Box 9

Scope and Contents

Responds to a question about the importance of a college education. Rudin # B-71

Scope and Contents

Two manuscripts - The first manuscript is an annotated typescript of an interview with Mailer in which he surveys his career, his writing, his work habits, and much more. In the second manuscript, Mailer inventories and describes some of the manuscripts and notes he owns for his best works. Rudin # B-72

Scope and Contents

Mailer cites his literary influences. Rudin # B-73

Scope and Contents

The letter describes the genesis of "Gone With the Wind"; "Scarlett O'Hara and all of the other characters in the book are purely fictional"; Mitchell is pleasantly surprised by the reception of the book in the North. The manuscript (unsigned) tells the story of the discovery and the writing of the book. Rudin # B-74

Scope and Contents

Maugham expresses his thought process on the necessity of revision, writing and language. Rudin # B-75

Scope and Contents

"What the author has to do is throw himself into the skin of his characters…" Rudin # B-76

Scope and Contents

Writes of her writing career, her health and finances and her authorship of and participation in the production of her plays. Rudin # B-76A

Scope and Contents

Correspondence referring to details of "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible". Rudin # B-77

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Letters by noted authors, many on the subject of writing. Authors represented include: Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Pearl Buck, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Samuel Clemens, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Zane Grey, Alex Haley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Ezra Pound, Rod Serling, G.B....

Scope and Contents

Miller writes the Swiss author that he is enjoying Fonjallaz's analysis of the American temperment and the American woman. Rudin # B-78