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Anaïs Nin papers Collection 1988-010 Dates: 1969-1992, undated. Extent: (1 box) Level of Description: Item level. Name of creator(s): Unknown. Date of creation: Undetermined. Scope and Content: Consists of correspondence between Nin and colleagues and between her publisher, Peter Owen and others, particularly her literary agent, Gunther Stuhlmann. Also included is Nin’s typescript draft of her essay, “On Writing. Writer and Symbols,” a transcription of Nin’s introduction to Anna Kavan’s Ice, as well as draft introductions to Ladders to fire and Children of the albatross and a preface to Cities of the interior, all written by Gunther Stuhlmann. Administrative/Biographical History: Access and Copyright: Open, with the signing of the Reader's Application form. Language and Scripts: English Finding aid/Inventory: Finding aid is online. Provenance/Source of Acquisition: The Nin essay, “On Writing. Writer and Symbols”, was acquired from J. Howard Woolmer, June 1988. The Peter Owen materials were acquired from William Reese Company, December 1992. Date(s) of description: Unknown. Access Points:
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| Correspondence | ||
| Baro, Gene | ||
| 1:1 | Anais Nin to Baro (friend and literary agent). No dates. 1 typed letter signed, 2 handwritten letters signed, 1s each. In reference to what she is working on, writers she wants to publish, reviewing of books, etc. (Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum 30 October 2006) | |
| Fitch, Noël Riley | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 10 Oct 1991. “I will tell my editor at Simon and Schuster that you are interested in considering the UK rights” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Gysin, Brion | ||
| Anais Nin to Brion Gysin. 21 Aug 1969. “As your book came just before I left on a 6 weeks trip I took it personally to Village Voice” Handwritten and signed postcard. | ||
| Kupferberg, Miss | ||
| Anais Nin to Kupferberg. No date. 1 handwritten letter signed in reference to her diaries. (Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum 30 October 2006) | ||
| Mathieu, Bertrand | ||
| Anais Nin to Bertrand Mathieu. 30 Jun 1975. “Your study of Miller impressed me so much I sent it to Miller” Handwritten and signed letter, 1s. [Removed from A Season in Hell. 1976.] | ||
| Anais Nin to Tom Wall. Incomplete date. “Africa didn’t work out, so I’m spending a season in Mao’s China teaching” Handwritten and signed postcard. | ||
| Stuhlmann, Gunther (Literary agent) | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 31 Jan 1978. “Enclosed please find the contract with the initialed change in the paperback split...” Typed and signed letter, 1s | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 16 Aug 1978. “We have filed all the papers with the British Tax authorities...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 6 Dec 1978. “Thanks for yours of 11/22 which just arrived, together with one package of Cities...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 30 Dec 1978. “As I think I mentioned to you before, the next volume in the diary series will be volume VII...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 4 Apr 1979. “I was very astounded this morning to receive word from W. H. Allen that your firm had approached them for permission fees to two titles...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 14 Feb 1980. “Thanks for signed contract and check for partial advance on Diary VII...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 7 Mar 1980. “The van der Post quote runs 36 printed lines on the galleys with about 12 words to the line...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 24 Jun 1980. “I have checked with the Trust and they would like to retain the usual twice yearly royalty accounting, which we receive from all major publishers in the UK...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 13 Mar 1991. “Here is a brief new introduction for your trade paperback edition of Anaïs Nin’s Ladders to fire...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 13 Mar 1991. “The brief intro for Ladders to fire has gone off to you. This should replace the old one by Anaïs and I have put a note on it to that effect...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 15 Mar 1991. “Thanks for yours regarding your sale of paperback rights to Penguin Books of Anaïs Nin’s Children of the albatross and Seduction of the minotaur...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 24 Apr 1991. “We will have to draw up a new agreement to cover the publication in one volume of Ladders to fire...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 17 Jun 1991. “Enclosed a redrafted version of my original memo, dated March 13, which became invalid when you started making unilateral changes on it instead of consulting us first...” Typed and signed letter, 2s. | ||
| Peter Woen to Anais Nin. 26 Jun 1991. “The Journals - yes Quartet are out of print of some of them and we have reverted...” photocopy, typed letter, 4s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 24 Jul 1991. “Yes, the copy of the agreement for Ladders to fire was for your files, since we had already gotten a copy from you duly signed...” Typed and signed letter, 2s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 14 Aug 1991. “Here is the new intro for Children of the albatross, which should replace the old Durrell intro on pages 9, 10,, 11 of your original edition...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 25 Aug 1991. “Just a brief note to alert you to the fact that apparently Robert Laffont is in the process of lining up a British publisher for a book on Anaïs Nin by Elizabeth Barille...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 10 Sept 1991. “I do not have any copy of your edition of Four-Chambered Heart in our files since, apparently, we never got any...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 13 Nov 1991. “RE: 'Winter of Artifice' We have discussed your offer to do a trade paperback edition of the above (without 'House of Incest'), under your own imprint in your usual territory, with the Nin Trust and they are agreeable...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 2 Dec 1991. “FYI - This is the translator for Lime Tree Books (E. Lindner) of the Barille book...” Typed and signed note with attached photocopy of a typed letter from Stuhlmann to Elfreda Powell, 2 Dec 1991, in which he lists the quotes used by Elizabeth Barille without the permission of the copyright holder. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. 30 Jan 1992. “Solar Barque is a part of Seduction of the Minotaur - listed separately it was merely a forerunner of the book and can’t be separate published now...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Anais Nin to Peter Owen. n.d. “Miller... In the Paragon edition here we have corrected a great number of dates, added a section to the introduction and updated the biographical notes...” Typed and signed letter, 1s. | ||
| Writings | ||
| Children of the albatross | ||
| 1:2 | Typed introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann, 2p. 1991. | |
| Cities of the interior | ||
| Memorandum of Agreement between the Anaïs Nin Trust and Peter Owen Ltd. Photocopied, typed draft, 2p. | ||
| Typed preface by Gunther Stuhlmann, 2p. 1978. | ||
| Ice | ||
| Photocopied, typed draft transcription of Nin’s introduction to the novel by Anna Kavan, 1p. | ||
| Ladders to fire | ||
| Typed draft introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann, 2p. 1991. | ||
| “On Writing. Writer and Symbols” | ||
| 1:3 | Typed and carbon copy typed draft with handwritten revisions and additions by the author, 75p. | |
| 1:4 | Remains of folder in hich the draft was originally housed. | |
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