10 boxes (4.2 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: 2003
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Liz Murray, 2003
RLIN Record ID: None
The collection is arranged in three series: I. Works, II. Notes, and III. Personal and Career-Related.
The Works series contains primarily plays for stage, radio, and television, beginning with Kops' earliest works, Goodbye World produced in 1959 and David It Is Getting Dark, 1960, to various drafts of I Am Isaac Babel in 2003. Also of interest is his poetry, especially new unpublished poems completed as recently as 2002.
Series II contains notes for literary projects with typescript fragments interspersed. Articles, biographical information, correspondence, interviews, and travel notes are found in Series III. Personal and Career-Related. Kops' trip aboard the cruise ship Saga Rose, leading to an article in the Guardian, is particularly well-represented.
Books received with the collection were transferred to the Ransom Center Library.
Box Folder Description
1 1-2 ANARCHIST B & B, play, revised typescript, fragments and notes 3 ANDROCLES AND THE LION, play, typescript 4 THE APPOINTMENT, libretto, B.B.C. commission 5 THE BOY WHO WOULDN'T PLAY JESUS, children's play, 1968, corrected typescript 6 BY THE WATERS OF WHITECHAPEL, uncorrected proof, to p.28, 1969 7 CALL IN THE NIGHT, play, typescript 8 COLOUR BLIND, Thirty Minute Theatre, radio play, B.B.C. 9-10 CONGRESS IN MANCHESTER, radio play for B.B.C. and Thirty Minute Theatre, 1990 11 [THE DARK AGES], play, incomplete typescript, 1965 12-13 DAVID IT IS GETTING DARK, play, two typescript versions 14 DREAMS OF ANNE FRANK, Hampstead players flyer and information on the Hungarian performance with Roma cast 2 1 EAST END TALES, play, partial corrected typescript 2 EZRA POUND, teleplay, 1981 and rehearsal script, 1982, with related typescript prose fragment FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN 3-4 Typescript fragments and handwritten notes 5 Revised play script, B.B.C. Radio 4, July 2000 GOLLEM, play 6 Typescript fragments and handwritten notes 7-8 Uncorrected typescripts, two versions 9 GOODBYE WORLD, play, typescript, 1960 I AM ISAAC BABEL, radio play 3 1-4 First handwritten notes through March-April 2003 5-6 Draft one, two typescript versions 7 Typescript before first revision 8 Notes and revised first draft, March-April 2003 9 Notes and ideas with second draft 10 Notes for third draft 11 I GROW OLD, I GROW OLD, radio script, 1979 12 I WANT TO GO HOME, teleplay, camera script 4 1 ICH BIN SCHON GANZ ZUHAUSE, published play, 1985 2 IN A STRANGE LAND, teleplay, revised typescripts 3 THE JERICHO PLAYERS, revised radio script, 1996 4 MORE THAN ONE WAY OUT, typescript synopsis, B.B.C. project, 1960 5 MOSS, play, typescript THE OPENING (AMERICAN PLAY) 2002/3, play, subsequently titled WASTELAND 6-8 Handwritten notes for "The Opening" 9 Notes and annotated draft, "Wasteland" 10-11 Typescript, with fragments, "Wasteland" 5 1 Typescript, "Wasteland" cont'd 2 OVER THE RAINBOW, radio play, typescript 3 THE PAINTING CLASS, notes for a projected play, 2003/04 4 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION, treatment for a radio play 5 PLAYING SINATRA, play, revised typescript Poetry 6 Notes and miscellaneous 7 Poems and handwritten notes 8 New unpublished poems, Sept.-Nov. 2002 9 Published poems in journals and newspapers [oversize removed to Oversize Flat Files] 10 Unpublished poems RIVERCHANGE, play 11-12 Notes 6 1 Notes, cont'd 2-3 Typescript fragments and notes 4 Various typescript versions 5 ROGUES AND VAGABONDS, play, typescript 6 SHALOM BOMB, autobiography, review and photocopy of dust jacket [printed dust jacket removed to Oversize Flat Files] 7 SIMON AT MIDNIGHT, play, excerpted in MANNA, Autumn 1984 8 A SMALL WORLD, radio script, 1961 9-10 STRAY CATS AND EMPTY BOTTLES, teleplay 11 TO THE LAND OF LOST BIRTHDAYS, unpublished children's story, corrected typescript, 1972 7 1 THE WORLD IS A WEDDING, radio play, 1980 2 YES FROM NO-MAN'S LAND, story excerpt in AMERICAN JUDAISM, 1965 3-4 Abandoned projects, not pursued
5 Notes on Ernst Toller's "Masses Man" 6-8 Handwritten notes 9 Miscellaneous typescript and handwritten notes 8 1-3 Miscellaneous notes and print material 4-5 Notes and information on China 6-7 South America project and Yangtze
9 1 Articles by and about Kops, biographical information, and miscellaneous career-related material [oversize article by Kops removed to Oversize Flat Files] 2 Correspondence 3 Interviews 4 Introduction to book of plays by Mike Leigh 5 O'Brien, Willis and stop motion animation 6 Programs, various events [oversize removed to Oversize Flat Files] Travel notes 7-8 Borneo, Feb. 2003 9-10 China, Yangtze notes, and GUARDIAN article 10 1 China, Yangtze notes, and GUARDIAN article, cont'd 2-6 GUARDIAN, journey notes, SAGA ROSE cruise, 2001 7 Wayne State College 8 Workshop notes
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