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Papers, 1945-1985, of Walter S. Tevis at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Electronic finding aid encoded by Beth Benda.

Indiana University Digital Library Program © 2003

Summary Information

Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University

1200 E. Seventh St.

Bloomington, IN 47405-5500

Phone: 812-855-2452

Fax: 812-855-3143

Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly 

Creator:
Tevis, Walter S.

Title:
Tevis mss., 1945-1985  

Collection no:
LMC 2211

Extent:
ca. 1200 items

Language:
Materials are in English.

Abstract:
Consists primarily of the writings of author Walter S. Tevis, 1928-1984. Tevis wrote several novels, and contributed numerous short stories and articles to magazines. A number of his novels have been adapted for film, including: The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hustler and The Color of Money. The collection contains early manuscripts, drafts, final manuscripts, galleys and screen adaptations for most of his other longer works, although only a photocopy of The Hustler. In addition, there are typescripts of a number of his articles, a play, some poetry, as well as many of his short stories, both published and unpublished. The correspondence is small in number and consists mostly of photocopies. However, there are three original letters from science and fantasy fiction writer Fritz Leiber, and one each from authors E.L. Doctorow and Herbert Gold.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions:
This collection is open for research.

Acquisition Information:
Purchase 1999.

Usage Restrictions:
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation:
[Item], Tevis mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Biographical Note:
Author.

Scope and Content Note

Consists primarily of the writings of author Walter S. Tevis, 1928-1984. Tevis wrote several novels, and contributed numerous short stories and articles to magazines. A number of his novels have been adapted for film, including: The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hustler and The Color of Money. The collection contains early manuscripts, drafts, final manuscripts, galleys and screen adaptations for most of his other longer works, although only a photocopy of The Hustler. In addition, there are typescripts of a number of his articles, a play, some poetry, as well as many of his short stories, both published and unpublished. The correspondence is small in number and consists mostly of photocopies. However, there are three original letters from science and fantasy fiction writer Fritz Leiber, and one each from authors E.L. Doctorow and Herbert Gold.

The Writings are arranged as follows: Published novels, unpublished novels, articles, childhood writings, literary criticism, a play, poetry, published book of short stories, other published short stories, unpublished short stories, and fragments of works. Photocopies of articles about Tevis and his writings complete the collection.

Arrangement/Organization

Arranged into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT , the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

Names

• Tevis, Walter S.
• Tevis, Walter S. --Correspondence.
• Leiber, Fritz, 1910- --Correspondence.
• Leiber, Fritz, 1910-
• Doctorow, E. L., 1931-
• Gold, Herbert, 1924-

Topics

• Authors, American --Correspondence.
• World War, 1939-1945 --Personal narratives, American.
• Soldiers --United States --Correspondence.

		Series: Correspondence
Box 1	Folder 1	Nine letters written by Tevis to his family while serving in the United States Navy during World War II, 1945-1946,   including two pages of sketches by Tevis drawn at this time (photocopies)
Box 1	Folder 2	Correspondence arranged by correspondent
		Clune, Henry W. Letters to Walter S. Tevis, Oct 8, 1974  and Nov 4, 1974    (both photocopies)
		Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence. Letter to Anne Goodman Freedgood (editor), Jan 12, 1983
		Gold, Herbert. Letter to Eleanora (Walker) Tevis and Walter S. Tevis, n.d.
		Guthrie, A. B. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, Jun 1, 1952     (photocopy)
		Leiber, Fritz. Letter to Eleanora (Walker) Tevis, Apr. 18, 1980     (incomplete)
		Leiber, Fritz. Letters to Eleanora (Walker) Tevis and Walter S. Tevis, Oct 24, 1980  and Jan 17, 1982
		Littauer, Kenneth P. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, Jan 22, 1957     (photocopy)
		Mills, Robert Park. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, May 27, 1975    (photocopy)
		Riordan, Marianna. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, Jun 16, 1983
		Schickel, Richard. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, May 21, 1976    (photocopy)
		Tevis, Eleanora (Walker). Letter to Walter S. Tevis, May 21, 1976     (photocopy)
		Tevis, Walter S. Letter to British Lion Films, Ltd., Jun 2, 1975     (photocopy)
		Tevis, Walter S. Letter to W.B. Carnochan, Nov 8, 1981     (photocopy)
		Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Circus Magazine, Dec 30, 1975     (photocopy)
		Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Larry Jordan, ca. 1978-1979     (photocopy)
		Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Robert P. Mills, Aug 1, 1979;   Oct 30, 1978    (photocopy of August 1, 1979)
		Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Betty A. Prashker and Patrick LoBrutto, Oct 15, 1981
		Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Marianna Riordan, Jun 25, 1983     (copy)
		Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Buz Wyeth (?), Oct 27, 1960     (photocopy)

		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 View All (12 more...)
		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