This small series holds correspondence between Cornell Woolrich and his friend William Thailing. The letters span the bulk of Woolrich's life. Of interest are several cancelled checks made out to Woolrich as payment for twelve stories, including his first story in a pulp magazine.
Box 1 Folder 1
Checks, 1934-1940
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence, 1952-1958, 1968, 1952-1958, 1968
Box 1 Folder 3
Last Will and Testament, 1961-1965
Box 1
Dodd, Mead, and Co. Correspondence and Contracts, 1956-1958
Series II contains drafts of several novels, plays, and a run of short stories. There are also portions of Woolrich's unpublished "autobiography."
Blues of a Lifetime
Box 1 Folder 4
"Remington Portable NC69411,", undated
Box 1 Folder 5
"The Poor Girl,", undated
Box 1 Folder 6
"Even God Felt the Depression" and "President Eisenhower's Speech,", undated
Box 1 Folder 7
"The Maid Who Played the Races," undated (notes), undated
Box 1 Folder 8
Cover Charge, undated (play), undated
Box 1 Folder 9 to 10
Hotel Room
, undated, (2 Folders)
I Was Waiting for You
Box 1 Folder 11
"I Was Waiting for You,", undated
Box 1 Folder 12
"New York Blues" and "Two Lives,", undated
Box 2 Folder 1
Into the Night--Notes, 1950s
Box 2 Folder 2
Into the Night--Draft, 1950s
King Features Syndicated Articles
Box 2 Folder 3
"The Murderer's Story,", 1937
Box 2 Folder 4
"Endicott's Girl,", 1938
Box 2 Folder 5
"Murder Does Its Homework,", 1941
Box 2 Folder 6
"Double-Life,", 1943
Box 2 Folder 7
"Death Wins the Sweepstakes,", 1947 October 6
Box 2 Folder 8
"Mystery in Room 913,", 1947 October 13
Box 2 Folder 9
"Death Holds the Downbeat,", 1947 November
Box 2 Folder 10
"Accessory to Murder,", 1948
Box 2 Folder 11
"The Case of the Body in Grant's Tomb,", 1949 January
Box 2 Folder 12
"Case of the Lying Son,", 1949 November
Box 2 Folder 13
"Murder before the Camera,", 1955
Box 2 Folder 14
"Murder in the Dark Blue Night,", 1956
Box 2 Folder 15
"The Corpse in the Statue of Liberty,", 1957
Box 2 Folder 16
The Loser
, undated
Box 2 Folder 17
Miscellaneous Fragments, undated
Box 2 Folder 18
The Moon of Montezuma
, [1949-1960]
Box 3 Folder 1
Night Has a Thousand Eyes--Part I, 1940s
Box 3 Folder 2
Night Has a Thousand Eyes--Part II, 1940s
Box 4
Nine Nights in a New York Hotel. Printed book, with holograph corrections. New York, late 1950s, 1 volume
This is Cornell Woolrich's own copy of Hotel Room, as published by Random House in 1958, with his manuscript changes to the book. Acquired with the book are typescripts of two new stories that Woolrich intended to have included in a new, never published edition: Episode 2, "The Fiancee without Future (1900)," and Episode 3, "The Fault-Finder (1915)." Woolrich changed the title of the book and the titles of each chapter, created a new table of contents with the two new stories, and changed "Cornell Woolrich" to "William Irish," one of his pseudonyms. The Random House publication does not include two of the stories listed in the typescript shown below: Chapter 7, "The Night of May 12th, 1935," and Chapter 8, "The Night of September 20th, 1937."
Box 3 Folder 3
Somebody Else's Life, 1958 (television play), 1958
Box 3 Folder 4
Wardrobe Trunk, 1958 (radio play), 1958
Waltz into Darkness
Box 3 Folder 5
Part I, 1940s
Box 3 Folder 6
Part II, 1940s
Box 3 Folder 7
Part III, 1940s