Box 7
Angels on Toast--Manuscript, circa 1940
Box 29 Folder 11-13
The Bride's House--Manuscript and Notes, circa 1929
This was received in a 3 ring binder that was in very poor condition and rusting. Pages have been taken out of binder and put in folders.
Box 29 Folder 14
A Cage for Lovers--Notes, Manuscript Pages, circa 1957
Page of typescript notes on the novel, with some typescript pages.
Dance Night, circa 1930
The Golden Spur, circa 1962
Box 7
Manuscript
Box 31 Folder 1
Manuscript Pages and Notes
Handwritten notes, manuscript pages.
Box 31 Folder 2
Notes, 1958
Box 31 Folder 3
Notes
Box 31 Folder 4
Outline and Character Sketches
Box 31 Folder 5
Typescript Pages
Miscellaneous typescript pages.
Box 29 Folder 15
The Happy Island--Manuscript, circa 1938
The Locusts Have No King, circa 1948
Marcia (Unpublished), circa 1944
See Also: My Home is Far Away
Box 31 Folder 8-11
Synopsis and Drafts
Box 31 Folder 12
Outline and Manuscript Pages
Box 7
Manuscript
Box 31 Folder 13
Chapter 1
Box 31 Folder 14
Chapter 2
Box 31 Folder 15
Chapter 3
Box 31 Folder 16
Chapters 1-3, and Pages 73-74
Box 31 Folder 17
Miscellaneous Pages
Various pages, organized into groups of "Odd 50s" and so forth.
Box 31 Folder 18
Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Notes
Appears to include some unrelated materials.
Box 31 Folder 19
Marcia Villard--Notes
My Home is Far Away, circa 1944
Box 32 Folder 9-11
The Story of a Country Boy--Original Manuscript, circa 1934
Manuscript; appears mostly complete.
Box 7
Summer Rose (Unpublished)--Manuscript, circa 1963-1965
A Time to be Born, circa 1942
Turn, Magic Wheel, circa 1936
Box 35 Folder 1
Synopsis
Entitled "The Hunter's Wife". File includes the synopsis and an untitled short story.
Box 35 Folder 2-4
Manuscripts and Notes
Manuscripts and notes, various versions.
Box 7
Whither--Manuscript, circa 1922-1925
The Wicked Pavillion, circa 1954
Box 7
Manuscript
Box 34 Folder 1
Outlines, etc.
Box 34 Folder 2
Descriptive Page
Short typescript paragraph on the novel, with corrections, perhaps written as a publicity blurb.
Box 7
Untitled Manuscript
Box 33 Folder 1
Big Night, circa 1928-1933
Short manuscript with note stating "Theory for Big Night - a play", with some other notes.
Box 7
Big Night, circa 1928-1933
Box 33 Folder 2-3
Brooklyn Widow / West Side Widow, undated
Box 33 Folder 4
Brooklyn Widow / West Side Widow, undated
Synopses, and miscelleneous typescript pages.
Box 33 Folder 5
Brooklyn Widow / West Side Widow--Act I, undated
Box 7
Deenie
Box 33 Folder 6-7
Every Other Day, undated
Includes pages with the "cast of characters" found elsewhere in Powell's papers. See Also: Made in Heaven and Rosy Future.
Box 7
The Golder Spur
Box 34 Folder 3-7
The Golden Spur Musical, circa 1961-1964
Box 7
Goody Goody Goody!
Box 7
I'm Looking for a Lady, 1917
Box 78
Jigsaw: A Play (New York: Farrar & Rinehart), 1933, 1934
Inscribed to Mabel by Dawn Powell. With dust jacket.
Box 7
John Henry Speaks, circa 1919
Box 34 Folder 8
John Henry Speaks (New York: The Womans Press), 1919
By Charlotte Johnson and Dawn Powell. Copyright, 1919, by Charlotte Johnson.
Box 34 Folder 9
Just Like That, undated
Manuscript pages. Incomplete.
Box 7
Key West Play
Box 35 Folder 5-6
Lion and the Lizard, undated
Drafts. Much of the paper is fragile on the edges: it was stored in too small a folder for many years.
Box 35 Folder 7
Lion and the Lizard, 1937
Box 33 Folder 8
Made in Heaven, undated
Typescript is titled "From A to Z" with a handwritten note that this is "Made in Heaven." Typescript with corrections. See Also: Every Other Day and Rosy Future.
Box 33 Folder 9
Made in Heaven, undated
Typescript. Includes two negatives. See Also: Every Other Day and Rosy Future.
Box 33 Folder 10
Made in Heaven, undated
Typescript. See Also: Every Other Day and Rosy Future.
Box 7
No Cure for the Common Doctor
Box 34 Folder 10-11
The Picture Window, undated
Box 36 Folder 1-4
Red Dress, circa 1937-1938
Box 33 Folder 11-12
Rosy Future, undated
See Also: Every Other Day and Made in Heaven.
Box 35 Folder 9
The Two Ladies, undated
Box 37 Folder 1
Walking Down Broadway, undated
Box 37 Folder 2
Wedding Ring, undated
Box 36 Folder 5-8
Women at Four o'clock, undated
See Also: "Women at Five o'clock" in Short Stories.
Box 37 Folder 3
Play--Incomplete, undated
Box 37 Folder 4
Play--Incomplete, undated
Box 37 Folder 5
Plays--Miscellaneous Typescript Pages, undated
Box 38 Folder 3
Analysis, 1959
Includes rejection letter from Redbook.
Box 38 Folder 4
April in Manhattan, 1947
Includes cover letter from her agent, Carl Brandt.
Box 38 Folder 5
The Benzedrine Mambo, undated
Box 38 Folder 6
Between Dances, undated
Box 38 Folder 7
Bon Voyage, undated
Box 38 Folder 8
Bon Voyage (New Yorker), 1933
Clipping from New Yorker magazine.
Box 38 Folder 9
Bon Voyage Doesn't Mean Goodbye, undated
Box 38 Folder 10
Can't We Cry a Little?, undated
Box 38 Folder 11
Can't We Cry a Little? (New Yorker), 1940
Box 38 Folder 12
Celebrating a Greenwich Village Christmas Idyll (Chicago Tribune, Magazine of Books), 1963
Box 38 Folder 13
Christmas Pig in a Poke (Promenade), 1950 December
Clipping of published story.
Box 38 Folder 14
The Color of Her Eyes, undated
Box 38 Folder 15
Congressional Limited and New York Scene: The Happy Miller, 1944, undated
Clippings of published stories.
Box 38 Folder 16
The Daisy Chain (New Yorker), circa 1933
Typescript. Published in the New Yorker, 1933.
Box 38 Folder 17
Darling, How Marvellous! (Promenade), 1943
Clipping of published story.
Box 38 Folder 18
Dinner on the Rocks, undated
Published, Esquire Magazine.
Box 38 Folder 19
Dream Come True, undated
Box 38 Folder 20
Dynamite at the Office, 1930s
Typescript. Note on piece indicates that it was published in Pagaent or Coronet in the 1930s.
Box 38 Folder 21
The Elephant Hunters, undated
Box 38 Folder 22
The Elopers, undated
Box 38 Folder 23
The Elopers (Saturday Evening Post), 1963
Clipping of the published story.
Box 38 Folder 24
Enter Two Girls, Laughing, undated
Box 38 Folder 25-26
Ernest's Experience, undated
Box 38 Folder 27
Everything is a Wife, 1960
Box 38 Folder 28
Florida Unlimited, undated
Box 80
Fragments of Love (Fawcett Digest), 1946
Magazine with published story.
Box 38 Folder 29
Fragments of Love, 1940s
Clipping of published story.
Box 38 Folder 30
The Genius and the Mermaid, undated
Box 38 Folder 31
Genius on Wheels, undated
Box 38 Folder 32
The Gentleman of the Road, undated
Box 38 Folder 33
Gentleman Lost: Medium Height, Blue Eyes, 1920s or 1930s
Typescript. Note indicates that it was written in 1926, and published in Red Book in the 1930s.
Box 38 Folder 34
The Ghost Hangs High (Mademoiselle), circa 1942-1945
Clipping of published story.
Box 38 Folder 35
The Good Manager, 1950, undated
Box 38 Folder 36
The Gourmet, undated
Note indicates this was published; publication unknown.
Box 38 Folder 37
Gourmet Anonymous (Promenade Magazine), 1951 March
Magazine with published story.
Box 38 Folder 38
The Gravy Girls, 1952
Box 38 Folder 39
Green Bananas, undated
Box 38 Folder 40
Gypsy Love (Harper's Bazaar), undated
Box 80
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Nota Bene) (Lake Erie College Press), 1964
Magazine with reprinted published story. Nota Bene is a literary annual published by Lake Erie College.
Box 39 Folder 1
Honeymoon, undated
Box 39 Folder 2
I'm Glad She's Happy, undated
Box 39 Folder 3
In Quest of the Ugly Dryad, undated
Box 39 Folder 4
Lady Novelist, undated
Box 39 Folder 5
Last Week of Summer / A Man to Show, undated
Includes these two stories, and various other pages.
Box 39 Folder 6
Laughing Water, undated
Box 39 Folder 7
Laughing Water, undated
Box 39 Folder 8
A Letter from Peter (Town and Country), 1938
Typescript. Published in Town and Country in September 1938.
Box 39 Folder 9
Living Up to Marjie (The Portal), 1922
July 15, 1922 issue of The Portal.
Box 39 Folder 10
Lovers Again, undated
Box 39 Folder 11
Low Down, undated
Box 39 Folder 12
Married Men, undated
Typescript, 14 pages. Last page is damaged and missing a portion of the page. Typescript appears incomplete.
Box 39 Folder 13
Masked Ball, 1946, undated
Box 39 Folder 14
Masked Ball, circa 1946
Fragments and notes. Title on folder is "Masked Ball" but it is unclear if material is in fact related to the story.
Box 39 Folder 15
Matinal, undated
Box 39 Folder 16
Mermaid in the Punchbowl, undated
Box 39 Folder 17
Mr. Gay, undated
Box 39 Folder 18
Mr. Plum and Mrs. Spring, undated
Box 39 Folder 19
The Nefarious Triangle (Today's Woman), 1949
Clipping of published story. Note on clipping indicates that its original title may have been "The Olive Twig"
Box 39 Folder 20
Now He Tells Me, undated
Box 39 Folder 21
Now is the Time, undated
Box 39 Folder 22
The Old Folks at Home, undated
Box 39 Folder 23
The Old Folks at Home (Weekend Magazine), 1955 November 18
Clipping of published story.
Box 39 Folder 24
Old Man Meditating on Two Skulls and Other Papers, undated
Typescript pages for this story, and various other pages.
Box 39 Folder 25
Ostrich Plumes, undated
Box 39 Folder 26
Out of the Woods, undated
Box 39 Folder 27
Pastorale, undated
Box 39 Folder 28
The Pathetic Fallacy, 1952
Box 39 Folder 29
The Pentwhistle Plan, undated
Box 39 Folder 30
Philander Dodd and the Mushroom, circa 1917
Box 39 Folder 31
Picture Postcard, undated
Box 40 Folder 1
Promenade Magazine, 1940s
Includes clippings of the stories, "Congressional Limited," and "The Lion of the Occasion," "Merry Christmas Yourself, and with Bells," "The Story Thus Far," and "Innocent Deceiver." Most of these were published in Promenade.
Box 40 Folder 2
Remember Sweet Alice, undated
Box 40 Folder 3
Remember Sweet Alice, undated
Box 40 Folder 4
The Renee Story, undated
Box 40 Folder 5
To the Rescue of Art, circa 1914-1918
Note in file indicates that this was written at Erie College. Paper is fragile.
Box 40 Folder 6
Ride Through the Night, undated
Box 40 Folder 7
The Run-Through (Town and Country), circa 1939
Typescript. Note that an abbreviated version of the story was published by Town and Country in 1938 or 1939.
Box 40 Folder 8
Slow Burn, undated
Box 40 Folder 9
Snappy Stories and Droll Munseys, 1920-1925
Clippings of published stories by Powell. Clippings are extremely fragile.
Box 40 Folder 10
Solitaire, undated
Box 40 Folder 11
Stars in My Eyes (Mademoiselle), 1947
Clipping of published story.
Box 40 Folder 12
Staten Island, I Love You, circa 1965
Box 75 Folder 5
Staten Island, I Love You, 1965 October
Esquire magazine, October 1965 issue. Includes the published story as a "Pictured Essay" which includes related pictures of Staten Island created by other artists.
Box 40 Folder 13
Switch to Champagne, undated
Box 40 Folder 14
Take Mrs. Blake, undated
Box 40 Folder 15
That Was Broadway, undated
Box 40 Folder 16
Velvet Glove, undated
Box 40 Folder 17
Vesuvius, Anyone?, undated
Box 40 Folder 18
Village Piece--Drafts, undated
Box 40 Folder 19
Weekend in Town, undated
Box 40 Folder 20
Weekend in Town (New York Post), 1964
Clipping of the published story.
Box 40 Folder 21
What Are You Doing in My Dreams?, undated
Published in Vogue Magazine.
Box 75 Folder 6
What Are You Doing in My Dreams? (Vogue), 1963 October 1
Vogue Magazine, October 1, 1963 issue, which includes the published story.
Box 40 Folder 22-23
Winter Sport, undated
Box 41 Folder 1-2
Women at Five o'clock, undated
The original title may have been "Women at Four o'clock." See Also: "Women at Four o'clock" in Plays.
Box 41 Folder 3
Young Arthur in Town, undated
Box 40 Folder 24
You've No Idea… (Woman's Home Companion), 1947
Clipping of the published story. Original title was "The Scenery and Miss McGill".
Box 40 Folder 25
You've No Idea (The Scenery and Miss McGill), undated
Typescript, titled "The Scenery and Miss McGill." See Also: "You've No Idea…" and Short Stories--Miscellaneous
Box 41 Folder 4
Short Story--Untitled, undated
Box 41 Folder 5
Short Story--Untitled, undated
Box 41 Folder 6
Short Story--Untitled, undated
Box 41 Folder 7
Short Story--Untitled, undated
Box 41 Folder 8-10
Short Story--Untitled Drafts, undated
Box 41 Folder 11-22
Short Stories--Untitled Drafts, some incomplete, undated
Box 41 Folder 23
Short Story--Incomplete, undated
Typescript, pp. 2-8. Title page is missing.
Box 41 Folder 24
Short Stories--Miscellaneous, undated
Includes a mixture of titled and untitled pages. Includes title pages for "A Million Hazel Browns," "The Judge's Story."
Box 41 Folder 25
Short Stories--Miscellaneous, 1940, undated
Includes "Debutante's Corner," "I Could Cry," "Dark Glasses," "House Afire," "The Run-Through, notes for a story entitled "My Late Husband," "Nights Were Blue," as well as some untitled pages and another version of "The Scenery and Miss McGill."
Box 41 Folder 26
Short Stories--Miscellaneous, circa 1952
Includes "In My Day" and untitled pages.
Box 41 Folder 27
Short Stories--Miscellaneous Notes, undated