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

Don DeLillo:

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

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	Repository:	The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
	Creator:	DeLillo, Don, 1936-
	Title:	Don DeLillo's Papers
	Dates:	ca. 1959-2003
	Extent:	120 boxes, 4 periodical boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, 8 galley folders (52 linear feet)
	Abstract:	This collection contains notes, research materials, typescript drafts, and proofs for DeLillo's novels through 2003 ( Amazons, Americana, The Body Artist, Cosmopolis, End Zone, Great Jones Street, Libra, Mao II, The Names, Ratner's Star, Running Dog, Underworld, and White Noise), as well as associated editorial correspondence and reviews; manuscripts and related production and performance materials for the plays The Day Room, The Engineer of Moonlight, and Valparaiso and the screenplay Game 6; drafts, proofs, and related correspondence for short works of fiction and non-fiction, including a novella, playlets, articles and essays; and career-related conference papers, materials demonstrating his support for Salman Rushdie, and ephemera connected to his winning of the Jerusalem Prize. Other papers include correspondence with editors, translators, other authors, his agent, parties interested in film and theatrical versions of his work, friends, and his wife; fan mail; and periodicals containing the published texts of his shorter works.
	RLIN Record #:	None
	Language:	Most material in English with some material in German and Norwegian.

Administrative Information

The papers of American novelist Don DeLillo consist of manuscripts and related materials for most of his novels, plays, short fiction and non-fiction works, his professional and personal correspondence files, as well as a collection of published versions of his short works. The collection is arranged in three series: I. Works, 1971-2003 (92 boxes); II. Correspondence, 1959-2003 (28 boxes), and III. Publications, 1960-2003 (4 periodical boxes).

Series I. Works makes up the bulk of the collection and is divided into three subseries: Subseries A. Full-Length Novels and Plays; Subseries B. Short Works; and Subseries C. Career-Related. The works are arranged alphabetically by title in each subseries; materials for individual works, in turn, are generally arranged in creation order. Subseries A. includes notes, research materials, multiple typescript drafts, and proofs, along with associated editorial correspondence and reviews for DeLillo's novels (and excerpts) through 2003: Amazons (1980); Americana (1971); The Body Artist (2001); Cosmopolis (2003); End Zone (1972); Great Jones Street (1973); Libra (1988); Mao II (1991); The Names (1982); Ratner's Star (1976); Running Dog (1978); Underworld (1997); and White Noise (1985). Research materials for the novels range from dozens upon dozens of news clippings to pamphlets on nuclear fallout to airline emergency procedure booklets. This subseries also includes manuscripts and related production and performance materials for DeLillo's plays The Day Room (1986), The Engineer of Moonlight (1979), and Valparaiso (1999), as well as a screenplay, Game 6.

The Short Works in Subseries B. are both fiction and non-fiction, and include short stories, a novella, playlets, articles, and essays, as documented through correspondence, drafts, and proofs. Subseries C. contains Career-Related materials such as papers regarding a conference held for translators who worked on Underworld; materials demonstrating DeLillo's support for Salman Rushdie; and ephemera connected to the Jerusalem Prize that was awarded to DeLillo in 1999.

While some editorial correspondence is located in the Works series, a substantial amount of DeLillo's correspondence with his editors is found in Series II. Correspondence. The sizeable correspondence files that make up this series are arranged in three subseries, matching DeLillo's original filing system: A. Alphabetical Files, B. Professional Correspondence, and C. Chronological Files. The Alphabetical Files contain large runs of correspondence from a few individuals such as Gordon Lish, Tom Grimes, and Frank Lentrrichia. There are few instances of outgoing correspondence from DeLillo in the collection, but among the notable exceptions are exchanges between DeLillo and fellow authors Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace concerning Underworld and the art of writing. Other prominent correspondents include Nelson Algren, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Ann Beattie, Harold Brodkey, Robert Coover, Frederick Exley, Norman Mailer, Rick Moody, and Philip Roth.

The Professional Correspondence in Subseries B. includes letters concerning DeLillo's published works, mainly from his editors and translators, but also from those interested in film and theatrical versions of his works. There are many pieces of correspondence between DeLillo and his longtime editor Nan Graham, as well as his agent, Lois Wallace. There is an interesting selection of correspondence concerning the translation of DeLillo's works, made up of jocular notes between DeLillo and the translators, as well as many lists of the precise meaning of the vernacular of his characters and prose. These lists were generally written as responses to a translator's specific questions from the text.

The Chronological Files in Subseries C., beginning in 1971 and continuing through 2003, consist primarily of fan mail. However, there are also many letters from friends of DeLillo and his wife, Barbara, as well as copies of responses written by DeLillo.

Series III. Publications includes four boxes of periodicals which contain the published texts of DeLillo's shorter works. These publications range from The New Yorker to Sports Illustrated and contain articles, essays, short stories, and playlets by DeLillo.

Audio and video recordings, as well as books received with the papers were transferred to appropriate departments within the Ransom Center.

In the following folder list, DeLillo's own identifications of manuscripts and drafts, when available, have been used and appear in quotation marks.

Container List


Series I. Works, 1971-2003
		Subseries A. Full-Length Novels and Plays
			Amazons (novel, 1980)
Box	Folder
1	1-4			Setting copy
	5-6			Galleys, author's set, lightly corrected, photocopy
				Correspondence
Box	Folder
2	1				Buck, Sue (collaborator), including typescripts
	2				Wallace, Lois and Tom
	3				Lawsuit
	4			Dust jackets and publicity
	5			Reviews
			Americana (novel, 1971)
				Corrected typescripts
Box	Folder
2	6				"Americana 1"
	7					Part 3 Ch. 7-12
	8					Part 3 Ch. 8-11

3	1				"1st version"
	2				"Revisions"
	3				"Revisions I and II"

4	1				"Revisions 3 and 4"
	2				"1st Revision - carbon 1"

5	1				"1st Revision - carbon 2"
	*			Author's proofs, three sets, Dec. 15, 1970; Jan. 26, 1971; n.d. [*removed to galley files]
	2-3			"Setting copy, Houghton Mifflin edition 1977"
	4			"Setting copy, 1990 Penguin edition"

6	1			Penguin revised edition, correspondence, 1988- 1989
	2			Reviews
			The Body Artist (novel, 2001)
Box	Folder
6	3			Research material
	4			"Time" notes and research materials
	5			Notes in notebook
	6-8			First draft, ribbon copy, heavily revised, Sept. 8, 1998; Jan. 5, 2000

7	1-2			First draft, cont'd
	3			Re revisions, handwritten notes in notebook, ca. Feb. 23 - July 7, 2000
	4			"Original typescript, 3/12/2000"
	5			"Master copy, 3/12/2000," uncorrected photocopy
				Revised typescript
					Ribbon copy
Box	Folder
7	6					pp. 1-125

8	1					pp. 126-244
					Photocopy
Box	Folder
8	2					pp. 1-122
	3					pp. 123-244
	4			Notes and correspondence re revisions; selected corrected typescript pages
	5			Handwritten and typescript notes, chapter outlines, draft fragments
				Galleys
Box	Folder
8	6				Large type version, "Don's copy, hold for readings"
	7				Lightly corrected
	8			Dust jacket designs and correspondence

9	1			Correspondence with translators
	2-3			Reviews, U.S.
	4-5			Reviews and articles, international
			Cosmopolis (novel, 2003)
Box	Folder
9	6-9			Notes in notebooks

10	1			General loose notes and research material
				Research material
Box	Folder
10	2				Billionaires and globalism / time
	3				Icarus and protest
	4				Rap and setting / car
	5				Streets, etc. and technology
	6				General
				First draft "work-in-progress"
Box	Folder
10	7-8				April 2000

11	1-4				April 2000, cont'd.
	5				Sept. 2001

12	1-3				Sept. 2001, cont'd.
				Corrected typescript
Box	Folder
12	4				Part one
	5				Part two
				"Fair copy-original"
Box	Folder
13	1				Part one
	2				Part two
				Photocopy, May 2002
Box	Folder
13	3				Part one
	4				Part two
				Correspondence
Box	Folder
13	5-6				Adamson, Carter, comments with typescript
	7				Translators, with replies from DeLillo

14	1			Jacket designs and copy; text changes and book titles
	2			Publicity
				Reviews and interviews
Box	Folder
14	3				U.S.
	4*				International
	5					Primarily U.K. and Ireland
	6					Primarily Germany [*oversize removed to box 125]
	7			"The Border of Fallen Bodies," (excerpt, Esquire April 2003), typescripts, proofs, publication
	8			Excerpts, various publications
			The Day Room (early titles "Motel TV," "Semi- Private," "Counterintelligence," play, 1986)
Box	Folder
15	1-3			Handwritten notes
				Typescripts
Box	Folder
15	4				"Motel TV"
	5				"Semi-Private"
	6-7				Drafts
	8				Draft, discarded pages

16	1				Drafts
	2				Corrected typescript
	3				"Latest version Knopf 8/29," photocopy
	4				Playwright Horizons, typescript, Jan. 1985
				Sundance
Box	Folder
16	5				Notebook, "Sundance, July 1985"
	6				Handwritten and typescript draft, "Sundance July 1985"

17	1				"Sundance July 1985," second copy
	2				"Changes - Sundance and after July, August 1985"
	3				"Post Sundance August 1985, copy sent to Brustein, 9/18/1985," ribbon copy
				Cambridge
Box	Folder
17	4				"Early version / Cambridge corrections"
	5				Cambridge version, Feb. 13, 1986; corrections March 10, 1986; update March 23, 1986
	6				Rehearsal script, Cambridge, March-April 1986

18	1				"Post - Cambridge, American Theater Magazine, April 21, 1986, and revisions for the Loeb, Dec. 1986"
	2			Author's galleys
	3			Published versions
				Performances
Box	Folder
18	4				Programs, various performances
	5				Manhattan Theater Club in-house reading, Nov. 26, 1984
	6				American Repertory Theatre, 1986-1987, including Robert Brustein correspondence
	7				Manhattan Theatre Club, Winter 1987
	8				Remains Theatre, Chicago, May 1993

19	1				Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2002
	2			German translation with correspondence
	3*			Dutch Foundation "Awareness Day," photo [*oversize removed to box 125]
	4			Reviews
			End Zone (original title "The Self-Erasing Word," novel, 1972)
				Typescripts
Box	Folder
20	1				"The Self-Erasing Word"
	2				"First draft"
	3				"First draft - Modes #1," 1968-1970

21	1				"Carbon #1"
	*			Galleys, 1972 [*removed to galley files]
	2*			"Game Plan," excerpt working proof [*oversize removed to box 125]
	3			Reviews
			The Engineer of Moonlight (play, 1979)
Box	Folder
22	1			Notes in notebook
				Typescript
Box	Folder
22	2				Draft "Act 1"
	3				Draft "Act 2"
	4				"Final draft"
	5-6			Manuscript, ca. 1979, and copy
			Game 6 (screenplay, 1991)
				Typescripts
Box	Folder
23	1-3				"First draft material"
	4				"Corrected draft - June 18, 1991"
	5				Draft # One

24	1				"Corrected draft #2, Sept. 1991"
	2				Corrected draft, n.d.
	3				"Revised" screenplay, notes, Sept. 17, 1991
	4				Screenplay, comments from Neil Jordan, Sept. 19, 1991
	5				Screenplay, Sept. 19, 1991
			Great Jones Street (novel, 1973)
				Typescript drafts
Box	Folder
25	1				"#1"
	2				"#2"

26	1				pp. 1-131
	2				pp. 132-344
	*			Galleys, 1972 [*removed to galley files]
	3			Reviews
			Libra (novel, 1978)
				Research materials
Box	Folder
27	1*				Articles and assassination ephemera [*oversize removed to box 125]
	2-4				Notebooks
	5				"Branch"
	6				"Carlos Marcello / Gen. Edwin Walker"
	7				"Clippings and periodicals"
	8				"Conspirators I / Conspiracy I"

28	1				"Conspirators II / Ferrie, Banister"
	2				"Elko, Rayme, Vasquez"
	3				"Jack Ruby / George DeMohrenschildt"
	4				"Oswald"
	5				"Oswald II"
	6				"Zapruder"
	7				General
				First draft [completed Sept. 25, 1987]
Box	Folder
29	1				Ch. 1
	2				Ch. 2
	3				Ch. 3
	4-5				Ch. 4
	6				Ch. 5

30	1				Ch. 5, cont'd.
	2				Ch. 6
	3				Ch. 7-8
	4				Ch. 9
	5				Ch. 10

31	1				Ch. 11
	2				Ch. 12
	3				Ch. 13
	4				Ch. 14
	5				Ch. 15
	6				Ch. 16

32	1				Ch. 17
	2				Ch. 18
	3				Ch. 19-20
	4				Ch. 21; "Legends"
	5				Ch. 22
	6				Ch. 23
	7				Ch. 24
				Typescript
Box	Folder
33	1				pp. 1-198
	2				pp. 199-411
	3				pp. 412-649
	4				pp. 650-833
	5				pp. 834-978
	6				pp. 979-1128

34	1-5			"Printer's typescript"
	6			Final draft

35	1-6			Final draft, cont'd.
	7-8			Galleys, "author's set"

36	1			"Legal" correspondence, author's notes, character alterations for purposes of legality
	2			Correspondence, index created by Bob Tindall, jacket cover, comments
	3			Publicity photo of DeLillo
				Reviews
Box	Folder
36	4				U.S., 1988
	5				British and Canadian, 1988-1989
	6				European, 1988-1990
	7			" Esquire cuts," typescript, photocopies, proofs for excerpts
				Stage adaptation
Box	Folder
36	8				"Draft," Nov. 30, 1993
	9				Scripts, Feb. 3, 1994, n.d.

37	1				Script, May 10, [1994?]
	2				Author's script with notes, April 4, 1994
	3				"Interrogations"
	4				"Chicago," notebook; notes and cards from fans
					Steppenwolf Theater Company production (Chicago, 1994)
Box	Folder
37	5					Script notes, calendar
	6					Notes, cast list, script April 25, 1994
	*					Production poster [*removed to oversize folder]
	7					Reviews
			Mao II (novel, 1991)
Box	Folder
38	1			Notes in notebooks
	2			Legal pads with rough draft notes
				Research materials
Box	Folder
38	3				"Art and Terror"
	4				"Beruit"
	5				"Characters"
	6				"China and Mao"
	7				"General"
	8				"London and Cyprus"
	9				"Moonies"
	10				"Photographs"
	11				"Waste"
				First draft
Box	Folder
39	1				"Prologue at Yankee Stadium"
	2				Ch. 1-2
	3				Ch. 3-4
	4				Ch. 5-7

40	1-2				Ch. 8-10
	3				Ch. 11
	4				Ch. 12
	5				Ch. 13-14
	6				"Epilogue in Beirut"

41	1			"Annotated Moonies, 9/25/90," typescript page
				Typescript "Mao II Original"
Box	Folder
41	2				Ch. 1-6
	3				Ch. 7-11
	4				Ch. 12-14
				Typescript
Box	Folder
41	5				Part one
	6				Part two
				Printer's typescript
Box	Folder
42	1				Part I, including letter from Courtney Hodell, Penguin
	2				Part II
	3			"Typographical Errors - partial list"
				Reviews
Box	Folder
42	4				European
	5				U.K./Canada
	6				U.S.
	7			"The Shooting of Bill Gray," (excerpt, Esquire, 1990), handwritten note from Will Blythe (editor); typescript; galleys, photocopy
			The Names (novel, 1982)
Box	Folder
43	1-4			Source materials
	5-8			Research materials
	9			Notebooks
				First draft
Box	Folder
44	1-3				Part one, Oct. 1979
	4-6				"Part one (2)"

45	1-4				Part two
	5-8				Part three, Nov. 1981
				Typescript draft
					Part one
Box	Folder
46	1					Outline, ch. 1-2
	2					Ch. 3
	3					Ch. 4
	4					Ch. 5
					Part two
Box	Folder
46	5					Outline, ch. 6-7
	6					Ch. 8
	7					Ch. 9
	8					Ch. 10
					Part three
Box	Folder
46	9					Outline, ch. 11
	10					Ch. 12
	11					Ch. 13, epilogue
				Final draft
Box	Folder
47	1				"The Island"
	2				"The Mountain"
	3				"The Desert"
				Setting copy
Box	Folder
47	4				"The Island"
	5				"The Mountain"
	6				"The Desert"
	7			Publicity photo of DeLillo
	8			"Reviews"
			Players (novel, 1977)
Box	Folder
48	1			Research notes, annotations on draft pages
				First draft
Box	Folder
48	2-3				Part one
	4				Part two
				Typescript
Box	Folder
48	5				Part one
	6				Part two
				Setting copy
Box	Folder
49	1				Index, part one
	2				Part two
	*			Author's galley proofs, 1977 [*removed to galley files]
	3			Reviews, 1977-1978
	4			" Esquire cut and proofs, 1977"
			Ratner's Star (novel, 1976)
				Research materials, clippings
Box	Folder
50	1				"People, History, Setting, Space"
	2				"The Body, Drugs, Developments, Animals"
	3				"Earth Systems, General"
	4				Scientific American, May & Sept. 1975 issues
	5				"Part I," clippings

51	1			Notebooks (7)
				"Early drafts by chapter"
Box	Folder
51	2				Ch. 1, Feb. 9, 1973
	3				Ch. 2
	4				Ch. 3-4
	5				Ch. 5
	6				Ch. 6

52	1				Ch. 7
	2				Ch. 8
	3				Ch. 9
	4				Ch. 10
	5				Ch. 11
	6				Ch. 12
	7				"Logicon Project Minus One," Oct.-Nov., 1974
				Eleven sections, no chapter indicated
Box	Folder
52	8				1-4

53	1				5-11
	2				"Adventures: Field Experiment Number One"
				Typescripts
Box	Folder
53	3				Ch. 1-5
	4				Ch. 6-10
	5				Ch. 11-12
	6				"Logicon Project Number One"

54	1-2				"Typescript 1"
	3-4				"Typescript 2"
	5				"Original typescript and setting copy 1"

55	1				"Original typescript and setting copy 1," cont'd.
	2-3				"Original typescript and setting copy"
	4			Reviews
	5			" Esquire cut" [ 1975]
			Running Dog (novel, 1978)
Box	Folder
55	6			Research materials, clippings, notebook
	7			Typescript with handwritten notes

56	1-3			Typescript draft
	4-6			Typescript draft, annotated
	7			Final draft, 1978

57	1-2			Final draft, 1978, cont'd.
	3-5			"Ms. typesetter's copy"
	6-7			Reviews
			Underworld (novel, 1997)
				Research materials, clippings
Box	Folder
58	1-2				"Baseball"
	3				"The Bomb," 1990s
	4				"The Bomb," 1990s-2001
	5				"Cyberspace"
	6-7				"Garbage"

59	1				"General"
	2				"Moscow," "Kazakhstan"
	3				"Phoenix," "Prologue," "Part One"
	4				"Part 2"
	5				"Part 3"
	6-7				"Part 4"
	8				"Part 5"
	9				"Part 6," "Epilogue"
	10				"Personal Computing" advertising supplement, New York Times, 1993, 1994

60	1-3			Notebooks
	4-5			Notebooks
				Typescript, "Work in progress"
Box	Folder
61	1-2				"Prologue 1"
	3-4				"Prologue 2"
					Part one
Box	Folder
61	5					Ch. 1

62	1					Ch. 1, cont'd.
	2					Ch. 2-3
					Part two
Box	Folder
62	3					Ch. 4
	4					Ch. 5
	5					Ch. 6
	6					Ch. 7
					Manx Martin
Box	Folder
62	7					Ch. 1

63	1					Ch. 2
	2					Ch. 3
					Part two
Box	Folder
63	3					Ch. 1-2
	4-5					Ch. 3
	6					Ch. 4

64	1					Ch. 5
	2					Ch. 6
	3					Ch. 7
	4-5					Ch. 8
	6					Ch. 9-10
					Part three
Box	Folder
64	7					Ch. 1

65	1-2					Ch. 1, cont'd.
	3					Ch. 2
	4					Ch. 3
					Part four
Box	Folder
65	5					Ch. 1

66	1-2					Ch. 5 [DeLillo's original sequence]
	3					Ch. 2
	4-5					Ch. 3
	6					Ch. 4
					Part five
Box	Folder
66	7					Ch. 1 [?]

67	1					Ch. 2[?]
	2					Ch. 3[?]
	3					Ch. 4
	4					Ch. 5
	5					Ch. 6
	6					Ch. 7
					Part six
Box	Folder
67	7					Typescript pages from Ch. 1, 2, 3
	8					Ch. 1 [?]

68	1					Ch. 2-3 [?]
	2					Ch. 4
	3					Ch. 5
	4					Ch. 6-8 [7?]
	5-6					"Epilogue"
				Second draft
Box	Folder
69	1				Prologue
	2				Manx Martin 1-3
	3-4				Part one
	5-6				Part two
	7				Part three

70	1				Part three, cont'd.
					Part four
Box	Folder
70	2					Ch. 1
	3					Ch. 2
	4					Ch. 3-4
	5					Ch. 5
					Part five
Box	Folder
70	6					Ch. 1-2
	7					Ch. 3-4
	8					Ch. 5-6
	9					Ch. 7
					Part six
Box	Folder
71	1					Ch. 1-3
	2					Ch. 4-6
	3					Ch. 7-8
	4					Epilogue
				"Original ms"
Box	Folder
71	5				Prologue
	6				Part one / Manx 1
					Part two
Box	Folder
71	7					Ch. 1-6
	8					Ch. 7-10

72	1				Part three
	2				Part four ch. 1-2 / Manx 2
	3				Part four ch. 3-5
	4				Part five ch. 1-4
	5				Part five ch. 5-7 / Manx 3
					Part six
Box	Folder
72	6					Ch. 1-5
	7					Ch. 6-8, epilogue
				Uncorrected galleys
Box	Folder
73	1				Prologue, Part one
	2				Part two
	3				Part three
	4				Part four
	5				Part five
	6				Part six
	7				Epilogue
				Corrected galleys
Box	Folder
74	1				Prologue, Part one
	2				Part two
	3				Part two
	4				Part four
	5				Part five
	6				Part six
	7				Epilogue
	8			Correspondence, corrections, 1997-1998

75	1			Cover design, international editions, Brazilian review
	2*			Cover designs, copy-editing correspondence, cover art, poster [*oversize removed to oversize folder]
	3			"Interviews"
				Reviews
Box	Folder
75	4-5				General
	6				Britain, Ireland
	7-8				Germany

76	1				Germany, cont'd.
	2				Europe, Canada, Latin America
	3				France / Quebec
	4				Italy
	5				Dutch, publicity materials [international]
	6			Articles and excerpts
			Valparaiso (early titles "The Play," "The Mysteries," play, 1999)
				First drafts
Box	Folder
77	1-3				Act I
	4-7				Act II

78	1			Early draft typescript, Jan. 22, 1991
	2			Early typescript
	3			Typescript
	4			Drafts, notes, letter from American Repertory Theatre
	5			General notes
	6			"Revised original typescript - does not incorporate Cambridge changes," Aug. - Oct. 1998
	7			Revisions, "mid-1999"
				Scribner proofs, correspondence
Box	Folder
78	8				Dec. 1998

79	1				June 1999
	2			"Revised two copies," June 1999
	3			"Copy edited ms (uncorrected)"
				Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Box	Folder
79	4				Script drafts, correspondence, 1999-2000
	5				Reviews, script notes, correspondence, 2000
	6				Page proofs, catalogue text, bound script, Dramatists Play Services, Inc.
	7*			American Repertory Theatre, Lincoln Center, production related materials, 1999-2001 [*oversize set renderings removed to oversize folder]

80	1			German translation, 1999
	2			"Germany / Austria" press, production ephemera, correspondence
	3			Foreign press coverage, production ephemera, correspondence, 1999-2003
	4			"Programs and reviews U.S."
	5			U.S. / foreign production ephemera and correspondence, 1999-2002
	6			"Letters / miscellaneous, Elliot Norton award, correspondence"
			White Noise (early title "Panasonic," novel, 1985)
Box	Folder
81	1			Research clippings, notebook, notes, typescript drafts of correspondence
				First draft
Box	Folder
81	2-3				Part one, Dec. 1982 - Feb. 1984
	4-6				Part two
	7-8				Part three

82	1				Part three, cont'd.
	2-4				Part four
				Typescript
Box	Folder
82	5				Sections 1-15
	6				Sections 16-22
	7				Sections 23-40
				Working copy
Box	Folder
82	8				Ch. 1-8

83	1				Ch. 9-19
	2				Ch. 20-21
	3				Ch. 22-27
	4				Ch. 28-34
	5				Ch. 35-40
				"Photocopy final draft"
Box	Folder
83	6				Ch. 1-18

84	1				Ch. 19-28
	2				Ch. 29-40
				Galleys
Box	Folder
84	3				Ch. 1-20
	4				Ch. 21-29
	5				Ch. 30-40
				Reviews
Box	Folder
84	6				"U.S."
	7				"Foreign"
	8			"Airborne Toxic Event," (excerpt, Esquire, 1984), handwritten note from Rust Hills (editor); multiple drafts
		Subseries B. Short Works
			Fiction
Box	Folder
85	1			[ The Angel] "Esmeralda - the excerpt" (short story, Esquire, 1994), drafts, photocopies, excerpt copy
	2-3			"Baader-Meinhof" (short story, The New Yorker, 2002), draft with annotations, research, correspondence, typescript, proof
	4			"The Black and White Ball" (short story / excerpt, The New Yorker, 1996), drafts, proofs
	5			"Creation" (short story, Antaeus, 1979), drafts
				"Human Moments in World War III" (short story, Esquire, 1983)
Box	Folder
85	6				Research clippings
	7				First draft

86	1-2				Typescripts, proofs
	3			"In the Men's Room of the 16th Century" (short story, Esquire's Big Book of Fiction, 2002), excerpt, proof
				"The Ivory Acrobat" (short story, Granta, 1989)
Box	Folder
86	4				Photos and notes, research materials
	5				Typescript drafts
	6			One Minute Plays (One Minute Play Festival, American Repertory Theatre), drafts and correspondence for: I. "The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed into Heaven," 1990; II. "The Mystery in the Middle of Ordinary Life," 1992, 2000-2001
				"Pafko at the Wall" (novella, Harper's, 1992)
Box	Folder
86	7				"Prologue to a work-in-progress (1)"
	8				"Harper's galley 1 (2)"

87	1				Fan letters, clippings "(3)"
	2				"Scribner 2001" galley, correspondence with editor
	*				Cover art [*oversize, removed to box 125]
	*				Norton Anthology proofs [*oversize, removed to box 125]
	3			"The Runner" (short story, Harper's, 1988), correspondence, draft, proof
				"The Sightings" (short story, Weekend Magazine, 1979)
Box	Folder
87	4				First draft
	5				Typescript draft, 1975-1977
	6			"Sputnik" (short story / excerpt, The New Yorker, 1997), correspondence, proofs
	7			"Videotape" (short story / excerpt, Antaeus, 1994), correspondence, proofs
			Non-Fiction
				"American Blood: A Journey…" (article, Rolling Stone, 1983)
Box	Folder
88	1				Notebooks, typescript drafts
	2				Typescript draft
	3*				Published article [*galley removed to oversize folder]
	4			"The Artist Naked in a Cage" (article, The New Yorker, 1997), research materials, drafts, proofs
				"Don DeLillo: The Word, The Image, and The Gun" (film, 1991)
Box	Folder
89	1				Omnibus correspondence and outlines
	2				Omnibus drafts
	3			"Female Nude by Louise Nevelson, 1932" (article, The Paris Review, 2003), drafts, proofs, correspondence
	4			"The Fictional Man" (article, Novel History, 2001), drafts, proofs, correspondence, 2000
				"In the Ruins of the Future" (essay, Harper's, 2001)
Box	Folder
89	5				Research clippings, correspondence
	6				Notes, drafts
	7				Drafts and copy-edits
				"The Power of History" (article, New York Times Magazine, 1997)
Box	Folder
90	1				Drafts, notes
	2				Drafts, correspondence, galley proof
	3			"Silhouette City: Hitler, Manson, and the Millennium" (article, Dimensions, 1988), research, drafts, final typescript, correspondence
	4			"That Day in Rome" (article, The New Yorker, 2003), drafts, proofs, correspondence
		Subseries C. Career-Related, ca. 1984-2003
			"Don DeLillo: The Art of Fiction," interview by Alan Begley for The Paris Review
Box	Folder
91	1			Correspondence, transcripts, drafts, 1993
	2			Corrections
	3			Final draft, corrections
	4			"Don DeLillo, City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco, 10/16/97," transcript of address
	5			Jerusalem Prize [1999], ephemera, correspondence, acceptance speech pamphlets
	*			Publicity poster, Picador Books DeLillo poster [*removed to oversize folder]
	6*			Rushdie, Salman, 1984-1994, clippings, drafts of protest letter, correspondence on behalf of Rushdie
				Translations
					Underworld
Box	Folder
91	7					"UW Interviews / travel"
	7					Translator's conference, queries, correspondence, 1997-1998

92	1					Correspondence, list of vernacular explanations, notes, photocopies
	2				"General," 1985-2003


Series II. Correspondence, 1959-2003
		Subseries A. Alphabetical Files, 1962-2003
			Individual correspondents
Box	Folder
93	1			Algren, Nelson, 1964-1972, n.d.
	2			Auster, Paul, 1984-2003;
				Banks, Russell, 1988-2003;
				Beattie, Ann, 1984-1997
	3			Benedict, Elizabeth, 1987-1991
				Britton, Burt
Box	Folder
93	4				1976-1991
	5				1992
	6				1993-1994
	7				1995-1997

94	1			Brodkey, Harold, 1964-1972;
				Buck, Sue, 1977-2003
	2			Caponegro, Mary, 1999-2000, n.d.
	3			Coover, Robert, 1991-1996
				Corbett, Bill
Box	Folder
94	4				1994-2001
	5				Aug. 2001-2003, n.d.
	6			Dabney, Dick, 1973-1976
	7			Dexter, Pete, 1988, 1992

95	1			Echlin, Kim, 1998-2001
	2			Exley, Frederick, 1972-1984
	3			Foer, Jonathan Safran
	4			Franzen, Jonathan, with replies from DeLillo, 1995-2001
	5			Gervais, Paul, 2001-2003
	6			Goerner Lee, 1976-1994
	7			Govrin, Michal, 1999-2002
				Grimes, Tom
Box	Folder
95	8				1985-1994
	9				1995-2003
	10			Hollander, John, 1998, n.d.
	11			Howard, Richard, 1987-1988
	12			Hustvedt, Siri, 1987-2003

96	1			Karr, Mary, 1993-1998
	2			Lauterbach, Ann, 1991-1997
				LeClair, Thomas
Box	Folder
96	3				1979-1984
	4				1985-1988
	5				1989-1991
	6				1992
	7				1993-1994
	8				1995-1996
	9				1997-1999
	10				2000-2001
	11				2002-2003
				Lentricchia, Frank
Box	Folder
97	1				1988-1989
	2				1990-1991
	3				1992-1994
	4				1995, 1997
	5				1998-2000
	6				2000-2003
	7				Undated
	8				DeLillo to Lentricchia
	9			Lentricchia, Melissa (Malouf), 1988-1997, n.d.
	10			Lightman, Alan, 1994-2002
				Lish, Gordon
Box	Folder
98	1				1975-1984
	2				1985-1986
	3				1987-1989
	4				1990-1992
	5				1993-1994
					1995
Box	Folder
98	6					Jan. - April
	7					May - Oct.
	8					Nov. - Dec.
					1996
Box	Folder
99	1					Jan. - May
	2					June - Aug.
	3					Oct. - Dec.
					1997
Box	Folder
99	4					Jan. - Feb.
	5					March - May
	6					June - Nov.
	7				1998

100	1				1999
	2				2000
	3				2001-2003
	4				Undated
	5			Mailer, Norman, 1984-2001, n.d.
	6			Maraini, Dacia, 2000-2002
	7			Martone, Michael, 1984-1985
	8			Matthiessen, Peter, 1984-2001
	9			McCaffery, Larry, 1986-2001, n.d.
	10			McElroy, Joseph, 1988, 1997
	11			Moody, Rick, 2000-2002
	12			Morrow, Brad, 1992-2000
	13			Moss, Sylvia, 1989
	14			Ng, Fae Myenne, 1997

101	1			O'Hara, J. D., 1976-1980
	2			Ondaatje, Michael, 1988-2000
	3			Passaro, Vince, 1990-2000
	4			Plante, David, 2000-2003
	5			Powe, B. W., 1992
	6			Roth, Philip, 1988-2000
	7			Rudman, Mark, 1990-2001
	8			Schwamm, Ellen, 1979-1980
	9			Shainberg, Lawrence, 1995-2002
	10			Wallace, David Foster, with replies from DeLillo, 1992-2003, n.d.
	11			Williams, Joy, 1987-2003
				Miscellaneous correspondents
Box	Folder
102	1				A - B
	2				C - D
	3				E - F
	4				G
	5				H
	6				J - K
	7				L
	8				M - Mc
	9				Me - Mz
	10				N - P
	11				Q - S
	12				T - Z
	13				Unidentified
		Subseries B. Professional Correspondence, 1959-2003
			Correspondence re individual works
Box	Folder
103	1			Americana, 1965-1976
	2-5			Libra, 1988-1993, n.d.
	6			Ratner's Star, re mathematics, 1978-1982
			Correspondence with editors
				General and early editorial files
					Alphabetical file
Box	Folder
104	1					Andreou, George, 2000-2003, n.d.;
						Blyth, Will, 1993-1995;
						Gottlieb, Robert, 1972, 1975;
						Hodell, Courtney, 1996-1998;
						Joseph, Ellen, 1982;
						Maschler, Tom, 1990-1991;
						Mehta, Sonny, 1996-1998;
						Plimpton, George, 1990-2000;
						Slovak, Paul, 1988, n.d.
					Chronological files
Box	Folder
104	2					1971-1991
	3					1993-2003, n.d.
	4				"Early Stories," 1959-1972
	5			Buford, Bill, 1982-2001
	6			Fisketjon, Gary, 1980-2000, n.d.
				Foreign editors
Box	Folder
104	7				1977-1990
	8				1991-1998

105	1				1999-2001
	2				2002-2003, n.d.
	3				Italian editor / publisher, 1990-1991
	4				Wallace Agency accepted, 2001-2003, n.d.
	5			Graham, Nan, 1989-2003, n.d.; "Letters to Nan Graham" forwarded to DeLillo
	6			Hills, Rust, 1962-2002, n.d.
	7-8			Howard, Gerald, 1991-2002, n.d.

106	1			Malin, Irving, 1997-2003, n.d.
	2			Marzorati, Gerald, 1990-2003, n.d.
	3			Mayer, Peter, 1989-2002
	4			Remnick, David, 1998-2003
	5-6			Sifton, Elisabeth, 1984-2001, n.d.
	7			Tonelli, Bill, 2000-2003
			Correspondence re film
Box	Folder
107	1			General, 1987-2003
	2			Brooks - Korte
	3			Luddy, Tom
	4			McAuliffe - Swaim
			Correspondence re theater
Box	Folder
107	5			General, 1984-1985, 1990, 1994, n.d.
	6			Blakemore - Wheeler
	7			Brustein, Robert, 1985-2003, n.d.
				Lavey, Martha
Box	Folder
107	8				2000
	9				2001

108	1				2002
	2				2003
	3			"Requests," 1979-2003
				Sundance Theatre Laboratory
Box	Folder
108	4				General, 1985-1998
	5				Berkman, Len, 1985-1987
	6				Fant - McKearney
	7				Phillips - Stanley
			Other correspondence
Box	Folder
109	1			Brown Project on Information, Technology, War, and Peace, 2002
	2			Bellcap Visitor, Princeton, 2001-2002
	3			Professional correspondence, comments including replies from DeLillo, 1985-2003
		Subseries C. Chronological Files, 1971-2003
Box	Folder
109	4		1971-1972
	5		1973-1975
	6		1976
	7		1977
	8		1978-1979
	9		1980-1981
	10		1982

110	1		1983
	2		1984
			1985
Box	Folder
110	3			Jan. - March
	4			April - Oct.
	5			Nov. - Dec.
			1986
Box	Folder
110	6			Jan. - April
	7			May - Dec.
			1987
Box	Folder
110	8			Jan. - June
	9			July - Dec.
			1988
Box	Folder
111	1			Jan. - July
	2			Aug. - Sept.
	3			Oct. - Dec.
			1989
Box	Folder
111	4			Jan. - May
	5			June - Dec.
			1990
Box	Folder
112	1			Jan. - July
	2			Aug - Dec.
			1991
Box	Folder
112	3			Jan. - May
	4			June - July
	5			Aug. - Dec.
			1992
Box	Folder
112	6			Jan. - March
	7			April - July

113	1			Aug. - Oct.
	2			Nov. - Dec.
			1993
Box	Folder
113	3			Jan. - April
	4			May - July
	5			Aug. - Dec.
			1994
Box	Folder
113	6			Jan. - March
	7			April - June

114	1			July - Aug.
	2			Sept. - Dec.
			1995
Box	Folder
114	3			Jan. - March
	4			April - July
	5			Aug. - Dec.
			1996
Box	Folder
114	6			Jan. - June
	7			July - Dec.
			1997
Box	Folder
115	1			Jan. - March
	2			April - Aug.
	3			Sept.
	4			Oct.
	5			Nov.
	6			Dec.
			1998
Box	Folder
116	1			Jan.
	2			Feb.
	3			March
	4			April
	5			May - June
	6			July - Sept.
	7			Oct. - Nov.
	8			Dec.
			1999
Box	Folder
117	1			Jan. - Feb.
	2			March - April
	3			May - June
	4			July - Aug.
	5			Sept. - Oct.
	6			Nov. - Dec.
			2000
Box	Folder
118	1			Jan. - Feb.
	2			March - April
	3			May - July
	4			Aug. - Oct.
	5			Nov. - Dec.
			2001
Box	Folder
118	6			Jan. - Feb.
	7			March - April

119	1			May - Aug.
	2			Sept. - Oct.
	3			Nov. - Dec.
			2002
Box	Folder
119	4			Jan. - Feb.
	5			March - May
	6			June - Aug.

120	1			Oct.
	2			Nov. - Dec.
			2003
Box	Folder
120	3			Jan. - March
	4			April - May
	5			June - Aug.
	6			Sept. - Oct.


Series III. Publications, 1960-2003
Box	Folder
121	1*	"American Blood" ( Rolling Stone, 1983) [*oversize removed to box 125]
	2	"The Angel Esmeralda" ( Esquire, 1994)
	3-4	"The Artist Naked in a Cage" ( The New Yorker, 1997)
	5	"Baader-Meinhof" ( The New Yorker, 2002)
	6	"Baghdad Towers West" ( Epoch, 1968)
	7	"The Black and White Ball" ( The New Yorker, 1996)
	8	"The Border of Fallen Bodies" ( Esquire, 2003)
	9	"The Bucky Wunderlick Story" ( The Atlantic Monthly, 1973)
	10	"Creation" ( Antaeus, 1979)
	11	"The Day in Rome" ( The New Yorker, 2003)
	12	"Day Room" ( American Theater, 1986)
	13	"The Engineer of Moonlight" ( Cornell Review, 1979)
	14	"Game Plan" ( The New Yorker, 1971)
	15	"Human Moments in World War III" ( Esquire, 1983)

122	1	"In Den Ruinen der Zukunft" (pub. Kiepenhaur & Witsch)
	2	"In the Men's Room of the Sixteenth Century" ( Esquire, 1971)
	3-5	"In the Ruins of the Future" ( Harper's, 1992)
	6	"The Lone Gunman Theory" ( Esquire, 1988)
	7*	"Looking at Meinhof" ( The Guardian, 2002) [*oversize removed to box 125]
		"The Mystery in the Middle of Ordinary Life"
Box	Folder
122	8		Norwegian translation in Norsk Shakespeare og Teater-Tidsskrift, 2003
	9		The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2000
	10-11		Zoetrope: All-Story, 2000

123	1	"Open Face" ( Harper's, 2001)
	2	"Oswald in the Lone Star State" ( Esquire, 1971)
	3	"Pafko at the Wall" ( Harper's, 1992)
	4	"Players" ( Esquire, 1977)
	5	"Pop, Pop, Hit Those People" ( Sports Illustrated, 1972)
	6	"The Power of History" ( The New York Times Magazine, 1977)
		"The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed into Heaven"
Box	Folder
123	7		Harper's, 1990
	8		The Quarterly, 1990
	9		The South Atlantic Quarterly, 1992
	10	"The River Jordan" ( Epoch, 1960)
	11	"The Runner" ( Harper's, 1988)
	12	"Showdown at Great Hole" ( Esquire, 1976)

124	1*	"The Sightings" ( Weekend Magazine, 1979) [*oversize removed to box 125]
	2-3	"Silhouette City" ( Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies, 1988)
	4	"Spaghetti and Meatballs" ( Epoch, 1965)
	5	"Sputnik" ( The New Yorker, 1997)
	6	"Take the 'A' Train" ( Epoch, 1962)
	7	"Tompkin's Square" ( Harper's, 1991)
	8	"Total Loss Weekend" ( Sports Illustrated, 1972)
	9	"A Visit from Dr. Bazelon" [from The Day Room] ( Harper's, 1986)
	10	"Walkmen" ( Vanity Fair, 1984)

125		Oversize materials

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Container List

Series I. Works, 1971-2003

Series II. Correspondence, 1959-2003

Series III. Publications, 1960-2003