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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: 1996.Finding aid is written in English.Guide to the The papers of Dorothy and Howard Baker, 1926-1990Collection number: M0903Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CaliforniaContact InformationDepartment of Special CollectionsGreen LibraryStanford University LibrariesStanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.eduURL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/Special Collections staff1997Steven Mandeville-Gamble

© 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.

Descriptive SummaryThe papers of Dorothy and Howard Baker, 1926-1990Special Collections M0903Baker, Howard, d1905-33 linear ft.Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.Administrative InformationAccess Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Provenance

Purchased, 1996.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] The papers of Dorothy and Howard Baker, M0903, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Content

Includes manuscripts, correspondence, photographs.

Access TermsBaker, Dorothy, 1907-1968.Baker, Howard, 1905-American literature--20th century.Container List

Preliminary box listing only

1(HB) Autobiography, temples, horses, his own early papers Stavely, "Individualism" and Wasteland, Shaman, Plates, leather notebook, (red) campus notes notebook, black 3 ring: Temples, black 3 ring: Provinces, general correspondence #9, #10, #112(DB & HB) Whittier H S docs and "iana", UCLA papers and docs, UC-B grad school papers, stories: Safe conduct, vote for Hoover, Matter of habit, No sale, Fletcher Mills, Sane Fourth, For your convenience, Nocturnal conversation; beginnings of "Young man with a horn," family and personal honeymoon pics/doc/yearbooks, HB's letters to his parents (& DB), periodical appearances of DB3HB: essays, stories, to Virginia: loves of Andy & Rosy, scholarship3DB: get well, 1947, Trio, Ninth Day, Life with Father, Stories (10)+1, Gifted son clippings, letters to: supplements: Freidel, O'Hare, Murdock, Cassandra (major file)4Scholarship, 11 folders, Endoxus, etc.5HB & DB: Little Orpheus (version), The other one (versions), The ninth day (versions of play /screenplay), Orange Valley (setting TS), Ode to the Sea (galleys), HB's poetry (6 folders), Stories: Bedwell Bar, Tokaywabbie special.6HB: Scholarship & essays: Persephone's cave, Letters on the English, Essays on novels (Hardy et al), Monterey: Acorn gathereres, Folders/Binders on scholarship not valued, Med Fly invention, Essays on Squires, Goldstein, K.A. Porter, etc, box of old snaps/photos some deteriorating.7Trio (versions) (play), Young man with a horn (versions) (play & screenplay), Willow Street chronicle (play), Sparrow and the characters (play)8HB: English 262, English 114A: 44B, Hardy, Williams (Annie L), Sullivan - agents, musical rummy, General Lightfoot, Trio 1945, A map in the sand, The Shrew, AVIS (150p jumbled), AVIS & ms map, Antiquity & modernism, Ode to sea (page proofs), A letter from the country TS, English 225 etc (1929), general correspondence #7, #89Supplement box 1/3. DB's letters to parents, early + final roundup + early mss, Bronson endorsement, 1937, for H.M. fellowship, etc. Not foldered, need rubber bands removed.10HB: Life adv. Of Vicente Felix, AVIS, letters to parents from France, Fed 1040 (1942), Cassandra, The lonely summer, DB's death (medical file)11DB (chiefly): Orange Valley contract/royalty, DB bio/specs, Nial/Cowley, DB to parents, DB's parents to Alice, 9th Day clipping file, many DB stories, essay (Reluc Provias?), speech, YMWAH (play) drafts & UK stencil, YMWAH play/screenplay (2), YMWAH play/act 2 (drafts), YMWAH (play) 125 pp, ditto 127 pp, ditto Act 1, scene 3, Cassandre at the wedding (galleys - 2 sets), radio/tv, Eddie Blatt, Fletcher Markle, McIntosh & Otis, Annie Laurie Williams, Houghton-Mifflin, clipping service files/YMWAH, Sabinson12HB & DB: novel ASIS etc drafts, UC Davis files, Trio novel drafts by DB, etc.13HB: Dilemma, thesis, misc drafts, Sackville & Norton, D's journal, Our gifted son (responses), oral history DB, A final time jazz memoirs, 2nd annual fiction conv., Ellen's birth, Stewart, Mildred (fol. 7), general correspondence #6 (DB)14HB: manuscript file, Persephone's cave (box 2)15Specific correspondence: A - Lytle16Letters to DB: HB, Mildred Stewart, Marjory Harris Simpson, Eliz Freidel, Louise Stoll, French docs (marriage cert.), HB on Dannenbaum, A letter from the country & baby pic, letters from D's parents, Dorothy to Howard17HB: manuscript file, Persephone's cave (box 1 of 2)18Specific correspondence (box 2): McCambridge to Wright (to end) + Stewart, Baker, Sullivan, 1970-1971 (important file)19Supplement box 3/3. Printed matter, galleys, page proofs, Ninth day early drafts, + other mss20aDB: letters to (etc)/general correspondence (5 folders)20bHB: letters to/general correspondence (6 folders)21HB: on Ramsey, French ed YMWAH (A of 4), Whittier HS year books (2), Gyroscope complete with Lesis & Winters TS, HB lc recordings, Cassandra galleys, Hearst/Cosmopolitan, Harvard Advocates (3), DB correspondence (retained carbons, drafts), final folder all scraps22HB: Supplement box 2/3. Early letters to Dorothy (rubber bands), photos, etc.