Finding-Aid for the Barry Hannah Collection
MUM00216
Table of Contents
PURL
http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00216/
Summary Information
- Repository
- University of Mississippi Libraries
- Title
- Barry Hannah Collection
- ID
- MUM00216
- Date
- 1978-1993
- Extent
- 6.0 Linear feet 12 boxes
- Mixed materials [Box-folder]
- 1-12
- Abstract
- Collection consists of correspondence and typescripts related to the life of Barry Hannah. Items were created 1978-1993.
Preferred Citation
Barry Hannah Collection (MUM00216). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.
Biographical/Historical note
See the Barry Hannah entry on The Mississippi Writers Page maintained by University of Mississippi Dept. of English.
https://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/hannah_barry/index.html
Scope and Contents Note
Collection consists of correspondence and typescript related to the life of Barry Hannah. Items were created 1978-1993.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
University of Mississippi Libraries 2005
Access Restrictions
Open.
Use Restriction
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use", that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Custodial History
Accruals
Source of Collection
Processing Information
Processed by University of Mississippi Department Special Collections Staff . EAD encoded finding-aid begun September 2005.
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
Collection Inventory
Box 1 |
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Folder 1: Dear Reader, from Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi, with review of John Le Carre's The Night Manager, by Barry Hannah, July/August 1993 (93-69). |
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Folder 2: Daily Mississippian, March 8, 1989, with "Letter to the Editor," from Barry Hannah, regarding Salman Rushdie, p. 3 (89-22). |
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Folder 3: Daily Mississippian, 19 October 1988, with "Letter to the Editor," from Barry Hannah, regarding Michael Dukakis presidential campaign, p. 2. |
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Folder 4: Typed Letter. Sharon Wexler, New York City, to Hannah, 5 January 1981, 1 p., re: recommendation for Columbia University, and T.M. [Photocopy] "Something About Those Eyes" by Wexler. 11 pp. |
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Folder 5: Typed Letter.Terry McDonnell, Rolling Stone, New York City, to Hannah, 13 November 1981, 1 p., re: unidentified manuscript. |
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Folder 6: Typed Letter. Glennray Tutor, Oxford, Mississippi, to Hannah, 1 June 1981, 1 p. |
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Folder 7: Photocopied pages from The Logic of Life, by [Francois Jacob, c. 1974] pp. 307-310, 323-324. [Note - this folder not present] |
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Folder 8: Photocopy of "Welcome to the Arrow Catchers Fair," by Lewis Nordan, published in Harper's (September 1978), 7 pp. [Note - this folder not present] |
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Folder 9: Photocopy of "Cathedral," by Raymond Carver, published in The Atlantic Monthly, (September 1981), 7 pp. |
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Folder 10: Typed verse. [Photocopy] "Scenario in Which my Grandma Feeds a Famous Indian," by Sam Prestridge, Yazoo City, Mississippi, n. d., 1 p. |
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Folder 11: Typed Manuscript. [Photocopy] "Mundo's Sign," by Bob Shacochis, Lone Tree, Iowa, n. d., 27 pp. |
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Folder 12: 3 sheets of letterhead from Mississippi Land & Cattle Co., Inc., Clinton, Mississippi. [Company owned by Hannah family]. |
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Folder 13: Typed Manuscript. [Mimeograph] "In Lizzy's Town" 18 pp. Labeled "Hendrie/Blaise/gww". With handwritten correction to original mimeograph form. |
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Folder 14: A.L.S. "Dr. Hannah," to "Griff, Sharon," n. d., 1 p. with holograph notes au verso. ALS written on 11" x 14" paper and is stained. |
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Folder 15: Program from "Ray" at the Hoka, c. 1987 [Note - This item removed for cataloging - see last page] |
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Folder 16: Miscellaneous pages. 2pp. |
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Box 2: The Nightwatchman |
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Folder 1: Typesetting typescript. "Nightwatchman". With printer's marks and [holograph] notations. 344 pp. |
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Box 3: Ray |
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Folder 1: |
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A.L.S. Barry Hannah to "Patty," 19 September 1980, 2 pp. |
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Manuscript pp. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31. |
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Typed Manuscript. Title page "Ray A Novel by Barry Hannah." pp. [1], 2, [3], [4], 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, [16], 16. |
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Typed Manuscript. "VI" & "VII" 26, [2], 3, 4. |
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Typed Manuscript. "X" pp. 3, [29], "VII" pp. 26, 29, "X" 30, 29, 28, and "VIII" pp. 27, [31] |
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T.M. "Ray. Autograph dedication to 'Carl and Pat'." pp. 2, 3, 2, 6. |
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Typed Manuscript. 40, 40, 43, 43, 44, 43, 48, 45, 45, 46, 41, 42, 49. |
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Typed Manuscript. 36, 36, 37, 38, 39, 39. |
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Folder 2: Typed Manuscript."Ray." "First Version of Ray, Knopf, 1980." Clean typesetting typescript. 136 pp. |
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Folder 3 |
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Typed Manuscript. "Neighborhood." 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5a, 6, 7, 8, 9 pp. Xerography with ["author's changes"]. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Neighborhood." 1, 2, 3, 4, 4a, 5, 5a, 6, 7, 8, 9 pp. Xerographic reproduction. Dated "23.III.79". |
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Folder 4: |
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Printed title page for "Neighborhood." An early fragment from Ray by Barry Hannah. Gorgas Oak Press. With "Publisher's Note" for Gorgas Oak Press edition of "Neighborhood." Heavily stained. |
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"Working materials 1979-80" on printed Clancy McQue's menu." [2] |
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4, 5, 6, 44, 45 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. "III" 21, 23, 21 [xerography], 22 [xerography], 23 [xerography], 24, 21 [xerography], 22 [xerography]. |
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Autographed Manuscript 100. [1] p. |
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T.N. "Uncle Barry" [first line]. |
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A. M. Back of printed Solomon's Deli Restaurant printed menu. [2] pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. 25, 25 [xerography]. |
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Autographed Manuscript 400 [1] p. |
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Autographed Manuscript. "Judy and the apartment, the . ." [first line]. |
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Autographed Manuscript. "All your 39 years, have been . . " [first line]. |
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Autographed Manuscript. "Hannah Ray. Add I" "I had only one comfort and there . . " [first line] [1] p. |
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Autographed Manuscript. Ray. "Coming along. Chapter?" [first line] [1] p. |
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Autographed Manuscript. Ray. "There appears the world and . . " [first line] p. 180. |
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Autographed ManuscriptRay. p. 181. |
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Typed Manuscript. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Archie Manning and Vaught." [1] pp. |
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Typed Manuscript."When the queers roll out . . " [first line]. [1] p. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Fourty 6," 46, 45, 46 [xerography], 47, 48 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript."Morgan City Blues." [1], 2, 3 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. 115, 116, 117 pp. |
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Autographed Manuscript. "Killed big dad" [second line]. Overleaf "It will be dust" [second line]. [2] |
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Autographed Manuscript.101. "Put your spirit with mine" [first line]. [1] p. |
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Autographed Manuscript. 99. [1] p. |
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Autographed Manuscript. 101. "I know too entirely much" [first line]. [1] p. |
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Autographed Manuscript. "her lovers, 2 of them' [second line]. Overleaf "Buttermilk" [first word, sixth line]. [2] |
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Autographed Manuscript. "Nether. I like it. Her nether [hoot]. Crazy girl named . . " [first line] [1] p. |
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Autographed Manuscript. 2, "He thought his wit was precious, nasty Larry Deacon" [first line]. [1] p. |
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Folder 5: Folio cut galleys. Ray. Alfred A. Knopf New York 1980. With autograph note in blue ink "Fuck Iran Free the Hostages", and in pencil "I will kill on sight". |
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Box 4: Power and Light |
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Folder 1: Signed Typed Manuscript. "Power and Light". With a few holograph corrections. 70 pp. |
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Folder 2: Typed Manuscript. [Photocopy] "Power and Light". With a few holograph corrections. 70 pp. |
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Folder 3: Typed Manuscript. "Power and Light". With a few holograph corrections. 81 pp., last two in holograph. |
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Folder 4: Typed Manuscript. [Photocopy] "Power and Light". 78 pp. Used as setting copy. |
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Folder 5: Printer's long galleys, proofreader's corrections throughout. |
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Folder 6: Printer's first page proofs, "approved Barry Hannah". |
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Folder 7: Page proofs with printer's marks in red ink, "OK to print as corrected". 12 pp. |
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Folder 8: Proof gatherings, signed by Hannah. |
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Folder 9: Autographed Manuscript "Power and Light". On legal pad. 5 pp. |
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Folder 10: Typed Manuscript. "Power and Light". With a few holograph corrections. 45 pp. |
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Box 5: Boomerang |
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Folder 1: Master galleys, with some corrections, dated on the title- page three times in January 1989. 150 pp. |
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Folder 2: Typed Manuscript. [Photocopy], with some corrections, incorporating author's "last legal changes", with note on the first page to the effect that "Camille [Hykes] has original". 123 pp. |
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Folder 3: Carbon typescript, used as the setting copy by the printer, with printer's marks & with numerous corrections to the text by the author. 121 pp. |
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Folder 4: Author's Marked set of galleys, with a few deletions. 150 pp. |
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Box 6: Boomerang |
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Folder 1:Typed Manuscript. "Boomerang". With holograph corrections. 115 pp. In black binder. |
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Box 7: Boomerang |
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Folder 1: Autographed Manuscript "Boomerang". On oversize pages. 7 pp. |
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Folder 2: |
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Correspondence re: "Boomerang": |
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T.L.S. Sam [Seymour Lawrence], Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 20 July 1988, 2 pp., with attached 2 pp. comments. |
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T.L.S. Camille Hykes, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 20 July 1988, 2 pp. |
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T.L.S. Liz Duvall, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 6 October 1988, 1 p. |
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Facsimile. Barbara Williams, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, to Seymour Lawrence, 13 October 1988, 7 pp. |
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T.L.S. Sam [Seymour Lawrence], Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 17 October 1988, 1 p. |
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T.L.S. Camille Hykes, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 21 October 1988, 1 p. |
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T.L.S. Sam [Seymour Lawrence], Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 27 October 1988, 1 p. |
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T.L.S. Camille Hykes, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 11 November 1988, 1 p. |
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T.L.S. Sam [Seymour Lawrence], Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 21 November 1988, 3 pp. |
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T.L.S. Camille Hykes, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 22 November 1988, 1 p. |
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T.L.S. Camille Hykes, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 12 January 1989, 1 p. |
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T.D. "BOOMERANG: SL Reading Notes," 1 p. |
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Miscellaneous pages. |
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Folder 3: Autographed and T.M. Mixed collations/paginations. With holograph corrections. "Boomerang". [782 pp.]. |
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Folder 3: Typed Letter. Sam [Seymour Lawrence], Houghton Mifflin Company, New York City, 20 July 1988, 2 pp., with attached 2 pp. comments. |
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Box 8: Hey, Jack! |
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Folder 1: Printer's copy of author's corrected carbon typescript, with printer's notes. 115 pp. |
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Folder 2: Galley sheets, "Master Set-1st Pass," with corrections. |
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Folder 3: Galley sheets, "Author's Set". |
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Loose |
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Autograph manuscript notebook. "Book I" in perfect bound red cloth notebook, ruled paper. 299 pp. |
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Autograph manuscript notebook. "Book II" in perfect bound red cloth notebook, ruled paper. 283 pp. |
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A.M. In Nifty Subject Notebook. Contains both stories labeled "Hey Jack" and "Maximum Ned". 100 pp. |
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Box 9: Captain Maximum |
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Folder 1: Typed Manuscript. "Maximum Ned". Original and Photocopy. With holograph corrections. 89 pp. |
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Folder 2: Typed Manuscript. "Captain Maximum". Typescript with printer's marks. 110 pp. |
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Folder 3: Typed Manuscript. "Captain Maximum". Xerographic reproduction with holographic emendations. 104 pp. |
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Folder 4: Master galleys "Captain Maximum". November 30, [ ] 51 pp. |
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Folder 5: Master galleys. "Captain Maximum". January 9 [ ] 55 pp. |
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Folder 6: Typed Manuscript."Captain Maximus". With a few holograph corrections. 104 pp. |
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Folder 7: Typed Manuscript. "Four Photographs From My Childhood". With holograph corrections. 4 pp. |
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Folder 8: Typed Manuscript. Photocopy. "Hey Joe". With holograph corrections. 10 pp. |
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Box 10: The Tennis Handsome & Miscellaneous Oversize Manuscripts |
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Folder 1: Duplicate typesetting manuscript with printer's marks, 206 pp. |
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Folder 2: Master Galley. October 28, 1982. |
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Folder 3: Reset short galleys. December 30, 1982. 163 pp. [2]. |
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Folder 4: Autographed Manuscript. "Diamond Desert". 2 pp. |
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Folder 5: Autographed Manuscript . "Hey Joe". Dated May 22, 1981. 5 pp. |
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Box 11: The Tennis Handsome & The Esquire Stories |
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Folder 1: Short Galleys. December 20, 1982. pp. [169] |
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Folder 2: Job proofs. March 26, 1983, with invoice. 167 pp. |
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Folder 3: Miscellaneous discarded short galleys dated January 20, 1983, February 3, 1983 and February 4, 1983. |
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Folder 4: The Esquire Stories: |
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Typed Manuscript. "I Did It and Would Again". With holograph corrections on erasable bond. 15 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Love Too Long". With holograph corrections. 10 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. Photocopy. "Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed". 9/2/75. 7 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Man in the Street". With holograph corrections. 2 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Not at the Very Last a Crowd". With holograph corrections. 6 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. Photocopy "Deaf and Dumb". 6 pp |
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Typed Manuscript. "After submitting these three stories to Esquire, Lish suggested Barry Hannah put them together as one long story . . After Esquire declined (November 1975) we will submit as separate stories but using Lish versions. |
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Typed Manuscript. "The Courage of Minny Temple". 6 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Green Gets It". With holograph corrections. 10 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Do It Yourself". With holograph corrections. 11 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. Photocopy. "Behold the Man Transfigured in His Husbanding: Three Stories by Barry Hannah". |
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T.M. Photocopy. "At Home". 13 pp. |
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T.M. Photocopy. "Home Free". 6 pp. |
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T.M.S. "One Place for Another". With holograph corrections. 13 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. "With All the Old Liars Trembling at Farte Cove". 5 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. Photocopy. "Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet". 16 pp. [2] 1 copy with editorial comments. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Our Own Gardens". With holograph corrections. 13 pp. |
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Untitled version of "Our Own Gardens". 11 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. Photocopy. "Testimony of Gardens". With holograph corrections. 12 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. Photocopy. "Escape to Newark". With holograph corrections. 9 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. "Southern" [End and All in Richmond"] With holograph corrections. 7 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. ["When He Burned His House"] Title scratched out. With holograph corrections. 7 pp. |
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Typed Manuscript. Photocopy "Love Too Long". 8 pp. |
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Box 12: Miscellaneous Short Manuscripts |
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Folder 1: Authographed and Typed Manuscript. "Tuscaloosa, where I Live". 3 versions. One typewritten and two autograph manuscripts, one on lined paper. |
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Folder 2: |
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A.M. "Greenwood With George". 13 pp. |
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T.M. "Greenwood with George". 4 pp. |
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Folder 3: Authographed and Typed Manuscript. "Mackey's Diary of the Road". 10 pp. With various numbered loose pages of A.M. and T.M. |
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Folder 4: Typed Manuscript. "Victory". 3 pp. With Barry Hannah resume. |
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Folder 5: Autographed Manuscript. "Mother's Cheerleader". 3 pp. |
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Folder 6: Typed Manuscript. Mimeograph copy. "The Splendid Negro". 12 pp. |
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Folder 7: Typed Manuscript. "Me, Ribaldo: A Story of Pure Feeling". 8 pp. |
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Folder 8: Typed Manuscript. Mimeograph copy. "Love in Santa Fe". With holograph corrections. 18 pp. |
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Folder 9: Typed Manuscript. Photocopy. "Watch Out, It's a Big One". With holograph corrections. 13 pp. |
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Folder 10: |
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T.M. "Amazing Grace". 2 pp. |
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A.M. Untitled ["Amazing Grace"]. 10 pp. |
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Folder 11: Typed Manuscript. "Rita Veranof". With holograph corrections. 17 pp. [2 pages numbered "8" and two pages numbered "2"]. |
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Folder 12: Autographed Manuscript. "LTS" 2 pp. |
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Folder 13: Typed Manuscript. "Namely You". 3 pp. |
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Folder 14: Autographed Manuscript. "Hey Joe". 9 pp. |
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Folder 15: Autographed Manuscript. Untitled. ["Be patient, take it easy."] 1 p. |
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Folder 16: A.N.S. [Raymond Carver] to Barry Hannah, n. d. |
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