Lydia Davis papers, 1940-2022

Lydia Davis papers, 1940-2022

Summary Information

Abstract

Lydia Davis (1947-) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages. She is the author of several collections of short stories, one novel, two collections of essays, and several translations. The papers include address books, calendars, contracts, correspondence, drafts, interviews, journals, manuscripts, notes, proofs, publications, school records, and teaching files.

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1957
Bib ID:
13607308 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Davis, Lydia, 1947-
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
61 Linear Feet (122.5 document boxes, 1 card file, 6 record cartons)
Language(s):
Primarily in English, with some French. There is also some material in Dutch, Farsi, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

Mold remediation was performed on some material, including nearly all the Paul Auster correspondence, 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 material was boxed in Boxes 121 and 122.

Davis has restricted certain letters and other items. These restrictions are noted in the finding aid.

Davis is currently reviewing her journals and notebooks. Davis has completed her review of Journals #1-4 and #6-39 and these are currently available with some redactions. The rest of the notebooks and journals will not be available for research use until Davis' review of these items is complete.

A few additional files, including many teaching files and recommendation letters, are restricted due to privacy laws related to personal information and student records.

Digital files remain on their original disks and are not readily available for use; please contact the Rare Book & Manuscript Library in advance of your visit to discuss access options.

Description

Scope and Contents

Lydia Davis (1947-) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages. She is the author of several collections of short stories, one novel, two collections of essays, and several translations. The papers include address books, calendars, contracts, correspondence, drafts, journals, manuscripts, notebooks, notes, proofs, publications, school records, and teaching files.

The papers include book production files that document the publication of Davis' novel, essay collections, and most of her major story collections and translated works. There is extensive material related to the writing and publication of Davis' novel, The End of the Story (1995) including calendars, drafts, revisions, notebooks and notes, manuscripts, setting copies, page proofs, annotations and corrections, and related correspondence. In addition, the papers include cover ideas, readers' notes, and the box that appears in the novel.

The papers also document the publication of two essay collections: Essays One and Essays Two. The materials include drafts, manuscripts, a partial setting copy, proofs, corrections, notes, and additional material related to the Bob, Son of Battle essay. There is also material related to the placement of essays in these collections, as well as cards used to organize essays.

This collection also contains materials related to the writing and publication of several of Davis' story collections, primarily for Break it Down (1986) and all subsequent collections. There are no production materials for earlier collections, with the exception of The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976), for which there is an unbound copy. This material includes corrections, correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, setting copies, page proofs, galleys, jacket proofs, and notes. There is also material related to the publication of Davis' short stories in journals, magazines, anthologies, and other projects. This material is filed in Series II: Professional Files. Files on these types of publication projects often contain not only business correspondence but also manuscripts, proofs, reviews, and other related material together in the same file. In addition, the collection includes published copies of the stories in Series VIII: Publications. Lastly, the papers also include many short story files containing individual stories, rough drafts, and notes. As many of these stories were included in Davis' story collections, these are filed in Subseries I.4: Short Stories--Individual Stories, Notes, and Drafts.

The papers also contains a wealth of material related to Davis' translation work. The production files include materials related to the production of Davis' major translation works, as well as other translations. These include Blanchot's The Last Man, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Leiris' Rules of the Game, Proust's Swann's Way, as well as works by Pierre Jean Jouve, Justine Lévy, Alfred Ollivant, Danièle Sallenave, A.L. Snijders, and several items related to translations for Zone Books. The materials includes manuscripts, setting copies, proofs, corrections, notes, original texts and other source material, and related correspondence. There is additional material related to Davis' translation of works by Michel Butor and Pierre Jean Jouve for Marlboro Press with the press' records; the Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds the Marlboro Press Records,. There are additional files related to these works, and other translation works, in Series II: Professional and Writing Files. These files include subject files related to Maurice Blanchot, Conrad Detrez, Jean Frémon, Gustave Flaubert, Michel Leiris, Justine Lévy, Madeleine Monette, Marcel Proust, and Alexis de Tocqueville. There are also files related to articles, panels, reviews, talks, and events related to her translation work. In addition, the collection includes published copies of shorter translations and excerpts in Series VIII: Publications.

Davis' professional files include 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 Files. The papers also include teaching files, which relate to Davis' teaching appointments at college and universities, as well as her teaching work in writing seminars and master classes elsewhere. The majority of Davis' professional correspondence can be found in 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 Correspondence (Miscellaneous).

There is extensive personal material in the collection, and this includes address books, calendars, correspondence, drawings, early writing, journals, mementoes, notebooks, resumes, and school records and related material. The collection lacks photographs, however; there are only a few photographs in the collection.

Davis' personal correspondence is extensive, and primarily filed by correspondent name. There is a wide range of correspondents, including fellow writers, friends, boyfriends, former students, and others. Most personal correspondence is filed in Subseries III.2, but there is some additional personal correspondence in Subseries III.4: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Series VII: Miscellaneous Files. While Davis made content notes for these miscellaneous 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. There is some family correspondence in the papers related to Davis' parents and siblings, but it is not extensive.

Davis also kept journals and notebooks; these document her daily life, as well as her reading, writing, and translation work. These are extensive, comprising approximately 100 items. Davis is currently reviewing her journals and notebooks. Davis has completed her review of Journals #1-4 and #6-39 and these are currently available with some redactions. The rest of the notebooks and journals will not be available for research use until Davis' review of these items is complete.

Davis filed some material in miscellaneous files with descriptions on the individual folders; the file descriptions in the finding aid are taken from the descriptions written on the files by Davis. These files can be found in Series VII: Miscellaneous Files.

There is some digital material in the collection, but this is currently limited to a set of 3.5" floppy disks from Davis' Kaypro Computer that date from around the 1990s. The titles on the disks are listed in the finding aid. The collection does not include any e-mail files or other digital material at this time.

Arrangement

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

Mold remediation was performed on some material, including nearly all the Paul Auster correspondence, 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 material was boxed in Boxes 121 and 122.

Davis has restricted certain letters and other items. These restrictions are noted in the finding aid.

Davis is currently reviewing her journals and notebooks. Davis has completed her review of Journals #1-4 and #6-39 and these are currently available with some redactions. The rest of the notebooks and journals will not be available for research use until Davis' review of these items is complete.

A few additional files, including many teaching files and recommendation letters, are restricted due to privacy laws related to personal information and student records.

Digital files remain on their original disks and are not readily available for use; please contact the Rare Book & Manuscript Library in advance of your visit to discuss access options.

Conditions Governing Use

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron. Contact rbml@library.columbia.edu for more information.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Lydia Davis Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Selected Related Material-- at Columbia

Georges Borchardt, Inc. Records, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Marlboro Press Records, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Zone Books Records, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Additions are expected.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase, Lydia Davis, 2018.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Catherine C. Ricciardi in 2022.

Finding aid written by Catherine C. Ricciardi in October 2022.

Revision Description

2018-11-18 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2022-10-04 Finding aid created by Catherine C. Ricciardi.

2023-10-06 Davis has reviewed Journals #1-4, 6-16 for restrictions. Unrestricted journals and redacted copies of journals with some restrictions are being made available. The container list in Series IV has been updated to reflect what is currently accessible to patrons. CCR.

2023-10-06 Mold remediation was performed on some material, including nearly all the Paul Auster correspondence, 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 material is now accessible and has been boxed in Boxes 121 and 122, and the container list updated. CCR.

2023-12-13 Journals #12, 37, and 136 were examined by a conservator due to obvious water damage. The conservator determined that these items do not contain any mold. CCR.

2024-01-05 Davis has reviewed Journals #17-39 for restrictions. Unrestricted journals and redacted copies of journals with some restrictions are being made available. The container list in Series IV has been updated to reflect what is currently accessible to patrons. CCR.

Biographical Note

Lydia Davis (1947-) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages. She is the author of several collections of short stories, two of which were nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award, as well as one novel, The End of the Story (1995). Davis is best known for her very short, micro or "flash" fiction; many of her stories are a single sentence or paragraph long. Davis has also worked extensively as a translator from French to English, particularly of Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, Flaubert, and Proust, and in other languages, including Dutch and German. Her honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, as well as the Man Booker International Prize. She was a professor of English and writer-in-residence at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and taught at Bard College, Columbia University, and the University of California San Diego. She is a 1970 graduate of Barnard College.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Essays
Manuscripts (documents)
Short stories
Name
Armantrout, Rae, 1947-
Auster, Paul, 1947-
Blanchot, Maurice
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Jouve, Pierre Jean, 1887-1976
Leiris, Michel, 1901-1990
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Place
American literature
Subject
American fiction -- 20th century
American fiction -- 21st century
American fiction -- Women authors
French language -- Translating into English
French literature -- Translations into English
Short stories, American -- 20th century
Short stories, American -- 21st century
Translators

Series I: Book Production and Related Materials, 1960s-2022

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.


Subseries I.1: Essays, 2014-2021, undated

This subseries contains materials related to the production of two essay collections: Essays One and Essays Two. The materials include drafts, manuscripts, a partial setting copy, proofs, corrections, notes, and additional material related to the Bob, Son of Battle essay.


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


Subseries I.2: Novels, 1981-1997, undated

This subseries contains materials related to the writing and production of Davis' only novel, The End of the Story (1995). The materials include drafts, revisions, notebooks and notes, calendars, manuscripts, setting copies, page proofs, annotations and corrections, and related correspondence.


Box 3 Folder 1-8

The End of the Story--Earlier Drafts of Novel, 1981-1988, undated, 8 folders

Several drafts.


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

Photocopy of manuscript


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

pp. 8-292.


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

With covering letter.


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.

Includes notes.


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

With Davis' corrections.


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

Includes covering note.


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: Short Story Collections, 1960s-2022

This subseries contains materials related to the writing and publication of several of Davis' story collections, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976), Break it Down (1986), and all subsequent collections.

The selection of stories for specific collections sometimes changed during the publication process. These changes are reflected in the manuscripts and proofs. In addition, files include not only those stories published in the final version of specific collections, but also stories that were considered for publication at some point during the publication process.

This material includes corrections, correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, setting copies, page proofs, galleys, jacket proofs, and notes. Many of the manuscripts and proofs include annotations and corrections.

There is additional material related to these collections in Subseries I.4: Short Stories--Individual Stories, Notes, and Drafts, as well as other works.


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.


Box 85 Folder 2

Miscellaneous, 1960s-1980s

Miscellaneous, including personal correspondence. Includes a clipping of the Austers' wedding announcement, unidentified manscript pages, manuscripts for "Meditations on Fossil Life" and "The South", and an unbound copy of The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories.


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

Annotated typescripts.


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

With covering letter.


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: Short Stories--Individual Stories, Notes, and Drafts, 1966-2022

This subseries includes files related to individual stories, as well as larger files of drafts and notes.


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

JCLM


Box 47 Folder 6

"The Canadian Pianist"

Manuscripts


Box 47 Folder 7

"Cape Cod Diary"--Roeseler's Edits, 1996

Includes covering letter


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"

Manuscript, 1 p.


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

Manuscripts


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 22 Folder 1

Stories--Rough Drafts, 1988 November - 1989 July


Box 22 Folder 2-3

Stories--Rough Drafts, 1989 July - 1990 November, 2 folders


Box 22 Folder 6

Stories--Rough Drafts and Notes (Folder 1, of 6), Probably 1990-1997


Box 23 Folder 1-5

Stories--Rough Drafts and Notes (Folder 2-6, of 6), Probably 1990-1997, 5 folders


Box 23 Folder 6

Stories--Rough Drafts (to 11/06) (Folder 1, of 3), 1998-2006, undated

Includes notes.


Box 24 Folder 1-2

Stories--Rough Drafts (to 11/06) (Folder 2-3, of 3), 1998-2006, undated, 3 folders

Includes notes.


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.


Subseries I.5: Translations, 1980s-circa 2021

This subseries contains materials related to the production of Davis' major translation works, as well as other translations. There are additional files related to these works, and other translation works, in Series II: Professional Files. There are also some published versions of translations in Series VIII: Publications.

These include Blanchot's The Last Man, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Leiris' Rules of the Game, Proust's Swann's Way, as well as works by Pierre Jean Jouve, Justine Lévy, Alfred Ollivant, Danièle Sallenave, A.L. Snijders, and several items related to translations for Zone Books.

The materials includes manuscripts, setting copies, proofs, corrections, notes, original texts and other source material, and related correspondence.

Arranged by author, then title, followed by the Zone files


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

Includes index.


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.


Subseries I.6: Other Notes and Drafts, 2006-2022, undated

The drafts are primarily of short stories, although there are also blurbs, obituaries, and other items. There are also various notes, including notes on family letters, as well as some relevant to Confessions of a Translator, some also turned into The End of the Story.


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 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.

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.

Series III: Correspondence, 1940s-2021

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

Fan?


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

Includes letters


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

Annotated.


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

Restricted until 2041


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

Clipping


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

Ex-Bard MFA student


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

Restricted


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

Correspondence to


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

Landlady at Bergen St.


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

ex-Bard MFA student


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

Editor of HOW(ever)


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

Ex-Bard undergraduate


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

Restricted


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

Ex-Bard MFA


Box 74 Folder 38

Hines, Virginia Lee, 2006

Re: Edward Steichen


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

ex-Bard MFA student


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

Restricted until 2042


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

ex-Bard MFA student


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

Ex-student


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

Mother of Wayne; writer


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

Poet


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

Putney roommate


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

Restricted until 2041


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

Putney boyfriend


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

Poet, editor


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

Pastoral counselor


Box 78 Folder 15

Swann, Donald, 1994

Clipping


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

Ex-Bard MFA student


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

Read with her


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

Piano teacher


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.

Series IV: Journals and Notebooks, 1960-2019, undated

Davis is currently reviewing her journals and notebooks. Davis has completed her review of Journals #1-4 and #6-39 and these are currently available with some redactions. The rest of the notebooks and journals will not be available for research use until Davis' review of these items is complete.

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.


Box 119 Folder 1

Journal #1, 1960 January 1 - 1964 January 21

Four pages from the August 9th entry were restricted by Davis. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 119 Folder 2

Journal #2, 1963 August 12-16


Box 119 Folder 3

Journal #3, 1963 April 3 - December 1


Box 119 Folder 4

Journal #4, 1964 December 4 - 1965 January 2


Box 119 Folder 5

Journal #5--Words, undated

This item has not yet been reviewed by Davis and remains restricted at this time.

This folder is a placeholder, the original item is currently being stored in another box.


Box 119 Folder 6

Journal #6, 1965 January 18 - February 24


Box 119 Folder 7

Journal #7, 1965 February 26 - April 22


Box 119 Folder 8

Journal #8, 1965 April 22 - June 9


Box 119 Folder 9

Journal #9, 1965 June 9 - August 13


Box 119 Folder 10

Journal #10, 1965 August 15 - September 8


Box 119 Folder 11

Journal #11, 1965 September 21 - 1966 May 1

One page from the October 8th entry were restricted by Davis. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 119 Folder 12

Journal #12, 1966 May 30 - December 29

The following pages were restricted by Davis - June 1: 2 pages; July 12: 9 pages; August 12-13: 1 page; September 30-October 2: 1 page . Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 120 Folder 1

Journal #13, 1967 April 19 - October 2

This journal 1967 July 30-October 2 on the cover, but includes an insert of pages for April 19-June 10.


Box 120 Folder 2

Journal #14, 1967 October 15 - 1968 July 19


Box 120 Folder 3

Journal #15, 1967 October 24 - 1968 February 21


Box 120 Folder 4

Journal #16, 1968 October 9 - 1970 October 19

The following pages were restricted by Davis - 1968 November 12 and December 29: 1 page (page 3); 1969 November 1, 9, 21, 28: 2 pages (pages 17-18); 1970 October 17: 4 pages (pages 44-47). Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 120 Folder 5

Journal #17, 1970 October 27 - 1971 April 20

The following pages were restricted by Davis - 1970 November 11: 1 page; 1971 February 19: 2 pages; February 21: 1 page; February 26 and 27: 2 pages; and March 25th and April 11: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Includes travel diary for New York - London - Brede - Paris. Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 120 Folder 6

Journal #18, 1971 April 20 - June 4

The following pages were restricted by Davis - May 16: 1 page; May 26: 1 page; and June 4: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 120 Folder 7

Journal #19, 1971 June 4 - August 13

The following pages were restricted by Davis - June 4, 5: 2 pages. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 120 Folder 8

Journal #20, 1971 August 13 - December 3

The following pages were restricted by Davis - August 31: 2 pages; October 26, 27, 28: 2 pages; November 22, 23: 2 pages. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Includes Paris, Ireland, England. Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 120 Folder 9

Journal #21--England, 1971 December 3 - 1972 January 1


Box 120 Folder 10

Journal #22, 1972 January 5 - April 2

The following pages were restricted by Davis - January 19, 20: 1 page; January 30, 31: 1 page; January 31, February 1: 1 page; February 19: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 120 Folder 11

Journal #23--France, 1972 February 14 - 1974 June 17


Box 123 Folder 1

Journal #24, 1972 April 2 - August 17

The following pages were restricted by Davis - April 2: 1 page; May 30, 31: 1 page; June 5, 6: 1 page; July 3: 1 page; July 15, 16: 1 page; July 20: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 123 Folder 2

Journal #25, 1972 August 17 - 1973 January 9

The following pages were restricted by Davis - August 23: 1 page; August 28: 1 page; August 31, September 1: 1 page; September 3, 4, 5: 1 page; September 19, 22, 23: 1 page; September 24: 1 page; October 16, 17: 1 page; October 27, 28, 30: 2 pages; November 7, 9: 1 page; November 11: 1 page; November 13: 2 pages; December 1, 3, 4: 1 page; December 18: 1 page; and January 8: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 123 Folder 3

Journal #26, 1972 September 2 - 1973 March 1

The following pages were restricted by Davis - September 2: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 123 Folder 4

Journal #27--Notes on Reading (Blanchot, Trevelyan), 1973? - 1974?


Box 123 Folder 5

Journal #28, 1973 January 9 - June 8

The following pages were restricted by Davis - February 18: 1 page; February 20, 22, 23, 24: 3 pages; March 12, 13, 14: 2 pages; March 16: 1 page; March 20: 1 page; March 24, 25: approxiately 1 page; and March 26, 27: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 123 Folder 6

Journal #29, 1973 June 8 - September 30

The following pages were restricted by Davis - September 28: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 123 Folder 7

Journal #30, 1973 October 2 - 1974 July 11

The following pages were restricted by Davis - October 11: 2 pages; November 7, December 10: 1 page; March 8, 10: 1 page; March 15: 1 page; May 30, May 31: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 123 Folder 8

Journal #31--Stories, 1973 October 11 - 1976 January 1


Box 123 Folder 9

Journal #32, 1974 July 12 - 1975 October 2


Box 124 Folder 1

Journal #33, 1975 October 2 -December 27


Box 124 Folder 2

Journal #34, 1975 December 27 - 1976 May 12

The following pages were restricted by Davis - April 16: 1 page; and April 22: 2 pages. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 124 Folder 3

Journal #35, 1976 May 12 - September 18

The following pages were restricted by Davis - July 12, 13: 2 pages; July 29, 31, August 1, 3: 2 pages; and August 8, 14, 15, 16: 2 pages. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 124 Folder 4

Journal #36, 1976 September 18 - 1977 August 24

The following pages were restricted by Davis - October 10, 11: 2 pages; January 12: 1 page; January 26: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 124 Folder 5

Journal #37, 1977 August 24 - 1979 June 24

The following pages were restricted by Davis - August 24: 1 page; May 26: 1 page; July 10: 1 page; October 30, November 7: 1 page; November 8: 1 page; December 4: 1 page; December 8, 11: 2 pages; February 22: 1 page; March 5: 1 page; March 8, 9: 1 page; March 9, 10: 1 page; March 22: 1 page; March 26: 1 page; April 30, May 1: 1 page; May 27: 1 page; June 11, 13: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 124 Folder 6

Journal #38, 1979 June 24 - October 8

The following pages were restricted by Davis - June 25: 2 pages; July 11, 15: 2 pages; July 31: 1 page; August 6: 1 page; August 6, 7: 1 page; August 12: 1 page; May [August?] 21: 1 page; August 27: 1 page; August 31, September 1, 2: 1 page; September 10, 12: 3 pages; September 18, 20: 1 page; October 3: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.


Box 124 Folder 7

Journal #39, 1979 October 8 - 1980 March 17

The following pages were restricted by Davis - October 11, 13: 1 page; November 2: 1 page; November 3: 1 page; December 10: 1 page; December 26, 28?: 1 page; December 30: 1 page; January 16, 19, 20, 21: 2 paged; January 22: 1 page; February 27: 1 page; march 4: 1 page. Patrons must use the redacted copy of the journal.

Item is a printout made from a scanned copy of the original journal.

Series V: Teaching Files, 1981-2016

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.


Subseries V.1: Business and General Records, 1981-2012

This subseries include records related to Davis' teaching appointments and general business at the University of California San Diego, Bard College, the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), and other master classes and writing seminars. This subseries also includes some general records related to writing programs.


Box 97 Folder 1

University of California San Diego (UCSD), 1981


Box 97 Folder 2

University of California San Diego (UCSD)--Freilicher Letter to Department About Writing Program, 1984


Box 97 Folder 3

University of California San Diego (UCSD)--Short Fiction Class and Catalogue Course Description

Includes Davis' letter to Dr. Pearce about the writing program.


Box 97 Folder 4

University of California San Diego (UCSD)--Student Anthology, 1981


Box 97 Folder 5

University of California San Diego (UCSD), 2002

Correspondence from a former student


Box 97 Folder 6

Bard, 1986-1995

Catalogs, creative writing journal


Box 97 Folder 7

[Bard] Behrendt, Lynn, 2000

Includes samples of Behrendt's work


Box 97 Folder 8

Bard MFA, 2000-2006


Box 100 Folder 1

Bard MFA--Correspondence and Addresses, 1988-2000

Restricted until 2081


Box 97 Folder 9

Bard (Miscellaneous), 1986-1998, undated

Primarily appointment letters.


Box 97 Folder 10

Bard College Library / Brad Morrow's Gifts


Box 97 Folder 11

SUNY Albany--Business, 1999-2004


Box 97 Folder 12

SUNY Albany--Business, 2000-2002


Box 97 Folder 13

SUNY Albany--Contracts (Lynne + L.), 2002


Box 97 Folder 14

SUNY Albany--General (to carry), 2003


Box 97 Folder 15

SUNY Albany--Business, 2003-2004


Box 97 Folder 16

SUNY Albany, 2003-2006


Box 97 Folder 17

SUNY Albany--Business, 2006-2008


Box 97 Folder 18

SUNY Albany, 2009


Box 97 Folder 19

SUNY Albany, 2010


Box 97 Folder 20

State University of New York (SUNY) Albany Suspension of Programs, 2010 Fall


Box 97 Folder 21

SUNY Albany--Miscellaneous (Other Faculty) (and Grad Students), 2011


Box 97 Folder 22

New York University (NYU)--Hiring Process, 2009, 2011


Box 97 Folder 23

Creative Writing Programs, undated

List of graduate programs


Box 97 Folder 24

MFA Programs Rutgers-Newark, 2007 or later


Subseries V.2: General Course Material, 1980s-circa 2016

This subseries includes general class plans, course descriptions, handouts, syllabi, quizzes, and general notes for teaching.


Box 97 Folder 25

Assignments, Ideas for Class, undated


Box 100 Folder 2

Book Lists, 1987-1991, undated

Restricted until 2072

Includes students' lists


Box 100 Folder 3

Book Lists and Recommendations, 1980s-2002, undated

Restricted until 2096

Includes students' lists


Box 97 Folder 26

Class Notebook--[General], undated


Box 97 Folder 27

Class Material, 2002

Clipping


Box 97 Folder 28

Course Descriptions, 1997, 2002


Box 97 Folder 29

Syllabi / Course Plans, 1980s, 2002, undated


Box 97 Folder 30

Syllabuses, Others', 2006-2011


Handouts (General)


Box 98 Folder 1

Future Handouts / Material, undated


Box 98 Folder 2

Handouts, Originals, 2002-2003


Box 98 Folder 3

Handouts, Extras, 2002-2003


Box 100 Folder 4

Xerox, undated

Restricted until 2096


Box 98 Folder 4

Handouts, Past, undated


Box 98 Folder 5

Handouts, my annotated copies, 2002


Box 98 Folder 6

Handouts, various, 2012


Box 98 Folder 7

Master Class Material / Class Organization, 2005-2006, undated


Box 98 Folder 8

Master Class / Originals for Xeroxing, undated


Box 98 Folder 9

Xerox


Box 98 Folder 10

Material, possible, undated


Box 98 Folder 11

Quizes, 1997, 2002, undated


Box 98 Folder 12

Semester Plan / Week Plan, undated


Box 98 Folder 13

Writing Course Ideas / Methods


Box 98 Folder 14

Topics for Writing Class, undated


Box 96 Folder 1

Writing Workshop Exercises, Quotes, etc., undated

Index card file. This file was originally in its own plastic card box; it has been rehoused into a new box.


Box 96 Folder 4

Notes for Teaching / Short Fiction Course, undated

Index card box of cards for teaching. Index card file. This file was originally in its own plastic card box; it has been rehoused into a new box.


Subseries V.3: Topical Course Material, 1980s-circa 2016

This subseries contains files on various topics that Davis taught in her classes.


Box 98 Folder 15

Adjectives, undated


Box 98 Folder 16

Anglo-Saxon vs. Latinate, undated


Box 98 Folder 17

Autobiography, Art of


Box 98 Folder 18

James Wood on Saul Bellow's Style, undated

First page missing


Box 98 Folder 19

Character, undated


Box 98 Folder 20

Child's Point of View (POV)--Examples, undated


Box 98 Folder 21

Critiquing, undated


Box 98 Folder 22

Critiquing, undated


Box 98 Folder 23

Description, Objective - Class Notes, undated


Box 98 Folder 24

Description, Objective / S. Johnson (1775), undated


Box 98 Folder 25

Description, Objective, by student


Box 98 Folder 26

Dialogue--Examples


Box 98 Folder 27

Dialogue--Examples, undated


Box 98 Folder 28

Dialogue--Punctuation


Box 98 Folder 29

Dictionary Page Handout, undated


Box 98 Folder 30

Dreams, 2007-2009, undated


Box 98 Folder 31

Orwell Ecclesiastes translation, undated


Box 98 Folder 32

Endings - Examples, undated


Box 98 Folder 33

Errors, Common


Box 98 Folder 34

Etymology (ies), undated


Box 98 Folder 35

Exercises, undated


Box 98 Folder 36

Exposition, 2002


Box 98 Folder 37

First Pages - Various Authors / Master Class - First Pages, undated


Box 98 Folder 38

First Class Meetings [E516], 2002 or later


Box 98 Folder 39

Future Class (Ideas) including First Class Meeting, undated


Box 98 Folder 40

Grammar Handouts, 2002


Box 98 Folder 41

Hunt, Laird (Teaching Folder)


Box 98 Folder 42

Linked Stories (list), 2009, undated


Box 98 Folder 43

Metaphor, undated


Box 98 Folder 44

Mixed Emotions, undated


Box 98 Folder 45

Notebooks, Writer's, 2012, undated


Box 98 Folder 46

Writer's Notebook Handouts, 2012


Box 98 Folder 47

Order of Elements - Handout


Box 98 Folder 48

Openings (Stories), 2002


Box 98 Folder 49

Plots, undated


Box 98 Folder 50

Poetry and Poetic Form, 2007, undated


Box 98 Folder 51

Point of View


Box 98 Folder 52

Prefixes and Roots (Greek and Latin), 2002, undated


Box 98 Folder 53

Punctuation, 2012


Box 98 Folder 54

Rhetoric Course


Box 99 Folder 1

Sentence Fragments, undated


Box 99 Folder 2

Sentence Openers, undated


Box 99 Folder 3

Showing, Not Telling, undated


Box 99 Folder 4

Storytelling, Article on


Box 99 Folder 5

Translations, Texts for (sound)


Box 99 Folder 6

Writing, Quotes About (General)


Box 99 Folder 7

Writing, Thoughts About (General)


Box 99 Folder 8

Writing Process, Article


Box 99 Folder 9

Writing Process, Initial Inspiration


Box 99 Folder 10

William Carlos Williams Story

Davis notes that she taught this story and sometimes other Williams stories in writing workshops.


Subseries V.4: Class Records, 1983-2016

The majority of these files are restricted for 80 years.

These records document specific classes. The majority of the material relates to courses taught at University at Albany. 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). These files have been restricted for 80 years.


Box 99 Folder 11

[UCSD] Course Plans, 1983

This is a letter from Davis to Dr. Pearce


Box 100 Folder 5

Bard--Questionnaires, 1996 Spring

Restricted until 2077


Box 99 Folder 12

Bard--Course Evalutions, 1996


Box 100 Folder 6

Bard--Advanced Fiction Workshop, 1996 Spring

Restricted until 2077


Box 100 Folder 7

Bard--Class [Advanced Fiction Workshop], 1996-1997

Restricted until 2068

Advanced Fiction Workshop.


Box 100 Folder 8

[Bard College] [Class Binder], 1997

Restricted until 2078


Box 99 Folder 13

Bard MFA--Evaluations and Other MFA Material, 1997


Box 100 Folder 9

Class Plans--Others, 1996-1997, 2002

Restricted until 2083

These appear to be related to Davis, not others, and are primarily from Bard College.


Box 99 Folder 14

SUNY Albany--3022, 2002

Class roster was deacessioned and file is now empty; there is a list of handouts / dates on the front of the folder.


Box 100 Folder 10-11

[SUNY Albany]--3022, 2002-2003, 2 folders

Restricted until 2084


Box 100 Folder 12

[SUNY Albany]--3022 Class Plans, 2002

Restricted until 2083


Box 100 Folder 13

SUNY Albany--3022 Class Record, 2002

Restricted until 2083


Box 100 Folder 14

SUNY Albany--3022 Questionnaires, 2002

Restricted until 2083


Box 100 Folder 15

[SUNY Albany]--3022 Objective Descriptions, Copies, 2002

Restricted until 2083

Copies of student work


Box 100 Folder 16

[SUNY Albany]--3022 Submissions, 2003

Restricted until 2084


Box 100 Folder 17

SUNY Albany--3022 Class List and Plan, 2003

Restricted until 2084


Box 100 Folder 18

[SUNY Albany]--3022 Questionnaires, 2003

Restricted until 2084


Box 100 Folder 19-20

SUNY Albany--3022 Questionnaires, 2003, 2 folders

Restricted until 2084


Box 100 Folder 21

SUNY Albany--3022 Previous Material including class plans, 2003

Restricted until 2084


Box 99 Folder 15

[SUNY Albany]--3022 Complete File - Less Useful, 2002-2003

File contains general syllabi, class plans, and other material.


Box 99 Folder 16

[SUNY Albany]--3022 Complete Computer File, 2002-2003, undated

File contains general syllabi, class plans, and other material.


Box 100 Folder 22

SUNY Albany--E516, 2009

Restricted until 2090


Box 100 Folder 23

SUNY Albany--E516 Questionnaires, 2009 Fall

Restricted until 2090


Box 100 Folder 24

SUNY Albany--E516 Class Plans etc., 2010

Restricted until 2091


Box 100 Folder 25

SUNY Albany--E516 Questionnaires, 2010 Fall

Restricted until 2091


Box 100 Folder 26

SUNY Albany--E516 Previous Material, 2002

Restricted until 2083


Box 100 Folder 27

[SUNY Albany]--E516 To Sort for E516, 2003, 2009-2010, undated

Restricted until 2091


Box 100 Folder 28

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Class Plan, 2010

Restricted until 2091


Box 99 Folder 17

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Author Report Pages, 2010


Box 100 Folder 29

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Class Folder, 2011

Restricted until 2092


Box 100 Folder 30

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Past Material, 2009 Fall

Restricted until 2090


Box 99 Folder 18

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Keep at Home, 2011

List of English Department faculty and schedules


Box 100 Folder 31

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Class Notebook, 2011

Restricted until 2092


Box 100 Folder 32

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Class Plan, 2012 Fall

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 33

[SUNY Albany--E516?] Exercises, 2012

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 34

Past Material, 2012 Spring

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 35

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Class Notebook, 2012 Fall

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 36

SUNY Albany--Questionnaires, 2012 Fall

Restricted until 2093


Box 99 Folder 19

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Syllabus, 2011


Box 100 Folder 37

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Questionnaires, 2011

Restricted until 2092


Box 100 Folder 38

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Past material, 2011

Restricted until 2092


Box 100 Folder 39

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Class Plans, 2011

Restricted until 2092


Box 100 Folder 40

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Previous material, 2003

Restricted until 2084


Box 100 Folder 41

[SUNY Albany]--E516 Handouts - Xerox, 2002

Restricted until 2083


Box 100 Folder 42

[SUNY Albany]--E516, 2003 Fall

Restricted until 2084

Writing samples marked accepted or rejected


Box 100 Folder 43

Class Notebooks, unidentified, undated, 2 items

Restricted until 2096

Two class notebooks, unidenfied, but probably for SUNY Albany.


Box 100 Folder 44

Student Work, Past, 1996, undated

Restricted until 2096


Box 100 Folder 45

[Student] Evaluation, 2011

Restricted until 2092

Evaluation of PhD student teaching


Box 100 Folder 46

[Student] Class Observation, 2012

Restricted until 2093

Evaluation of PhD student teaching


Box 100 Folder 47

[Student File], 2012

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 48

[Student File] (Private Student), 2007

Restricted until 2088


Box 100 Folder 51

Masterclass [New York State Writers Institute], 2004

Restricted until 2085


Box 100 Folder 52

Masterclass [New York State Writers Institute], 2005

Restricted until 2088


Box 100 Folder 53

[NYS Writers Institute] Masterclass, Miscellaneous, 2006

Restricted until 2087


Box 100 Folder 54

[NYS Writers Institute] Masterclass, 2007

Restricted until 2088


Box 100 Folder 55

[NYS Writers Institute?] Masterclass, 2008

Restricted until 2089


Box 100 Folder 56

Albany--Writers Institute Master Class, 2008

Restricted until 2089


Box 99 Folder 20

Writers Institute Class--Handouts and Exercises, 2013


Box 100 Folder 57

New York State Writers Institute (W.I.) Class, 2014

Restricted until 2095


Box 100 Folder 58

[Writers Institute?] [Student File], 2015

Restricted until 2096

Davis Master Class student? Seems to have some of his work and maybe his critique letters of other students work?


Box 100 Folder 59

Writers Institute Workshop Class Plan, 2015

Restricted until 2096


Box 100 Folder 60

Writers Institute Readings Lists (Theirs) (Lists of their reading over one year), 2015

Restricted until 2096


Box 100 Folder 61

Writers Institute Past Material, 2015

Restricted until 2096

Past (used) material, Writers Institute Fiction Workshop


Box 99 Folder 21

Material [NYS Writer's Institute?], 2009, undated


Box 100 Folder 62

New York University (NYU) Writing Intensive, 2006

Restricted until 2087


Box 100 Folder 63

New York University--Summer Writing Institute Materials, 2006 June

Restricted until 2087


Box 100 Folder 64

New York University Fiction Workshop, 2009 Spring

Restricted until 2090


Box 100 Folder 65

New York University, 2012 Spring

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 66

New York University Applications, 2012 Spring

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 67

New York University--Class Notebook, 2012 Spring

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 68

New York University--Class Plan [Fiction Workshop], 2012 Spring

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 69

New York University--Questionnaires [Fiction Workshop], 2012 Spring

Restricted until 2093


Box 100 Folder 70

New York University "Process" Handouts (Theirs), Probably 2009 or 2012

Restricted until 2093


Box 99 Folder 22

New York University Master Class, 2016

Series VI: Personal and Biographical Files, 1950s-2021


Subseries VI.1: Biographical, 1970-2005

This subseries contains a few biographical statements and resumes, as well as a file of articles on Davis.


Box 83 Folder 5

Bios and Resumes, 1984-2005


Box 46 Folder 5

Professional Mementoes, 2003

Articles on Davis


Box 83 Folder 6

Resume, 1970

This file contains a redacted copy of the resume; the original contains personal information that is restricted until the death of Davis. The original is filed in Box 94 folder 18.


Box 83 Folder 7

Lydia Davis--Curriculum Vitae, 1983


Box 83 Folder 8

Dictionary of Literary Biography Article by Thad Ziolkowski, 1990s

Entry for Lydia Davis


Subseries VI.2: Address Books, undated, 4 items

This subseries contains four undated address books.


Box 83 Folder 9-11

Address Books, undated, 3 folders


Subseries VI.3: Calendars, 2004, 2016-2021

This subseries contains eleven wall calendars; many years have two calendars.


Box 92 Folder 1-6

Calendars, 2004, 2016-2021, 11 items

Wall calendars; there are two calendars for several years.


Subseries VI.4: Early Writing, 1950s-early 1980s

This is a set of files containing various early writing pieces and drafts of an incomplete novel.


Box 54 Folder 1

Early Writing, 1950s-1960s

Age 9 and teenage poem


Box 54 Folder 2

Early Writing, 1965-1970?


Box 54 Folder 3

Early Writing, 1960-1963?

Includes "The Woods"


Box 54 Folder 4

Writing Pre 1967, 1968 (High School and College, etc.), 1966, undated


Box 46 Folder 1

Lydia's Writing, 1963-1968


Box 54 Folder 5

Music Composition, undated


Box 54 Folder 6

College Schoolwork, 1967

Physics paper on music


Box 46 Folder 2

College Writing, 1965-1966, undated


Box 54 Folder 7

Writing, Late 1960s and Early 1970s

Includes "The House" and small stories and poems


Box 54 Folder 8

Alexia, 1971?, Notebook

Draft of first rough incomplete novel. Never finished.


Box 54 Folder 9

Alexia, 1972?

Draft of novel


Box 54 Folder 10

Henry's Day, 1980s

One act play. Written in Del Mar and performed by friends in 1982-1983 sometime?


Box 54 Folder 11

Journal - Baby, 1976

Journal, and a few pages of writing


Box 54 Folder 12

Porno, 1960s

Per Davis' note - "Written in college with idea of making money - abandoned"


Box 54 Folder 13

The Vase, Before 1963

Poem


Subseries VI.5: School Records and Related Materials, 1961-2014

This subseries contains school records related to Putney School, Barnard College, and Teachers College. It also contains later correspondence and material that relates to these schools.


Box 84 Folder 2

Barnard College Transcripts, etc., 1965-1970


Box 84 Folder 3

Barnard College--School Papers, 1965-1970


Box 84 Folder 4

Columbia University 1968, 2008

Photocopy of Columbia magazine article.


Box 84 Folder 5

Putney School, 1962-1963


Box 84 Folder 6

Putney School, 1962-1965

Includes letters and postcards from Davis and others, clippings, and reports


Box 84 Folder 7

[Putney School, etc.], 1960s

Includes parents' evaluation of Davis at age 13 or 14 for Putney application, and Putney letters (Fall 1963) and additional letters (1964).


Box 46 Folder 6

Putney Mementoes, 1963-1965

Includes diploma


Box 84 Folder 8

Putney School--School Papers, 1963-1965, undated


Box 84 Folder 9

Putney School--Miscellaneous, 1962-1965


Box 84 Folder 10

Putney School--Class of 1965, 1965-1966


Box 84 Folder 11

Putney School--1965 Classmates and Reunion, 2005


Box 84 Folder 12

Putney School--Teachers, undated

Correspondence


Box 46 Folder 7

Putney School--Miscellaneous, 1962-2014


Box 122 Folder 8

Schools, Etc. - Lydia, 1961

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.

Hope Hale Davis (HHD) folder of possible schools for Davis, when the decision was made that she would be leaving Brearley. Includes information about the schools, and about Davis at that age.


Box 84 Folder 13

Teachers College, 1974 Fall

1 semester; work and record


Subseries VI.6: Other, 1960-2011

This contains a small amount of additional personal material relating to Lydia Davis, her parents, her friends, her boyfriends, and Paul Auster.


Box 84 Folder 14

Paul Auster--"A Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems" (Siamese Banana Press), 1972

Unsigned, foxing on cover.


Box 84 Folder 15

Paul Auster--"Time Capsule" Excerpt, 2012

Includes two letter from Auster, and a manuscript with some corrections made by Davis.


Box 46 Folder 8

Bread Loaf, VT, 1960-1961


Box 84 Folder 16

Book List from Move, 2006

Book lists from our move - books and magazines - partial.


Box 84 Folder 17

Don Cheney--"A Farewell: Stories for Lydia", 1983

Pamphlet, with covering letter.


Box 84 Folder 18

Earlier Christmas Card Lists (Up to 2011), 1995-2011


Box 84 Folder 19

Drawings, 1960s

Includes writings and college class notes


Box 84 Folder 20

Early Material, 1960s

Includes library card from time in London, cards from early employment in New York City, list of possessions lost in fire, and poems.


Box 84 Folder 21

France - Next Trip, 2002


Box 84 Folder 22

Friends--Miscellaneous, 1970s, 2009-2011

Fliers, programs, etc.


Box 84 Folder 23

Guardian (London)--Employment Souvenirs, 1967-1968


Box 84 Folder 24

The Guardian material and London year, 1967-1968


Box 46 Folder 9

Hope Hale Davis (HHD) Memorial Tribute, circa 2004


Box 92 Folder 7

Scrapbook, 1963

Scrapbook put together by Davis as a teen containing letters from boyfriends, etc. Davis indicated that the scrapbook could be deconstructed if necessary, and this was done. Pages with her writing have been kept, as well as the letters, but not the cover. The pages are filed in the order that they were received, but many items have come unglued from their original pages and no longer match up with David's handwritten descriptions on the original pages. Original scrapbook pages are fragile.


Box 46 Folder 11

Very Young Mementoes of Lydia--Artwork and Remarks [Legal folder]

"And some drawings from ages 10+ on Brearley notebook papers." Paper is fragile.


Box 85 Folder 1

Writing Paper

Collection of blank stationary, primarily collected by H and R [Davis' parents]

Series VII: Miscellaneous Files, 1947-2019

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.


Box 85 Folder 2

Miscellaneous, 1960s-1980s

Miscellaneous, including personal correspondence. Includes a clipping of the Austers' wedding announcement, unidentified manscript pages, manuscripts for "Meditations on Fossil Life" and "The South", and an unbound copy of The Thirteenth Woman.


Box 85 Folder 3

Miscellaneous - to file, Before 2006 November


Box 85 Folder 4

Miscellaneous Papers ("Misc".), 2009-2016

Includes business correspondence, personal letter from Paul Auster (2009), souvenir of Davis-Armantrout reading (2015), clippings, personal/fan correspondence, royalty statements, review, page by Davis from New Ohio Review, letter request from school children, Davis letter about animal cruelty, and blurb draft/notes


Box 85 Folder 5

Miscellaneous Papers ("Miscellaneous"), 1989-2016

Includes programs, photo xerox, book inscriptions, book summary, book catalog, medical letter, royalty statement, draft letter to mother about writing, letter from friend, email comment (mine) about "Head, Heart," translation word lists (2), notes from 2007 conversation with Marguerite Feitlowitz about Argentina, and Davis changes of a translators (of Can't and Won't?)


Box 85 Folder 6

Miscellaneous Papers ("Miscellaneous LD Papers"), 1977, 2000, 2011-2013

Includes miscellaneous royalties, friend's mailings, notes from agent Denise, notes from conversation with Faulkner about Albany appointment, notes from conversation with FSG, notes on preparing Varieties of Disturbance, notes from conversation with John Siciliano, letter of agreement with Johns Hopkins about Leiris, souvenir - Eliot W. receive Aztec Eagle, notes on Diane Williams; reactions to stories, business letters, letter of reference/recommendation for Connie Bree, notes on conversation with Paul Auster, plan for New York City trip, list of Christmas presents (2011), notes on Klaus Hoffer's translation of Varieties of Disturbance, xeroxes of two Blanchot letters, and note from John d' Agata? Recommendation letter has been separated from this file and restricted.


Box 85 Folder 7

Archives--Miscellaneous, 2011-2019

Material mostly from 2013, 2019. Includes to do lists, business and personal correspondence, and notes about work.


Box 85 Folder 8

Archives--Miscellaneous, 2007-2016

Material includes personal correspondence, correspondence (LD), notes, letter from Edna O'Brien, and to-do lists.


Box 46 Folder 10

To Archive - Unrestricted, 1961-1982

Spring 1964 mostly, and summer 1961. Includes notes and letters, mostly to and from parents Spring 1964, and Davis' early writing - age 8, material written at Bread Loaf age 13, school papers, and teenage years.


Box 86 Folder 1

Miscellaneous Papers (1 of 2), 1984-2006

Topics / items include concert program, library newsletter include LWRD programming, invitations, teaching notes, calendar for 1992, Davis' exercise for Theo's 2nd grade, program for Davis' talk at New York Public Library (2003), Pastor Arlene's newsletters - a different issue was inspiration for story, record of judging, note about form for PreviewPort, review of Noon, published letter to the editor (Davis and Alan Cote), memorial for colleague of Robert Gorham Davis, unifished project, reading program Ear Inn, Oxford memorial, and reviews


Box 86 Folder 2

Miscellaneous Papers (2 of 2), 1962, 1982, 1995-1996, 2006-2014

Topics / items include Abacus - Rae Armantrout (1996), personal correspondence, Davis' correspondence, Brearley classmates, Rae poem, review of Noon, error in TLS wh. I wrote letter about, notes on translation, rough lesson plan for class visit, Lynne Tillman souvenir, translation of Pecly, royalty statements, recommendations, business correspondence, payment info DSLA and other stubs. Recommendation letters have been separated from the file and restricted.


Box 96 Folder 2

Miscellaneous Notes, 2006 or earlier

Index card file, unboxed. Per Davis's note, "from file card box created probably when I lived in Port Ewen (til 2006), labeled "Miscellaneous Notes" (I don't remember referring back to it much - but agree with most of the notes")


Box 96 Folder 3

Unlabelled Card File, undated

This appears to be a card file of books, perhaps of book copies owned by Davis. Index card file. This file was originally in its own plastic card box; it has been rehoused into a new box.


Box 86 Folder 3

Miscellaneous, 1968, 1987, 2001, 2004

Includes early story with rejection letter, financial records, and program


Box 86 Folder 4

Other Miscellaneous, 1960s-2005

Includes earlier drafts of Davis' writing, as well as teaching, translations, interviews, "In the Proximinity of Great Men" with revisions, expenses sheet, ideal schedule, college notes and drawings, poem (Davis') accompanying gift, possible residency, Davis' letters to representations, note son processed local development in Port Ewen area (1990s?), poems of Lorine Niedecker with commentary (2002), text of introduction to Lynne Tillman, earlier draft of Blanchot piece, two drafts of letter to the editor by Davis and Davis and Cote, Davis book review, invitations, and thank you notes.


Box 86 Folder 5

Box for Columbia, 1977, 2003-2008

Letters, included printed emails from family, business/friends, Russell Edson.


Box 86 Folder 6

To Archive - Unrestricted, 1947-1997, 2018

Includes notes - H[ope Hale Davis] on life at 96 Maynard, school paper (Putney), letter about Davis' birth, letters from Rachel Hadas, letters from Eliot W., Davis' writing age 9, H[ope Hale Davis] letters from Argentina, etc.


Box 86 Folder 7

Miscellaneous (Old "To File" Material), 1960s, circa 2009, 2017-2019, undated

Includes R. Sieburth, reviews, miscellaneous correspondence (B Epler, editors, etc.), Careau (related to Lewinter translation), invoice / permissions for Essays One, notes, events Davis participated in, etc.

Series VIII: Publications, circa 1973-2021

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

Men; Two Types.


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

Selfish


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

The Other


Box 101

Antæus (67), 1991 Autumn

The House Behind


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

Foucault and Pencil


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

What Was Interesting


Box 101

Black Clock (16), 2016 Spring/Summer

Bang


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

On Stendhal's alter ego


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

Revise: 1 and Revise: 2


Box 101

Chemin de Ronde (Volume 4), 1984

In French. L'analyse.


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

Enlightened


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

Lord Royston's Tour


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

Happy Memories


Box 118

Conjunctions (38), 2002

Marcel Proust, from The Way by Swann's, translated by Davis. Includes handwritten revisions.


Box 109

Conjunctions (59), 2012

Reversible Story


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

Glenn Gould


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

Letter to the Father


Box 115 Folder 1

Exquisite Corpse (Volume 1, Number 2), 1983 February-March

Mildred and the Oboe


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

Kafka Cooks Dinner


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

New Year's Resolution


Box 102

Freeman, John, ed. Freeman's: Arrival (Grove Press), 2015

On Learning Norwegian


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

Left Luggage


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

The Center of the Story


Box 103

Grand Street (Volume 14, Number 4) (56), 1996 Spring

St. Martin


Box 108

Granta (68), 1999 Winter

The Furnace


Box 108

Granta (115), 2011 Spring

The Dreadful Mucamas


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

Learning to Sing


Box 108

Granta en Español (2), 2004 Verano/Otoño

La Visita a Alemania del Señor Burdoff


Box 108

Granta en Español (4), 2006 Primavera

El lago


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

Nightmare


Box 113 Folder 1

Harper's Magazine, 1986 September

Story


Box 113 Folder 1

Harper's Magazine, 1992 February

The Professor


Box 113 Folder 1

Harper's Magazine, 1993 April

Varities of Disturbance


Box 113 Folder 1

Harper's Magazine, 1997 June

A Second Chance


Box 113 Folder 1

Harper's Magazine, 2000 September

The Old Dictionary


Box 113 Folder 1

Harper's Magazine, 2002 August

Grammar Questions


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

Not Intererested


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

Pardon the Intrusion


Box 113 Folder 3

Harper's Magazine, 2019 January

Addie and the Chili


Box 113 Folder 3

Harper's Magazine, 2019 August

New Things in My Life


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

In French. La lettre


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

The Meeting


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

In Number 3 - The Sock


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

Television Notes


Box 104

Jubilat (33.5), 2018

The Tasters


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

An Ant


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

Our Village (Poem)


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

The Letter


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

Liminal: The Little Man


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

Our Trip


Box 116 Folder 2

Minnesota Daily - Northern Lit Quarterly, 1986 December 8-13

Sixty Cents


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

Thyroid Diary


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

Not Intererested


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

The Language of Armagnac


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

Story


Box 114 Folder 5

Notus (Volume 2, Number 1), 1987 Spring

Clouds in the Sky


Box 104

Oink! (18), 1984

A Few Things Wrong With Me


Box 104

Ottotole (Number 2), 1986/1987 Winter

Jack in the Country


Box 102

The Paris Review (88), 1983 Summer

Break It Down


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

The Seals


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

What Was Interesting


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


Box 92 Folder 10

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.


Box 105

Ploughshares (Volume 41, Number 2), 2015 Summer

Unhappy Christmas Tree


Box 105

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


Box 105

Poetics Journal (Number 3), 1983 May

Coolidge's "Mine"


Box 105

Poetics Journal (Number 6), 1986

Some Notes on Armantrout's "Precedence"


Box 105

Poetry (Volume 201, Number 5), 2013 February

In Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry - "Les Bluets," 1973


Box 105

Poetry (Volume 203, Number 1), 2013 October

Translations of Pierre Reverdy's Afternoon; At the Edge of Time; Live Flesh; Clock


Box 105

The Quarterly (22), 1992 Summer

Lydia Davis to Q


Box 115 Folder 2

Quick Fiction (Issue 10), 2006

A Different Man


Box 105

Raster (Number 122), 2007

In Dutch. Bijna geen herinnering.


Box 115 Folder 2

Red Weather (Number 2), [1987]

Cockroaches in Autumn


Box 117 Folder 1

Salon Magazine Website, 1997 June

Part of "Mothers Who Think". Includes an interview and the story "The Professor"


Box 105

Salt Hill Journal (3), 1996-1997 Winter

Finances; This Condition


Box 105

Salt Hill Journal (30), 2013

Circular Story; Grade Two Assignment; Short Conversation (in Airport Departure Lounge); Grandpa Bent and the Creation of Narrative


Box 115 Folder 2

Satori (Volume 3, Number 3), 1990 Autumn

The Force of the Subliminal


Box 106

Schreibheft (60), 2003 April

In German. Was interessant ist.


Box 116 Folder 4

El Seminario Cultural (Volume 21, Number 1056), 2002 Julio 14

In Spanish. Liminal: el pequeño hombre.


Box 116 Folder 4

El Seminario Cultural (Volume 21, Number 1058), 2002 Julio 22

In Spanish. Dos hermanas.


Box 106

Série d'écriture (Number 3), 1989

Translation from Jean Frémon's Due


Box 115 Folder 3

Shiny (Number 11), 2000

Money; Childcare; Jury Duty


Box 115 Folder 3

Shiny (Number 13), 2005

Passing Wind


Box 115 Folder 3

Shiny (Number 14), 2008

How Shall I Mourn Them?


Box 106

Southern Humanities Review (Volume 33, Number 1), 1999 Winter

Remember the Van Wagenens (Essay)


Box 106

Stooge (Number 9), [1973 or 1974]

The Brother-In-Law; The Mother


Box 106

Subaru Monthly, 2001 July

In Japanese. St. Martin.


Box 106

Sulfur (6), 1983

The Mouse


Box 106

Sulfur (15), 1986

Includes translations of Michel Leiris


Box 106

Sulfur (45/46 - The Final Issue), 2000 Spring

Priority; Her Damage


Box 106

Sun (Volume V, Number 1), 1983 Winter

The Tasters; Safe Love; Tourist in the Everglades


Box 115 Folder 4

Tammy (Issue 3), 2014

By Davis: Two Characters in a Paragraph; Two Undertakers. Also, translations of A. L. Snijders Baalbek; Box; ULK.


Box 115 Folder 4

Tartine (10), 1993 Juin

In French. Une heure et 20 sculptures.


Box 106

Third Coast (Issue 38/39), 2015 Winter

Translation of A. L. Snijder's Crime Passionel; A Brute, a Little Treasure


Box 116 Folder 4

The Threepenny Review, 2014 Spring

The Letter to the Foundation


Box 111

Tin House (Volume 2, Number 3), 2001 Spring

Letter to a Funeral Parlor


Box 111

Tin House (Volume 7, Number 4), 2006 Summer

Eating Fish Alone


Box 111

Tin House (Volume 12, Number 1), 2010 Fall

Gustave Flaubert, excerpt from Madame Bovary translated by Davis


Box 107

TriQuarterly (87), 1993 Spring/Summer

Meat and My Husband


Box 115 Folder 4

Tweeds (Issue 2), 2014

Energy in Color: On the Recent Paintings of Alan Cote (Essay)


Box 106

Two Lines (Issue 22), 2015 Spring

By Davis - Learning Dutch (Essay). Translations of A. L. Snijder's On the Rebound; Walking.


Box 106

Upstreet (Number 5), 2009

An Awkward Situation


Box 106

Vestoj (Issue 5), 2014

What an Old Woman Will Wear


Box 115 Folder 4

Vinduet (Number 3), 2009

In Norwegian. Fortellinger av Lydia Davis: Enestående; Det Hun Visste; Utflukten; Foucault Og Blyant


Box 106

VQR, 2017 Winter

In a Hotel Room in Ithaca; Not Much to Tell; Community Notice: Redundancy Example #4; Sneezes on the Train


Box 106

VQR, 2019 Summer

"A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked" on Literary Forms and Influences


Box 106

VQR, 2020 Fall

How He Changed Over Time


Box 107

Washington Square, 2009 Summer/Fall

Translations of Peter Altenberg's Autumn in Semmering; The Fire


Box 107

Washington Square, 2012 Winter/Spring

Translations of A. L. Snijders' The Feral Cat; Minor Characters; Jesus


Box 107

Washington Square Review (Number 38), 2016 Fall

Translation of Peter Bichsel's Old Age, Years, Companions of the Same Birth Year


Box 106

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


Box 107

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


Box 118

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.


Box 107

The World (Number 52), 1996

A Position at the University; The Family


Box 107

The Yale Journal of Criticism (Volume 8, Number 2), 1995 Fall

Michel Leiris - Excerpt from Scraps edited and translated by Davis


Box 107

The Yale Review (Volume 92, Number 2), 2004 April

Loaf or Hot Water Bottle: Closely Translating Proust (Essay)


Box 107

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.


Box 118

Conjunctions (11), [1988]

There are some handwritten revisions and notes on revisions in Confusions.


Box 118

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 118

Conjunctions (38), 2002

Marcel Proust, from The Way by Swann's, translated by Davis. Includes handwritten revisions.


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 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 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 118

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.


Box 117

580 Split (Issue 19), 2017

Interview by Deborah Sherman


Box 116 Folder 5

Believer (50th Issue), 2008 January

Interview - Davis on Samuel Beckett


Box 117

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.


Box 116 Folder 1

Bookforum, 2003 Fall

Interview; primarily related to translating Marcel Proust.


Box 117

Contemporary Literature (Volume 40, Number 4), 1999 Winter

Interview by Christopher Knight


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 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. Includes an interview with Davis by Sarah Winterfield.


Box 117

The Gihon River Review (Volume 17), 2011 Fall

Interview by Gabrielle Loux


Box 117

La Granada 5, 2014

In Norwegian. Interview by Ingrid Melfald Hafredal.


Box 117

The Interrobang (Issue 3), 2007 Fall

Interview by Lena Valencia and Risa Kahn


Box 117

Meridian (Issue 21), 2008 May

Interview by Drew Johnson and Will Boast


Box 117

Meridian (Issue 38), 2017 Winter

Interview by Caitlin Fitzpatrick


Box 116 Folder 5

Objecktiv (Number 12), [2015?]

Interview by Nina Strand - primarily on Knud Knudsen, a Norwegian photographer. In English.


Box 117

The Paris Review (212), 2015 Spring

Interview


Box 116 Folder 5

Rain Taxi (Volume 14, Number 1), 2009 Spring

Interview by Leonard Schwartz


Box 116 Folder 5

Rapportage (Volume XI), 2008

Interview / Article on; by Melissa Kashner


Box 117

Rediviper (Volume 8, Issue 2), 2011 Spring/Summer

Interview by Brooks Sterritt


Box 117

The Reflector (50th Anniversary), 2007

Interview by Michael Manis. Davis notes that there are inaccuracies in the intro, made handwritten annotations.


Box 117 Folder 1

Salon Magazine Website, 1997 June

Part of "Mothers Who Think". Includes an interview and the story "The Professor"


Box 117

Tin House (Volume 10, Number 1), 2008 Fall

Includes Davis' answers to "Three Questions"


Box 117

Upstreet (Number 2), 2006

Interview by Frank Tempone


Box 117

The White Review (30), 2021 March

Interview


Subseries VIII.4: Publications with Reviews / Mentions of Davis' Work, 1977-2009

This subseries contains publications with reviews or other mentions of Davis' work.


Box 116 Folder 1

The American Book Review (Volume II, Number 2), 1979 October

Includes review of Davis' translation of Maurice Blanchot's Death Sentence.


Box 116 Folder 1

Belles Lettres, 1987 November/December

Includes review of Break It Down.


Box 116 Folder 2

Context (Number 6), 2001

Includes "Reading Lydia Davis" that includes reviews of her work.


Box 116 Folder 2

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.


Box 116 Folder 3

The New Yorker, 1995 June 12

Hilton Als' review of The End of the Story


Box 114 Folder 5

Nit & Wit, 1987 April

Break It Down included in "The Top Ten 1986 Short Story Collections"


Box 116 Folder 3

Poets & Writers Magazine, 1999 January/February

Included in Roger Gathman's essay, "How the Novel Imagines Us."


Box 116 Folder 4

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.


Box 116 Folder 4

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.

Series IX: Digital Files, 1990s, early 2000s?

Digital files remain on their original disks and are not readily available for use; please contact the Rare Book & Manuscript Library in advance of your visit to discuss access options.

Although Davis dated the computer disks as being from the 1990s, as few items appear to be from the early 2000s.


Diskettes from Kaypro Computer (Large Box), 1990s


Box 93

Lincoln / Stories (incl. "in progess") - Postal Service / Burning / Grammar / Vi and Helen / Port Ewen House / Kafka / Jane / CV / pub / Bone / Burdoff / McS Diary / Ack / Executor / Maid / Ringlawner, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Proust/Translation - memprogram / steinke / Prstconj / conjpref / prgrieve / newtrans.css / prpequad / SuTaks, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Essays or Talks / Jesus Seminar / HH Debit / memorg / Dahlberg / Cornell / Proust Talk (Library) / Proust Talk #2 (Albany) / Proust Talk #3 / Moncrieff / Aland Cote / Proust Talk Ox.doc / Swedish Talkes (Noon) / McSweeney's Diary / Moncrieff 2 / swdexpt.doc / animals / syntax / political drafts / Pt Ewen House / Rae art. articles, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Untitled Book (Final) #1-3 / Proust Talk (Paris) / Proust Alphabet - S, B, D, Z / Proust's Bedruan / cahier material - Ade bio, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Swann Intro - Preface to The Way by Swann's (3 versions) / Prrev (revisions) / Prrev 2 / Conj - pp. 232-243 / Intro revisions, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Family, 1 3.5" floppy disk

Includes biographies, chronologies, genealogy information for Davis and her parents


Box 93

Phébus bios / Subm.Tolling / biblioinfo / Animal Trouble / Wedding / Rael's process / Lincoln / Fourth Graders / Dog + Me (2) / Noon subm / Vi / Wedding / Going South (FN) + other, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Lesson - Pierre / Biblio / materials / Organization / Sentences / Comments / Pierre-Lesson, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

desc.St. Martins / dashes / "Two Translators" / Vi (3/6) / Putney image (photo) / 32 poems / Bibliography / unpub.stories list / What You Learn / Mrs. D (rev.), 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Journals - Journal '72 (Ireland) / Chronology / Journal May 72 (St. Martin, Paris, England) / Journal July 72 / Journal Jan 73 / Journal 72 back matter / Quotes, 1 3.5" floppy disk

Journals are restricted at this time.


Box 93

Theo's pix! / CV / Deb Olin Unferth stories / Bouvier rec. / Razi rec / Two Translators (3/7), 1 3.5" floppy disk

Recommendation letters are restricted for 75 years


Box 93

Essays - Tom Sawyer / Blanchot.tri / Proust correx / Prvoice.doc / Swed Tales (book), 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

[Leriris: Fibril] Rules of the Game III: Fibrils by Michel Leiris tr by Lydia Davis, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

CVs (3) / Application Letters / Greggapp / Recs: Morrow, Scidman, Nunez / Ack (ANM) / HValleyWriters / website (material), 1 3.5" floppy disk

Recommendation letters are restricted for 75 years


Box 93

SJII[?] Material / Stendhal / Swedish Tales (Defective Disk?), 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Lydia's Interviews, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Proust in shorter sections, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Leiris: Fibrilles / Leiris 01 (Whole Book), 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Interview - Rae Armantrout and Lydia Davis, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Recommendations and Blurbs: Berlin; Berlin 2 (Lannan); Schutt; Williams; Tillman; Stadler; Glück; Ha Jin, 1 3.5" floppy disk

Recommendation letters are restricted for 75 years


Box 93

Newspaper Articles and Letters / Columns / X-mas gifts / fatty menus, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

"Mrs. D" (revised) / A's pix 027 / The Walk.revised / A Strange Impulse, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Stories: Frances; Travel; Difficult ; Capsled; Royston; Examples; Act.fLeve; Trouble; Selfish; Mysm; Curie; Our Trip; Company; Betrayed; Betrayal (2-store); Getting Better; Boring; Happy Mems; Jane; Absent; Ack.; Beth.; Fish Alone; and many others. NYRB letter., 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

The Cows / Dreadful Mucamas [?] / Proust Talk Paris / Recent Stories 3/08, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Stories (1/06): Wedding (rev.); Two Translators / Madame Bovary (2nd Draft), 1 3.5" floppy disk


Diskettes from Kaypro Computer (Small Box, no label), 1990s


Box 93

Madame Bovary , 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

McKendry - Dana, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Burning Family Members / Reducing Expenses / Dear President of - / The Walk (revised) / East Nassau / Ways / Dreams / Alphabet / Blanchot / Who I am Sounds, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Contingous / French vocab / PrChic.doc / Lew Terrey? / Ben Ellis / Chris Ritchie / Brian Sweeney / Tom Wilk, 1 3.5" floppy disk

Recommendation letters are restricted for 75 years


Box 93

Proust: Chez Swann, 2 3.5" floppy disks


Box 93

Unlabelled, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Taxes - Income 04 and other tax stuff / Edsmith2.rec / Nunez letter to MacArthur / Chilton letter, 1 3.5" floppy disk

Tax information is restricted. Recommendation letters are restricted for 75years.


Box 93

Readings / Recs / Taxes / Translating (uncoll.) / Revision.note:StM. Translation (beginnings) / Writing habit / Pynchon / letters (3) of comp. / Letters to ed and misc., 1 3.5" floppy disk

Tax information is restricted. Recommendation letters are restricted for 75years.


Box 93

Filled with stuff I don't recognize - "systems files" full?, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Diskettes from Kaypro Computer (Small Box, with paper IBM label), 1990s


Box 93

#2 (8-10) Hopewell, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

"Fourth Graders" (L.) / Enlightened / Not formatted(?), 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

Pt. Ewen house / Pauline F. / NYRB letter (final draft) / 32 poems (2) / Traveling from B., 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

McKendry material #2 / war letters 2 / full, 1 3.5" floppy disk


Box 93

McKendry - Dana files / full (12/07), 1 3.5" floppy disk