urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00285 Alfred S. Shivers: A Preliminary Inventory of His Collection of Maxwell Anderson Research Materials at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Ransom Center Staff Harry Ransom Center, 2003 Text converted by SPI Content Sciences Inc., July 2003. Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Shivers, Alfred S., 1929- The collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, family memoirs, photographs, and transcripts of interviews with Anderson and with Anderson's family and friends compiled by Professor Shivers for his three bio-bibliographical works on the playwright. Alfred S. Shivers Collection of Maxwell Anderson Research Materials 1970s-1980s Manuscript Collection MS-04875 4 boxes (1.68 linear feet) English Acquisition:

Purchase, 2000 (Reg. no.14804)

 Availability:

Open for research

 Accessioned by:

Liz Murray, 2001

 Scope and Contents

This collection of research material on American playwright Maxwell Anderson was compiled by Prof. Alfred S. Shivers of Stephen F. Austin State University in preparing his three bio-bibliographical works on Anderson. The collection is arranged in three series: Series I. Correspondence, Series II. Research Material, and Series III. Transcripts of Interviews.

The correspondence in Series I. consists primarily of Anderson's immediate and extended family members, as well as his former students and theater colleagues. Series II. contains research material, listed in the order in which Shivers arranged the folders. Included are personal papers, family memoirs, photographs, and Anderson's 1956 oral history interview. The last series contains transcripts of interviews with family members and friend Lotte Lenya, among others.

Interview tapes and a video tape of Anderson's home movies, received with the collection, have been transferred to the Ransom Center's Sound Recordings and Photography and Film Department respectively.

 Alfred S. Shivers (Anderson Research Materials)--Folder List I. Correspondence 1 1 Anderson, Alan 1 2 Anderson, Donald 1 3 Anderson, Gilda 1 4 Anderson, Hesper 1 5 Anderson, Jane McDill 1 6 Anderson, John Kenneth 1 7 Anderson, Lawrence 1 8 Anderson, Mab 1 9 Anderson, Margaret E. Haskett 1 10 Anderson, Quentin 1 11 Axlrod, Libbe Higger 1 12 Camp, Arthur 1 13 Chambers, Glen Avery 1 14 Chambers, Lela 1 15 Cooper, Charles W. 1 16 Hamilton, Lloyd R. 1 17 Hargrove, Marion 2 1 Hulme, Kathryn 2 2 Langer, Elinor 2 3 Lenya, Lotte 2 4 Loomis, Hallie (Craytor) 2 5 Mulvehill, Tom 2 6 Norvelle, Lee 2 7 Odeski, Thomas F. 2 8 Orms, Melvin T. 2 9 Poor, Anne 2 10 Reagan, Esther 2 11 Waldo, Edna LaMoore 2 12 Wharton, John F. 2 13 Zimmer, Mrs. Margaret H. II. Research Material 2 14 Breuer, Bessie. Photocopy of her novel Take Care of My Roses Anderson, Maxwell 2 15 Part of his diary, photocopy 2 16 Poems in the diary of Josephine Herbst 2 17 Anderson, Hesper. Memoir Someone Else 2 18 Chambers, Lela. Life, a history of the Anderson family through 1975 3 1 Movie promotion materials related to the filming of MA's novel Morning, Winter and Night 3 2 Birth certificates 3 3 New City, N.Y. map 3 4 Wm. Lincoln Anderson, letter relating to him 3 5 Death certificates 3 6 Hesper's poems (copies) 3 7 Emma Stephenson Harper's memoir of the Anderson forbears 3 8 Ethel Mae Chambers Out of Dark and Bright, notes from memoir 3 9 MA's transcript from Ohio State University 3 10 Picture of MA with article 3 11 Marriage certificates 3 12 Mab and Margaret's burials 3 13 Max's funeral ceremonies 3 14 MA's oral interview, May, 10, 1956 at Columbia Univ. 3 15-17 Photographs III. Transcripts of Interviews 3 18 Anderson, Alan 3 19 Anderson, Gilda 3 20 Anderson, Hesper 4 1 Anderson, Kenneth 4 2 Anderson, Lawrence 4 3 Anderson, Lulu 4 4 Anderson, Meg 4 5 Anderson, Nancy 4 6 Anderson, Quentin 4 7 Anderson, Terence 4 8 Chambers, Avery 4 9 Chambers, Blanche 4 10 Chambers, Lela 4 11 Green, Paul 4 12 Green, Mrs. Paul 4 13 Hargrove, Marion 4 14 Lenya, Lotte 4 15 Sloane, Julie