Aidan Higgins: A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center

Aidan Higgins:

A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center

	Creator:	Higgins, Aidan, 1927-2015
	Title:	Aidan Higgins Papers
	Dates:	1960s-2010s
	Extent:	43 boxes (17.86 linear feet)
	Abstract:	The Aidan Higgins Papers contains drafts, notebooks, diaries, correspondence, reviews, clippings, family-related items, career-related items, and other materials related to the career of Irish writer Aidan Higgins, primarily dated from the 1970s to the 2010s.
	Call Number:	Manuscript Collection MS-05345
	Language:	English

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Administrative Information

	Preferred Citation	Aidan Higgins Papers (Manuscript Collection MS-05345). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
	Acquisition:	Purchase, 2014 (14-06-015-P)
	Processed by:	Christine Bethke, Stephen Cooper, 2019 Note: This brief collection description is a preliminary inventory. The collection is not fully processed or cataloged and only generally describes the contents of each box; no descriptions of series or indexes are available.

Repository:

Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Scope and Contents

The Aidan Higgins Papers contains drafts, notebooks, diaries, correspondence, reviews, clippings, family-related items, career-related items, and other materials related to the career of Irish writer Aidan Higgins, primarily dated from the 1970s to the 2010s. The drafts of works and notebooks/diaries make up the bulk of the collection, with the drafts varying from very early handwritten versions to the final proofs for some works. The boxes containing correspondence are very generally described and may contain items in addition to letters, such as drafts of works, research material, and clippings.

Related Material

	The Harry Ransom Center also holds Aidan Higgins materials in the Samuel Beckett Collection, the Elizabeth Hardwick Papers, the Alfred A. Knopf Records, and the Wallace Literary Agency Records.
	Aidan Higgins materials are also held at the University of Victoria McPherson Library

Separated Material

	Bound volumes and audio-visual materials received with the Higgins papers are listed below. They are housed and described separately at the Ransom Center:
	Bound Volumes
	Works by Higgins Balcony of Europe, The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction, 1999 The Baron from the Balticum, Quito/Dublin Revue Bilingue No. 16 A Bestiary, 2004 The Bird I Fancied, Modern Irish Stories, 1985 Bornholm Night-Ferry, 2006 Boyhood, The Ireland Anthology, 1997 Colossal Gongorr and the Turkes of Mars, 1979 Dog Days: A Sequel to Donkey’s Years, 1998, 1999 Donkey’s Years: Memories of a Life as Story Told to Aidan Higgins, 1995 (2 copies), 2008 Flotsam and Jetsam, 1997 Helsingor Station and Other Departures, 1989 The Hidden Narrator, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2011 Killachter Meadow, Modern Irish Short Stories, 1993 Langrishe, Go Down, 2000, 2004, 2007 Lebensraum, The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories, 1981 Lions of the Grunewald, 1993, 1995 Musing, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2008 On the Rack, Princeton University Library Chronicle, Autumn 2010 Reunions, The Flight Path, 1996 Ronda Gorge and Other Precipices, 1989 Scenes from a Receding Past, 2005 Sodden Fields, Kinsale Anthology, 2005 The Whole Hog: A Sequel to Donkey’s Years and Dog Days, 2000 Windy Arbours: Collected Criticism, 2005 (2 copies)
	Works about Higgins The Modern Irish Novel, Aidan Higgins, 2002 Murphy, Neil. Aidan Higgins, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2003 The Oxford Book of Ireland, 1998
	Works by others Anders, Jill. McDaid’s Wife: A Novel, 1988 (Higgins’ first wife) Murphy, Neil, ed. The Fragility of Form, Aidan Higgins, 2010
	Moving Image Aidan Higgins, English Literature Society, 3-15-1985, VHS
	Sound Recordings Boomtown, CD Discords of Good Humor, CD Stye Lay Sleeping, Read by Pat Laffan, Stories for the Ear, CD The Tomb of Dreams, CD Zoo Station, CD

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