Special Collections, General Subject Manuscripts Collection

Robert O. Bowen, 1920-
Papers, 1948-1967
18 Boxes; 9 linear feet
Ms. Group 13 

Series 1: Manuscripts (including biographical records), 11 boxes

Box 1:Biographical and Miscellaneous Material; Full Length Works

  1. Application for Federal Employment, 1961
  2. Biographical Material (Includes photographs, biographical notes, bibliography, career syllabus, and vitas)
  3. Mailing List Inquiring about Creative Writing Position,  Fall 1962
  4. Symposium of Press Opinion on Robert O. Bowen and His Work, 1950-1962
  5. Dallas County Committee to Bring Recognition to Merchants Selling Communist Imports, 1962-1963
  6. Dallas Review, Robert O. Bowen, editor. Typescripts and proofs, v.1, No. 1, - v.1, No. 2 (1962-1963).
  7. Notebook, Robert O. Bowen. University College of North Wales, 1952. Leather bound, 5x8".

    Full-length Works, Published and Unpublished
  8. The Weight of the Cross, Knopf, 1951. "Scene Cut from Weight of the Cross. Part used later in Bamboo."
  9.  Bamboo-Typed Manuscript, copy 1, various paginations
  10. Bamboo-Typed Manuscript, copy 2, with proofs of preliminary pages. 230 leaves.
  11. Bamboo - Typed ms., pp. 218-239

Box 2: Fiction continued: Bamboo, Sidestreet (Edna Gavin), Marlow, the Master

  1. Bamboo-2 galleys
  2. [Sidestreet]-Autograph manuscript, titled Edna Gavin. 64 p.
  3. Sidestreet-Typed manuscript, originally titled Edna Gavin. Ithaca, NY., revised December 22, 1953. 129 leaves.
  4. [Sidestreet] -- Typed manuscript, titled Edna Gavin. "Revised manuscript, Sept. 1953. Ithaca." 108 leaves.
  5. [Sidestreet]-Typed manuscript, titled Edna Gavin. Ithaca,1954. 108 leaves.

  6. Marlow, the Master and Other Stories, Colonial Press, 1963 . Typed ms. of cover story and preliminary pages; release forms

Box 3: Fiction continued: Britt, Trappers Peak, Beacon Annual, Mountain Child

  1. Britt. Author's first draft. Title "The Strangers" marked through.
  2. Britt (2) Author's first draft continued(?)
  3. Britt ms., miscellaneous pages.
  4. The Strangers; a novel by Robert O. Bowen. Carbon typescript. 276 pp. Not known to have been published.
  5. Trappers Peak, a novel by Robert O. Bowen. Outline, notes, fragmentary drafts. Not known to have been published.

  6. The Beacon Annual, 1958 (edited by Robert Bowen).  Typed ms. (carbon) for anthology, not known to have been published. 315 pages, many missing.

  7. The Beacon Annual - Preliminary material.

  8. The Mountain Child: an Opera in One Act. Text by Robert O. Bowen. Music by Eugene Weigel. Typescripts. Earlier versions, called "Christmas Eve in Last Chance Gulch."

Box 4: Nonfiction: Practical Prose Studies, New Professors

1)    Twentieth Century Prose Studies, a Critical Anthology by Robert O. Bowen. Typed ms. of preliminary material. 9 leaves. [Early version of Practical Prose Studies]

2-4)    Practical Prose Studies: a Critical Anthology of Contemporary American Prose Readings for the College Freshman. Knopf, 1956. 3 Folders

5)    The New Professors. Typed ms.

6)    The New Professors. Critiques by Bowen of two essays.

7)    The New Professors. Proof of preface; release from contributors and agreement form.

Box 5: Nonfiction Continued: The Truth about Communism, College Style Manual, Alaskan Dictionary

    1)  The Truth about Communism (Colonial Press, 1962). Typescripts. Various pagination.

    2)  The Truth about Communism. Promotional material, Bibliography, and Footnotes

    3)  The Truth about Communism. Notes

    4)  The Truth about Communism. Preface and Proofs

    5) The College Style Manual (Colonial Press, 1963). Typed ms.

    6)  The College Style Manual. Proofs, galleys

    7)  The Dallas Style Manual. (Dallas, 1961). Unpublished draft of The College Style Manual(?)

    8-9)  An Alaskan Dictionary (Nooshnik Press, 1965). Typed manuscripts. 2 folders.

Box 6: Short Stories, A-L

  1. Al
  2. The Angle
  3. Aunt May
  4. Barber's Night Out
  5. The Beautiful Clean Summer Blue
  6. The Best, a short story by Bob Baer (also called A Loss)
  7. Bill 
  8. The Black Dog
  9. The Breaking of the Rock
  10. Code of Honor, a short story by Bob Baer;  a second draft by "Robin Parker." 
  11. [D]Eecline of a Hero
  12. Defense
  13. The Emperor's Birthday
  14. Encounter, a short story by Robin Parker
  15. The Engine Room Yogi
  16. The Green Frog
  17. The Gorgon's Head
  18. Gulf Stream
  19. The Heretic
  20. House off the Road
  21. Initiation
  22. Joe
  23. The Last Chinese (1st draft) and Dependability (2nd draft)
  24. Last Time Home
  25. The Lie
  26. The Light
  27. The Little Wheel Wright
  28. The Loss (see also The Best)

Box 7: Short Stories, M-Y

  1. Manilla '39
  2. A Man's Partner
  3. Marlow the Master
  4. Marlow of Hamburg
  5. The Minuteman
  6. My Grandfather Benbow-July 1953
  7. Nightmare Number One
  8. Nightmare Number Seven
  9. Not All Alone
  10. The Old Man,1951
  11. Old Silver; the Most Unforgettable Type I Ever Did Know
  12. One of You
  13. On the Town
  14. The One Who Lasted
  15. The Other River
  16. Patience
  17. The Pit
  18. The Price of a Friend
  19. The Prisoners
  20. Recognition
  21. Richard and Ethele
  22. Singing the Blues
  23. The Skipper
  24. Songs of Araby
  25. The Specialist
  26. Spit
  27. The Stranger, Autograph Ms.
  28. Stranger Things in Heaven and Earth
  29. The Subway
  30. The Swimmer
  31. A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
  32. Three Incidents from the Life of Amy Matson
  33. Thy Will Be Done  (title crossed out)
  34. Truedom in Gypsy Cove
  35. Under Protest (also called The Chit)
  36. Until Morning
  37. The Victim
  38. The Virtue of An Image
  39. You're Gonna Be A Gentleman

Box 8: Articles (Published and Unpublished)

Folder 1: Robert O. Bowen Articles, A-C

American Glad-Hand

American Summer Session

Anxiety and the Great American Myth

Article for The Critic (note)

Blake's The Tyger, an explication

Blake's The Tyger, lines 7-8, The Explicator, August 21, 1948

Broken Circle (a brief critique of John Milton)

Catholic Contribution to the Arts , Critic October 1961 (2 copies)

Chaucer, The Clerks Prologue," (note)

Chaucer, The Man of Law's Introduction and Tale

Christ Myth in Faulkner's Light in August (note)

Commentary on Contemporary Prose

Commentary and Notes on Literary Art

Creative Writing Class, Puget Sound Notes, Vol. 31, No. 3, Spring 1959

Folder 2: Robert O. Bowen Articles, D - G

Defense of the Tower (notes)

Epoch Review column

The Establishment:  Art or Psychological Warfare?

Final Examination Discussions, August 26, 1948
The Language of Walter Savage Landor (see also Language of WSL)  
The Light-Bringer  
" On Seeing the Elgin Marbles", an explication  (see also Keats)

Flatus Symbol in Chaucer (2 drafts)

Flatus Symbol in Chaucer (2 drafts)

Foo-Foo and Quiver Power

Four Letter Establishment (3 drafts and notes)

Goodbye Mr. Chipps Indeed!

The Gothic Tradition (notes)

Grand Teton Mountain Rescue Story (outline)

Gray's "The Fatal Sisters" (note)

Box 8: Folder 3:  Articles, H-O

Historical Sense in Britain and America

Ideal Character in Shakespearean Tragedy (notes)

Impressions of a Visiting Colonial

Is the United States Already a Second Class Power? (with notes)

Keats's On Seeing the Elgin Marble

Language Notes

Language of Walter Savage Landor

Lay Faculty in a Jesuit University

Literary Tradition at the University of Dallas

Loyalty and Tradition in Conrad

Missing Scene from Francesca da Rimini

Modern Gothic Prose, New Ventures, Summer 1954

Modern Prose

Most Unforgettable Character I've Met  (2 copies)

My Dame Taught Me, a proverbial expression  (2 copies)

Notes on Contemporary Writing

Oedipus, An Explication

On American Character

On Talent

Box 8: Folder 4: Articles, P - S

Pick Up Thy Bed   (2 drafts)

Place of Fortinbras in Hamlet's Procrastination

Proposal for Literary Action, MLN Quarterly, Winter 1958

Purpose and Content of Freshman English Composition

"Quasi-review sections" for Epoch 

Reader's View and the Writer's View

Romantic Bibliography

Ruminations from Bangor, The Old Bangorian, 1954

Salinger Syndrome:  Charity against Whom?   (5 draft)

Scotism in Gerard Manley Hopkins  (2 drafts)

Something Not Dreamt of  (2 drafts)

So You've Got Talent?  (2 drafts)

Sprung Rhythm in the Choruses of Samson Agonistes  (3 drafts)

Statement of English Department Policy

Summer School in Montana (4 copies, Manuscript, drafts)

Box 8: Folder 5: Articles (Published and Unpublished) S-Y

Thoreau, Walden (4 drafts)

Twentieth Century Pioneer

Tyger (being brief explication of the poem by William Blake)  (3 drafts and notes)
see also:  Blake's Tyger

Usher Myth

Wanderer, The Explicator, February 1955

Welsh Prosody in Gerard Manley Hopkins
(a study of disparate sources of identical form)

Wind Study (explication-manuscript)

Without Status:  The University Man of Letters (2 drafts)

Word From The Silent Generation  (4 drafts)

Writer at the University:  or the Opinions of a Monarchist under Democracy

Writer's Notes on His Trade

Yew Trees  (an explication de texte)

Box 9:  Essays, Lectures, Memorandum, Presentations, etc.

  1. The Alaska Earthquake:  Progress after Disaster
  2. Alaska Review Magazine Proposal, AMU, etc.
  3. AMU Writers Institute Proposal, April 28, 1965
  4. AMU Writing Program:  A Progress Report, May 25, 1964, and Memorandum, March 30, 1965
  5. The American Academic Establishment:  Destination Destruction, lecture notes, Nov. 16, 1965
  6. Anonymous Last Notes from Academe, an Essay
  7. The Big Alaska Shake
  8. Budget Proposal for a Literary Journal (Montana Review, Fall 1956)
  9. Careers in English
  10. Christ in My Life, a Personal Testimony for Jesus Christ as My Savior
  11. Civil Service Lecture, notes
  12. The Conservative Rationale lecture . . . Unitarian Church, Anchorage, January 1965
  13. Heraclitus and Jesus, Universalist Unitarian Fellowship Preachment, Feb. 13, 1966
  14. The Innocents
  15. Journalistic Responsibility (Journalism manual)
  16. The Juvenile Revolution:  An Aspect of the Class Struggle in America, lecture notes for YAF: Anchorage Speech, May 11, 1965

  17. The Letter of Application, prepared as an aid in graduate school placement

  18. Liberal Arts Placement Manual. Typed ms. 24 p.
  19. Miscellaneous Lectures Notes (Aspects of the Novel, Authors Club Dinner Speech, Bamboo, etc.)
  20. Panel on Indecent Literature, notes
  21. Playboy Lecture and Discussion, notes, May 2, 1965
  22. Poetry of the North Land (lecture notes)
  23. A Preachment
  24. Roundup
  25. The Short Story Today, essay
  26. Speech of AAA Council of English Teachers, Nov, 12, 1963
  27. Transition in Literature, Forum Lecture: Oct. 11, 1963
  28. Vietnam Panel, KENI TV, May 8, 1965
  29. The Waking Dragon, Nov. 23, 1964
  30. What is An Intellectual? Public lecture
  31. What Makes Men Want to Work? A Preachment by Robert O. Bowen
  32. Who Built the Bonfire? an Accusation
  33. Wiretap Story
  34. Workshop Talk, March 12, 1964

BOX 10: Poetry and Drama; Book Reviews

Poetry and Drama

  1. Defense. A Television Play Film Script. Several drafts, one marked "revised 11-9-56."
  2. 80 Women of Dallas on Disarmament, a Script Prepared for a Dramatized Dissertation. First draft, December 15, 1962
  3. Poems. Typed manuscripts of individual poems, often with several drafts.
  4. Tally. Typed ms. of poems submitted for the Ingram Merrill Foundation Prize, 1957.
  5. "The Wanderer" [Anglo-Saxon poem] Typed ms. translation with extensive autograph revision.

Book Reviews:

 

Author (s)

Title (s)

Contents
6

Bellow, Saul and Malamud, Bernard

Seize the Day and The Assistant

TS with corrections and attatched holograph
7

Bonn, John L.

The Lively Arts of Sister Gervaise

TS
8

Bradbury, Ray

Dandelion Wine

TS
9

Coyne, Joseph

The Threshing Floor

TS
10

Dickens, Monica

The Angle in the Corner

TS
11

Eyle, Paul  (editor)

Prize Stories 1959:  The O'Henry Awards

TS with corrections
12

Eyster, Warren

The Goblins of Eros

Holograph; TS with corrections and attatched clipping of the review
13

Franklin, F.K.

The Cleft in the Rock

TS with corrections and attached holograph copy
14

Furnas, J.C.

Anatomy of Paradise

TS with corrections
15

Horgan, Paul

Give Me Possession

TS
16

Karp, David

Leave me Alone

TS
17

Kaye-Smith, Sheila

The View from the Parsonage

TS with corrections and holograph copy attached
18

Loomis, Edward

Heroic Love

TS
19

Lytle, Andrew

The Velvet Horn

TS
20

Mackenzie, Sir Compton

Thin Ice

TS with corrections
21

McCullers, Carson

Clock  without Hands

TS with corrections
22

Norman, James

Father Juniper and the General

TS with corrections
23

O'Brien, Kate

As Music and Splendor

TS with corrections
24

O'Conner, Flannery

The Violent Bear it Away

Holograph; TS with corrections
25 O'Hara, John, and Wilson, Angus

The Four Letter Establishment

Ts
26 Peterson, Sidney A Fly in the Pigment TS
27

Powers, J.F.

The Presence of Grace

TS with corrections
28

Purdy, James

Color of Darkness

TS with corrections
29

Rubin, Louis D.  (Jr.) and Jacobs, Robert D. (editors)

South:  Modern Southern Literature in its Cultural Setting

 
30

Shirer, William L.

The Consul's Wife

TS
31

Stolpe, Sven

Sound of Distant Horn

TS with corrections
32

Van Ghent, Dorothy

The English Novel:  Form and Function

TS
33

Vercor and West, Morris L., and O'Faolin

Sylvia and Daughter of Silence and I Remember! I Remember !

TS with corrections
34

Warren, Robert Penn, Malamud, Bernard and Wilson, Colin

Wilderness and A New Life and Adrift in Soho

TS with corrections
35

Wimberly, Gwynne

The Penthouse

Holograph and attached notes and quotes from the book
36

Woodman, George

Night of the Flood

TS
 

Box 11: College Papers, Notes

  1. Don Juan
  2. Essays on Spanish Literature
  3. Geology Notes/Papers
  4. The Executioner
  5. The Expediter
  6. Finis
  7. Ghost Town and The First Night
  8. G.I. Joe
  9. Home Is the Soldier
  10. Hotel Room
  11. Kahil Gibran, a Twentieth Century Prophet
  12. Liberation
  13. A Little Bit of the Old South
  14. The Newlyweds and The Leopard
  15. The Night Rider
  16. On Coming Home
  17. The Origin of Modern Warfare
  18. A Question
  19. The Sire
  20. Ten Descriptive Sentences
  21. First Real Studies in English

Series 2: Correspondence

November 18, 2002

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