Box 1 Folder 1-6
Essays One--Manuscripts and Related Materials, 2017-2019, 6 folders
Includes corrected manuscripts and a partial setting copy, as well as correspondence and separate pages of notes.
Box 2 Folder 1-4
Essays One--Proofs, 2019 July 19, 4 folders
Includes separate notes and lists of corrections.
Box 118
Essays One--Dutch Scenes, in 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 47 Folder 1
Essays Two--Bob, Son of Battle Essay Material, 2014, undated
Box 47 Folder 2
Essays Two--OWB Bob Letters, 2014
Box 2 Folder 5-6
Essays Two--Manuscript with Corrections, 2020, 2 folders
Box 47 Folder 3
Essays Two--Earlier Drafts or Discards, 2016-2020
Box 47 Folder 4
Essays Two
, 2021, undated
Primarily notes on changes
Box 3 Folder 1-8
The End of the Story--Earlier Drafts of Novel, 1981-1988, undated, 8 folders
Box 4 Folder 1-5
The End of the Story--Drafts, 5 folders
4" high stack of typescript pages.
Box 5 Folder 1-2
The End of the Story--Drafts, 2 folders
Box 2 Folder 7
The End of the Story--Photocopy of March Story
Box 5 Folder 3-7
The End of the Story--Notes and Drafts (Folders 1-5, of 6), 1982-1993, 5 folders
File includes drafts, two appointment calendars (1982-1983), and various notes. There are also note cards mixed in with the draft pages. Originally housed in a box noted as "material - used or not to be used".
Box 6 Folder 1
The End of the Story--Notes and Drafts (Folder 6, of 6), 1982-1993
File includes drafts, two appointment calendars (1982-1983), and various notes. There are also note cards mixed in with the draft pages. Originally housed in a box noted as "material - used or not to be used".
Box 6 Folder 2-4
The End of the Story--Notes etc. for Novel, 1982-1993, 3 folders
Various drafts, and handwritten notes. There were originally in a small box labelled "notes etc. for novel" "Box#2 Material - Not Yet Used".
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 6 Folder 6-7
The End of the Story--Version Shown to Edie with Revisions After Her Comments, 1993 September 18, 2 folders
Box 6 Folder 8
The End of the Story--"Digressions", circa 1993 September
Pages from Edie's September 1993 version taken out to be incorporated in the body of text.
Box 6 Folder 9
The End of the Story--Pages Edie Sent With Her Comments, 1993 October
Box 7 Folder 1
The End of the Story--Drafts, 1993 October-November
Box 7 Folder 2
The End of the Story--Odd Revised Pages, 1993 September-1994 February
Box 7 Folder 3
The End of the Story--Rough Pages
Rough drafts of pages used in the novel.
Box 7 Folder 4-5
The End of the Story--Version Before Readers' Version, Before 1993 December 7, 2 folders; ts., 249 pp.
Version before readers' version with revisions. Version revised to make readers' version of December 7, 1993.
Box 7 Folder 6-7
The End of the Story--Clean Readers' Version, 1993 December 7, 2 folders; ts., 245 pp.
Shown to Francine, Lorraine, Alan, Bob Gluck.
Box 7 Folder 8-10
The End of the Story--Version Shown to Readers with Revision After Comments, 1994 January-February, 3 folders; ts., 246 pp.
Box 8 Folder 1-2
The End of the Story--Original of Version Submitted to FSG [Farrar, Straus & Giroux], 1994 February, 2 folders; ts., 243 pp.
Box 8 Folder 3-4
The End of the Story--Extra Clean Copy of Version Submitted February 1994, 1994 February, 2 folders; ts., 243 pp.
Although a post-it label indicates this copy is missing p. 175, it is present in the copy.
Box 8 Folder 5-6
The End of the Story--Copy of February 1994 Version with Further Changes Before Copyediting, 1994 April, 2 folders; ts., approximately 233 pp.
Box 9 Folder 1-2
The End of the Story--Copy of Copyedited and Corrected Version, 1994 May 20, 2 folders
Box 9 Folder 3-4
The End of the Story--Setting Copy, [1994], 2 folders
With copyeditor's notes, setting instructions, and some authorial corrections throughout.
Box 8 Folder 7
The End of the Story--Corrected Galleys, 1994 July
Box 9 Folder 5
The End of the Story--Galleys (Master Proof), 1994 July 11
Box 9 Folder 6
The End of the Story--Galleys (Revised Proof), 1994 September 1
Box 9 Folder 7
The End of the Story--Galleys, 1994 September 1
With Davis' latest corrections 9/16.
Box 10 Folder 1
The End of the Story--Copy of Difficult Revisions on the Last Set of Galleys, 1994 September
Box 10 Folder 2-3
The End of the Story--Corrected Proofs (Master Proof), 1994 October 5, 2 folders
Box 10 Folder 4-5
The End of the Story--C'est Fini--Manuscript Corrections, 1998, 2 folders
Box 10 Folder 6
The End of the Story--Notebooks I-II, 1987 January 3-July 2
Box 10 Folder 7
The End of the Story--Notebooks III-V, 1987 July 2 - 1992 May 5
Box 10 Folder 8
The End of the Story--Appointment Calendar, 1996-1997
Subseries I.3.1: The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976), 1976
There is one unbound copy of this collection included in Davis' papers: it was filed in a miscellaneous folder.
Subseries I.3.2: Break It Down (1986), 1986
Materials related to this collection include manuscripts, setting copies, page proofs, and galleys.
Box 11 Folder 1-2
Break It Down--Manuscript, 1986, 2 folders
Near final typescript with publisher's front matter, comprised of original typescript pages as well as photocopies of published stories or typescripts, with some authorial annotations and changes.
Box 11 Folder 3
Break It Down--Setting Copy, 1986
Setting copy, with authorial annotations and changes throughout, as well as setting instructions and copyeditor's notes.
Box 11 Folder 4
Break It Down--Page Proofs, 1986
Box 11 Folder 5
Break It Down--Page Proofs, 1986
Box 11 Folder 6
Break It Down--Page Proofs, 1986
Box 11 Folder 7
Break It Down--Galleys, 1986
Master Galleys, with authorial annotations and editorial notes/queries throughout.
Subseries I.3.3: Almost No Memory (1997)
Materials related to this collection include correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, setting copies, jacket proofs, page proofs, and related corrections.
The material related to this collection included a large stack of drafts of stories. Some of these stories were published in Almost No Memory, but others were ultimately published in later story collections. As the material directly related to Almost No Memory was not clearly separated from the other drafts in the stack, everything has been kept together as one file and filed with the other materials related to this collection.
Box 12 Folder 8
Almost No Memory--Correspondence, 1996-1998
Includes book jacket proof.
Box 12 Folder 1-6
Almost No Memory--Material and Rough Drafts of Manuscript, and Other Rough Drafts of Stories, 6 folders
This includes two folders of material, and a large stack of drafts of stories. Some of these stories were published in Almost No Memory, but others were ultimately published in later collections. As the material directly related to Almost No Memory was not clearly separated from the other drafts in the stack, everything has been kept together as one file and filed with the other materials related to this collection.
Box 12 Folder 7
Almost No Memory--Setting Copy
Setting copy; some authorial annotations in photocopy, with original copyeditor's notes and setting instructions.
Box 13 Folder 1
Almost No Memory--Page Proofs (First Pass Pages Master)
Copyeditor's notes throughout
Box 13 Folder 2
Almost No Memory--Page Proofs (Au's Correx, 2nd Pass)
Box 13 Folder 3
Almost No Memory--Page Proofs (Master Pages)
Light copyeditor's notes.
Box 13 Folder 4
Almost No Memory--Page Proofs
Some authorial annotations.
Subseries I.3.4: Samuel Johnson is Indignant (2001)
Materials related to this collection include manuscripts, notes, bound galleys, and a dust jacket mock-up.
Box 13 Folder 5
Samuel Johnson is Indignant--Manuscript
Printout; approx. 180 pp.; includes some photocopy pages from previously published material; with table of contents annotated by Davis.
Box 14 Folder 1-2
Samuel Johnson is Indignant--Manuscript and Other Materials, 2 folders
Annotated printout (includes a couple photocopies of previously published stories); approx. 177 pp.; together with page proofs of front matter, dust-jacket mockup, a couple small pages of holograph notes, etc.
Box 14 Folder 3
Samuel Johnson is Indignant--Bound Galleys, 2001 June 27
Subseries I.3.5: Varieties of Disturbance (2007), 2006-2007
Materials related to this collection include manuscripts, setting copies, page proofs, and related correspondence. The material also includes a file of annotated typescripts of duplicates and earlier versions of stories in the collection.
Box 14 Folder 4-5
Varieties of Disturbance--Manuscript, 2006, 2 folders; ts., 324 pp.
Printout, with old title "The Good Taste Contest"; with covering letter dated May 5, 2006, enclosing manuscript to Jonathan Galassi and describing the work - its length, her exploration of new forms, etc.
Box 15 Folder 1-2
Varieties of Disturbance--Setting Copy, 2 folders
Box 15 Folder 3-4
Varieties of Disturbance--Page Proofs (First Pass), 2006 November 30, 2 folders
A handful of light corrections by both Davis and the copyeditor.
Box 15 Folder 5-6
Varieties of Disturbance--Page Proofs (First Pass Pages Master), 2006 November 30, 2 folders
Copyeditor's notes throughout.
Box 15 Folder 7-8
Varieties of Disturbance--Page Proofs (Second Pass), 2007 January, 2 folders
With front matter lightly annotated by Davis.
Box 16 Folder 1-2
Varieties of Disturbance--Page Proofs (Master Pages), 2007 January, 2 folders
Light copyeditor's notes.
Box 16 Folder 3
Varieties of Disturbance--Page Proofs--Miscellaneous, 2006, undated
Three small sets of corrected page proof pages.
Box 16 Folder 4-6
Varieties of Disturbance--Duplicates and Earlier Versions of Stories in Varieties of Disturbance, 3 folders
Subseries I.3.6: Collected Stories (2009)
Materials related to this collection include setting copies, page proofs, and lists of corrections.
Box 16 Folder 7
Collected Stories--Setting Copy (Folder 1, of 5)
Davis labelled this copy as a galley, but it appears to be a setting copy that precedes the page proofs. The stories are annotated photocopies.
Box 17 Folder 1-4
Collected Stories--Setting Copy (Folders 2-5, of 5), 4 folders
Davis labelled this copy as a galley, but it appears to be a setting copy that precedes the page proofs. The stories are annotated photocopies.
Box 17 Folder 5-6
Collected Stories--Page Proofs (First Pass Pages Master) (Folders 1-2, of 5), 2009 March, 5 folders
With copyeditor's notes throughout.
Box 18 Folder 1-3
Collected Stories--Page Proofs (First Pass Pages Master) (Folders 3-5, of 5), 2009 March, 3 folders
With copyeditor's notes throughout.
Box 18 Folder 4-6
Collected Stories--Page Proofs (Second Pass) (Folders 1-3, of 5), 2009 May, 2 folders
With index card bearing Davis's short holograph list of corrections.
Box 19 Folder 1-2
Collected Stories--Page Proofs (Second Pass) (Folders 4-5, of 5), 2009 May, 5 folders
With index card bearing Davis's short holograph list of corrections.
Subseries I.3.7 Can't and Won't (2014)
Materials related to this collection include manuscripts, setting copies, page proofs, corrections, and jacket proofs. The material also includes a readings folder that contains annotated typescripts of stories, together with lists of venues and stories read there.
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 19 Folder 3-4
Can't and Won't--Manuscript, 2 folders
Printout, lightly annotated with names of journals in which stories previously appeared; occasional corrections. Includes several pages of handwritten notes.
Box 19 Folder 5-7
Can't and Won't--Photocopy of Copyedited Manuscript, 2013, 3 folders; ts., 271 pp.
Photocopy of copyedited printout. This copy appears to have been made from an earlier version of the setting copy. Most corrections are in photocopy but there are original corrections by Davis. It includes a covering letter of August 28, 2013 and a jacket proof.
Box 20 Folder 1-2
Can't and Won't--Setting Copy, 2 folders; ts., 271 pp.
Box 20 Folder 3-4
Can't and Won't--Page Proofs (First Pass), 2013 October 11, 2 folders
Box 20 Folder 5-6
Can't and Won't--Page Proofs (First Pass), 2013 October 11, 2 folders; Photocopy
Includes covering letter of October 14, 2013.
Box 21 Folder 1-2
Can't and Won't--Page Proofs (First Pass Master Set), 2013 [November], 2 folders
Box 21 Folder 3-4
Can't and Won't--Page Proofs (Second Pass), 2013 December 20, 2 folders
Per Davis' note: second pass, finished reading 12/20/13.
Box 21 Folder 5-6
Can't and Won't--Page Proofs (Corrected Second Pass), 2014 January 9, 2 folders
Box 22 Folder 1-2
Can't and Won't--Page Proofs (Corrected Third Pass), 2014 January 27, 2 folders
With covering letter. Also marked "final pass".
Box 22 Folder 3
Can't and Won't--Page Proofs--Corrected Pages, 2014 January 13-31
3 small sets of corrections, primarily to the preliminary pages. Some are marked "final corrections".
Subseries I.4.1: Individual Stories, 1966-2007
This subseries includes files related to individual stories.
A few publications included revisions to individual stories in the publication copy; these items can be found in Series VIII: Publications but are cross-referenced here.
Box 47 Folder 5
Brooklyn Diary I: The Change of Seasons, 1980s
Box 47 Folder 6
"The Canadian Pianist"
Box 47 Folder 7
"Cape Cod Diary"--Roeseler's Edits, 1996
Box 47 Folder 8
Cape Cod Diary, 2003, undated
Included in Varieties of Disturbance
Box 118
Confusions, in Conjunctions (11), [1988]
There are some handwritten revisions and notes on revisions in Confusions.
Box 47 Folder 9
"Ethics"
Box 47 Folder 10
"Helen and Vi"--Edie [Jarolim]'s Comments, 2006
Included in Varieties of Disturbance
Box 47 Folder 11
Vi (Harrison)--Story with Alan's Marks, 2006, undated
"Helen and Vi"; included in Varieties of Disturbance
Box 47 Folder 12
The House Behind, undated
Included in Almost No Memory
Box 47 Folder 13
Mr. Burdoff, 1986 or earlier
Box 47 Folder 14
Mrs. Platt, circa 1983-1986
Box 107
My Sister and the Queen of England in The World (Number 48), 1993
Davis made handwritten revisions to My Sister and the Queen of England in this copy of the publication.
Box 118
To Reiterate, 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 47 Folder 15
Royston
Box 47 Folder 16
St. Martin / Grand Street, 1996, undated
Manuscripts, and related correspondence
Box 47 Folder 17
Television Notes, 1980s?
"Television"; included in Varieties of Disturbance
Box 47 Folder 18
"Television Notes", After 1986
Revisions to "Television Notes" in a printed copy in John Cheney's Literary Magazine
Box 47 Folder 19
"Ways", 1966
Box 47 Folder 20
"Ways" Plus Introduction, 1966, 2007
Written in 1966, published in The International Literary Quarterly in 2007
Subseries I.4.2: Early Drafts, 1977-circa 2006
These drafts are a single set of files that was originally kept together in one box. The drafts include stories that were used in Almost No Memory, Samuel Johnson is Indignant, and possibly also Varieties of Disturbance. These files also include notes and publication information for various individual stories.
The files also contains two notebooks of stories and poems.
Box 48 Folder 1
Stories and Poems, circa 1983-1986, Two notebooks
Box 48 Folder 2
Stories in Almost No Memory, circa 1997
With notations of first publications
Box 48 Folder 3
Stories from Almost No Memory and Manuscripts with Edie Jarolim's Comments, 1997-2006
Checked for new book, 2006
Box 48 Folder 4
Stories in Samuel Johnson is Indignant (SJII), circa 2001
Stories in SJII including rough drafts and notations of first pub.
Box 48 Folder 5
Stories for Shirley and Others, circa 2006?
It appears that Shirley and Others became Varieties of Disturbance
Box 48 Folder 6
Copies of Stories in Samuel Johnson is Indignant (SJII) and Shirley, circa 2006?
It appears that Shirley became Varieties of Disturbance
Box 48 Folder 7
Stories--Original Folders with Notes, circa 1996-2001
Original folders, now empty, with Davis' notes on the front. These primarily consists of lists of stories that were used or considered for Almost No Memory and Samuel Johnson is Indignant with their original publication information.
Box 48 Folder 8
Stories--Extra Copies, 1977, undated
Subseries I.4.3: Drafts and Notes, 1988-2022
This subseries includes two sets of rough drafts and notes for stories, as well as a general files of notes and drafts that includes some stories.
Stories--Rough Drafts and Notes, 1988-1997
These stories were originally received in one box. The first two files were in dated envelopes; the last file was together in a loose stack. While there are annotations on the individual stories, there are no separate sheets of notes.
Box 23 Folder 6
Stories--Rough Drafts (to 11/06) (Folder 1, of 3), 1998-2006, undated
Box 24 Folder 1-2
Stories--Rough Drafts (to 11/06) (Folder 2-3, of 3), 1998-2006, undated, 3 folders
Box 24 Folder 3-6
Stories--Rough Drafts and Notes (Most Recent, Up to T8), circa 1981-1983, 1990, 2007-2017, undated, 4 folders
Per Davis' note: packed up 3/2018. This contains some material that is related to Can't and Won't.
Box 49 Folder 1-6
Notes and Drafts, 2006-2022, undated, 6 folders
The drafts are primarily of short stories, although there are also blurbs, obituaries, and other items. Includes various notes, including notes on family letters.
Box 24 Folder 7
Maurice Blanchot--The Last Man--Some Rough [Drafts], 1986-1987
Printout, with some authorial annotations, labeled "some rough"; pages out of order, approximately 50 pp.
Box 25 Folder 1
Maurice Blanchot--The Last Man--Corrected Typescript, 1986-1987, Photocopy. ts., 106 pp.
Box 25 Folder 2
Maurice Blanchot--The Last Man--Setting Copy, 1986-1987, ts., 106 pp.
Box 25 Folder 3
Maurice Blanchot--The Last Man--Galleys, 1987 April 17
Box 45
Pierre Clastres--Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians, the Ache, Nomadic Hunters of Paraguay--Source Text
Annotated copy of the 1972 Plon edition.
Box 45
Conrad Detrez--A Weed for Burning--Source Text
Annotated copy of the 1978 Calmann-Lévy edition.
Box 45
Conrad Detrez--Zone of Fire--Source Text
Annotated copy of the 1984 Gallimard edition.
Gustave Flaubert--Madame Bovary
There is material related to two editions in the collection: the Viking Penguin edition (2010) and the Penguin Books edition (2011).
Box 25 Folder 3-6
Draft, 2009-2010, 3 folders; ts., 483 pp.
Printout, with numerous holograph corrections by Davis. Per Davis' note: changed entered in pencil thru half the ms. (ran out of time).
Box 25 Folder 7
2nd Draft, Unmarked (Copy 1) (Folder 1, of 3), 2009-2010, ts., 485 pp.
Box 26 Folder 1-2
2nd Draft, Unmarked (Copy 1) (Folder 2-3, of 3), 2009-2010, 2 folders; ts., 485 pp.
Box 26 Folder 3-6
2nd Draft, Unmarked (Copy 2), 2009-2010, 4 folders; ts., 485 pp. Spiral-bound in four volumes.
Box 27 Folder 1-4
2nd Draft, Lydia and Alan's Copy, 2009 October, 4 folders; ts., 485 pp. Spiral-bound in four volumes.
One copy with revisions by Davis and some penciled comments by Alan Cote.
Box 27 Folder 5-6
2nd Draft, Rachel and Steve Careau's Copy (Folders 1-2, of 4), 2009 October, 2 folders; ts., 485 pp. Spiral-bound in four volumes.
One copy with marks by (predominantly) Rachel Careau - some by Steve Careau. Includes covering page of October 27, 2009.
Box 28 Folder 1-2
2nd Draft, Rachel and Steve Careau's Copy (Folders 3-4, of 4), 2009 October, 2 folders; ts., 485 pp. Spiral-bound in four volumes.
One copy with marks by (predominantly) Rachel Careau - some by Steve Careau. Includes covering page of October 27, 2009.
Box 28 Folder 3-5
Setting Copy, 2009-2010, 3 folders
For Viking. With authorial corrections, copyeditor's notes, and setting instructions throughout.
Box 29 Folder 1-2
Page Proofs (Translator's Set), 2010 April 21, 2 folders
With light authorial corrections.
Box 29 Folder 3-4
Page Proofs (2nd Pass), 2010 June 14, 2 folders
With a handful of authorial corrections.
Box 29 Folder 5
Page Proofs (Photocopy) (Folder 1, of 3), 2010-2011
These are a photocopy of Davis' corrected page proofs from June/July 2010. These were stored in a box labeled "Madame B. changes for pb Feb-Mar 2011" but it is unclear if there are any new corrections in this copy.
Box 30 Folder 1-2
Page Proofs (Photocopy) (Folder 2-3, of 3), 2010-2011, 2 folders
These are a photocopy of Davis' corrected page proofs from June/July 2010. These were stored in a box labeled "Madame B. changes for pb Feb-Mar 2011" but it is unclear if there are any new corrections in this copy.
Box 30 Folder 3-5
Page Proofs, 2010-2011, 3 folders
These are the original corrected page proofs from June/July 2010. Additional corrections were made to this copy in 2011. Includes 2011 and 2012 memos.
Box 30 Folder 6-8
Page Proofs, 2011 May 11, 3 folders
Box 31 Folder 1-2
Page Proofs (Cold Reader Set), 2011 May 11, 2 folders
Box 31 Folder 3-4
Page Proofs (1st Pass Master), 2011 May-June, 2 folders
Page proofs of May 4, 2011, with a covering letter of June 7, 2011.
Box 31 Folder 5
Page Proofs (2nd Pass) (Folder 1, of 2), 2011 June
Page proofs of June 15, 2011, with a covering letter of June 24, 2011.
Box 32 Folder 1
Page Proofs (2nd Pass) (Folder 2, of 2), 2011 June
Page proofs of June 15, 2011, with a covering letter of June 24, 2011.
Box 32 Folder 2
Corrected Pages (3rd Pass), 2011 July
Individual corrected pages from page proofs of June 2011, with memos from July 2011.
Box 32 Folder 3
Pierre Jean Jouve--The Desert World--Manuscript, circa 1996, ts., 181 pp.
Box 32 Folder 4
Pierre Jean Jouve--Hecate: The Adventure of Catherine Crachat--Manuscript, 1990-1997, Photocopy. ts., 172 pp.
Box 32 Folder 5
Pierre Jean Jouve--Hecate: The Adventure of Catherine Crachat: I--Page Proofs, 1997 June 3
Box 32 Folder 6
Pierre Jean Jouve--Vagadu--Manuscript, 1990-1997, ts., 208 pp.
Box 33 Folder 1
Pierre Jean Jouve--Vagadu--Page Proofs, 1997 June 5
Box 33 Folder 2-3
Bruno Latour--Essays and Translations, 1996, undated, 2 folders
File includes manuscripts, reprints, and other materials.
Box 48 Folder 9
Michel Leiris--Brisées: Broken Branches--Manuscript
Box 33 Folder 4-5
Michel Leiris--Brisées: Broken Branches--Manuscript, 2 folders; ts., 335 pp.
Typescript, with a handful of holograph corrections by Davis.
Box 34 Folder 1-3
Michel Leiris--Brisées: Broken Branches--Setting Copy and Related Correspondence, 1988-1989, undated, 3 folders; Photocopy. 334 pp.
File includes a small amount of related publisher correspondence including several leaves of editorial queries; some of the correspondence is in French.
Box 34 Folder 4-7
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume I--Rough Draft, 4 folders; ts., 429 pp.
Annotated printout with a few leaves of Davis's holograph notes.
Box 35 Folder 1-3
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume I--Setting Copy, circa 1991, 3 folders
Setting copy, including translator's introduction; with authorial annotations as well as copyeditor's notes and setting instructions throughout.
Box 35 Folder 4-5
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume I--Page Proofs, 1991 May 16, 2 folders
Authorial corrections and editorial corrections/queries throughout.
Box 35 Folder 6-7
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume I--Page Proofs (Master Galleys), 1991 May 16, 2 folders
Box 36 Folder 1-2
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume I--Page Proofs (Copy 1), 1991 July 8, 2 folders
Box 36 Folder 3-4
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume I--Page Proofs (Copy 2), 1991 July 8, 2 folders
Box 36 Folder 5-6
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume I--Page Proofs (Master Pages), 1991 July 8, 2 folders
Box 37 Folder 1-3
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume II--Manuscript and Rough Drafts, 1991, undated, 3 folders
Includes 1991 manuscript (355 pp.) as well as rough drafts of the translator's notes and other sections.
Box 37 Folder 4-6
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume II--Copyedited Manuscript, 1997 [?], 3 folders
Setting copy; with copyeditor's notes, setting instructions, and some authorial corrections throughout. The date on Davis' label is 1997.
Box 38 Folder 1-2
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume II--Page Proofs, 1996 September, 2 folders
Box 38 Folder 3-5
Michel Leiris--Rules of the Game Volume III--Manuscript and Related Materials, 1999, 2003, undated, 3 folders; ts., 376 pp.
Printout, "needing one more revision (as of 1999)" per Davis' label. Includes notes and a few pieces of correspondence relating to the Leiris Project.
Box 38 Folder 6
Justine Lévy--The Rendezvous--Corrected Manuscript, ts., 117 pp.
Printout, with corrections by Davis and notes by copyeditor.
Box 48 Folder 10
Alfred Ollivant. Bob, Son of Battle--Draft I, circa 2013-2014
Box 48 Folder 11
Alfred Ollivant. Bob, Son of Battle--Draft (Partial) and Miscellaneous Notes, etc., 2013-2014
Box 38 Folder 7
Marcel Proust--Letters to His Neighbor--Corrected Proofs and Notes, circa 2017
Although Davis labeled this copy as a manuscript, it appears to be a corrected page proof. Includes some separate notes on corrections.
Marcel Proust--Swann's Way
Box 49 Folder 7
Early Draft
pp. 1-25 early draft with A.C.'s comments after R.S. criticisms
Box 49 Folder 8
Early Draft with Richard Seibarth's comments and letter, 2000
Manuscript, pp. 1-50, with comments, and letter
Box 49 Folder 9
Clean Copy of Earlier Draft
Box 49 Folder 10
Corrected Passages
Box 38 Folder 8
Manuscript, 1st Draft, ts., 38 pp.
Box 38 Folder 9
Manuscript, 1st Draft, ts.
pp. 111-171, unmarked, uncorrected
Box 39 Folder 1
Draft, 1999 November 26, Floppy disk
Proust translation draft as of 11/26/99, revised up to p. 72 only. Rough (1st draft) thereafter, except for the conclusion.
Box 39 Folder 2-5
Manuscript, circa 2001, 4 folders; ts., 557 pp.
Complete Proust manuscript with pencilled revisions before sending to C.P. [Christopher Prendergast]. Stored 9/2001.
Box 39 Folder 6-7
Manuscript (Folders 1-2, of 4), circa 2001, 2 folders; ts., 563 pp.
Copy of finished manuscript sent to C.P. [Christopher Prendergast] before his comments and before final revision. Stored 9/01.
Box 40 Folder 1-2
Manuscript (Folders 3-4, of 4), circa 2001, 2 folders; ts., 563 pp.
Copy of finished manuscript sent to C.P. [Christopher Prendergast] before his comments and before final revision. Stored 9/01.
Box 40 Folder 3-6
Manuscript, circa 2001, 4 folders; ts., 563 pp.
Complete Proust manuscript with CP's [Christopher Prendergast's] pencilled comments.
Box 41 Folder 1
Manuscript "pp. 1-155", ts., 155 pp.
Clean copy after my corrections and incorporating CP's [Christopher Prendergast's] suggestions.
Box 41 Folder 2-5
Manuscript, "pp. 172-end", 4 folders; ts.
Per Davis' label, "Proust printout, pp. 172-end" [p. 565]. This copy was in a typing box, and includes additional pages after p. 565; these appear to be pp. 122-169 and pp. 156-171.
Box 49 Folder 11
Marcel Proust--Swann's Way pp. 303-389
Manuscript, with corrections. Envelopes for pp. 26-105, pp. 105-203, and pp. 203-303 were empty in the box, and not retained.
Box 49 Folder 12
Marcel Proust--Swann's Way pp. 391-563
Manuscript, with corrections. Envelopes for pp. 26-105, pp. 105-203, and pp. 203-303 were empty in the box, and not retained.
Box 41 Folder 6-7
Page Proofs, with Related Correspondence, 2002 April-May, 2 folders
Page proofs, with authorial corrections and covering letters.
Box 42 Folder 1-2
Galleys, Sent February 2003, 2003, 2 folders
Photocopy of the Penguin UK edition. This includes both photocopy and original corrections. Originals of the photocopy corrections appear in the setting copy.
Box 42 Folder 3-4
Corrected Galleys, 2003, 2 folders
Corrected photocopy of the Penguin UK edition, sent February 25, 2003, together with a setting copy for the preliminary pages to the Viking edition.
Box 42 Folder 5-7
Page Proofs (Folders 1-3, of 4), 2003 May, 3 folders
Page proofs, "author's set," with authorial and editorial annotations throughout.
Box 43 Folder 1
Page Proofs (Folder 4, of 4), 2003 May
Page proofs, "author's set," with authorial and editorial annotations throughout.
Box 43 Folder 2-4
Page Proofs, 2003 June, 3 folders
Box 45
Danièle Sallenave--Phantom Life--Source Text
Annotated copy of the 1986 P.O.L edition.
Box 50 Folder 1
A.L. Snijders Material [from Night Train], circa 2021
Includes galley with marks and corrections, list of corrections, and a postcard from B. Epler.
Box 50 Folder 2
A.L. Snijders Material [from Night Train], circa 2021
Zone Books--Translations for Zone / 18th Century French
Box 43 Folder 5
Vivant Denon--No Tomorrow--Manuscript and Related Materials
Two corrected manuscripts, and an annotated photocopy of the French source text.
Box 43 Folder 6
Denis Diderot-- Les Bijoux indiscrets--Source Texts
Photocopy of the French source text.
Box 43 Folder 7
Emmanuel Hocquard--Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan--Table of Contents--Manuscript, ts., 2 pp.
Manuscript, with corrections.
Box 43 Folder 8
Choderlos de Laclos--On the Education of Women--Manuscript and Related Materials
Manuscript, together with earlier draft of a table of contents, and a photocopy of the French source text.
Box 43 Folder 9
Choderlos de Laclos--On the Education of Women--Setting Copy, 1993, Photocopy. ts., 63 pp.
Laclos text translation for Zone [Books]; "master copy". Photocopy of setting copy. With covering letter.
Box 44 Folder 1-2
Abbé Prévost--The Story of a Modern Greek Woman--Manuscript, 2 folders; ts., 288 pp.
Printout. For Zone Books.
Box 44 Folder 3-5
Abbé Prévost--The Story of a Modern Greek Woman--Source Texts, 3 folders
Photocopies of French and English source texts.
Box 44 Folder 6
Marquis de Sade--Florville and Courval
File includes a manuscript, a photocopy of the setting copy, and photocopies of French and English source texts.
Box 44 Folder 7
Marquis de Sade--Florville and Courval--Corrected Proof [Legal Folder], 1995
Box 45 Folder 1-3
Translations We Are Using, 3 folders
Photocopies of English translations of Crébillon and Diderot.