Tevis mss., 1945-1985
Papers, 1945-1985, of Walter S. Tevis at the Lilly Library, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana
Electronic finding aid encoded by Beth Benda.
Summary Information
Repository
Lilly
Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
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Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
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Creator
Tevis, Walter S.
TitleTevis mss., 1945-1985
Collection no:
LMC 2211
Extent
ca. 1200 items
Language
Materials are in English.
Abstract
Consists primarily of the writings of
author Walter S. Tevis, 1928-1984. Tevis wrote several novels, and contributed numerous
short stories and articles to magazines. A number of his novels have been adapted for
film, including:
The Man Who Fell to Earth,
The Hustler and
The Color of
Money.
The collection contains early manuscripts, drafts, final manuscripts,
galleys and screen adaptations for most of his other longer works, although only a
photocopy of
The Hustler. In addition, there are
typescripts of a number of his articles, a play, some poetry, as well as many of his
short stories, both published and unpublished. The correspondence is small in number and
consists mostly of photocopies. However, there are three original letters from science
and fantasy fiction writer Fritz Leiber, and one each from authors E.L. Doctorow and
Herbert Gold.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
Purchase 1999.
Usage RestrictionsPrior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons
from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their
visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Tevis mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Biographical Note
Author.
Scope and Content Note
Consists primarily of the writings of author Walter S. Tevis, 1928-1984. Tevis wrote
several novels, and contributed numerous short stories and articles to magazines. A
number of his novels have been adapted for film, including:
The
Man Who Fell to Earth,
The Hustler and
The Color of
Money.
The collection contains early manuscripts, drafts, final manuscripts,
galleys and screen adaptations for most of his other longer works, although only a
photocopy of
The Hustler. In addition, there are
typescripts of a number of his articles, a play, some poetry, as well as many of his
short stories, both published and unpublished. The correspondence is small in number and
consists mostly of photocopies. However, there are three original letters from science
and fantasy fiction writer Fritz Leiber, and one each from authors E.L. Doctorow and
Herbert Gold.
The Writings are arranged as follows: Published novels, unpublished novels, articles,
childhood writings, literary criticism, a play, poetry, published book of short stories,
other published short stories, unpublished short stories, and fragments of works.
Photocopies of articles about Tevis and his writings complete the collection.
Arrangement/Organization
Arranged into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online
catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the
catalog using these terms.
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Names
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Tevis, Walter S.
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Tevis, Walter S.
--Correspondence.
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Leiber, Fritz,
1910- --Correspondence.
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Leiber, Fritz, 1910-
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Doctorow, E. L., 1931-
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Gold, Herbert, 1924-
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Topics
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Authors, American --Correspondence.
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World War, 1939-1945 --Personal
narratives, American.
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Soldiers --United States
--Correspondence.
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Motion picture film
Series:
Correspondence
Box 1
Folder 1
Nine letters written by Tevis to his family while serving in the United
States Navy during World War II, 1945-1946,
including two pages of sketches by Tevis drawn at this time
(photocopies)
Box 1
Folder 2
Correspondence arranged by correspondent
Clune, Henry W. Letters to Walter S. Tevis, Oct 8, 1974
and Nov 4,
1974
(both photocopies)
Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence. Letter to Anne Goodman Freedgood (editor),
Jan 12,
1983
Gold, Herbert. Letter to Eleanora (Walker) Tevis and Walter S.
Tevis, n.d.
Guthrie, A. B. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, Jun 1, 1952
(photocopy)
Leiber, Fritz. Letter to Eleanora (Walker) Tevis, Apr. 18, 1980
(incomplete)
Leiber, Fritz. Letters to Eleanora (Walker) Tevis and Walter S.
Tevis, Oct 24,
1980 and Jan 17, 1982
Littauer, Kenneth P. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, Jan 22, 1957
(photocopy)
Mills, Robert Park. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, May 27, 1975
(photocopy)
Riordan, Marianna. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, Jun 16, 1983
Schickel, Richard. Letter to Walter S. Tevis, May 21, 1976
(photocopy)
Tevis, Eleanora (Walker). Letter to Walter S. Tevis, May 21, 1976
(photocopy)
Tevis, Walter S. Letter to British Lion Films, Ltd., Jun 2, 1975
(photocopy)
Tevis, Walter S. Letter to W.B. Carnochan, Nov 8, 1981
(photocopy)
Tevis, Walter S. Letter to
Circus Magazine,
Dec 30, 1975
(photocopy)
Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Larry Jordan, ca. 1978-1979
(photocopy)
Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Robert P. Mills, Aug 1, 1979;
Oct 30,
1978
(photocopy of August 1, 1979)
Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Betty A. Prashker and Patrick LoBrutto,
Oct 15,
1981
Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Marianna Riordan, Jun 25, 1983
(copy)
Tevis, Walter S. Letter to Buz Wyeth (?), Oct 27, 1960
(photocopy)
Series:
Writings
The Writings are arranged as follows: Novels - published and unpublished;
articles; childhood writings; literary criticism; plays; poetry; short stories -
published and unpublished; and fragments of works. Three magazines containing
articles and photocopies of several articles all concerning Tevis and his writings
complete the collection.
Subseries:
Novels
Published novels are arranged by various forms of the book from original
manuscript to drafts to galleys, followed by related notes, outlines, synopses,
ending with alternate forms of the book, such as plays, screenplays or
teleplays. Drafts and related materials of unpublished novels are filed at the
end of this section.
The Color of Money
Box 1
Folder 3-6
Original typescript
Box 1
Folder 7-8
Author's copy of final draft, Feb 4, 1984
Box 1
Folder 9-10
Copy #3, Feb 12, 1984
Box 1
Folder 11-12
Author's final copy, Feb 13, 1984
Box 1
Folder 13-14
Draft pages
Box 1
Folder 15
Dialogue between The Color of Money and Walter S. Tevis
Box 1
Folder 16
Eddie's background
Box 1
Folder 17-18
Outlines of chapters
Box 1
Folder 19
Notes
Box 1
Folder 20
Notebooks
Box 1
Folder 21
Screenplay, draft, Dec 19, 1983
Box 1
Folder 22
Screenplay, draft, Sep 26, 1985
Box 2
Folder 1
Screenplay, by Richard Price, Rev. Dec 30, 1985
Box 2
Folder 2
Screenplay, incomplete
Box 2
Folder 3-4
Screenplay, final.
2 copies
The Hustler
Box 2
Folder 5-6
Photocopy of typescript
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Box 2
Folder 7-8
Original typescript
Box 2
Folder 9
Original typescript for Oxford University Press Alpha edition
Box 2
Folder 10
Epigraphs
Box 2
Folder 11
Screenplay by Dick Wheelwright
Box 2
Folder 12
Screenplay - suggestions and notes
Mockingbird
Box 2
Folder 13
Earliest version
Box 2
Folder 14-15
Two early versions, one date ca. Oct. 1977
Box 2
Folder 16
Opening and revision to Reader (earlier title)
Box 2
Folder 17
Part Two: Spofforth. Early version of Chapter 3 and early page of
Spofforth
Box 2
Folder 18-19
Original typescript
Box 2
Folder 20-21
Drafts
Box 2
Folder 22-23
Final manuscript
Box 3
Folder 1-4
Final manuscripts,
2 copies
Box 3
Folder 5-6
Copy edited version
Box 3
Folder 7-8
Galleys
Box 3
Folder 9
Notes
1)"Harrison [Starr, film producer] says..."; 2) "A novel is a story
and a story has direction...."
Box 3
Folder 10
Play, adapted for Readers Theatre, Bowling Green State
University, by Lois A. Cheney
Box 3
Folder 11-12
Screenplay, Written for the Television Laboratory at
WNET/THIRTEEN
2 copies
The Queen's Gambit
Box 3
Folder 13-15
Original manuscript
Box 4
Folder 1
Synopsis
Box 4
Folder 2-4
Corrected rough draft, Apr 1982
Box 4
Folder 5-7
Author's copy, final draft, Jun 30, 1982
Box 4
Folder 8
Early manuscript
Box 4
Folder 9-15
Misc. draft pages, marked "Disorderly pages" and "various
segments"
Box 4
Folder 16
Printer's copy
Box 5
Folder 1-3
Printer's copy
Box 5
Folder 4-6
Master proofs: Sep 21, 1982;
Oct 25, 1982;
Oct 27,
1982
Box 5
Folder 7-9
Setting copy
Box 5
Folder 10
"Chessbook,"
typescript of early form of novel
Box 5
Folder 11
Dialogue between
The Queen's
Gambit
and Tevis
Box 5
Folder 12
Eleanor Walker's notes on manuscript
Box 5
Folder 13
Notes and emendations
Box 5
Folder 14
Outline for Chess in America, nonfiction, precedes
The Queen's Gambit; and single page of
"Vegas"
Box 5
Folder 15
Pandolfini/Tevis consultation notes (Bruce Pandolfini, National
Master, proof read manuscript for chess errors)
Box 5
Folder 16
Synopsis
Box 5
Folder 17
Motion picture treatment
Box 5
Folder 18-19
Screenplay, several corrected typescripts
The Steps of the Sun (working title:
Belson)
Box 5
Folder 20-22
Original manuscript
Box 6
Folder 1-5
Second draft and partial second draft
Box 6
Folder 6-10
Final draft and copy
Box 6
Folder 11-14
Draft pages
Box 6
Folder 15
Printer's copy
Box 7
Folder 1-2
Printer's copy (cont.)
Box 7
Folder 3-4
Galleys
Box 7
Folder 5
Chapter 6 altered and published in
OMNI
Magazine
Box 7
Folder 6
Chinese characters for Belson's name
Box 7
Folder 7
Notes
Box 7
Folder 8
Outline
Box 7
Folder 9
Synopsis
Box 7
Folder 10-11
Motion Picture treatment
And So I Die Next (unpublished)
Box 7
Folder 12
Manuscript
Box 7
Folder 13
Notes
Box 7
Folder 14
Outline
Wit's End/Drunk (unpublished)
Box 7
Folder 15
Photocopy of manuscript
Box 7
Folder 16-19
Draft pages
Box 7
Folder 20
Outline
Subseries:
Articles
Box 7
Folder 21
"How to Play Straight Pool"
Box 7
Folder 22
"The New Young Ones"
Box 7
Folder 23
Three untitled, partial articles, all concerning pool
Box 7
Folder 24
Photocopies of articles from magazines
Subseries:
Childhood Writings
Box 7
Folder 25
Stories and a poem
Subseries:
Literary Criticism
Box 7
Folder 26-27
Written for classes at the University of Kentucky and The Iowa
Writers Workshop
Analysis from a Paragraph William Faulkner's
"That Evening Sun Go Down"
(Iowa)
Arthur Hobson Quinn on Poe (Kentucky)
The Darling Room: Tennyson and the Theme of Isolation (Iowa?)
Grammar and Language in
"April
Inventory"
by W.D. Snodgrass (Iowa?)
Gustave Flaubert:
"The Legend of St.
Julian the Hospitaller"
Impinged Lives in William Faulkner's
"The Evening Sun Go Down."
(Iowa) Aug. 5, 1961
"Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind"
by
e.e. cummings: A Parody of Discourse (Iowa)
The Poetical Reputation of Andrew Marvell: A Reappraisal.
(Kentucky) Aug. 2, 1955
The Problem of Obscurity in Five Books by Joseph Conrad (Iowa)
Spiller and Lawrence on Cooper. (Kentucky) July 8,
1957
An Undertow in one of V.L. Parrington's Main Currents and a
Reading List for English 216C. (Kentucky) June 20, 1957
Subseries:
Play
Box 7
Folder 28
Spending a Day With Mother
Subseries:
Poetry
Box 7
Folder 29
Includes the following poems:
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View All (22)
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"Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Russian Roulette, Me
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"Drunk in the Garden "
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"Drunk Poem Number One "
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"February Twenty-One, Nineteen Seventy Nine
"
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"The Game and the Play of Chess "
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"A Gratefully Recovering Alcoholic: First
Things First, Easy Does It, One Day At a Time "
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"The Hustler "
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"Jamie After Sixteen Years "
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"Mother's Visit "
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"My Name is Bobby and I Came To Play
"
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"Nineteen Seventy Eight "
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"On Metaphysics: With a Traitor "
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"A Poem for Madeleyn Who Moves Fast
"
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"Poem: With Electrodes on My Head "
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"Sci-Fi Poem Book "
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"The Spirit Moves Deeply Toward Whiskey
"
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"The Spirit Moves Fearfully Toward Sobriety
"
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"Thirteen Thirty Eight Fortieth Avenue
(appended to: The Hustler) "
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"To Julie "
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"Villanelle for H. Chovnik "
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"A Way Out "
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"Win a Few Lose a Few"
Subseries:
Short Stories
Far From Home
Box 8
Folder 1-10
Far From Home (published collection of
short stories).
Includes typescripts of the following: Introduction and Table of
Contents;
"The Apotheosis of Myra;"
"The Big Bounce;"
"Daddy;"
"Echo;"
"Out of Luck;"
"Rent Control;"
"The Scholar's Disciple;"
"Sitting in Limbo;"
"A Visit from Mother "
Box 8
Folder 11
Copy edited manuscript
Box 8
Folder 12-13
Galleys
Other published short stories
Box 8
Folder 14
"The Actors"
Box 8
Folder 15
"The King is Dead"
Box 8
Folder 16
"The Machine That Hustled Pool "
Box 8
Folder 17
"The Man from Budapest"
Box 8
Folder 18
"A Short Ride in the Dark"
Box 8
Folder 19
"Sucker's Game"
Box 8
Folder 20
Photocopies of various stories published in magazines
Unpublished short stories
Box 8
Folder 21
"The Albatross"
Box 8
Folder 22
"Big Man from the West Coast"
Box 8
Folder 23
"Cowards Die Many Times"
Box 8
Folder 24
"The Double Crossed Wire"
Box 8
Folder 25
"Gangster Cat"
Box 8
Folder 26
"The Gorilla System"
Box 8
Folder 27
"The Kingdom of Heaven"
Box 8
Folder 28
"Konraq"
Box 8
Folder 29
"Moriae Encomium"
Box 8
Folder 30
"My Name is Brown, Sir"
Box 8
Folder 31
"Royal Flush"
Box 8
Folder 32
"The Second Coming"
Box 8
Folder 33
"A Small Town Affair"
Box 8
Folder 34
"Stop!"
Box 8
Folder 35
"A Thing of Beauty"
Box 8
Folder 36
"Turnip Island"
Box 8
Folder 37
"Upright Coach"
Box 8
Folder 38
"The Weather is Uncertain"
Box 8
Folder 39
"When Last I Saw You"
Box 8
Folder 40
Untitled
Subseries:
Fragments of works
Box 8
Folder 41
"Blunt Instrument "
Box 8
Folder 42
"Burton"
Box 8
Folder 43
"Crippled for Life"
Box 8
Folder 44
"The Disillusionment of Peter Baradolph"
Box 8
Folder 45
"Fidelity"
Box 8
Folder 46
"Flight"
Box 8
Folder 47
"The Homeless"
Box 8
Folder 48
"Iago"
Box 8
Folder 49
"Mafia Bees"
Box 8
Folder 50
"The Man Himself"
Box 8
Folder 51
"Melba on Burton"
Box 8
Folder 52
"Salt 17"
Box 8
Folder 53
"School in Nowhere"
Box 8
Folder 54
"Transbox to Porbyx"
Box 8
Folder 55
Untitled fragments
Subseries:
Miscellaneous
Box 8
Folder 56-57
Photocopies of articles about Tevis and book reviews
Box 8
Folder 58
Three magazines, with articles about Tevis
"Chess: A Novel Idea,"
and an excerpt
from
The Queen's Gambit.
Chess Life,
May
1983
"Toasting the Best of Times,"
The Courier-Journal Magazine,
Jan 27,
1980
"Walter Tevis is Hustling Again,"
Sunday Plain Dealer Magazine,
May 21,
1978