Collection Summary
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Christ, Ronald
J.
Addition
to the Ronald Christ Collection
circa 1976-1996
10 boxes, 1
oversize box (5.4 linear feet)
This addition to the
Ronald Christ Papers contains typescripts and proofs of Christ's
The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion,
as well as correspondence with the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Wilson
Harris, Helen R. Lane (previously restricted), the Ransom Center, and the
University of Texas Press.
English.
None
Index Terms
People
Cozarinsky,
Edgardo.
Lane, Helen R.
Megged, Matti,
1923-.
Wilson, Harris,
1919-.
Organizations
Archer M. Huntington Art
Gallery.
Document Types
Typescripts.
Printer's
proofs.
Scope and Contents
This addition to the Ronald Christ Papers contains typescripts and
proofs of
Christ's The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion, as well as
correspondence with the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Wilson Harris, Helen
R. Lane (previously restricted), the Ransom Center, and the University of Texas
Press. The majority of the collection is comprised of alphabetically-arranged
works by various authors who were associated with Christ in his editorial
capacity at Lumen, Inc., SITES, and as a translator for Latin American writers.
Correspondence with these authors is found with the manuscript material.
Books, audio cassettes, and video tapes received with this collection
were transferred to appropriate departments within the Ransom Center.
Acquisition:
Gift, 1995 (Gift no. 10337)
Access:
Open for research
Processed by:
Liz Murray, 1996 (revised 2005)
Books, audio cassettes, and video tapes received with this collection
were transferred to appropriate departments within the Ransom Center.
Ronald Christ Papers--Folder List
1
1
Cahill, Kevin,
Clearing the Fields, 1994
Symposium program
1
2
Centofanti, Jorge,
Onir, novella, typescript with
translation, nd
1
3
Chilean arpilleras, photographs and contact
sheets
Christ, Ronald
The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of
Allusion, 1994
1
4-5
Proofs of 2nd printing and first edition
1
6
Index and miscellaneous pages
1
7-9
Proofs, copy editor's corrections, second edition
2
1
Unbound SITES/Lumen Books edition, 1995
Correspondence
2
2
Harris, Wilson, 1981-1982
2
3
Lane, Helen R., correspondence,
1988-1994
2
4-5
Ransom Center and the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
2
6
The University of Texas Press
3
1
The University of Texas Press, cont'd
Cozarinsky, Edgardo
Borges in/and/on Film
(1988)
3
2
Typescript, corrected
3
3
Photocopies of sources
3
4
Galleys, English translation, with corrections
3
5
Spanish edition, with corrections
Urban Voodoo (1990)
3
6
Early drafts, corrected typescripts
4
1
Early drafts, corrected typescripts, cont'd
4
2-3
Proofs
4
4
Corrected typescript, Spanish text
4
5
Editorial material
4
6
Correspondence, 1976-1988
4
7
Eltit, Diamela,
Sacred Cow (1995), materials and
correspondence related to revision of translation
4
8
Goytisolo, Juan, program, letters, transcript,
etc. related to appearance of Goytisolo and James Purdy at the Spanish
Institute in New York, Christ moderator
Jujol, Josep Maria,
The Architecture of Josep Maria
Jujol (1996)
4
9
Typescript of Christ's translation
5
1
Jujol, Josep Maria, typescript of Christ's translation,
cont'd
5
2
Llosa, Mario Vargas,
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
(1982), uncorrected proof, translation by Helen R. Lane
5
3
Márquez, Gabriel García,
Love in the Time of Cholera (1988),
uncorrected proof, translation by
Edith Grossman
Megged, Matti,
The Animal that Never Was: In Search of the
Unicorn (1992)
5
4-6
Typescripts, proofs, galleys, and correspondence
6
1-6
Typescripts, proofs, galleys, cont'd
7
1-6
Typescripts, proofs, galleys, cont'd
8
1
Parra, Nicano, texts for poetry reading at the
YMHA Poetry Center, 1984
8
2-5
Proske, Beatrice, materials related to
Anna Hyatt Huntington; D. Dollens/Christ
photographs of Huntington's work and Christ's editing of Proske typescript for
SITES issue on 19th century sculpture in New York
8
6
Puig, Manuel,
Under a Mantle of Stars (1992),
blueline and production material, translated by Christ
Sarduy, Severo,
Written On a Body (1989)
9
1-6
Corrected typescripts of translation by
Carol Maier, with correspondence
9
7-8
Galleys
10
1
Galleys, con'td
10
2
Spanish edition, photocopy of published text
10
3
Scott, Mark, typescripts of poems
10
4
Silveira, Regina, visual and gallery material,
postcards
West, Paul,
Byron and the Spoiler's Art (1992)
10
5-7
Typescripts with author's corrections
10
8-9
Proofs, corrected and uncorrected
10
10*
Miscellaneous material [*signed, framed photograph of
Rosario Galán, Puerto Rican Flamenco dancer;
and unidentified design layout with printer's instructions, removed to oversize
box 11]
11
Oversize