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Ross Russell:

A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center



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Repository: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Creator: Russell, Ross, 1909-2000
Title: Ross Russell Papers
Inclusive Dates: Bulk: ca. 1920s-1980, bulk 1940s-1970s
Extent: 58 boxes, 2 oversize folders (24.36 linear feet)
Abstract: The papers contain correspondence, research materials, lecture notes, and manuscripts and drafts of books, screenplays and articles. Also included are unfinished works of fiction and non-fiction, photographs, legal papers, transcribed interviews, and promotional literature for Dial recordings.

Administrative Information

Acquisition:

Purchase, 1980 (R8972)

Processed by:

Chip Cheek and Deborah Guidry, 1998

Restrictions

Access:

Open for research

Sources:

Lawn, Richard. "From Bird to Schoenberg: The Ross Russell Collection," Perspectives on Music, ed. Dave Oliphant and Thomas Zigal (Austin: Humanities Research Center, 1985), pp. 137-147. "Introduction," The Bebop Revolution in Words and Music, ed. Dave Oliphant (Austin: Humanities Research Center, 1994), pp. 7-9.

Scope and Contents

The papers of Ross Russell, best known as a jazz journalist, jazz historian, and the founder of Dial Records, contain correspondence; research materials; lecture notes; manuscripts and drafts of his published books ( The Sound, Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest, and Bird Lives!), as well as of screenplays, articles, and numerous unfinished works of fiction and non-fiction (most prominently an in-depth biography of Raymond Chandler); photographs; legal papers; royalties; reviews; transcribed interviews; and promotional literature for Dial recordings. The papers remain in the same order as received, and loosely reflect the following divisions: I. Correspondence, II. Jazz Writings, III. Business Records, IV. Academic Papers and Other Writings, V. Photographs, VI. Addenda.

Of special interest are letters in the correspondence files from Russell's fellow jazz historians throughout the United States and Europe. These correspondents include nearly every major figure concerned with jazz criticism and history, such as Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Max Harrison, Charles Delaunay, Rudi Blesh, Leonard Feather, Ralph Gleason, André Hodeir, Gunther Schuller, Nat Hentoff, Marshall Sterns, and Ira Gitler. There is additional correspondence from and interviews with such jazz luminaries as John Lewis, Cootie Williams, Sonny Criss, Bud Freeman, Don Lanphere, Hampton Hawes, Fats Navarro, Jessie Price, Jay McShann, Gene Ramey, Kenny Clarke, Chan Richardson, Red Rodney, and most importantly, Charlie Parker, interviewed in a backstage dressing room between sets.

Between 1949 and 1951, Dial Records expanded its scope to include contemporary classical music. Because of these business dealings, the collection also includes letters and manuscripts from Ernst Krenek and Rudolph Kolisch, as well as seventeen letters from Arnold Schoenberg.

The archive also includes a number of photographs which were reprinted in Russell's published jazz studies. Also present are other prints, proof sheets, and contact sheets produced from photographs by Russell, along with photographic essays of the 1968, 1970, 1971, and 1974 Monterey Jazz Festivals, as well as the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival, the 1967 Dixieland Festival at Disneyland, and the 1969 Jazz by the Bay Festival. The Russell files also include candid photographs of the Modern Jazz Quartet, Louis Bellson, Sonny Criss, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Handy, Hampton Hawes, Harold Land, Don Lanphere, Tony Ortega, Jessie Price, Archie Shepp, and Randy Weston.

The sale of the Russell Collection was handled by Laurence McGilvery, who provided a box-by-box inventory of the original 15 cartons of papers. The collection has since been rehoused into archival containers, and the following folder list compiled. Since the papers have been accessed using the McGilvery list for several years, this new folder list includes references to the box and folder numbers given in the McGilvery list.

Held separately in the Ransom Center are 3500 LP recordings and 78 RPM discs (1,500 of which are jazz related), and reel-to-reel and cassette tapes. Included are many Dial test pressings of jazz recordings by such masters as Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, and Red Rodney, as well as recordings of works by Schoenberg and other mid twentieth century classical composers. The Library holds 265 books, which deal primarily with jazz and jazz-related topics. Some 400 periodicals, including complete or nearly complete runs of Jazz Review, Clef, Record Changer, and Jazz Record, as well as booklets, pamphlets, programs, and record catalogs are also present.

Container List

I. Correspondence

Chronological files
BoxFolder
1 1 Pre World War II (to mother, Marguerite Russell; fiction writing, jazz, travels); 1-1
2 World War II (to Marguerite Russell; war experiences, Tempo Music Shop, Dial Records, etc.); 1-2
3 (to Marguerite Russell; golf courses, etc.); 1-3 1955-
4 (also earlier letters from various correspondents); 1-4 1959-1965
5-6 (to and from variety of friends); 1-5 Late 1960s
Jazz correspondence
BoxFolder
1 7 1-6, Prior 1940
8 1-7, 1940-19--?
9 1-8, Prior 1950
10 1-9, To 1967
   
2 1-2 General, 1-10 (late 1960s and on)
3 Jazz collectors; 1a-1
4 Special (from James Brooks, David Douglas Duncan, Philip Guston, etc.); 1a-2
5 Incomplete (partial letters; one from Martin Williams); 1a-3
6 Miscellaneous (politics, products, etc.); 1a-4
Individual correspondents
B-K
BoxFolder
2 7 Baldrige, Dale; 1a-5
7 Cash, Walter; 1a-6
7 Freeman (Freedman?), Marvin; 1a-7
7 Gutekunst, George; 1a-9
7 Holmes, Campbell; 1a-10
7 Jaeggi, Solveigh; 1a-11
7 Kendall, Lydia Marcus; 1a-12
7 Kirby, Marshall; 1a-13
7 Kline, Hoyte; 1a-14
8 Goldman, Albert; 1a-8
9 Kuehl, Linda; 1a-15
M-W
BoxFolder
3 1 Mitchell, Bruce and Mitchell, Olivia Dehn; 1a-16
1 Morrison, Allan (incomplete; needs to be gathered together or cross-referenced); 1a-17
1 Romero, Don; 1a-19
1 Ruder, Barney; 1a-20
1 Russell, Mary (stepmother); 1a-21
1 Russell, Sanders (brother); 1a-22
1 Templin, Yvonne; 1a-23
1 Wallace, Royce; 1a-24
1 ?, Scott (Ponderosa Products); 1a-26
2 Phillips, Lee; 1a-18
3 Woods, Chan Richardson Parker (Charlie Parker's last wife); 1a-25
Jazz correspondents
A-G
BoxFolder
3 4 Abercrombie, Gertrude; 1b-1
4 Balliett, Whitney; 1b-2
4 Blesh, Rudi; 1b-3
4 Chamberlain, Safford; 1b-4
4 Evans, Chris; 1b-7
4 Evans, Philip R.; 1b-8
4 Evensmo, Jan; 1b-9
4 Feather, Leonard; 1b-10
4 Freeman, Bud (Fay); 1b-11
4 Gardner, Mark; 1b-12
4 Geisler, George; 1b-13
4 Gleason, Ralph; 1b-14
4 Gottlieb, Lou; 1b-15
5 Davies, Gordon; 1b-5
6 Delaunay, Charles; 1b-6
H-M
BoxFolder
3 7 Harrison, Max; 1b-16
7 Hentoff, Nat; 1b-17
7 Hodeir, André; 1b-18
7 Johnson, Cone; 1b-19
7 Keo, Willy; 1b-20
7 Larson, Paul; 1b-21
7 Marco, Marco di; 1b-22
7 Michaelis, Kurt; 1b-23
7 Mialy, Louis-Victor; 1b-24
7 Mitz, Victor; 1b-25
O-W
BoxFolder
4 1 Owens, Tom; 1b-26
1 Reines, Lewis; 1b-28
1 Russell, William; 1b-29
1 Schuller, Gunther; 1b-30
1 Stearns, Marshall and Stearns, Jean; 1b-31
1 Turetzky, Bertram; 1b-32
1 Westerberg, Hans; 1b-33
1 Wilder, Lee; 1b-34
2 Räftegård, Börje; 1b-27
3 Williams, Martin; 1b-35


II. Jazz Writings

Writing and research
BoxFolder
4 4 Downbeat; 2-1
5 Hawes, Hampton; 2-2
6 Navarro, Fats; 2-3
7 Price, Jesse; 2-4
8 Rando, Doc; 2-5
9 Stabile, Dick; 2-6
10 West Coast Bop; 2-7
11 Jazz & Blues; 2-8
12 Jazz Hot; 2-9
13 Simmons, Sonny; 2-10
14 Jazz Quarterly; 2-11
15 Jazz Review; 2-12
16 Jazz Review (articles, 1960); 2-13
17 Orkester Journalen; 2-14
18 Record Changer series; 2-15
   
5 1 Jazz articles (index); 2-16
2 New York Times Book Review; 2-17
3 BBC (two interviews); 2-18
Reminiscing in Tempo; 2-19
BoxFolder
5 4 1 (Reminiscing on Tempo); 2-20
4 REM - hold; 2-21
5 Young, Lester; 2-22, 2-24
6 2 Gin Pr Pre-test; 2-23
7 Armstrong, Louis; California; 2-25; 1937
Liner notes
BoxFolder
5 8 Porter, Bob (Phoenix Record Co.); 2a-1
9 Garner, Erroll; McGhee, Howard; 2a-2
10 Simmons, Sonny; 2a-3
11 Tatum, Art; Norvo, Red; 2a-4
12 Record reviews (carbons); 2a-5
13 Tempo Music Shop; 2a-6
   
6 1 Bebop instrumental stylists; 2a-7
2 Allison, Mose; 2a-8
3 Shaking hands with the piano players; 2a-9
4 Davis, Miles; 2a-10
5 Garner, Erroll (article); 2a-11
6 McShann, Jay; 2a-12
7 Ledbetter, Huddie (for Texas Historical Association); 2a-13
8 Jazz articles and criticism; 2a-14
9 New directions in jazz criticism; 2a-15
10 Misc. published jazz pieces; 2a-16
11 Jazz articles, unpublished and incomplete; 2a-17
12 Jazz short fiction; 2a-18
13 Dear Old Southland (from The Sound); 2a-19
14 Mama don't allow no dancin' (from The Sound?); 2a-20
15 Play red, up comes black; 2b-1
16 New York places; 2b-2
17 Los Angeles places; 2b-3
18 Jazz humor; 2b-4
   
7 1-2 Jazz programs, leaflets; 2b-5
3 Jazz book lists; 2b-6
4 Discography (record lists); 2b-7
5 Jazz clippings (1930s); 2b-8
6 Jazz clippings; 2b-9
7 Blues (reference); 2b-10
8 Blues (Joe Turner); 2b-11
The Sound
BoxFolder
7 9 Master plot; 2b-12
10 Revision of opening (Chapter One); 2b-13
11 Revision (J. Ellison); 2b-14
12 Repair and corrections; 2b-15
   
8 1 Discarded openings; 2b-16
2 Salvage from The Sound (unpublished sequences); 2c-1
3 Big Ball (possible salvage); 2c-2
4 Unused sequences; 2c-3
5 The Hipsters (old correspondence prior Dutton); 2c-4
6 Correspondence (Dutton); 3-1
7 Correspondence (other than Dutton); 3-2; 1960-1961
8 Meadow, Noel; 3-3
9 Comments and criticism; 3-4
10 Reviews; 3-5
   
9 1 Magazines
2 New York, 3-6; 1961;
3 Mailing lists; 3-7
4 Screenplay (trial continuity); 3-8
5 Screen adaptation; 3-9
6 Loose signatures of printed edition; 3-10
7-9 Original manuscript; 3-11
Jazz Style in Kansas City & the Southwest
BoxFolder
10 1 Jazz in Kansas City (A); 3a-1
2 Scenes fictive; 3a-2
3 Research materials, chapter outlines; 3a-3
4 Research photostats; 3a-4
5 Dickert, Richard; 3a-5
6 McShann, Jay (interviews); 3a-6; 1969
7 Price, Jesse (interview); 3a-7; 1970
8 Permission to quote; 3a-8
9 Discography; 3a-9
10 Photo arrangements; 3a-10
11-12 Photos (Kansas City, B; permission for use of most must be obtained from Duncan Scheidt, Indianapolis); 3a-11
13 Index; 3a-12
   
11 1 Hold; 3a-13
2 Modern jazz style reference material; 3b-1
3 Hold; 3b-2
4-6 Manuscript pages; 13b-3
7 Page proofs; 3b-4
   
12 1 Page proofs (cont'd); 3b-4
2 Bibliography (3 x 5 cards); 3b-5
3 Correspondence (University of California Press, KC book); 3b-6
4 University of California Press catalogue; 3b-7
5-8 Original manuscript; 4-1
   
13 1 Reviews; 4-2
Bird Lives! (Charlie Parker)
BoxFolder
13 2 Parker magazine article; 4-3
3 Parker magazine article (Bird and Sartre); 4-4
4 Dictionary of American Biography; 4-5
5 Grove Dictionary of Music; 4-6
6 Yardbird in Lotus Land; 4-7
7 Yardbird (mechanics); 4-8
8 Bird Lives! (versions A, B, C, D, E); 4-9
9 Unlabelled folder containing VIII A: The Forties (extracted from "Bebop instrumental stylists"?) plus part of Bird manuscript; 4-10
10 Parker's mood; 4a-1
11 bop era musicians; 4a-2 ; 1940s
12 Parker magazine references; 4a-3
13 Downbeat; 4a-4
   
14 1 Newspaper clippings (envelope from Martin Williams); 4a-5
2 Reference material (current); 4a-6
3 Kansas City places; 4a-7
4 TOBA (Theatre Owners' Booking Association); 4a-8
5 Savoy recording dates; 4a-9
6 Parker liner notes reference; 4a-10
7 Jazz at the Philharmonic; 4a-11
Interviews
BoxFolder
14 8 Mail interviews out; 4a-12
9 Bellson, Louis; Lanphere, Don; 4a-13
10 Clarke, Kenny; 4a-14
11 Criss, Sonny; Gitler, Ira; Schlitten, Don; 4a-15
12 Daniels, Ernest; 4a-16
13 Hawes, Hampton; 4a-17
14 Leonard, Harlan; 4a-18
15 Lewis, John; 4a-19
16 Ortega, Anthony (interview, record date); 4a-20
17 Williams, Cootie; 4a-21; (Dec. 27, 1968)
18 Misc. interviews, Los Angeles; 4a-22
19 Misc. interviews, Kansas City; 4a-23
20 Minor interviews; 4a-24
21-22 Parker chronology; 4b-1
   
15 1-2 Yardbird correspondence; 4b-2, 4b-3
3 Evaluations (musical)
4 Bibliography; 4b-4
5 Parker (art); 4b-5
6 Bird Lives! critiques, letters in; 4b-6
7 Parker Discography (solos)
8 Auditions (Parker); 4b-8
9 Parker solos; 4b-9
10 Saxophone; 4b-10
11 Benedetti; 4b-11
12 Parker unpublished reference (Parker signed documents, Emry Byrd holograph, Chan Richardson (Woods) letters, Lee Phillips letters, etc.; 4b-12
   
16 1-2 Promotion; 5-1
Reviews
BoxFolder
16 3 Index; 5-2
4 No stats; 5-3
5-7 U.S.; 5-4
8 Foreign; 5-5
9 Set reviews; 5-6
10 Review photostats (U.S.); 5-7
   
17 1 Review photostats (U.S., cont'd); 5-7
2 Review photostats (foreign); 5a-1
3 Ricker-Bock-Russell old filmscript; 5a-2
4 Screenplay; 5a-3
5 Screenplay 2 (copy); 5a-4
6 Copy screenplay (another copy?); 5a-5
7 Be-Bop (Lofaro-Levine screen play); 5a-6


III. Business Records: Publishing and Recording Activities

Contracts, film and record
BoxFolder
17 8 Option agreement (film); 5a-7
9 Models, clippings, actors, directors; 5a-8
   
18 1 Dial Mechanical Rights (contains contracts signed by Parker and others, an early letter by Chan Richardson (Woods), two holograph documents by Parker, further correspondence with Emry Byrd, correspondence concerning Parker's release from Camarillo State Hospital, Calif., into Russell's custody, etc. This and similar material in the Parker unpublished reference folder have been left as last arranged by Russell and should probably be reorganized and interfiled); 6a-1
2 Recording agreement; 5a-9
3 Warner Bros. Parker box set brochure notes; 5b-1
4 Producers; 5b-2
Agents
BoxFolder
18 5-7 Goldfarb, Bob; 5b-3, 5b-4
8 Burger, Knox; 5b-5
9 Seligmann and Collier; 5b-6
   
19 1 John Farquharson Ltd. (plus dead file, Johnson, John); 5b-7
2 La Nouvelle Agence; 5b-8
3 Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale (Linder, Erich); 5b-9
4 Kern Associates, Tokyo; 5b-10
Publishers
BoxFolder
19 5 Popular Library; 5b-11
6 University of California Press; 5b-12
7-8 Quartet Books Ltd.; 6c-1
9 Werner Soderstrom; 6c-2
10 Filipacchi (French contract, Bird Lives!); 6c-3
11 Tristan Forlaget, Kobenhavn; 6c-4
12 Gidlunds Forlag; 6c-5
13 Europe (agents and publishers); 6c-6
14 Schoenberg, Arnold (and other correspondence regarding Dial classical catalog); 6a-15
15 Book accounts, contracts; 6b-1
16 Royalties; 6b-2
Litigation (see also folders 53.7-54.2)
Reisner
BoxFolder
19 17 Reference (loose material, probably copies of Reisner sources); 6b-3
   
20 1 Shaw-Williams; 6b-4
2 Hentoff, Baroness; 6b-5
3 Bibliography (periodicals); 6b-6
4 Evaluations (personal); 6b-7
5 Copies of Reisner sources; 6b-8
6 Permission to quote (this and at least part of the Reisner reference folder should probably be refiled with other Bird Lives! research materials); 6-3
7 Vs. Reisner; 6b-9
8 Supporting documents; 6b-10
9 Misc. correspondence; 6b-11
10 Defects; 6b-12
11 Hill, William Murray; 6b-13
12 Brown and Martin; 6b-14
13 Copy settlement agreement (includes most of David Cutler file, i.e., Clyde S. Munsell law firm); 6b-15
14 Copyright law, cases, decisions; 6b-16
15 Correspondence; 6b-17
16 Vs. Reisner (new material from English jazz periodicals); 6b-18
17 Gehman, Richard (magazine article on Parker); 6b-19
18 Expenses; 6b-20
19 Libel, privacy, etc.; 6-1
20 Legal problems (clippings); 6-2
   
21 1 McKay (publishing firm); 6-4
2 Expose article re McKay; 6-5
3 Hentoff, Nat; 6-6
4 Quartet Books Ltd.; 6-7
5 Oak Lawn Books; 6-8
6 Kluger, Richard, correspondence; 6-9
Rodney, Robert "Red"
BoxFolder
21 7 File description; 6-10
8 Biography (copy); 6-11
9 Men's magazine; 6-12
10-11 Correspondence; 6-13
12 Rodney; 6-14
13 Notes (Las Vegas); 6-15
14 Reference; 6-16
15 Chronology; 6-17
Record companies
BoxFolder
22 1 Magazine reviews (clippings of Dial releases); 6a-2
2 Discography (Dial); 6a-3
3 Dial discography reference; 6a-4
4 Discography (Dial; Parker); 6a-5
5 Dial classics; 6a-6
6 Tapes (DLP); 6a-7
7 Steuermann, Edward (recording date); 6a-8
8 Webern (recording date); 6a-9
9 Schuller, Gunther (recording date; Schoenberg quintet); 6a-10
10 Ajemian, Majo (recording date; Hovhaness masters); 6a-11
11 Mavra (recording date; Craft); 6a-12
12 Renard session; 6a-13
13 Goodman, Saul (recording date; Bartok, two pianos); 6a-14
14 Dial parts; 6a-16
15 Comet masters; 6a-17
16 Dial (logos, catalogs, labels); 6a-18
17 Labels (10" 78 rpm jazz; 1000 series, 750 series); 6a-19
18 Dial leasing; 6a-20
   
23 1 Williams, Tony (world's leading authority on Parker discography and proprietor of Spotlite Records, UK); 6a-21
2 Educational Media Associates of America Inc. (Kolisch memorial); 6a-22
3 Dial masters (catalog); 6a-23
4 Spotlite correspondence; 7-1
5 Spotlite (current); 7-2
6 L & W Printery, Inc.; 7-3
7 Spotlite flyers; 7-4
8 Spotlite labels
9 Blank shipping orders; 7-5
10 Packaging; 7-6
11 Spotlite invoices, inventory, journal; 7-7
   
24 1-2 Spotlite invoices, inventory, journal (cont'd); 7-7
3-4 Spotlite paid invoices, vouchers, etc.; 7-8
5 Spectra A & R; 7-9
6 Contracts, rights, titles; 7-10
7 Spotlite masters (licensing; Martial Solal and Joe Albany); 7-11
8 201 Solal, Martial (Ornithology); 7-12
9 202 Albany, Joe (Old, Old Friends); 7-13
10 203 Solal, Martial (Monuments); 7a-1
11 204 Solal, Martial ('Round Midnight); 7a-2
12 Solal, Martial; 7a-3
13 Studio log (bound); 7a-4
Distributors
BoxFolder
24 14 Correspondence (distributors and record companies); 7a-5
   
25 1 Caplin, Arnold (Biograph Records, Historical Records); 7a-6
2 Koester, Bob (Delmark Records); 7a-7
3 Onyx/Schlitten (Don Schlitten, Prestige Records, etc.); 7a-8
4 Porter, Bob (Prestige Records, Phoenix); 7a-9
5 Zimmerman, Art (Zim Records); 7a-10
6-7 Accounts paid, 7a-11; 1975
Discography and tapes (see also 22.2-22.4)
Tapes
BoxFolder
25 8 Master; 7a-12
9 Parker, Charlie; Williams, Tony; 7a-13
10 Parker, Charlie; Lanphere, Don; 7a-14
11 Lanphere, Don (notes, studio log); 7a-15
12 XL 153 master file (this and following folders apparently relate to courses bearing the same names or numbers filed under "Jazz Classes"); 7a-16
13 X 472 master; 7a-17
14 Blues tapes; 7a-18
15 History of Jazz in Kansas City and the Southwest; 7a-19
16 Modern jazz style; 7a-20
17 Africa; 7a-21
18 Joy; 7a-22
19 Records; 7a-23


IV. Academic Papers & Other Writings

Jazz classes
BoxFolder
25 20 Correspondence (academic courses); 7a-24
21 The Thirties (master); 7a-25
22 XL 132 (Jazz course); 7a-26
23 XL 153 (Jazz course); 7b-1, 7b-2
   
26 1 X 426; 7b-3
2 X 471; 7b-4
3 X 472; 7b-5
4 X 472 (modern jazz); 7b-6
5 X 473 (Kansas City); 7b-7
6 Definitions in jazz; 7b-8
7 Blues course; 7b-9
8 Photo 70; 7b-10
9 Photo course notes (appear to cover several courses); 7b-11
10 Fictive techniques; 7b-12
11 UCSD Extension (detective story); 7b-13
Writing files
BoxFolder
26 12 Writing techniques; 7c-1
13 Literary notes; 7c-2
14 Sample paragraphs; 7c-3
15 Poetics; 7c-4
16 Popular novels (notes); 7c-5
   
27 1 Books read; 7c-6
2 Authors (biographies); 7c-7
3 Books (orders and purchases); 7c-8
4 First editions; 7c-9
Language files
BoxFolder
27 5 Root families; 7c-10
6 Latin/Greek; 7c-11
7 Select Latin; 7c-12
8 French; 7c-13
9 Italian; 7c-14
10 Spanish; 7c-15
11 Vocabulary; 7c-16
Autobiography; 8-1
BoxFolder
27 13 Chronology; 8-2
14 Miscellaneous material; 8-3
15 Russell PR material; 8-4
16 Characters; 8-5
17 Tropics; 8-6
18 Leicester Country Club; 8-7
19 Russell family photos; 8-8
20 Miscellaneous photos of Russell and others; 8-9
21 Theta Delta Chi; 8-10
   
28 1 Los Angeles; 8-11
Saga
BoxFolder
28 2 A; 8-12
3 Research; 8-13
4 Scenes; 8-14
5 Chapters outline; 8-15
6 Mystery plot line; 8-16
7 Revelation sequence; 8-17
8 Cast; 8-18
9 Sets; 8-19
10 Miscellany; 8-20
11 Uncle Clint; 8-21
12 Grandma; 8-22
Miscellaneous
BoxFolder
28 13 West Indies; 8-24, 8-25?
14 Sample ads (model cars); 8-26
Baja
BoxFolder
28 15 Biblio (Baja California, Mexico); 8-27
16 Travel; 8a-1
17 Missions; 8a-2
18 Treasures; 8a-3
19 Entertainments; 8a-4
20 Name bank; 8a-5
21 Mitton, Pat (federal prisoner, San Diego County Jail); 8a-6
22 Estate of Gordon, Jack (deceased composer; based partly on Rothko case?); 8a-7
23 Night After Night; 8a-8
24 Spivey (black skip tracer); 8a-9
   
29 1 Go Bust material (exclusion from father's estate, stock market, etc.); 8a-10
2 Chapters, copy; 8a-11, 8a-12 (both folders empty)
Book ideas
BoxFolder
29 3 Ideas (new books and articles); 8a-13
4 How to; 8a-14
5 Condominiums (article); 8a-15
6 Copy of Inside Golf magazine; 8a-16
7 Jazz books; 8a-17
8 Meatball; 8a-18
9 Modern jazz style (with Bertram Turetzky); 8a-19
10 O'Keeffe, Georgia; 8a-20
11 Kanarek, Irving (defender of Charles Manson); 8a-21
12 Dysinger, Susan; 8a-22
13 Charlie Parker music 1 (this and following folder may be course material); 8a-23
14 Music, biography, 1 (Parker); 8a-24
15 Who you are (musician, put-on artist); 8a-25
Unpublished fiction
BoxFolder
29 16 Pulp Fiction 8-23 (1930s);
17 Red Azalea (complete); 8a-26
18 Maritime unions (research material); 8b-1
   
30 1 The God That Failed; 8b-2
2 Goodbye to Bohemia (two novels in folder; the second contains character studies of friends from college and early life); 8b-3
3 The Girl Who Liked Muscles (erotic novel); 8b-4
4 The Good Samaritans; 8b-5
5 My Collar Got Dirty; 8b-6
6 Call Girl; 8b-7
7 The Gold-Plated Melody; 8b-8
8-9 The Big Jackpot
   
31 1-2 The Big Jackpot (cont.)
3-9 The Disc Jockey (earlier title: Big Payola)
3 Manuscript (chapters 1-8; 126 pp.); 8b-9?
4 Copy manuscript; 8c-1
5 Pages recopied; 8c-2
6-7 Big Payola (hold); 8c-3
8 Scenes and incidents; 8c-4
9 Chapters 9 and 10; 8c-5
10 Boy Singer; 8c-6
   
32 1 Stand-up comic novel; 8c-7
2 Clippings, posters, miscellaneous correspondence (three letters; one from Noordberg, J. W.)
3 Street Shares; 9-1, 9-2?, 9-3?
Raisin' Dust (earlier title: Clay Pigeon)
BoxFolder
32 4 Four issues of Dirt Bike magazine; 9-4
5 Outline (Clay Pigeon); 9-5
6 Brock; 9-6
7 Raisin' Dust 1, 2, 3; 9-7
8 Folder 5 (from empty set of 9 folders, numbered 4-14); 9-8
9 Baja 1000 material (clippings
10 XYZ (Clay Pigeon); 9-10
11 Hold (Clay Pigeon)
Cross Hairs
BoxFolder
32 12 Two gun catalogues; 9-1
13 Outline; 9-2
14 Cast; 9-3
15 Baja California Sur (booklet published by AAA); 9-4
16 Eight folders (no contents in 6-8); 9-5 to 9-9
17 Hold; 9-10
18 XYZ; 9-11
Pious Fund
BoxFolder
32 19 Plot; 9-12
20 Research; 9-13
   
33 1 Baja California guide book; 9-14
2 Nine folders (no contents in 5-9); 9-15 to 9a-3
3 Hold; 9a-4
Chandler, Raymond (biography material)
The Day They Cleaned Up L.A.
BoxFolder
33 4 Outline; 9a-5
5 Data file; 9a-6
6 Five folders; 9a-7 to 9a-11
7 Hold; 9a-12
Los Angeles crime
BoxFolder
33 8 Crime index; 9a-13
9 Police Department; 9a-14
10 Police interviews; 9a-15
11 1920s miscellaneous (Arbuckle, Phillips, et. al.); 9a-16
12 Post-Taylor, Normand-Dines (famous crimes); 9a-17
13 Post-Taylor (1930s; Minter et. al.); 9a-18
14 Taylor (newspapers); 9a-19
15 Body politic (corruption); 9a-20
16 Raymond-Clinton recall; 9a-21
17 Crawford; Spencer; Clark (famous crimes); 9a-22
18 The Critic of Critics (sample pages); 9a-23
   
34 1 Boss criminals and master gamblers; 9a-24
2 Hoods; 9a-25
3 Gambling ships; 9a-26
4 Sets (gambling casinos); 9a-27
5 Pete, Julian; Lavine, Morris (stock swindle); 9a-28
6 The Great Los Angeles Bubble; 9a-29
7 Chandler biography (version of chapter 8); 9a-30
8 Stephens, Joe (interview, Los Angeles Police Department); 9b-1
9 Los Angeles crime books, miscellaneous; 9b-2
10 Siegel, Bugsy; 9b-3
11 Bruneman-Caress; 9b-4
12 Thicker 'N Thieves; 9b-5
13 Beverly Hills Is My Beat; 9b-6
14 Me, Detective; 9b-7
15 The Los Angeles Murders; 9b-8
16 Angel City in Turmoil; 9b-9
17 Crime -- B (magazines); 9b-10
Crime -- C (contains five folders):
BoxFolder
34 18 Miscellaneous L.A. crimes, California crime commission; (1930s)Cohen (post-war crime); Misc. L.A. crimes; (1949-1950)Southern California crime C; 9b-11; (1940s)
General reference materials
BoxFolder
34 19 Sets (actual); 9b-12
20 Sets (field notes); 9b-13
21 Sets (fiction); 9b-14
22 Chateau Bercy; 9b-15
23 Residences (Chandler residences; Cathedral City); 9b-16
24 Field; 9b-17
25 Cast (actual); 9b-18
   
35 1 Cast (fiction); 9b-19
2-3 Tie-ins (contains 8 folders):
2-3 Chandler's murderesses;
2-3 Jewel robberies;
2-3 Bay City;
2-3 Dr. Doper (sanitaria);
2-3 Mystics;
2-3 Raffles;
2-3 Cops;
2-3 Tie-ins missing; 9b-20
4 Untitled look at Raymond Chandler (Evens, Philip; original typescript), 1968
5 Taylor case (how mined); 10-2
6 Taylor, William Desmond (A); 10-3
7 Taylor book references; 10-4
8 Philip, Marlowe; 10-5
9 Marlowe (evolution); 10-6
10 Marlowe (lifestyle); 10-7
11 Eye (Marlowe); 10-8
12 Key documents; 10-9
13 Library; 10-10
14 UCLA Research Library; 10-11
15 Reference books; 10-12
16 Bibliography; 10-13
17 Bibliography (books consulted); 10-14
18 Material checked; 10-15
19 Analysis of fiction; 10-16
20 Reviews, critical opinions; 10-17
21 Style; 10-18
22 Art; 10-19
   
36 1 Exhibits (art); 10-20
2 Photo section; 10-21
3 Tape and film; 10-22
Interviews
BoxFolder
36 4 In; 10-23
5 Leads; 10-24
6 Interviews?; 10-25
7 Hollywood; 10-26
8 San Diego; 10-27
9 Correspondence (outgoing); 10-28
10 General correspondence regarding Chandler (James M. Cain, George Harmon Coxe, others); 10-29
11 Ground Observer Corps; 10-30
12 Durham, Philip (author of Down These Mean Streets); 10b-1
Correspondence
BoxFolder
36 13 Evans, Philip (London, not the same person filed under "Individual jazz correspondents"); 10b-2
14 Gardner, Mark; 10b-3
15 Giudice, Renate (Mainz); 10b-4
16 Guymon, Ned; 10b-5
17 Knopf, Alfred A.; 10b-6
18 MacShane, Frank (author of The Life of Raymond Chandler); 10b-7
19 Genre; 10b-8
20 Genre 1 (history); 10b-9
21 Genre (C); 10b-10
22 Picaresque; 10b-11
23 Innocence; 10b-12
Pulp magazines, contains:
BoxFolder
36 24 Dime Detective;
24 Black Mask;
24 Authors ( Black Mask school, bios);
24 Pulp magazines (want list); 10b-13
Fiction, contains: 1933-1935
BoxFolder
36 25 5 "Guns at Cyrano's";
25 7 "Nevada Gas"; 10b-14
26 Fiction, contains: 1936-1937
26 10 "Goldfish";
26 20 "I'll Be Waiting"; 10b-15
The Big Sleep, contains: 1939
BoxFolder
37 1 Sources;
1 Doheny Estate (Greystone Park);
1 3 "Finger Man";
1 4 "Killer in the Rain";
1 11 "The Curtain"; 10b-16
2 Farewell, My Lovely, contains: 1940
2 Sources;
2 Mike Mazurki (actor);
2 8 "The Man Who Liked Dogs";
2 12 "Try the Girl";
2 13 "Mandarin's Jade"; 10b-17
3 The High Window, 10b-18; 1942
4 The Lady in the Lake, contains: 1943
4 Sources;
4 Thelma Todd;
4 16 "Bay City Blues";
4 17 "The Lady in the Lake";
4 21 "No Crime in the Mountains";
4 Film; 10b-19
5 The Little Sister, 10c-1; 1949
6 The Long Goodbye, 10c-2; 1953
7 Playback, 10c-3; 1958
8 Sources, versions; 10c-4
9 22 "The Pencil"; 10c-5
10 23 "The Poodle Springs Story"; 10c-6
11 Raymond Chandler Speaking; 10c-7
12 Fiction (non-mystery); 10c-8
13 Non-fiction (magazine); 10c-9
14 The Armchair Detective; 10c-10
15 Stripped pages; 10c-11
16 The Simple Art of Murder (influences from essay by Thomas De Quincey); 10c-12
Correspondence
Chandler, Raymond (copies)
BoxFolder
37 17 10c-13; 1930s
18 10c-14; 1940s
   
38 1 (cont'd); 10c-14; 1940s
2 Knopf, Alfred A. (includes Chandler documents); 10c-15
3 10c-16; 1950 to end
4 Extracts from Knopf correspondence; 10c-17
5 Letters (complex dates) Knopf?; 10c-18
6 Index; 10c-19
7 BBC; 10c-20
Film
BoxFolder
38 8 Hollywood; 11-1
9 Untitled film folder; 11-2
10 The Big Sleep; 11-3
11 The Long Goodbye; 11-4
12 The High Window
13 Farewell, My Lovely; 11-5
14 Other films; 11-6
15-16 Chronology, (sources); 11-7; 1950-
   
39 1-2 Chronology (in box); 11a-1
Raymond Chandler: A Biography, chapters completed
BoxFolder
39 3 C proposal; 11a-2
4 Ray Chandler; 11a-3
5 1; 11a-4
6 2; 11a-5
7 3, contains:
7 Early years (boyhood, World War I);
7 Dulwich;
7 Wodehouse;
7 Bloomsbury;
7 California, 1912-1921;
7 Chandler before Marlowe; 11a-6
8 4; 11a-7
9 5, contains:
9 Chandler personal items (1920-1932);
9 Petroleum history;
9 Dabney Oil Co.;
9 Dabney probate; 11a-8
10 6, contains:
10 Gardner, Erle Stanley ( "The Invisible Ring");
10 1 "Blackmailers Don't Shoot";
10 2 "Smart Aleck Kill";
10 9 "Pick Up on Noon Street";
10 15 "The King in Yellow"; 11c-2
11 7 (STET Doheny/Hancock folder); 11b-1
12 8 (contains 6, Spanish Blood); 11b-2
13 9, contains:
13 14 "Red Wind";
13 18 "Pearls Are a Nuisance";
13 19 "Trouble Is My Business"; 11b-3
13 (no number 10 folder)
14 11; 11b-4
   
40 1 Three folders (no contents in 2 and 3); 11b-5
2 Revised pages to be photostatted; 11b-6
3 Extra photostats; 11b-7
4 Copy; 11b-8
5-6 Loose pages (probably discarded sheets); 11b-9
Chandler biography (original manuscript)
BoxFolder
40 7 Chapters; 11b-10
8 Chapter 1; 11b-11
9 Chapter 2; 11b-12
10 Chapter 3; 11b-13
11 Chapter 4; 11b-14
12 Chapter 5; 11c-1
13 Chapter 6; 11c-3
   
41 1 Chapter 7; 11c-4
2 Chapter 8; 11c-5
3 Chapter 9; 12-1
4 Chapter 10; 12-2
5 Chapter 11; 12-3
6 Chapter 12; 12-4
7 Chapter 13; 12-5
8 Chapter 14; 12-6
9 Chapter 15; 12-7
10 Chapter 16; 12-8
11 Chapter 17; 12-9
   
42 1-12 Xerox Manuscript, Chapters 1-12 (no chapter 8); 12a-1
   
43 1-2 Xerox Manuscript, Chapters 13-14; 12a-2
3 Refile (miscellaneous); 12b-1
Hammett, Dashiell
BoxFolder
43 4 Chronology; 12b-2
5 Correspondence; 12b-3
6 Outline (divisions, chapters; Hammett and Ambler, Eric); 12b-3
7 Chronology (empty file); 12b-3
8 Bibliography, reference; 12b-3
9 Leads, interviews; 12b-3
10 Materials, reference; 12b-3
11 Miscellaneous; 12b-3
12 Reviews by Hammett; 12b-3
13 Reviews of Hammett; 12b-3
14 Ambler, Eric; 12b-3
Bird Lives! manuscript; 12c-1
BoxFolder
44 1 Part One
2 Part Two
3 Part Three
4 Part Four
5 Acknowledgements, bibliography, etc.


V. Photographs

Monterey Jazz Festival
BoxFolder
45 1 (contact prints, programs); 13-1; 1968, September
2 (programs, etc.); 13-2; 1968
3 (extra prints); 13-3; 1968
4 (contact prints); 13-4; 1970
5-6 (prints); 13-5, 13-6; 1970
7 (clippings, etc.); 13-7; 1971, September 18
8 (McShann; prints); 13-8; 1971
9 (no photos); 13-9; 1974
10 Bongo session (prints); 13-10
Newport Jazz Festival
BoxFolder
46 1 13-11; 1957
2 (manuscript, clippings, etc.; no photos); 13-12; 1958
3-4 (Newport on Tour; San Diego Sports Arena); 13-13, 13-14; 1968
5 Jazz by the Bay, (prints); 13-15; June 1969
6 Jazz by the Bay, (8 x 10 proofs); 13-16
Dixieland at Disneyland
BoxFolder
46 7 (prints); 13-17; 1967
8 (proof sheets); 13a-1; 1967, September
9 Condon (prints); 13a-2
   
47 1 Modern Jazz Quartet, San Diego, Jazzville (contact sheets); 13a-3; April 1967
2 Modern Jazz Quartet (proofs); 13a-4
3 Bellson, Louis; 13a-5
4 Criss, Sonny; 13a-6
Ellington, Duke
BoxFolder
47 5 Prints; 13a-7
6 San Diego (contact sheets, etc.); 13a-8; 1966;
7 Disneyland (contact sheets); 13a-9; 1965, August;
8 Gillespie, Dizzy; 13a-10
9-10 Handy, John; 13a-11, 13a-12
11 Hawes, Hampton (prints); 13a-13
12 Land, Harold; 13a-14
13 Lanphere, Don; 13a-15
14 Matlock (contact sheets); 13a-16
15 Ortega, Tony; 13a-17
16 Price, Jesse; 13a-18
17 Shepp, Archie; 13a-19
18 Thornton, Big Mama; 13a-20
19 Weston; 13a-21
   
48 1 Tone production (prints); 13a-22
2 Dial classical artists (prints); 13a-23
3 Corrida (prints); 13a-24
4 Sample prints (golf, bullfight); 13b-1
5 Dial Ethnic Series
6 Camera and Lens Catalog
7 San Diego Open, 13b-2; 1964
8 San Diego Open, (clippings, etc.); 13b-3; 1965
   
49 1-5 Clippings; 14-1 to 14-4
   
50 1 Jazz style Kaycee photos; 14-5
2 Bird Lives! (alternative photos; prints); 14a-1
3 Proofs (Parker, Charlie)
4 The Chase (3 photos)
5 Bird Lives! (32 photos); 14a-2
6 Dial photos (duplicates); 14a-3
   
51 1* The bebop era (prints)--removed to folders 58.9 - 58.10; 14a-4
2* Jazz 8 x 10 prints (various festivals)--removed to folder 58.7; 14a-5
3* 16 sets of photo negatives--removed to folder 58.17; 14a-6
4 Bird Lives! (duplicates, reproset); 14a-7
5 Ellington, Duke; 14a-8
6 Dial Records (master set; with envelope)
7 Bop era photos (duplicates); 14b-1
   
52 1 Jazz 8 x 10 prints (Monterey); 14b-2; 1968
2 Proofs (contacts); 14b-3
3 Proofs (jazz copy negatives; 7050); 14b-4
4 Photos (Byas, Don)
5 Jazz photos (prints; miscellaneous sources); 14b-5
6 Blues; 14b-6
7 Bird Lives! (only photocopies); 14b-7
8 To print; 14b-8
9 Envelope from Victoria Productions; 14b-9
10 Jazz photos (Duncan Scheidt); 14b-10
11 Unidentified photos


VI. Addenda

BoxFolder
53 1 Miscellaneous letters; 79-1
2-4 The Hurry-Quick Bulletin, high school essays, clippings; 79-2
5 Charlie Parker discography; 79-3
6 Knopf-Elliot correspondence; 79-4
7 Comparison chart (Reisner); 79-5
8 Reisner matter (copy of Russell's comparison chart, with correspondence); 79-6
9 Rescission
10 Miscellaneous legal material (empty folder)
11 Exhibits and interrogations
   
54 1 Notes
2 Photocopies
3-4 Two notebooks of golf photos (probably U.S. Open); 80-1, 80-2; 1954
5 Murmansk diary (original source for "The Good Samaritans" and "My Collar Got Dirty," as well as articles in Life, Pic, and Close-up.); 80-3
   
55 1-2 Diaries (amorous adventures; entries about Dial); 80-4, 80-5); 1949 and 1950
3 West Indies diary, 80a-2; (1952-1953)
4 Day books, 13b; 1956 and 1957
   
56 1 Yearbook, 13b; 1958
2-3 Expense journals (1973-1974 and 1975-1976; related to Bird Lives! and Chandler biography); 80-3, 80a-4
4 Journal (Investment Expo); 80a-1; 1978
5 Rinehart Spring (magazine) 1960
6 New York notebook, ( The Sound); 13b 1960 and 1961
7 Literary notes; 13b
   
57 1 Two stock market journals with coded entries; 80a-5
2 Looseleaf notebook (photo essay on John Fulton, American bullfighter); 80a-6; 1964
Photo negative sets (with matching prints unless otherwise noted)
BoxFolder
58 1 7053
2 7056: Parker-Lanphere
3 7062
4 7063
5 7064: Orkester Journalem
6 7065
7 7066: Orkester Journalem
8 7067: Jazz News Paris 1
9-10 7068: Jazz News Paris 2; 7070: Jazz News Paris 3
11 7069: Jazz information
12 7074: Downbeat #2
13 7075: Downbeat #3
14 7076: Downbeat #4
15 7077: Downbeat
16 7080: Leonard, Harlan
17 7054 and 7081 (without prints)
18 Miscellaneous material (birthday cards, correspondence, photograph, Love Me Tonight ms.)


Ross Russell Papers--Index of Correspondents & Subject Files

Ross Russell Papers--Index of Works