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Guide to the Tillie Olsen Papers, 1930-1990
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Guide to the Tillie Olsen Papers,
1930-1990
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Guide to the Tillie Olsen Papers, 1930-1990
Collection number: M0667
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
Contact Information
Department of Special Collections
Green Library
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-1022
Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.edu
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/
Processed by:
Special Collections staff
Encoded by:
Steven Mandeville-Gamble
© 2002 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Olsen, Tillie. Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1930-1990
Collection number: M0667
Creator: Olsen, Tillie.
Extent: ca. 62 linear ft.
Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Abstract: The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, literary manuscripts by American author Tillie
Olsen and others, material on the Longshoremen's Strike and the Socialist Party from during the mid-1930s, teaching
material and student work, clippings, pamphlets, book reviews, awards, etc.
Language: English.
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Purchased, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1998.
Preferred Citation:
Tillie Olsen Papers. M0667. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Tillie Olsen was born in Nebraska in 1913 and has lived in San Francisco for most of her life. Her education was cut short by
the Depression: she wrote and published when young, but the necessity of raising and supporting four children and
full-time work prevented her from writing for twenty years. She was in her mid-forties before she began again. Tell Me A
Riddle was originally published in 1962, and its title novella received the O. Henry Award as the best American story of
1961. In 1974, forty years after part of its chapter appeared in an early Partisan Review, her 'lost' novel, Yonnondio: From
the Thirties, was published. Tillie Olsen has taught at Amherst College, Stanford University, was Writer-in-Residence at
Massachustts Institute of Technology, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and a
Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute. She has received both a Ford Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts grants, a
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Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature from the American Academy
and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Her first work of non-fiction, Silences, was published in 1979.
Access Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Aberlin, Betty.
Appleton, Sarah.
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939Bacon, Ernst, 1898Ballantyne, Sheila.
Barolini, Helen, 1925Bingham, Sallie.
Boucher, Sandy.
Boyde, Blanche.
Boyle, Kay, 1902Boynton, Grace.
Brandon, Dolores.
Bridges, Harry, 1901Brindel, June Rachuy.
Brodine, Karen.
Brown, Rosellen.
Bryant, Dorothy, 1930Cahill, Susan Neunzig.
Childress, Alice.
Cliff, Michelle.
Coiner, Constance.
Conroy, Lynne.
Cooper, Jane, 1924Cowley, Malcolm.
Cumming, Patricia.
Cuomo, Joe.
De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975.
DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942Duncan, Erika.
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau.
Durham, Flora.
Earle, Ralph.
Elman, Richard M.
English, Dierdre.
Ettinger, Elzbieta.
Fisher, Elizabeth.
Foley, Margaret.
Gerson, Deborah.
Gilbert, Celia, 1932Gilgun, John.
Goedicke, Patricia.
Goldfarb, Sidney, 1942Gottlieb, Annie.
Green, Hannah.
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Greenberg, Joanne.
Griffin, Susan.
Grumbach, Doris.
Guerard, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1914Hedges, Elaine.
Heffernan, Helen.
Henry, Dewitt.
Homley, Elaine.
Hopkins, Glen.
Hughes, Mary Gray.
Janows, Jill.
Jong, Erica.
Kallet, Marilyn.
Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie.
Keeble, John, 1944Kitrilakis, Thalia.
Kizer, Carolyn.
Klepfisz, Irena, 1941Kolodny, Annette, 1941Konecky, Edith.
Krapf, Norbert.
Kumin, Maxine, 1925Lawrence, Margaret.
Lazreg, Marnia.
LeGuin, Ursula, 1929Levertov,Denise.
Lewis, Janet, 1899Limmer, Ruth, 1923MacShane, Frank.
Mackenzie, Midge.
Malamud, Bernard.
Meehan, Maude.
Meyer, Howard.
Meyer, Odette.
Miller, Nolan, 1912Millet, Kate.
Miner, Valerie.
Minty, Judith, 1937Mirrielees, Edith R. (Edith Ronald), 1878-1962.
Moers, Ellen, 1928Moffat, Mary Jane.
Morgan, Ellen.
Moss, Rose.
Mumford, Lewis, 1895Murray, Michele.
Myers, Margaret, 1947Naiman, Adeline.
Nason, Thelma Campbell.
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Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956Orr, Elaine Neil.
Ozick, Cynthia.
Paley, Grace.
Papanek, Hanna.
Park-Fuller, Linda Marguerite.
Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952Piercy, Marge.
Polite, Frank.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Randall, Margaret, 1936Redman, Blanche.
Reeves, Nancy, 1913Rich, Adrienne Cecile.
Roemer, Michael, 1928Rogers, Linda.
Rosen, Norma.
Rosenfelt, Deborah Silverton.
Ruddick, Sally.
Russ, Joanne.
Sarton, May, 1912Saxton, Ruth.
Schick, Carla.
Scowcroft, Richard.
Sexton, Anne.
Seyersted, Per.
Shanahan, Thomazine.
Showalter, Elaine.
Smith, Alice.
Starkman, Elaine Markus.
Sternburg, Janet.
Stone, Ruth.
Swan, Barbara.
Sweeney, John.
Tanenhaus, Beverly.
Tovish, Margo.
Turow, Scott.
Untermeyer, Louis.
Walker, Alice, 1944Ward, Theadora.
Washington, Mary Helen.
Waterman, Ray.
Wilder, Annie.
Wilson, J.J., 1936Wong, Nellie.
Wright, Michael.
Yalom, Marilyn.
Yamada, Mitsuye.
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Zucker, Jack.
MacDowell Art Colony.
Radcliffe Institute.
Shameless Hussy Press.
Socialist Party of the United States of America.
American literature--20th century.
Longshoremen's Strike--United States.
Silences. The Word Made Flesh. Mother to Daughter. One out of Twelve. Imperial Valley Story. Tell Me a Riddle. Yonnondio.
Woman Reader.
Series 1. Manuscripts
Scope and Content Note
Series I is comprised of her manuscripts and related material. This includes the original
drafts from Tell Me a Riddle, Yonnondio: From the Thirties, Silences, Requa, and other
miscellaneous publications in both magazines and newspapers. Also included are galleys,
typescripts, corrections to texts, adaptations, translations, reviews and various stage
production scripts. [The listing often makes reference to the word "makings" which was Tillie
Olsen's designation for her own notes and writings for the particular text.]
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Tell Me a Riddle, "Hey Sailor, What Ship?" and "Ironing" (makings)
Tell Me a Riddle, "Hey Sailor, What Ship?" and "Ironing" (makings)
Tell Me a Riddle, Seeds of "Oh, Yes"
Tell Me a Riddle, "I Stand Here Ironing" (makings)
"I Stand Here Ironing": Engl. 103.1 story, includes comments
Tell Me a Riddle, makings, 1938
Tell Me a Riddle, corrections
Tell Me a Riddle, proof
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"Hey Sailor, What Ship?" - reference: "My Last Farewell" by Jose Rizal
Tell Me a Riddle: Czechoslovakian translation
Tell Me a Riddle, Peoples Republic of China translation
Notes: "Tell Me A Riddle" film (for cinemetographer)
"Tell Me a Riddle": screenplay/stage production
"Tell Me a Riddle": stage adaptation by Bobbi Ausubel
"Hey Sailor, What Ship?": teleplay by C.R. Portz, 1983
"Tell Me a Riddle: A Point of View Analysis of the Film vs. the Fiction"
Box 2, Folder 20
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Riddle,
"Baptism" ("Oh, Yes")
"Baptism" ("Oh, Yes")
"Baptism" ("Oh, Yes")
"Oh, Yes" (makings)
typescript
originals/revisions
typescript
galley
"Hey Sailor,
"Hey Sailor,
"Hey Sailor,
"Hey Sailor,
"Hey Sailor,
"Hey Sailor,
"Hey Sailor,
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and "Ironing"
and "Ironing"
and "Ironing"
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"Tell Me a Riddle": screenplay by Joyce Eliason, 1978
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Tell Me a Riddle, A rough draft of an adaptation, by Ann Weinstein
Reviews and announcements of productions: Tell Me a Riddle
Tell Me a Riddle: Midge Mackenzie film and related
Tell Me a Riddle, book cover and introduction
Reviews, Tell Me a Riddle
Reviews, Tell Me a Riddle
Review, Tell Me a Riddle, by Dorothy Parker
Yonnondio, makings
Yonnondio, makings
Yonnondio, makings
Yonnondio, makings
Final revisions, Yonnondio
Correspondence re. publication (incl. Hanna Green)
Yonnondio, galley
Yonnondio, galley
Yonnondio: theater adaptation, 1986 (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Yonnondio: screenplay by Martin W. Nicholson and Kenneth Fink, 1976
Yonnondio: screenplay by Martin W. Nicholson, 1984 (title page - p. 66)
Yonnondio: screenplay by Martin W. Nicholson, 1984, (p.67 - 135)
Yonnondio: Russian translation
Ozarks Arts Interpretation Festival: Yonnondio Productions
Reviews: Yonnondio
Reviews: Yonnondio
Reviews: Yonnondio
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: sources, includes The Nation
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times: makings
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Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times:
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times:
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times:
Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times:
Silences, master set (title page - p.100)
Silences, (pp. 101 - 201)
Silences, (pp. 202 - 301)
Silences, (pp. 302 - 375)
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Silences, galley (pp. 26 - 50)
Silences, galley (pp. 51 - 100)
Silences, galley (pp. 101 - 142)
Silences, galley (pp. 143 - 179)
Figures for "One Out of Twelve"
Figures for "One out of Twelve"
Silences, "One Out of Twelve" makings
Box 7, Folder 2
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Silences, makings
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Silences,
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Silences,
Silences,
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Silences,
Silences,
"Life in the Iron Mills": galley
"Life in the Iron Mills": galley
"Life in the Iron Mills": galley
"Life in the Iron Mills": galley
unsorted
Hardy, Thomas - drafts, notes
Melville, Herman - afternotes
Cather, Willa - drafts, notes
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Baudelaire
"One Out of Twelve" - the figures, drafts
Blake, William
Hopkins, Gerald Manley - notes
Women Who are Writers - drafts
Women Who are Writers - drafts
"One Out of Twelve" - drafts
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Sources for Silences
Silences, galley
Silences, galley
Silences, makings
Silences, makings
Silences, makings
Silences, makings
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Silences, makings
Silences, makings
Silences, makings
Silences, makings
Silences, makings
Silences, makings
Silences, galley
Silences, galley
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Silences, galley
Silences, galley
Silences, galley
Silences, typescript/makings
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Silences, galley/corrections
Silences, galley
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Silences, galley
Silences, galley
Silences, typescript/makings
Silences, galley and corrections (One Out of Twelve)
Silences, corrections
Silences, typescript with corrections
Silences, galley
Silences, galley and corrections
Silences, "One Out of Twelve" - drafts
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Silences, drafts
Intro/Dedication to Silences - drafts
Silences, galleys with corrections
Silences, galleys with corrections
Silences, makings
Silences, makings
"Life in the Iron Mills or the Korl Woman" by Rebecca Harding Davis with galleys of
Biographical Interpretation by Tillie Olsen
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Silences,
Silences,
Silences,
Silences,
1972
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"Writers Who are Women in Our Time" - typescript and College edition, Oct.
Box 11, Folder 9
Box 11, Folder 10
Box 11, Folder 11
Silences, subject index
Silences, makings
Silences, miscellaneous information, articles, quotations, and outgoing
correspondence
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Silences, makings
Silences, makings
Silences, makings
Silences, typescript
Silences, corrections
Silences, article, Harper's Magazine, 1969
Silences, Sources - Authors and Friends, 1897; Selection of letters from Miss
Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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"Women Who Writers in Our Century: One Out of Twelve" - College edition, 1972.
Reprints of Silences
Silences, galley
Silences, galley
Silences, galley
Silences, galley
Silences, articles
"Conversations with Tillie Olsen," re. Silences
"Conversations with Tillie Olsen," re. Silences
Notes re. Silences
Notes re. Silences
Notes re. Silences
Notes re. Silences
Notes re. Silences
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Notes re. Silences
Notes re. Silences
Notes re. Silences
Notes re. Silences
Silences, Publication files
Requa, makings
Requa, makings
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Requa,
Requa,
Box 13, Folder 11
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"The Word Made Flesh": makings
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"The Word Made Flesh": makings
"The Word Made Flesh": makings
"The Word Made Flesh", typescript and xerox
"The Word Made Flesh", published
"The Word Made Flesh", correspondence
"My Mother's Dying Vision" or "A Dream Vision": makings
"My Mother's Dying Vision" or "A Dream Vision": makings
"My Mother's Dying Vision" or "A Dream Vision", typescript
Unidentified manuscript
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother: correspondence
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, notes, corrections, correspondence
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, excerpts
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, correspondence, exhibition checklist
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, xerox of photographs
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, xerox of photographs
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, xerox of photographs
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, xerox of photographs (and captions)
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, makings
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, makings
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, typescript
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, text and corrections, with correspondence
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, text and corrections
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, galley
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, reviews, articles
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, contents listing
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, Preface; "Motheroath" by Julie Olsen
Edwards
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A Woman Reader: proposal
A Woman Reader: proposal
First Drafts, Last Drafts: exhibit writings
First Drafts, Last Drafts: exhibit writings
"Lost Women": makings
"Thousand-Dollar Vagrant," as published in The New Republic, 1934
"The Strike"
"Fuzzy" or "Not for You I Weep"
"Fuzzy" or "Not for You I Weep", for First Words
"Fuzzy" or "Not for You I Weep", "Not for You I Weep" - original typescript
"Fuzzy" or "Not for You I Weep", original typescript and notes
First Words, xerox of Olsen's contribution
Stories: "A Mother," "A Diseased Story" or "Davey"
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Poem: "The Stalking"
"I Want You Women Up North to Know," 1934
"The Realist"
"Shadows Waiting," "The Strike" ca. 1930-32
"Franklin, Champion of Freedom"
"Momma's Revolt"
"Why They're Trying Don"
"Help Her to Believe" - first publication of "Ironings": title page only
Oversize 3
Tell Me a Riddle, oversized galley, 1961
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1930-1990
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Series 2. Papers, 1930-1950
Subseries A. Miscellaneous Early Writings (incl. journals, etc.), ca. 1930-1950's
Series 2. Papers, 1930-1950
Scope and Content Note
Series II consists of material from 1930-1950, and this series is divided into two distinct
parts. Series IIa, the first part, contains Tillie Olsen's personal writings from this time period,
which include partial stories, verse, journal entries, and newspaper articles. Reference is
made in this series to Olsen's involvement with the Socialist Party and the Longshoreman's
Strike during the mid 1930's. This series ends with all her bound journals and notebooks, the
majority of which she wrote in high school. Series IIb, also from the time period 1930-1950,
contains newsclippings, pamphlets, and bulletins which pertain to the Longshoreman's Strike
and various other Strike issues. There is reference to Tillie Olsen's prison sentence in the
mid-1930's and an FBI file kept on Tillie Olsen until 1944. Finally, there is a collection of
manuscripts which includes poems and stories written by various individuals other than Tillie
Olsen during the 1930's, some of which were written by Jeannette Gray.
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Adolescent writings and notes
Adolescent writings and notes, and journal entries
Adolescent writings and notes, and journal entries
Unidentified fragments: high school
High school: verse
High school: verse
High school: verse
High school: verse
Journal entries, notes: 1930's - 40's
Journal entries, notes: 1930's - 40's
Journal entries, notes: 1930's - 40's, High school
Journal entries, notes: 1930's - 40's, High school
Journal entries, notes: 1930's - 40's, High school
Journal entries, notes: 1930's - 40's, High school
Journal entries, notes: age 16, 17, 18 - High school
Journal entries, notes: age 16, 17, 18 - High school
Journal entries, notes: age 16, 17, 18 - High school
Journal entries, notes: age 16, 17, 18 - High school
Journal entries, notes: age 16, 17, 18 - High school
Journal entries, notes: age 16, 17, 18 - High school : Faribault and some San
Francisco
Box 16, Folder 10
Box 16, Folder 11
Fragment: "Arne"
Miscellaneous Writings
Box 16, Folder 12
Box 16, Folder 13
Miscellaneous, 1938-39
Stockton, 1933
Scope and Content Note
account (story) of an abortion
Box 16, Folder 14
Box 16, Folder 15
Box 16, Folder 16
Potential stories: abortion (?) and Imperial Valley
Notes: Socialist Party
Notes, clippings re. longshoreman's strike
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Outline for speech, 1945
Notes: 1930's - 50's
Stanford Time
Stanford Time, from notebook, 1955-56
Writings: During and after Stanford
Writings: After Stanford - withdrawal time, 1956-57
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's
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Box 16, Folder 25
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's
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1930-1990
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Subseries A. Miscellaneous Early Writings (incl. journals, etc.), ca. 1930-1950's
Box 16, Folder 26
Box 16, Folder 27
Box 16, Folder 28
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's : (potential story)
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's : (potential story)
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's : (potential story)
Box 16, Folder 29
Box 16, Folder 30
Box 16, Folder 31
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's : (potential story)
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's
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Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's
Miscellaneous writings: ca. 1950's, Qualities of writers
Journals/notebooks (1930-1960)
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16, Folder 33
16, Folder 34
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Physical Description: 30 volumes
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Subseries B. Articles, Clippings, Bulletins, Mss's of Others, ca. 1930 - 1959
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Clippings: Olsen's prison sentence, 1930's
Excerpts from striker's, 1930's; Mss of headlines (TLO's babysitter)
Clippings, re. longshoreman's strike: ca. 1930's
Clippings, re. longshoreman's strike: ca. 1930's
Scope and Content Note
(includes related poetry)
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Clippings, re. longshoreman's strike: ca. 1930's
Clippings, re. longshoreman's strike: ca. 1930's
Clippings, re. longshoreman's strike: ca. 1930's
Newsclippings and pamphlets: ca. 1940's
Interview with Tillie Olsen re. meat shortage
CIO Articles and pamphlets
CIO Articles and pamphlets
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FBI file: 1944
Clippings and bulletins: ca. 1950's
Clippings and bulletins: ca. 1950's
MSS's by others (poems and stories): ca. 1930's
MSS's by others (poems and stories): ca. 1930's
MSS's by others (poems and stories): ca. 1930's, "And We Are Millions," 1933
Transcript of speech (speaker and date unknown)
Writings, 1924 (Ida Lerner); political platform for TLO's father
Box 18, Folder 20
"The Hollywood Ten," newsclipping, 1950
Series 3. Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Series III, Correspondence, is divided into five distinct sections, with each section determined
by the time period or content of the particular correspondence. All the correspondence is
incoming except when noted in the listing as "outgoing."
Series IIIa is personal correspondence written during the time period 1930-1950. This series
is of particular interest because of the correspondence with such individuals as Robert Gehn,
Arel Creel, Jeannette Gray, Marion "Dippy" Duve, and Malcolm Cowley.
Series IIIb is personal correspondence from 1950-1990 arranged alphabetically by name.
Included in this series are individuals such as Margaret Atwood, Kay Boyle, Rachel Blau
DuPlessis, Dick Elman, Hanna Green, Ursula LeGuin, Lewis Mumford, Katherine Anne Porter,
Adrienne Rich, May Sarton, Scott Turow, and Alice Walker.
Series IIIc is also personal correspondence but arranged chronologically from 1960-1989.
Series IIId consists of reader's responses to Tillie Olsen's writings along with invitations to
talks, seminars, and workshops. Finally, Series IIIe is correspondence to and from publishers
and general requests, i.e. publishing rights, permission to dramatize works, letters of
recommendation, biographical information, etc.
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1930-1990
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Series 3. Correspondence
Subseries A. Correspondence - Personal (incoming)
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correspondence: Faribault, Minnesota,1932
correspondence: Faribault, Minnesota,1930 - 1939
correspondence,1930 - 1939
correspondence,1930 - 1939
correspondence,1930 - 1939
correspondence,1930 - 1939
correspondence,1930 - 1939
correspondence,1930 - 1939
correspondence,1930 - 1939
correspondence, Robert Gehn
correspondence, Arel Creel (incoming & outgoing)
correspondence, Jeannette Gray (and miscellaneous)
correspondence, Marion "Dippy" Duve
correspondence, Miscellaneous,1930 - 1939
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correspondence, re. Olsen's prison term,1934
correspondence, Al Hayes,1935
correspondence, High School
correspondence
correspondence, Office of War Information,Aug, 1943
correspondence,1940 - 1950
correspondence, Donald Bigham, Sacramento County Jail, 1934
correspondence, Malcolm Cowley, 1930 - 1939
Box 19, Folder 23
Early correspondence, Malcolm Cowley, 1930 - 1939
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Subseries B. Correspondence: Personal/General (Individual): 1950 -1990: Incoming
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Miscellaneous "A"
Aberlin, Betty (1964-1980)
Alanoraig, Nancy (ca. 1978-1979)
Alta/Shameless Hussy (ca. 1974-1977)
Amatnick, Kathie (Sarachild) (ca. 1975-1981)
Anderson, Maggie (1978-1986)
Appleton, Sally (ca. 1975-1976)
Arnold, Jane (with outgoing, ca. 1976)
Atwood, Margaret (1978)
Ausubel, Bobbi (with outgoing, ca. 1976-1977)
Miscellaneous "B"
Bacon, Ernst (1959-1963)
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Ballantyne, Sheila (ca. 1988)
Barolini, Helen (ca. 1982)
Berg Collection: Individuals
Bingham, Sallie (ca. 1979)
Boucher, Sandy(1966-1987)
Boucher, Sandy(1966-1987)
Boucher, Sandy(1966-1987)
Boyde, Blanche(1973-1979)
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Boyle, Kay(1988)
Boynton, Grace(1965-1986)
Brandon, Dolores (ca. 1976)
Breathitt, Mary Fran(1973-1981)
Brennan, Mave (n.d.)
Bridges, Harry(1974)
Brindel, June Rachuy(1981)
Brown, Rosellen(1976-1984)
Box 20, Folder 29
Bryant, Dorothy(1979-1980)
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1930-1990
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Subseries B. Correspondence: Personal/General (Individual): 1950 -1990: Incoming
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Miscellaneous "C"
Cahill, Susan(1976-1986)
Childress, Alice(1966-1984)
Clark, Ann Friend(1979-1980)
Cliff, Michelle (ca. 1973-1981)
Cohen, Florence (with outgoing, ca. 1979-1981)
Cohen, Jody (ca. 1977-1978)
Coiner, Constance (ca. 1982-1986)
Conroy, Lynne (with outgoing, ca. 1977-1980)
-------, ------Cooper, Jane (ca. 1974-1986)
Cornillon, Susan - see Koppleman, Susan
Cumming, Patricia(1976-1978)
Cuomo, Joe(1977-1979)
Davis, Hope(1963-1980)
DeFord, Miriam Allen(1966)
De Patta, Margaret (ca. 1950's)
De Salvo, Louise A. (ca. 1980-1986)
Dranow, Rachel(1980)
Duncan, Erika(1967-1988)
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau(1978)
Elman, Dick(1960-1983)
Elman, Dick(1960-1983)
English, Dierdre(1976-1979)
Ettinger, Elzbieta (ca. 1970's)
Finke, Leondo (ca. 1981)
Fisher, Elizabeth(1971-1974)
Foley, Margaret(1973)
Miscellaneous "G"
Gilgun, John(1960-1979)
Goedicke, Patricia(1970-1971)
Goldfarb, Sidney(1965)
Gottlieb, Annie(1968-1981)
Greenberg, Joanne(1984-1989)
Griffin, Susan (ca. 1970-1977)
Grumbach, Doris (with outgoing, 1978)
Guerard, Albert(1972)
Miscellaneous "H"
Hanna, Gayle(1970-1978)
Harstad, Grace(1975-1981)
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Heffernan, Helen (re. Margaret Heaton)(1960)
Henry, Dewitt(1977)
Homley, Elaine(1972-1975)
Hopkins, Glen (with outgoing, 1975-1976)
Hughes, Mary Gray(1969-1989)
Hughes, Mary Gray(1969-1989)
Hughes, Mary Gray(1969-1989)
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Janows, Jill(1978-1979)
Jong, Erica (n.d.)
Miscellaneous "K"
Kallet, Marilyn(1980-1982)
Kaye, Melanie(1975-1980)
Keeble, John(1980)
Kizer, Carolyn(1967-1975)
Box 24, Folder 24
Klepfisz, Irena (Lena)(1979-1980)
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1930-1990
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Konecky, Edith (Edie)(1973-1984)
Koppleman, Susan (with outgoing, 1972-1977)
Kramer, Julie(1976-1978)
Kumin, Maxine(1963-1969)
Miscellaneous "L"
LeGuin, Ursula(1978-1979)
Levertov, Denise ("An Open Letter in Reply to Lee Richards, 1970")
Limmer, Ruth(1979)
Lish, Godon(1962-1978)
Miscellaneous "M"
Miscellaneous "M"
MacDowell Art Colony: Individuals
MacDowell Art Colony: Individuals
MacDowell Art Colony: Individuals
MacDowell Art Colony: Individuals
MacDowell Art Colony: Individuals
MacDowell Art Colony: Individuals
MacShane, Frank(1970-1983)
Mackenzie, Midge (with outgoing, 1978-1981)
Mackenzie, Midge (with outgoing, 1978-1981)
Malamud, Bernard (ca. 1965-1967)
Marchant, Mary(1977-1978)
Mathewson, Mrs. Rufus (n.d.)
Meehan, Maude(1982-1983)
Meyer, Howard(1973-1980)
Meyer, Odette(1976-1989)
Miller, Nolan(1956-1978)
Millet, Kate(1974)
Miner, Valerie (with outgoing, 1979-1986)
Minty, Judith(1980-1985)
Mirrielees, Lucia and Edith(1956-1957)
Mitzger, Deena(1978-1986)
Pineda, Marrianne - see Tovish, Marrianne
Moers, Ellen(1973-1978)
Moffat, Mary Jane(1973-1989)
Morgan, Ellen(1971-1977)
Motjabai, Grace(1978)
Mumford, Lewis(1965)
Murray, Michele (with outgoing, 1973-1974)
Myers, Margaret (ca. 1960-1961)
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Naiman, Adeline(1974-1980)
Nardie, Marcia (with outgoing, ca. 1960's)
Nason, Thelma(1969-1987)
Ng, Fae Myenne(1988)
Olsen, Tillie (outgoing, 1970-1984)
Orr, Elaine(1982-1986)
Ostrikes, Alicia (photocopy of correspondence, 1990)
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Ozick, Cynthia (with outgoing,1966-1978)
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Paley, Grace (n.d.)
Papanek, Hanna(1964-1981)
Park-Fuller, Linda (with outgoing,1978-1983)
Partridge, Denny (with outgoing, ca. 1977)
Phillips, Jayne Anne(1978-1986)
Box 26, Folder 24
Phillips, Jim (ca. 1959-1960)
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1930-1990
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Porter, Katherine Anne (photocopy of correspondence, 1978)
Miscellaneous "R"
Radcliffe Institute: Individuals
Radcliffe Institute: Individuals
Randall, Margaret(1986)
Reeves, Nancy(1968-1980)
Rich, Adrienne(1976-1985)
Rich, Adrienne(1976-1985)
Rich, Adrienne(1976-1985)
Roemer, Michael (ca. 1977)
Rogers, Linda (ca. 1977)
Rosen, Norma(1972-1986)
Rosenfelt, Debby(1974-1986)
Ruddick, Sally (with Pamela Daniels, ca. 1977)
Russ, Joanne(1972-1979)
Miscellaneous "S"
Sarton, May(1969)
Saxton, Ruth(1978-1979)
Schimps, Erich F.(1975)
Schuchman, Brina-Rae(1977-1978)
Scowcroft, Richard (Dick) (with outgoing, 1956-1973)
Sextant, Anne (ca. 1962-1970)
Seyerstad, Per(1979-1981)
Shanahan, Thomazine (Timmy) (with outgoing, 1971-1979)
Showalter, Elaine(1970-1981)
Skotnes, Pearl(1978-1980)
Smith, Alice(1970-1984)
Spivakovsky, Erika(1970-1981)
Stanberg, Susan(1979-1983)
Starkman, Elaine(1977-1978)
Sternburg, Janet(1974-1978)
Stone, Ruth(1975-1981)
Swan, Barbara(1964-1979)
Swan, Barbara(1964-1979)
Sweeney, John (Jack)(1964)
Tanenhaus, Beverly(1975-1976)
Treuhaft, Decca(1973-1989)
Tovish, (Marrianne, Red, and Margo)(1965-1986)
Tovish, (Marrianne, Red, and Margo)(1965-1986)
Turow, Scott(ca. 1970's)
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Untermeyer, Louis(1965)
Ward, Theadora(1953-1981)
Walker, Alice(1970's-1983)
Walker, Alice(1970's-1983)
Walker, Alice(1970's-1983)
Walker, Alice(1970's-1983)
Walker, Mike(1962-1964)
Washington, Mary Helen (n.d.)
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Waterman, Ray(1976-1982)
Wilder, Annie(1962-1986)
Wilder, Annie(1962-1986)
Wilder, Annie(1962-1986)
Willison, Toni(1972-1980)
Wilson, J. J.(1974-1985)
Winters, Janet (ca. 1974)
Winters, Sylvia (n.d.)
Box 28, Folder 20
Wong, Nellie(1982-1983)
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1930-1990
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Subseries B. Correspondence: Personal/General (Individual): 1950 -1990: Incoming
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Woolf, Cynthia(1982)
Wright, Sarah & Michael(1975-1987)
Yalom, Marilyn(1982-1984)
Yamada, Mitsui(1975-1988)
Zucker, Jack(ca. 1969)
Unknown
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Green, Hannah (ca. 1970's)
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Chronological
Chronological
Chronological
correspondence,July - Oct., 1973
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1970's
correspondence,Nov. - Dec., 1973
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1970's
correspondence,Jan. - March, 1974
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1970's
correspondence,April - Sept., 1974
correspondence,1980
correspondence,1960
correspondence,Oct. - Dec., 1974
correspondence,1981
correspondence,1961
correspondence,Jan. - March, 1975
correspondence,1982
correspondence,1962
correspondence,April - Sept., 1975
correspondence,1983-1989
correspondence,1963
correspondence,Oct. - Dec., 1975
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1980's
correspondence,1964
correspondence,1976
correspondence,1965
correspondence,1977
correspondence,1966
correspondence,1978
correspondence,1967
correspondence,Jan. - Sept., 1979
correspondence,1968
correspondence,Oct. - Dec., 1979
correspondence,Jan. - July, 1969
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Chronological
Chronological
Chronological
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Chronological
Chronological
Chronological
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1971
correspondence,Aug. - Dec., 1969
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1972
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1960's
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1971-1973
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1960's
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1970's
correspondence,Jan. - July, 1970
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Chronological
Chronological
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Chronological
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Chronological
Chronological
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correspondence,Aug. - Dec., 1970
correspondence,Undated: ca. 1970's
correspondence,Jan. - March, 1971
correspondence,April - July, 1971
correspondence,Aug. - Dec., 1971
correspondence,Jan. - July, 1972
correspondence,Aug. - Dec., 1972
Box 31, Folder 25
Chronological correspondence,Jan. - March, 1973
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1930-1990
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Subseries C. Correspondence: Personal/General (Chronological)
Box 31, Folder 26
Chronological correspondence,April - June, 1973
Box 31, Folder 9
Chronological correspondence,No Date
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Subseries D. Correspondence: Readers Responses/Invitations
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Responses to Readings
Responses to Readings
Reader's responses to Silences
Reader's responses to Silences
Reader's responses to Silences
Reader's responses to Silences
Reader's responses to Silences
Reader's responses to Silences
Reader's responses to Silences
Reader's responses to Silences
Silences: letters from writers, artists, friends
Reader's responses (Women who have lived Silences)
Reader's responses (Women who have lived Silences)
Corr. re. Harper's publication of Silences,1965
Reader's responses to Tell Me a Riddle
Reader's responses to Tell Me a Riddle
Reader's responses to Tell Me a Riddle
Reader's responses to Tell Me a Riddle
Reader's responses to Tell Me a Riddle
Reader's responses to Tell Me a Riddle
Reader's responses to Tell Me a Riddle
Reader's responses to Tell Me a Riddle
Response to Life in The Iron Mills
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Invitations to Talks/Seminars/Workshops
Invitations to Talks/Seminars/Workshops
Invitations to Talks/Seminars/Workshops
Invitations to Talks/Seminars/Workshops
Invitations to Talks/Seminars/Workshops
Invitations to Talks/Seminars/Workshops
Invitations to Talks/Seminars/Workshops
Invitation to the Northern California Women's Facility, 1989
Box 31, Folder 10
Responses to Readings
Subseries E. Correspondence: Publishers/Requests
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Antioch Review
Anvil
Antlantic Monthly
Bantan Books
Brandt & Brandt
Controversy
Covici, Friede Inc.
D. Appleton - Century Company
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Delacorte/Dell/Delta
Direction
Dubuque Dial
Elaine Markson Literary Agency
Elaine Markson Literary Agency
Faber & Faber
Farrar & Rinehart
Fight
Box 33, Folder 1
Godmother Productions: Tell Me a Riddle film
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1930-1990
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Subseries E. Correspondence: Publishers/Requests
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Harpers
Houghton Mifflin
Knopf
Labor Defender
League of American Writers
Lippincott
Macmillan Company
Maxim Lieber
Modern Quarterly
New Masses
New Quarterly
New Republic
Partisan Review
Peninsula
Random House
Reynal and Hitchcock, Inc.
Robert M. McBride & Co.
Russell & Volkening, Inc.
Scribner's
Simon & Schuster
Texas Quarterly
Ticknor & Fields
Vanguard
Virago
Virago
Young Worker
Miscellaneous publishers/agents
Miscellaneous publishers/agents
Corr. with foreign publishers (with outgoing)
Corr. with foreign publishers (with outgoing)
Tell Me A Riddle: anthologies, re-publications (letters and forms)
Tell Me A Riddle: anthologies, re-publications (letters and forms)
Corr. re. reprinting of "1 Out of 12"
REQUESTS: Blurbs by Tillie Olsen
REQUESTS: Blurbs by Tillie Olsen
REQUESTS: Blurbs by Tillie Olsen
Requests for Blurbs
Requests for Blurbs
Corr.: requests for blurbs, appearances, recommendations
Corr.: requests for blurbs, appearances, recommendations
Corr.: requests for blurbs, appearances, recommendations
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Corr.: requests for blurbs, appearances, recommendations
Responses to requests
Corr. re. corrections and changes in additions of Silences
Corr. re. copyright permissions
Corr. re. permissions/requests for dramatizations/adaptations
Corr. re. permissions/requests for dramatizations/adaptations
Corr. re. corrections in foreword to Black Women: Writers at Work
Permission: Bloodrot, Inc.
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General Requests (interviews, questionnaires, etc)
General Requests (interviews, questionnaires, etc)
General Requests (interviews, questionnaires, etc)
Requests to serve as judge on boards, panels, etc.
Requests for biographical information
Foreign correspondence
Foreign correspondence
Foreign correspondence
Box 33, Folder 1
Foreign correspondence, Trevi Publishers
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1930-1990
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Subseries E. Correspondence: Publishers/Requests
Box 33, Folder 1
Box 33, Folder 1
Box 33, Folder 1
Foreign correspondence, China
Foreign correspondence, Japan
Foreign correspondence, Netherlands
Box 33, Folder 1
Box 33, Folder 1
Box 33, Folder 1
Foreign correspondence, Germany
Foreign correspondence, England
Letters of recommendation for fellowships, academic placement, or advancement
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Letters of recommendation for fellowships, academic placement, or advancement
Letter of recommendation for Tillie Olsen by Janet Harowitz Murray
Correspondence re. recommendations, nominations for grants (with outgoing)
Correspondence re. recommendations, nominations for grants (with outgoing)
Correspondence re. recommendations, nominations for grants (with outgoing)
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Box 33, Folder 1
Ann Watkins, inc.
Series 4. Manuscripts by others
Scope and Content Note
Series IV is entitled "Manuscripts by Others." These are short stories, poems, and articles
primarly written by friends of Tillie Olsen which were sent to her for either personal viewing
or critical appraisal. Included are poems by Adrienne Rich, Anne Sextant, Scott Turow and
short stories by Sandy Boucher, Michele Cliff, and Susan Griffin.
Box 36, Folder 1
Box 36, Folder 2
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Alta: "Song of the Wife, Song of the Mistress"
Appleton, Sarah: "The Breath of Blessing That Calls Us to Speech: Sentences on
Poetry"
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Boucher, Sandy: Miscellaneous short stories, articles, etc.
Brandon, Dolores: "In Praise of the Common Woman"
Brodine, Karen: "The Politics of Women Writing"
Cliff, Michele: "Filaments," "The Garden," "On Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to
Despise"
Box 36, Folder 7
Box 36, Folder 8
Cliff, Michele: "Anonymity and the Denial of Self"; book review
Cooper, Jane: "Nothing has been Used in the Manufacture of This Poetry That Could
have been Used in the Manufacture of Bread," "The Children's Ward," "Threads: Rosa
Luxemburg from Prison"
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Dodson Le Tourneau, Gayle: poems
Duncan, Erika: "The Play"
Dunning, Linda: short stories
Durham, Flora: poems, "Not Your Usual Rehearsal"
Earle, Ralph: poems
Elman, Richard: poems, articles
Gardinier, Sue: "In Memoriam"
Gerson, Deborah: poems
Gilbert, Celia: poems
Goedicke, Patricia: poems
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Griffin, Susan: poems, short stories
Guerard, Albert: "The Vanishing Anarchists: A Memory"
Hanna, Gayle: poems, short story, article
Hedges, Elaine: "Quilts and Women's Culture"
Hughes, Jonathan: "The Jap Camp"
Hughes, Mary Gray: poems
Janows, Jill: poems
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Kallet, Marilyn: poems
Katzman, Eleanore: "To Frank - From His Clarinet"
Kaye, Melanie: poems, journal excerpts
Kitrilakis, Thalia: poems
Kolodny, Annette: "Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the
Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism"
Box 37, Folder 1
Box 37, Folder 2
Krapf, K.: short stories
Krapf, Norbert: poems
Box 37, Folder 3
Kumin, Maxine: poems
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1930-1990
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Box 37, Folder 4
Lazreg, Marnia: "Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on
Women in Algeria"
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Limmer, Ruth: Introduction to Journey Around My Room
Mays, Raymina: "Kind of Tender," "Lerna's-Mother-Verda-Lee"
Meehan, Maude: poems
Meyer, Howard: articles, short stories
Meyer, Odette: "The Return of the Secret Jews"
Minty, Judith: "Letting Go"
Moers, Ellen: "Mme de Staël and the Woman of Genius"
Moss, Rose: "Exile"
Murray, Michele: diary excerpts; biographical articles
Nason, Thelma: poem, short story (excerpt)
Ng, Fae Myenne: "pressed petals," "One Hundred and Thrity Four Steps"
Orr, Elaine: poems, dissertation
Papanek, Hanna: poem
Park-Fuller, Linda: production notes
Phillips, Jayne Anne: short story
Polite, Frank: poems
Redman, Blanche: short story, poems
Rich, Adrienne: poems, articles
Rich, Adrienne: poems, articles
Rosenfelt, Deborah: "Of Love and Bicycling"
Ruddick, Sally: poem
Sarton, May: "The Precious Seed for Donald Gatch"
Schick, Carla: poems
Sextant, Anne: poems
Shanahan, Thomazine: "Michele Murray 1933-1974"
Sternburg, Janet: poems
Tanenhaus, Beverly: poems
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Tovish, Margo: poems
Turow, Scott: "For the Year of the Insane: a prayer"
Ward, Theadora: "Cupboards: A Norwegian Episode"
Walker, Alice: "These Days"; article
Waterman, Ray: "Internal Triangle"
Wong, Nellie: poems
Yalom, Marilyn: "'La Chute' and 'A Hero of Our Time'"
Yamada, Mitsuye: poems
Box 37, Folder 40
Zucker, Jack: poems
Series 5. Articles and Papers regarding Tillie Olsen
Scope and Content Note
Series V consists of articles and papers regarding Tillie Olsen. These are published articles
that have appeared in magazines and journals along with student papers that have been
sent to Olsen for her evaluation. Also included in this series are clippings from magazines
and newspapers reviewing her books, movie adaptations, and public appearances. Finally, to
end Series V, there is a section of unrelated papers and articles that Tillie Olsen kept for her
own personal records.
Box 38, Folder 1
Box 38, Folder 2
Box 38, Folder 3
Subseries 1. Articles re: Tillie Olsen
"From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition" - Deborah Rosenfelt
"Tillie Olsen: Witness as Servant" - Catherine R. Stimpson
"A Voice of One's Own: Contemporary Short Fiction by North American Women" Ann Harleman (Stewart)
Box 38, Folder 4
Box 38, Folder 5
"Dare to Write: Virginia Woolf, Tillie Olsen, Gloria Anzaldua" - Carolyn Woodward
"Overcoming Silences: Teaching Writing for Women" - Alix Kates Shulman
Box 38, Folder 6
"Silences Unsilenced...Tillie Olsen" - Sara Maitland
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1930-1990
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Series 5. Articles and Papers regarding Tillie Olsen
Subseries 1. Articles re: Tillie Olsen
Box 38, Folder 7
"Deconstructing the Sexual Politic: Virginia Woolf and Tillie Olsen" - Elizabeth A.
Meese
Box 38, Folder 8
Box 38, Folder 9
"Limning: or Why Tillie Writes" - Ellen Cronan Rose
"Creative Experimentation in American Nonfiction Narrative: Mark Twain, W.E.B.
DuBois, James Agee and Tillie Olsen" - Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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"The Riddle of Tillie Olsen" - Elenore Lester
Introductions to "Tell Me A Riddle" - Cora Kaplan
"In the Shadow of the Golden Mountains" - Lis Harris (The New Yorker)
"New Light on the Exploitation of Women" - Marilyn Goldberg
"These Modern Women: Autobiographical Essays from the Twenties"
(Introduction) - Elaine Showalter
"Stages of Dissent: Olsen, Grekova, and the Politics of Creativity" - Susan Hardy
Aiken "Revolutions from Within" - Ekaterina Stetsenko
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"Death Labors" - Joanne Trautmann Banks
"The Whole Story" - Julia E. Connelly
"De-Riddling Tillie Olsen's Writings" - Selma Burkom and Margaret Williams
"Reclaiming the Inadvertent: Olsen's Visceral Voice in Yonnondio: From the
Thirties" - Barbara Cantalupo
Box 38, Folder 19
Box 38, Folder 20
"Tillie Olsen: the Voice of the Silenced" - Jill Farinelli
"Alternative Responses to Life in Tillie Olsen's Work" - Annette Bennington
McElhiney
Box 38, Folder 21
Box 38, Folder 22
"Tillie Olsen: Storyteller of Working America" - Sally Cunneen
"Feminists Look at Motherhood" - Annie Gottlieb
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Box 38, Folder 24
"Women Writing in America: On Tillie Olsen" - Blanche M. Gelfant
"An Analysis of the Works of Tillie Olsen with Particular Emphasis on the Image of
the Mother" - Thesis, by Laura Alper, 1975
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"Tillie Olsen" - Hamblem, Abigail Ann
"Coming of Age in the Thirties: A Portrait of Tillie Olsen" - Erica Duncan
"Tillie Olsen" - Marleen Barr
Untitled essay w/ no author
"Tillie Olsen: In Mutuality" - Thomazine Shanahan
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Subseries 2. Student Papers
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"'I Stand Here Ironing': Motherhood As Experience and Metaphor" - Joanne S. Frye
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"The Figure of Woman: Artist in Gilman, Woolf, and Olsen" - Rachel Blau DuPlessis
"Tillie Olsen: Surviving the Silences" - ?
"Tille Olsen: The Witness as Servant" - Catherine R. Stimpson
"An Ode to Eva and All Women" - Ann Weinstein
"Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing" - Amy Grunder
"What Persists in Loss: A Reading of Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties" Barbara White
"After Reading Yonnondio: From the Thirties" - Chu Wei Ling
"Radical Female: the Politics of the Body and the Mother/Child Relationship in
Tillie Olsen's Work" and "Tillie Olsen: The Writer as a Jewish Woman" - Bonnie
Lyons
"Tillie Olsen: A Comparative Study of Two Works of Fiction and Their Film
Adaptations" - Owen
"The Struggle for One's Own Truth: Images of War and Peace in Tillie Olsen's Life
and Art" - ?
"Harnassing the 'Angel in the House' - Thoughts Arising from Silences" - Nancy
Priester Karl
"Tillie Olsen: 'Still Enough to Live By'" - Carolyn Hagopian
"Tillie Olsen: An Overview" - Jessica Warnick
"The Jewish Mother Riddle" - Patti Renner-Tana
Untitled
Untitled - Carloyn Rhodes
Untitled - excerpts
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Series 5. Articles and Papers regarding Tillie Olsen
Subseries 2. Student Papers
Box 39, Folder 18
Miscellaneous/unidentifiable excerpts
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Subseries 3. Newsclippings, Magazine articles, etc.
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Clippings/articles
Newspaper clippings
Miscellaneous reviews
Newspaper clippings
Newspaper clippings
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clippings/reviews
clippings/reviews
clippings/reviews
clippings/reviews
clippings/reviews
clippings/reviews, foreign
clippings/reviews, foreign
Box 40, Folder 12
clippings/reviews, foreign
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Subseries 4. Miscellaneous / Unrelated / Unidentified articles, etc.
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"Virginia Woolf and her Violin: Mothering, Madness and Music"
Unidentified excerpt
Paper: Laurie Olsen
Unidentified
Unidentified
Miscellaneous poems/short stories: unidentified
"A la Recherche du Temps Trivial": Gregory Battcock
Cactus Alley: Student publication, University of Texas, San Antonio
Unidentified Poems (photocopy)
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"Knotted Strings"
"The Country and the City"
"The Friendship of Women" - Anita Barrows
"Lesbianism: A Socialist Feminist Perspective" - Susan Williams
"Olive Schreiner: Cartographer of the Spirit," book review: Jane Marcus
"Auriga, Andromeda, Cameoleopardalis," Howard Griffin
"Poetry in the Classroom," Roberts W. French
"The Proletarian Revolution and the Problem of Genius" - Deborin; "Science and
the Unexpected Universe" - Loren Eisley
Series 6. Transcripts of interviews and talks, 1963-1982
Scope and Content Note
Series VI contains transcripts of various interviews and talks given by Tillie Olsen during the
years 1963-1982.
Box 42, Folder 1
Box 42, Folder 2
Box 42, Folder 3
Box 42, Folder 4
"Responding to the Nuclear Threat",March 16, 1982
Interview by Dan Fooler (?)
Interview by Gerri Lange, Channel 9
"An Interview with Tille Olsen and Grace Paley" - Maxine Feifer
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Series 6. Transcripts of interviews and talks, 1963-1982
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Interview by Joe Cuomo
Interview
Interview
Interview by Aurelie J. Sheehan
Interview by Peter Marchant, Mary Elsie Robertson
Interview
Interview: UND Writers Conference
Interview by Marilyn Yalom
"A Collage of Talks with Tillie Olsen" - Erika Duncan
Blue Ridge Mountain Films Interview with Tillie Olsen
Interview by Carol (?) and Elaine (?)
"Excerpts from a talk by Tillie Olsen"
"Death of the Creative Process" - transcript of a seminar given by Tillie Olsen,
Radcliffe Institure for Independent Study, March 15, 1963
Box 42, Folder 18
Address at San Francisco Public Library, Summer 1973
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"Reflections" - Emerson College, March 21, 1974
Radcliffe Forum: "Comprehensions," March 13, 1979
Tillie Olsen Tapes (Writer's Conference) - excerpt
"PW Interviews: Tillie Olsen" - Lisa See
Miscellaneous/unidentified excerpts
"A Visit with Tillie Olsen" - University of Vermont, October 1972
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Panel: format
Introductions to various Talks
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Tillie Olsen's notes for talk (Columbia University, 1969 ?)
Series 7. Teaching materials
Scope and Content Note
Series VII consists of teaching material and student work during the time Tillie Olsen taught
at Amherst, MIT, University of Massachusettes, and Stanford. Class notes, students papers,
student journals, and correspondence with the sudents comprise the majority of this series.
Also included are folders referring to the Radcliffe Institute, which contains newsletters,
pamphlets, and other ephemera regarding the Bunting Institute Society of Fellows.
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Corr. with students
University of Massachusetts class
MIT
1972 class journals, Stanford ("Women in Literature")
1972 class journals, Stanford ("Women in Literature")
Notes on women in literature and film
Women's films
TLO Correspondence @ Stanford: Louise Ritzman, et al
Stanford teaching: Louise's class, film's shown
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Class lists: Sept., 1969 (Amherst)
Applications from students (and class reviews) - Stanford
Stanford: student work
Stanford: student work
"April Smith: 'Women' and 'Solange'"
John Zimarowski: "A Women in Literature Journal with a Deluxe Gay Bias" and
correspondence
Box 43, Folder 16
Amherst class: photocopied teaching materials
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Amherst: application letters; class lists
Amherst, notes
Amherst, class lists, exams
Items of interest from Amherst community
Writing class (excerpts from Conrad, Rilke, etc)
Amherst student work (entrance essays)
Amherst students: class work and correspondence
Amherst students: class work and correspondence
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Writing class material: excerpts
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Series 7. Teaching materials
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Writing class material: excerpts
Olsen's reading list
Radcliffe Institute: fellowships, papers,
Radcliffe Institute: fellowships, papers,
Radcliffe Institute: fellowships, papers,
Radcliffe Institute: fellowships, papers,
Box 44, Folder 15
etc.
etc.
etc.
etc.
English 25: "Literature of Poverty" syllabus and notes
Series 8. Awards and honors
Scope and Content Note
Series VIII contains articles, pamphlets, and degrees that pertain to the awards and honors
Tillie Olsen received for her efforts as a writer and activist, including "Tillie Olsen Day" in San
Francisco.
Box 45, Folder 1
Box 45, Folder 2
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Honorary degrees, Tillie Olsen Week, etc.
Honorary degrees, Tillie Olsen Week, etc.
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Honorary
Honorary
Honorary
Honorary
Honorary
Honorary
Honorary
Honorary
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degrees,
degrees,
degrees,
degrees,
degrees,
degrees,
degrees,
degrees,
Tillie
Tillie
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Degrees
Series 9. Book reviews and book readings
Scope and Content Note
Series IX is made up entirely of pamphlets and announcements sent to Tillie Olsen regarding
various book readings, book reviews, etc.
Box 47
Pamphlets/Announcements
Series 10. Miscellaneous
Scope and Content Note
Series X is the Miscellaneous section, consisting of various ephemera such as financial and
legal papers, fragments of notes, teaching guides, catalogues, various writings,
photographs, etc.
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Artist's Liberation Front
Utah Arts Council
American Writers Conference
Request for Olsen's birth certificate
Legal issues
"The Ess Coloring Book"
Putney School Spring Conference, 1965
Miscellaneous papers
Dell College Paperbacks catalogues, 1983-84
Virago Catalogues, 1979-1983
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Receipts; financial papers
"Schools & Mobility"
Emily Carr miscellaneous
Tell Me a Riddle teaching guides
Midwestern Writer's Festival and Book Fair: excerpt from Tell Me a Riddle: signed
copy 15 of 150
Box 48, Folder 16
Box 48, Folder 17
Art ephemera
Feminist articles/writings
Box 48, Folder 18
Photographs: Rae, 1920's; English IX Class, ca. 1930's
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Series 11. Published works
Series 11. Published works
Scope and Content Note
Series XI, the final series, contains different published editions of Tell Me a Riddle, Silences,
and Yonnondio: From the Thirties. A few copies are of foreign editions, and some editions
have her corrections in the margins. Also within this series are audio cassettes of various
readings and talks, including tapes of her reading Tell Me a Riddle and "The Strike."
Box 49
Box 49
Box 49
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Tell Me a Riddle: 14 editions (7 foreign)
Yonnondio: From the Thirties: 6 editions (2 foreign)
Silences: 5 editions (2 foreign)
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Life in the Iron Mills - Rebecca Harding Davis (1edition)
Series 12. Audiovisual materials
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"Authors in America," Swedish TV: Interview with Tillie Olsen,July 17, 1984
Audio Track from Swedish TV, copied 9/17/85
Walker, Olsen, Caldicott: Grace Cathedral, March 1982
"Novels into Film," Tillie Olsen: Nov. 11, 1984
Tillie Olsen reads Tell Me a Riddle, Nov. 21, 1963
Tillie Olsen reads Tell Me a Riddle, April 20-22, 1978
Tillie Olsen reads "The Strike"
Tell Me a Riddle: Foreign recording
Box 49
"Tell Me A Riddle" book reading, March 31, 1987
Physical Description: (2 cassettes)
Box 49
Box 49
Box 49
"Tillie Olsen Day"
Physical Description: (2 casettes)
Box 49
Tell Me a Riddle - reading, Missouri Western S.C.
Tillie Olsen reading: n.d.
Unidentified recording
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