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Preferred Citation

Jane Bowles Papers, 1966-1967, Accession #11037, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This item was purchased by the Library from Ken Lopez Bookseller, of Hadley, Mass., on May 26, 1992.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of thirty-seven items, 1966-1967, all belonging to the publisher's original file for the play A Quarreling Pair , which was first published in Mademoiselle a week before the play was included as the only original piece in The Collected Works of Jane Bowles , published by Farrar, Straus & Giraux, Inc. in December, 1966. The collection contains correspondence between Mademoiselle and Farrar, Straus and Giraux concerning serial rights; in-house memoranda concerning publication; the manuscript, carbons, and tearsheet copies of Truman Capote's introduction with photographs of Capote and Bowles; manuscripts and galleys of the play including copy editor's modifications; dust jacket; promo sheet; and reviews of the book.