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Charles Bowden
Collection of Tennessee Williams, 1954-2004
Preliminary Inventory

5 boxes, 1 oversize folder (2.1 linear feet)

Note: This brief collection description is an accession record. The collection is not fully processed or cataloged; no biographical sketch, descriptions of series, or indexes are available.
Acquisition: Acquired from Paula Laurence Bowden, 2004
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Hope Rider, 2004
RLIN Record ID: None


Table of Contents

Scope and Contents
Folder List

Scope and Contents

The Charles Bowden collection contains materials related to Tennessee Williams and his plays. Bowden was the producer for the Broadway production of The Night of the Iguana and he and his wife, the actress Paula Laurence, were personal friends of Williams. The collection is divided into two series: Series I. Tennessee Williams Plays, ca. 1964-1976; and Series II. Williams-Related Materials.

Series I. contains scripts and some production materials for plays including The Night of the Iguana, an unproduced musical version of Camino Real, and Slapstick Tragedy. Some of these scripts include multiple handwritten and typescript revisions by Williams.

Materials in Series II. include correspondence, clippings, photographs, and programs relating to Williams.

Audio tapes received with this collection were transferred to the Ransom Center's Sound Recordings Collection. Posters, set designs, photographs by Bill Viggiano, and Williams ephemera were transferred to the Performing Arts Collection.


Folder List

Box	Folder	Description

Series I. Tennessee Williams Plays, ca. 1964-1976

		"El Camino" (musical based on CAMINO REAL,
				ca. 1976)
			Scripts
1	1			"An Untitled Musical," photocopy, May 1976
	2			"El Camino," working title, photocopy
	3			Revisions, typescript and handwritten
			Casting
	4			Actor biographies, clippings, notes
	5			Director and design, clippings and
						correspondence
	6		Contracts
	7		Correspondence re Larry Arrick and Barbara
					Damashek arbitration
	8		Financial documents
	9-10		Production materials, clippings, correspondence


2	1	THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE
				(1964), typescript
	2	A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND, photocopy,
				April 27, 1982, Maria St. Just's copy
	3	KINGDOM OF EARTH, typescript
	4	"The Negative," photocopy of revised typescript
		THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1963)
	5-7		Typescript pages with handwritten revisions
	8		Typescript, "Final and approved New York
					playing version"

3	1		Film script
	2		Newspaper clippings and programs
	3		Photographs and slides of Iguana-related material
		OUT CRY (1973), early version titled THE TWO-
				CHARACTER PLAY
	4		Typescript, July 1971
	5		Typescript, August 31, 1971, with handwritten
					revisions
	6		Handwritten revisions
	7		Programs
	8	OUT CRY and SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS
				(1972), correspondence and clippings
		SLAPSTICK TRAGEDY (1965), includes THE
				MUTILATED and THE GNÄDIGES
				FRÄULEIN
			Typescripts
	9			"Original submission, April 1964"
	10-11			"Rehearsal version, January 17, 1965"

4	1			"Rehearsal version," ca. March 1965
	2-3			Pages with handwritten revisions
	4		Accounting statements
	5		Contracts
	6		Production materials and correspondence
	7	SUMMER AND SMOKE (1972) opera, clippings and
				program
	8	THIS IS (AN ENTERTAINMENT), photocopy script
				"Key West, 	January 1974, first draft"
	9	TWO PLAYS (includes I NEVER GET DRESSED
				TILL AFTER DARK ON SUNDAYS and THE
				DAY ON WHICH A MAN DIES), photocopy
				script ca. 1971

Series II. Williams-Related Materials

	10	Awards for THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
				[oversize Drama Critic's Circle Award removed
				to oversize folder]
		Correspondence
	11		Bowden, Charles, Maria St. Just, and Tennessee
					Williams
	12		St. Just, Maria, 1983-1993
	13		Various correspondents, ca. 1964-1994

5	1	"Five O'Clock Angel" script by Kit Harvey and Maria
				St. Just, working draft photocopy ca. 1993
	2	Leverich, Lyle, materials
	3	Photographs, including Charles Bowden, Tennessee
				Williams, Audrey Wood, Rose Williams, and
				Maria St. Just
	*	Poster, "Maria St. Just Remembers Tennessee
				Williams" [removed to oversize folder]
	4-5	Theatre programs
		Williams, Rose
	6		Art work [oversize removed to oversize folder]
	7		Documents re. care, finances
	8-10	Williams, Tennessee, clippings, correspondence,
				memorial programs, obituaries


Charles Bowden, Collection of Tennessee Williams, Preliminary Inventory
(Last modified: 7 March 2005 )

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