Lydia Davis papers, 1940-2022

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Series II: Professional Files, 1965?, 1973-circa 2022

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

Essay. Includes proofs.


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

National Book Foundation


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

Anthology


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

Correspondence, etc.


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.

High Risk Books



Box 52 Folder 1 Bridge Scenes at the Center for Fiction (Mercantile Library), 2011


Box 52 Folder 2 Bronk, William, 1995-1999

Letters and memorabilia


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

Clippings


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

Literary agent


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.

High Risk Books



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

Manuscript pages


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

Drafts. Unpublished.


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

Restricted until 2082

His class' papers on Davis' stories


Box 100 Folder 50 Fink, Thomas--Student Papers on Davis' Stories, 2009?

Restricted until 2090



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

Notes


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

Notes


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

Notes


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.

Manuscript


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

Correspondence


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

Bible essay


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

Permissions


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

Correspondence


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

Manuscript and proofs


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

"Everyone is Invited"


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

Correspondence


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

Eluard translation


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

Literary magazine


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

Correspondence and notes


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

Correspondence


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

Programs, fliers, etc.


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

Restricted until 2075


Box 94 Folder 1 Recommendations, 2000s

Restricted until 2085


Box 94 Folder 3 Recommendations, 2010s

Restricted until 2095


Box 94 Folder 4 Recommendations, 1989-2001

Restricted until 2086

Students, and others


Box 94 Folder 5 Gardner, Justine (rec), 2009

Restricted until 2085

Recommendation letters


Box 94 Folder 6 Ha Jin (Emory University), 1998

Restricted until 2074

Recommendation letters


Box 94 Folder 7 Locasio, Lisa--Recommendation, 2009

Restricted until 2085


Box 94 Folder 8 Ben Marcus--Guggenheim Recommendation, 2008

Restricted until 2084


Box 94 Folder 9 Miller, Christopher--Bennington Eval., 2009

Restricted until 2085



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

Four pieces



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

In Spanish.


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 46 Folder 12-13 Student Papers on Davis' Work, 1993, 2008, 2 folders

In English and in French. The item in French is a translation of stories from Almost No Memory. Includes cover letters.



Box 94 Folder 13-14 Subin, Anna Della. Accidental Gods, 2021, 2 folders

Restricted until 2032

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

Correspondence



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.

Manuscript


Box 67 Folder 5 Translation Essay Material--Used, 2011, undated

Notes, and clippings


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

Interviewer, 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

Corrected proofs


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.