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Inventory of the Reynolds Price Papers, 1927-2006 and undated, bulk 1956-2006

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Descriptive Summary

Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Creator
Price, Reynolds, 1933-
Title
Reynolds Price Papers, 1927-2006 and undated, bulk 1956-2006
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
143.2 Linear Feet

58,900 Items
Abstract
Reynolds Price is a novelist, short story writer, poet, dramatist, essayist, translator, and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where he has taught creative writing and literature since 1958. He is an alumnus of Duke and of Oxford University, which he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and his books have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Correspondence, writings, serials, clippings, speeches, interviews, legal and financial papers, photographs, audiovisual materials, and digital materials about Price's career and personal life. Personal and professional correspondence document his education at Duke University, especially his studies under William Blackburn; his period abroad as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford; and his literary work and interaction with other authors, including Stephen Spender, Eudora Welty, and Allan Gurganus. Writings include manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, outlines, and notes produced in the creation and publication of all his major works, including: A Long and Happy Life; Kate Vaiden; A Palpable God; Clear Pictures; A Whole New Life; The Collected Stories; The Collected Poems; and many other books and individual stories, poems, and essays. Printed and audiovisual materials document the critical reception of Price's work and his speeches, readings, interviews, and many other public appearances.
The 2007 addition (2007-0009) (4850 items; 10.5 lin. ft.) (dated 2003-2006) primarily consists of typescripts, drafts, and proofs for The Good Priest's Son, Letter to a Godchild, A Serious Way of Wondering, and the screenplay for A Long and Happy Life. Also included is correspondence, personal documents, photographs, bookcovers, and printed materials by other authors.
Addition (2009-0105) (12 items; 0.6 lin. ft.) consists largely of books from Price's writing, teaching, and research, including some text books as well as novels with his notes in the margins. Also included is one folder of miscellaneous notes and correspondence, 1972-1994.
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Collection is restricted.
In addition, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
Also, original audiovisual materials are closed to patron use. Use copies are available in the collection.
All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Copyright Notice
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Reynolds Price Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Reynolds Price Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift in 1986-2006.
Processing Information
Processed by Michael Shumate, Melissa Delbridge, Dan Daily, Linda Daniel, Pavla Vesela, October 2005
Encoded by Michael Shumate, Stephen Miller
Completed February 2006
Updated by John Mayrose, March 2007; Meghan Lyon, April 2009.
Accessions 93-125, 94-022, 95-011, 95-075, 96-036, 96-121, 1996-0171, 97-066, 1998-0248, 1998-0047, 1998-0535, 1999-0007, 1999-0259, 2000-0146, 2001-0141, 2001-0228, 2002-0007, 2002-0040, 2003-0174, and 2004-0091 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.
Accessions 2007-0009 and 2009-0105 are unprocessed additions to this collection.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
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Biographical Note

Chronology List

1933 Feb. 1Born in Macon, NC, to William Solomon and Elizabeth (Rodwell) Price
1954-1955Editor, The Archive; Advisory editor, Shenandoah at Duke University
1955A.B. Summa cum laude, Duke University; Angier Duke Scholar
1958
B. Litt. (Rhodes Scholar), Merton College, Oxford University
D. Litt., St. Andrew's Presbyterian College
1958-Member of English Department faculty, Duke University
1961-1968Assistant Professor, Duke University
1962 A Long and Happy Life, first novel and book
1965Writer-in-residence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1967, 1969Writer-in-residence, University of Kansas
1968-1972Associate professor, Duke University
1971
Writer-in-residence, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Glasgow Professor, Washington and Lee University
1972-1977Professor, Duke University
1973-1977Literature Advisory Panel, National Endowment for the Arts (Chair, 1976)
1977Faculty, Salzburg Seminar
1977-James B. Duke Professor of English, Duke University
1979National Book Award nomination for translation, for A Palpable God
1986National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, for Kate Vaiden
1994Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in fiction, for The Collected Stories
1997 The Collected Poems

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Collection Overview

The Reynolds Price Papers span the years 1927-2004, with the bulk of the papers being dated between 1956 and 2004. The collection consists of correspondence; writings by Price and other authors; printed material (including serials containing articles by and about Price and his work as well as newspaper and magazine clippings); legal and financial papers; speeches and addresses; interviews; photographs; audiovisual materials; digital materials; and other material relating to Price's personal life and career as a writer and a teacher, especially at Duke University. Although the correspondence does provide insight into his career as an English professor, the collection contains only a small amount of material, such as lecture notes and syllabi, relating to the courses he taught. Extensive personal and professional correspondence between Price and his family, friends, and fellow authors provides insight into his education at Duke University (particularly his studies with Professor William Blackburn of the Department of English); his period abroad as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford; and his literary work.
Many forms of Price's writings (manuscripts, typescripts, stages of proofs with notes, and outlines) document his development of well-known and critically-acclaimed works in a variety of genres: the novels A Long and Happy Life and Kate Vaiden; the Biblical translations collected in A Palpable God; the memoirs Clear Pictures and A Whole New Life; the two career retrospective volumes published in the 1990s, The Collected Stories and The Collected Poems; and many other books and individual stories, poems, and essays. In addition to Price's own work, numerous American authors--particularly Southern writers--and several British authors are represented in the collection. Among the major correspondents are Eudora Welty, Stephen Spender, and Allan Gurganus. Some manuscripts sent to Price by students and by other authors have notations and criticism by Price.
The Correspondence Series (RESTRICTED) is divided into the General Correspondence Subseries and the Authors' Correspondence Subseries. The General Correspondence Series consists of letters to and from Price. Correspondents include family, friends, teachers, and admirers of his work. Early letters vividly depict his relationships with family members and friends. Many of the letters dated between 1954 and 1958 concern his education at Duke University and as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford University. His early development as an author is documented here as well as in the Writings Series. From 1961 onward, letters also provide information about his career as a professor at Duke University. The Authors' Correspondence Subseries comprises correspondence between Price and other writers and literary figures. These letters concern both personal and literary matters. Frequently the correspondents commented on each other's recent publications or on work in progress. Numerous letters to and from Eudora Welty and Stephen Spender reveal much about their strong influence on Price's development as a writer. The series also contains a great many letters from Allan Gurganus, Jeff Humphries, Josephine Humphreys, Joe Porter, Lee Smith, and William Blackburn.
The Writings Series (RESTRICTED) is divided into the Writings by Price Subseries and the Writings by Others Subseries. The former is comprised chiefly of drafts, typescripts, and proofs of Price's novels, plays, autobiographical works, and volumes of poetry, many with Price's notations and revisions, and provides a thorough representation of the development of each. Individual poems, short stories, essays, articles, and reviews by Price are also included. Manuscripts (some of them photocopies) sent to Price by fellow authors and by students make up the Writings by Others Subseries. A few of these include commentary by Price. Both published and unpublished works of poetry and prose are included. A few bibliographies of Price's work are arranged at the end of this series.
The Printed Material Series is divided into the Serials Subseries, the Clippings Subseries, and the Miscellaneous Printed Material Subseries (RESTRICTED). The Serials Subseries is an extensive collection of publications containing articles, reviews, fiction, and poetry by Price as well as articles about him, interviews with him, and reviews of his work. The Clippings Subseries is composed predominantly of reviews of Price's works and other articles about him, but also contains some interviews and short nonfiction work by him, mainly book reviews. Other printed materials documenting Price's achievements, his education, and performances of his dramatic work as well as his speaking engagements are housed in the Miscellaneous Printed Material Subseries.
Several smaller series make up the remainder of the collection. The Legal and Financial Papers Series (RESTRICTED) contains Price's personal financial data as well as documentation of his writing career through contracts and royalty statements. Transcripts of his speeches and interviews appear in the Speeches and Addresses Series (RESTRICTED) and in the Interviews Series (RESTRICTED). The Personal Papers Series (RESTRICTED) contains a small selection of materials about Price and his family history, including some of his drawings, and his teaching career in the Duke University English Department is documented by the Academic Files Series (RESTRICTED). The Photographic Materials Series (RESTRICTED) touches upon both his personal and professional life; of particular interest here are a number of photographs of Eudora Welty, a friend of Price's since his undergraduate days. The Audiovisual Materials Series (RESTRICTED) contains audio and video recordings of a variety of public appearances, including readings, speeches, awards ceremonies, and interviews on various local and national radio and television programs. A small Electronic Formats Series (RESTRICTED) contains files that supplement materials in other series, mainly Price's writings and some correspondence.
Finally, of special note is a large collection of Oversize Materials (RESTRICTED) that supplements material found in most of the major series. This part of the collection is particularly rich in one area, and should not be overlooked by scholars researching the writing, editing and publishing process of any of Price's books up through the early 1990s. The significance of that date lies in the increasing use of photographic and electronic media in the publishing industry. Prior to this time, many of the various kinds of long galley proofs historically used by publishers are housed with the Oversize Materials; after this period, most proofs are printed on legal or even letter-sized paper and can thus be found with the main body of the Writings by Price Series.
The 2007 addition (2007-0009) (4850 items; 10.5 lin. ft.) (dated 2003-2006) primarily consists of typescripts, drafts, and proofs for The Good Priest's Son, Letter to a Godchild, A Serious Way of Wondering, and the screenplay for A Long and Happy Life. Also included is correspondence, personal documents, photographs, bookcovers, and printed materials by other authors.
Addition (2009-0105) (12 items; 0.6 lin. ft.) consists largely of books from Price's writing, teaching, and research, including some text books as well as novels with his notes in the margins. Also included is one folder of miscellaneous notes and correspondence, 1972-1994.
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Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
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Related Material

Materials related to the life and career of Reynolds Price appear in several other collections housed at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The Clear Pictures Film Footage Collection houses materials created and used by Charles Guggenheim in making his 1994 documentary film about Price's life (based on Price's own 1989 memoir of the same title). The collection includes many materials that do not appear in the published version of the film: research, film footage of interviews of and about Price, and electronic files. Documentation of Price's professional writing career appears in the records of the Harriet Wasserman Literary Agency Records. Materials there include correspondence, drafts and published versions of his works, and publishing contracts both with this agency and with Russell and Volkening, Wasserman's employer prior to forming her own agency. Extensive documentation of Price's publishing history can be found in the Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Reynolds Price. In addition to copies of Price's books with major commercial publishers, the Hunter collection also contains many small press publications, limited editions, periodicals, and audiovisual materials. Finally, the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library contains copies of many publications similar to those in the Hunter collection. These items, cataloged separately from the Reynolds Price Papers, are searchable by individual title in the Duke University Libraries online catalog.
List of Series in Collection
Correspondence Series (RESTRICTED), 1936-2004 and undated
Writings Series (RESTRICTED), 1935-2004 and undated
Printed Materials Series, 1944-2004 and undated
Legal and Financial Papers Series (RESTRICTED), 1939-2004 and undated
Speeches and Addresses Series (RESTRICTED), 1957-2004 and undated
Interviews Series (RESTRICTED), 1973-2003 and undated
Personal Papers Series (RESTRICTED), 1927-2004 and undated
Academic Files Series (RESTRICTED), 1969-2003 and undated
Photographic Materials Series (RESTRICTED), 1951-2002 and undated
Audiovisual Materials Series (RESTRICTED), 1968-2003 and undated
Electronic Formats Series (RESTRICTED), circa 1983-2001 and undated
Oversize Materials (RESTRICTED)
Accession, 2007 (2007-0009)
Accession (2009-0105)
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Detailed Description of Collection

Correspondence Series (RESTRICTED), 1936-2004 and undated

(64 boxes)
Arranged into General Correspondence and Authors' Correspondence subseries.
[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to, and duplication by any means, of materials in this series requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]

General Correspondence Subseries (RESTRICTED), 1936-2004 and undated
 (56 boxes)
Includes letters from friends, family members, publishers, teachers, students, and readers of Price's works. Most letters are written to Price, with two exceptions: the letters written between 1944 and 1958 include juvenilia and many letters from Price to his family while he studied at Duke and Oxford; and beginning in the late 1990s, printouts of many of Price's emails begin to appear in the files.
Arranged chronologically, with one exception. Although undated letters would normally be filed at the end of the range of years, the undated letters that appear in Box GC30 have been left where they are because they had already been received when the Price papers were first fully processed circa 1993. Thus, although undated per se, they are known to date prior to 1993 or earlier. The undated letters in Box GC56 at the end of the subseries, on the other hand, have been received by the library from Price since the mid-1990s; thus their actual date of posting may be any time in that period or earlier.

[Note: 14 folders of correspondence, 1956-2000 and undated, have been removed to Oversize Materials.]
[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to, and duplication by any means, of materials in this subseries requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box GC1
1936-1955 Oct.  (12 folders)
Box GC2
1955 Nov.-1956 Dec.  (15 folders)
Box GC3
1957 Jan.-1958 June  (12 folders)
Box GC4
1958 July-1960 Dec.  (11 folders)
Box GC5
1961 Jan.-1963 Sept.  (11 folders)
Box GC6
1963 Oct.-1966 Mar.  (11 folders)
Box GC7
1966 Apr.-1968 Sept.  (13 folders)
Box GC8
1968 May-1970 Feb.  (13 folders)
Box GC9
1970 Mar.-1971 June  (11 folders)
Box GC10
1971 July-1972 May  (10 folders)
Box GC11
1972 June-1973 Aug.  (13 folders)
Box GC12
1973 Sept.-1974 Oct.  (12 folders)
Box GC13
1974 Nov.-1976 Feb. 13  (14 folders)
Box GC14
1976 Feb. 16-1977 Mar.  (12 folders)
Box GC15
1977 Apr.-1978 May  (14 folders)
Box GC16
1978 June-1979 Oct.  (16 folders)
Box GC17
1979 Nov.-1981 Mar.  (17 folders)
Box GC18
1981 Apr.-1982 Apr.  (13 folders)
Box GC19
1982 May-1983 May  (14 folders)
Box GC20
1983 June-1984 June 11  (13 folders)
Box GC21
1984 June 12-1985 Mar.  (12 folders)
Box GC22
1985 Apr.-1986 Aug.  (17 folders)
Box GC23
1986 Sept.-1987 May  (11 folders)
Box GC24
1987 June-1988 May  (12 folders)
Box GC25
1988 June-1989 May  (12 folders)
Box GC26
1989 June-1990 Feb.  (12 folders)
Box GC27
1990 Mar.- Nov.  (11 folders)
Box GC28
1990 Dec.-1991 Aug.  (14 folders)
Box GC29
1991 Aug.-1992 May  (13 folders)
Box GC30
1992 June- Dec. and undated  (12 folders)
Box GC31
1992 Jan. 7-circa 1992 and Christmas cards  (18 folders)
Box GC32
1993 Jan. 3-June 15  (18 folders)
Box GC33
1993 June 16-circa 1993 and Christmas cards  (19 folders)
Box GC34
1994 Jan. 1-June 22  (14 folders)
Box GC35
1994 June 28-Oct. 9  (14 folders)
Box GC36
1994 Oct. 10-1995 Jan. 10  (13 folders)
Box GC37
1995 Jan. 11-Apr. 19  (13 folders)
Box GC38
1995 Apr. 20-July 9  (11 folders)
Box GC39
1995 July 10-Sept. 24  (11 folders)
Box GC40
1995 Sept. 25-Dec. 12  (11 folders)
Box GC41
1995 Dec. 13-1996 Feb. 6  (10 folders)
Box GC42
1996 Feb. 7-Apr. 19  (9 folders)
Box GC43
1996 Apr. 20-July 9  (10 folders)
Box GC44
1996 July 10-Oct. 31  (9 folders)
Box GC45
1996 Nov. 1-1997 Feb. 28  (12 folders)
Box GC46
1997 Mar. 3-Aug. 22  (11 folders)
Box GC47
1997 Aug. 24-1997 Dec. 31  (10 folders)
Box GC48
1998 Jan. 1-July 31  (10 folders)
Box GC49
1998 Aug. 1 -1998 Dec. 31  (11 folders)
Box GC50
1999 Jan. 1-Sept. 30  (10 folders)
Box GC51
1999 Oct. 1-2000 Apr. 28  (9 folders)
Box GC52
2000 May-2001 Jan.  (10 folders)
Box GC53
2001 Feb.-2002 Mar.  (15 folders)
Box GC54
2002 Apr.-2003 May  (15 folders)
Box GC55
2003 June-2004 May and undated  (14 folders)
Box GC56
Undated  (9 folders)
[Videocassette removed to Audiovisual Materials Series.]

Authors' Correspondence Subseries (RESTRICTED), 1940-2004 and undated
 (8 boxes)
Consists of letters from literary figures who wrote to Price regarding his work or their own.
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the last name of the author, then chronologically within the folder. Letters from Price to particular authors are filed under the recipient's name. An exception to this arrangement is the final box of the series, which consists of correspondence between Price and various members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The content is generally brief discussion and opinion about the work of other writers being considered for various awards by the Academy. These folders are arranged chronologically.

[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to, and duplication by any means, of materials in this subseries requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box AC1
A-B, 1953-2003 and undated  (21 folders) ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED.
Abbott, Shirley, 1986  (1 item)
Adcock, Betty, 1996-2003  (12 items)
Albee, Edward, 1963-1981 and undated  (5 items)
Applewhite, Jim, 1970-1998  (11 items)
Athas, Daphne, 1971-2002 and undated  (25 items)
Auden, Wystan H., 1960 and undated  (3 items)
Bayes, Ron, 1969-1985  (43 items)
Bell, Madison Smartt, 1999-2000  (5 items)
Betts, Doris, 1970-1990  (28 items)
Bingham, Sallie, 1998-2000  (4 items)
Blackburn, William and family, 1953-2002 and undated  (111 items)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Bly Robert, 1998  (1 item)
Brondoli, Michael, 1972-1986 and undated  (41 letters)
Brooks, Cleanth, 1964-1990  (11 letters)
Broughton, T. Alan, 1968-1991  (24 items)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Brown, Lightning, 1995  (4 folders)
Buechner, Frederick, 1969-2000  (23 items)
Box AC2
B-G, 1956-2003 and undated  (31 folders) ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED.
Busch, Frederick, 1969-1991 and undated  (95 items)
Carr, Virginia, 2002-2003  (7 items)
Campbell, Alan, 1958-1962  (5 items)
Cecil, David and family, 1956-1990 and undated  (59 items)
Chappell, Fred, 1961-1990 and undated  (18 items)
Coles, Robert, 1993-1994  (7 items)
Conroy, Pat, 1989  (3 items)
Corn, Alfred, 1988-1990  (12 items)
Cowley, Malcolm, 1972-1975  (3 items)
Cox, Elizabeth, 1979-2002  (19 items)
Crews, Harry, 1971  (1 item)
Davidson, Cathy, 1994-1999  (3 items)
de Buys, William, 1993-1994  (2 items)
Dickey, James, 1968-2001  (12 items)
Dillard, Annie 1995-1998 and undated  (4 items)
Douglas, Ellen (Josephine Harton), 1981-1982  (4 items)
Edgerton, Clyde, 1990-1999  (4 items)
Ellison, Ralph, 1964-1974  (7 items)
Foote, Horton, 1984-2002 and undated  (38 items)
Ford, Richard, 1995-2003  (10 items)
Fort, Charles, 1992-1993  (2 items)
Franklin, John Hope, 1994  (1 item)
Gibbons, Kaye, 1989-1999 and undated  (6 items)
Gilchrist, Ellen, 1978-1997  (5 items)
Grimsley, Jim, 1999  (1 item)
Gordimer, Nadine, 1999  (2 items)
Gurganus, Allan, 1974-2002 and undated  (96 items)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Guy, David, 1971-2002  (13 items)
Box AC3
H-K, 1958-2003 and undated  (19 folders) ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED.
Hannah, Barry, 1987  (2 items)
Harrison, Jim, 1973  (2 items)
Haydn, Hiram, 1958-1973  (63 items)
Hays, Tommy 1999-2002  (4 items)
Henly, Beth, 1988-1990  (5 items)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Humphries, Jeff, 1977-1997  (68 items)
Humphreys, Josephine, 1967-2002 and undated  (83 items)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Isherwood, Christopher, 1977  (1 item)
Kauffman, Wallace, 1958-2003 and undated  (314 items)
Kimmel, Haven, 2001  (1 item)
Kizer, Carolyn, 1972-1994 and undated  (39 letters)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box AC4
K-P 1959-2003 and undated  (31 folders) ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED.
Knowles, John, 1963-1969  (72 letters)
Kramer, Larry, 1999-2000  (2 items)
Kreyling, Michael, 1978-2001 and undated  (57 items)
Kushner, Tony, 1999  (1 item)
Levertov, Denise, 1972  (1 letter)
Linney, Romulus, 1965-2003 and undated  (66 items)
MacLeish, Roderick, 1994  (1 item)
Mailer, Norman, 1977, 1984  (2 items)
Malone, Michael, 2000 and undated  (3 items)
Malouf, Melissa, 2003  (1 item)
Maron, Margaret, 1994  (1 item)
Maxwell, William, 1997-2000  (2 item)
McFee, Michael, 1993-1994  (5 items)
Meredith, William, 1970-1979  (14 items)
Mitchell, Julian, 1959-1988 and undated  (48 items)
Morgan, Robert, 2000-2003 and undated  (3 items)
Morris, Willie, 1997  (1 item)
Morrison, Toni, 1974-1992 and undated  (10 items)
Naumoff, Lawrence, 1972-2000  (30 items)
Nelson, Betty Palmer, 1992  (1 item)
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1976-1983  (5 items)
O'Brien, Edna, 1962  (1 item)
Owen, Guy, 1974-1976  (6 items)
Parker, Dorothy, 1961  (1 item)
Patton, Frances Gray, 1960-1977  (3 items)
Payne, Peggy, 1994  (1 item)
Pearson, T. R., 1986  (1 item)
Percy, Walker, 1966-1992  (9 items)
Porter, Joe, 1980-2001  (54 items)
Box AC5
P-S, 1956-2003 and undated  (20 folders) ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED.
Price, Leontyne, 1975-1983 and undated  (8 items)
Ransom, John Crowe, 1987  (1 item)
Rorem, Ned, 1997-2003  (6 items)
Rubin, Louis, 1965-1997  (14 items)
Salinger, Wendy, 1997  (1 item)
Schiff, James, 1994-2002  (40 items)
Seay, Jim, 1973-1990  (3 items)
Sendak, Maurice, 1999  (1 item)
Settle, Mary Lee, 1978-1982  (7 items)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Shivers, Louise, 1976-1986 and undated  (20 items)
Smith, Charlie, 1969-1989 and undated  (43 items)
Smith, Dave, 1988-2000 and undated`  (28 items)
Smith, Lee, 1969-1998  (16 items)
Snyder, Gary, 1974-1977  (4 items)
Sondheim, Stephen, 1997  (1 item)
Spencer, Elizabeth, 1987-2002  (17 items)
Spender, Stephen, 1956-1957 Mar.  (49 items)
Box AC6
S-U, 1956-2003 and undated  (18 folders) ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED.
Spender, Stephen, 1957 Apr.-1999 and undated  (289 items)
Steele, Max, 1967-1988 and undated  (22 items)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Styron, William, 1956-1994  (31 items)
Tan, Amy, 1995  (1 item)
Tate, Allen, 1966-1975  (6 items)
Taylor, James, 2001  (2 items)
Tyler, Anne, 1960-2003 and undated  (36 items)
Updike, John, 1962-2000 and undated  (8 items)
Box AC7
V-W, 1940-2001 and undated  (13 folders) ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED.
Verdelle, A. J., 1996  (2 items)
Voll, Daniel, 1992-2001 and undated  (39 items)
Vonnegut, Kurt, 1997  (1 item)
Wallace, Randall, 1971-1986  (13 items)
Warren, Robert Penn, 1980  (1 item)
Welty, Eudora, 1940-1994 and undated  (225 items)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Williams, Jonathan, 1969-1984  (51 items)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box AC8
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1993-2004 and undated  (9 folders) ENTIRE BOX IS RESTRICTED.
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]

Writings Series (RESTRICTED), 1935-2004 and undated

(92 boxes)
ENTIRE SERIES IS RESTRICTED. See individual subseries notes for specific restrictions.
The Writings Series is divided into the Writings by Price Subseries and the Writings by Others Subseries.


Writings by Price Subseries (RESTRICTED), 1946-2003 and undated
 (76 boxes)
Chiefly manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and a variety of nonfiction books by Reynolds Price. Overall arrangement of the subseries is chronological, with some exceptions.
The majority of Price's published books and plays (minus some small press publications and limited editions) appear in order of publication date in boxes WP1-WP70. For each book, materials are then arranged in order of their writing and editing history. In cases of approximate or inferred dates, strict chronological order is occasionally ignored, with the main sequence of writing and editing the text--as reflected in notes, manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs--being favored over such later matters in the publication process as jacket copy, ads, and adaptations into other genres and media (such as screenplays and audiobooks).
Materials for individual short works appear in the last six boxes of the subseries, WP71-WP77, in four categories: uncollected poems, uncollected stories, uncollected nonfiction, and student work. The first three of these groups are arranged alphabetically by title; Price's student work, from high school through his years at Oxford, is arranged chronologically.
[RESTRICTED: materials in this subseries are open for researchers to view but not to duplicate. During Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, duplication by any means of materials in this subseries requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box WP1
A Long and Happy Life (novel, 1962) RESTRICTED
Notes, 1957  (2 folders)
Partial Fair Copy, 1958-1959
Notes and drafts, 1958-1960  (5 folders)
Notes and drafts, 1960  (5 folders)
Typescript, 1961 and undated  (Folders 1-6 of 7)
Box WP2
Typescript, 1961 and undated  (Folder 7 of 7)
Typescript with charts and windows specifications for printer, 1961  (4 folders)
Typescripts with Harry Ford's specifications for printer, 1961  (4 folders)
Plate proof: Corrected pages, 1961
Proofs, 1961-1964  (3 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Screenplays by Price and other authors
Charles Eastman, 1964 Sept. 5  (2 folders)
Notes and first draft by Price for Jack Garfein, 1965  (2 folders)
Draft by Price as presented to Jack Garfein, 1965 Apr.  (2 folders)
Drafts by Price and Garfein, 1965-1966  (Folder 1 of 3)
Box WP3
Drafts by Price and Garfein, 1965-1966  (Folders 2-3 of 3)
Fair copy by Price and Garfein, 1966  (2 folders)
Draft with revisions by Price, ca. 1969  (2 folders)
Fair copy of 1969 revisions, circa 1969
Notes by Price and Richard Neubert, 1970 June-July
Draft by Price and Richard Neubert with revisions by both, 1970 June-July  (2 folders)
Draft with notes and revisions by Richard Neubert, 1970  (2 folders)
Draft with revisions by Price and Richard Neubert, 1970.  (2 folders)
Miscellaneous, 1961-1971 and undated
Play prepared by John Clum from RP's screenplay for Duke Summer Theater, 1976
Typescript of Clum adaptation, signed by Price and notated for staging, circa 1976
Draft of screenplay by Stephanie Keys, 1988
Box WP4
Typescript of screenplay by Beth Henley, 1989, Mar.
Dedication page, undated
Encounter proof of Part One, undated
Jacket sketch and jacket, by Harry Ford, undated
Samples of paperback cover, undated
Notes and drafts, undated
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP4
The Names and Faces of Heroes (short stories, 1963) RESTRICTED
Note: see also "Correspondence and application materials for Guggenheim Foundation, 1960-1970" under "Uncollected fiction" in Box WP69 for other early manuscripts of individual stories later collected in The Names and Faces of Heroes.
Possible titles, undated
Proof from which Price read at YMHA, New York, 1963 Mar.
Draft of introduction to reading, undated
Program of reading, undated
Harry Ford's specifications for English edition, 1963
"A Chain of Love," notes and drafts, 1955 and undated  (3 folders)
"A Chain of Love," typed draft, undated
"A Chain of Love," proof (as set, but never published, by Paris Review, 1957)
"A Chain of Love," drafts and revisions, 1962
"A Chain of Love," typescript with revisions, undated
"A Chain of Love," abridged from The Names and Faces of Heroes, undated
"The Warrior Princess Ozimba," notes and drafts, 1956-1961 and undated
"Michael Egerton," 1951-1954 and undated
"The Anniversary," notes and drafts, 1955-1958  (2 folders)
"The Anniversary," typescript, undated
"Uncle Grant," notes and drafts and proof from Encounter, 1961 and undated
"Uncle Grant," manuscript fragments, 1961-1962
"Uncle Grant," typescript fragments, undated
Box WP5
Printer's typescript, prepared by Harry Ford and copy editor, 1963  (2 folders)
Plate proof, 1963  (2 folders)
Jacket proof, 1963
Sample proof, 1963, Feb.
Proofs, 1963  (2 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP5
A Generous Man (novel, 1966) RESTRICTED
Notes, 1964-1965 and undated
First draft, 1964-1965  (5 folders)
Typescript, undated  (4 folders)
Typescript with Price's changes while book was in press, undated  (Folders 1-2 of 4)
Box WP6
Typescript with Price's changes while book was in press, undated  (Folders 3-4 of 4)
Printer's copy with Harry Ford's specifications, 1966  (4 folders)
Plate proof, 1966  (4 folders)
Proofs, 1966  (4 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Synopsis for Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1966 Feb.
French proof, 1970  (2 folders)
Jacket proofs: Atheneum and Signet, undated
Box WP6
Love and Work (novel, 1968) RESTRICTED
Notes, 1965-1968 and undated
First draft, 1967  (2 folders)
Price's typescript with revisions, 1968  (2 folders)
Final typescript with revisions by Price (made while book was in press), undated  (Folder 1 of 2)
Box WP7
Final typescript with revisions by Price (made while book was in press), undated  (Folder 2 of 2)
Printer's copy with Harry Ford's specifications, 1968  (3 folders)
Plate proofs, 1968  (2 folders)
Proofs, 1968  (2 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Sample covers and jacket proof, undated
Jacket copy, undated
Box WP7
Permanent Errors (short stories and novella, 1970) RESTRICTED
Notes, 1967-1969 and undated
"To the Reader," draft and typescript, 1970 and undated
"The Happiness of Others," drafts, 1967 and undated
"A Dog's Death," drafts, 1966-1967 and undated
"Scars," notes and drafts, 1967 and undated
"Waiting at Dachau," notes, drafts, and Esquire proofs, 1968-1969 and undated
"Late Warnings," notes and drafts, 1966-1968 and undated
"Invitation for Jesse Rehder," drafts, 1967 and undated
"Summer Games," drafts, 1963 and undated
"Truth and Lies," drafts, 1963 and undated
"Good and Bad Dreams," notes, drafts, and Playboy uncorrected proof, 1963-1970 and undated
"Walking Lessons," notes and drafts, 1969-1970 and undated  (2 folders)
"To the Reader," typescript, undated
"The Happiness of Others," typescript, undated
"A Dog's Death," typescript, undated
"Scars," typescript, undated
Box WP8
"Waiting at Dachau," typescript, undated
"Late Warnings," typescript, undated
"Invitation for Jessie Rehder," typescript, undated
"Summer Games," typescript, undated
"Truth and Lies," typescript, undated
"Good and Bad Dreams," typescript, undated
"Walking Lessons," typescript, undated  (2 folders)
Typescript with Price's changes made while book was in press, undated  (5 folders)
Printer's copy with Harry Ford's specifications, 1970  (4 folders)
Plate proof, 1970  (4 folders)
Box WP9
Page proof, 1970
Proofs, 1970  (4 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Jacket copy, undated
Jacket proof, sample covers, and Harry Ford's specifications, undated
Paperback cover, undated
Miscellaneous, 1970-1982 and undated
Box WP9
Things Themselves (essays, 1972) RESTRICTED
"To the Reader," notes and drafts, 1970-1971 and undated
"Dodging Apples," drafts, 1963-1971 and undated
"Five Sketches for a Screenplay," drafts, undated
"News for the Mineshaft," notes and drafts, 1967 and undated
"Pylon - The Posture of Worship," notes and drafts, 1968 and undated
"A Reasonable Guide Through Perilous Seas," draft, undated
"The Onlooker, Smiling," notes and drafts, 1969-1972 and undated
"Frightening Gift," first draft, 1970
"The Wings of a Dove - A Single Combat," notes and draft, 1971 and undated
"Dodo, Phoenix, or Tough Old Cock?" notes and draft, 1971 and undated
"For Ernest Hemingway," notes and draft, 1971 and undated  (3 folders)
Box WP10
"Four Abrahams, Four Isaacs by Rembrandt," notes and drafts, 1971 and undated
"Poem Doctrinal and Exemplary to a Nation," drafts, 1971 and undated
Typescript with Price's revisions, undated  (2 folders)
Printer's copy with Harry Ford's specifications, 1972  (2 folders)
Plate proof, 1972  (3 folders)
Proofs, 1972  (4 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Jacket proof and sample covers, 1972
Box WP10
Presence and Absence (translations, 1973) RESTRICTED
Original corrected manuscript, 1972
Original typed manuscript, 1972
Printer's proof, 1972-1973
Author's corrected galley proof, 1973
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP10
The Surface of Earth (novel, 1975) RESTRICTED
Notes and schedules, 1973-1974 and undated
First draft, Book One, 1972-1973  (Folder 1 of 2)
Box WP11
First draft, Book One, 1972-1973  (Folder 2 of 2)
First draft, Book Two, 1973-1974  (2 folders)
First draft, Book Three, 1974  (2 folders)
Author's note, manuscripts and transcript, 1974-1975
Price's typescript with revisions, undated  (Folders 1-5 of 6)
Box WP12
Price's typescript with revisions, undated  (Folder 6 of 6)
Printer's copy with Harry Ford's specifications, 1975  (5 folders)
Printer's copy with Harry Ford's specifications, 1975 (cont.)
"Honest Hearts," typescript draft for Esquire with suggested corrections by Gordon Lish, undated
Galley proofs for Esquire, 1973
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Proofs, 1975  (7 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Jacket copy, 1974 and undated
Cover photographs, 1976 and undated
[Photograph removed to Photographic Materials Series.]
Jacket proofs, undated
Paperback cover, undated
Sample pages with Price's notes, changes for Atheneum paperback edition, 1981-1983  (2 folders)
Photograph, undated
[Photograph removed to Photographic Materials Series.]
Box WP13
Early Dark (play, 1977) RESTRICTED
Manuscript I (notebook), 1976 July-Aug.
Manuscript II (notebook), 1976 July-Aug.
Final transcript, 1976
Printer's copy with Harry Ford's specifications, 1977
Typescript drafts of preface, 1976 and undated
Sample pages, 1977 Jan.
Proofs, 1977  (3 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Miscellany, undated
Box WP13
A Palpable God (translations and essay, 1978) RESTRICTED
Notes, 1975-1976 and undated
A notebook of translations, 1975-1976
Drafts: "Preface; " Note on Translating and Selection, and the texts, 1976 and undated  (6 folders)
"Preface to Mark," four manuscript and typescript drafts, 1976 July and undated
"The Good News According to Mark," proof, 1976
Preface with introduction and changes for presentation as lectures at Salzburg seminar, Austria, 1977 June.
Page proof with author's corrections, 1977
Printer's copy, typed by Price, with Harry Ford's specifications, 1978  (8 folders)
Proofs, 1978  (4 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
"To the Reader," five manuscript and typescript drafts, 1979 Apr. and undated
Three typescript fragments of "To the Reader" and translated texts, undated  (Folder 1 of 3)
Box WP14
Three typescript fragments of "To the Reader" and translated texts, undated  (Folders 2-3 of 3)
Box WP14
Nine Mysteries (poetry, 1979) RESTRICTED
Nine Mysteries, 1979, undated
Miscellaneous
Typescript drafts and Fragments, 1979
First, Second and Third proofs, 1979
First printing and Sample pages, 1979
Miscellaneous proofs
"Annunciation," draft, undated
"Ascension," draft, undated
"Dead Girl," undated
"Naked Boy," draft, 1977 and undated
"Reparation," drafts, 1977
"Resurrection," draft, undated
Nine Mysteries typescript, undated
Nine Mysteries cover, undated
Box WP14
The Source of Light (novel, 1981) RESTRICTED
Notes and fragments, 1971-1980
First draft, 1978  (7 folders)
Box WP15
First draft, typed, undated
Typescript
Printer's copy, typed by Price, with Harry Ford's specifications, 1981  (8 folders)
Proofs, 1981  (5 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Back cover copy for paperback edition, 1985 Jan.
Paperback covers, undated
Proof of binding, undated
Manuscript log, undated
Author's questionnaire, 1980 Sept.
Box WP15
Vital Provisions (poetry, 1982) RESTRICTED
"The Alchemist," manuscripts and typescript, 1970 and undated
"Angel," manuscripts and typescripts, 1965, 1981 and undated
"Anniversary," typescript, undated
"The Annual Heron," typescript, undated
"Annunciation," manuscript, typescript, and proof, 1975
"At the Gulf," manuscripts and typescripts, 1970 and undated
"At the Gulf," galley proof, 1977
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
"Attis," manuscript, typescripts, and proof, 1970, 1983 and undated
"Aurora," typescript, 1982
"Black Water," typescript, undated
"Christ Child's Song at the End of Night," typescript, 1978
"Cumaean Song," typescript, undated
"Dead Girl (Mark 5)," typescript and proof, undated
"Divine Propositions," typescript, undated
"The Dream of a House," manuscripts and typescripts, 1977 and undated
"The Dream of Food," typescripts, 1980 and undated
"The Dream of Lee," typescripts, undated
"For Leontyne Price After Ariadne," manuscripts, typescripts, and proof, 1973, 1979 and undated
"Found, For My Brother," typescript, 1981
"I say of any man," typescripts and proof, 1961 and undated
"Instruction (Matthew 27:5)," typescripts, undated
"Man and Faun," manuscripts, typescripts, 1966-1967 and undated
"Memoranda," typescripts, 1982
"Night Speech," typescript, undated
"Pictures of the Dead," typescripts, undated
"Pure Boys and Girls," typescripts and proof, 1978 and undated  (2 folders)
"Questions for a Student (A.M., 18 March 1969)," typescripts, 1975 and undated
"A Rainbow and a Day-Old Calf," typescript, undated
"Seafarer," typescripts, 1979 and undated
"Sleeping Wife (Matthew 27:19)," typescripts, 1973
"Ten Years, Four Days," typescript, undated
"To My Niece--Our Photograph in a Hammock," manuscripts and typescript, 1970 and undated
"Torso of an Archaic Apollo," draft, typescript, 1968-1969 and undated
Box WP16
"Your Element," typescript, undated
Fair copy, revised, 1981 (2 vols.)
Drafts, undated  (Folder 1 of 2)
Drafts, undated  (Folder 2 of 2)
Table of Contents, preface, miscellany (drafts), 1982 and undated
Typescript (incomplete), undated
Proof, unbound, 1982  (2 folders)
Proof, bound, 1982
Page proof, 1982
Author's questionnaire, 1982 Feb.
Box WP16
Mustian (novels and short story, 1983) RESTRICTED
Preface, manuscript and typescript drafts, 1982 Nov.
Proofs with Price's corrections, 1983  (Folder 1 of 2)
Box WP17
Proofs with Price's corrections, 1983  (Folder 2 of 2)
Advertisements and proofs, 1983-1984 and undated
Covers, undated
Front flap copy draft, undated
Box WP17
Private Contentment (play, 1984) RESTRICTED
Notes, 1981 March-May
First draft, 1981
Typed draft, 1981
Shooting script for PBS " American Playhouse," 1982 Jan.
Printer's copy with Harry Ford's specifications, 1984
First proof with Price's corrections, fragments, 1984
Proof, 1984
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Stage plan for Private Contentment, 1985
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Cover photograph, undated
[Photograph removed to Photographic Materials Series.]
Box WP17
Kate Vaiden (novel, 1986) RESTRICTED
Handwritten draft, 1983-1985  (2 folders)
First corrected printout, superceded 1984 Mar.
Notes, 1985-1985 and undated
Box WP18
Partial typescript with changes, 1985  (2 folders)
Copy of partial draft with changes, 1985? (2 folders)
Draft with revisions, p. 370-381, 1985 Sept.
Draft, 1986  (3 folders)
Partial draft with Price's revisions, undated  (2 folders)
Galley excerpt, 1986 Apr.
Box WP19
Proofs with Price's corrections, 1986
Master proof, 1986
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Jacket sketches from Ballantine Books (also Good Hearts), undated
Cover photograph, undated
Cover proofs, undated
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Jacket, undated
First draft of a screenplay by Benedict Fitzgerald, 1987 June  (2 folders)
Screenplay by Benedict Fitzgerald, 1987 Oct.
Box WP20
The Laws of Ice (poetry, 1986) RESTRICTED
"The Aim," typescripts, undated
"Ambrosia," typescripts, 1983 and undated
"Before the Flood," typescript, 1984
"Caught," typescript, undated
"Caw," typescripts, undated
"Cherokee," typescripts, 1982 and undated
"The Claim," typescripts, 1984
"Dead Man, Dying Girl," manuscript, typescripts, and proof, 1968, 1978, and undated  (2 folders)
"Eels," typescript, undated
"Epitaphs from the Greek Anthology," typescript, undated
"For James Dean," typescript, undated
"For Vivian Leigh," typescript, undated
"Good Places," typescripts, 1983
"Hawk Hill," typescripts, undated
"The Heaven of Elizabeth Rodwell, My Mother," typescripts, 1983
"His Discovery," typescript, 1984
"House Snake," typescripts with revisions, 1983 and undated  (2 folders)
"I Am Transmuting," manuscripts and typescript, 1968 and undated
"Jonathan's Lament for David," typescript, undated
"Last Conversation," typescript, 1983
"A Life in Dreams," typescript, undated
"Lighthouse, Mosquito Inlet," typescript, 1983
"The Lines of Life," typescripts and proof, undated
"The Lines of Life" and "The Sleeper in the Valley," proof from Shenandoah, 1966
"Midnight," manuscripts and typescript, 1966-1968 and undated
"Pears," typescript, undated
"Porta Nigra," manuscripts and typescripts, 1966-1982 and undated
"Rest," typescript, undated
"Rincón 1," typescripts, 1982
"Rincón 2," typescripts, 1982
"Same Road," typescript, undated
"Secret," typescript, undated
"The Sleeper in the Valley," typescripts, 1960-1966 and undated
"Three Visits," drafts and typescripts, 1985 and undated
"A Tomb for Will Price, My Father," typescript, undated
"Transatlantic," typescript, undated
Vision, typescript, 1984
Warm Springs, typescripts, 1982 and undated
"Watchman, Tower, Midnight," manuscript and typescripts, 1986 and undated
"What is Godly," typescripts, 1982 and undated
Typescript, undated  (2 folders)
Original copyedited typescript, 1986
Proof with Price's corrections, 1986
Cover photograph, undated
[Photograph removed to Photographic Materials Series.]
Box WP21
A Common Room (essays, 1987) RESTRICTED
"A Dim Warm Cave," typescripts and proof, 1983
"A Fairly Crucial Choice," proofs, 1983
"Family Stories: The Carters in Plains," manuscripts and typescript, 1976 and undated
"Finding Work," manuscript and typescripts, 1967 Feb. 2 and undated
"A Good Report," typescripts, 1982 Mar. 8-9
"Heroes," manuscript, typescripts, and proof, 1978 Sept. 29-Oct. 19 and undated
"Homeless. Home." manuscript and galley proof, 1977 Sept. 17-Nov. 26  (2 folders)
"The Lonely Hunt for Power," manuscript and typescripts, 1973 Dec. 30 and undated
"Love Across the Lines," draft, undated
"Pantherine, Leonine, Orchidaceous," manuscripts and typescript, 1982 May 10-June 5 and undated
"The Penny Show," manuscript and galley proof, 1982 Dec. 14-15 and undated
"Pictures of Pride," manuscripts and typescripts, 1976 Dec. and undated
"Real Life and Fiction," notes, manuscript, and typescripts, 1982 and undated
"A Recurrent Fact," draft, undated
Reviews
Blotner, Joseph, Faulkner: A Biography, manuscript and typescript, 1974 and undated
Greene, Graham, The Honorary Consul and Collected Stories, manuscript and typescript, 1973 and undated
Hemingway, Gregory, Papa: a Personal Memoir, manuscripts and typescripts, 1976 and undated
Lattimore, Richmond, Acts and Letters of the Apostles, typescript, undated
Lattimore, Richmond, The Four Gospels and the Revelation, manuscript and typescript, 1973 and undated
Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon, manuscript, 1977
Welch, James, Winter in the Blood, manuscript and typescript, 1974 Oct. 9 and undated
"A Start," manuscript, 1981 Sept. 28-Oct. 13
"Strong Old Rhythms," manuscript and typescripts, 1979 Jan. 7 and undated
"The Thing Itself," manuscripts and typescripts, 1966, 1971, and undated  (6 folders)
"Uses for Freedoms," manuscript and typescripts, 1967-1971 and undated
"A Vast Common Room," drafts and typescript, 1986
"What Stayed in Plains," manuscript, 1980 Nov. 24
"You Are Needed Now and Will Always Be," manuscripts and typescripts, 1975 Mar. 17-Oct. 8 and undated
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Early typescripts, 1964-1985 and undated  (Folder 1 of 2)
Box WP22
Early typescripts, 1964-1985 and undated  (Folder 2 of 2)
Early typescript, miscellaneous, undated
Printer's copy, with Harry Ford's specifications, 1987  (12 folders)
Galley proof, miscellaneous pages, 1987
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
First proof, with Harry Ford's and Price's corrections, 1987 Aug. 27
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Master proof, miscellaneous pages with Price's corrections, 1987 Aug. 27
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Jacket sketch, by Harry Ford, undated
Jacket, undated
Box WP23
Full Moon (play, 1987) RESTRICTED
Typescript draft, 1987
Typescript draft with author's revisions, undated
Typescript second draft with author's revisions, 1987 July-Oct.  (2 folders)
Typescript second draft with author's revisions, 1987 Sept.-Oct.
Typescript fragments with revisions by author, undated
Bound copy, undated
Typescript of the premier production, 1988 Aug. 4
Full Moon and Other Plays, corrected proof, 1993  (2 folders)
Box WP24
Good Hearts (novel, 1988) RESTRICTED
Typescript draft, 1986 Aug.
Typescript draft, 1988  (3 folders)
First proof with Price's and Harry Ford's changes, 1988  (2 folders)
Second proof with Price's changes, 1988  (2 folders)
Ad copy, undated
Publicity schedule, 1988
Box WP24
Clear Pictures (memoir, 1989) RESTRICTED
"Foreward," typescript drafts with corrections, 1988
"Three Useful Lessons" : typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1987 and undated
"An Open Heart," typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1987 and undated
Box WP25
"Black Help," typescript drafts with author's corrections, undated
"An Absolute Hunter," typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1987 and undated
"A Normal, All But Fatal Childhood," typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1988 and undated
"Real Copies," typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1987-1988 and undated
"Credible Light," (Absolute Reality) typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1988 and undated  (Folder 1 of 3)
"Credible Light," (Absolute Reality) typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1988 and undated  (Folders 2-3 of 3)
"A Final Secret: Will's Death," typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1988 and undated
Miscellaneous revised pages, undated
"Afterword" (Epilogue), typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1987-1989 and undated
Captions for illustrations, draft with author's corrections and notes on illustrations, 1988 and undated
"A Note on Clear Pictures," typescript drafts with author's corrections, 1988
Typescript draft, 1988  (3 folders)
Binding die copy, 1989  (Folder 1 of 4)
Box WP26
Binding die copy, 1989  (Folders 2-4 of 4)
"Afterword," corrected proof, 1989 Mar.
Proofs and notes on illustrations, 1989  (3 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Changes for a second printing, undated
Jacket copy, undated
Promotional folder and contents, 1989
Box WP26
The Tongues of Angels (novel, 1990) RESTRICTED
Research notes, undated
Typescript first draft with author's revisions, undated
Typescript second draft with author's revisions, 1987 Sept.
Typescript third draft with author's revisions, 1987 Sept.  (2 folders)
Typescript draft with author's revisions, undated
Typescript draft, circa 1987
Printer's copy with specifications, undated  (2 folders)
Spelling notes for copy editor, 1989 June
Printer's proof, 1989 Nov.
Printer's first proof and master proof, 1990
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP27
Ultramarine Publishing Company Flyer, circa 1989
"First changes," manuscript notes, undated
Cover proofs, undated
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP27
The Use of Fire (poetry, 1990) RESTRICTED
"An Afterlife, 1953-1988," typescripts, 1989
"An Afterlife, 1953-1958," galley proof, 1990
"Dawn (John 21)," typescripts, 1989
"The Eel," typescripts, 1984
"The Elephants of North Carolina" (Also "Dream Elephants)," typescripts, 1989
"Fishers," typescript, 1988
"Giant," typescripts, 1990
"Half of Life," manuscript and typescript, 1970 and undated
"Hymn," manuscript and typescripts, 1989
"Initiation," manuscript and typescript, 1970 and undated
"Imprecation," typescript, undated
"Jim, Dead of AIDS an Hour Ago," typescript, 1988
"Jim, With AIDS," typescript, 1988
"Juncture," typescripts, 1987
"Late Visit," manuscripts, 1989
"Lights Out," manuscripts, 1988
"Lost Homes," typescripts, 1989, and undated
"Maya," typescript, 1990
"Noon Rest, Best Day," manuscript and limited edition, Albondocani Press, 1986  (2 folders)
"The Resident Heron," typescript, 1988
"Six Consolations," typescripts, 1989
"Socrates and Alcibiades," manuscripts, typescripts, and proof, 1960-1980 and undated
"Three Dead Voices," typescripts, 1989
"13 February 1984-1990," typescripts, 1990
"Tom, Dying of AIDS," typescripts, 1989
"Unbeaten Play," typescripts and proofs, 1987 and undated  (2 folders)
"Winter," manuscripts and typescript, 1961, 1989 and undated
"Yom Kippur," typescript, 1988
"Your Lies," typescript, undated
Table of Contents: typescript draft with corrections, undated
Printer's first proof, 1989
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Original copyedited typescript, 1990  (2 folders)
Printer's proof, 1990 July
Box WP28
New Music: A Trilogy (plays, 1990) RESTRICTED
August Snow
Handwritten notes and drafts, 1984-1985 and undated
First typescript draft with revisions, 1985 Jan.
Early typescript draft, 1985
Typescript draft, 1985
Bound copy, 1985
Rehearsal notes, 1985
Hendrix Players Production Program, 1985 Nov.
New Music
Handwritten fragment, 1985 Oct.
First draft, typescript, 1985 Oct.
Revised draft, typescript, 1985 Oct.
Typescript draft, 1985
Bound copy, 1985
Better Days, typescript draft, first revision, 1985 Dec.
Better Days, bound copy, 1985  (2 folders)
Box WP29
New Music, typescript draft, and related papers, 1987, undated
August Snow, typescript draft, 1989 July
Night Dance, typescript draft, 1989 July
Better Days, typescript draft, 1989 July
Fragments, early drafts, 1989-1990 and undated
Reviews and articles, 1989
Miscellaneous related papers, 1989 Aug.-Oct. and undated
Copy of revised text as submitted for publication by Theater Communications Group, 1990  (2 folders)
Box WP29
The Foreseeable Future (stories, 1991) RESTRICTED
"The Fare to the Moon," early drafts, 1989
Typescript draft with author's revisions, 1988 Feb.
Typescript draft with author's revisions, 1988 Aug.
Box WP30
Typescript draft with author's revisions, 1988 Sept.
Setting copy with author's revisions, 1990 Aug.  (2 folders)
Page proof, 1991  (Folder 1 of 2)
Page Proof, 1991   (Folder 2 of 2)
Jacket Illustration, undated
Box WP30
Blue Calhoun (novel, 1992) RESTRICTED
Typescript draft with author's revisions, 1990  (2 folders)
Box WP31
Typescript draft with author's revisions, 1991 Jan.  (4 folders)
Notes, undated
Typescript draft,  (4 folders)
Box WP32
Atheneum Ms., 1991   (3 folders)
Original copyedited typescript, circa 1991  (4 folders)
Box WP33
Printer's Manuscript, circa 1991  (Folder 1 of 3)
Printer's Manuscript, circa 1991  (Folders 2-3 of 3)
Revised Fragments, 1991
Proofreader's and master galleys, 1991  (2 folders)
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Duplicate repro proofs, 1992  (6 folders)
Publisher's Prospectus 1992
Sample covers, undated
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP34
The Collected Stories (fiction, 1993) RESTRICTED
"The Company of the Dead," 1989
"Deeds of Light," 1990
"An Early Christmas," 1991  (2 folders)
"The Enormous Door," undated
"The Final News," 1990
"The Golden Child," 1989
"A Final Account," 1991
"His Final Mother," 1990  (2 folders)
"Home," 1990
"Long Night," undated
"A New Piece of Woods," 1988
"Slow Night," 1990
"This Wait," 1989
"Watching Her Die," 1989
Typescript "as submitted to Atheneum" (photocopy), 1992  (Folders 1-3 of 5)
Box WP35
Typescript "as submitted to Atheneum" (photocopy), 1992  (Folders 4-5 of 5)
Copyedited typescript (photocopy), circa 1992  (5 folders)
Master proof of front pages, preface, and author biography (photocopy), 1992 Nov. 30
Page proof with corrections (photocopy), 1992 Dec. 1  (Folder 1 of 4)
Box WP36
Page proof with corrections (photocopy), 1992 Dec. 1  (Folders 2-4 of 4)
Second proofs of various stories' title pages (photocopies), 1992 Dec. 1
Sample pages, 1992
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Page proof (photocopy), 1993 Jan. 19-20  (4 folders)
Miscellaneous drafts of front matter and jacket copy for various editions, 1992, 2003, and undated
Jacket proofs, 2003 and undated
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP37
A Whole New Life (nonfiction, 1994) RESTRICTED
Typescript drafts, 1992-1993
With author's revisions, 1992 Sept. 18
With author's revisions, 1992 Oct. 2
Incomplete, circa 1992 Nov.
1992 Dec. 1
1993 Jan. 6
Circa 1993 Jan.-Apr.  (2 folders)
With author's revisions, 1993 Apr. 9-17  (2 folders)
1993 Apr. 27  (Folder 1 of 2)
Box WP38
Typescript drafts, 1992-1993
1993 Apr. 27  (Folder 2 of 2)
With notes by Alec Wilkinson, 1993 May 24-June  (2 folders)
With correspondence and notes by Daniel Voll, 1993 May 24-July  (2 folders)
Draft responding to Voll and Wilkinson, 1993 July 2  (2 folders)
With author's revisions, 1993 July 3-9  (2 folders)
1993 July 22  (Folder 1 of 2)
Box WP39
Typescript drafts, 1992-1993
1993 July 22  (Folder 2 of 2)
Proof with author's corrections, 1993 Oct. 6  (2 folders)
Draft of jacket copy, 1993 Nov. 16-1994 Jan. 14
Fragment of early draft, 1993
Repro (reproduction) proofs of several pages with author's corrections (photocopies), 1994 Jan. 11
Excerpt for Guideposts, 1994 Apr. 13
Jacket proof and specifications, 1999 Dec. 9-2000 Feb. 16
Sample pages for Scribner Classic Edition, 2000 Jan. 4
Draft of "possible new page 1," undated
Front cover copy, undated
Jacket proofs, undated
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Typescript of audio abridgement by Lauren B. Church, undated  (2 folders)
Box WP40
The Promise of Rest (novel, 1995) RESTRICTED
Notes, 1993 Nov.-Dec.
Typescript draft, 1994 Feb. 16  (3 folders)
Typescript with author's revisions, 1994 Apr. 2-May 23  (3 folders)
Typescript draft, 1994 May 27  (3 folders)
Box WP41
Typescript with author's revisions, 1994 June 2-29  (3 folders)
Typescript draft, 1994 July 18  (4 folders)
Box WP42
Susan Moldow's questions on penultimate draft of 1994 August
Original copyedited and corrected typescript, 1994 Oct.  (4 folders)
Copyedited and corrected typescript (photocopy), 1994 Oct.  (4 folders)
Box WP43
Revised design layouts and proposed jacket sketches, 1994 Oct. 25
Sample pages (three sets) 1994 Nov. 2-7
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Script for audio abridgement, 1995 Feb. 28  (2 folders)
"From the Author to the Trade," typescript, 1994 Oct. and undated
Drafts of jacket copy and quotes for various editions, 1994 Aug.-Nov. and undated
"An Imminent Curse," typescript excerpt or early draft, undated
Ads, jacket proofs and specifications, undated
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP44
The Three Gospels (nonfiction, 1996) RESTRICTED
"The Good News According to John"
Typescript with author's revisions, 1992 Nov. 7
Typescript fair copy, 1992 Nov. 10
Typescript with author's revisions, 1993 Jan. 8
Typescript with author's revisions (incomplete), 1994 Oct. 31-Nov. 7
"An Apocryphal Gospel"
Typescript with author's revisions, 1993 Mar. 20
Untitled typescript with author's revisions, 1993 July 7-10
Honest Accounts of a Memorable Life, (working title), typescript fair copy, 1994 Dec.  (2 folders)
"A Reckless Daring: the Gospel According to Mark," typescript and notes, 1994 Dec.
"A New Thing Entirely: A Preface to the Good News According to Mark," typescript with author's revisions, 1995 Jan. 25-28
"A General Preface," typescript with author's revisions, 1995 Jan. 28-29
"A Modern Apocryphal Gospel: an Honest Account of a Memorable Life," typescript with author's revisions, 1995 Jan. 30
"The Strangest Story: the Good News According to John," typescript with author's revisions, 1995 Feb. 3-10
"According to Mark," typescript with author's revisions, 1995 Mar. 24-29
"According to John," typescript with author's revisions, 1995 Mar. 31-Apr. 5
Box WP45
Penultimate manuscript submitted to Susan Moldow, 1995 May 30  (3 folders)
Notes on post-submission changes, 1995 June 29
Original copyedited typescript, 1995 Aug. 10-Oct. 5  (3 folders)
"Xerox of setting copy" (author's note), 1995 Oct.  (3 folders)
Box WP46
Author's first proofs with corrections, 1995 Nov. 14  (2 folders)
Proposed design and sample pages, 1995 Oct. 24
Author's suggestions for jacket copy, 1995 Aug.-Nov.
Samples of cover design, layout, and other illustrations, 1995-1996 and undated
Proposed jacket copy and blurbs for author's approval, 1996 Mar. 11
Complete draft typescript, fair copy, undated  (3 folders)
"The Strangest Story," three typescript drafts, undated  (2 folders)
"Becoming Contemporary With the Gospel Writers," printed material, undated
Flap copy, undated
Foreword, fragment, undated
Two fragments, typescript, undated
Cover proofs, undated
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP47
The Collected Poems (poetry, 1997) RESTRICTED
"An Actual Temple," typescripts with revisions, 1994 Jan. 8-10
"The Closing," typescripts with revisions, 1996 Mar. 15-30
"A Haven," typescripts, undated
"A Long and Sizable Farewell," proof, 1996 Aug. 28
Three typescripts with author's revisions, 1996 Apr. 12-June 24  (3 folders)
Correspondence between author and Susan Moldow, with attachments of layouts of previous poetry collections and drafts of Preface, 1996 June 28-Aug. 1
Preface: five typescripts with author's revision, 1996 Aug. 7-12
Edited typescript (photocopy), 1996 Sept. 16  (2 folders)
Original copyedited typescript, 1996 Oct. 21  (Folder 1 of 3)
Box WP48
Original copyedited typescript, 1996 Oct. 21  (Folders 2-3 of 3 )
Copyedited typescript (photocopy), 1996 Oct. 21  (2 folders)
Master proof, 1996 Nov. 24  (3 folders)
Author's proof with queries answered, 1996 Nov. 24-1997 Jan. 7  (Folder 1 of 3 )
Box WP49
Author's proof with queries answered, 1996 Nov. 24-1997 Jan. 7  (Folders 2-3 of 3)
"The Unaccountable Worth of the World" : two fair copy typescripts, circa 1997  (2 folders)
Untitled typescript, fair copy, undated
Jacket and ad proofs, 1996-1997 and undated
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Ad copy, undated
The Laws of Ice photocopies, undated (originally published 1986)  (2 folders)
The Use of Fire photocopies, undated (originally published 1986)  (2 folders)
Vital Provisions photocopies, undated (originally published 1982)
Box WP50
Roxanna Slade (novel, 1998) RESTRICTED
Typescript fragment with author's revisions, 1996 Feb. 5
Typescript with author's revisions, 1996 Mar. 2
Typescript with author's revisions, 1996 Mar. 20
Typescript--"A draft of Roxanna Slade," 1996 July 30
Typescript--"A draft of the first three parts of Roxanna Slade" (incomplete, missing pp. 69-171) 1996 Aug. 16  (2 folders)
Typescript with author's revisions, 1996 Oct. 22-1997 Feb. 2  (4 folders)
Typescript with author's revisions, 1997 Feb. 23-Apr. 2  (Folders 1-2 of 4)
Box WP51
Typescript with author's revisions, 1997 Feb. 23-Apr. 2  (Folders 3-4 of 4)
Typescript, circa 1997 Apr.-June  (4 folders)
Original copyedited typescript, 1997 June 21-July 16  (Folders 1-3 of 4)
Box WP52
Original copyedited typescript, 1997 June 21-July 16  (Folder 4 of 4)
Copyedited typescript (photocopy), 1997 June 21-July 16  (4 folders)
Master proof, 1997 Sept. 24  (2 folders)
Author's proof--first pass with author's corrections, 1997 Sept. 24-Oct. 14  (2 folders)
Box WP53
Proof--miscellaneous duplicate pages, 1997 Sept. 24
Author's proof, 1997 Dec. 16-1998 Jan. 4  (2 folders)
Typescript "as submitted to Scribner," 1998 June 24  (4 folders)
Preliminary jacket copies, 1997
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Ad, 1998 May 11
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Chronology for Roxanna Slade (two versions) and notes on second draft revisions, undated
Cover designs (ten samples), undated
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Fragment--typescript page, undated
Box WP54
Learning a Trade (nonfiction, 1998) RESTRICTED
Original notebooks, 1955-1997  (11 folders)
Unbound manuscript and typescript pages that also contain some original drawings by the author and pasted-in clippings and photographs.
Notebooks (photocopy), 1955-1997  (Folders 1-3 of 6)
Box WP55
Notebooks (photocopy), 1955-1997  (Folders 4-6 of 6)
Proof (photocopy), 1998 June 26  (6 folders)
Box WP56
Proof (photocopy, incomplete), undated  (5 folders)
Preface: three typescript drafts, 1997 Sept. 29-Nov. 24
Footnotes: two typescript drafts, 1998 July 24-27
"A Note on the Text," 1998 Aug. 15
Sample layouts, 1998 Feb. 24-Mar. 31
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Jacket proof, undated
Box WP57
A Singular Family (novels, 1999) RESTRICTED
Typescript, addition to preface, 1998 Aug. 9
Proofs and samples of back cover and interior design, 1998 Dec. 17-21
Page proof, 1998 Dec. 23-1999 Jan. 7  (4 folders)
Jacket proof, undated
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP58
Letter to a Man in the Fire (nonfiction, 1999) RESTRICTED
Typescripts
With author's revisions, 1997 Oct. 29-Nov. 1  (2 folders)
Fair copy of 1997 Nov. 1 draft, undated
With author's revisions, 1997 Nov. 11, Nov. 19, Nov. 20  (3 folders)
With illustrations, 1997 Nov. 21
With author's revisions, 1997 Nov. 20
With Frank Lentricchia's notes, circa 1997 Dec.
With correspondence from author to Susan Moldow, 1998 Jan. 5
Draft of "Further Reading, Listening, and Looking" with author's revisions, 1998 Feb.
With queries from Susan Moldow, 1998 Mar. 4
With author's revisions, 1998 Apr. 5-8
With notes and queries by Eric Larson, 1998 Aug.
Copyedited original with author's corrections, 1998 Sept. 14-Oct. 21
Fair copy, 1998 Sept. 16
Box WP59
Proofs (three copies), 1998 Nov. 12  (3 folders)
Proof with author's corrections (original and photocopy), 1998 Nov. 12-Dec. 29  (2 folders)
Second master proof, 1998 Dec. 30
Proof, 1999 Jan. 7
Master proof with author's corrections, 1999 Jan. 7
Proof with author's second pass changes, 1999 Jan. 7-13
Case specifications, 1998 Sept. 28-1999 Jan. 4
Jacket proofs, 2000 and undated
Box WP60
Feasting the Heart (nonfiction, 2000) RESTRICTED
Arranged chronologically within two groups: manuscripts and proofs created in preparing the published book, Feasting the Heart, and manuscripts for individual essays. Drafts of essays appear both as inline text within e-mail messages and as separate typescripts; for pieces published in the book, if there is a discrepancy between the working or broadcast title and the published title, the latter is used in labeling the folder.
Book publication materials
Original typescript (two photocopies, one with "as submitted" author's note), 2000  (2 folders)
Copyedited typescript with author's corrections (original and photocopy), 2000 Apr. 14  (2 folders)
Sample pages, 2000 May 22-24
Master proof, 2000 May 26  (2 folders)
Proof, 2000 May 26  (2 folders)
Proof with author's corrections, 2000 May 26-June 26  (Folder 1 of 2)
Box WP61
Proof with author's corrections, 2000 May 26-June 26  (Folder 2 of 2)
Second master proof, 2000 June 28  (2 folders)
Second master proof (photocopy, incomplete), 2000 June 28
Second pass proofs with author's revisions, 2000 July 12  (2 folders)
Final proof, 2000 July 18  (2 folders)
Flap copy and comments by author, 2000 June-Oct.
Samples for various essays' title pages, 2000 July 13
Cover specifications and samples, 2000-2001
Individual essays
"A Christmas in Rome," 1992 Nov. 13 and undated
"Book Tour," 1995 June 19-30 and undated
"The Last Great Weeper," 1995 Aug. 10
"The Ghostwriter in the Cellar," 1995 Aug. 23-Sept.
"Birthplace," 1995 Sept. 5
"Oral History," 1995 Sept. 21
"Wheelchair Travel," 1995 Oct. 20, 1996 July 13
E-mail containing drafts of various essays, 1995 Nov. 1-1996 Aug. 8 and undated
"A Single Death Among Many," 1996 Feb. 21, July 27
"My Tolerance Problem," 1996 June 29
"The Mad Inventor," 1996 July 2
"The Lucky Child's Christmas," 1996 Dec. 20
"England in the Fifties," 1998 Sept. 24
"Being Reviewed," undated
"Crossing Genders," undated
"Forty and Counting," undated
"Summer Vacation," undated
Box WP62
A Perfect Friend (novel, juvenile, 2000) RESTRICTED
Typescript drafts, 1999
Draft entitled "[A Boy and His Elephant]," revised 1999 Jan. 25
1999 Mar. 8-29
With author's revisions (incomplete), 1999 May 1-25
With Eric Larson's notes, 1999 June
With notes and revisions by author and unidentified reader, 1999 June-Aug.
Fair copy fragment, circa 1999 June-Aug.
With author's revisions, 1999 Aug. 3-9
Original copyedited typescript, 1999 Aug. 20-Oct.  (2 folders)
Cover sketches, 1999 Oct. 22
Catalog copy, 2000 Feb. 1
Sample pages, 2000 Feb. 2, June 20
Blues pages (blueprint proofs) with author's revisions, 2000 June
Corrected blues pages, 2000 June
Jacket proofs, 2000 and undated
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Jacket illustration for paperback edition, 2002 Jan. 16
Sample case for hardback edition, undated
Box WP63
A Great Circle (novels, 2001) RESTRICTED
Possible titles: R. Price's Mayfield trilogy
Typescripts: four drafts of preface, 2000 June 24-2001 Feb. 7
Proof with author's and Bruce Jorgasson's corrections, 2001 May 26-Apr. 6  (5 folders)
Design layouts, 2001 Mar. 20
Page proofs: miscellaneous corrected pages, 2001 June 14-27
Jacket proofs, undated
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP64
Noble Norfleet (novel, 2002) RESTRICTED
Notes for a novel, 1997 Oct. 15-1999 Dec. 22
Typescript drafts, 2000-2001
With author's revisions (photocopy), circa 2000 Jan.-June
With author's revisions, circa 2000 Jan.-June  (2 folders)
With author's revisions, 2000 July 2-17
Fair copy, 2000 July
Fragment with author's revisions, 2000 July 24
Two fragments, fair copy (photocopy), 2000 Aug. 13-27
Fragment with author's revisions, 2000 Sept. 5
With author's revisions, 2001 Sept. 7-Oct. 26  (Folders 1-3 of 4)
Box WP65
Typescript drafts, 2000-2001
With author's revisions, 2001 Sept. 7-Oct. 26  (Folder 4 of 4)
Original copyedited typescript with author's corrections, 2001 Nov.20-Dec.31  (4 folders)
Copyedited typescript (photocopy), 2001 Nov. 20-Dec. 31  (Folders 1-3 of 4)
Box WP66
Typescript drafts, 2000-2001
Copyedited typescript (photocopy), 2001 Nov. 20-Dec. 31  (Folder 4 of 4)
Manuscript and typescript fragments: revision and additions, 2001 Dec. 21-24
Proofs, 2002
With author's revisions, 2002 Jan. 25  (2 folders)
Master, 2002 Jan. 25  (2 folders)
2002 Jan. 29  (2 folders)
2002 Feb. 19  (Folder 1 of 2)
Box WP67
Proofs, 2002
2002 Feb. 19  (Folder 2 of 2)
Master, second pass with author's changes, 2002 Feb. 19-Mar. 4  (2 folders)
Proposed catalog copy, 2001 Sept. 25
Jacket illustrations and specifications, 2001-2002
Research on Vietnam War casualties, 2002 Feb. 8
Jacket proofs, 2002 and undated
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Typescript, fair copy of chapter one, undated
Flap copy, undated
Box WP68
A Serious Way of Wondering (nonfiction, 2003) RESTRICTED
Typescripts with author's revisions
2002 June 2-July 5
2002 July 14-27
2002 Aug. 5-13
Typescript, fair copy of August 13th revisions, 2002 Aug. 14
Typescript with Susan Moldow e-mail comments (missing pp. 154 ff.), circa 2002 Sept.  (2 folders)
Typescript--first draft and part-titles, 2002 Sept. 22  (2 folders)
Box WP69
Typescript, circa 2002 Sept.-Oct.  (2 folders)
Copyedited typescript with author's corrections, 2002 Oct. 4-Nov. 22  (2 folders)
Page proof with author's corrections, 2002 Dec. 13-2003 Jan. 3
Page proof with author's corrections, 2003 Jan. 17-Feb. 7
Design layouts, 2002 Dec. 10-12
Flap copy--three drafts with author's corrections, 2003 Jan. 9 and undated
Jacket proofs, 2003 Mar. 12
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Ad proof, 2003 Sept. 11
D. Moody Smith's notes, 2002-2003
Box WP70
The Good Priest's Son (novel, 2005) RESTRICTED
Notes for a novel, 2002 Mar. 23-2003 Mar. 3
Typescript entitled "Novel #14," with author's revisions 2003 Jan. 6
Typescript with author's revisions, 2003 Sept. 25-Oct. 15  (2 folders)
Box WP71
Uncollected poems and poetry notebooks, 1952-1997 and undated RESTRICTED
"After Rimbaud," manuscript, 1970 Sept.3
"The Beasts at Evening," typescript with revisions, 1997 June
"Clear Day," manuscripts and typescripts, 1989 Nov.
"A Crazy Thing," typescript, undated
Da Unter im Tale, manuscript, 1966 July 6
"Damon's Epitaph," typescript, undated
"Damon's Epitaph," galley proof, 1978
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
"Du schlank und rein..." manuscript, 1966 June 18 and 21
"A Final Stand," typescript with revisions, 1997 June 10
"For Ross Macdonald," typescript, undated
"The Fourth Eclogue of Vergil," manuscripts and typescript, 1972
"The Gate at Treves," manuscript, 1967 Jan. 24 and May 5
"Gold Day," typescripts with revisions, 1960 Apr.
"Honeyed Eyes," typescripts with revisions, undated
"A Hymn of Jesus," typescript, undated
"If by Luck," typescript, undated
"In Me Death," typescript, 1970 Sept. 1 and undated
"I.R.D.," typescript, undated
"Leopoldskron I" and "Leopoldskron II," manuscripts, undated
"Lesbia Slanders Me," typescripts, undated
"A Message Detained," typescripts with revisions, 1977 and undated
"Moon Tide," typescripts with revisions, 1990 Nov.
"One of the palpable..." typescript, 1987 May
"The Pirated Heart," manuscripts, 1959 Sept. 5 and 1970 July 16
"Rank Tavern," typescript, undated
"Solo: To the Moon," manuscript, 1960 Feb.
"Spring Takes the Homeplace," edition published by North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1989 Oct. 4
A Start: "Because I Am," typescript, 1952
"Les Stupra XLVII," manuscript, undated
[Three Poems after Catullus] typescripts, undated
"To Accompany John Nash's 'The Moat' for R.F.B.," page from The Archive, 1955
"Two Theophanies," typescripts with revisions and proof, 1971 and undated
Wednesday, June the Sixth, from Lessons Learned, manuscripts and typescript, 1968 and undated
"Weeds," typescript, undated
"You Often Harp," manuscripts and typescript, 1969 Jan. 4 and undated
Untitled "[Bud's home on its hill...]," typescript, 1969 Oct. 23
Untitled [ "Caelius, our Lesbia..," manuscript and typescript, 1970 Aug. 17
Spanish translations of Price poems, for a workshop in New York, circa 1995
Miscellaneous untitled poems and fragments, 1951-1989 and undated
Notebooks entitled "Drafts of Poems"
1970-1978
1973-1982
1973-1985
Notebook entitled "Days and Nights," 1984 Feb.
Theophanies: Notebook and loose notes, 1968-1974 and undated
Box WP72
Uncollected fiction: short stories, fragments, and notes, 1949-1990 and undated RESTRICTED
"Back Before Day," 1989
"The Heart in Dreams," 1974
"Holy Places," 1977
"Road," 1989
"Short Story (untitled)," 1949
"Time Out," 1990
"A Way Back," 1987?
Correspondence and application materials for Guggenheim Foundation, 1960-1970 and undated
Contains early but undated manuscripts of the stories "A Chain of Love," "Michael Egerton," "The Anniversary," and "Troubled Sleep."
Untitled fragments and notes, 1961-1971 and undated
Box WP72
Uncollected nonfiction: articles, essays, journals, and reviews, 1950-2003 and undated RESTRICTED
"An Actual World," typescript and catalog of paintings, 1993
"At the Brink--John Beerman," typescript and proof with author's revisions, 2000 Oct. 10-Nov. 16
"Beatrice and Matthew in the Studio by Katherine Doyle," typescript and corrected proof, 2003 Aug. 26-Sept. 10
"Belief and Doubt," typescript and notes, 2000 May
"Bouquet for Leontyne," proof and typescript fragment, 1995 Feb. 6 and undated
"Carol Anthony," typescript and proof, 1999 July 26, Nov. 24
See also Printed Materials Series, Miscellaneous Printed Materials Subseries.
"Christmas Food," 1986
Criticism of Concept Magazine, 1958
"Cyber Time," typescript draft of "The Unbeatable Lightness of Keyboards," 1998 Aug. 12
"Dear Harper: a Letter to a Godchild about God," corrected proof and typescript drafts, 2000 Aug. 14 and undated  (4 folders)
"Death and Work: Milton's 'Epitaphium Damonis'," essay and translation (five drafts of each), 1972 Aug. 21 and undated  (2 folders)
"An Entire World," typescript, proofs, and supporting materials for exhibit, "Academic Eye: Reynolds Price collects Danny Robinette," 2001 and undated
"An Epic Venture," typescript, undated
"The Fetish of the 'Real'," typescripts (two), 1995 Sept. and undated
"First Loves--a Preface," typescript, undated
"The First Printing of Place in Fiction," typescript, 1979 Feb. 25-27
"First Words," typescript with author's revisions, undated
"A General Response," typescript, undated
"A Grounded Life," typescript, undated
"Grounds to Stand On," typescript, undated
"A Helpful Sight," typescript with author's revisions, 2001 Jan. 29
"Imaginative Writing at Duke," manuscript and typescript, undated
"In Paradise: a Surmise," typescripts, four drafts, 2001 Sept. 14-Oct.1 and undated
Interview of Lauritz Melchior, 1950-1951
Box WP73
Introduction to Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison, typescripts and proof, 1995 May 7-June 19
"Jesus of Nazareth: Then and Now," typescripts and proofs, 1999 Oct.-Nov. 27 and undated  (7 folders)
"John Milton," typescript with author's revisions, 2003 July 9
"Larry Kramer's Faggots: an Introduction," typescripts and proof, 2000
"Last Week's Sets," typescript with author's revisions, undated
"Leontyne Price," manuscripts and typescript, 1978 Oct. 16 and undated
"The Look of Hope," revised and fair copy typescripts, 1995 July-Sept. and undated  (5 folders)
"Looking Back on a Talkative Year," typescript, undated
"A Lucky Choice," typescript, undated
"Neighbors and Kin," undated
Notes on a visit to Ethel Waters, 1950
"Oh Cuisine: a Platonic Restaurant," galley proof with author's corrections, 1979 Aug. 8-14
"On Rachmaninov," typescript, 1999 Jan. 18
"On Stephen Spender," typescript, 1995 July 17
"The Only News," 1989  (2 folders)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
"Oracles: Six Versions from the Bible," proof with author's corrections, circa 1976
"A Platonic Place," manuscript, 1978 Apr. 28
"Pontius Pilate," typescript, 2000
Preface for Caroline Vaughan, manuscript, 1977
"Preface" to Jesus Tales, by Romulus Linney, manuscript, 1980 Aug. 21
"Preface to Bibliography," manuscripts and typescripts, 1980 Jan. 9-Aug. 30 and undated
"Prevailing Daylight," 1987
"Rescued and Strengthened," typescript and correspondence, 1996 June 26-July 15 and undated
Reviews
Best American Short Stories 1979, manuscripts and typescript, 1979 Sept. 17 and undated
Books on Jesus by Gregory C. Riley and Jaroslav Pelikan, typescript, 1998
Bruccoli, Matthew, The O'Hara Concern: A Biography of John O'Hara, typescript, 1975 Sept. 25
Buechner, Frederick, "The Sacred Journey, " typescript, undated
Campbell, Will D., The Glad River, typescript, undated
Clifton, Lucille, Generations: A Memoir, manuscript and typescript, 1975 and undated
Coles, Robert, The Secular Mind, proof, 1999
Gray, Francine du Plessix, World Without End, notes and manuscripts, 1981 Apr. 20-28 and undated
Grimsley, Jim, The Lizard of Tarsus, typescript, 1997
Humphrey, William, Farther Off from Heaven, manuscript, 1977 May 2-3
Percy, Walker, Love in the Ruins, manuscripts and typescripts, 1971 and undated
Percy, Walker, Lancelot, manuscript, 1977
Box WP74
Porter, Katherine Anne, Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter, manuscript, 1981 June 6-16
Pritchett, V. S., Collected Stories, typescript, undated
Rorem, Ned, Aqua Fortis, typescript, 1978 Jan. 8
Short story collections by Mark Helprin and Elizabeth Spencer, manuscript and typescript, 1981 and undated
Welch, James, with Paul Steckler, "Killing Custer," typescript, undated
Welty, Eudora, Collected Stories, manuscript and typescript, 1980 and undated
Welty, Eudora, One Place, One Time, manuscript and proof, 1973 and undated
"Reynolds Price: About Himself," undated
"Reynolds Price on Writing" in Southern Review, galley proof, circa 1982
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
"St. Paul Departing Caesarea," typescript with author's revisions, 1996 June 24
"Sally Mann," typescript with author's revisions, 2001 June 14
"Scenes from a Journey," galley proof with author's corrections, 1994 Mar. 21
"A School for Husbands," typescript with author's revisions, undated
Scripture translations, manuscripts and typescripts, 1968-1969
"A Serious Moment," undated
"Three Pieces--and a Start--about Race," manuscripts and typescripts, 1969-1971 and undated
"Two Years Underway: Pages from a Notebook," 1977
"An Uncharted Storm," typescript with author's revisions, 1995 May 9
"A Useful Offer," typescript, 1996
"A Waiting Beauty," typescripts and proofs with author's corrections, 2002 Aug. 1-Sept. 12  (2 folders)
Welty, Eudora: untitled short pieces about Welty, including notes for Price's interview of her, a letter essay for Aperture, and drafts of eulogy, 1984, 2001, and undated
"What Abides," 1989
"Why I Work," manuscript and two typescripts, 1966 Feb. 2 and undated
"Why Think of College at All? Why Duke?" manuscript and two typescripts, 1969 and undated
"A Wide Seam of Memory," typescript with author's revisions, 1998 Mar. 29
"Your Maiden Aunt by No Means," proof and two typescripts, 1995 Mar. 15 and undated
"Uncollected articles, speeches, reviews, etc.," notes, manuscripts, and typescripts, 1968-1972 and undated
Materials in this folder appear to have been gathered by Price and assigned this folder title in the early 1970s during preparation for his first nonfiction collection, Things Themselves, as some notes and outlines recorded here reflect the final structure of that book. Folder contains a mix of titles later collected in A Common Room; uncollected titles that appear in their own named folders elsewhere in the Reynolds Price Papers; and other manuscripts that are unique to this folder.
Untitled and/or incomplete: blurbs, fragments, other short pieces, and notes, 1967-2003 and undated
Differs from the previous folder in that these items were gathered by the processor of the collection, not the author.
Journals and notebooks (bound), 1963, 1989, and undated  (3 folders)
Journals and notebooks (loose-leaf), 1961 Dec. and undated
Miscellaneous writings, 1961-1990 and undated
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box WP75
Student Work, 1946-1953 May Sept. 30  (40 folders) RESTRICTED
Box WP76
Student Work, 1953 Sept.-1958 and undated  (33 folders) RESTRICTED
Student work, 1954
[All items removed to Oversize Materials.]

Writings by Others Subseries (RESTRICTED), 1935-2004 and undated
 (16 boxes)
Comprised chiefly of manuscripts, drafts, and proofs (some photocopies and some with notes and revisions) of work sent by other authors to Price. Includes poetry, short stories, articles, plays, and novels. Arranged alphabetically by the name of the author and chronologically within each folder if more than one work by the author is included. Proofs of A Bibliography of the Writings of Reynolds Price, by Stuart Wright and James L.W. West are at the end of the series, and various shorter bibliographies of Price's work are arranged chronologically in the last folders.
[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to, and duplication by any means, of materials in this subseries requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box WO1
Adcock, Betty
Intervale: New and Selected Poems, 2000
Alexander, Corabel
"All Talk," 1995
"Crab Bait," 1995
"It's Probably Nothing," 1995
"A Far Cry," 1995
"Homesick," 1995
"Traps," 1995
Applewhite, James
"City of Infamy," 1970
Daytime and Starlight, 1997
Auden, W. H.
"Oratio Creweiana," 1956
Barker, Franklin
"Home Town Girls," 1971
Beebe, Chris
"An Optimist's Journal," 1975  (2 folders)
Bell, Madison Smartt
Teaching notes on Price for the Goucher College Fiction Workshop, 2000
Benay Brothers, The
Samurai, undated
Bhatia, Lakshmi
"Precious Pearls," undated
Bhuvaneswar, Chaya G.
The Last Day, undated  (3 folders)
Blackburn, Alexander
"The Long Habit of Living," essay on William Maxwell Blackburn, circa 1994
Box WO2
Bly, Robert
The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib, undated
Boerger, Jeff
"Desires of a Changing Heart: A Sojourner's Life in the East," 1977
Brondoli, Michael
Dumb Supper, 1976
"And Now, Folks, the Dixie Bombshell," undated
Bricuth, John
"Just Let Me Say This About That," 1995
Broughton, T. Alan
"The Skin and All: Songs for the Cruelest Months," 1973-1977
Brown, Lightning Allan
"Poetry and Translation," 1965, 1982-1994
Byers, Frederick
Silver Falls, 1998
Caldwell, Erskine
"The Sacrilege of Alan Kent," 1936
Canin, Ethan
For Kings and Planets, 1997
Capers, Charlotte
"Eudora Welty: A Friend's View," 1977
Chappell, Fred
"Le Soleil du Mal," circa 1959
"Hallowind," 1979
"For Reynolds," 1986
"Teacher," undated
Clem, Dean
Winds of Fury, Circles of Grace, 1996
Box WO3
Davenport, Guy and Benjamin Urrutia
The Logia of Yeshua, 1996
Davies, W. D.
"Reflections on Aspects of the Jewish Background of the Gospel of John," 1996
Dickey, James
"Jericho," 1974
"Land and Water," 1974
"Reynolds Price," 1981
"The South Beheld," 1974
Memoir of Dickey by his daughter, Bronwen, 1997
Donoghue, Denis
"The Death of Satan," 2000
"Eudora Welty's Sense of Place," undated
"The Practice of Reading," 1997 Oct. 10
Eberhart, Richard
"Spring Mountain Climb," 1961
Emerson, Donald
"Review of A Long and Happy Life," 1962
Esty, Jane
"Green Elegy for a Child," 1970
Fellmeth, Michael Quixote
A Portrait of Devotion, 1993
Fleschner, Paul
"The Reinvention of Pollyanna Marcase," 2003
Foote, Horton
"A Coffin in Egypt," undated
Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood, undated
Genesis of an American Playwright, undated  (3 folders)
1918, undated
Box WO4
Fort, Charles
"It Is a Fearful Thing to Love What Death Can Touch," 1993
"Love," 1993
"Mr. Whore's Ruby Doll," 1993
"Petrified Forest," 1993
"Photograph," 1993
"Poe's Daughter," 1993
"Superstitious Mountain," 1993
"The Ugly Man Behind the Little Wood," 1993
"Understudy," 1993
Fox, Jim
"An Ascent from the Vault," undated
"The Great Bridge," undated
"Tar Beach," undated
"Two Rivers," undated
Franck, Derek
A Yemeni Passage, 1977
Fuller, R.C.
"Lunging in the Dark: Blindness and Vision, Disappointment and Aspiration in Reynolds Price's Trilogy," undated
Garfein, Herschel
From and American Book of the Dead: Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano, 1993
Garrett, George
"Little Movie Without a Middle," 1978
Grimsley, Jim
A Bird of Prey, 1996
The Lizard of Tarsus, 1990
Guggenheim, Charles
"Speaking of Reynolds Price: Outtakes from Clear Pictures," 1996 Sept. 25
Gurganus, Allan
"For Jack Fullilove (1917-2000)," 1996
Harris, Massimilla and C. T. B. Harris
A Message in Suffering: A Guide for Understanding the Psychology of Suffering and Transformation, 1991
Through the Center of the Self: The Psychology of Suffering and Transformation, 1991
Harris, Will
"Will's Amazing, Fantastic, Hilarious, Horror provoking, Witty, Smart Stories," 2000 July
Hassan, Ihab
"The Expense of Spirit in Postmodern Times: Between Nihilism and Belief," 1997
Hauerwas, Stanley
In Good Company: preface and first chapter, 1994 Dec. 22
Hays, Tommy
The Pleasure Was Mine, circa 2004  (Folder 1 of 3)
Box WO5
The Pleasure Was Mine, circa 2004  (Folders 2-3 of 3)
Helliker, Kevin
"The Woodchopper," undated
Humphries, Jeff
A Bestiary, 1995
"Beyond the Pleasure Principal," 1977
"Doctor, Is My Poem Alright?," 1978
"A Homecoming Suite: Christmas 1977," 1978
"Sermon Preached to a Mirror at a Christmas Party in the Backwoods," 1978
"The Madness of Mrs. Crump," 1984
"The Mirror's Eye," 1984
"The Conjuror of Color," 1986
Poems, 1990
Jones, Michael Colby
One Hellgate Story, 1998
Jones, Paul
"What the Welsh and Chinese Have in Common," 1990
Jorgenson, B. W.
"'A Healing Soul' on Reynolds Price's Purgatorial 'Endless Mountains,'" undated
"Pardon and Marriage: Three Stories," undated
Justice, Jesse
"An Elaborate Dialogue: Fate, Free Will, and Family in Reynolds Price's A Long and Happy Life and Kate Vaiden," 1991
Kaufman, Wallace
"Six Girls," 1959
"A River Meeting," circa 1964
"Leukemia, Age 3," undated
Kelly, Tom
"Waiting for Rain," undated
Kenna, Michael
"Ten Poems for a Friend," 1971-1974
Kimmel, Haven
The Solace of Leaving Early, 2001
Kizer, Carolyn
Poems, 1980-1986 and undated
Kreyling, Michael
"The Extra," 1988
"Men Without Women: Communities of Desire and Race in A Great Circle," 1996
"Reynolds Price," 1982
Landesman, Peter
Blood Acre: A Novel, 1997
Larson, Eric
Bermuda, 2000
"The Pharisee's Gospel," undated
Box WO6
Linney, Romulus
"Holy Ghosts," 1972
"Woman Without a Name," 1985
Malouf, Melissa
It Had to Be You: The Joan and Ernest Story, 1997
Mann, Julian, III
The Old Man and the Boy, 1988-1997
Manning, Hank
Buzzbait, undated
Marrs, Suzanne
One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, 2002
"'The Huge Fateful Stage of the Outside World': Eudora Welty's Life in Politics," undated
Massengill, David
Picture books, 2001
Maunsell, Penelope
"The Company of the Dead," screenplay of Price's short story, 1997 Mar. 27
Maxwell, William
"The Writer as Illusionist," 1955 Mar. 4
McElheny, Sean
Lewis and Clark, 1995
Meredith, William
"For Two Lovers in the Canadian Woods a Hundred Years from Now," 1977
Millard, Charles
Oscar Comes to North Carolina, 1999
Modjeska, Lee
Keeper of the Night: A Portrait of Life in the Shadow of Death, 1994
Moffatt, Jan E.
When I'm Painting, I Don't Have Cancer, 1995 June 27
Mofford, Frank
"Phona," 1993
"Solo Shoo-shoo," 1993
Box WO7
Morgan, Robert
Brave Enemies, 2003  (2 folders)
Payne, Peggy
Sister India, 1994
Peterson, Dwight N.
"A Gimp's-Eye View of the Healing of the Paralytic in Mark 2:1-2," circa 1997
Peterson, Mike
"A Short and Unhappy Weekend," undated
Pollack, Harriet and Suzanne Marrs, eds.
Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?, 2000
Pope, Deborah
Mortal World, (Typescript), undated
Mortal World, (Advance uncorrected proofs), undated
Porter, Joe Ashby
"Bone Key," 1996
"St. Silvere's Head," 1981
Pratt, Minnie Bruce
Poems and statement of plans, 1997 Mar. 4 and undated
Price, William, S.
"My Farewell -- Dripping with Tears," 1950
Untitled report, 1935
Price, William S., Jr.
"N.C. v. B.C. West, Jr.," 1978
"John Hope Franklin: a Life of Making History," undated
Rambo, Wiley Claude
"Mint Chip and Plain Vanilla," 1993
Randall, Dale B.J.
"American 'Mairzy' Dottiness, Sir John Fastolf's Secretary, and the 'Law French' of a Caroline Cavalier," 1995
Randolph, Leonard
"Village Dying," circa 1976
Robinson, Marilyne
Death of Adam, 1998
Schiff, James A.
Understanding Reynolds Price, 1995  (Folder 1 of 2)
Box WO8
Understanding Reynolds Price, 1995  (Folder 2 of 2)
Critical Essays on Reynolds Price, 1996-1997  (3 folders)
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
A Dialogue on Love, 1999
Seymour, James
Holy Ghosts and Hidden Histories, 1997
Singer, William
"Eyes: A Gift," 1976
"Poem A" and "Poem C," undated
"Revelation as Grace: A Study of the Twenty-Two Dreams in Reynolds Price's The Surface of Earth," 1977
Sink, Alice E.
"What University Freshmen Have Taught Me About Reynolds Price's Novel, Kate Vaiden," undated
Smith, Allen
Preacher: The Life of Reverend Helen Gray Crotwell, 1996
Box WO9
Smith, Caleb
Monumental, (Typescript), 2001
Monumental, (Second draft), 2001
Smith, D. Moody
"Jesus of Nazareth: From Bornkamm to Sanders" and "Professor Sanders at Duke," undated
"John As Historian," 2003
"When Did the Gospels Become Scripture?" 2000
Smith, Dave
"The Canoe in the Basement," 1988
Cuba Night, 1988
"In Search of the Real Thing," 1988
"Southern Crescent," 1988
To Isle of Wight, undated
"Why Southern Poetry May Be a Snipe Hunt," 1988
Fate's Kite: Poems, 1992-1995, 1995
The Righting Moment: Poems, 1988-1998 undated
The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 1999
Smith, Jean Kennedy and George Plimpton
Very Special Artists: Chronicles of Courage, 1993
Smith, R. T.
Brightwood: Poems, 2003
Box WO10
Spencer, Elizabeth
Landscapes of the Heart: A Memoir, 1996
Spender, Stephen
Engaged in Writing, (Typed draft), undated  (2 folders)
Engaged in Writing (Typescript), undated
Engaged in Writing (Proof), undated  (4 folders)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Engaged in Writing (Volume), 1957
Engaged in Writing (Price's notes), 1957
"The Connecting Imagination," 1961 Apr. 1
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
The Fool and the Princess (Bound typescript), undated
Journals: 1939-1983  (Folders 1-8 of 13)
Box WO11
Spender, Stephen
Journals: 1939-1983  (Folders 9-13 of 13)
Schiller's "Mary Stuart," (Handwritten draft), undated
Schiller's "Mary Stuart," (Manuscript), undated
Schiller's "Mary Stuart," (Typescript), undated
Schiller's "Mary Stuart," (Fourth draft), undated
Schiller's "Mary Stuart," (Published pages), 1959
The Temple, 1960
Book Jackets, 1985
Poetry, 1960-1983 and undated
Essays, undated
Stokes, Adrian
"Vermeer and Degas," undated
Box WO12
Stokes, Harry
Untitled work, 1967
The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary, 1995-1996  (2 folders)
Styron, William
"A Lifesketch #1," 1974
"A Lifesketch #2," 1974
Sutherland, John
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography, 2000  (4 folders)
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography, (Second draft), undated  (Folders 1-2 of 4)
Box WO13
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography, (Second draft), undated  (Folders 3-4 of 4)
Tamplin, Ronald
"The Catechumen," undated
Tate, Allen
"All is Brillig (or ought to be)," numbered, limited edition of Tate's last published poem, 1979
Tompkins, Jane
"Let's Get Lost," undated
Torgovnick, Marianna
Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy, 1997
Tyler, Anne
"In Sudden Solitude: A Critical Essay from a Rising Sophomore," 1959
Vaughn, Caroline
notes on "Borrowed Time" and career narrative, 1995 Oct. 22
Vauthier, Simone
"The Circle in the Forest: Fictional Space in A Long and Happy Life," 1974
"Reasonable Uses of the Unreasonable: The Supernatural in Reynolds Price's Love and Work," undated
Verdelle, A. J.
The Good Negress, 1994
Verghese, Abraham
The Tennis Partner, 1998
Voll, Daniel
"Dear Mr. President," (Typescript), 1992
"Dear Mr. President," (Second draft), 1992
"The Flying Saucer Cafe," 1992
"Moon Child," 1992
"Riot Baby," 2002
"To the Shoreline," undated
Box WO14
"Skin," 1995
Threat Matrix, 2002
Threat Matrix: Episode 104, In Plane Sight, 2003
Wagenknecht, Edward
"Dickens and the Scandalmongers," 1950
Wasserman, Harriet
Handsome Is: Adventures with Saul Bellow, undated  (2 folders)
Welty, Eudora
"A Flock of Guinea Hens Seen from a Car," 1970
"One Time, One Place," 1971
"Place in Fiction," 1955
One Writer's Beginnings, (Typescript with notes), undated
The Optimist's Daughter, (Galleys with notes), [ 1970?]
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
The Optimist's Daughter (Typescript with notes), 1970  (2 folders)
West, James L. W., III
"Duke, Second Stint," undated
"Durham and Flatbush," undated
"Styron at Duke, 1943-44," 1995
"Styron in Paris," 1995
West, John Cameron
"A Sidebar to 'Esse Quam Videri,'" undated
Wilbur, Richard
Pedestrian Flight, 1981
Wilkinson, Alec
My Mentor, 2001  (2 folders)
Box WO15
A Murder, 1992  (2 folders)
Untitled, 1994
Williams, Rowan
The Poems of Rowan Williams, 2003
Willingham, Dan
Untitled, 1996
An Untitled Romantic Comedy in Two Acts, 1995
Willimon, William H.
"'We Work Hard, We Play Hard': A Report for the President and the Provost, and the Vice President of Student Life of Duke University," 1993
"Tell Me the Story of Jesus," 1995
Willrich, Patricia Rowe
"A Perspective on Wallace Stegner," 1991
"Watching Through Windows: A Perspective on Anne Tyler," 1992
Wilson, Robert
Untitled, 1995
Yungblut, June
"The Entered Heart," 1986
Miscellaneous writings by indeterminable authors, 1953-1983 and undated
Bibliographies, 1974-1983
A Bibliography of the Writings of Reynolds Price, by Stuart Wright and James L.W.West:
Typescript A, 1979  (2 folders)
Box WO16
Typescript B, 1980  (2 folders)
Typescript C, 1981  (2 folders)
Typescript D, 1983  (2 folders)
Typescript: (Price's copy with holograph corrections, 1983)
A Bibliography of the Writings of Reynolds Price, by Stuart Wright and James L. W. West: Proof, 1985
Sketches for frontispiece, undated
"A Selected Bio-Bibliography of Reynolds Price," by Barbara R. Swain, 1974
"Reynolds Price: A Bibliography," by Clayton Owens (Working draft with corrections by Price), 1976
Miscellaneous Bibliographies, 1977-1982
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Proof for entry on Price for American Short Story Writers Since World War II, Second Series, Vol. 218, 1999
Proof for entry on Price for American Novelists Since World War II, Seventh Series, Vol. 278, 2003

Printed Materials Series, 1944-2004 and undated

(29 boxes)
Divided into three subseries: Serials, Clippings, and Miscellaneous Printed Materials.

Serials Subseries, 1951-2004 and undated
 (20 boxes)
Consists of popular and scholarly serial publications containing work by Price or articles about Price. Arranged chronologically.
A folder in the inventory cabinet in Research Services contains a list of titles of those serials published through 1992.The folder also contains several lists of selected articles sorted by genre (Interviews, Articles about Price, Short Stories, Reviews of Work by Price, etc.).
[Some items in this subseries have been removed to Oversize Materials.]
Box S1
1951 Feb.-1963 Summer
Box S2
1963 Fall-1968 June
Box S3
1968 Oct.-1970 May
Box S4
1970 Sept.-1972
Box S5
1972-1976 Spring
Box S6
1976 Spring/Summer-1981 Apr.
Box S7
1981 May-1984 Jan.
Box S8
1984 Spring/Summer-1986 Winter/Spring
Box S9
1986-1988 Summer
Box S10
1988 Winter-1990 Apr.
Box S11
1990 May-1990 Dec.
Box S12
1990 Fall-1991 Spring
Box S13
1991 Summer-1992 Spring
Box S14
1992 Spring/Summer-1993 Winter
Box S15
1993 Winter-1994 Fall
Box S16
1994-1995
Box S17
1995 Winter/Spring-1997 Nov.
Box S18
1997 Winter-1999 Dec. 6
Box S19
1999 Dec. 6-2002 Summer
Box S20
2002 Fall-2004 Winter and undated

Clippings Subseries, 1963-2004 and undated
 (2 boxes)
Clippings chiefly concerning Price and his work, and to a lesser extent his family, friends, and colleagues. Arrangement is as follows: Clippings in Box PC1 consist mostly of reviews, advertisements, and articles regarding specific works by Price and are foldered by title, in order of date of publication. Clippings in Box PC2 are more general articles about or by Price, including interviews, and are arranged chronologically.
[Some items in this subseries have been removed to Oversize Materials. Arrangement there in Boxes OS14 and OS15 follows that described above for Boxes PC1 and PC2.]
Box PC1
Reviews of specific works
Blue Calhoun (1992)
The Collected Stories (1993)
A Whole New Life (1994)
The Promise of Rest (1995)
The Three Gospels (1996)
The Collected Poems (1997)
Roxanna Slade (1998)
Learning a Trade (1998)
Letter to a Man in the Fire (1999)
A Perfect Friend (2000)
Feasting the Heart (2000)
Noble Norfleet (2002)
A Serious Way of Wondering (2003)
Box PC2
Clippings, chronological sequence, 1963-2004, bulk 1992-2004 and undated  (6 folders)

Miscellaneous Printed Materials Subseries (RESTRICTED), 1944-2004 and undated
 (7 boxes)
Programs, playbills, awards, prospecti, and announcements of teaching and speaking engagements. Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically within each folder.
[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to, and duplication by any means, of materials in this subseries requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box MP1
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1993-2003  (2 folders)
Announcements and programs for author appearances: addresses, conferences, readings, and other engagements, 1962-2004 and undated  (Folders 1-7 of 9)
Box MP2
Announcements and programs for author appearances: addresses, conferences, readings, and other engagements, 1962-2004 and undated  (Folders 8-9 of 9)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Announcements and programs for events attended: concerts, plays, services, and other occasions, 1949-2004 and undated  (Folders 1-7 of 9)
Box MP3
Announcements and programs for events attended: concerts, plays, services, and other occasions 1949-2004 and undated  (Folders 8-9 of 9)
An Appalachian Summer, 2000
Awards and honorary degrees, 1964-2003 and undated  (4 folders)
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Catalogs and brochures with writings by Price, 1999 and undated
Duke University events, 1988-2004 and undated
Box MP4
Eudora Welty Foundation, 1999-2004 and undated
Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1989, 1994-1997 and undated
Invitations, 1993-2003 and undated
James Taylor, 1992-2001  (5 folders)
National Book Award Week, 1979 Apr. 23-26
Oxford University printed material, 1954-1962 and undated
Posters advertising books and lectures, 1982 and 1986
[Items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Programs and announcements for Price's plays, 1956-2003 and undated  (2 folders)
Publications by various authors (alphabetical), 1959-1995 and undated  (Folders 1-3 of 5)
Box MP5
Publications by various authors (alphabetical), 1959-1995 and undated  (Folders 4-5 of 5)
Publishers' ads, catalogs, and prospecti, 1966-2000 and undated  (7 folders)
Box MP6
Salzberg Seminar in American Studies, 1975-1977 and undated
Spender family printed material, 1959-1977 and undated
Teaching and speaking engagements, 1962-1990 and undated
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 1993-1994  (4 folders)
Box MP7
Miscellany, 1944-2001 and undated  (8 folders)

Legal and Financial Papers Series (RESTRICTED), 1939-2004 and undated

(5 boxes)
Consists of publishing agreements and contracts, royalty statements, tax records, papers regarding the William S. Price home, and miscellaneous personal records. Arranged alphabetically in these categories and chronologically within them, with the exception that miscellaneous records are grouped at the end of the series.
[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to, and duplication by any means, of materials in this series requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box LF1
Publishing agreements and contracts, 1957-2002 and undated  (3 folders)
Royalty statements, 1962-1984, 1992-2004  (6 folders)
Tax records, 1964, 1967  (2 folders)
Box LF2
Tax records, 1970-1979  (19 folders)
Box LF3
Tax records, 1980-1984  (13 folders)
Box LF4
Tax records, 1985-1990  (8 folders)
William S. and Elizabeth Price, check books, 1954-1965
William S. and Elizabeth Price Home, 1939-1969 and undated
Miscellaneous legal and financial records, 1950-2003  (Folders 1-2 of 7)
Box LF5
Miscellaneous legal and financial records, 1950-2003  (Folders 3-7 of 7)

Speeches and Addresses Series (RESTRICTED), 1957-2004 and undated

(1 box)
Speeches and addresses presented by Price at literary or educational events. Arranged chronologically.
[RESTRICTED: materials in this series are open for researchers to view but not to duplicate. During Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, duplication by any means of materials in this series requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box SA1
1957
Blackburn, William, senior class banquet, Woman's College, May 15
1966
"The Thing Itself," Duke University
1967
"The Writer's Role," Twelfth Annual North Carolina Literary Forum, Mar. 16
1968
Introduction for prose readings, Library of Congress, Mar.
1970
Belhaven College, Jackson, Mississippi, Feb.
1972
William Blackburn eulogy, Dec. 8
1973
Lecture for the Baylor School, Apr. 22
Knowles, John, introduction for, Oct. 28
1974
Welty, Eudora, introduction for, Oct. 16
Modaressi, Anne Tyler, introduction for, Nov. 13
1975
Campus Club Lecture Series, Duke University, Jan. 15
Peacock, Phyllis, introduction for, May 7
1976
"Liberating Journalism: Defining Reality Through Fiction," notes for Duke Fellows in Communication Policy program, Mar. 18-20
1977
Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, June 12-July 2
1978
Macon Methodist Church, homecoming, Sept. 17
1979
Archibald Smith lecture, Apr.
"To the Chaired Professors," manuscript draft, Oct. 15
1980
Joel Jackson's "News, Weather, and Sports," draft comment, Oct. 3
1981
Spender, Stephen, introduction for, Feb. 2
1983
Anderson, Jeffrey, introduction for, Carrboro Art School
1985
"Truths for Playwrights," Hendrix College, Oct. 18
1986
National Book Critics Circle Award, acceptance speech (for Kate Vaiden)
1988
Blackburn, William, commemoration of, homecoming weekend, Oct. 21
1989
Welty, Eudora, eightieth birthday, Apr. 9
Pen-Faulkner reading, Oct. 30
1992
"Our Half of the Deal," Founder's Day, Dec. 10
1994
Clear Pictures premiere (Charles Guggenheim documentary film), Mar. 18
Styron, William, introduction for, Nov.
1998
Remarks at the awarding of a cookery prize to Ben and Karen Barker, Durham, Sept. 13
1999
Oates, Joyce Carol, introduction for, Duke University, Mar. 26
"A Presentation to the North Caroliniana Society," Apr. 9
"Letter to a Pair of Trinity College Freshman," as read to the Trinity College Board of Visitors, Apr. 15
"At an Unveiling," Duke University, Sept. 30
"An Awful Gift and a Blindness: The Robert Penn Warren Lecture," Nashville, Oct. 8
"A New Year's Greeting," James Taylor's Millenium Concert in the Raleigh Sports Arena, Dec. 31-2000 Jan. 1
2001
Donoghue, Denis, introduction for, Mar. 6
Malone, Michael, introduction for, Mar. 8
"A Serious Way of Wondering," The Peabody Lecture, Harvard Memorial Church, Apr. 21
"In Long Measure," for W. D. Davies, May 24
"A Serious Way of Wondering," National Cathedral, Washington, D. C., Sept. 26
2003
Spencer Heilema, Mary Elizabeth, eulogy, Jan. 7
Keohane, Nan, remarks for a celebratory dinner, Oct. 4
2004
"Faces From the Flood: Remembering Hurricane Floyd," voiceover script recorded by Price at WUNC-TV, Apr. 12
Undated
Capra, Frank, introduction of
Don Quixote, lecture
Milton, John, poetry reading, introduction
"Unpublishable Fiction"

Interviews Series (RESTRICTED), 1973-2003 and undated

(1 box)
Interviews with Price regarding his life and work. Includes oral history interview conducted by the Memphis State Oral History Office. Arranged chronologically.
[RESTRICTED: materials in this series are open for researchers to view but not to duplicate. During Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, aduplication by any means of materials in this series requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box I1
1966 and undated: Kaufman, Wallace, "A Conversation with Reynolds Price"  (5 folders)
1973-1976: Memphis State Oral History Office interview  (10 folders)
[Audio cassettes removed to Audiovisual Materials Series.]
1976 Mar. 11: Georges, Gary, "A Great Deal More: Une Interview de Reynolds Price"
1976: Rooke, Constance, "On Women and His Own Work: an Interview with Reynolds Price"  (2 folders)
1986 Apr. 9: Miller, Edmond, "A Conversation with Reynolds Price"
1999 Oct. 26: Smith, Rick R. and Miranda Kossoff, " The Life and Times of Reynolds Price: A Literary Lion"
2002 Feb. 8: Bush, John, "Oak Room Interview: James B. Duke Professor of English Reynolds Price"
2003 Mar.: Bedway, Barbara, an e-mail interview for Auburn Seminary's newsletter
1988 and undated: Unattributed interviews

Personal Papers Series (RESTRICTED), 1927-2004 and undated

(1 box)
Includes itineraries for Price's trips, drawings by Price, and a day book belonging to Mrs. William S. Price. Arranged alphabetically by topic.
[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to, and duplication by any means, of materials in this series requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box PP1
Day Book of Mrs. William S. Price, 1940
Drawings, 1952-1960 and undated
[Some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Gift lists for complimentary copies of his books, circa 1992-1998
Miscellaneous information and notes about writing and career, 1995-2003 and undated
Personal itineraries for book tours, readings, and other events, 1971-2002 and undated  (2 folders)
Personal itinerary for visit to the Memorial Church, Harvard University, 2001 Apr. 20-23
Sketchbook, 1977-1980
Statements made at ceremonies for friends, including banquets, funerals, and weddings, 1996-2003
Transcript of "Bill Moyers' Journal: 'Carter and Country,'" 1979
Miscellany, 1927-2003 and undated  (2 folders)
Includes ticket stubs and programs from events attended, handwritten invitations, receipts, drawings, and other items.

Academic Files Series (RESTRICTED), 1969-2003 and undated

(1 box)
Documents Price's academic and teaching career. Includes course materials, students' writing, Duke University and Duke University English Department memoranda, and related materials. Arranged alphabetically by topic.
[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to, and duplication by any means, of materials in this series requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box AF1
Bread on the Waters: Reynolds Price, Teacher, a documentary by Wil Weldon, 1997
[Videocassette removed to Audiovisual Materials Series.]
Course materials, 1969-1977 and undated
Duke University memoranda and reports, 1994-2004
Duke University English Department, 1978, 1992-2004
Students--enrollments, proposals, and references, 1993-2003
Students' writing, 1990-2003 and undated  (4 folders)
William M. Blackburn Fund, 1972-1984 and undated

Photographic Materials Series (RESTRICTED), 1951-2002 and undated

(1 box)
Photographs of Price, family members, and various other authors at private events and public ceremonies. Arranged alphabetically by subject.
[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to, and duplication by any means, of materials in this series requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]
Box PM1
American Rhodes Scholars, class of 1955, forty-fifth reunion, Oxford, 2000 June 25-28
Authors, 1958, 1974, and undated
Class, "Narrative Poetry," 1987
Clear Pictures (film), 1998 and undated  (2 folders)
Cover photographs, 1976 and undated
England, 1962
Family photographs, circa 1947-1948
Lyndhurst Foundation, circa 1994
Perkins Library exhibit, 2000  (2 folders)
Portraits and publicity photographs, circa 1993-1996
Price's high school graduating class, 1951
[Item removed to Oversize Materials.]
Receipt of Litt. D. Degree from Wake Forest University, 1979 May  (2 folders)
Welty, Eudora, 1955, 1973-1985
Welty, Eudora: Sixth Annual Eudora Welty Americana Awards, including television transcript, 1979 Aug.
Unidentified photographs, 1958-1985, 2001-2002 and undated  (4 folders)

Audiovisual Materials Series (RESTRICTED), 1968-2003 and undated

(9 boxes)
Audio and video recordings of Price, mainly at public functions such as readings, awards ceremonies, and interviews. Arranged in subseries by format: Audio Materials Subseries and Video Materials Subseries. Total running time (TRT) is shown in parentheses if known.
[Originals closed to use. Use copies for most items are available in the collection. Otherwise, Technical Services staff must arrange to have use copy made. Please contact Research Services staff before coming to use the collection.]
[RESTRICTED: during Price's lifetime and twenty years thereafter, access to or copying of materials in this series requires prior written permission from him or his literary executors.]

Audio Materials Subseries, 1968-2000 and undated, bulk 1996-2000
Recording formats consist of audiocassettes, digital audio tapes, reel to reel tapes. Use copies are available for most recordings; see the sub-groupings for details. Master and use copies for all format groupings are housed together and are listed at the end of the series.
Audiocassettes, Originals OR1 - OR21 (CLOSED)
Interviews, readings, commercial recordings, and radio essays delivered by Price on National Public Radio. Arranged chronologically. Total running time (TRT) is shown in parentheses if known. Use copies are available in Box AV3 for all items.
Box AV1
OR1-4. 1973-1975, Memphis State University Oral History Research Office, Southern Writers Project, interviews with Reynolds Price
OR1. 1973 June 18, Interview #1 (TRT unknown)
[Processing note: original tape is broken.]
OR2. Circa 1973-1975, Interview #2 (TRT unknown)
OR3. 1974 Aug. 20, Interview #3 (TRT unknown)
OR4. 1975 June 8, Interview #4 (TRT unknown)
OR5-14. 1996-2000, Personal essays for National Public Radio's All Things Considered,
OR5. 1996 Jan. 2, "Worship privately rather than in church" (TRT unknown)
OR6. 1996 Apr. 3 "Death penalty" (TRT unknown)
OR7. 1996 May 8, "Death of a friend from AIDS" (TRT unknown)
OR8. 1996 Oct. 23, "Rehabilitation" (TRT unknown)
OR9. 1996 Nov. 5, " Teaching (Recent letter from 1960 student)" (TRT unknown)
OR10. 1996 Dec. 9, "MRI time" (TRT unknown)
OR11. 1998 Oct. 1, "Fortieth anniversary of teaching at Duke" (TRT unknown)
OR12. 2000 Feb. 3, "Teach your children hope" (TRT unknown)
OR13. 2000 Feb. 28, "Depression and suicide" (TRT unknown)
OR14. 2000 Sept. 21, "Teaching writing" (TRT unknown)
OR15. 1996 Mar. 25, FOL (Friends of the Library) dinner, Meredith College: Bill and Reynolds Price (TRT unknown)
OR16. 1996 June 20, "Bookworm" : Three Gospels (TRT unknown)
OR17. 1996, Dickey, James, "Sheep Child" (TRT unknown)
See also General Correspondence Subseries, 1997 May 20.
OR18. 1996, "In Southern Words, Volume II: Family Album" (TRT 54:57)
OR19. 1997, Lenten Meditation and Music: Duke Chapel (TRT unknown)
Price reading a short biblical passage.
OR20. 1997, "Storylines Southeast #12: Clear Pictures, by Reynolds Price" (TRT unknown)
OR21. Undated, Writers and company: Reynolds Price (TRT unknown)
Digital Audio Tapes, Originals OR22-25 (CLOSED)
Various material recorded by Price. Format for all items is DAT. Arranged chronologically. Total running time (TRT) shown in parentheses if known.
[RESTRICTED: Materials in this subseries cannot be accessed without permission from Price or his literary executors.]
[Electronic files have not been mounted on the library server. Please contact Research Services before coming to use the collection.]
Box AV1
OR22. 1996 Jan. 17, Untitled (TRT unknown)
OR23. 1996 Feb. 23. Untitled (TRT unknown)
OR24. 1996 Oct. 8, 1) For Art Silverman, Halloween Show; 2) For Margaret; 3) Commentaries (TRT unknown)
OR25. 1998 Sept. 24, Untitled (TRT unknown)
Audiotapes, Originals OR26A-B (CLOSED)
Box AV1
OR26A and 26B. 1968 Mar. 4, Reading by Reynolds Price and John Cheever at Library of Congress, moderated by James Dickey. Format: 1/4" audiotape, 2 reels. (TRT 74:00)
[Listening copy LC26 in Box AV3.]
Box AV2
Audio Materials, Preservation Copies MC2-21, MC26
[Format: audiocassette for MC2-21; CD for MC26. Source: OR2-21, OR26A-B. Date of creation: 2004 (cassettes), 2005 (CD).]
Box AV3
Audio Materials, Listening Copies LC2-21, LC26
[Format: audiocassette for LC2-21; CD for LC26. Source: OR2-21, OR26A-B. Date of creation: 2004 (cassettes), 2005 (CD).]

Video Materials Subseries, 1981, 1989-2003 and undated
Interviews, readings, awards ceremonies, and home video. Also includes various events recorded at Duke University. Format is VHS unless otherwise indicated. Arranged chronologically. Viewing copies are available for most items.
Original Copies (CLOSED)
Box AV4
OR1. 1981 June 3, " Dick Cavett Show #4166 (Reynolds Price)" (TRT 29:00)
[Format: UCA60. Viewing copy VC1 in Box AV9]
OR2. 1989 Feb. 9-11, "A Special Weekend at Duke University," Office of University Development (TRT 18:30)
[Viewing copy VC2 in Box AV9]
OR3. 1990 May 14, "Reynolds Price for Triquarterly" (TRT 1:02:57)
[Viewing copy VC3 in Box AV9]
OR4. 1990 May, "Artifacts: Heard, Haxton, Price," (TRT 30:00)
[Viewing copy VC4 in Box AV9]
OR5. 1990 July 26, North Carolina People: "Reynolds Price," (TRT 29:50)
[Viewing copy VC5 in Box AV9]
OR6. 1991 Aug. 15 or 20, Calvin Klein: "Eternity," (TRT 44:53)
[Viewing copy VC6 in Box AV9]
OR7. 1991 Nov., "Writers Reading Reynolds Price" (TRT 28:30)
[Viewing copy VC7 in Box AV9]
OR8. 1991, "New Hope Creek," narrated by Reynolds Price (TRT 12:14)
[Viewing copy VC8 in Box AV9]
OR9. Circa 1991. J.S. [or G.?] H.S., 1951-1991, Fortieth Reunion (TRT 3:36:48)
[No use copy available. Technical Services staff need to arrange for use copy to be made. Please contact Research Services staff before coming to use the collection.]
OR10. 1993, "The Ninth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: A Life in Music" (TRT 2:00:00)
[No use copy available. Technical Services staff need to arrange for use copy to be made. Please contact Research Services staff before coming to use the collection.]
OR11. 1994 Dec. 27, "Dateline (with Reynolds Price)," (TRT 12:30)
[Viewing copy VC11 in Box AV9]
OR12. 1994 Sept. 11, Second Sunday Readings, Wilson Library, UNC-CH, Reynolds Price, Reader (TRT 55:10)
[Viewing copy VC12 in Box AV9]
OR13. 1996 Oct. 31, "Reynolds Price: Ghost Stories" (TRT unknown)
[Viewing copy VC13 in Box AV9]
OR14. 1998 May 29, "North Carolina Bookwatch: Reynolds Price's 'Roxanna Slade,'" (TRT 26:49)
[Viewing copy VC14 in Box AV9]
OR15. 1999 Apr. 9, North Caroliniana Society Award Banquet, honoring Reynolds Price (TRT 55:00)
[Viewing copy VC15 in Box AV9]
OR16. 1999 Apr. 9, Reynolds Price: Presentation to North Caroliniana Society (TRT 48:00)
[Viewing copy VC16 in Box AV9]
Box AV5
OR17. 1999, "Tell About the South, Part III: Let Freedom Ring: The History of Modern Southern Literature (1963-present)" (TRT 1:09:03)
[Viewing copy VC17 in Box AV9]
OR18. 2003 Sept. 17, "Threat Matrix: Episode 104, 'In Plane Sight,' Director's Cut" (TRT 44:04)
[Viewing copy VC18 in Box AV9]
OR19. 2003 Sept. 27, "Threat Matrix: Episode 103, 'Dr. Germ,' Director's Cut" (TRT 43:44)
[Viewing copy VC19 in Box AV9]
OR20. Undated, "Bread on the Waters, Reynolds Price: Teacher, A Documentary by Wil Weldon" (TRT 29:00)
[Viewing copy VC20 in Box AV9. See also related material in Academic Files Series.]
OR21. Undated, "Christmas in Duke Chapel" (TRT 55:20)
[Viewing copy VC21 in Box AV9]
OR22. Undated, "The Duke Endowment: 75th Anniversary Symposium Video" (TRT 8:30)
[Viewing copy VC22 in Box AV9]
OR23. Undated, "North Carolina People: Reynolds Price" (TRT 26:46)
[Viewing copy VC23 in Box AV9]
OR24. Undated, "One Writer's Beginnings: Symphony for Eudora's Eightieth Birthday" (TRT 1:00:30
[Viewing copy VC24 in Box AV9]
OR25. Undated, Reynolds Price Interview (TRT 1:04:15)
[Viewing copy VC25 in Box AV9]
OR26. Undated, Reynolds Price [at] NYU (TRT 12:31)
[Viewing copy VC26 in Box AV9]
OR27. Undated, "Reynolds Price: A Writer's Inheritance" (TRT )
[Viewing copy VC27 in Box AV9]
OR28. Undated, "The Roots of Solitude: The Life and Work of Reynolds Price" (TRT 40:00)
[Viewing copy VC28 in Box AV9]
OR29. Undated, "The Writers Workshop" : Reynolds Price Benefit Reading (TRT 29:44)
[Viewing copy VC29 in Box AV9]
OR30. Undated, Untitled (home video) (TRT 14:10)
[Viewing copy VC30 in Box AV9]
Master Copies
Box AV6
Preservation Copies MC1, MC3, MC6, MC12, MC15-17, MC19, MC21
[Format: BetacamSP. Source: OR1, OR3, OR6, OR12, OR15-17, OR19, OR21. Date of creation: 2005.]
Box AV7
Preservation Copies MC24-25, MC28-29
[Format: BetacamSP. Source: OR24-25, OR28-29. Date of creation: 2005.]
Box AV8
Preservation Copies MC2, MC4-5, MC7-8, MC11, MC14, MC18, MC20, MC22-23, MC26-27, MC30
[Format: BetacamSP. Source: OR2, OR4-5, OC7-8, OR11, OR14, OR18, OR20, OR22-23, OR26-27, OR30. Date of creation: 2005.]
Viewing Copies
Box AV9
Viewing copies VC1-8, VC11-14, VC16-30
[Format: DVD for viewing copies VC1-8, VC11-12, VC14, VC17-19, VC21-30. VHS for viewing copies VC13, VC15-16, VC20. Source: OR1-8, OR11-14, OR16-30. Date of creation: 2005.]

Electronic Formats Series (RESTRICTED), circa 1983-2001 and undated

(141 files on 25 diskettes; 16 files in one compressed file)
Digital files, mostly unidentified beyond general categories. Mainly correspondence and writings by Price. Also includes text, visual, and audio files created for a Perkins Library exhibit on Price in 2001. Arranged in order in which disks were received and numbered.
[RESTRICTED: All restrictions applicable to the corresponding series and subseries in print materials also apply to the materials in the Electronic Formats Series. See series notes for Correspondence Series and Writings Series for further details.]
[FURTHER PROCESSING NEEDED BEFORE USE: All files have been migrated to a library file server. However, one diskette may contain materials belonging to various series that have different levels of restrictions and require different permissions prior to viewing them. In these cases, Technical Services staff will need to further identify and segregate files before they are available for use. Please contact Research Services staff before coming to use the collection.]
Disk 001. Correspondence, circa 1990-1992 and undated  (31 files)
Disk 002. Correspondence and writings, circa 1990-1996  (1 file)
Disk 003. Writings, including essays, circa 1990-1996  (7 files)
Disk 004. Writings, including essays, circa 1990-1996  (11 files)
Disk 005. Writings, possibly journals or drafts of A Whole New Life, circa 1992-1994  (2 files)
Disk 006. Writings, including notes for proposed works, 1991  (2 files)
Disk 007. Writings, including drafts of A Whole New Life, 1992-1994  (3 files)
Disk 008. Writings, including drafts of A Whole New Life, 1992-1994  (3 files)
Disk 009. Writings, including drafts of Blue Calhoun, circa 1990-1991  (3 files)
Disk 010. Writings, including essays and journals, circa 1983  (4 files)
Disk 011. Writings, including drafts of Blue Calhoun, circa 1990-1991  (7 files)
Disk 012. Writings, including drafts of a screenplay for A Long and Happy Life, undated  (3 files)
Disk 013. Writings and correspondence, including drafts of a screenplay for A Long and Happy Life, 1991  (4 files)
Disk 014. Writings and correspondence, including drafts of Blue Calhoun, circa 1990-1991  (3 files)
Disk 015. Writings, including drafts of A Whole New Life, circa 1992-1994  (1 file)
Disk 016. Correspondence and writings, including drafts of poems, circa 1990  (5 files)
Disk 017. Correspondence and writings, including drafts of a play, circa 1991  (2 files)
Disk 018. Writings, including drafts of a screenplay of The Tongues of Angels, circa 1991  (4 files)
Disk 019. Writings, including drafts of stories, undated  (4 files)
Disk 020. Writings, including drafts of a play, circa 1991  (5 files)
Disk 021. Writings, including drafts of stories, undated  (11 files)
Disk 022. Correspondence and writings, including drafts of stories, circa 1992  (12 files)
Disk 023. Writings, including drafts of stories, undated  (9 files)
Disk 024. Writings, including drafts of poems, 1992  (2 files)
Disk 025. Writings, including drafts of Blue Calhoun, undated  (2 files)
Compressed file: Reynolds_Price.zip, 2001 Nov.  (16 extractable files in 1 compressed file)
HTML, GIF, and MP3 files created for a Perkins Library exhibit on Reynolds Price as a teacher.

Oversize Materials (RESTRICTED)

(15 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
RESTRICTED: Most series and subseries have restrictions that apply during Price's lifetime and for twenty years thereafter. For specific restrictions on Oversize Materials, see note for corresponding series and subseries in main body of collection.

Correspondence Series, 1956-2002 and undated (RESTRICTED)

General Correspondence Subseries, 1956-2000 and undated
Oversize Container   OS1
1956-1992  (4 folders)
Oversize Container   OS8
1992-2000 and undated  (10 folders)
Authors' Correspondence Subseries, 1969-2002 and undated
Oversize Container   OS1
Blackburn, William, 1979
Broughton, T. Alan, 1989
Gurganus, Allan, undated
Henley, Beth, 1989
Humphreys, Josephine, 1984
Kizer, Carolyn, 1973
Settle, Mary Lee, 1979
Steele, Max, 1975
Welty, Eudora, 1969-1989  (2 folders)
Williams, Jonathan, 1977-1978
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1997, 2002

Writings Series, 1935-2003 and undated (RESTRICTED)

Writings by Price Subseries, 1954-2003 and undated
Oversize Container   OS2
Student work, 1954
Miscellaneous writings, 1961-1990 and undated
A Long and Happy Life (1961)
Proofs, 1961-1964  (3 folders)
Notes and drafts, undated
The Names and Faces of Heroes (1963)
Proofs, 1963  (2 folders)
A Generous Man (1966)
Proofs, 1966  (4 folders)
Oversize Container   OS3
Love and Work (1968)
Proofs, 1968  (2 folders)
Permanent Errors (1970)
Proofs, 1970  (4 folders)
Things Themselves (1972)
Proofs, 1972  (4 folders)
Presence and Absence (1973)
Author's corrected galley proof, 1973
The Surface of Earth (1975)
Galley proofs for Esquire, 1973
Proofs, 1975  (3 folders)
Oversize Container   OS4
Proofs, 1975  (4 folders)
Early Dark (1977)
Proofs, 1977  (3 folders)
Lessons Learned (1977)
"At the Gulf," galley proof, 1977
"Damon's Epitaph," galley proof, 1978
A Palpable God (1978)
Plate proof, 1978
Oversize Container   OS5
Proofs, 1978  (3 folders)
The Source of Light (1981)
Proofs, 1981  (4 folders)
Oversize Container   OS8
Plate proof, 1981
Oversize Container   OS4
"Reynolds Price on Writing" in Southern Review, galley proof, circa 1982
Private Contentment (1984)
Proof, 1984
Oversize Container   OS6
Kate Vaiden (1986)
Master proof, 1986
Oversize Container   OS8
Cover proofs, undated
Oversize Container   OS6
A Common Room (1987)
Galley proof, miscellaneous pages, 1987
Oversize Container   OS8
First proof, with Harry Ford's and Price's corrections, 1987 Aug. 27
Master proof, miscellaneous pages with Price's corrections, 1987 Aug. 27
Oversize Container   OC:IV:7
"You Are Needed Now and Always Will Be," galleys for Esquire, 1975 Dec. 29
Oversize Container   OS8
"You Are Needed Now and Always Will Be," proof (partial), 1976
Oversize Container   OS6
Clear Pictures (1989)
Proofs and notes on illustrations, 1989  (3 folders)
"The Only News," galley proof, 1989
The Use of Fire (1990)
Printer's first proof, 1989
The Tongues of Angels (1990)
Printer's first proof and master proof, 1990
Oversize Container   OS9
Cover proofs, undated
Oversize Container   OS6
Blue Calhoun (1992)
Proofreader's and master galleys, 1991  (2 folders)
Oversize Container   OS9
Sample covers, undated
The Collected Stories (fiction, 1993)
Sample pages, 1992
Jacket proofs, 2003 and undated
A Whole New Life (nonfiction, 1994)
Jacket proofs, undated
The Promise of Rest (novel, 1995)
Sample pages (three sets) 1994 Nov. 2-7
Jacket proofs and ads, undated
The Three Gospels (1996)
Cover proofs, undated
The Collected Poems (poetry, 1997)
Jacket proofs, undated
Roxanna Slade (novel, 1998)
Oversize Container   OS2
Preliminary jacket copies, 1997
Oversize Container   OS9
Ad, 1998 May 11
Sample cover, undated
Learning a Trade (nonfiction, 1998)
Sample layouts, 1998 Feb. 24-Mar. 31
A Singular Family (novels, 1999)
Jacket proofs, undated
Oversize Container   OS2
A Perfect Friend (2000)
Jacket proofs, 2000 and undated
Oversize Container   OS9
A Great Circle (novels, 2001)
Jacket proofs, undated
Noble Norfleet (novel, 2002)
Jacket proofs, 2002 and undated
A Serious Way of Wondering (nonfiction, 2003)
Jacket proofs, 2003 Mar. 12
Proof of "Price: Improving intellectual life at Duke/Fulfilling our half of the deal," Duke Dialogue, 1993 Jan. 15
Review of The Illustrated Life of Jesus Through the Centuries and One Jesus, Many Christs, proof, 1998 Sept. 11
Proofs of "A High Old Time: Reynolds Price Remembers Eudora Welty," 2001 Oct. 17
Oversize Container   OS2
"Seeing, Loving, and Behaving Yourself," galley proof for Encounter with comments by Stephen Spender, undated
Writings by Others Subseries, 1961, 1972, and undated
Oversize Container   OS1
Spender, Stephen
"The Connecting Imagination," 1961 Apr. 1
Engaged in Writing galley proof, undated
Welty, Eudora
The Optimist's Daughter, galley proof, 1972

Printed Materials Series, 1937-2000 and undated
Serials Subseries, 1950-2000 and undated
Oversize Container   OS10
1962-1969  (22 folders)
Oversize Container   OS11
1970-1981  (25 folders)
Oversize Container   OS12
1981-1991  (42 folders)
Oversize Container   OS13
1992-2000  (10 folders)
Stuart Wright items: miscellaneous serials and clippings, 1950-1989 and undated  (7 folders)
Clippings Subseries, 1937-1993 and undated
Oversize Container   OS14
Clippings about specific books, arranged chronologically by original date of publication of title, 1962-1977 and undated
A Long and Happy Life (1962)  (2 folders)
The Names and Faces of Heroes (1963)
A Generous Man (1966)
Love and Work (1968)
Permanent Errors (1970)
Things Themselves (1972)
The Surface of Earth (1975)
Oversize Container   OS6 and OS15
General clippings about and by Price, arranged chronologically, 1937-1993 and undated
Miscellaneous Printed Materials Subseries, 1970-1996 and undated
Oversize Container   OS1
Announcements and programs for appearances by the author, 1976-1990
Oversize Container   OS8
Awards and honorary degrees, 1991-1996  (2 folders)
Oversize Container   OC:IV:7
Map of Mexico and Yucatan trip, circa 1970-1979
Posters advertising books and lectures, 1982 and 1986
Stage plan for Private Contentment, 1985

Personal Papers Series, 1939 and undated

Oversize Container   OS1
Blueprints and drawings, 1939 and undated

Photographic Materials Series, 1951

Oversize Container   OS7
Price's high school graduating class, 1951 May 26

Accession, 2007 (2007-0009)

(18) Boxes
Box 1
Correspondence, 2004-2006
Typescripts and drafts
Letter to a Godchild
A Long and Happy Life (screenplay)
Personal documents
Box 2
Correspondence, 2003-2006
Typescripts and drafts
Letter to a Godchild
A Long and Happy Life (screenplay)
A Serious Way of Wondering
Personal documents
Box 3
Correspondence, 2003-2004
Notes for a novel
Typescript of Klonsky and Schwarz by Romulus Linney
Personal documents
Box 4
Correspondence, 2004
Typescript of The Good Priest's Son
Correspondence, 2003-2005
Typescripts and drafts
Letter to a Godchild
The Good Priest's Son
Personal documents
Box 6
Correspondence, 2003-2005
Typescripts and drafts
Letter to a Godchild
The Good Priest's Son
Personal Documents
Box 7
Typescripts and drafts of The Good Priest's Son
Box 8
Correspondence, 2004-2005
Personal Documents
Photographs  (3 items)
Box 9
Correspondence, 2004-2005
Typescripts and drafts of The Good Priest's Son
Personal documents
Photographs  (46 items)
DVD titled Faces from Hurricane Floyd
Box 10
Typescripts and drafts
The Good Priest's Son
Marrs, Suzanne. Eudora Welty: a Biography
Untitled manuscript
Personal papers
Box 11
Correspondence, 2001-2003
Typescript of David Plante's American Ghost
Personal files
Taxes, 2003
Box 12
Correspondence, 2003-2005
Typescript
Adaptation of Price's Roxanna Slade by Paul Fleschner
Personal documents
Box 13
typescript of The Good Priest's Son
Printed books. Some with inscriptions to Price.
Smith, R. T. Faith
Soliloquy of a Farmer's Wife, the diary of Annie Elliott Perrin
Box 14
Printed Books. Some with inscriptions to Price.
Gilbert, Sandra M. Inventions of Farewell
Donoghue, Denis. The Practice of Reading
Morgan, Robert. Brave Enemies
Marrs, Suzanne. Eudora Welty: a Biography
Wilson, John (Ed.) The Best Chrisitan Writing 2001
Mosse, Ruth. The Wreath Ribbon Quilt
Box 15
Printed Books. Some with inscriptions to Price.
Randall, Wallace. Love and Honor
Burkey, David F. Higher Ground
Malone, Michael. The Last Novel
Powell, H. Jefferson. A Community Built on Words
Borowsky, Irvin J. (Ed.) Defining New Christian/Jewish Dialogue
Cox, Elizabeth. Bargains in the Real World
Matthiessen, Peter. Far Tortuga
Bly, Robert. The Night Abraham Called to the Stars
Box 16
Printed Books. Some with inscriptions to Price.
Tóibín, Colm. The Master
Brubach, Holly. Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag
Carter, Stephen L. The Emperor of Ocean Park
Donoghue, Denis. Speaking of Beauty
Ruhlman, Michael. Walk on Water
Carmichael, Jacqueline Miller. Trumpeting a Fiery Sound
Box 17
Printed Books. Some with inscriptions to Price.
McCoy-Thompson, Steve. Weather Boy: A Story of D-Day
Willimon, William H. (Ed.). Sermons from Duke Chapel
Ward, Evelyn D. The Children of Bladensfield
Hauerwas, Stanley. With the Grain of the Universe
Box 18
Printed books
Ripert, Eric and Michael Ruhlman. A Return to Cooking
Book covers
New York Times Book Review, August 14, 2005
Degree from the University of North Carolina

Accession (2009-0105)

(1 box)
Addition (2009-0105) (12 items; 0.6 lin. ft.) consists largely of books from Price's writing, teaching, and research, including some text books as well as novels with his notes in the margins. Also included is one folder of miscellaneous notes and correspondence, 1972-1994.
Box 1
Reynolds Price miscellaneous folder, 1972-1994
The Surface of Earth, by Reynolds Price
The Source of Light, by Reynolds Price
Mono Lescaut, by Abbe Prevost
Samson Agonistes, by Milton, ed. by F.T. Prince
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
The Golden Hind
Seventeenth Century Prose and Poetry
Student textbook, 1953.
Aubrey's Brief Lives
"The Good News According to John: a translation begun on 14 VII 1991"
Handwritten bound volume.