Dawn Powell papers, 1890s-2012, bulk 1890s-1965
Dawn Powell papers, 1890s-2012, bulk 1890s-1965
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1019
- Bib ID:
- 4079881 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Powell, Dawn
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 40 linear feet (73 document boxes, 4 half-sized document boxes, 6 record cartons, 3 flat boxes, 1 cassette box)
- Language(s):
- English .
- 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.
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The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 5-85. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Boxes 68, 70, 71, and 72 are missing as of 8.4.2023 and unavailble for use. CCR.
Description
Summary
Dawn Powell (1896-1965) was an American author of novels, plays, and short stories. The collection includes address books, appointment books, artwork, books, clippings, correspondence, diaries, ephemera, family materials, manuscripts, notes, notebooks, photographs, programs, research files, reviews, and scrapbooks.
The collection contains a great deal of correspondence, but it is scattered throughout the collection. Series I: Cataloged Correspondence was processed and arranged in the 1990s at the item level, with personal, family, and professional correspondence being arranged by name and then by date. Other correspondence was processed and arranged at the file level, and is filed in Series II: Arranged Correspondence and Series IX: Family Materials. There are also files in Series IV and Series X that include correspondence.
The papers include many manuscripts and typescripts of Powell's published and unpublished works. These materials can be found in Series III: Manuscripts and Related Materials. Where it is known that a work has multiple titles, these are noted in the finding aid, but these notes are not exhaustive, particularly for short stories. Series III also include copies of published plays and clippings of published articles, plays, reviews, and short stories. The collection also includes copies of many of Powell's published novels and these can be found in Series VII: Books.
Powell's professional files in Series IV: Professional Files include general clippings files and subject files. These include articles on Powell, contracts, correspondence, financial information, programs, remarks, and reviews of Powell's books and plays. Most subject files are related to specific projects or works. Files kept by Powell's executrix, Jacqueline Miller Rice, are also filed in Series IV, and include correspondence, financial, and legal records related to her handling of the estate from the 1960s-1990s.
The collection also includes a large amount of photographs, primarily personal and professional photographs of Powell, her family, and places of residence in both New York and Ohio.
Powell's personal files are also included in the collection, and include address books, appointment books, clippings on various subjects, diaries, various notes and notebooks, personal documents, school records, sketches and drawings, and travel records. There are also materials related to her family, including clippings, correspondence, journals, obituaries, photographs, school magazines, theater scrapbooks, and wills.
A few miscellaneous files are filed in Series X as chronological files. The materials in these files are loosely related by time period, but not to any particular personal or professional subject.
The provenance of this collection made the arrangement of the material difficult during processing. Powell's papers were left to an executrix, Jacqueline Miller Rice, after Powell's death in 1965. The papers largely came under the control of Tim Page in the 1990s, although some boxes of additional material were received after Rice's death in 2004. It is unclear how Powell filed and maintained her papers at this point: some material was clearly rearranged by others while other material was highly disorganized and required arrangement by the processing archivist. The source of any identifying notes and labels was unclear at the time of processing. Lastly, portions of the collection were deposited and then either donated or sold to Columbia University in several different tax years during the period of 1995-2014, and this affected how the papers were organized, processed, and maintained by the Library until processing of all collection materials was completed in 2019.
Another consequence of this history is that the collection includes correspondence and other records that date from well after Powell's death. These records were created and maintained primarily by Tim Page, Jacqueline Miller Rice, John Sherman, and by Powell's son, Jojo. Both Rice and Sherman generated and maintained files related to Powell's estate well into the 1990s, as Rice was Powell's executrix, and Sherman became Jojo's guardian after Powell's death. Jojo wrote to both Rice and Sherman throughout his life, and that correspondence is included in this collection, as well as his journal recording his memories of his mother, Dawn Powell. Lastly, correspondence, research files, and other records created by Tim Page in the course of his research work and the publication of his books on Powell are also included in this collection.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 11 series. Selected items cataloged; remainder arranged.
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.
The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 5-85. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Boxes 68, 70, 71, and 72 are missing as of 8.4.2023 and unavailble for use. CCR.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
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.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Dawn Powell papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Mrs Elizabeth T. Page, 1995.
Gift of Tim Page in memory of Mrs Elizabeth T. Page, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 & 2000.
Gift of John F. Sherman, 2000.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Letters of John Dos Passos & Edmund Wilson: Source of acquisition--Page, Tim. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/28/1995. Accession number--M-95-12-28.
Letter from Dawn Powell to her sisters: Source of acquisition--Mrs Elizabeth T. Page. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--03/30/1995. Accession number--M-95-03-30.
Cowley, Hemingway, Murphey, Schorer letters: Source of acquisition--Page, Tim. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/26/1996. Accession number--M-96-12-26.
Letters to Dawn Powell: Source of acquisition--Page, Tim. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/31/1997. Accession number--M-97-12-31.
4 scrapbooks of J.R. Gousha: Source of acquisition--Page, Tim. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/--/1998. Accession number--M-98-12.
Mss. & proofs: Source of acquisition--Page, Tim. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/15/1998. Accession number--M-98-12-15.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Page, Tim. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--09/21/2000. Accession number--M-09-21-00.
4 Diaries & printed materials: Source of acquisition--Sherman, John F. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--09/04/2000. Accession number--M-09-04-00.
Several additional gifts made by Tim Page after 2000. Any material not already owned by Columbia University was purchased from Tim Page in 2014.
Letters, telegrams, and postcards from Dawn Powell to Isabel Gousha (Mathews) (Hofmeyer) dating from circa 1950, 1960-1964, and undated. Included in these letters is a handwritten letter from Joseph Gousha and Dawn Powell's son, Jojo Gousha, to Isabel. In addition, 15 pictures (mostly from the 1930s) that include pictures of Jojo Gousha in 1979, and two newspaper articles which include one written by Dawn Powell. Purchased from: Carla Mathews-Graham (1952-) and Carl Y. Mathews, Jr. (1928-2019), children of Carl Y. Mathews, Sr. (1900-1970). Accession# 2023-2024-M112. Date of Acquisition: April 3, 2024.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
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Processing Information
Letters of John Dos Passos & Edmund Wilson Cataloged HR 02/02/1996.
Letter from Dawn Powell to her sisters Cataloged HR 04/09/1996.
Cowley, Hemingway, Murphey, Schorer letters Cataloged HR 02/26/1997.
Letters to Dawn Powell Processed HR 03/11/1998.
4 scrapbooks of J.R. Gousha Processed HR 03/02/1999.
Mss. & proofs Processed HR 05/28/1999.
Papers Cataloged HR 10/09/2000.
4 Diaries & printed materials Processed HR 10/09/2000.
Boxes 1-26 of this collection were processed by HR, 1996-2000. Additional material (Boxes 27-86) was processed by Catherine C. Ricciardi and Jessica Liston (Columbia College 2020), 2016-2019, 2023-2024.
Revision Description
2009-07-07 File created.
2011-03-08 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
2023-08-17 Added a small amount of unprocessed material to the collection: a second copy of The Bride's House, a few unidentified photographs (not of Powell), and a file ot Tim Page's research materials. CCR.
2024-04-10 Added Accession# 2023-2024-M112 materials to the collection. CCR.
Biographical Note
Dawn Powell was born on November 28, 1896 in Mount Gilead, Ohio.
Powell was the second of three daughters born to Roy King and Hattie (née Sherman) Powell. Hattie Powell died in 1903, and as her father often worked as a traveling salesman, Powell lived with a series of relatives after her death. Roy King Powell married Sabra Stearns in 1907, and thereafter left his daughters in their stepmother's care. After Stearns proved to be abusive, Powell ran away from home in 1910 to live with her aunt, Orpha May Sherman Steinbrueck, in Shelby, Ohio. Aunt May supported both Powell's education and her literary work. Powell went to Shelby High School, and with the financial assistance of her aunt, neighbors, and the college, went to college at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio.
After graduating from Lake Erie College in 1918, Powell went to New York City, where she lived for the remainder of her life. After her arrival in the city, Powell did free-lance writing for newspapers and magazines, and worked at a series of jobs. While she was working for the Interchurch World Movement, she met Joseph R. Gousha, and they were married in November 1920. Their only child, Joseph "Jojo" R. Gousha, Jr., was born on August 22, 1921. He was severely handicapped, with what today might be diagnosed as autism.
Powell ultimately wrote sixteen novels, several plays, and more than 100 short stories. She also kept extensive diaries, particularly after 1930. Whither, her first novel, was published in 1925, although Powell always referred to She Walks in Beauty (1928) as her first novel. Reviews of early novels were uneven, and they were not commercially successful. Powell published several other novels during the 1930s and 1940s, including Turn, Magic Wheel (1936), Angels on Toast (1940), A Time to be Born (1942), which was her greatest commercial success, My Home is Far Away (1944), and The Locusts Have No King (1948). Later novels included The Golden Spur (1962), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1963.
Powell was known for her stinging social satires. Although some of her work was admired by critics, it was not commercially successful on the whole. Most of Powell's published novels and plays were out of print at the time of her death in 1965. Long after her death, an essay was written by Gore Vidal in 1987 prompted a rediscovery of her work. During the 1990s, Tim Page worked with Powell's family to free Powell's papers and copyrights from the control of her original executrix, Jacqueline Miller Rice. After this was accomplished, a biography and selections from Powell's diaries and letters were published by Tim Page, and many of her works came back into print.
Powell died on November 14, 1965 in New York City, of colon cancer. She donated her body to Cornell Medical Center for medical research, and was eventually buried at Hart's Island after her executrix, Jacqueline Miller Rice, declined to claim her remains five years later.
Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, 1913-1965, undated
This series contains correspondence that was processed and arranged at the item level in the 1990s. Additional information on this correspondence can be found in the corresponding card catalog in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Among the cataloged correspondents are: Malcolm Cowley (4 letters); John Dos Passos (57 letters); Ernest Hemingway (1 letter); Gerald and Sara Murphy (23 letters); Mark Schorer (2 letters); Edmund Wilson (15 letters); and Powell's own letters to her family.
See Series II for additional correspondence.
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Series II: Arranged Correspondence, 1917-1965, undated
This series contains correspondence that was processed and arranged at the file level. See Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, for additional correspondence files.
This series contains both personal and professional correspondence. There is some additional professional correspondence in both Series IV and Series X.
For family correspondence, see Series I, IX and X.
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Professor of Literature, Princeton University. Correspondence re: Ernest Hemingway.
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Includes two page synopsis.
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Box 27 Folder 6
Primarily correspondence from Powell to DeSilver.
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Box 27 Folder 7
1 a.l.s. is very fragile.
Box 27 Folder 8
Handwritten note in card from JR indicates she recalls this was from Dos Passos. While there is a short note written in the card, it is unsigned.
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Box 27 Folder 9
Primarily correspondence from the A.D. Peters literary agency.
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Box 27 Folder 10-12
Correspondence from Powell to Gilman. Files includes a few other items, including Gilman's resume (1949).
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1 t.l.s. Signed, "The Widow Hemingway"
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Correspondence is primarily related to Carol Hill, and includes several carbons of agency correspondence.
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Copy of letter to Viking Press.
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Includes correspondence, and some contracts.
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Box 27 Folder 17
Correspondence to and from Dawn Powell.
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Includes carbons of Powell's correspondence. Wilson was an editor at Houghton Mifflin.
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Primarily correspondence with publishers and agents. Includes outgoing carbons of correspondence written by Powell.
Box 28 Folder 5-6
Arranged chronologically.
Box 28 Folder 7
Includes several professional letters, as well as some poems and notes.
Box 28 Folder 8
Box 28 Folder 9
A mix of correspondence. Includes notes on the play "Rosy Future"
Box 28 Folder 10
Primarily professional correspondence, and includes several letters from publishers. Some of the correspondence is addressed to Jaqueline Rice.
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Box 29 Folder 3
Includes correspondence to family members and carbons of correspondence to others.
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Box 29 Folder 5
Note on original file (perhaps by Jacqueline Rice) indicates that correspondence was unidentified, to be filed, and not copied.
Box 6
Series III: Manuscripts and Related Materials, circa 1914-1965
This series contains clippings, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and other materials related to Powell's published and unpublished works. Series III includes copies of published plays and clippings of published articles, reviews, and short stories. The collection also includes copies of many of Powell's published novels and these can be found in Series VII: Books.
Where it is known that a work has multiple titles, these are noted in the finding aid, but these notes are not exhaustive, particularly for short stories.
This subseries contains clippings and other copies of Powell's published articles.
Box 29 Folder 6
Clipping of published article.
Box 29 Folder 7
Clipping of published article.
Box 29 Folder 8
Clipping of published article.
Box 29 Folder 9
Copy of published article.
Box 29 Folder 10
Clipping of published article.
This subseries contains drafts, manuscripts, notes, outlines, typescripts, sketches, and synopses related to Powell's published novels, as well as two of her unfinished novels:MarciaandSummer Rose.
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Box 29 Folder 11-13
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
Page of typescript notes on the novel, with some typescript pages.
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Box 31 Folder 1
Handwritten notes, manuscript pages.
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Miscellaneous typescript pages.
Box 29 Folder 15
Box 31 Folder 6
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See Also: My Home is Far Away
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Box 31 Folder 13
Various drafts.
Box 31 Folder 14
Various drafts.
Box 31 Folder 15
Various drafts.
Box 31 Folder 16
Drafts.
Box 31 Folder 17
Various pages, organized into groups of "Odd 50s" and so forth.
Box 31 Folder 18
Appears to include some unrelated materials.
Box 31 Folder 19
See Also: Marcia
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Box 32 Folder 2-6
Manuscript for typist. With envelope.
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Box 32 Folder 7
Typescript synopsis, probably for the published book.
Box 32 Folder 8
Various sets of typescript pages. It is possible that this is related to Marcia, rather than this novel.
Box 32 Folder 9-11
Manuscript; appears mostly complete.
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Box 35 Folder 1
Entitled "The Hunter's Wife". File includes the synopsis and an untitled short story.
Box 35 Folder 2-4
Manuscripts and notes, various versions.
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Box 34 Folder 2
Short typescript paragraph on the novel, with corrections, perhaps written as a publicity blurb.
Box 7
This subseries contains drafts, manuscripts, notes, synopses, and typescripts, as well as published copies of two plays,John Henry Speaks(1919) andJigsaw(1933, 1934).
Box 33 Folder 1
Short manuscript with note stating "Theory for Big Night - a play", with some other notes.
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Manuscript
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Synopses, and miscelleneous typescript pages.
Box 33 Folder 5
Box 7
Manuscript.
Box 33 Folder 6-7
Includes pages with the "cast of characters" found elsewhere in Powell's papers. See Also: Made in Heaven and Rosy Future.
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Manuscript.
Box 34 Folder 3-7
Includes drafts, etc.
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Manuscript.
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Manuscript.
Box 78
Inscribed to Mabel by Dawn Powell. With dust jacket.
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Manuscript.
Box 34 Folder 8
By Charlotte Johnson and Dawn Powell. Copyright, 1919, by Charlotte Johnson.
Box 34 Folder 9
Manuscript pages. Incomplete.
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Manuscript.
Box 35 Folder 5-6
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
Box 33 Folder 8
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
Typescript. Includes two negatives. See Also: Every Other Day and Rosy Future.
Box 33 Folder 10
Typescript. See Also: Every Other Day and Rosy Future.
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Manuscript.
Box 34 Folder 10-11
Box 36 Folder 1-4
Box 33 Folder 11-12
See Also: Every Other Day and Made in Heaven.
Box 35 Folder 9
A few typescript pages.
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Box 37 Folder 2
Box 36 Folder 5-8
See Also: "Women at Five o'clock" in Short Stories.
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This subseries contains unpublished poems, and a copy ofThe Independent Poetry Anthology(1925), which includes a published poem.
Box 80
The anthology includes "Dead Things" a free verse poem by Powell.
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Powell wrote book reviews for many publications during her career. This subseries contains clippings and typescripts of these reviews.
Many of the clippings are fragile; there are photocopies of reviews in files kept by Tim Page (Box 24) and Powell's executrix, Jacqueline Miller Rice (Boxes 48-49) which may be easier to handle than the original clippings in this subseries.
Box 37 Folder 7
Typescript, incomplete.
Box 37 Folder 8
Book reviews. Clippings.
Box 37 Folder 9
Box 37 Folder 10
Typescripts and clippings.
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Box 37 Folder 13-14
Typescripts and clippings.
Box 37 Folder 15
Clippings. Includes lists of her short pieces, etc. although they were no longer found in the folder with the book reviews.
Box 37 Folder 16
Clippings. These are primarily mounted on paper.
Box 37 Folder 17
Includes clippings of reviews, and one letter to the editor referencing a review by Powell.
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This subseries contains clippings, drafts, fragments, manuscripts, notes, and typescripts for Powell's published and unpublished stories.
These are generally short manuscripts, primarily typescripts. Some items are incomplete, or in fragments. Some files include drafts, loose pages, and other materials. Publication information, if known, is included in the finding aid.
Box 38 Folder 3
Includes rejection letter from Redbook.
Box 38 Folder 4
Includes cover letter from her agent, Carl Brandt.
Box 38 Folder 5
Drafts.
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Box 38 Folder 8
Clipping from New Yorker magazine.
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Box 38 Folder 11
Copy of published story.
Box 38 Folder 12
Clipping.
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Clipping of published story.
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Clippings of published stories.
Box 38 Folder 16
Typescript. Published in the New Yorker, 1933.
Box 38 Folder 17
Clipping of published story.
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Published, Esquire Magazine.
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Typescript. Note on piece indicates that it was published in Pagaent or Coronet in the 1930s.
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Clipping of the published story.
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Story Magazine, 1960.
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Magazine with published story.
Box 38 Folder 29
Clipping of published story.
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Typescript.
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Typescript. Note indicates that it was written in 1926, and published in Red Book in the 1930s.
Box 38 Folder 34
Clipping of published story.
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Box 38 Folder 36
Note indicates this was published; publication unknown.
Box 38 Folder 37
Magazine with published story.
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Box 38 Folder 39
Typescript.
Box 38 Folder 40
Typescript.
Box 80
Magazine with reprinted published story. Nota Bene is a literary annual published by Lake Erie College.
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Published in Red Book.
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Typescript.
Box 39 Folder 5
Includes these two stories, and various other pages.
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Box 39 Folder 8
Typescript. Published in Town and Country in September 1938.
Box 39 Folder 9
July 15, 1922 issue of The Portal.
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Box 39 Folder 12
Typescript, 14 pages. Last page is damaged and missing a portion of the page. Typescript appears incomplete.
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Fragments and notes. Title on folder is "Masked Ball" but it is unclear if material is in fact related to the story.
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Clipping of published story. Note on clipping indicates that its original title may have been "The Olive Twig"
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Clipping of published story.
Box 39 Folder 24
Typescript pages for this story, and various other pages.
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Box 40 Folder 1
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.
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Note in file indicates that this was written at Erie College. Paper is fragile.
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Typescript. Note that an abbreviated version of the story was published by Town and Country in 1938 or 1939.
Box 40 Folder 8
Box 40 Folder 9
Clippings of published stories by Powell. Clippings are extremely fragile.
Box 40 Folder 10
Box 40 Folder 11
Clipping of published story.
Box 40 Folder 12
Box 75 Folder 5
Esquire magazine, October 1965 issue. Includes the published story as a "Pictured Essay" which includes related pictures of Staten Island created by other artists.
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Clipping of the published story.
Box 40 Folder 21
Published in Vogue Magazine.
Box 75 Folder 6
Vogue Magazine, October 1, 1963 issue, which includes the published story.
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Box 41 Folder 1-2
The original title may have been "Women at Four o'clock." See Also: "Women at Four o'clock" in Plays.
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Box 40 Folder 24
Clipping of the published story. Original title was "The Scenery and Miss McGill".
Box 40 Folder 25
Typescript, titled "The Scenery and Miss McGill." See Also: "You've No Idea…" and Short Stories--Miscellaneous
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Box 41 Folder 6
Typescript, 47pp.
Box 41 Folder 7
Typescript, 24 pp.
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Box 41 Folder 23
Typescript, pp. 2-8. Title page is missing.
Box 41 Folder 24
Includes a mixture of titled and untitled pages. Includes title pages for "A Million Hazel Browns," "The Judge's Story."
Box 41 Folder 25
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
Includes "In My Day" and untitled pages.
Box 41 Folder 27
This subseries contains carbon correspondence and drafts of a treatment of "A Time to Be Born" and typescripts and agreements related to a proposed television adaptation of the short story "You Should Have Brought Your Mink"
Box 35 Folder 8
Includes scenario, notes, typescript pages, etc. A carbon of a 1943 letter from Powell to a Mr. Small in this file indicates that a rough treatment was done; the typescript pages are probably various drafts of this.
Box 42 Folder 1
Adapted from a short story of the same name, from the collection Sunday, Monday, and Always.
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Typesripts.
This subseries contains various unidentified fragments, manuscripts, and manuscript pages.
The subseries also includes notes and notebooks that contain material related to several different novels, as well as other sketches and notes. The more general notebooks in Series V.3 probably also contain additional material related to Powell's writing.
Box 43 Folder 1-3
Clippings are in fragile condition. These are primarily of articles and book reviews written by Powell.
Box 42 Folder 2
Single page manuscript on art.
Box 42 Folder 3
Box 42 Folder 4
One item of correspondence, and various manuscript pages and notes.
Box 42 Folder 5-6
Includes "Notes for a Scenario by Arthur Swim and Dawn Powell developed by Dawn Powell from an idea by Arthur Swim" and "Play- Dance Night" as well as other notes.
Box 42 Folder 7
Box 42 Folder 8
Box 42 Folder 9-20, 27
Box 8
Box 42 Folder 21
Box 42 Folder 22
Includes manuscripts and material related to Angels on Toast and A Time to Be Born, as well as some short manuscripts and sketches.
Box 43 Folder 4-6
Notebook was originally in a binder that was rusting and in poor condition. Notebook has been taken out of the binder and housed in folders. Loose notes were housed in a separate folder. This contains various manuscripts and notes, including material related to Angels on Toast, TIme to Be Born, Marcia, and the Locusts Have No King.
Series IV: Professional Files, 1910s-1990s
This series contains clippings files with articles on Powell and reviews of her books and plays, as well as various subject files. There are also files related to Powell's estate kept by her executrix, Jacqueline Miller Rice, from the 1960s-1990s.
This subseries contains general clippings files of articles on Powell and reviews of her books.
Articles and clippings that were filed by subject are filed in Subseries IV.2: Subject Files.
Box 42 Folder 23
On how the couple found the idea of maintaining separate living arrangements to be unsuitable.
Box 42 Folder 24
Box 75 Folder 7
Powell is mentioned in the article, "The Last of a Lost Generation" by Malcolm Cowley. Equire magazine, July 1963 issue.
Box 42 Folder 25
Box 42 Folder 26
Box 43 Folder 7
Includes a few short articles, and reviews for She Walks in Beauty and The Bride's House.
Box 43 Folder 8
Box 44 Folder 1
Box 44 Folder 2
Clippings, reviews, and fragments. Many of these are very fragile.
Box 44 Folder 3
Box 44 Folder 4-5
Box 44 Folder 6
Clippings.
Box 44 Folder 7
Reviews of A Time to Be Born and The Locusts Have No King, with review snippets on her prior novels.
Box 44 Folder 8
Reviews of various works, as well as snippets on prior works.
Box 44 Folder 9
Primarily typescripts of snippets and comments on various works.
Box 44 Folder 10
Clippings with reviews or mentions of Wicked Pavillion and Sunday, Monday and Always.
Box 86
Includes one clipping about Powell, and one clipping of an article written by her.
Accession# 2023-2024-M112
This subseries contains subject files that are related to Powell's professional activities. These files include book jackets, catalogs, clippings, contracts, correspondence, programs, remarks, and reviews. Most the files relate to specific projects or works, but there are also files related to awards, copyright, and literary agents.
Box 44 Folder 11
Contract for paperback reprint rights for A Cage for Lovers and A Time to Be Born.
Box 44 Folder 12
Includes advertisement, biographical statement, cast list, costume desriptions, clippings, and review of rehersal by John Howard Lawson.
Box 44 Folder 13
Box 44 Folder 14
Folder contains book jackets for the novels The Bride's House, The Happy Island, Turn Magic Wheel, A Time to be Born, My Home is Far Away, The Golden Spur, and The Locusts Have No King, as well as for the play Jig Saw. These are in poor or fair condition; some are fragments.
Box 44 Folder 15
Clippings.
Box 44 Folder 16
Includes correspondence, clippings, and copyright registration forms.
Box 44 Folder 17
Box 44 Folder 18
Correspondence.
Box 44 Folder 19
Box 44 Folder 20
Includes correspondence and notes on earnings, as well as notes related to writing projects, including The Golden Spur.
Box 44 Folder 21
Includes correspondence with MacMillan and Frank W. Vincent, Inc., notes on writing projects and a few typescript pages, notices and programs for regional productions of "The Lady Comes Across," and a few clippings and sketches.
Box 44 Folder 22
Includes a press release and a review.
Box 44 Folder 23
Box 44 Folder 24
Box 45 Folder 1
Clippings, snippets from letters, reviews.
Box 45 Folder 2
Box 45 Folder 3
Clippings from newspapers in England.
Box 45 Folder 4
Box 45 Folder 5
Box 56 Folder 6
Play was written by Powell, and she also played a part in it.
Box 45 Folder 6
Box 45 Folder 7-8
Clippings and notes.
Box 45 Folder 9
Clippings.
Box 45 Folder 10
Box 45 Folder 11
Box 45 Folder 12
Box 45 Folder 13
Excerpts from English reviews of the W.H. Allen edition.
Box 45 Folder 14
Correspondence from Paramont on possible film.
Box 45 Folder 15
Primarily publishers.
Box 45 Folder 16-20
Articles about theater, the theater scene, and reviews of Powell's works. Clippings are fragile.
Box 45 Folder 21
Clippings, drafts of book jacket copy, etc.
Box 45 Folder 22
Notebook. This includes several short story titles, notes publications to which the manuscripts were sent, and the dates.
Box 45 Folder 23
Address Books. Cast ideas listed in the front cover, with actors listed under their last names in the address book.
Box 45 Folder 24
Box 45 Folder 25
Clippings and reviews.
Box 45 Folder 26
Box 50 Folder 1
List of titles, the number of words of each, and the publication in which they were orginally published.
Box 50 Folder 2
Box 50 Folder 3
Box 50 Folder 4
Reader correspondence.
Box 50 Folder 5
Includes correspondence from Theater Guild and a rejection for the play "Red Dress."
Box 50 Folder 6
Reviews.
Box 50 Folder 7
Review from Time magazine.
Box 50 Folder 8
Review snippet on postcard.
Box 50 Folder 9
Includes negative and a print of a Powell photograph used in a review, but it appears the image was made from the clipping by Rice and that the original photograph is lost.
Box 50 Folder 10
Correspondence pertaining to The Golden Spur with editor Helen Taylor.
Box 50 Folder 11
Typescript.
Box 50 Folder 12
Contracts, with carbon of 1963 letter written by Powell.
Box 50 Folder 13
Correspondence, corrections, review, and book jacket.
Box 50 Folder 14
Box 50 Folder 15
Box 50 Folder 16
This subseries contains files and materials kept by Jacqueline Miller Rice from the 1960s-1990s. These files primarily contain correspondence, and financial and legal records. There is some original material from Powell mixed in with these files, as well, for reasons that are unclear.
Rice photocopied some of Powell's records and created a set of files, perhaps for reference. These files are now in Boxes 48 and 49. These files include copies of correspondence, as well as copies of articles, drafts of manuscripts, notes, reviews written by Powell, reviews of Powell's works, and copyright and financial information. It is possible that these might be helpful to researchers, as some original clippings are fragile, and these files pull together correspondence that may be scattered in different parts of Powell's papers at this point.
Box 46 Folder 1
Box 46 Folder 2
Correspondence regarding rights to Powell materials, etc.
Box 46 Folder 3
Correspondence and related material regarding the theatre's interest in dramatizing The Wicked Pavillion.
Box 46 Folder 4
Primarily in German.
Box 46 Folder 5
Box 46 Folder 6
Box 46 Folder 7
File on damages sustained by the Rices in a fire, which included some material from the Powell estate.
Box 46 Folder 8
Box 47
This box contains Rice's estate files on various subjects including expenses, finances, royalties, permissions, and publishers. There also some lists of the Powell materials that were in her possession in the early 1990s.
Box 46 Folder 9
Correspondence regarding possible grant funds for Rice's plans to complete a volume on Powell. Includes a list of press comments on Powell's novels.
Box 46 Folder 10
Photocopies.
Box 46 Folder 11
This contains a few items of correspondence to Jacqueline Rice, as well as copies of various clippings, letters, manuscript pages, and a book jacket (circa 1990s). There are also several original drafts, manuscript pages, and correspondence items related to Powell.
Box 46 Folder 12
This contains a few items of correspondence to Jacqueline Rice, Gore Vidal's 1987 article on Powell, and photocopies of several items of Powell's correspondence from the 1950s.
Box 46 Folder 13
This contains a few items of correspondence to Jacqueline Rice, as well as a copy of a 1990 article on Powell, notes, a list of foundations written to, and copies of some items related to Powell.
Box 48
Photocopies of collection material made by Jacqueline Miller Rice. Includes photocopies of correspondence with friends, family, and Lake Erie College, as well as copies of articles, reviews, etc.
Box 49
Photocopies of collection material made by Jacqueline Miller Rice. Includes photocopies of correspondence, drafts of Powell's manuscripts, reviews written by Powell, reviews of Powell's work, notes, copyright and financial information.
Series V: Personal and Biographical Files, 1914-1965
This series contains address books, appointment books, biographical statements, clippings files, diaries, financial records, notebooks, obituaries, personal documents, school notebooks and records, travel records, and copies of Powell's will.
This subseries contains address books, appointment books, miscellaneous calendar pages, and telephone books.
Many of the appointment books and calendar pages also contain short notes on Powell's activities, similar to diary entries.
Box 52 Folder 1
2 items.
Box 52 Folder 2
2 items.
Box 52 Folder 3
Box 52 Folder 4
Box 52 Folder 5
Box 52 Folder 6
Box 52 Folder 7
Box 50 Folder 17-20
Many of these also include notes about the actual events, similar to a diary.
Box 50 Folder 21
Various daily and monthly calendar pages, many with appointment notes.
Box 50 Folder 22
This subseries contains Powell's diaries.
Although Powell's appointment books contain some short entries similar to what might be found in her diaries, all appointment books are filed together in Subseries V.1.
An abridged version of Powell's diaries (approximately 1/5 of the content) was edited by Tim Page and published in 1995 by Steerforth Press.
Tim Page created a web page with detailed information about the diaries when he offered them for sale in 2012 at https://www.dawnpowelldiaries.com/.
Box 51 Folder 2
Box 51 Folder 3
Tim Page refers to this as the "Woggs Diary" as many entries are written to "Woggs".
Box 81 Folder 1
Box 81 Folder 1
Box 81 Folder 1
Box 81 Folder 1
Box 81 Folder 1
Box 81 Folder 2
Box 81 Folder 2
Box 81 Folder 3
Box 81 Folder 3
Box 81 Folder 4
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 81 Folder 5
Box 83
Box 83
Box 83
Box 83
Box 83
Box 83
Box 83
Box 83
Box 83
Box 83
Box 84
Box 84
Box 84
Box 84
Box 84
Box 84
Box 84
Box 84
Box 84
Box 84
This subseries contains several notebooks and loose notes found in Powell's papers. These deal with various subjects, but most have no titles.
A few notebooks clearly related to Powell's writing activities are filed in Subseries III.8: Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Notes.
A few notebooks solely related to Powell's education at Lake Erie College are filed with papers related to the college in Subseries V.4.
Box 52 Folder 8
2 items. These include some drafts, as well as notes on what Powell was writing at the time.
Box 52 Folder 9
This includes notes about writing work that Powell sold around 1924.
Box 52 Folder 10
Box 52 Folder 11
Box 52 Folder 12
Box 52 Folder 13
Box 53 Folder 1
Box 53 Folder 2-2a
Small notebooks with various notes. Several items were slipped into the notebook, including clippings, an annotated copy of the commencement program for the receipt of Powell's honorary degree at Lake Erie College (1960), a postcard, and a small photograph of her husband (circa 1920).
Box 53 Folder 3
Box 53 Folder 4
Box 51 Folder 1
In poor condition.
Box 53 Folder 5
Box 53 Folder 6
Box 53 Folder 7
Box 53 Folder 8
Box 54 Folder 1
Box 53 Folder 9
Box 54 Folder 7-14
These folders contain several notebooks that were originally in small three ring binders but were unbound at the time of processing. As these loose pages were found piled together in a single box, it was no longer clear how the individual notebooks were ordered or constructed.
Box 54 Folder 2
Box 54 Folder 3
Box 54 Folder 4
Box 54 Folder 5
Box 54 Folder 6-6a
Many pages of handwritten notes, story ideas, etc. as well as what appear to be handwritten drafts of correspondence. This was originally bound in small a three-ring binder that was in poor condition; pages were removed from the binder and placed in a folder.
This subseries contains various biographical statements and personal papers, including clippings files (not directly related to Powell), financial records, Powell's honorary doctorate from Lake Erie College, obituaries, passports, personal stationary, printed ephemera, programs, school notebooks and records, travel records, and copies of Powell's will.
Box 55 Folder 1
Various emphera related to exhibitions.
Box 55 Folder 2
Includes application for a fellowship to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and other biographical statements.
Box 55 Folder 3
Box 55 Folder 4
Box 55 Folder 5
Box 54 Folder 15
Box 54 Folder 16
Box 54 Folder 17
Various clippings not direclty related to Powell.
Box 54 Folder 18
Box 54 Folder 19
Box 54 Folder 20
Clippings are mostly in poor condition.
Box 55 Folder 6
Clipping of poem.
Box 55 Folder 7
Creole (Haitian)-English Dictionary; English-Spanish Travel Dictionary.
Box 55 Folder 8
Box 55 Folder 9
Primarily clippings
Box 55 Folder 10
Box 55 Folder 11
This includes information about setting up a trust fund for Joseph R. Gousha, Jr.
Box 55 Folder 12-13
This includes miscellaneous bank books, bills, correspondence, statements, and documentation of ongoing issues with the IRS regarding taxes.
Box 6
Box 55 Folder 14
Transatlantic sailing. Powell is included in the list.
Box 55 Folder 15
Box 55 Folder 16
Box 55 Folder 17
Box 55 Folder 18
Clipping of cartoon, with the name Dawn in the drawing.
Box 56 Folder 1
Box 56 Folder 2
Box 56 Folder 3
Includes 1961 list of the Class of 1918.
Box 56 Folder 4
Includes the degree, and a related clipping and a related college bulletin.
Box 56 Folder 5
Box 56 Folder 7
Box 55 Folder 19
Clipping.
Box 8
Box 55 Folder 20
Box 55 Folder 21
Clippings of obituaries of Dawn Powell.
Box 55 Folder 22
Clippings and other items pertaining to Powell's birthplace and affiliations with Ohio.
Box 55 Folder 23
Clippings from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, that includes a photograph of Powell.
Box 55 Folder 24
Includes social security card, naval discharge, and innoculation record (for travel purposes).
Box 55 Folder 25
Box 55 Folder 26
Includes statement of travel purpose, and notarized statement on Powell's citizenship by her husband Joseph R. Gousha.
Box 54 Folder 21-23
Box 54 Folder 24
Box 54 Folder 25-26
Box 56 Folder 8
Box 56 Folder 9
Some include mention of Powell.
Box 56 Folder 10
Box 56 Folder 11
Edited by Dawn Powell.
Box 56 Folder 12
Personalized letterhead.
Box 56 Folder 13
Folder was marked as a "travel diary" for an appraiser. It contains clippings, photographs, drafts, and correspondence, but is not a diary as such.
Box 56 Folder 14
Includes information on Powell's travel arrangements, as well as photographs of a cat, and possibly of Joseph R. Gousha.
Box 56 Folder 15
Includes probate court documents.
Box 56 Folder 16
Box 56 Folder 17
Certificate that Dawn Powell is a member of the Barbara Frietchie Post No. 43. of the American Legion.
Series VI: Photographs, 1890s-1960s
This series contains primarily personal and professional photographs of Powell, her family, and places of residence in both New York and Ohio. Many photographs were identified by Tim Page in the course of his research work, but the series also contains many unidentified snapshots.
Box 85 Folder 1
Portrait photograph of several families at the Ault family farm. Includes Dawn Powell.
Box 57 Folder 1
From John Chapman, Royal Oak, Michigan.
Box 57 Folder 2
Box 57 Folder 3
Box 57 Folder 4
Box 57 Folder 5
Box 57 Folder 6-10
File probably created by Tim Page.
Box 57 Folder 11
Box 57 Folder 12
Box 57 Folder 13-16
Includes photographs of him alone, and with his parents.
Box 57 Folder 17
These two photographs were originally framed in a single frame. They are unidentified.
Box 57 Folder 18
Box 57 Folder 19
Box 57 Folder 20
Photograph of Powell, E. Southward, and Ida Durham in the musical "I'm Looking for a Lady" by Charlotte Johnson and Dawn Powell.
Box 57 Folder 21
Box 57 Folder 22
Box 57 Folder 23
Original, plus enlarged copy of only the persons in the photograph (used in Tim Page's biography).
Box 57 Folder 24
Box 57 Folder 25
Box 57 Folder 26
Box 57 Folder 27
This is the original, which is damaged. There is a copy in the file of portait photographs used by Tim Page.
Box 57 Folder 28
Box 85 Folder 2
Powell's high school portrait, as part of a hanging calendar for Christmas gift. Piece is fragile but photograph is intact.
Box 57 Folder 29
Portrait photograph, perhaps a senior portrait for Lake Erie College.
Box 57 Folder 30-31
Box 57 Folder 32
Box 57 Folder 33
Portrait photograph, with negative.
Box 57 Folder 34
Photographed by B.B. Adler.
Box 57 Folder 35
The 1903 photograph is a copy of a photograph of Powell and her sisters. There are other copies of the others in the portrait photographs in the collection.
Box 57 Folder 36
This is a group photograph of Dawn and five other girls. Two are her sisters, the others may be cousins.
Box 57 Folder 37
Box 58 Folder 1
Box 58 Folder 2-3
Box 58 Folder 4
Box 58 Folder 5
Box 58 Folder 6
Box 58 Folder 7-10
File probably created by Tim Page. Titled as "Powell - Informal" with a note that these had been id'd.
Box 58 Folder 11
Box 58 Folder 12
Powell receiving the award from Malcolm Cowley, President of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Photograph has some damage.
Box 58 Folder 13-18
Photographs are primarily of Powell, Joseph Gousha, and their son Joseph Gousha, Jr. Photographs are still glued to the unbound black scrapbook pages; the paper is quite brittle.
Box 60 Folder 1-7
File probably created by Tim Page. Includes note from Steerforth Press on returning photographs of Powell to Page. These are primarily of Powell and other family members including her sisters, cousins, and aunt. Many photographs are identified.
Box 58 Folder 19
Image is actually a clipping of Powell. Frame is made to look as if Powell is looking out a window.
Box 58 Folder 20
Although residences were from her childhood, at least one was taken around 1940 and includes Powell in the photograph.
Box 58 Folder 21
Souvenir photographs of Dawn Powell and Joseph Gousha from Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshow at the Paramont Hotel, Sammy's Bowery Follies, and one unidentified establishment. Include souvenir enclosures. Ones of these is a matchbook.
Box 86
Includes photographs of Dawn Powell, Joseph and Jojo Gousha. Includes 1979 photographs of Jojo Gousha and Leontine Gousha Vavrous.
Accession# 2023-2024-M112
Box 59 Folder 1-6
These are snapshot photographs. Some are dated, but most are unidentified. It is possible that not all the snapshots are of family members.
Box 59 Folder 7
These were found together with the snapshot photographs.
Box 58 Folder 22-27
Several photos of Powell and others. Photographs are primarily of Powell and others of similar age. There are photographs at the beach, on a farm, with horses, and a few where the subjects are outside in costumes. Two items, including a group photograph of girls, identify the individuals in the photograph.
Box 58 Folder 28
Note on photo indicates that this was from a television program of John Hewlett's.
Box 59 Folder 8
Box 59 Folder 9
Box 59 Folder 10-18
Envelope label reads "Snapshots of Mt. Sinai - Bill and Harry, Bobby and Jojo, Mabel and Phyllis, etc., Effie and Charles, Auntie May." Includes photographs of Dawn and Joseph Gousha.
Box 58 Folder 29
Includes photographs and one negative.
Box 59 Folder 19
Two items. Persons are identified, but significance is unknown: perhaps friends or family.
Box 60 Folder 8
This file includes several photographs used in Tim Page's biography of Powell. Most are copies of photographs of persons associated with Powell - Hemmingway, Dorothy Parker, etc. Some photographs are originals of family members and other personal friends.
Box 60 Folder 9-15
This appears to be a working file of Tim Page's. The photographs are primarily of Powell and her family. Many of the photographs are copies of originals, and several appeared in his biography of Powell. However, there are a few original photographs in the file. There are also some negatives, which may be originals or copies. Page also took his own photographs of people and places related to Powell, which may date from the 1990s. Many are identified by Tim Page. Includes photographs of Powell and her immediate family, and her cousin John Sherman.
Box 60 Folder 16-21
This appears to be a working file of Tim Page's. The photographs are primarily of Powell, Joseph Gousha, Joseph Gousha, Jr., and their extended family members. Includes the original copy of the early photograph of Roy Powell used in the Powell biography.
Box 61 Folder 1-2
Various photographs, unable to be identified by Tim Page.
Box 60 Folder 22-28
Various photographs, unable to be identified by Tim Page. Most of these do not include Powell. A few include some indentification, but most do not.
Box 61 Folder 3
These include photographs of a young man, and groups of young men.
Box 61 Folder 4
Box 61 Folder 5-11
Various snapshots of people and places. Some of these may be of family members.
Box 61 Folder 12-13
Various snapshots of people and places. Some of these may be of family members.
Box 61 Folder 14
Box 24
Series VII: Books, 1923-1963
This series contains published editions of Powell's novels, as well as a few items published by friends.
This subseries contains copies of many of Powell's published novels.
Box 78
Box 78
Inscribed to Margaret by Dawn Powell.
Box 78
Number 85, of 300, signed by Powell.
Box 78
Inscribed to Auntie May by Dawn Powell. With dust jacket.
Box 80
Paperback.
Box 78
Inscribed by Dawn Powell. With dust jacket.
Box 78
Box 78
Box 78
2 copies.
Box 80
2 copies. Paperback.
Box 78
With dust jacket.
Box 80
3 copies. Paperback. A Man's Affair is a re-write of Angels on Toast.
Box 78
2 copies. One has dust jacket.
Box 78
2 copies. On copy is inscribed to Auntie May by Dawn Powell.
Box 80
With dust jacket.
Box 78
3 copies. 2 copies have dust jackets. One copy is inscribed to Dawnie Jarvis by Dawn Powell. One copy is inscribed to Jack Sherman by Dawn Powell.
Box 80
2 copies. One inscribed to Mabel by Dawn.
Box 80
Inscribed to Tootsie by Dawn Powell. With dust jacket.
This subseries contains published works by Peggy Bacon, Malcolm Cowley, and Dwight Fiske.
Box 79 Folder 1
Inscribed to Jack [Sherman] by Dawn Powell, with an original drawing by Bacon on the first page.
Box 80
Unbound leaves. Paper is fragile.
Box 80
Box 80
Limited edition signed by Fiske. Book is dedicated to Powell.
Series VIII: Sketches, Drawings and Portrait, 1950s, undated
This series contains various sketches and drawings, many with captions.
Box 73 Folder 7
Box 74 Folder 1-5
Box 75 Folder 1-4
Box 85 Folder 3-4
Box 74 Folder 6-11
Flat Box 87
Peggy Bacon made several original variations on this portrait on paper — this one measures about 16 x 14 inches. The date is unknown.
Series IX: Family Materials, 1891-1992
This series contains material related to Powell's husband, son, and other extended family members. The records include address books, clippings, correspondence, diaries, financial records, journals, obituaries, school magazines, theater scrapbooks, and wills.
All photographs can be found in Series VI: Photographs.
This subseries contains materials related to Joseph R Gousha (1890-1962), Powell's husband. The records include a baptismal certificate, correspondence, legal documents, theater scrapbooks, and writings.
The theater scrapbooks (1909-1916) contain records related to the theatrical performances that Gousha attended in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The scrapbooks include clippings, programs, and ticket stubs.
This subseries also contains some writings by Gousha. Gousha served on the staff and editorial board of "Spice," the literary magazine of Norristown High School, and his records include original copies of the magazine for 1903-1907. The collection also includes clippings of articles written by Gousha, probably during the 1910s.
Box 66 Folder 1
Box 66 Folder 2
Box 66 Folder 3
Includes correspondence from Charlie, H. Long, and Dawn Powell.
Box 66 Folder 4
Correspondence from Joseph's mother.
Box 66 Folder 5
Postcards sent from France by Powell.
Box 66 Folder 6
Correspondence to; handwritten resumés; condolences; notes, etc.
Box 5
Box 66 Folder 7
Typescript, and clipping.
Box 66 Folder 8
Box 79 Folder 2-5
Volumes VIII-XI. Spice is the literary magazine of Norristown High School (Norristown, PA). Gousha was on the publication's staff and editorial board. The issues have been bound into volumes; bindings are fragile.
Box 75 Folder 8
This copy is a limited edition, printed especially for Gousha. Copy is bound in blue covers.
Box 10
Box 11
Box 76 Folder 1
Box 76 Folder 2
Box 77
Box 5
Includes correspondence from the Gousha family.
Box 86
Letter from Joseph R. Gousha to Isabel.
Accession# 2023-2024-M112
This subseries contains records related to Joseph "Jojo" R. Gousha, Jr. (1921-1998), Powell's son. These records were either created or received by Jojo himself, or are directly related to his care. Although some of these records do not relate directly to Powell, any records related to Jojo have been preserved and kept in this collection, as there may be interest in Jojo himself.
From his early years, Jojo was considered to be mentally impaired. He was classified and treated as either "retarded" or "schizophrenic" but may have been autistic, a diagnosis that did not exist at that time. Jojo spent much of his life in hospitals and other institutions including Gladwyne Colony, Devereux School, and after 1954, state institutions in New York State.
Jojo was highly intelligent, and many records created by him survive, including records created after Powell's death. The collection includes a substantial amount of correspondence written by Jojo to his parents, to Jacqueline Miller Rice, and to his cousin John (Jack) Sherman, who became his guardian after Powell's death. There are also several diaries and journals (1958-1961, 1992) and a handwritten account of his memories of his mother (1993).
There is also correspondence, as well as financial, legal, and other records related to Jojo's care and condition kept by his parents, by Jacqueline Miller Rice, and by John Sherman. These records are also included in this subseries.
Box 73 Folder 8
Includes addresses, as well as tabs for birthdays, anniversaries, and Christmas Card lists.
Box 63 Folder 1
Box 63 Folder 2
Correspondence written to Jojo from Powell and Hannah Green.
Box 63 Folder 3
Correspondence written by Jojo to his parents.
Box 63 Folder 4
Includes correspondence pertaining to Jojo's activities and care.
Box 6
Correspondence written to Jojo from Dr. Howard Zucker.
Box 63 Folder 5
Includes correspondence from Jojo, and other correspondence and newsletters from the school.
Box 63 Folder 6
Box 63 Folder 7
Box 63 Folder 8
Box 63 Folder 9
Box 63 Folder 10
Two small notebooks, and a few loose pages.
Box 63 Folder 11
Box 9
Box 66 Folder 9
This file contains various bills and statements, primarily related to the State of New York Department of Mental Hygiene.
Box 66 Folder 10
Ledger entitled "Account for Joseph R. Gousha, Jr. Expenditures on His Behalf". The ledger is arranged chronologically.
Box 63 Folder 12
Written by Powell.
Box 9
Handwritten journal.
Box 63 Folder 13
Box 63 Folder 14
Includes bills, correspondence with and pertaining to Jojo, and place cards and songs written by Jojo.
Box 62 Folder 1-2
Box 62 Folder 3-7
These items were still sealed in their original envelopes, and were opened by the archivist at Columbia University.
Box 62 Folder 8
These include a few items of correspondence, bills, and various handwritten notes on Gousha's care, etc.
Box 64
Includes some additional correspondence and materials kept by Sherman related to Gousha, Jr.
Box 65
Includes some additional correspondence and materials kept by Sherman related to Gousha, Jr.
Box 65
Sherman kept files related to Dawn Powell's remains, Margaret DeSilver's will, the Gousha Trust, and burial plans for Joseph R. Gousha, Jr.
This subseries contains clippings, correspondence, wills, and other materials related to Powell's aunt, cousins, nieces, and sisters, and other extended family members.
Box 66 Folder 11
Correspondence from Aunt Bessie, John Sherman, Jacqueline Rice, and Joseph R. Gousha, Jr.
Box 66 Folder 12
Box 5
Box 86
Letters from Dawn Powell to Isabel Gousha Matthews Hofmeyer, sister of Joseph R. Gousha.
Accession# 2023-2024-M112
Box 86
Letters from Dawn Powell to Isabel Gousha Matthews Hofmeyer, sister of Joseph R. Gousha. Includes one letter from Jojo to Isabel. Includes several letters regarding the death of Joseph R. Gousha in 1962.
Accession# 2023-2024-M112
Box 86
Letters from Dawn Powell to Isabel Gousha Matthews Hofmeyer, sister of Joseph R. Gousha.
Accession# 2023-2024-M112
Box 66 Folder 13
Correspondence, primarily to members of the Hoover family - Powell's niece Alice, as well as Richard and Holly - and includes a few letters to Carol Warstler, her niece. These letters are signed "Aunt Dawn". Also includes a few letters to Jackie Miller.
Box 6
Powell's niece.
Box 6
Powell's niece.
Box 6
Powell's nephew.
Box 6
Box 66 Folder 14
Several letters from Mabel. There is one letter from Powell's nephew, Keith Pocock (1945).
Box 6
Letter from Powell's father, Roy King Powell.
Box 66 Folder 15
Box 86 Folder 1-2
2nd folder is photocopies. Folders were originally in Box 6, but no longer fit in that box.
Box 66 Folder 16
Box 66 Folder 17
Description of, with some notes on descendants.
Box 6
Box 6
Box 67 Folder 1
Box 67 Folder 2
Box 67 Folder 3
Correspondence from John Sherman, including a letter from Margaret C. Barnett.
Box 67 Folder 4
Correspondence from Carol Warstler, and another person.
Box 67 Folder 5
Box 67 Folder 6
This includes a few items of correspondence from Joseph Gousha's siblings, a letter from Dawn Powell to her grandmother, and a few other items.
Box 86
Letters from Dawn Powell to Joseph R. Gousha's siblings, Harry Gousha and Irene Gousha Berchtold (Mrs. Theodore A.), as well as Mrs. Anna Nilon.
Accession# 2023-2024-M112
Box 67 Folder 7
Includes a covering letter to Tim and Vanessa Page. This notebook includes clippings on Powell and on the Pocock family.
Series X: Chronological Materials, 1940s-1960s
This series contains several folders of mixed material that was largely disorganized, but roughly grouped together by time period. The folders include clippings, correspondence, drafts, miscellaneous manuscripts, notes, royalty statements, and other materials.
Box 67 Folder 8
Includes clippings, correspondence, drafts, notes, postcards, and manuscript pages from "The Girls in Pink" and "Paris Walkie-Talkie" (1951).
Box 67 Folder 9
Includes clippings, correspondence, drafts, drafts for "The Pearl Wedding of the Beasley Burrs" and "The Music Lovers", family correspondence, printed materials, royalty statements, and diagrams and memos related to The Wicked Pavillion.
Box 67 Folder 10
Includes clippings, correspondence, photographs, playbills, etc.
Box 67 Folder 11
Includes family correspondence and other personal correspondence, clippings of reviews by Powell, clippings, notes, drafts, etc.
Box 67 Folder 12
Various clippings, receipts, notes, etc.
Series XI: Tim Page Files, 1987-2012
This series contains articles, clippings, correspondence, proofs, research materials, typescripts, and other materials related to the research and publication of Page's books on Powell.
Box 65
Files related to the publication of Page's books, Powell, and John Sherman's handling of the Desilver Trust for Joseph Gousha, Jr., as well as other research and working files.
Box 68 Folder 1-5
Primarily correspondence, clippings, and reviews related to the publication of Page's books on Powell.
Box 69 Folder 1, 3-5, and 7
Primarily correspondence, clippings, and reviews related to the publication of Page's books on Powell.
Box 63 Folder 15
1 letter from Jojo.
Box 70 Folder 3-8
One file includes a photograph of Powell.
Box 69 Folder 9-10
Box 70 Folder 2
Box 6
Powell's niece.
Box 71
Box 71 Folder 3
Box 12
Box 13
Box 14
Box 15
Box 15A
Box 16
Box 17
Box 80
2 copies. Bound.
Box 80
Box 18
Box 19
Box 80
Box 25
2 volumes, published by Library of America. Edited by Tim Page.
Box 20
Box 21
Box 22
Box 23
Box 70 Folder 1
Clippings and programs related to various Powell celebrations and awards from the 1990s; copy of Powell's honorary degree from 1960.
Box 72
Includes clippings and reviews related to the publication of Page's books on Powell.
Box 73 Folder 2-3
Includes two letters from Margaret DeSilver.
Box 73 Folder 4
Box 73 Folder 1
Typed manuscript.
Box 69 Folder 8
Notes.
Box 71 Folder 6
Notes and excerpts from transcriptions from interviews with Rosalind Baker Wilson, Lee Adams, Antoinette Akers, Frances Keene, Maurice Dolbier, and others. These are not full interview transcriptions.
Box 26
Audiocassettes of Tim Page's interviews for his books about Powell.
Box 73 Folder 6
Box 72 Folder 10
Author photographs and contact sheets.
Box 24
Photocopies of contemporary book reviews of Powell's books, as well as book reviews written by Powell.
Box 25
Various magazines and other printed materials.
Box 71
Photocopies of correspondence, manuscripts related to Powell, and Joseph R. Gousha Jr.'s "Memories of My Mother Dawn Powell" (original is in Box 9).
Box 69 Folder 2 and 6
Photocopies of clippings of interviews with and features about Powell (1938-1965). Correspondence and research materials related to Susan Lawson.
Box 86 Folder 3
Box 71 Folder 5
Box 73 Folder 5
Includes photocopies of draft text, possibly for the edited diaries.
Tim Page offered the diaries for sale, via auction, in 2012. In the process, he created a website at https://www.dawnpowelldiaries.com/ with information about Dawn Powell, the diaries, and the sale itself.
Box 72 Folder 9
Program and related materials.