A Guide to the Papers of Ann Beattie
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 10414-s
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Ann Beattie, Accession #10414-s, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was deposited 1989 August 2
Scope and Content Information
This collection contains typescripts of many Beattie short stories, magazine articles, and introductions; and typescript advance copies of several books with correspondence soliciting Beattie's review, including a letter, 1988 October 12, from Jacqueline Onassis requesting a review of Darcey Steinke's novel "Up through the water."
Contents List
- Box 1
"Ed and Dave Visit the City," w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
"Heaven, On A Summer Night" and "Times," w/cover letter from The New Yorker, 5 items 1986 Oct 30TMs
- Box 1
"Home to Marie," w/corrections and cover letter from The New Yorker 1986Author's Proofs
- Box 1
"Horatio's Trick," w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
"The Hotel Luna," w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
"The Hotel Luna," w/corrections n.d.TMs electrostatic copy
- Box 1
"In Amalfi" and "Taking Hold," w/corrections and cover letter from Fiction Network, 2 items 1986TMss
- Box 1
"Janus," w/corrections and cover letter from The New Yorker ca. 1985 MayTMs
- Box 1
"Letters from Vienna," w/corrections, cover letter from Joan Harting of Elle , and a copy of an editorial letter in praise of AB's fiction ca. 1987 July 1TMs
- Box 1
"Simple Things," w/corrections and cover letter from Tom Jenks of Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ) 1988 Jan 21Galley Proofs
- Box 1
"Skeletons," w/corrections n.d.TMs electrostatic copy
- Box 1
"The Sweetest Songs," early draft, w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
"The Sweetest Songs," second draft(?), w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
"Swimming Lessons," early draft w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
"Swimming Lessons," second draft(?), w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
"Tourists," first draft (?), w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
"Tourists," second draft(?), w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
"Tourists," third draft(?) n.d.TMs electrostatic copy
- Box 1
"Tourists," fourth draft(?) w/corrections and cover letter from Lisa Grunwald of Esquire 1988TMs
- Box 1
Untitled, "At the Miami airport...," w/corrections n.d.TMs electrostatic copy
- Box 1
Untitled, "If I Knew how to climb rocks...," w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
Untitled, "Joel Meyerowitz is good...," w/corrections, 2 items n.d.TMs electrostatic copies
- Box 1
Untitled, "Meyerowitz shows...," w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
Untitled, "Taking the puppy...," w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
Untitled, "The morning Christine Darden...," w/corrections n.d.TMs
- Box 1
Ann Beattie introduction, The Best American Short Stories 1987 , w/corrections ca. 1987TMs
- Box 1
Ann Beattie introduction, The Best American Short Stories 1987 1987 JunPage Proofs
- Box 1
Ann Beattie introduction, The Best American Short Stories 1987 , w/corrections and cover letter from Larry Cooper, Houghton Mifflin Company 1987 Jun 11Page Proofs
- Box 1
Ann Beattie introduction to Sally Mann's At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women , w/corrections, ca. 1987-1988TMssS electrostatic copies
- Box 1
Ann Beattie introduction to Sally Mann's At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, w/corrections 1988Page Proofs
- Box 1
"Ann Beattie Visits The Walt Whitman Mall," early incomplete draft, w/corrections 1988 Mar/AprTMs
- Box 1
"Ann Beattie Visits The Walt Whitman Mall," corrected draft (formerly "The Walt Whitman Mall") ca. 1988TMsS electrostatic copy
- Box 1
"Ann Beattie Visits The Walt Whitman Mall," w/corrections and annotations ca. 1988TMs electrostatic copy
- Box 1
"Ann Beattie Visits The Walt Whitman Mall," w/corrections ante 1988 Jul 4Galley Proofs
- Box 1
"Ann Beattie Visits The Walt Whitman Mall," w/corrections and cover letter from John Atwood, Long Island Monthly 1988 Jul 4Galley Proofs
- Box 1
"Ann Beattie Visits The Walt Whitman Mall," w/cover letter from John Atwood, Long Island Monthly 1988 Jul 19Layout electrostatic copy
- Box 1
Articles(?) re Barbados, w/corrections, 2 items n.d.TMs
- Box 1
Sudden Fiction: American Short Stories : "Introduction" and "Afterwords" ca. 1986Electrostatic copy
- Box 1
Only One: The Special Experience of the Only Child by Ellie McGarth w/postcard from Marie Guarnaschelli, William Morrow & Co., Inc. 1988 AugustTMs electrostatic copy
- Box 2
Bicycle Days by John Burnham Schwartz, w/cover letter from Ileene Smith, Summit Books 1988 OctTMs electrostatic copy
- Box 2
What I Have to Tell You by Mary Elsie Robertson, w/cover letter from Jennifer Brehl, Doubleday 1989 FebTMs electrostatic copy
- Box 2
The Setting Sun and the Rolling World by Charles Mungoshi, w/cover letter from Deborah Chasman, Beacon Books 1989 MarPage Proofs
- Box 2
Hairdo by Susan Gilbert ca. 1989TMs electrostatic copy
- Box 2
World Sudden Fiction (Sampler) w/"Table of Contents" n.d.TMss electrostatic copies