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Summary Information
Administrative Information
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement/Organization
Indexing Terms
Content List
Correspondence
Writings

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Tevis mss

 
Series: Writings  

 
Scope Note: The Writings are arranged as follows: Novels - published and unpublished; articles; childhood writings; literary criticism; plays; poetry; short stories - published and unpublished; and fragments of works. Three magazines containing articles and photocopies of several articles all concerning Tevis and his writings complete the collection.
 
Subseries: Novels  

 
Scope Note: Published novels are arranged by various forms of the book from original manuscript to drafts to galleys, followed by related notes, outlines, synopses, ending with alternate forms of the book, such as plays, screenplays or teleplays. Drafts and related materials of unpublished novels are filed at the end of this section.
 
The Color of Money  

Box 1 Folder 3-6
Original typescript
Box 1 Folder 7-8
Author's copy of final draft, Feb 4, 1984 
Box 1 Folder 9-10
Copy #3, Feb 12, 1984 
Box 1 Folder 11-12
Author's final copy, Feb 13, 1984 
Box 1 Folder 13-14
Draft pages
Box 1 Folder 15
Dialogue between The Color of Money and Walter S. Tevis
Box 1 Folder 16
Eddie's background
Box 1 Folder 17-18
Outlines of chapters
Box 1 Folder 19
Notes
Box 1 Folder 20
Notebooks
Box 1 Folder 21
Screenplay, draft, Dec 19, 1983  
Box 1 Folder 22
Screenplay, draft, Sep 26, 1985 
Box 2 Folder 1
Screenplay, by Richard Price, Rev. Dec 30, 1985 
Box 2 Folder 2
Screenplay, incomplete
Box 2 Folder 3-4
Screenplay, final.   2 copies
 
The Hustler  

Box 2 Folder 5-6
Photocopy of typescript
 
The Man Who Fell to Earth  

Box 2 Folder 7-8
Original typescript
Box 2 Folder 9
Original typescript for Oxford University Press Alpha edition
Box 2 Folder 10
Epigraphs
Box 2 Folder 11
Screenplay by Dick Wheelwright
Box 2 Folder 12
Screenplay - suggestions and notes
 
Mockingbird  

Box 2 Folder 13
Earliest version
Box 2 Folder 14-15
Two early versions, one date ca. Oct. 1977 
Box 2 Folder 16
Opening and revision to Reader (earlier title)
Box 2 Folder 17
Part Two: Spofforth. Early version of Chapter 3 and early page of Spofforth
Box 2 Folder 18-19
Original typescript
Box 2 Folder 20-21
Drafts
Box 2 Folder 22-23
Final manuscript
Box 3 Folder 1-4
Final manuscripts,   2 copies
Box 3 Folder 5-6
Copy edited version
Box 3 Folder 7-8
Galleys
Box 3 Folder 9
Notes

1)"Harrison [Starr, film producer] says..."; 2) "A novel is a story and a story has direction...."

Box 3 Folder 10
Play, adapted for Readers Theatre, Bowling Green State University, by Lois A. Cheney
Box 3 Folder 11-12
Screenplay, Written for the Television Laboratory at WNET/THIRTEEN   2 copies
 
The Queen's Gambit  

Box 3 Folder 13-15
Original manuscript
Box 4 Folder 1
Synopsis
Box 4 Folder 2-4
Corrected rough draft, Apr 1982 
Box 4 Folder 5-7
Author's copy, final draft, Jun 30, 1982  
Box 4 Folder 8
Early manuscript
Box 4 Folder 9-15
Misc. draft pages, marked "Disorderly pages" and "various segments"
Box 4 Folder 16
Printer's copy
Box 5 Folder 1-3
Printer's copy
Box 5 Folder 4-6
Master proofs: Sep 21, 1982;   Oct 25, 1982;   Oct 27, 1982 
Box 5 Folder 7-9
Setting copy
Box 5 Folder 10
Chessbook,  typescript of early form of novel
Box 5 Folder 11
Dialogue between The Queen's Gambit and Tevis
Box 5 Folder 12
Eleanor Walker's notes on manuscript
Box 5 Folder 13
Notes and emendations
Box 5 Folder 14
Outline for Chess in America, nonfiction, precedes The Queen's Gambit; and single page of Vegas
Box 5 Folder 15
Pandolfini/Tevis consultation notes (Bruce Pandolfini, National Master, proof read manuscript for chess errors)
Box 5 Folder 16
Synopsis
Box 5 Folder 17
Motion picture treatment
Box 5 Folder 18-19
Screenplay, several corrected typescripts
 
The Steps of the Sun (working title: Belson)  

Box 5 Folder 20-22
Original manuscript
Box 6 Folder 1-5
Second draft and partial second draft
Box 6 Folder 6-10
Final draft and copy
Box 6 Folder 11-14
Draft pages
Box 6 Folder 15
Printer's copy
Box 7 Folder 1-2
Printer's copy (cont.)
Box 7 Folder 3-4
Galleys
Box 7 Folder 5
Chapter 6 altered and published in OMNI Magazine
Box 7 Folder 6
Chinese characters for Belson's name
Box 7 Folder 7
Notes
Box 7 Folder 8
Outline
Box 7 Folder 9
Synopsis
Box 7 Folder 10-11
Motion Picture treatment
 
And So I Die Next (unpublished)  

Box 7 Folder 12
Manuscript
Box 7 Folder 13
Notes
Box 7 Folder 14
Outline
 
Wit's End/Drunk (unpublished)  

Box 7 Folder 15
Photocopy of manuscript
Box 7 Folder 16-19
Draft pages
Box 7 Folder 20
Outline
 
Subseries: Articles  

Box 7 Folder 21
How to Play Straight Pool
Box 7 Folder 22
The New Young Ones
Box 7 Folder 23
Three untitled, partial articles, all concerning pool
Box 7 Folder 24
Photocopies of articles from magazines
 
Subseries: Childhood Writings  

Box 7 Folder 25
Stories and a poem
 
Subseries: Literary Criticism  

Box 7 Folder 26-27
Written for classes at the University of Kentucky and The Iowa Writers Workshop
 
Analysis from a Paragraph William Faulkner's That Evening Sun Go Down (Iowa)  

 
Arthur Hobson Quinn on Poe (Kentucky)  

 
The Darling Room: Tennyson and the Theme of Isolation (Iowa?)  

 
Grammar and Language in April Inventory by W.D. Snodgrass (Iowa?)  

 
Gustave Flaubert: The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller  

 
Impinged Lives in William Faulkner's The Evening Sun Go Down. (Iowa) Aug. 5, 1961   

 
Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind by e.e. cummings: A Parody of Discourse (Iowa)  

 
The Poetical Reputation of Andrew Marvell: A Reappraisal. (Kentucky) Aug. 2, 1955   

 
The Problem of Obscurity in Five Books by Joseph Conrad (Iowa)  

 
Spiller and Lawrence on Cooper. (Kentucky) July 8, 1957   

 
An Undertow in one of V.L. Parrington's Main Currents and a Reading List for English 216C. (Kentucky) June 20, 1957   

 
Subseries: Play  

Box 7 Folder 28
Spending a Day With Mother
 
Subseries: Poetry  

Box 7 Folder 29
Includes the following poems:
  • Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Russian Roulette, Me
  • Drunk in the Garden
  • Drunk Poem Number One
  • February Twenty-One, Nineteen Seventy Nine
  • The Game and the Play of Chess
  • A Gratefully Recovering Alcoholic: First Things First, Easy Does It, One Day At a Time
  • The Hustler
  • Jamie After Sixteen Years
  • Mother's Visit
  • My Name is Bobby and I Came To Play
  • Nineteen Seventy Eight
  • On Metaphysics: With a Traitor
  • A Poem for Madeleyn Who Moves Fast
  • Poem: With Electrodes on My Head
  • Sci-Fi Poem Book
  • The Spirit Moves Deeply Toward Whiskey
  • The Spirit Moves Fearfully Toward Sobriety
  • Thirteen Thirty Eight Fortieth Avenue (appended to: The Hustler)
  • To Julie
  • Villanelle for H. Chovnik
  • A Way Out
  • Win a Few Lose a Few
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Subseries: Short Stories  

 
Far From Home  

Box 8 Folder 1-10
Far From Home (published collection of short stories).  Includes typescripts of the following: Introduction and Table of Contents; The Apotheosis of Myra; The Big Bounce; Daddy; Echo; Out of Luck; Rent Control; The Scholar's Disciple; Sitting in Limbo; A Visit from Mother
Box 8 Folder 11
Copy edited manuscript
Box 8 Folder 12-13
Galleys
 
Other published short stories  

Box 8 Folder 14
The Actors
Box 8 Folder 15
The King is Dead
Box 8 Folder 16
The Machine That Hustled Pool
Box 8 Folder 17
The Man from Budapest
Box 8 Folder 18
A Short Ride in the Dark
Box 8 Folder 19
Sucker's Game
Box 8 Folder 20
Photocopies of various stories published in magazines
 
Unpublished short stories  

Box 8 Folder 21
The Albatross
Box 8 Folder 22
Big Man from the West Coast
Box 8 Folder 23
Cowards Die Many Times
Box 8 Folder 24
The Double Crossed Wire
Box 8 Folder 25
Gangster Cat
Box 8 Folder 26
The Gorilla System
Box 8 Folder 27
The Kingdom of Heaven
Box 8 Folder 28
Konraq
Box 8 Folder 29
Moriae Encomium
Box 8 Folder 30
My Name is Brown, Sir
Box 8 Folder 31
Royal Flush
Box 8 Folder 32
The Second Coming
Box 8 Folder 33
A Small Town Affair
Box 8 Folder 34
Stop!
Box 8 Folder 35
A Thing of Beauty
Box 8 Folder 36
Turnip Island
Box 8 Folder 37
Upright Coach
Box 8 Folder 38
The Weather is Uncertain
Box 8 Folder 39
When Last I Saw You
Box 8 Folder 40
Untitled
 
Subseries: Fragments of works  

Box 8 Folder 41
Blunt Instrument
Box 8 Folder 42
Burton
Box 8 Folder 43
Crippled for Life
Box 8 Folder 44
The Disillusionment of Peter Baradolph
Box 8 Folder 45
Fidelity
Box 8 Folder 46
Flight
Box 8 Folder 47
The Homeless
Box 8 Folder 48
Iago
Box 8 Folder 49
Mafia Bees
Box 8 Folder 50
The Man Himself
Box 8 Folder 51
Melba on Burton
Box 8 Folder 52
Salt 17
Box 8 Folder 53
School in Nowhere
Box 8 Folder 54
Transbox to Porbyx
Box 8 Folder 55
Untitled fragments
 
Subseries: Miscellaneous  

Box 8 Folder 56-57
Photocopies of articles about Tevis and book reviews
Box 8 Folder 58
Three magazines, with articles about Tevis
 
Chess: A Novel Idea, and an excerpt from The Queen's Gambit. Chess Life, May 1983   

 
Toasting the Best of Times, The Courier-Journal Magazine, Jan 27, 1980   

 
Walter Tevis is Hustling Again, Sunday Plain Dealer Magazine, May 21, 1978