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Holograph and typescript manuscripts, diaries, and publisher's correspondence comprise
the
majority of the Graham Greene Collection, 1924-1998. The collection is organized into
five
series: Series I. Works, 1924-1977 (35 boxes); Series II. Personal Papers, Journals,
and
Date Books, 1926-1984 (5.5 boxes); Series III. Correspondence, 1925-1991 (3.5 boxes);
Series
IV. Laurence Pollinger General Correspondence Files, 1950-1991 (43.5 boxes); and Series
V.
Laurence Pollinger Copyright Files, 1928-1998 (6.5 boxes). A portion of this collection
was
previously accessible through a card catalog, but has been re-cataloged as part of
a
retrospective conversion project. |
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The Works series contains typescripts and page proofs for most of Greene's major works.
Holograph manuscripts are also available for several works including A Burnt-Out Case, Cheap in August, The Comedians, The Honorary Consul, and Our Man in Havana. Many of the novels are also present in screenplay
form or edited for different editions. England Made Me, Travels with My Aunt, The Human Factor, and Our Man in Havana are particularaly well represented. A complete
list of Greene's works present in the collection is available in the Index of Works
as the
end of this guide. |
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The Personal Papers, Journals and Date Books series contains six notebooks Greene
used over
many years to record his dreams, as well as some 74 small spiral date books with
appointments and notes jotted in them. Also present are works by other authors found
among
Greene's papers, an address book, and publicity schedules for two of his books. |
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The Correspondence series is largely composed of personal letters written by Greene
as well
as a few letters to Greene and a small amount of third-party correspondence. Most
of
Greene's letters to newspapers and magazines are "letters to the Editor" and include
drafts
as well as final typescripts. Perhaps most interesting are letters written by Greene
to
Vivianne Dayrell-Browning between 1925 and 1927 during their courtship. A complete
list of
correspondents can be found in the Index of Correspondents at the end of this guide. |
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The Laurence Pollinger General Correspondence Files series comprises files kept by
Greene's
long time publisher Laurence Pollinger. Generally the letters in this series are requests
for publication, stage, or film use of various of Greene's works. Regular status lists
of
the rights for various materials are also included in the files. The files have been
maintained in their orignal order, arranged chronologically, with an occasional folder
labeled topically, such as "British Publishers." A small amount of duplication occurs
where
recipients returned copies of letters attached to their responses. |
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The Laurence Pollinger Copyright Files series holds records of contract negotiations
for
rights for use of Greene's works and is arranged by media type: audio (radio and books
on
tape); film (includes contracts for "film and TV" rights); publishing; stage; and
television
(contracts solely for TV broadcast rights). Within the subseries materials are organized
alphabetically by contracting company. Names of individuals from contracting companies
are
not included in the Index of Correspondents. There are a few folders that contain
general
contract materials for a given title and those are listed by the work's title. Some
of the
correspondence in this series duplicates letters found in the previous General
Correspondence Files series. |
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A fairly large quantity of thermo-faxes included in the Laurence Pollinger series
were
fading towards illegibility and the best photocopies possible have been made for
preservation purposes and to facilitate use. |
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Other materials associated with Greene may be found in the following collections at
the
Ransom Center:
- Barker, George
- Blunden, Edmund Charles
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Church, Richard
- Connolly, Cyril
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cunard, Nancy
- Fitzgibbon, Constantine
- Ford, Ford Maddox
- Grigson, Geoffrey
- Hamilton, G.
- Harpers
- Hutchinson, Mary
- Jameson, Storm
- Lehmann, John
- Lindsay, Philip
- London Magazine
- Lownders, Marie Adelaide Belloc
- Mackenzie, Compton
- Maclaren-Ross, Julian
- Maugham, William Somerset
- Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish Bentinck, Lady
- Owen, Peter
- Palmer, Herbert Edward
- Patmore, Derek
- PEN
- Plomer, William Charles Franklyn
- Pound, Ezra Loomis
- Priestly, John Boynton
- Pritchett, VS
- Scott-James, Rolfe Arnold
- Sitwell, Edith, Dame
- Stanford, Derek
- Strong, Leonard Alfred George
- Warner, Rex
- Waugh, Evelyn
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