folder 33
Sallenave, Danièle--Phantom Life (Pantheon), 1987-1988
Correspondence, clippings, etc.
Box 63 Folder 34
Salt Hill Journal
, 2012
Box 122 Folder 4
Sample Stories for Peter Ketchum of Guidance Association, 1970s?
Mold remediation was performed on this material in 2023. Although all materials can be used in the reading room, patrons that are sensitive to mold may still experience a reaction to materials that have been cleaned.
Includes some manuscript pages. Stories were not accepted.
Box 63 Folder 35
Sarabande Books, 2006
Box 63 Folder 36
Scève--Microcosme, 1970s, Notebook
Box 63 Folder 37
Schwartz Interview, 2009
Box 63 Folder 38
Schwartz, Leonard (Evergreen State College), 2009-2010
Box 63 Folder 39
Seix Barral--Catalog, 2011
Box 63 Folder 40
Shaw Family and Dutch Photographs Project, circa 2013
Includes draft of preface
Box 63 Folder 41
Shippensburg, University of, 2007
Box 63 Folder 42
Silverberg, Ira (Editor in Chief, Grove Press), 1997
Box 63 Folder 43
Simon Rock Reading, 2008 Fall
Box 63 Folder 44
Skidmore--Summer New York State Writers Institute, 2010
Box 63 Folder 45
Snell, Roger, 2009
Box 64 Folder 14
Snijders, A.L., 2011
Box 64 Folder 15
Snijders, A.L.--Stories in Progress, 2011-2012
Box 64 Folder 16
Soper, Kate (Composer)--Permission, 2011
Box 64 Folder 17
Sous Rature, 2009
Box 64 Folder 18
Sparrows / Levine, etc.--V. Small Poems, 2005
Box 94 Folder 12
Spin
, 1995
Restricted until 2047, or the death of Lydia Davis
Box 64 Folder 19
State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport, 2006
Box 64 Folder 20
Station Hill Press, 1998
Box 64 Folder 21
Station Hill Press--re: Blanchot's Celui, 1985
Box 64 Folder 22
Station Hill Press--George Quasha, 1983-1985
Box 64 Folder 23
Stein, Lorin, 2004
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Box 90 Folder 16
Marcel Proust / Stendhal--Davis' Introductions
Manuscripts for introduction to Swann's Way and Stendhal's The Life of Henry Brulard
Box 45 Folder 4
Laurence Sterne--"Translation"--Rough Draft
Box 64 Folder 24
Story and Other Stories Material, 1982-1984
Correspondence, blurbs, etc.
Box 64 Folder 25
Strafford, VT Library Reading, 2008
Box 65 Folder 5
Strindberg, 1984-1988
Box 65 Folder 6-7
Strindberg, 1985, undated, 2 folders
Re: translation work for Hans Peter Litscher of Strindberg texts. Correspondence, manuscripts, and other material.
Box 64 Folder 26
Stanford--Lane Lecture, 2011
Box 94 Folder 13-14
Subin, Anna Della. Accidental Gods, 2021, 2 folders
Manuscript, with Davis' marks
Box 64 Folder 27-28
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories Anthology--Robert Shapard, ed., 1986-1987, 2 folders
Box 64 Folder 29
Sulphur
, 1999
Box 64 Folder 30
Susquehanna University Writers Institute, 2011 March 31
Box 64 Folder 31
Swiss Radio--Franziska Hirsburnner "52 Best Bücher", 2008
Box 64 Folder 32
Symphony Space, 2008
Box 64 Folder 33
Syracuse University, 1996
Box 64 Folder 34
Syracuse [University], 2009 Fall
Drafts of Talks
Several talks specifically on Proust are filed with other Proust files.
Box 66 Folder 1
Oxford Talk--On Learning Norwegian, 2016 May
Box 66 Folder 2
Craft Talk: 30 Recommendations, 2016
Box 66 Folder 3
Forms Talk--Extracts from, undated
Box 66 Folder 4
Forms Talk IV, 2013
As given at Williams College
Box 66 Folder 5
Philolexian Society (Columbia University) Award Speech, 2013 April
Box 66 Folder 6
(Different Forms I) Talk (New Marlborough), undated
Box 66 Folder 7
Forms Talk I--30 minute version, undated
Box 66 Folder 8
Forms Talk I (Chicago), 2007 May 8
Box 66 Folder 9
Forms Talk I (Notre Dame), 2007 November 15
Box 66 Folder 10
Talk--"I is Another" (St. Mark's), 1985? Fall
Transcribed June 29, 2017
Box 66 Folder 11
Forms Talk III (Paris), 2015
Box 66 Folder 12
Forms Talk IV, 2013
Box 66 Folder 13
Forms Talk I (Different), 2005-circa 2007
Box 66 Folder 14
Forms Talk I (WUSL), 2009 March
Box 66 Folder 15
Forms Talk I (Seattle and Portland), 2009 November
Box 66 Folder 16
Different Forms I Talk (Columbia, and Ohio), 2010
Box 66 Folder 17
Talk on the Fragment at New Langdon (Unpublished), 1986
Box 66 Folder 18
Forms Talk, 2011 May 5 and October 20
Box 66 Folder 19
Forms Talk I (New York University (NYU), 2012 October 12
Box 66 Folder 20
Forms Talk I (Oaxaca), 2017 March
Box 66 Folder 21
Forms Talk II, 2012
Box 66 Folder 22
Forms Talk III, 2013
Box 66 Folder 23
Draft of Talk, 1994, undated
Box 94 Folder 10
Tampa, University of, 2015
Restricted until 2047, or the death of Lydia Davis
Box 65 Folder 8
Tarting, Christian--Chemin de Ronde--Translation of Break of Dawn, before 2004
Box 65 Folder 9
Temblor--Lee Hickman, 1986
Box 65 Folder 10
Therapy, undated
Various pieces and drafts, including schizophrenic monologue
Box 65 Folder 11
Tillman Interview, 2008
Box 65 Folder 12
Tin House Anthology Fantastic Women, 2011
Box 65 Folder 13
Tin House--Madame Bovary excerpt, 2010
Box 66 Folder 24
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1984-1992
Box 66 Folder 25
Galassi, Jonathan--re: Tocqueville Translation, 1985
Box 66 Folder 26
Tocqueville, Alexis de--Notes, Queries, Letters, 1987
Includes correspondence with Davis' father, Robert Gorham Davis
Box 66 Folder 27
Tocqueville, Alexis de--Reviews, 1988-1989
Box 66 Folder 28
Tocqueville, Alexis de--Royalties, 1994, 2011
Box 67 Folder 1
Tolling Elves Issue, 2006
Box 67 Folder 2
Translation--Davis on Translation in "Noted with Pleasure" in New York Times Book Review, 1987
Box 67 Folder 3
Translation Colloquium--UW, 2003 April
Box 67 Folder 4
Translation Essay for The Paris Review, 2011 Fall, ts., 83 pp.
Box 67 Folder 5
Translation Essay Material--Used, 2011, undated
Box 67 Folder 6
Translations from French, 1997-2001
Box 67 Folder 7
Translations of My Work (Miscellaneous Student), 1994
Box 67 Folder 8
Translation Panel (Metropolis Bleu - Montreal), 2007 April 28
Box 67 Folder 9
Metropolitain Bleu, Montreal, 2007
Metrpolis Bleu; literary festival
Box 67 Folder 10
Business (Miscellaneous Translation), 1985-1995
Box 67 Folder 11
Business (Miscellaneous Translation), 1988-1992
Box 67 Folder 12
Treacle Press--Bruce McPherson, Bruce, 1980
Box 67 Folder 13
Tufts, 2007
Symposium on translation with Natasha Wimmer, etc.
Box 67 Folder 14
Tufts Translation Panel, 2008 March
Box 67 Folder 15
Tuscon--University of Arizona, 2007
Box 67 Folder 16
Tuumba Press--Lyn Hejinian, 1983
Box 67 Folder 17
"Two Translators" and James Grieve, 2002-2004, undated
Includes emails from Grieve
Box 94 Folder 11
University of California Santa Barbara Visit, 2015 March
Restricted until 2047, or the death of Lydia Davis
Box 67 Folder 18
University of Chicago--Kestnbaum, 2007
Box 67 Folder 19
University of Chicago--Kestnbaum Talk, 2007
Box 67 Folder 20
University of Florida Reading, 2002 March
Box 67 Folder 21
University of Iowa Visit, 2010
Box 67 Folder 22
University of Iowa, 2011 April 27-30
Box 67 Folder 23
University of Louisville, 2009 April 2-3
Box 67 Folder 24
University of Massachusetts Amherst (MFA)--Visting Writers Reading, 2006
Box 67 Folder 25
University of Michigan, 2018 March 20-22
Box 67 Folder 26
University of Pittsburgh, 2011
Box 67 Folder 27
University of Virginia--Kapnick Writer, 2016 October 31-November 6 and November 13-November 20
Box 67 Folder 28
Upstreet Interview, Frank [Tempore?], 2006
Box 67 Folder 29
Utah--Salt Lake City Arts Council Reading, 2001 March
Box 67 Folder 30
Vanity Fair--Towers, 1985
Box 67 Folder 31
Vassar Residency, 2008 February
Box 67 Folder 32
Vocabulary Analysis of Peter Handke / Three Texts, undated
Box 67 Folder 33
Vogue--Nostalgia [Column], 2010
Box 67 Folder 34
Wald, Catherine, 1994
Box 67 Folder 35
Walla Walla - Seattle - Portland Trip, 2009
Box 67 Folder 36
Seattle Arts and Lectures, 2009
Box 67 Folder 37
Seattle Arts and Lectures, 2009 November 4
Box 67 Folder 38
Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA), 2009
Box 67 Folder 39
Washington Square
, 2009
Literary journal of the NYU MFA program.
Box 67 Folder 40
Washington Square--Snijders, 2011
Box 68 Folder 1
Washington University Reading--International Writers Center, 1998-1999
Box 68 Folder 2
Washington University at St. Louis--Hearst Professorship, 2008
Box 68 Folder 3
Wasserman, Harriet, 1985
Box 68 Folder 4
Wasserman, Harriet, 1987-1991
Literary agent. Correspondence.
Box 68 Folder 5
Wave Composition, 2012
Box 68 Folder 6
Wellesley College, 2011 February
Box 68 Folder 7
Wesleyan, 2013 April 17
Box 68 Folder 8
West Coast Trip, 2011 April 16-21
Box 68 Folder 9
Western Humanities Review--Stories, 2010
Box 68 Folder 10
Whiting Foundation, 1988-1997
Box 68 Folder 11
Wiesel Translations, 1987-1989
Correspondence and translations
Box 68 Folder 12
Willen, Drenka, 1983
Box 68 Folder 13
William and Mary, 2013 November
Box 68 Folder 14
Williamette University, 2013
Box 68 Folder 15
"Word for Word", 2011 November
Box 68 Folder 16
The World Within--Inteview with Rick Moody, 2007 or 2008
Box 68 Folder 17
Writing--Statement About Writing in Personal Letter, 1973
Davis' personal letter to cousin about writing in 1973 in answer to cousin's letter and story (enclosed)
Box 68 Folder 18
Writing and Reviews, 1997-2001
Writing and review, comments, ads, etc. Primarily related to Break It Down and Almost No Memory. Includes a few short story drafts. Includes book jackets for Break It Down and The End of the Story.
Box 68 Folder 19
Elie Yarden Letter, 1993
Piece is "On Some Recent Recommendation of the Committee on Vacancies in Matters of Music, Education, Ideology and Racist Society. "Letter which I always meant to read".
Box 68 Folder 20
Zone Translations and Business, 1987-1988
Correspondence and translations
Box 68 Folder 21
Zone, 1992-1993
Box 68 Folder 22
Business, Literary (including Blanchot), 1970s-1980s
Includes: John Pruitt (The Downtown Review), Paul Buck (Blanchot), From Davis to Fr. Publisher (Blanchot), Fata Morgana (re: Blanchot), Davis to publisher re: children's story, Christopher Fynsk re: Blanchot, Richard Poirier, P. Adams Sitney, and Michael Davidson (job "feeler")
Box 68 Folder 23
Business--Miscellaneous, 1987
Box 68 Folder 24-25
Business--Miscellaneous, 1988, 2 folders
Box 69 Folder 1
Business--Miscellaneous, 1989
Box 69 Folder 2
Business--Miscellaneous, 1990
Box 69 Folder 3
Business--Miscellaneous, 1991
Subjects include: Denise [Shannon], North Point Leiris, Conjunctions, Pat Strachan's New Yorker Poetry Project
Box 69 Folder 4
Business--Miscellaneous, 1992
Subjects include: Conjunctions, Station Hill Press, Emmanuel Hocquard, Pushcart, Malcolm Bowie, Paris Review, and Leiris matters.
Box 69 Folder 5
Business--Miscellaneous, 1993
Subjects include: Exact Change, Marsilio, Leiris material, Kasia Boddy, George Quasha (Station Hill Press), Lewis Warsh (Poetry Project), Bard Morrow (Conjuctions).
Box 69 Folder 6
Business--Miscellaneous, 1994
Subjects include: Austryn Wainhouse (Marlboro Press), Station Hill Press, Leiris material, and Fanny Howe.
Box 69 Folder 7
Business--Miscellaneous, 1995
Subjects include: Brian Evenson, Roberta Allen, Naropa
Box 69 Folder 8
Business--Miscellaneous, 1996
Subjects include: Poetry Project, Pierre Jean Jouve, New Yorker, Leiris, Ziolkowski, Matute, Naropa, Ira Silverberg, Penn State, and Washington University.
Box 69 Folder 9
Business--Miscellaneous, 1997
Subjects include: Joel-Peter Witkin, and Alice Kaplan.
Box 69 Folder 10
Business--Miscellaneous, 1998
Subjects include: Brown, Denise S., UCSD, 14 Hills, Stephen Dixon, French Culture Series, Eleni Sikelianos, Diane Williams (Noon), Borchardt (Means), J. Galassi, and M. Jenkins.
Box 69 Folder 11
Business--Miscellaneous, 1999
Subjects include: Robert Coover, Denise S., Leiris business, Blanchot business, Anna Rabinowitz, Matute, Madeleine Monette (correcting various French), and Diane Williams.
Box 70 Folder 1
Business--Miscellaneous, 2000
Box 70 Folder 2
Business--Miscellaneous, 2001
Box 70 Folder 3
Business--Miscellaneous, 2002
Box 70 Folder 4
Business--Miscellaneous, 2002-2003
Includes Proust correspondence; Farrar, Straus and Giroux correspondence; other literary correspondence; miscellaneous translations; readings / residencies; and Denise Shannon
Box 70 Folder 5
Business--Miscellaneous, 2003
Box 70 Folder 6
Business--Miscellaneous, 2004
Box 70 Folder 7
Business--Miscellaneous, 2005
Box 70 Folder 8
Business, 2006
Box 70 Folder 9
Business--Miscellaneous, 2008
Box 70 Folder 10
Business--Miscellaneous (1 of 3), 1984-1994, 2000-2005
Topics / items include magazines, Jonathan Galassi at Random House, royalties, possible translation job, page proofs, permissions requests, recommendations/evaluations, award nomination, and a reading invitation. Recommendation letters from have been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 70 Folder 11
Business--Miscellaneous (2 of 3), 1995, 2000-2002
Topics / items include page proofs, teaching position agreement, royalties, permissions request, travel record, reading agreement, reading program, xerox of reprint with correction, bios, letter from politicsl reps., Leiris business, sorties submitted for Prize, thank-you from PEN, recommendations, mag. pubs., and Noon business. Recommendation letters from have been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 70 Folder 12
Business--Miscellaneous (3 of 3), 2001-2005
Topics / items include invitations, royalties, recommendations, recommendations / references, prize finalist announcement, book order response (note), permission requests, Leiris correspondence, Flyer for library series in Port Ewen, book review, book cover designs, DSLA correspondence, projects deadlines, note from Guggenheim, award announcement, income tax stubs (1993), foreign rights note, photographer correspondence, and conference at Oxford (2004). Recommendation letters from have been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 71 Folder 1
Business--Miscellaneous, 1986, 1991, 1998-2006
Includes royalty statements, recommendations, translations (French, Mexican), D'Agata, requests for blurbs, requests for introductions / references, Davis to Farrar, Straus and Giroux about Samuel Johnson is Indignant reviews, requests for submissions, and invitations. Recommendation letters from have been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 71 Folder 2
Business--Miscellaneous, 2006-2018, undated
Letters, notes, and royalty statements
Box 71 Folder 3
Miscellaneous Business, Teaching, etc., 1998-2018
Royalty statements, income stubs, teaching materials, miscellaneous business, notes for blurbs, recommendation/reference, lit. mementoes and reviews and catalog pages.
Box 71 Folder 4
Business--Miscellaneous, 2012-2019
Royalty statements, some Denise Shannon Literary Agency cover letters, and other miscellaneous
Box 71 Folder 5
Business--Miscellaneous
Various unfiled materials.
This series contains family, personal, and miscellaneous correspondence.
The majority of Davis' professional correspondence is with Series II: Professional Files, but there may be correspondence on professional subjects in Davis' personal correspondence files. In addition, files of miscellaneous business correspondence are filed in Subseries III.3: Professional (Miscellaneous).
Subseries III.1: Family Correspondence, 1940-1964
This subseries contains correspondence between Davis and her parents and siblings (1960-1964), as well as some additional correspondence of her parents (1940s, 1964).
Correspondence between Davis and her first husband, Paul Auster, is filed with Subseries III.2: Personal Correspondence, below.
There is no correspondence between Davis and her second husband, Alan Cote, or her children in the papers.
Box 122 Folder 5
Robert Gorham Davis (RGD) and Hope Hale Davis (HHD), and Others--Letters, 1940s
Mold remediation was performed on this material in 2023. Although all materials can be used in the reading room, patrons that are sensitive to mold may still experience a reaction to materials that have been cleaned.
Box 72 Folder 3
Lydia Davis Letter and Postcard to Parents, 1964
Box 72 Folder 4
Hope Hale Davis (HHD) Letters to Robert Gorham Davis (RGD), Trip to Europe, 1964 Summer
Box 72 Folder 5
C[laudia Cockurn] and Michael Flanders Letters, 1964
Box 72 Folder 6
Robert Gorham Davis (RGD) Letter, 1964
Box 72 Folder 7
Davis, Stephen--Letter, 1964
Box 72 Folder 8
Davis Family Trip Receipts, 1964
Receipts from Hope Hale Davis (HHD) and Stephen Davis? (SHD) trip to Cologne and Amsterdam, 1964.
Box 72 Folder 9
Parents' Letters to Lydia Davis (LBD), 1960-1964
Subseries III.2: Personal Correspondence, 1958-2014
This subseries contains correspondence with individuals, and two additional files: letters of condolence after the death of Davis' father, and a file of "precious letters".
There is additional personal correspondence in Subseries III.4: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Series VII: Miscellaneous Files. While Davis made content notes for these files, which include names, they do not appear to be comprehensive for all files. There is overlap between the correspondence files in Subseries III.2 and these miscellaneous files.
Box 72 Folder 10
Aciman, André, 1999
Box 72 Folder 11
Aldrich, Jonathan (and Nancy), 1960s
Box 72 Folder 12
Allison, Brenda, 1998
Box 95 Folder 1-3
Armantrout, Rae, 1983-1995, 2005, 3 folders
Restricted pending further review by Davis per note - "Restricted for now - when it is prepared for archiving I can review it. All letters without personal content cd. be unrestricted. LD."
Box 91 Folder 1
Armantrout, Rae--Personal Correspondence, 2006
Box 91 Folder 2
Armantrout, Rae, 2006 December - 2007 January
Box 91 Folder 3
Armantrout, Rae--Emails, 2007 February
Box 91 Folder 4
Armantrout, Rae--Emails 2002-2008 and Drafts, 2002-2008
Box 91 Folder 5
Armantrout, Rae--Critical Articles, Recommendations, 1980s-2009
Box 91 Folder 6
Armantrout, Rae--Drafts of Poems, 1983?-1996
Only drafts of poems, plus Abacus
Box 72 Folder 13
Ashbery, John, 2001
Box 121
Auster, Paul--Envelope Used by Davis to Hold Auster's Letters, undated
Box 121
Paul Auster and Lydia Davis--Correspondence, 1966-1986, 2003, 2009-2010
Mold remediation was performed on this material in 2023. Although all materials can be used in the reading room, patrons that are sensitive to mold may still experience a reaction to materials that have been cleaned .
This correspondence is primarily Auster's letters to Davis. There are two photographs with the 1969 folders.
Box 94 Folder 15
Auster, Paul--Davis' letter to (Not Sent), 1972 December 24
Box 72 Folder 14
Axtmann, Ann, 1966
Childhood friend from Davis' building. Magazine clipping of photos.
Box 72 Folder 15
Axtmann, Ann, 1998-2005
Box 72 Folder 16
Balter, Mary, 2005
Box 72 Folder 17
Bamber, Linda, 2000, undated
Box 72 Folder 18
Bamber, Linda / Patsy Vigderman, 1998-1999
Box 72 Folder 19
Barber, Robin and Carol Edelstein, 1998-2009
Box 72 Folder 20
Barnett, Anthony, 1983-1985
Box 72 Folder 21
Barrell, Simon, 1985
Box 72 Folder 22
Basso, Eric, 1985
Box 72 Folder 23
Baxter, Charles, 1988, undated
Box 72 Folder 24
Bazelon, Cecile Gray, 1985
Box 72 Folder 25
Beecher, Lennie and Elise, 2001
Family friends, both painters
Box 72 Folder 26
Beltrametti, Franco, 1986-1991
Box 72 Folder 27
Bergman, Susan, 1999
Sister of Anne Heche; wrote book about her father
Box 72 Folder 28
Berl, Christine, 1999
Box 72 Folder 29
Bernstein, Charles and Susan Bee, 1985-2004
Box 72 Folder 30
Boddy, Kasia, 2010
Box 72 Folder 31
Bouvier, Geoff, 1999-2001
Box 72 Folder 32
Brearley Classmates, 2003
Box 72 Folder 33
Brenner, Summer, 1998-2008
Box 72 Folder 34
Brennan, Liz, 1998-1999
Box 72 Folder 35
Brilliant, Alan, 2004
Evidently knew him in circa 1969; partner of Teo Savory
Box 72 Folder 36
Brock, Rebecca and Fletcher, 2003-2004
Childhood friend; children of the Brocks of "Alice's Restaurant"
Box 72 Folder 37
Brodie, Scott and Stacy, 2003-2006
Box 72 Folder 38
Bronk, William, 1987
Box 72 Folder 39-40
Buck, Paul, 1978-1988, 2 folders
Box 72 Folder 41
Cardona, Tarquin, 1983-1984
Ex-student, University of California San Diego
Box 72 Folder 42
Careau, Steve and Rachel, 2002, 2005
Box 73 Folder 1
Chamberlain, Lori and Michael Davidson, 1984-2006
Box 73 Folder 2-4
Cheney, Don, 1983-1994, 3 folders
Box 73 Folder 5
Cherches, Peter, 1997-2003
Box 73 Folder 6-7
Chester, Laura, 1984-1990, 2 folders
Box 73 Folder 8
Chilton, Bruce, 2005
Theologian and chaplain at Bard College
Box 95 Folder 12
Clifford, James, 1983-1984
Box 73 Folder 9
Clifford, Jim, 1983-1987, 2003-2004
Box 73 Folder 10
Codrescu, Andrei, 1984-1988
Box 73 Folder 11
Coetzee, J.M., 1984
Box 73 Folder 12
Cofie, Christiana, 2001-2005
Box 73 Folder 13
Cohen, Mary, 1988
Prop., cottages at Round Lake Road
Box 73 Folder 14
Collins, Mary Jane (Bancroft), 1985-1986
Box 73 Folder 15
Collins, Tody and Paula Redmond, undated
Box 73 Folder 16
Collett, Jon and Charlotte Brown, circa 2006
Box 73 Folder 17
Coover, Robert, 2003
Box 73 Folder 18
Corbett, Bill, 2003
Box 73 Folder 19
Creamer, Jon, 2002
Photographer; ex-Bard MFA student
Box 73 Folder 20
D'Agata, John, 2005
Box 73 Folder 21
David, Fedora, 1985
Box 73 Folder 22
Davidson, Michael, 1983-1988, circa 2002
Box 73 Folder 23
Davis, Lydia Adams, 1998
Box 73 Folder 24
Davenport, Bill and Roselle, 1987
Box 73 Folder 25
De Angelis, Paul, 1996
Box 73 Folder 26
De Feo, Ron, 2004
Box 73 Folder 27
Deihl, Marcia, 2006
Box 73 Folder 28
Delville, Michel, 1997
Box 73 Folder 29
Dickman, Steve, 1985
Box 73 Folder 30
Diefendorf, David, 1998
Box 73 Folder 31
Dix, Douglas, 1995-1996
Box 73 Folder 32
Dixon, Stephen, 1984
Box 74 Folder 1
Dobo, Frank, 1984, 1998
Box 74 Folder 2
Dodson, Daniel, 1983-1988
Box 74 Folder 3
Ducornet, Rikki, 1998
Box 74 Folder 4
Dupin, Jacques, 2003
French poet; first knew him in Paris in the 1970s
Box 74 Folder 5
Eggers, David and Chris, 2001
Box 74 Folder 6
Einzig, Barbara, 1982-1990
Box 74 Folder 7
Fagin, Larry, 2006
Box 74 Folder 8
Feitlowitz, Marguerite, 2007
Box 74 Folder 9
Ferguson, Steve, 1999
Box 74 Folder 10
Fletcher, Janice, 1983-1992
Box 74 Folder 11
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 2003?
Box 74 Folder 12
Foltz, Craig, 2003
Box 74 Folder 13
Fort, Jeff, 1999-2006
Box 74 Folder 14
Fourcade, Dominique, 1998-2005
Box 74 Folder 15
Fox, Paula, 2010
Box 74 Folder 16
Fraser, Kathleen, 1986-1989
Box 74 Folder 17
Frazier, Kristin, 2004, 2008
Box 74 Folder 18
Freilicher, Melvyn, 1983-1999
Box 74 Folder 19
Frémon, Jean, 1988
Box 74 Folder 20
Frick, Thomas, 1999
Box 74 Folder 21
Galassi, Jonathan, undated
Box 74 Folder 22
Gander, Forrest, 2005
Poet, and husband of C.D. Wright
Box 74 Folder 23
Garber, Eugene K., 1994
Box 74 Folder 24
Gardner, Justine, 1997
Box 74 Folder 25
Gerstler, Amy, 1983-1985
Beyond Baroque and Magazine
Box 74 Folder 26
Gilman, Richard, 1987
Box 74 Folder 27
Gioia, Dana, 1985-1986?
Box 74 Folder 28
Glück, Robert, 1985-2000
Box 95 Folder 13
Grab, Fred, 1981-1983
Box 95 Folder 14
Grab, Fred, 1983-1985
Restricted until at least 2040
Box 74 Folder 29
Greenside, Mark, 1997-2003
Box 74 Folder 30
Grenier, Arpine, 1998-1999
Box 74 Folder 31
Gresset, Michel, 1986
Box 74 Folder 32
Haring, Lee, 2002-2006
Box 74 Folder 33
Hanan?, Elwood, undated
Item has some water damage; last name is illegible
Box 74 Folder 34
Harmon, Josh, 2009
Box 74 Folder 35
Hart, Heidi, 2001
Met her on a teaching gig
Box 74 Folder 36
Heisen, Paula, 2000?, 2009
Box 74 Folder 37
Hellew, Joyce, 1988-1990
Box 74 Folder 38
Hines, Virginia Lee, 2006
Box 74 Folder 39
Hoffman, Helga, 1986
Box 74 Folder 40
Hollander, John, 1981
Box 74 Folder 41
Hollo, Anselm, 2004
Box 74 Folder 42
Howe, Susan, 1986-1987
Box 74 Folder 43
Humphreys, Dick (John R.), undated
Friend of parents, Davis also taught under him at Columbia University
Box 74 Folder 44
Hunt, Laird, 2000
Box 74 Folder 45
Hunt, Nell, 1994
Box 74 Folder 46
Irons, Shirley and Don Dudley, 1997-2008
Box 75 Folder 1
Jabès, Edmond and Arlette, 1980-1988
Box 94 Folder 16
Jarolim, Edie, 1969-1993
Box 75 Folder 2
Jarolim, Edie, 1997
Article, with covering letter
Box 75 Folder 3
Jenkins, Margy, 1996-1997?
Box 75 Folder 4
Jennings, Paul, 2004
Friend from Sligo, Ireland 1970s
Box 75 Folder 5
Jin, Ha, 1998
Box 75 Folder 6
Johannessen, Tara, 1989
Box 75 Folder 7
Joris, Pierre, 1986
Box 75 Folder 8
Jubela, Joan, 1996
Box 75 Folder 9
Kearney, Margaret, 1984-2005
Box 75 Folder 10
Keim, Bill, 1984-1993
Ex-student, University of California San Diego
Box 75 Folder 11
Bill Keim, circa 1991
Former student at the University of San Diego. Two plays, with covering letter.
Box 75 Folder 12-14
Kelley, Robert (Sulphur), 1980-1985, undated, 3 folders
Box 75 Folder 15
Kennedy, Christopher, 1998
Box 75 Folder 16
Kerns, Chloe Jane, 1983-1985
Box 75 Folder 17
Knight, Christopher, 2005, undated
Friend of Edie Jarolim and one of the subjects of "Special Chair"
Box 75 Folder 18
Koestenbaum, Phyllis, 2004
Box 75 Folder 19
Koo, Carolyn, 2005
Box 75 Folder 20
Kussinen, Asta, 1984
Box 75 Folder 21
Lamberton, Robert, 1980
Box 75 Folder 22
Lauterbach, Ann, 1998-2000
Box 75 Folder 23
Letarte, Geneviève, 2001-2002
Canadian writer and translator of my work
Box 75 Folder 24
Levert, Jack, 1971?
Box 75 Folder 25
Levert, Jack, 1981
Box 75 Folder 26
Levert, Jack and Cindy Ballenger, 1983-2008
Box 75 Folder 27
Litscher, Hans-Peter, 1987
Box 75 Folder 28
Lloyd, Don and Martha, 2003-2009
Box 75 Folder 29
Loewinsohn, Ron, 1984-1986
Box 75 Folder 30
Luomo, Bill, 1983-1987, 1996-1997
Box 75 Folder 31
Lust, Herbert, 1987-1988
Box 75 Folder 32
Maher, Merna and John, 2004-2005
Box 75 Folder 33
Malin, Irving, 2002, 2005?
Box 75 Folder 34
McDonough, Tom, 1991
Box 75 Folder 35
McLaren, Robin, 1958?
Met at Salzburg at age 11
Box 76 Folder 1
Means, David, 2000
Box 76 Folder 2
Menashe, Samuel, 2000-2001
Box 76 Folder 3-5
Miller, Barry (Proust Translation), 2008-2014, 3 folders
Box 76 Folder 6
Miller, Christopher, 2006
Box 76 Folder 7
Monette, Madeleine, 1990, 2005
Box 76 Folder 8-9
Moody, Rick, 1995-2001, 2 folders
Box 76 Folder 10
Moore, Judith, 1998-2002
Box 76 Folder 11
Moore, Judith, 1997-2005
Davis' note - See Also: Waters
Box 76 Folder 12
Moore, Susanna, 2009
Box 76 Folder 13
Moorman, Peggy, 2001-2003, undated
Box 76 Folder 14
Moorman, Peggy, 2006
Box 76 Folder 15
Morris, Errol, 2005
Box 76 Folder 16
Niedzviecki, Hal, 2001-2004
Candian writer and former Bard MFA student
Box 76 Folder 17
Norman, Howard, 2004-2005
Box 76 Folder 18
Nuñez, Sigrid, 1997, 2006
Box 76 Folder 19
Nuñez, Sigrid and Fence, 1998-2003
Box 76 Folder 20
Olsen, Laurie, 1963-1966
Box 76 Folder 21
Owens, Rochelle, 1982, undated
Box 76 Folder 22
Patterson, Zahra, 2004-2009
Box 76 Folder 23
Letter to Bob Perelman, 1966 Spring?
Box 94 Folder 17
Perelman, Bob--Draft of Davis' Letter to, 1967
Box 76 Folder 24
Perloff, Marjorie, 1985-1986
Box 76 Folder 25
Phillips, Anita, 1992, 2002
Box 76 Folder 26
Plimpton, Sarah, 1990-1994, 2005
Box 76 Folder 27
Plisnier, Maryse, 1987-1994
Box 76 Folder 28
Postel, Louis, 1966, 1998, undated
Friend from Putney School
Box 76 Folder 29
Pruiett, Megan, undated
Ex-Bard undergrad student
Box 76 Folder 30
Quaytman, Emma, 2006
Box 76 Folder 31
Raworth, Tom, 1984-1986
Box 76 Folder 32
Reuther, Lisa (Dickmeyer), circa 1966, 1994, undated
Friend from Putney School
Box 76 Folder 33
Robbins, Susannah, 2005
Childhood friend, daughter of Herbert Robbins
Box 76 Folder 34
Rodefer, Stephen, 1983
Box 77 Folder 1
Roeseler, Karl, 1983
Box 77 Folder 2
Roeseler, Karl, 1985-2009
Box 77 Folder 3-4
Roeseler, Karl, 1983-2005, 2 folders
Box 77 Folder 5
Röggla, Kathrin, 2001
Austrian writer Davis has translated
Box 77 Folder 6
Ronk, Martha, 1999
Box 77 Folder 7
Rosoff, Bill, circa 1963-1964
Box 77 Folder 8
Royet-Journoud, Claude, 1984-2000
Box 77 Folder 9
Rudman, Mark, 1979
Box 77 Folder 10
Rudman, Mark, 1985-1988
Box 77 Folder 11
Sanders, Ed, 1999
Box 77 Folder 12
Scalapino, Leslie, 1995-1996, undated
Box 77 Folder 13
Scalapino, Leslie, circa 2000-2003
Box 77 Folder 14
Schwartzchild, Ed and Elissa, 2005-2006
Box 77 Folder 15
Schutt, Christine, 1996-2006
Box 77 Folder 16
Scialabba, George, 1999
Critic, reviewer, friend of Hope Hale Davis (HHD)
Box 77 Folder 17
Seidman, Hugh, 1984-1995
Box 77 Folder 18
Shapiro, Harvey, 1985
Box 77 Folder 19
Sharpe, Matthew, 2005
Box 77 Folder 20
Shattuck, Roger, 2000-2001
Box 77 Folder 21
Shaw, Francie, 2006
Box 77 Folder 22
Sheehan, Aurelie, 2003
Box 77 Folder 23
Sieburth, Richard--Correspondence, 1991, undated
Box 77 Folder 24
Sieburth, Richard--Emails, 2007
Box 78 Folder 1
Sikelianos, Eleni, 1998-2005
Box 78 Folder 2
Simas, Joseph, 1985-1990
Box 78 Folder 3
Sisskind, Mitch, 1983-1993
Box 78 Folder 4-5
Smith, Ben, 1965-1970, 2 folders
Box 78 Folder 6
Sondheim, Ellen, 1983-1990
Box 78 Folder 7
Sondheim, Joanna and Eugene Lim, 2005
Box 78 Folder 8
Speer, Laurel, 1986
Box 78 Folder 9-10
Spoerri, Marj, 1980-1993, 2 folders
Box 78 Folder 11
Strachan, Pat, 2000
Box 78 Folder 12
Streb, Elizabeth, 1999
Box 78 Folder 13
Suchman, Susan, circa 1964-1966
Box 78 Folder 14
Svenson, Bob, 1984
Box 78 Folder 15
Swann, Donald, 1994
Box 78 Folder 16
Tarting, Christian, 1984-1993
Box 78 Folder 17
Thompson, Tony and Margaet Saliske, 2007
Box 78 Folder 18
Thurston Family, 1962?
Family that Davis lived with as an au pair
Box 78 Folder 19
Tidwell, Mike, 1996
Box 78 Folder 20
Tillman, Lynne, 2003, undated
Box 78 Folder 21
Tinney, Christopher, 1999
Box 78 Folder 22
Tucker, Bill, 2006
Box 78 Folder 23
Unferth, Deb Olin, 2002-2005, undated
Box 78 Folder 24
Unknown, 1983-1999
Box 78 Folder 25
Unknown (Personal), 1965-1966?
Box 78 Folder 26
Vecchio, Marjorie, 2000
Box 78 Folder 27
Vigderman, Patsy, 2003
Box 78 Folder 28
Viton, Jean-Jacques and Liliane Girandon, 2000
Box 78 Folder 29
Voight, Ellen, 2001
Box 78 Folder 30
Wainhouse, Austryn and Christopher, 1987-1988
Box 78 Folder 31
Waldrop, Rosmarie and Keith, 1983-1987
Box 78 Folder 32
Walter, 1965-1966
Box 78 Folder 33
Warrilow, David, 1985
Box 78 Folder 34
Waschewsky, Gabriela, 1983
Box 78 Folder 35
Washburn, Katharine and Will (son of K.), 2003
Box 78 Folder 36
Watson, Red, 1999-2003
Box 78 Folder 37
Watten, Barrett, 1986, undated
Box 78 Folder 38
Weissman, Benjamin, 1983-1985, 2003
Box 78 Folder 39
White, Mary (and Irene, her mother), 1958-1964
Davis' best friend in early childhood
Box 78 Folder 40
Whitaker, Rick, 2000
Box 78 Folder 41
Williams, Diane, 1990, 2000
Box 78 Folder 42
Young, Geoff, 1982-2009
Includes correspondence regarding Stories and Other Stories
Box 78 Folder 43
Ziolkowski, Thad, 1994-1996
Box 78 Folder 44
Letters of Condolence, 1998
Letters of condolence related to the death of Davis' father, Robert Gorham Davis. Letters from various friends including Rachel Hadas and Rick Moody.
Box 46 Folder 4
Precious Letters, 1977-2007
Includes letters from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Andrei Codrescu, Samuel Menashe, Michel Leiris, Mary Oppen, and Jonathan Williams (with Davis' answer to Williams).
Subseries III.3: Professional Correspondence (Miscellaneous), 1975-2021
This subseries contains miscellaneous business correspondence and former student correspondence.
The majority of Davis' professional correspondence is with Series II: Professional Files; however, miscellaneous business correspondence is filed in this subseries. In addition, there may be correspondence on professional subjects in Davis' personal correspondence files.
There is additional professional correspondence in Subseries III.4: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Series VII: Miscellaneous Files.
Box 122 Folder 6
Business Correspondence, 1975-1981
Mold remediation was performed on this material in 2023. Although all materials can be used in the reading room, patrons that are sensitive to mold may still experience a reaction to materials that have been cleaned.
"About Blanchot pubs. et al"
Box 71 Folder 6
Business Letters, 1984, 2013
Box 71 Folder 7
Business Correspondence--Miscellaneous, 1993, 1999-2000, 2007
Box 71 Folder 8
Business--Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1995, 2007-2014, undated
Includes a few pages of a draft of Reve's The Evenings
Box 72 Folder 1-2
Business Correspondence--Miscellaneous, 1997-2010, 2 folders
Box 71 Folder 9
Correspondence--Miscellaneous, 1997, 2014
Box 71 Folder 10
Correspondence--Miscellaneous Business Correspondence, 2000-2021
Box 71 Folder 11
Business Correspondence--Miscellaneous, 2011-2018
Box 71 Folder 12
Students, Former--Miscellaneous Correspondence, 2011
Box 71 Folder 13
Correspondence--Miscellaneous--Students and Others, 1996-2005
Former students requesting help / blurbs, other beginning writers [?], former students, students hosting readings conferences, etc. Recommendation letters from have been separated from the file and restricted.
Subseries III.4: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1960s-2017, undated
This subseries contains various files of miscellaneous correspondence. This is a mix of family, personal, and professional correspondence. The file descriptions in the finding aid were taken from the descriptions written on the files by Davis.
Box 79 Folder 1
Correspondence, 1960s
Box 79 Folder 2-3
Emails, 2003-2009, 2 folders
Box 79 Folder 4
Emails, 2006-2007
Box 79 Folder 5
Fan Letters (Mine to Others), 1991-1997
Box 79 Folder 6
Friends' Correspondence--Miscellaneous, 1976-2004
Box 79 Folder 7
Friends' Correspondence--Miscellaneous, 1995-1997
Box 79 Folder 8-9
Personal Letters and Cards (Folder 1-2, of 3), 1993-1999, 2009-2010, 2 folders
Box 80 Folder 1
Personal Letters and Cards (Folder 3, of 3), 1993-1999, 2009-2010
Box 80 Folder 2-4
Personal Letters and Cards, 2011-2016, 3 folders
Box 80 Folder 5
Personal Letters, Never Answered, 2007-2017, undated
Unanswered letters, miscellaneous, including from "fans" and from Red Watson, Patsy Vigdeman, Stefanie Weh, Geoff Young, and E[ric?] Keyser.
Box 80 Folder 6
Letters, etc., 1960s
Includes Davis' school work, letters from friends and family, a drawing by Davis, notes to Lydia from Hope Hale Davis, poems by Davis and others, and notes passed (in the library?).
Box 81 Folder 8
Letters and Notes, 1962-1967, 1978-1983, 1992-2000
Hope Hale Davis (HHD), her friend, emails from friends, cousin, business/literary, notes for blurbs, letters from Putney friends, and deaht notice of J. Wischnegradsky. Includes school-age items related to Davis.
Box 81 Folder 9
[Letters and Notes, etc.], 1963-1969
Mostly 1963-1964. Includes Davis' Barnard Bulletin articles, and letters and notes (1963-1964).
Box 82 Folder 1
Letters to Box, 1978-1979
Letters mostly 1978-1979, business and personal. Includes letters from Robert Gorham Davis (RGD) and Hope Hale Davis (HHD) to Davis, poet Richard Duerden, Christopher Fynsk, Gnome Baker, Richard Poirier, brother Stephen Davis inscribing book, Pantheon, John Hollander, Mary MacArthur of Gallimaufry Journal, Bill Davenport, Rosemary Flanders, and drafts of Davis' letters. Includes idealized schedule when D[aniel] was a baby.
Letters, 1988-1992, 7 folders
Box 81 Folder 1
Letters (1 of 7)
Letters (personal), mostly from friends and fellow writers. Includes Rae Armantrout, Peter Cherches, Barbara Einzig, Jonathan Franzen, Rachel Careau, Diane Williams, etc.
Box 81 Folder 2
Letters (2 of 7)
The 1989 Susan Howe letter is restricted until at least 2032, when the current restriction will be reviewed by Davis
Letters (personal), mostly from friends and fellow writers. Includes Don Cheney (former student and friend), Susan Howe, Jack LeVert, Diane Williams, Karl Roeseler (former UCSD student), Rae Armantrout, and fan letter from lawyer. The Howe letter has been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 81 Folder 3
Letters (3 of 7)
The 1989 Jonathan Franzen letter is restricted until at least 2032, when the current restriction will be reviewed by Davis
Personal letters from friends and fellow writers. Includes Rachel Hadas, Diane Williams, Eleiot Weinberger, Barbara Einzig, Jonathan Franzen, Rae Armantrout, Anthony Barrett, James Salter, and Thomas McGonigle. The Jonathan Franzen letter has been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 81 Folder 4
Letters (4 of 7)
The 1982/1983 draft letter from Davis to Paul Auster is restricted until at least 2032, when the current restriction will be reviewed by Davis
Personal letters from friends and fellow writers, some business. Includes Paul Buck, Melvyn Freilicher, Chloe (Kerns) Edge (former student at UCSD), Peggy (Moorman) Quaytman, Daniel Dodson (colleague of Robert Gorham Davis), Atlas Press, and draft of a letter from Davis to Paul Auster. The draft of a letter from Davis to Paul Auster has been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 81 Folder 5
Letters (5 of 7)
Personal letters from friends, fellow writers, and others. Includes Melvyn Freilicher, Eliot Weinberger, Don Cheney, Anne-Marie Albiach, Karl Roeseler, Janice Fletcher (former student), Arlett (Cohen) Jabès (wife of Edmond Jabès), Jack LeVert, Siri Hustvedt, Lynn Hejinian, Susan Howe, David Huddle, Joyce Hellew (former Bard MFA students), Robert Kelly (Bard professor and poet), Diane Williams, Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee.
Box 81 Folder 6
Letters (6 of 7)
Personal letters from friends and fellow writers, mostly. Includes Jack LeVert, Don Cheney, Mitchell Sisskind, Rae Armantrout, Karl Roeseler, Hugh Seidman (poet, friend of Harvey Shapiro), Geoff Young, Bill Keim (former UCSD student), Bill Petersen, Melvyn Freilicher, Lori Chamberlain (wife of Michael Davidson), and Diane Williams.
Box 81 Folder 7
Letters (7 of 7)
The 1991 letter from Rae Armantrout is restricted until at least 2032, when the current restriction will be reviewed by Davis
Personal letters from friends, fellow writers, and former students, mostly. Includes Rachel Hadas, Frank Dobo (friend of parents, once agent of L.-F. Céline), Frank Sesso, Paul Auster, Geoff Young, Franco Beltrametti, Don Cheney, Jon Collette (colleague of Robert Gorham Davis and neighbor in Brooklyn), Melvyn Freilicher, Rae Armantrout, Michael Davidson, and Marjorie Perloff. The Rae Armantrout letter has been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 95 Folder 11
Letters to Box, 1974-1983, 2010-2014
Restricted utnil 2032, when the current restrictions will be reviewed by Davis
Box 82 Folder 2
Personal Letters, 1984-2004
One item of email correspondence with Wyatt Mason, one item of email correspondence with Lynne Tillman, and a draft of a letter to Siri [Hustvedt], are restricted until at least 2032, when the current restrictions will be reviewed by Davis
Personal letters, mine and others. Includes Davis' tribute to Robert Kelly, form letters, other writers, friends, draft of letter to Siri. One item of email correspondence with Wyatt Mason, one item of email correspondence with Lynne Tillman, and a draft of a letter to Siri [Hustvedt] have been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 82 Folder 3
Personal Letters, 1990-1992
Two letters from Rae Armantrout are restricted until at least 2032, when the current restriction will be reviewed by Davis
Personal letters from friends and fellow writers, mostly. Includes Putney School classmates, former students, Dominique Fourcade, Rae Armantrout, Franco Beltrametti, Diane Williams, Charles Bernstein, Tom Raworth, Bob Glück, and Josephine Humphreys. Two Rae Armantrout letters have been separated from the file and restricted.
Box 82 Folder 4
Personal Letters--Various, 2000-2005
Correspondence with friends and fellow writers
Box 122 Folder 7
Letters--Personal [and some business], 1972-1973
Mold remediation was performed on this material in 2023. Although all materials can be used in the reading room, patrons that are sensitive to mold may still experience a reaction to materials that have been cleaned.
Includes: parents (Hope Hale Davis and Robert Gorham Davis), friends, business
Box 82 Folder 5
Letters--Personal [and some business], 1981-1983
Mostly 1983. Includes: personal letters and business; parents, magazines, friends, practical, former students. Also deals with aftermath of teaching in San Diego.
Box 82 Folder 6
Letters--Personal, etc. (Lists, Business Correspondence), 1983, 1997-1998, 2014-2015
Personal and business letters. Includes: Paul Auster (note), mother (Hope Hale Davis), friends, magazines, university.
Box 82 Folder 7
Letters, etc. to box, 1969-1978
Mostly 1970s. Includes letters, Evey Riesman, friends, business, The New Yorker, Lydia to Paul [Auster], Lydia to Claudia [Cockburn Flanders].
Box 82 Folder 8
Letters, etc. to box, 1965-1978, 1999-2011
Includes: draft of letter to Ingram Merrill Fdn., letters from includes including Anita Barrows, business letters, David's letters to Bob P. (1960s), note from brother, sister in law Rosemary, Marry Oppen, Robert Gorham Davis' close friend and colleague Daniel Dodson, Evey Riseman, Alan's [Cote's] brother David
Box 82 Folder 9
Letters, etc. to box, 1963-1976, 1995, 2008-2015
Includes: business, personal, family, draft of blurb, and clipping sent by Derry related to my unfinished Alexia [early novel]
Box 83 Folder 1
To Be Boxed, 1977-1983
Includes: letters from friends and family, business letters, Paris Review, William Bronk, Susan Howe, Rae Armantrout
Box 83 Folder 2
To Archive, 1962-1970
Mostly 1967-1969. Includes personal letters, Putney School material, Putney School friends, photographs of Davis, Davis' correspondence from age 15-16, Rebecca Brock, sister Claudia, brother Stephen, sister in law Rosemary (Flanders) Graham, parents, and Queenie Schiff (Paul [Auster]'s mother).
Box 83 Folder 3
To Archive, 1967-1969
Personal letters, mostly 1967-1969. Jack LeVert, parents, Louis Postal, brother Stephen, Bridget Procter, sister Claudia, Christine (worked with her at Guardian), and friends.
Box 83 Folder 4
To Archive, 1969-1982
Includes: Paul Auster postcard about Beckett, etc., Robert Gorham Davis letter, Judith (X?), Christian (from Guardian), Liz (Wolf?) (apt. - note?), Jack LeVert, Putney School, Barbara Fogel (friend of H[ope] + R[obert] [Davis]?, Davis to Claudia [Cockburn Flanders], Jonathan Aldrich, Ann Axtmann (Robertson), Serena Crystal (cousin), Cindy Ballenger, Peter Phelpo ("boss" at Norton's), Roger Franklin (Putney School teacher), Claude Royet-Journoud, Joy Gleason (Putney School classmate), Merna Cox, Davis to parents, and Roger Meservey.
4 record storage cartons; (Boxes with Restricted Items (Originals) and Reviewed Photocopies with Davis' Restriction Notes: Notebook Boxes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); 4 document boxes; (Boxes with Original (Unrestricted) or Redacted Access Copies: Boxes 119-120, 123-124)
Davis' journals and notebooks document her daily life, as well as her reading, writing, and translation work. These are extensive, comprising approximately 100 items.
Journals #12, 37, and 136 have obvious water stains, but a conservator determined that they do not contain mold.
This series include records related to Davis' teaching appointments at the University of California San Diego, Bard College, and the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). The majority of the material relates to courses taught at University at Albany. The files also include records for master classes and other writing classes given at New York University and the New York State Writers Institute.
These records include appointment and other general records, teaching files on particular writing subjects, and teaching files for specific classes. These records include correspondence, contracts, class lists, evaluations, exercises, handouts, questionnaires, notebooks, plans, syllabi, and other material. Most files related to specific classes are restricted to protect student privacy as required by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Although class rosters were not routinely kept, many of Davis' other class records include students' full names and are restricted due to FERPA.
This series includes various miscellaneous files kept by Davis. The file descriptions in the finding aid were taken from the descriptions written on the files by Davis.
This series includes essays, poetry, reviews, short stories, translations, and other written works published in journals, magazines, and other publications. The publications also contain interviews with Davis, and reviews of her work.
There are related professional and business files in Series II: Professional Files.
The majority of the publications are in English, but the series includes publications with translated interviews and written works.
Arranged alphabetically by publication title. Works included in the publication are listed in the description but foreign language titles were not translated into English.
Subseries VIII.1: Publications with Davis' Writing, circa 1973-2021
This series includes essays, poetry, reviews, short stories, translations, and other writing published in journals, magazines, and other publications. The majority of the publications are in English, but the series includes publications with translations interviews and works.
Box 101
32 Poems Magazine (Volume 4, Number 2), 2006 Fall/Winter
Box 101
action poétique (117), 1989
In French. Trois proses - Mildred et le Hautbois, Dans une Maison Assiégée, and Problème.
Box 101
Am Lit: Neue Literatur Aus Den USA, 1992
In German. Das Hinterhaus.
Box 101
American Letters and Commentary (Two), 1989 Fall
Three Stories - Her Mother's Mother: 1, Her Mother's Mother: 2, and How Difficult, How Difficult
Box 101
American Letters and Commentary (Ten, 10th Anniversary Issue), 1998
Box 101
The American Scholar (Volume 73, Number 3), 2004 Summer
Reading Aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Box 101
American Short Fiction (Volume 18, Issue 59), 2015 Spring
Party Conversations (1 & 2)
Box 112
Annandale (Volume 133, Number 1), 1993 December
Box 101
Antæus (67), 1991 Autumn
Box 92 Folder 8
Artforum (Volume XXXIII, Number 10), 1995 Summer
It is unclear how Davis is featured in this issue.
Box 92 Folder 8
Artforum (Volume XXXIV, Number 5), 1996 January
Joan Mitchell: Les Bluets
Box 112
Avec (Volume 2, Number 1) (2nd Issue), 1989
My Friend; Forbidden Subjects
Box 112
Avec (Volume 3, Number 1) (3rd Issue), 1990
Michel Leiris from Fourbis, translated by Davis
Box 101
The Archive Newsletter, 1987 Spring
Box 112
Banana Split (Number 12), 1984
In French. En Visite Chez Son Mari.
Box 112
Banana Split (Number 17), 1986
In French. Quelques Bouts D'Histoires.
Box 112
Banana Split (Number 27), 1990
In French. Break It Down.
Box 112
[Bard College?] On Writing Place The L&T Anthology, 1996 August
Five Signs of Disturbance; Wife on in Country; To Reiterate; Our Kindness; The Thirteenth Woman
Box 112
Bastard Review (5/6), [1992?]
Translations from Fourbis: Detritus by Michel Leiris and from The One Who was Standing Apart From Me by Maurice Blanchot.
Box 112
Believer (Issue 133), 2020 December /2021 January
On Translating Bob, Son of Battle: The Unexpected Difficulties of Modernizing a Beloved Nineteenth-Century Chldren's Book
Box 116 Folder 1
The Binnewater Tides (Volume 7, Number 3), 1990 Summer/Fall
Box 101
Black Clock (16), 2016 Spring/Summer
Box 112
Bokvennen litterært magasin (nr 2.2013), 2013
In Norwegian. Skrievebordet. This appears to be a non-fiction article / interview about Davis' desk, with photographs.
Box 112
Bomb (Issue 69), 1999 Fall
Almost over: What's the Word?; Spring Spleen; They Take Turns Using a Word They Like; Working Men; A Man from Her Past; Almost Over: Separate Bedrooms; Thirty; Young and Poor; Special A Double Negative; Suddenly Afraid; First Grade: Handwriting Practice; The Old Dictionary
Box 112
Bomb (Issue 152), 2020 Summer
Forgetting Caen; Crepey (this is a fold-out inside the back cover)
Box 92 Folder 8
Bookforum, 1997 Summer
Davis' review of Klaus Kertess' Joan Mitchell
Box 116 Folder 1
Bookforum, 2005 June/July/August/September
Includes an appreciation of Thomas Pynchon. Includes covering letter.
Box 101
Brick: A Literary Journal (69), 2002 Spring
Box 101
Brick: A Literary Journal (73), 2004 Summer
Marcel Proust: Two approaches to Combray, by Lydia Davis and C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Box 101
Cambridge Literary Review (Volume III, Issue 6), 2012 Easter
Box 101
Chemin de Ronde (Volume 4), 1984
Box 101
City Lights Review (Number 1), 1987
Wife in One Country; Foucault and Pencil
Box 101
City Lights Review (Number 4), 1990
Translation of Michel Leiris' Mors:Bit
Box 112
The Coffin Factory (Issue 2), 2012
Translations of A. L. Snijders' Grandson; Buzzards; Fun; Bat; Helpless Because of Respect
Box 101
Columbia: A Journal (Issue 42), 2005 Fall
Box 102
The Columbia Review (Volume 100, Issue 2), 2019 Spring
Found Material, Syntax, Brevity, and the Beauty of Awkward Prose: Forms and Influences IV
Box 111
Common Knowledge (Volume 5, Number 1), 1996 Spring
Translation of Bruno Latour's Do Scientific Objects Have a History? Pasteur and Whitehead in a Bath of Lactic Acid
Box 102
Common Knowledge (Volume 25, Issues 1-3), 2019 April
Per Davis' note, this issue reprints three contributions of mine - 2 translations and 1 short review. Translations are for Bruno Latour and A.L. Snijders, and the review is for Regina Ullmann's The Country Road.
Box 118
Conjunctions (11), [1988]
The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists; Television; Killed by Monotomy; Almost No Memory; Confusions. There are some handwritten revisions and notes on revisions in Confusions.
Box 108
Conjunctions (13), 1989
Go Away; Soon After Falling Asleep; How He is Often Right
Box 108
Conjunctions (15), 1990
Box 108
Conjunctions (17), 1991
The Actors; Trying to Learn; Therapists; What I Feel
Box 109
Conjunctions (18), 1992
Five Dark Tales: The Cedar Trees; A Natural Disaster; The Cats in the Prison Recreation Hall; Love; The Rape of the Tanuk Women
Box 109
Conjunctions (24), 1995
The Mice; The Outing; Odd Behavior; Fear; Lost Things
Box 109
Conjunctions (29), 1997
Issue is Tributes: American Writers on American Writers. Davis' piece is Broaching Difficult Dahlbert.
Box 109
Conjunctions (31), 1998
Translation of Michel Leiris' 1944 Journal
Box 109
Conjunctions (34), 2000
Box 118
Conjunctions (38), 2002
Marcel Proust, from The Way by Swann's, translated by Davis. Includes handwritten revisions.
Box 109
Conjunctions (59), 2012
Box 113
Crawl Out Your Window (9 & 10), 1982 May
The Fears of Mrs. Orlando; Mildred and the Oboe; City Employment
Box 113
Crawl Out Your Window (11), 1983 April
The Cottages: 1. On the One Hand, On the Other Hand 2. Lillian; Extracts From a Life: If you think of something, do it - My Guardian Doctor Einstein - I have learned what art really is - The Clarinet Quintet - The Japanese Poet Issa - Well done, young man
Box 113
Crawl Out Your Window 1974-1989 (17), 1989 September
City Employment; The Fears of Mrs. Orlando
Box 115 Folder 1
Curtains, 1975
Translations of Parts 2 and 3 of Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot.
Box 102
Decision (Number 72), 2006
Jane and the Crane. Piece is in English.
Box 102
Decision (Number 87), 2010
In German. Neun weitere Überlegungen.
Box 102
Deux ex Machina (Number 160), 2017 June
In Dutch. Nieuwe dingern in mihn leven ("New Things in My Life")
Box 113
DoubleTake (3:2), 1997 Spring
Box 113
The Downtown Review (Volume 2, Number 3), 1980 Fall
On Jacob and Chazal - Reviews of Max Jacob's The Dice Cup and Malcolm de Chazal's Sens-Plastique
Box 92 Folder 10
"Du" Magazine, 2010 Juni
German language publication in Switzerland. In German. Includes interview with Davis by Thomas David, and several short stories: Fragen Der Grammatik; Idee Für Einen Kurzen Dokumentarfilm; Die Sprache Der Telefongesellschaft; Zwanzig Skupturen Innerhalb Einter Stunde; Bloomington; Polenta; Gepäckaufbewahrung; Dinner; Hundehaar; Meinne Fussstapfen; Der Gesang; Die Party; Drin Phil [with the "in" in superscript]; Formen Der Verstörung. There are handwritten annotations indicating that several of the stories were "in Decision", which may be another German magazine.
Box 102
Dyslexia (1), 1981 April
My Husband and I; Neighbors
Box 102
Wood, Sarah. The Enigmatic Message, 2018
This is the artist book that accompanied the installation of the Beyond 2001 exhibition (2018). Includes translation by Davis.
Box 102
Epiphany: A Literary Journal, 2016 Fall/Winter
Box 115 Folder 1
Exquisite Corpse (Volume 1, Number 2), 1983 February-March
Box 102
Faultline (Volume 24), 2015
Gramsci; Helen's Father and His Teeth; Recurring Turnip Problem; A Friend Borrows a Better Shopping Cart; Interesting Vegetables (Draft 3)
Box 102
Fence (Volume 6, Number 2), 2003-2004 Fall/Winter
Box 102
Fence (Volume 13, Number 2), 2011 Winter
The Moon; The Churchyard; In the Train Station; At the Bank; At the Bank: 2; A Film That Will Make the Audience Feel…
Box 102
Fence (Volume 15, Number 2), 2012-2013 Winter
The Gold-Digger of Goldfields. This piece was published in an ebook supplement and is not included in the physical volume. It is included in the End of Summer fiction issue, below.
Box 102
Fence (Volume 15, Number 2.5), 2013 End-of-Summer
The Gold-Digger of Goldfields
Box 102
Fiction International (Volume 15, Number 2), 1984
Five Signs of Disturbance
Box 117
Five Points (Volume 15, Number 3), 2013
The Magic of the Train; Her Birthday, plus translations of A.L. Snijder's Ukiyo-e; Baldur; Story; and Flapsour
Box 102
Flash (Volume 6, Number 2), 2013 October
How W.H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House; Wife One in Country; Mir the Hessian; For Sixty Cents
Box 102
Flash (Volume 7, Number 2), 2014 October
Includes translations of A. L. Snijder's Soup Bowl; Eggs. Includes a review of Davis' Can't and Won't, and the sample story "Their Poor Dog".
Box 102
Fourteen Hills (Volume 4, Nubmer 2), 1998 Spring/Summer
Box 102
Freeman, John, ed. Freeman's: Arrival (Grove Press), 2015
Box 102
F(r)iction (Number 11), 2018 Summer
On the Train to Stavanger
Box 103
The Georgia Review (Volume XXX, Number 2), 1976 Summer
Translation of Maurice Blanchot's Death Sentence
Box 113
Gerry Mulligan (Number Zero), 2009 Winter
Box 103
Glänta (1.15), 2008?
In Swedish. Ett belägrat hus; Gammelmormödrarna; Mödrar; Den trettonde kvinnan; Mina grannar på en främmande plats; Lyckligaste ögonblicket; Säker kärlek
Box 115 Folder 1
Golestaneh Literary Magazine (Volume 2, Number 16), [circa 2014?]
From Iran. In Farsi. Includes translations of A Few Things Wrong with Me and Socks, plus a brief introduction and translation of Davis' interview with Salon. Includes cover letter.
Box 103
Grand Street (Volume 9, Number 1), 1989 Autumn
Box 103
Grand Street (Volume 14, Number 4) (56), 1996 Spring
Box 108
Granta (68), 1999 Winter
Box 108
Granta (115), 2011 Spring
Box 108
Granta (140), 2017 Summer
State of Mind: Chère Madame - Translations of letters by Marcel Proust.
Box 108
Granta (147), 2019 Spring
40th Birthday Issue, includes The Dreadful Mucamas. Includes cover letters.
Box 108
Granta (151), 2020 Spring
Box 108
Granta en Español (2), 2004 Verano/Otoño
La Visita a Alemania del Señor Burdoff
Box 108
Granta en Español (4), 2006 Primavera
Box 108
Granta Israel, 2016 Winter
The Dreadful Mucamas (in translation)
Box 115 Folder 1
Guest 3, 2019 April
Bonne Nuit, Blanche Brown; Revise 4
Box 103
Gulf Coast (Volume V, Number 1), 1992 Summer
Letter to Jack; Watchdogs; The Flies; War; Toscana
Box 103
Gulf Coast (Volume 32, Issue 1), 2020 Winter/Spring
Not Yet Ring Lardner; The Joke; The Other She; The Matchmaker
Box 103
Hambone (Number 8), 1989 Fall
Nervous; 20 Sculptures and One Hour; Southerward Bound, Reads Worstword Ho
Box 103
Hambone (Number 14), 1998 Fall
How It is Done; Betrayal; Right and Wrong; Interesting; Company
Box 103
The Happy Reader (Issue 14), 2019 Winter
Box 113 Folder 1
Harper's Magazine, 1986 September
Box 113 Folder 1
Harper's Magazine, 1992 February
Box 113 Folder 1
Harper's Magazine, 1993 April
Box 113 Folder 1
Harper's Magazine, 1997 June
Box 113 Folder 1
Harper's Magazine, 2000 September
Box 113 Folder 1
Harper's Magazine, 2002 August
Box 113 Folder 2
Harper's Magazine, 2010 March
Six More Considerations: The Cornmeal; Dinner; The Dog Hair; The Song; The Language of the Telephone Company; The Party
Box 113 Folder 2
Harper's Magazine, 2010 November
Translations of Five Stories by Gustave Flaubert: The Cook's Lesson; The Visit to the Dentist; The Coachman and the Worm; The Chairs; Pouchet's Wife
Box 113 Folder 2
Harper's Magazine, 2013 April
Box 113 Folder 2
Harper's Magazine, 2013 September
The Two Davises and the Rug
Box 113 Folder 2
Harper's Magazine, 2017 July
Churl Next Door - Translations of Marcel Proust's letters to his neighbors
Box 113 Folder 3
Harper's Magazine, 2017 October
Under Forum - All Over This Land: Local Politics in the Age of Trump - Davis contributed a piece on Rensselaer County, New York
Box 113 Folder 3
Harper's Magazine, 2018 March
Box 113 Folder 3
Harper's Magazine, 2019 January
Box 113 Folder 3
Harper's Magazine, 2019 August
Box 103
Harpur Palate (Volume 2, Number 2), 2002 Winter
Letter to a Funeral Parlor; A Mown Lawn
Box 113
Harvard Design Magazine (Number 44), 2017 Fall / Winter
Pages from a Teenage Journal
Box 103
Harvard Review (Number 31), 2006
Meeting Abraham Lincoln (Essay)
Box 103
Hayden's Ferry Review (Issue 27), 2000-2001 Fall/Winter
City People; Boring Friends; Housewife; The Movies Last Night; A Visit Before the Birth
Box 114 Folder 1
Hodos (6), [1990?]
Three Poems - The Fishtank; The Old Fish; Companion
Box 114 Folder 1
House & Garden, 1987 July
Translation of Jean-Marie Baron's "Parisian Exotic: The luminous Left Bank apartment of François and Carole Rochas"
Box 114 Folder 1
HOW(ever) (Volume IV, Number 2), 1987 October
Essay on the fragment. Davis notes that this has been transcribed into a computer file called Fragment.ess.doc (6/2/2017).
Box 103
l'Inconvènient (Number 9), 2002 mai
Box 103
l'Inconvènient (Number 14), 2003 août
In French. Journal thyroïdien
Box 92 Folder 9
Impulse (Volume 10, Number 4), 1983 Fall
Translation of Maurice Blanchot's The Right Time.
Box 103
Indiana Review (Volume 12, Number 1), 1988 Winter
From Below, as a Neighbor; Disagreement; Agreement
Box 103
Insurance (Issue 1), 2000
Samuel Johnson is Indignant; A Matter of Perspective; Special Chair; Two Uses of Remember
Box 103
Inventory (Issue 1), 2010
Gustave Flaubert, excerpt from Madame Bovary translated from the French by Davis
Box 104
The Iowa Review (Volume 40, Number 2), 2010 Fall
Three Dreams - The Dog; The Grandmother; The Child
Box 114 Folder 2
Joe (Volume 1, Number 2), 1999
Box 114 Folder 2
John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 1), 1982 Spring
from Liminal: The Little Man
Box 114 Folder 2
John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 2), 1982 Summer
Television; How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House; The Cottages
Box 114 Folder 2
John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 3/4), 1983 Winter
Box 114 Folder 2
John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 5), 1983 Fall
Brooklyn Diary I: The Change of Season
Box 114 Folder 2
John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 6), 1984 Summer
Brooklyn Diary II: A Dull Story About a Hot Day
Box 114 Folder 2
John Cheney's Literary Magazine (Volume 1, Number 7), 1986 Summer
Box 104
Jubilat (33.5), 2018
Box 115 Folder 2
Linea (Volume 2), 2020 Winter
Explanation Concerning a Story
Box 104
Lìnears de fuga (Number 3), 2000 Abril-Junio
In Spanish. Extractos de una Vida
Box 104
The Journal (Volume 41, Number 3), 2017 Summer
Box 104
The Literary Review (Volume 45, Number 3), 2002 Summer
A Problem Sentence in Proust's The Way by Swann's
Box 104
Little Star (Issue 1), 2010
Judgment; The Sky Above Los Angeles; Handel; Housekeeping Observation; Sitting with My Little Friend
Box 104
Little Star (Issue 5), 2014
Box 104
Little Star (Issue 6), 2015
Translations of A. L. Snijder's A Woman; Africa; Eva; The Baker's Wife; Town Line; In Louth
Box 114 Folder 3
Luna Tack: A Journal of Literature and Art (5/6), 1984 October
Box 114 Folder 3
Magazine (Volume 13, Number 1), 1983 Winter
Story; Visit to Her Husband
Box 114 Folder 3
Magazine (Volume 13, Number 2), 1983 Spring
Box 114 Folder 3
Manuskripte Zeitschrift Für Literatur (191), 2011
In German. Der Spaziergang.
Box 114 Folder 3
Manuskripte Zeitschrift Für Literatur (198), 2012
In English. The Man, His Hands.
Box 114 Folder 4
Materials (Number 3), 2014 February
Translations of A. L. Snijders' Christmas 13; Christmas Present; The Sheep
Box 111
McSweeney's (Issue 5), 2000 Very Late Summer
Letters; and Marie Curie, Honorable Woman
Box 114 Folder 4
McSweeney's (Issue 42), 2012
Translation of A. L. Snijders' Luck
Box 111
McSweeney's (Issue 50), 2017
Fear of Loose Tongue; Opportunistic Seed; Two Mayors and a Word; Philosophical Question Posed by Stranger in Pamphlet
Box 116 Folder 2
Metro Times, 1997 November 12-18
Box 116 Folder 2
Minnesota Daily - Northern Lit Quarterly, 1986 December 8-13
Box 104
Mississippi Review (Volume 40, Number 3), 2013 Winter
A Small Story About a Box of Chocolates; Her Geography: Alabama; Her Geography: Illinois; The Washerwoman (from Stories from Flaubert); I'm Pretty Comfortable, But I Could Be a Little More Comfortable
Box 104
Modern Language Studies (Volume 43, Number 1), 2013 Summer
Letter to the President of the American Biographical Institute, Inc.; Molly, Female Cat: Background and Current Medical Condition; Hello Dear; Contingency (vs. Necessity), 2: On Vacation
Box 104
Monkey (Volume 12), 2017 Summer/Fall
In Japanese. On Learning Norwegian.
Box 115 Folder 5
Neue Rundschau - American Places Issue, circa 2008?
East Nassau. File includes printouts of manuscripts, etc. in English but not the original issue.
Box 104
New American Writing (Number 10), 1992 Fall
The Great-Grandmothers; Our Kindness; In the Garment District; A Second Chance; The Lamplighter
Box 104
New Ohio Review (6), 2009 Fall
In Stories You May Have Missed - Davis on "Maggie May" by Lucia Berlin
Box 104
New Ohio Review (13), 2013 Spring
from an alphabet of Proust Translation Problems: Z
Box 114 Folder 5
New York (50th Anniversary), 2017 October 16-29
See p. 126, under "My Salesman" about the Fuller Brush salesman
Box 116 Folder 3
New York Times Book Review, 1985 June 30
Davis' review of Michael Rio's Parrot's Perch, translated by Leigh Hafrey.
Box 116 Folder 3
New York Times Book Review, 2011 June 12
Davis' review of Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations, translated by John Ashbery.
Box 114 Folder 5
The New Yorker, 2000 September 25
Box 109
Noon, 2000
Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey. Excerpt, translated by Davis.
Box 109
Noon, 2001
Seven Considerations: Insomnia; Certain Knowledge, from Herodotus; Away From Home; Honoring the Subjunctive; Information from the North Concerning the Ice; Tidy; Acknowledgment
Box 109
Noon, 2002
Ana Rosa González Matute - One Afternoon (Translation in progress of a story in Spanish by Lydia Davis).
Box 109
Noon, 2003
Includes an interview with Davis' translator, Ana Rosa González Matute, by Deb Olin Unferth, titled "Translating the Translator." Also includes four of Davis' stories - A Second Chance; Mothers; What She Knew; Two Sisters - in English, alongside González Matute's Spanish translations.
Box 110
Noon, 2005
Translation, from the Swedish, of Einar Norelius' The Three Singing Trolls
Box 110
Noon, 2006
Dog and Me; Getting to Know Your Body; The Caterpillar; Absentminded
Box 110
Noon, 2007
Translation of Kathrin Röggla's Between Years (My Notebook)
Box 110
Noon, 2008
We Had Wondered What Animal Might Arrive
Box 110
Noon, 2009
Tenth Annivesary Edition. Includes translations of Peter Altenberg's Twelve; The Mouse
Box 110
Noon, 2010
Nine More Considerations: Bloomington; The Cornmeal; Dinner; The Dog Hair; The Language Usage of the Telephone Company; My Footsteps; The Song; The Party; PhD
Box 110
Noon, 2011
Five Considerations: How I Know What I Like; Writing; Their Poor Dog; Master; Learning Ancient History
Box 110
Noon, 2012
Translations of A. L. Snijder's Zkv - Foreward and Eight Stories
Box 110
Noon, 2013
Box 110
Noon, 2014
Translation, from the Portuguese, of Julio Pecly's Second Chance
Box 110
Noon, 2016
Translation, from the Norwegian, of E. G. Dunker's Six Tales from the Law Courts
Box 110
Noon, 2017
Walter Serner's Last Loosening: A Handbook for Imposters and Those Who Aspire to Be - Excerpts translated from the German by Davis
Box 110
Noon, 2018
Excerpts from a 1985 Diary
Box 110
Noon, 2019
Box 110
Noon, 2020
Excerpts from a Diary: August 2007 to June 2008
Box 103
Noon, 2021
Excerpts from a Journal: March 1999 to August 2000
Box 104
Notre Dame Review (Number 19), 2005 Winter
Box 114 Folder 5
Notus (Volume 2, Number 1), 1987 Spring
Box 104
Oink! (18), 1984
A Few Things Wrong With Me
Box 104
Ottotole (Number 2), 1986/1987 Winter
Box 102
The Paris Review (88), 1983 Summer
Box 107
The Paris Review (97), 1985 Fall
Three Poems - What She Knew; The Dog Man; The Fish
Box 107
The Paris Review (194), 2010 Fall
Translations of ten stories of Flaubert: The Cook's Lesson; After You Left; The Visit to the Dentist; Pouchet's Wife; The Funeral; The Coachman and the Worm; The Execution; The Chairs; The Exhibition; My School Friend
Box 107
The Paris Review (205), 2013 Summer
If at the Wedding (At the Zoo); The Results of One Statistical Study; The Language of Things in the House; My Childhood Friend; Local Obits
Box 118
The Paris Review (206), 2013 Summer
In Porfolio - Dutch Scenes, curated by Lydia Davis. This copy is marked as the Working Copy for Essays One, and several of the photographs are annotated.
Box 107
The Paris Review (207), 2013 Winter
Box 107
The Paris Review (215), 2015 Winter
After Reading Peter Bichsel
Box 107
The Paris Review (229), 2019 Summer
Revising One Sentence (Essay)
Box 107
The Paris Review (234), 2020 Fall
An Incident on the Train; Three Musketeers; What Can You Get For Some of Your Turnips; Tantrums; The Left Hand; Improving My German
Box 104
Parnassus (Volume 15, Number 2), 1989
Box 105
Partisan Review (Volume LX, Number 1), 1993
Old Mother and the Grouch
Box 105
Pear Noir! (Number 1), 2009 January
The Bad Novel; Waiting for Takeoff; The Woman Next to Me on the Airplane
Box 105
PEN America (Volume 1, Issue 2), 2001 Fall
In Proust Regained - The Architecture of Thought
Box 105
PEN America (Issue 21), 2018
In Mythologies: A Forum - The People in My Dreams
Box 105
Peqoud (Number 11), 1980
Translation of Maurice Blanchot's Wittgenstein's Problem
Box 105
Peqoud (Number 16/17), 1984
How W.H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House; Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany
Box 118
Rudman, Mark, ed. Secret Destinations: Writers on Travel (Peqoud 19/20/21), 1985
By Davis - To Reiterate. Also, Davis' translations of Michel Butor's The Spirit of Mediterrarean Places. Both include handwritten corrections.
Box 105
Peqoud (Number 32), 1991
Pastor Arlene's Newsletter
Box 105
Peqoud (Number 46), 2003
Marcel Proust - An Excerpt from Swann's Way with Prefatory Note, Translated by Lydia Davis
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piauí (27), 2008
In Portuguese (Brazil). Assustada de Repente: Un Homem do Passado Dela; Idéia para um Documentário de Curta-Metragem; Assuntos Proibidos; Questões Gramaticais; A Lagarta; Distraído; Assustada de Repente.
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Ploughshares (Volume 41, Number 2), 2015 Summer
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Ploughshares (Volume 42, Number 2), 2016 Summer
Stories by Davis - Caramel Drizzle; Hands on the Wheel; End of Phone Conversation with Verizon Adjustment Person; Second Drink. Translations of Peter Bichsel - Shall I Translate It for You?; Telling Stories About One's Life
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Poetics Journal (Number 3), 1983 May
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Poetics Journal (Number 6), 1986
Some Notes on Armantrout's "Precedence"
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Poetry (Volume 201, Number 5), 2013 February
In Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry - "Les Bluets," 1973
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Poetry (Volume 203, Number 1), 2013 October
Translations of Pierre Reverdy's Afternoon; At the Edge of Time; Live Flesh; Clock
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The Quarterly (22), 1992 Summer
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Quick Fiction (Issue 10), 2006
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Raster (Number 122), 2007
In Dutch. Bijna geen herinnering.
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Red Weather (Number 2), [1987]
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Salon Magazine Website, 1997 June
Part of "Mothers Who Think". Includes an interview and the story "The Professor"
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Salt Hill Journal (3), 1996-1997 Winter
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Salt Hill Journal (30), 2013
Circular Story; Grade Two Assignment; Short Conversation (in Airport Departure Lounge); Grandpa Bent and the Creation of Narrative
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Satori (Volume 3, Number 3), 1990 Autumn
The Force of the Subliminal
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Schreibheft (60), 2003 April
In German. Was interessant ist.
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El Seminario Cultural (Volume 21, Number 1056), 2002 Julio 14
In Spanish. Liminal: el pequeño hombre.
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El Seminario Cultural (Volume 21, Number 1058), 2002 Julio 22
In Spanish. Dos hermanas.
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Série d'écriture (Number 3), 1989
Translation from Jean Frémon's Due
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Shiny (Number 11), 2000
Money; Childcare; Jury Duty
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Shiny (Number 13), 2005
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Shiny (Number 14), 2008
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Southern Humanities Review (Volume 33, Number 1), 1999 Winter
Remember the Van Wagenens (Essay)
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Stooge (Number 9), [1973 or 1974]
The Brother-In-Law; The Mother
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Subaru Monthly, 2001 July
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Sulfur (6), 1983
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Sulfur (15), 1986
Includes translations of Michel Leiris
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Sulfur (45/46 - The Final Issue), 2000 Spring
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Sun (Volume V, Number 1), 1983 Winter
The Tasters; Safe Love; Tourist in the Everglades
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Tammy (Issue 3), 2014
By Davis: Two Characters in a Paragraph; Two Undertakers. Also, translations of A. L. Snijders Baalbek; Box; ULK.
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Tartine (10), 1993 Juin
In French. Une heure et 20 sculptures.
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Third Coast (Issue 38/39), 2015 Winter
Translation of A. L. Snijder's Crime Passionel; A Brute, a Little Treasure
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The Threepenny Review, 2014 Spring
The Letter to the Foundation
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Tin House (Volume 2, Number 3), 2001 Spring
Letter to a Funeral Parlor
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Tin House (Volume 7, Number 4), 2006 Summer
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Tin House (Volume 12, Number 1), 2010 Fall
Gustave Flaubert, excerpt from Madame Bovary translated by Davis
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TriQuarterly (87), 1993 Spring/Summer
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Tweeds (Issue 2), 2014
Energy in Color: On the Recent Paintings of Alan Cote (Essay)
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Two Lines (Issue 22), 2015 Spring
By Davis - Learning Dutch (Essay). Translations of A. L. Snijder's On the Rebound; Walking.
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Upstreet (Number 5), 2009
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Vestoj (Issue 5), 2014
What an Old Woman Will Wear
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Vinduet (Number 3), 2009
In Norwegian. Fortellinger av Lydia Davis: Enestående; Det Hun Visste; Utflukten; Foucault Og Blyant
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VQR, 2017 Winter
In a Hotel Room in Ithaca; Not Much to Tell; Community Notice: Redundancy Example #4; Sneezes on the Train
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VQR, 2019 Summer
"A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked" on Literary Forms and Influences
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VQR, 2020 Fall
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Washington Square, 2009 Summer/Fall
Translations of Peter Altenberg's Autumn in Semmering; The Fire
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Washington Square, 2012 Winter/Spring
Translations of A. L. Snijders' The Feral Cat; Minor Characters; Jesus
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Washington Square Review (Number 38), 2016 Fall
Translation of Peter Bichsel's Old Age, Years, Companions of the Same Birth Year
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Western Humanities Review (Volume 64, Number 1), 2010 Winter
Awake in the Night; The Bodyguard; Can't and Won't; The Last of the Mohicans
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The White Review (Number 12), 2014
Translations of Snijders' Story (3); The Past; Accountant; No Smoking; The Main Dish; Summer; Grasses and Trees; Oh My Bride
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The World (Number 48), 1993
Going South; My Son; My Sister and the Queen of England. Davis made handwritten revisions to My Sister and the Queen of England in this copy.
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The World (Number 52), 1996
A Position at the University; The Family
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The Yale Journal of Criticism (Volume 8, Number 2), 1995 Fall
Michel Leiris - Excerpt from Scraps edited and translated by Davis
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The Yale Review (Volume 92, Number 2), 2004 April
Loaf or Hot Water Bottle: Closely Translating Proust (Essay)
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The Yale Review (Volume 107, Number 4), 2019 Fall-Winter
Changing My Mind: On sources, revision, and order (Essay)
Subseries VIII.2: Publications with Annotations / Revisions, 1985-2013
This subseries contains copies of publications where Davis made either annotations, corrections, or revisions in the published copy.
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Conjunctions (11), [1988]
There are some handwritten revisions and notes on revisions in Confusions.
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Conjunctions (13), 1989
Go Away; Soon After Falling Asleep; How He is Often Right. There are some notes indicating stories were used and /or combined for Almost No Memory.
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Conjunctions (38), 2002
Marcel Proust, from The Way by Swann's, translated by Davis. Includes handwritten revisions.
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"Du" Magazine, 2010 Juni
German language publication in Switzerland. In German. Includes interview with Davis by Thomas David, and several short stories: Fragen Der Grammatik; Idee Für Einen Kurzen Dokumentarfilm; Die Sprache Der Telefongesellschaft; Zwanzig Skupturen Innerhalb Einter Stunde; Bloomington; Polenta; Gepäckaufbewahrung; Dinner; Hundehaar; Meinne Fussstapfen; Der Gesang; Die Party; Drin Phil [with the "in" in superscript]; Formen Der Verstörung. There are handwritten annotations indicating that several of the stories were "in Decision", which may be another German magazine.
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The Paris Review (206), 2013 Summer
In Porfolio - Dutch Scenes, curated by Lydia Davis. This copy is marked as the Working Copy for Essays One, and several of the photographs are annotated.
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Rudman, Mark, ed. Secret Destinations: Writers on Travel (Peqoud 19/20/21), 1985
By Davis - To Reiterate. Also, Davis' translations of Michel Butor's The Spirit of Mediterrarean Places. Both include handwritten corrections.
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The World (Number 48), 1993
Going South; My Son; My Sister and the Queen of England. Davis made handwritten revisions to My Sister and the Queen of England in this copy.
Subseries VIII.3: Publications with Interviews, 1997-2021
This subseries contains publications that include interviews of Davis.
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580 Split (Issue 19), 2017
Interview by Deborah Sherman
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Believer (50th Issue), 2008 January
Interview - Davis on Samuel Beckett
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Bomb: The Author Interviews (Betsy Sussler, ed.), 2014 (1997)
This copy is an advance uncopyedited sampler. It includes an interview with Davis by Francine Prose from Bomb 60 (1997). Includes cover letter.
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Bookforum, 2003 Fall
Interview; primarily related to translating Marcel Proust.
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Contemporary Literature (Volume 40, Number 4), 1999 Winter
Interview by Christopher Knight
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"Du" Magazine, 2010 Juni
German language publication in Switzerland. In German. Includes interview with Davis by Thomas David, and several short stories: Fragen Der Grammatik; Idee Für Einen Kurzen Dokumentarfilm; Die Sprache Der Telefongesellschaft; Zwanzig Skupturen Innerhalb Einter Stunde; Bloomington; Polenta; Gepäckaufbewahrung; Dinner; Hundehaar; Meinne Fussstapfen; Der Gesang; Die Party; Drin Phil [with the "in" in superscript]; Formen Der Verstörung. There are handwritten annotations indicating that several of the stories were "in Decision", which may be another German magazine.
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Five Points (Volume 15, Number 3), 2013
The Magic of the Train; Her Birthday, plus translations of A.L. Snijder's Ukiyo-e; Baldur; Story; and Flapsour. Includes an interview with Davis by Sarah Winterfield.
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The Gihon River Review (Volume 17), 2011 Fall
Interview by Gabrielle Loux
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La Granada 5, 2014
In Norwegian. Interview by Ingrid Melfald Hafredal.
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The Interrobang (Issue 3), 2007 Fall
Interview by Lena Valencia and Risa Kahn
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Meridian (Issue 21), 2008 May
Interview by Drew Johnson and Will Boast
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Meridian (Issue 38), 2017 Winter
Interview by Caitlin Fitzpatrick
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Objecktiv (Number 12), [2015?]
Interview by Nina Strand - primarily on Knud Knudsen, a Norwegian photographer. In English.
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The Paris Review (212), 2015 Spring
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Rain Taxi (Volume 14, Number 1), 2009 Spring
Interview by Leonard Schwartz
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Rapportage (Volume XI), 2008
Interview / Article on; by Melissa Kashner
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Rediviper (Volume 8, Issue 2), 2011 Spring/Summer
Interview by Brooks Sterritt
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The Reflector (50th Anniversary), 2007
Interview by Michael Manis. Davis notes that there are inaccuracies in the intro, made handwritten annotations.
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Salon Magazine Website, 1997 June
Part of "Mothers Who Think". Includes an interview and the story "The Professor"
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Tin House (Volume 10, Number 1), 2008 Fall
Includes Davis' answers to "Three Questions"
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Upstreet (Number 2), 2006
Interview by Frank Tempone
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The White Review (30), 2021 March
Subseries VIII.4: Publications with Reviews / Mentions of Davis' Work, 1977-2009
This subseries contains publications with reviews or other mentions of Davis' work.
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The American Book Review (Volume II, Number 2), 1979 October
Includes review of Davis' translation of Maurice Blanchot's Death Sentence.
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Belles Lettres, 1987 November/December
Includes review of Break It Down.
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Context (Number 6), 2001
Includes "Reading Lydia Davis" that includes reviews of her work.
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London Review of Books (Volume 19, Number 7), 1997 April 3
Brief mention of Lydia Davis on page 20, in a review of Joan Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted.
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The New Yorker, 1995 June 12
Hilton Als' review of The End of the Story
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Nit & Wit, 1987 April
Break It Down included in "The Top Ten 1986 Short Story Collections"
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Poets & Writers Magazine, 1999 January/February
Included in Roger Gathman's essay, "How the Novel Imagines Us."
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San Francisco Review of Books (Volume 2, Number 11), 1977 March
Includes review of The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories with the reviews of Women Poets.
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Times Literary Supplement, 2009 November 13
Includes a review of Davis' translation of Vivant Denon's No Tomorrow (Point de Lendemain) , as well as a review of Davis' Collected Stories.
Although Davis dated the computer disks as being from the 1990s, as few items appear to be from the early 2000s.