Paul Bowles papers, 1940-1988

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 Bowles to "mon cher Boujemaa", circa 1963?


Box 1 Bowles to M. Dirk Claus, 1964 March 06


Box 1 Bowles to Ira Cohen, 1963-1977, 76 folders


Box 1 Bowles to Frank Roberts, 1969


Box 1 Bowles to Irving Stettner, 1986-1988, 4 folders


Box 1 Mrabet, Mohammed to Irving Stettner, 1986 May 11

In the hand of Paul Bowles

Series II: Manuscripts and Printed Material


Box 1 "Anteaeus" Vol 2, 1971


Box 1 "Anteaeus" Vol 3, 1971


Box 1 Interview, 1965

Fragments of transcribed interview. Incomplete, unpublished, unnumbered and in no order.


Box 1 Notebook, undated

Thermofax copies of 12 holograph pages of a Paul Bowles notebook


Box 1 "The Garden", undated


Box 1 "Post-Colonial Interlude in Tangier", undated


Box 1 Notes on Moroccan Hypnotic Music, undated


Box 1 Poems, 1940 September


Box 1 "The Bloodrinker" by Mohammed Mrabett

Transcribed from Mogrhebi by Paul Bowles

Series III: Audio Material


Box 1 "Wet and Dry", circa June 17, 1968, 1 open reel audiotapes; (3-inch spool of half-inch audio tape, labelled "3 3/4")

Labelled "Tape of Original Composition 'Wet and Dry' Paul Bowles." Described in letter to Ira Cohen dated June 17 1968