Finding Aid for the Paul Monette papers, 1945-1995

Biographical (Including Additions)

Family

Birth

Records

Box 1, Folder 1

Birth certificate: Paul Landry Monette. October 16, 1945.

Physical Description: 1 leaf.

Scope and Content Note

Lawrence General Hospital [Lawrence, Massachusetts], Beatrice K. Barnes R.N,, hospital administrator and Richard J. Neil M.D., attending physician.

Box 1, Folder 2

Better Homes & Gardens Baby Book: Prenatal to Six Years. 1945.

Scope and Content Note

Paul Landry Monette from Fran Fead, October 16, 1945. With entries by PM's mother, 1945-1955. Baby and school photographs laid in back of book. Baptism.

Education

Elementary--Junior High

Records

Box 1, Folder 3

Report cards. 1951-1958.

Scope and Content Note

From first grade to seventh grade (no fifth grade report card). One school savings book for fourth grade.

Box 1, Folder 4

School savings program passbooks. 1953-1954.

Phillips Academy

Records

Box 1, Folder 5

Scholarship certificate. July 1961.

Physical Description: 1 card.

Scope and Content Note

Announouncement of Award Mr. Paul Landry Monette ... for the school year 1961-62 John Cornell Scholarship (signed) Headmaster.

Yale

Honors

Box 1, Folder 6

Letter from Lady Bird Johnson (First Lady). April 22, 1966.

Physical Description: 1 leaf.

Scope and Content Note

Congratulating PM on chairing A Festival for the Arts.

Box 1, Folder 7

Poetry prize, dean's list, etc. 1967.

Physical Description: Clippings.

Scope and Content Note

Dean's list Senior Year. Poetry prize in Senior Year(?). Carnegie Teaching Fellowship at Yale for year after graduation. Cf. Becoming a Man.

Travel

Box 1, Folder 8

Letters to parents from Europe. June-August 1966.

Physical Description: 33 items, 41 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

On scholarship to Cambridge.

Academic

Box 1, Folder 9

Senior thesis: The Hero of In Memoriam. April 1967.

Physical Description: [3] p.l., 72, [2] leaves. Typescript.

Scope and Content Note

To William C. DeVane and Lewis P. Curtis, my great teachers. Mentions Harold Bloom's comments.

Honors

Box 1, Folder 10

Award. Letter from Beekman C. Cannon (Master, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University). May 10, 1967.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

A College Fellows award for writing.

Records

Box 36, Folder 1

Diploma from Jonathan Edwards College. June 12, 1967. Signed by Beekman C. Cannon.

Physical Description: In Latin. 1 leaf.

Box 36, Folder 2

Diploma. Yale University. 1967.

Scope and Content Note

Primi honoris academici candidatum ad gradum titulumque artium liberalium baccalaurei ...

Alumnus

Box 1, Folder 11

Correspondence with John Groman (?). October 26, 1982 and n.d. (PM's reply).

Physical Description: Typed and holograph, signed, and typed, signed. 2 items, 3 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

About contributing to Alumni fund. PM's (irate) reply, detailing his giving to gay organizations and MECLA.

Employment

Phillips Academy

Teaching Position

Box 1, Folder 12

Check to Ishem Infirmary Hospital. August 25, 1970.

Cheshire Academy

Teaching Position

Box 1, Folder 13

The Cheshire Academy Yearbook. 1970.

Scope and Content Note

With note and photo from Joe Church, former student, dated 1993. Yearbook contains photos of PM (see index).

Travel

Documents, etc.

Passports

Box 1, Folder 14

1971, 1976.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

1971 bears no stamps, 1976 bears stamps from France (1976, 1980) and England (1977).

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Sermon

North Parish Church of Andover Unitarian Universalist

Box 1, Folder 15

Program. February 8, 1976.

Scope and Content Note

Includes short biography.

Family

Mother and Father

Notes

Box 1, Folder 16

Primarily enclosing gifts, begin ca. 1977.

Scope and Content Note

One is a poem (PM to his mother?). Dates are per PM's guess.

Relationship

Roger Horwitz

Notes, etc.

Box 1, Folder 17

Roger Horwitz to PM. 1977.

Physical Description: 1 typed note.

Scope and Content Note

Refers to Musical Comedy and Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll manuscripts.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

WBUR

Sound Recording

Box 38, Folder 1

April 30, 1978.

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette.

Friendship

Cesar Albini

Letter

Box 1, Folder 18

1978(?).

1978

General

Datebooks, etc.

Box 1, Folder 19

Schedule of activities for Cesar's visit. December 1978.

Physical Description: 1 holograph leaf.

Yale

Alumnus

Biographical

Box 1, Folder 20

From Yale Alumni magazine classnotes. 1980(?).

Physical Description: Clipping.

Scope and Content Note

Excerpt from Paul's letter which mentions his partner, Roger, and his opinions on being gay at Yale.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

The Gay Life

Sound recording

Box 38, Folder 2

Randy Alfred, The Gay Life. April 19, 1981.

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette.

1982

General

Datebooks, etc.

Box 1, Folder 21

Calendar. 1982. Entries in: Le Book Los Angeles.

1984

General

Datebooks, etc.

Box 2, Folder 1

Calendar. 1984. Entries in: Le Book Los Angeles.

Projects, Involvements, etc.

Honors

City of West Hollywood Certificate of Commendation

Box 2, Folder 2

Signed by Babette Lang, mayor, etc. November 29, 1984.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. In folder.

Relationship

Roger Horwitz

Correspondence

Box 2, Folder 3

Personal letters to PM and RH. 1986.

Memorial Items

Box 2, Folder 4

Keepsakes and correspondence re funeral and burial arrangements. 1986.

Scope and Content Note

Memorial keepsake with two poems by PM, 40 and My Shirts. Memorial keepsake with inscription from memorial tablet, correspondence re memorial tablet.

Box 2, Folder 5

Condolence letters. October 1986-November 1987.

Physical Description: 10 items, 15 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Betty Berzon, Alfed Corn, Rob Eichberg, Rudy Kikel, Susan Rankaitis, Lana Remez, Rita Remez, David Schorr, Joey Terrill.

Box 2, Folder 6

Condolence letters from Madeleine Follain. 1986-1989.

Box 2, Folder 7

Condolence letters. December 1986-December 1988.

Scope and Content Note

Letter from Casenza includes a photo of RH Names Project Quilt panel.

Box 2, Folder 8

Condolence letters. 1986.

Box 2, Folder 9

Condolence letters. 1988.

Scope and Content Note

Records of donations sent to University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in memory of RH. Mentions of Al, Bernice (RH's parents).

Box 2, Folder 10

Condolence letters. 1986-1989.

Box 2, Folder 11

Condolence letters. 1986-1987.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter from John Sonsini.

Box 2, Folder 12

Condolence letters--thinking of Roger. n.d.

Box 2, Folder 13

Condolence letters. 1990-1992.

Correspondence

Box 2, Folder 14

Letters from people who made Roger's panel for the Names Project. July 1992.

Education

Yale

Alumnus

Box 2, Folder 15

Graduate gatherings of Elihu. 1987, 1991.

Friendship / Travel

Craig Rowland

Italy

Box 37, Folder 1

Scrapbook of photographs. November 2-11, 1987.

Scope and Content Note

Cover (laminated?) with hotel receipts, Italian money, labels, etc.

1988

General

Datebooks, etc.

Box 2, Folder 16

Calendar. 1988. Entries in: Week at a Glance.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Lifestyle Update

Video Recording

Box 38, Folder 3

Show no. 68. Christmas gala special. 1988.

Physical Description: 1 video cassette.

LATC

Sound Recording

Box 38, Folder 4

LATC. December 1988.

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette.

Projects, Involvements, etc.

The Names Project: Correspondence

Letter from David Gere

Box 3, Folder 1

October 21, 1988.

Scope and Content Note

Thanking PM for being a reader at the Quilt in Washington, D.C.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Community Service Center

Newsletter Announcement and Speech

Box 3, Folder 2

Speech. November 4, 1988.

Physical Description: 2 leaves photocopy and 2 leaves typscript. With handwritten notations by PM.

Relationship

Stephen Kolzak

Correspondence

Box 3, Folder 3

Notes. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Card from SK to PM.

Box 3, Folder 4

Notes. 1988.

Scope and Content Note

Cards from SK to PM and one from PM to SK.

Box 3, Folder 5

Notes. 1989.

Scope and Content Note

One card from SK to PM and one card from PM to SK.

Box 3, Folder 6

Notes. 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Cards from SK to PM.

Box 3, Folder 7

Letters from friends. 1989.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from friends to SK and PM. Includes letter from Victor Kenyon Brown, etc.

Box 3, Folder 8

To PM from Ted Kolzak [father]. September 26, 1989.

Realia

Box 35, Folder 1

Louis Sherry Box.

Scope and Content Note

Greeting cards and memorabilia (SK and PM) kept in this Box.

Correspondence

Box 3, Folder 9

Notes. v.d. (primarily 1989 and 1990) and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

From PM to SK, SK to PM. From Louis Sherry Box (folder 1 of 2).

Box 3, Folder 10

Notes. v.d. (primarily 1989-1990) and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

From PM to SK, SK to PM. From Louis Sherry Box (folder 2 of 2).

Video Recording of Travels With PM

Box 38, Folder 5

Hawaii and Venice. January 1989 and May 1989.

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS).

Items About

Box 3, Folder 11

Clippings, etc. 1971-1990.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter from Mayor Tom Bradley (November 1, 1985, typed, signed), Jack Lemmon (typed, signed).

Journal

Box 3, Folder 12

1987.

Scope and Content Note

Journal with one leaf inserted.

Photographs

Box 3, Folder 13

n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Professional photographs.

Employment

Box 3, Folder 14

Clips from television programs' publicity. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Programs: Cheers, Night Court.

Letter Received by Stephen

Box 3, Folder 15

From friend. January 1990.

Travel Souvenirs

Box 3, Folder 16

1989.

Scope and Content Note

Greece, Paris, San Francisco. Moved from Louis Sherry Box.

Clippings

Box 34, Folder 13

1972-1981.

Scope and Content Note

Photo album from 1972 drama productions, program from 1981 Harvard Club tribute to Jack Lemmon.

Memorial Items

Box 3, Folder 17

September 22, 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Memorial location card from Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Box 3, Folder 18

Obituaries. 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Press release. Obituary published in Boston Globe, Hollywood Reporter, etc.

Box 3, Folder 19

Memorial program. September 22, 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Includes Stephen at the FDA [poem by PM].

Box 3, Folder 20

Condolence letters received. 1990-1992.

Scope and Content Note

Betty Berzon, Buzz Bryan, Tom Capps, Larry Duplechan, Michael Denneny, Robert Eichberg, Alan Fein, Katherine V. Forrest, David Kalmansohn, Rudy Kikel.

Box 3, Folder 21

Condolence letters. 1990.

Scope and Content Note

From: Steve Levitt, John Lithgow, Tim Miller, Michael Nava, Elisabeth Nonas, Torie Osborne, John Preston, Eileen Rankel, Doug Sadownick.

Box 4, Folder 1

Condolence letters. 1990.

Scope and Content Note

From: Christopher (Sands?), Rhonda Pinzer Sherman, Karen Siteman, Mason Sommers, Wendy Weil, The Names Project Staff and others.

Box 4, Folder 2

Condolence letters. 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from Robert Dawidoff, Dale Reynolds, etc.

Stephen Kolzak Award

Box 38, Folder 6

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Awards banquet(?). April 21, 1991.

Physical Description: 1 video tape.

Scope and Content Note

Award named for SK given first posthumously to SK and accepted by PM.

Box 4, Folder 3

Clippings. 1991.

Box 4, Folder 4

PM acceptance speech. 1991.

Physical Description: 2 leaves typescript.

Scope and Content Note

With handwritten notes by PM.

Letter Received

Box 4, Folder 5

From Dolores Snow, Stephen's mother. April 1993.

Friendship

Craig Rowland

Personal Correspondence

Box 4, Folder 6

August 12, 1988 (poem).

Scope and Content Note

1 typescript of poem, recto and verso, 1 letter holograph. Letter and clipping or interview with PM (New York Native).

Correspondence

Box 4, Folder 7

With Christian Draz and John (?). 1990.

Physical Description: Photocopies.

Memorial Items

Box 4, Folder 8

Eulogy written by PM. 1991.

Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript.

Scope and Content Note

Contains the history of their friendship.

Correspondence

Box 4, Folder 9

Letters from Rudy Kikel, one enclosing manuscript. April-September 1992; December 27, 1993.

Physical Description: [26 leaves total].

Scope and Content Note

Manuscript is of poems by RK based on journals of CR: 19 leaves. Typescript (wp?).

Note

See photographs in Roger Horwitz papers, Box 42 (folder 2-3).

Personal Correspondence

Box 4, Folder 10

Note from CR's mother. September 14, 1992.

Scope and Content Note

Describes CR's memorial service.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

The Survivors: People Living With Aids

Letter Received

Box 4, Folder 11

January 25, 1989 (letter). February 3, 1989 (event).

Scope and Content Note

From talent coordinator confirming PM's participation and press release.

Projects, Involvements, etc.

ACT UP

Letter Sent

Box 4, Folder 12

From Paul Monette on ACT UP letterhead. June 1989.

Physical Description: Photocopy (?).

Scope and Content Note

Signature in blue. Addressed: Dear Friend. Begins: As I write today, the AIDS nightmare enters its second decade.

Collection(s)

Photographs

Sale

Box 4, Folder 13

Inventory by Nancy Escher. December 19, 1989.

Box 4, Folder 14

Invitation to January Kesner Gallery. 1993.

Scope and Content Note

All proceeds ... will benefit the Monette / Horwitz Trust, a foundation whose purpose is to suport research in Gay and Lesbian Scholarship.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Michael Jackson (KABC Radio)

Sound Recording

Box 38, Folder 7

With Paul Monette, Torie Osborne, Bill Capobianco. January 29, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette.

Family

Mother

Memorial Items

Box 4, Folder 15

Obituary clipping. February 23, 1990.

Box 4, Folder 16

Condolence letters. 1990.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Geraldo

Video Recording

Box 38, Folder 8

March 17, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 video cassette.

Scope and Content Note

Hour-long discussion with Larry Kramer, etc. Aired April 19, 1990.

Letters Received After Appearance

Box 4, Folder 17

April 23 and 29, 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Also letter April 20 from Larry Grusin.

PM'S Health

HIV Infection

Medications

Box 4, Folder 18

Notes on those taken. ca. 1990-1993.

AIDS

Experimental Treatments

Box 4, Folder 19

1990-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Unsolicited information about experimental treatments for AIDS.

Friendship

Victor Kenyon Brown

Letters Received

Box 4, Folder 20

April 24, 1990-1991 and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Primarily undated cards, note cards.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

UCLA: The Claiming of World Citizenship: Gay and Lesbian Literature Explodes into the Nineties

Organizational Material

Box 4, Folder 21

Schedule. April 21, 1990.

Scope and Content Note

PM in panel, The Revolutionary Literature of AIDS. Includes short biographies of participants (Michael Denneny, Michael Nava, Pat Califia, etc).

Donations

City of Angels Hospice Foundation

Correspondence

Box 4, Folder 22

May and July 1990.

Scope and Content Note

re use of Don Bachardy portrait of PM for fundraising. Request and formal agreement letters. [No material from DB].

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Valley Business Alliance

Publicity

Box 4, Folder 23

Newsletter article. May 1990. With photograph of PM.

Vanity Fair

Night table reading

Box 4, Folder 24

Clipping. May 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Quote from PM about what he reads at night.

UCLA: Flowering of Gay and Lesbian Literature

Letter Received

Box 4, Folder 25

From Bob Manners. November 21, 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Manners was a student / attendee. Praising the class taught by PM and Elisabeth Nonas.

CSU (Colorado State University?)

Article

Box 4, Folder 26

October 4, 1990.

Scope and Content Note

On PM speech.

Andover Bulletin (Alumni Magazine)

Letter Received

Box 4, Folder 27

Original interview request letter from Nancy Boutilier. 1991.

Publication Material

Box 4, Folder 28

Interviewed by Nancy Boutilier. 1991. Respondents.

Note

SEE ALSO: Fan mail from Phillips Academy students.

1992

General

Datebooks, etc.

Box 4, Folder 29

Entries in: Week-at-a-glance. 1992.

Scope and Content Note

With hand-written appointments with friends and doctors and readings.

Relationship

Winston Wilde

Correspondence

Box 4, Folder 30

Letters to PM and WW. January 1992-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter from M[ichael?] Lassell.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Outwrite '92

Letter Received

Box 4, Folder 31

From David Feinberg. February 11, 1992.

Honorary Degrees

State University of New York Oswego: Doctor of Letters

Correspondence

Box 4, Folder 32

Address. May 16, 1992.

Physical Description: [2] leaves. Typescript (photocopy). 2 copies.

Honorary Degreees

State University of New York Oswego: Doctor of Letters

Program

Box 4, Folder 33

131st Commencement class of 1992. May 16, 1992.

Honorary Degrees

State University of New York Oswego: Doctor of Letters

Thanks

Box 4, Folder 34

Letter from Coy D. Ludwig. May 21, 1992.

Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typed, signed.

Clippings

Box 4, Folder 35

June 1992 and n.d.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Los Angeles Times

Letter Received

Box 4, Folder 36

Charles Salmore. n.d.

Physical Description: Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Possibly written after article which appeared Summer 1992 (?), or perhaps refers to a review of Borrowed Time(?).

Paul Monette Interview

Uncorrected Transcript

Box 4, Folder 37

Transcript of filmed interview. August 8, 1992.

Writing--General

Pen Freedom to Write Award

Letter Received

Box 4, Folder 38

August 4, 1992.

Program

Box 4, Folder 39

October 4, 1992.

Pen Freedom to Write Award: Keeping Society Honest, an Interview with Paul Monette by David L. Ulin

Interview in Organizational Newsletter

Box 4, Folder 40

In: Center, the magazine of PEN Center USA West. Winter 1993.

Physical Description: pp.10-11, 23.

Pen Freedom to Write Award

Memorabilia

Box 36, Folder 3

City of Los Angeles congratulations signed by Michael K. Woo, councilman 13th district. October 4, 1992.

Physical Description: 1 leaf in folder.

Scope and Content Note

Congratulations Paul Monette upon being honored by PEN West for promoting literary freedom throughout the world.

Projects, Involvements, etc.

Paul Monette papers

Letters Received

Box 5, Folder 1

Soliciting papers. August 28, 1992 and January 28, 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Sherry Thomas (San Francisco Public Library), Lisa Browar (New York Public Library).

Article

Box 5, Folder 2

In: The UCLA Lesbian and Gay Faculty / Staff Network Newsletter. vol.4 no.3. Spring 1993.

Physical Description: p.4.

Note

See also: UCLA Librarian article, filed in Box 22 folder 10.

Honorary Degrees

Wesleyan University: Doctor of Letters

Nomination

Box 5, Folder 3

Letter from David Schorr. November 1992.

Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Refers to his putting PM's name forward for honorary degree.

Inivitation and Arrangements

Box 5, Folder 4

Letters from William Chace. November 30 and December 8, 1992; May 11, 1993.

Physical Description: Each letter is 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Also printed invitations and schedule.

Program

Box 5, Folder 5

One hundred and sixty-first commencement. May 30, 1993.

Physical Description: 2 copies.

Publicity and Memorabilia

Box 5, Folder 6

Cover letter for degree, article, placecards. May 30, 1993 and Summer 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Placecards for: PM, David Schorr, Winston Wilde.

Photographs

Box 5, Folder 7

Unidentified. May 30, 1993(?).

Physical Description: 2 color enlargements.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

UCLA Event

Letters Received

Box 5, Folder 8

Peter Thorslev, etc. 1993(?).

Scope and Content Note

Enclosed PT's introduction for the first scheduled talk at UCLA. PM unable to appear that date. Cf. next file. Letter from Barbara Packer February 9, 1993.

Fliers and Letters Received

Box 5, Folder 9

From: Daniel G. Calder, Dan Luckenbill, Peter Thorslev. February 18, 1993.

GLAAD Los Angeles Media Awards: 4th Annual

Program

Box 5, Folder 10

Out and In Focus. March 20, 1993.

Scope and Content Note

PM presented SF Kolzak award to Sir Ian McKellen.

Post Appearance Material

Box 5, Folder 11

Letters from Ian McKellen. March 21 and May 14, 1993.

Physical Description: 2 leaves. Holograph, signed.

Scope and Content Note

First is card with envelope, referring to the GLAAD ceremony.

U.S. Holocaust Museum

Publication Material

Box 36, Folder 16

Photograph in: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Newsletter. Spring 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Prints photograph of PM and WW, with quotation from PM.

UCLA Event: Paul Monette Speaks of Joy of Being Free, Eloquent Truth Telling, His Dog Puck, by Dan Luckenbill

Article

Box 5, Folder 2

In: The UCLA Lesbian and Gay Faculty / Staff Network Newsletter vol.4 no.3. Spring 1993.

Physical Description: p.5.

Projects, Involvements, etc.

Monette / Horwitz Trust

Letters Received

Box 5, Folder 12

From people who want to make donations. 1993-1994.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Work Used in an Academic Project

Publication Material

Box 5, Folder 13

Used in Master's degree thesis by David Barrett. April 7, 1993 (after).

Correspondence

Box 5, Folder 14

Invitation to David Barrett's graduation ceremony with his note. April 29, 1993.

Projects, Involvements, etc.

March on Washington, 1993

Memorabilia

Box 5, Folder 15

Program and place cards from dinner. Spring 1993.

Physical Description: Pamphlet and 2 cards.

Scope and Content Note

Paul and The Speaker (Speaker of the House Tom Foley).

UCLA AIDS Institute

Letters Received

Box 5, Folder 16

From Irvin Chen, Rhona McNally. July and September 1993.

Yale

Alumnus

Publication

Box 5, Folder 17

PM letter to Yale Alumni Magazine class notes. Summer 1993.

Scope and Content Note

re having AIDS.

Letters Received

Box 5, Folder 18

Yale graduates respond to PM letter. 1993 (after summer publication).

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

One Institute 35th Annual Lecture Series

Promotional Material

Box 5, Folder 19

Flier. October 3, 1993 [date of lecture].

Post Appearance Material

Box 5, Folder 20

Letters from Walter L. Williams and Toby Johnson. October 1993.

Physical Description: Each is 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Time Warner Executive Forum: Coming Out: Gay Issues in America

Program

Box 5, Folder 21

Printed program and schedule. November 8, 1993.

Physical Description: Schedule has holograph notes by PM.

Thanks

Box 5, Folder 22

Letters received.

Scope and Content Note

From: Nan C. DuBois, Rich Mayora, David Munk.

Honors

Lifetime Achievement Awards ...

Scope and Content Note

In recognition of contributions to the City of Los Angeles by People with HIV / AIDS ...

Program

Box 5, Folder 23

December 1, 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Presented in gratitude by Richard J. Riordan, mayor, Ferd Eggan, City AIDS Coordinator.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

PEN Center West Awards

Article

Box 5, Folder 24

In: PEN Center West newsletter. Winter 1994.

Physical Description: Clipping, pp.10-11.

Scope and Content Note

PM accepted award for David Geffen, December 1993.

Honors

Chuck Rowland Award

Letter Received

Box 5, Folder 25

March 3, 1994.

Scope and Content Note

Received from Christopher Street West / Los Angeles.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research: Stonewall 25: A Quarter Century of Lesbian and Gay Liberation and its Origins in Southern California

Annual Awards Dinner

Box 5, Folder 26

Program. March 12, 1994.

Scope and Content Note

PM a keynote speaker.

Reporting

Box 5, Folder 27

Letter from Steven Saylor, enclosing clipping. April 3, 1994(?).

Scope and Content Note

1 leaf. Typed, signed S. Date on letter: March 24, 1994.

Honorary Degrees

City University of New York: Doctor of Letters

Invitation and Processional Instructions

Box 5, Folder 28

Letter from Theresa Passantino and printed invitation. April 1, 1994.

Program

Box 5, Folder 29

May 26, 1994.

Physical Description: 2 copies.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

A Different Light

Promotional Flier

Box 5, Folder 30

Hosts a very special evening with Paul Monette. August 14, 1994 [From DL].

Relationship / Travel

Winston Wilde / Russia and Scandinavia

Memorabilia

Box 37, Folder 3

Cruise tickets, travel documents for WW, bill for medication from ship's doctor for PM, mementos of ship. August 1994.

Physical Description: In leather zippered portfolio.

PM'S Health

AIDS

Letter Received

Box 5, Folder 31

From PM's doctor. September 28, 1994.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

GLAAD / Los Angeles: A Celebration of Paul Monette

Invitations and Programs

Box 5, Folder 32

October 1, 1994.

Text of Reading(?)

Box 5, Folder 33

As Vulcan Falls from Heaven (for Paul Monette), by Terry Wolverton. 1994.

Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.

Articles

Box 5, Folder 34

October 1994.

Physical Description: 2 clippings.

St. Thomas the Apostle Church

Post Appearance Material

Box 5, Folder 35

Letter from Otis Charles enclosing Karen Ocamb's B.A.R. article.

Memorial Service

Directors Guild

Memorabilia

Box 5, Folder 36

Programs, etc. February 1995. Also, button with PM photo.

Friendship

Various Persons

Letters Received

Box 6, Folder 1

1986-1989.

Scope and Content Note

Madeleine Follain, Kennedy Fraser, John Kane, David Schorr.

Box 6, Folder 2

1990-1991.

Scope and Content Note

Guru Ma Jaya, Tony Smith, John Vasconcellos, etc.

Box 6, Folder 3

1992.

Scope and Content Note

Otis Charles, Cobey Black, Gay Block, Malka Drucker, Richard Ide, Tony Smith, Brother Toby.

Box 6, Folder 4

1993.

Scope and Content Note

Otis Charles, John Kane, Michael Lassell, Brother Toby, etc.

Box 7, Folder 1

1994.

Scope and Content Note

Otis Charles, Sally Jackson, David Roman, David Schorr, Tony Smith, Stuart Timmons, Joey Terrill.

Box 7, Folder 2

n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Star Black, Barbara Horwitz, Tim Miller, Tony Smith.

Writers

Various Persons

Letters Received

Box 7, Folder 3

Malcolm Boyd - Mark Thompson, Ayofemi Folayan, etc. 1987-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Sidney Blumenthal, Michael Denneny, Katherine V. Forrest, David Groff, Boze Hadleigh, Larry Kramer, JD McClatchy, Ethan Mordden, Paul Reed, etc.

Prominent Persons

Various Persons

Letters Received

Box 7, Folder 4

1987-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Peter Bunnell, Perry Falk, Barbara Horwitz, Linda Hunt, Guru Ma Jaya, Daphne Manerkin, Tim Miller, Ned Rorem, Rob Volpe, etc.

Writers

Various Persons

Letters Received

Box 7, Folder 5

Enclosures of poetry, stories, etc. 1988-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Nisa Donnelly, Malka Drucker, Boze Hadleigh, Eloise Klein Healy, Raphael Kadushin, Rudy Kikel, J.D. McClatchy, David Roman, David Schorr and Jon Zasler.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Various Schools, Organizations, Events

Letters Received

Box 7, Folder 6

Requesting PM to speak. 1988-1994.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

General

Letters Received

Box 8, Folder 1

Request for interviews with PM. 1988-1994.

Scope and Content Note

An extensive file. Some enclose copies or photocopies of articles using interviews, transcripts of interviews, etc. Includes note from Rudy Kikel, among many others.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

General

Correspondence

Box 8, Folder 2

1988-1994.

Writing--General

Counseling, Sermons, Teaching, etc.

Letters Received Requesting Use of PM's Work

Box 8, Folder 3

1988-1995.

Education

Phillips Academy

Personal Letters Received from Students

Box 8, Folder 4

1988-1994.

Scope and Content Note

From students who attended Andover at or near the time PM attended.

Education / Employment

Phillips Academy

Letters Received from PM's Students and Colleagues

Box 8, Folder 5

1989-1993, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

PM taught summer school only.

Education

Phillips Academy

Letters Received from Teachers

Box 8, Folder 6

1992-1993.

Scope and Content Note

Cornelia Fitts, Guy Hughes.

Letters from Persons in Andover (the Town)

Box 8, Folder 7

1993-1994.

Yale

Personal Letters Received from Fellow Students

Box 8, Folder 8

1988-1994.

Employment

Milton Academy

Personal Letters Received from former Students and Colleagues

Box 8, Folder 9

1988-1993.

Projects, Involvements, etc.

AIDS Related Organizations

Letters Received

Box 8, Folder 10

Requests for PM to support projects. 1990-1993.

Scope and Content Note

re Paul Reed's books, the Q Journal, conversation with Guru Ma Jaya, Jonathan Vipond, Momentum Broadway Cares, etc.

Letters of Thanks for Support

Box 8, Folder 11

1990, 1993.

Gay & Lesbian Studies

Letters Received

Box 8, Folder 12

1992-1993.

Scope and Content Note

Various topics: research, scholarship, teaching, etc.

Family

Various Family Members

Letters Received

Box 8, Folder 13

1992-1993.

Projects, Involvements, etc.

Various

Letters Received

Box 8, Folder 14

Requests and acknowledgement of support. 1992-1994.

Scope and Content Note

PM did not make donations to all organizations so requesting.

Cheshire Academy

Former Students

Personal Letters Received

Box 8, Folder 15

1993.

Scope and Content Note

Cf. Sutton Hill in Becoming a Man.

Projects, Involvements, etc.

Gay & Lesbian Writers

Letters Received

Box 8, Folder 16

From young writers, seeking advice. 1993-1994, n.d.

Gay & Lesbian Organizations

Letter Received

Box 8, Folder 17

Lesbian and Gay Historical Society [San Diego]. 1993.

Box 8, Folder 18

From Jim Marks, Lambda Literary Awards. 1994.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Travel

Europe

Ephemera

Box 36, Folder 12

Cocktail napkins, Hotel Hassler Roma. n.d.

Travel(?)

Andover

Ephemera

Box 36, Folder 13

Paper coaster, Andover Inn on the campus of Phillips Academy. n.d.

Friendship

Various Persons

Letters Received

Box 49, Folder 1

From Star(?). n.d. (1970s?).

Scope and Content Note

Three folders filed as Letters--Friends transferred to UCLA, 1995.

Box 49, Folder 2

Letters from Richard Howard. January 11 and July 30, no year.

Physical Description: Each is typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Early to mid 1970s(?). January 11 mentions wanting a poem for American Review, but not as long as No Witnesses; July 30 about poem The Onlooker.

Box 49, Folder 3

Letter from Kay Boyle. February 27, 1971.

Scope and Content Note

Was perhaps lecturing and PM gave her manuscript to read(?).

Box 49, Folder 4

Primarily signed with first names, clippings, poems, etc. Primarily early 1970s.

Box 49, Folder 5

Letters signed with first names, lists of names, copies of others' poems, etc. early 1970s(?).

Scope and Content Note

Kept in a folder labeled: Mrs. Carroll, but seemingly nothing to do with the novel.

Writers, Prominent Persons

Letters Received

Box 49, Folder 6

1990-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Christine Downing, Eric Garber, Larry Goldstein, Herbert Hamsher and Judith Light, Richard A. Isay, Michael Kearns, Ma Jaya.

Box 49, Folder 7

1993, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Anna Quindlen, Steven Saylor, John Weiners, Gary Wills, Terry Wolverton.

Various

Letters Received

Box 49, Folder 8

1993-1995.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Gay Block, Otis Charles, Diana Cobbold, Michael Denneny, Malka Drucker, Madeleine Follain, Jerome Gold, Eloise Klein Healy.

Various Persons

Letters Received

Box 49, Folder 9

1989-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Andrew Holleran, Herbert Hamsher? Sally Jackson, Tony Kushner, Michael Lassell, Toby (Brother Tolbert McCarroll).

Box 49, Folder 10

1990-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Ian McKellen, Tim Miller, Ned Rorem, Tony Smith, Urvashi Vaid, Bruce Weber, Bohdan Zachary.

Box 49, Folder 11

Signed with first names only. 1993-1995, n.d.

Letters Received (last? file)

Box 49, Folder 12

Primarily from friends, but also last letters from persons PM had written to, and some fan mail not related to specific books, but to wishes for PM. 1994-1995.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Sascha Bittner, Tony Smith, Winston Wilde (cards).

Letter Received

Box 49, Folder 13

December 21, 1994(?).

Scope and Content Note

From Diana Cobbold, enclosing manuscript based on Cesar Albini (?).

Letters Received

Box 49, Folder 14

1993-1994(?).

Scope and Content Note

With enclosures of readings, etc.

General (Biographical and Writing)

Non Fiction

Brief Interviews, etc.

Box 49, Folder 15

PM quoted.

Scope and Content Note

Includes quotations about Nureyev and AIDS, etc.

Brief Information

Box 49, Folder 16

Details about PM and his writings and beliefs.

Scope and Content Note

Clippings.

Travel

Vancouver, Rome

Arrangements

Box 49, Folder 17

Items from Windsor Travel. 1993, 1994. 1993 Vancouver, 1994 Rome.

Poetry

Miscellaneous

Manuscript Material(?)

Box 49, Folder 18

Copies of The Bee-Eater, Buckley, The Supreme Pork, etc.

Physical Description: 49 leaves total. Typescript (?) and photocopies, no corrections.

Scope and Content Note

These seem to be extra copies made for various publishing purposes. Cf. New Poems (1987-1993) in West of Yesterday, East of Summer.

Education

Religion

Holy Communion

Box 50, Folder 1

Book and certificate.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Bible

Box 50, Folder 2

Given PM. 1960.

Book of Common Prayer

Box 50, Folder 3

PM's late 1950s(?).

Bible

Box 50, Folder 4

Given PM. 1981. With note from PM's mother. October 16, 1981.

Friendship

Various Persons

Letters Received and Memorabilia

Box 50, Folder 5

Folder of letters, etc found in PM's desk (folder 1 of 2).

Scope and Content Note

Enclosing early reviews (photocopies), etc. Reviews: Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, The Gold Diggers, The Long Shot, letter about Just the Summers [PM play, cf. Borrowed Time], flyer for reading.

Box 50, Folder 6

Letters found in desk (folder 2 of 2).

Scope and Content Note

Letter about The Carpenter at the Asylum, copy of letter to Rand Schrader from Dear Abby, map of Delos, etc.

Travel

Various

Passport

Box 50, Folder 7

November 2, 1993.

Items

Luggage Tags

Box 50, Folder 8

TWA Ambassador's Club with PM's name and address.

General

1994

Datebooks, etc.

Box 50, Folder 9

Entries in: 1994 Weekly. There's Still Time! 1994.

Physical Description: [Printed cutout] taped to front.

Pets

Puck

Items

Box 50, Folder 10

Collar and tags.

Scope and Content Note

Cf. Last Watch of the Night.

Health, etc.

Box 50, Folder 11

Items pertaining to Puck.

Scope and Content Note

Veterinarian's and euthanization records.

General (Writing)

[None given]

Royalty Payments

Box 51, Folder 1

Statements.

Residual Payments

Box 51, Folder 2

Receipts.

Business Documents

Box 51, Folder 3

Contracts. 1990-1993. Also miscellaneous financial notes.

Box 51, Folder 4

Contracts. 1980-1989.

Poetry

Come Spring

Publication Material

Box 51, Folder 5

Extra copies.

Note

1 copy cataloged for Special Collections.

Relationship

Roger Horwitz

Education

Box 51, Folder 6

Roger Horwitz's dissertation.

Physical Description: Another copy.

Note

See Box 43 folder 7.

Friendship

J. Brody

Musical Copies

Box 51, Folder 7

Hesse lieder, Psalm 100, conducted by J. Brody(?). n.d.

Physical Description: Cassette recording.

Poetry

Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog

Post-Publication Material

Box 51, Folder 8

Performance of Jeffrey Brody settings. June 16, 1992.

Physical Description: Cassette recording.

Scope and Content Note

Introduction, Here, Gardenias, etc.,

Note

See other material in Box 17.

Friendship(?)

Ron Lema

Performance

Box 51, Folder 9

My Man [recording]. n.d.

Physical Description: Cassette tape.

Scope and Content Note

Inscribed April 9, 1991: For Paul, Ron Lema.

Fiction

Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll

Post-Publication Material

Box 51, Folder 10

Musical adaption.

Physical Description: Cassette tape

Note

[Also described in record with Box 47]

Memorial Items

Benefit: Sharing Our Talents

Production Material

Box 51, Folder 11

Recording. April 27, 1995.

Physical Description: Video cassette.

General (Biographical)

Protests, etc.

Item

Box 51, Folder 12

Portrait of Pope John Paul II.

Scope and Content Note

PM's note: Souvenir of Honey and Victor's visit to Akron April 25, 1994 [PM had earlier torn up a picture of the Pope in public].

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Loyola University, Chicago

Production Material

Box 51, Folder 13

Full show of Paul Monette. December 11, 1994.

Physical Description: Cassette recording.

Poetry

West of Yesterday, East of Summer: New and Selected Poems / Dr. Burnout, To GB from Tuscany

Post-Publication Material

Box 51, Folder 14

Musical adaptions, composer / performer not identified. n.d.

Physical Description: Cassette recording.

Health

Illness

Letters Received

Box 52, Folder 1

From Dan Luckenbill and David S. Zeidberg, UCLA Library Department of Special Collections. February 5, 1995.

Scope and Content Note

Delivered to Winston by dl at, it turns out, approximately the time of PM's death.

Memorial Items

Tributes

Manuscript Material

Box 52, Folder 2

Paul Monette, by Malcolm Boyd. n.d. [1993?].

Scope and Content Note

cf. article in Frontiers, which uses some quotations from this, but this is lengthier.

Service

Arrangements

Box 52, Folder 3

Text of WW's speech, seating plan, and other memorial arrangements, including receipts, etc. Also some letters received about details of arrangments. Memorabilia filed previously, extra programs here.

Service, New York

Memorabilia

Box 52, Folder 4

Programs. n.d.

Condolences, etc.

Letter Received by WW

Box 52, Folder 5

Letter from Bill Lockyer, California Senate.

List

Box 52, Folder 6

WW's list of those phoning with condolences.

[None given]

Records

Box 52, Folder 7

Health and memorial information.

Contributions in PM's Memory

Records

Box 52, Folder 8

Notice of memorial contribution.

Condolences, etc.

Letters Received

Box 52, Folder 9

Letters from Sascha Bittner to WW. July 1995.

Scope and Content Note

With extensive enclosures.

Obituaries

Publication Material

Box 52, Folder 10

Various publications.

Physical Description: Clippings and copies of publications.

Contributions in PM'S Memory

[None given]

Box 52, Folder 11

Letter from Morris Kight, enclosing copy of program with list of contributions in PM's memory to the Southern California Libray. April 11, 1995 (letter).

Scope and Content Note

Names in program: Eric Gordon, Dan Luckenbill, etc.

AIDS Quilt Panel, etc.

Letters to WW

Box 52, Folder 12

Most with enclosures.

Physical Description: Contain snapshots, programs, etc.

Condolences

Letters

Box 53, Folder 1

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Barbara Abbott, Robert Adams, Edgar Anderson, Jay Anderson, Steven Bach, Jeff Baron, Elaine Mullen Barrett.

Box 53, Folder 2

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Martin Beadle & Douglas Bowers, Nancy Bereano, Sascha Bittner, Gloria Bjerregaard, Star Black, Gay Block, Janice Blum.

Box 53, Folder 3

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Tom Brandeberry, Noel Briscoe, Jeffrey Brody, Tom Bubnack, Peter Bunnell, Susan Byers.

Box 53, Folder 4

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Tita Caldwell, Bruce Christopher Carr, David Castro, Srah Chambers, Otis Charles, Mr / Mrs Chasanoff, Irvin Chen.

Box 53, Folder 5

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Diana Cobbold, David Cohen, Bernie Copper and Brian Miller, Judy Cox, Donico Croom, Jack Daley.

Box 53, Folder 6

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Davis Dassori, Bob Davis, John DeMarzo, Michael Denneny, Frank DeSarro, Joel Dillard, Bruce Donnell.

Box 53, Folder 7

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Chris Downing, David Drake, Dorothy Eisenhour, Rev. Wayne Elliott, Gita Endore, David Eye.

Box 53, Folder 8

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Harry Faddis, Marcia Finks, Ben Fowler, Ganymede, Christopher Gates, Harlan Greene, David Groff.

Box 53, Folder 9

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Spence Halperin, Cathy Hauer, Laurie Hauer, Jane Haynes, Philip Himberg, Bernice Horwitz.

Box 53, Folder 10

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Terry House, Marcia Hunt, Tom Hyland, Stacey Ingber, Ed Ingebretsen, Richard Isay.

Box 53, Folder 11

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Mikki Jackson, Sally Jackson, Rich Jennings and Jerome Brown, Jim Jensen, Toby Johnson, Heidi Jones.

Box 53, Folder 12

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Keith Kahla, Greg Kahn, Craig Cain, Mark Katz, Martin Katz, Roger Kaufman, Gary Thomas Keating, Michael Kearns.

Box 53, Folder 13

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Owen Keehnen, Paul Kellogg, Lisa Kenecht, Rudy Kikel and Sterling Giles, Linda Kish, Yuji Kitamaru, William Koelsch (A. Nolder Gay).

Box 54, Folder 1

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Dan Lashen, Norman Laurila, Barbara Lebson, Christina Lemonias, Coy Ludwig, Nunizo Lupo.

Box 54, Folder 2

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Lee MacNeil, Kerry and Kiffen Madden-Lunsford, Richard Maloy, Robert Manners, Mary Marks, Sybil McCarthy, J.D. (Sandy) McClatchy.

Box 54, Folder 3

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Joan McGuire, Susan McHenry, Ian McKellen, Deacon and Mrs. Meader, Peter Metcalf, Rondo Mieczkowski and D. Barillaro, Tim Miller.

Box 54, Folder 4

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Linda Montague, Mark Morewitz, Lynn Morgan, John Morris and Doug Rochelle, Mary Nalick, Peter Nardi, Tom Nash, Neon, Vincent Newton.

Box 54, Folder 5

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Elisabeth Nonas, Kevin O'Donnell, Fr. Juan Oliver, Merle Panick, John Paoletti, Ben Perkins, Gitta Perl, David J. Peters, Kim Powers.

Box 54, Folder 6

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Diane Put, Paul Reed, Rob Remer, Ruby Ritchie, Mary Roberts, Douglas Rorapaugh, Jerome Rousseau.

Box 54, Folder 7

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Barbara Safrin, Edgar Sandulo, Frances Sawaya, Pat Scarola, Sam Schad, Terry Schaefer, Marilyn Schindler.

Box 54, Folder 8

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Jackie Schwartz, Greg and Gene Scott, David Seinfeld, Jeffrey Sherman, Don Shewey, Charlotte Shifrin, Norma Shifrin.

Box 54, Folder 9

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Beth and Joe Simon, Fr. Tony Smith, Dolores Snow, Ruth Spiegel, Starcross Community, Stuart Jason, Gail Suber.

Box 54, Folder 10

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Ginny Thomason, Grace Trepodi, David Tripp, Richard Trousdell.

Box 54, Folder 11

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Ron Wakabayashi, Patricia Nell Warren, Tom Watson, James Weiss, Ross Westwood, Eugene White.

Box 54, Folder 12

To Winston Wilde. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from: Shirley Williamson, Andrew Wille, Karen Wilson, Hilary Witt, Joe Wittreich and Stuart Curran, Kevin Wood.

Box 54, Folder 13

To Winston Wilde [not in WW's list]. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Signed your loving son, Jack Hamilton, Jackie and Charles, Robert Lamont, Douglas Leleyte (?, San Francisco), unsigned letter (Pasadena).

Tributes, Obituaries, etc.

Publication Material

Box 55, Folder 1

Committing to memory, by editor of Frontiers. In: Frontiers. vol.13 issue 22. March 10, 1995.

Physical Description: p.12.

Box 55, Folder 2

Afterlife: A Tribute to Paul Monette. In: Frontiers vol.13 issue 22. March 10, 1995.

Physical Description: pp.53-54, 56.

Scope and Content Note

Contributions from: Malcolm Boyd, Michael Kearns, Terry Wolverton, Michael Lassell, Elisabeth Nonas. With several portraits.

Box 55, Folder 3

Two Movies and a Memorial, by Michael Kearns. In: Edge. Issue 306. April 5, 1995.

Physical Description: p.53.

Box 55, Folder 4

... This extraordinary and improbable honor ... To the editory from Nance Seale Osborne. In: Oswegonian. vol.60 no.9. 1995 April 6.

Physical Description: pp.9-10.

Scope and Content Note

Is commentary and text of PM's Oswego speech. With letter from Coy [Ludwig?].

Box 55, Folder 5

Author and Activist Paul Monette Remembered, by Dan Luckenbill. In: UCLA AIDS Institute Perspectives. vol.3 no.2. Summer 1995.

Physical Description: p.17.

Scope and Content Note

Reproduces portrait by Robert Giard (1988).

Fiction

Lightfall

Post-Publication Material

Box 55, Folder 6

Article / interview by Craig Rowland. In: New York Native. December 19, 1983 / January 1, 1984.

Physical Description: p.31.

Scope and Content Note

Article mentions most writings up to the date of Lightfall, including novelizations of screenplays. This description also under material for Lightfall.

Memoirs

Last Watch of the Night

Publication Material

Box 55, Folder 7

[Excerpt] In: Frontiers vol.12 issue 27. May 6-20, 1994.

Physical Description: pp.50-51, 53-54, 57, 59-60.

Memorial Items

Tributes, Obituaries, etc.

Publication Material

Box 55, Folder 8

Letter from Torie Osborne, enclosing obituary clippings. May 27, 1995.

Biographical, Photographs

Family / Education

Early School Years

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 1

Yearbook(?) (proofs?). n.d.

Physical Description: 1 sheet (2 images).

Education(?)

Early School Years(?)

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 2

Boys' school(?) group photograph. n.d.

Physical Description: 1 photograph.

Scope and Content Note

Seemingly teachers or coaches and varying aged boys.

Education

Phillips Academy

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 3

School play. n.d.

Physical Description: Black and white 8 × 10. 2 photographs.

Scope and Content Note

In Roman costumes. PM credits his acceptance to Yale to his participation in these plays. Cf. Becoming a Man, p.94.

Education(?)

Unknown

Portrait(?)

Box 36, Folder 11

PM in checked pants, bow tie, and holding wine glass. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Is possibly from a play, or party(?).

Portraits

Photographer(s) Unknown

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 4

1970s(?).

Scope and Content Note

Seemingly 1970s haircuts.

Residence

East Coast(?)

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 5

PM nude in field, in lumberjack checks, etc. n.d.

Physical Description: Snapshots.

Note

Also in some photographs: Cesar Albini.

Box 44, Folder 6

PM at beach, nude climbing rocks, etc. n.d.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Residence(?)

East Coast(?)

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 7

PM (nude) at beach. n.d.

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Residence / Travel

East Coast / Cape Cod

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 8

1972-1973.

Physical Description: Snapshots.

Martha's Vineyard

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 9

1973.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Relationship / Friendships

Roger Horwitz, etc.

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 10

East coast - Kings Road. Also some photographs San Francisco. 1977-1979.

Physical Description: From vertical album.

Box 44, Folder 11

Various occasions.

Physical Description: Color snapshots. From larger album.

Roger Horwitz

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 12

PM, RH, Sheldon Andelson in tuxedos. n.d.

Physical Description: Color enlargement.

Scope and Content Note

In cover, signed: Together on my fiftieth, Love, Shel 3 / 81.

Friendship

Susan ___ (?)

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 13

PM: Susan's party. August 1982. At Kings Road(?).

Relationship / Travel

Roger Horwitz

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 14

Florence (Italy) and Christmas (Kings Road). December 1983.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Box 44, Folder 15

Florence (Italy) / copies of photograph used for Love Alone. December 1983(?).

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Scope and Content Note

Cf. Christopher Street, cover of Love Alone. Also: PM's Brother Robert.

Relationship / Friendships

Robert Monette, Roger Horwitz, Craig Rowland, and Jeff Henry

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 16

Getty Museum / also other shots Sunset Plaza, etc. Robert Monette is PM's brother. 1985.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Relationship

Roger Horwitz

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 17

Kings Road, Palisades (Santa Monica), etc. Summer 1985.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Relationship / Travel

Roger Horwitz

Photographs

Box 44, Folder 18

Mass., Chicago. Roger's family, PM's home(?). Summer 1985 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 44, Folder 19

Perloff party, Chicago. summer 1985. Also: Cesar Albini.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Relationship

Roger Horwitz

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 1

PM and RH. n.d.

Physical Description: Snapshot enlargement.

Box 45, Folder 2

PM and RH. n.d.

Physical Description: Proof sheet black and white.

Box 45, Folder 3

PM and RH clowning. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Two images from take your own pictures.

Box 45, Folder 4

PM and RH (dressy). n.d.

Physical Description: Black and white enlargement.

Box 45, Folder 5

RH and PM(?) backpacking. n.d.

Physical Description: Black and white enlargement.

Relationship / Travel

Roger Horwitz

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 6

Big Sur. n.d.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Scope and Content Note

Copies of some of these prints were included in the album. Also: Cesar Albini.

Relationship

Roger Horwitz

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 7

PM, RH, and others. Kings Road(?) State Beach (Santa Monica Canyon), etc. n.d. Also: Cesar Albini.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Box 45, Folder 8

RH, PM, and others, occasion unknown. n.d.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Scope and Content Note

Last photographs of RH(?).

Box 45, Folder 9

RH, PM. Seemingly selected photographs of RH, various occasions and locations. 1987 (some prints) and n.d. Also: Cesar Albini.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Box 45, Folder 10

East coast(?). n.d.

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 45, Folder 11

PM and RH, Kings Road(?) and Pacific Palisades. n.d.

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Relationship / Friendships

Roger Horwitz

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 12

Craig Rowland, Stephen Kolzak, and PM at display of Roger's quilt. n.d.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Travel

Taos

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 13

PM on horse, at D.H. Lawrence chapel, etc. 1986. Also: Star Black(?) (indistinct).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Friendship / Travel

Craig Rowland, East Coast(?)

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 14

At country estate, at marina, etc. August 1987 (some prints).

Physical Description: Color snapshots, two sizes.

Portraits

Robert Giard Photographer

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 15

PM in checked overshirt, by pool. 2 poses. 1988.

Physical Description: 8 × 10 black and white. 2 images. 3 items. With: c. 1988 Robert Giard in ink.

Relationship / Travel

Stephen Kolzak / Virginia Trip

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 16

ACT UP takeover of the FDA. October 1988.

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Portraits

Theodora Litsios Photographer

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 17

PM in front of bookcases, outside under pergola. 1988.

Physical Description: Contact prints black and white.

Scope and Content Note

Photo by Theodora Litsios c. 1988, 586 Matero St., Los Angeles ....

Relationship

Stephen Kolzak

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 18

Stevie K. aka Cotton Candy. n.d.

Physical Description: Contact sheet black and white.

Scope and Content Note

SK in drag.

Relationship / Friendship / Travel

Stephen Kolzak, Craig Rowland, East Coast(?)

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 19

PM, SK, CR, and unidentified woman. n.d. Seemingly East Coast.

Physical Description: Color snapshots mounted on boards (2 items, 6 images).

Friendship

Susan Graczyk (?)

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 20

PM and SG birthday celebration. Also SK and others. October 16, 1989.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Relationship

Stephen Kolzak

Photographs

Box 45, Folder 21

Christmas. 1989 or 1988 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 45, Folder 22

Christmas. 1989 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 45, Folder 23

Christmas. December 23, 1989 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 45, Folder 24

Christmas, New Year's. 1989 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Relationship / Travel

Stephen Kolzak / South Pacific

Photographs

Box 46, Folder 1

January 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 2

Tahiti. January 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 3

Tahiti New Year's. January 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Stephen Kolzak / Greece, etc.

Photographs

Box 46, Folder 4

Caribbean and Topkapi Palace. February and June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Box 46, Folder 5

PM and SK on board Stella Solaris Piraeus. June 1990(?).

Physical Description: Color snapshot (enlarged). In Stella Solaris Sun Line folder.

Box 46, Folder 6

Greece, Turkey, Pergamon. June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 7

Delos, Mykonos, Santorini. June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 8

Turkey. June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 9

Greece [Crete (Knossos), etc.]. June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 10

Ephesus, Istanbul. June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 11

Athens (Acropolis). June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 12

Ephesus, Rhodes. June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 13

Greece (unidentified). June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Box 46, Folder 14

Athens, Mykonos, Delos(?). June 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Stephen Kolzak / Laguna Beach, California

Photographs

Box 46, Folder 15

In hotel, at the beach. August 1990 (Date by PM).

Physical Description: Color snapshots and negatives.

Portrait

Photographer Unknown

Photographs

Box 46, Folder 16

PM in red sweater, all poses. n.d.

Physical Description: Color snapshots.

Box 46, Folder 17

PM in dressy leather jacket, outside in front of flowering branches. n.d.

Physical Description: Black and white enlargement.

Creator/Collector: Miriam Berkley, Photographer

Box 46, Folder 18

PM in striped polo shirt. Outside Kings Road, Hollywood Hills(?). Late 1970s, early 1980s(?).

Physical Description: Black and white, 5 × 7s and 8 × 10.

Relationship / Portrait

Winston Wilde

Photographs

Box 46, Folder 19

PM being interviewed, with Winston Wilde(?). n.d. Photographer unknown.

Physical Description: Black and white 8 × 10 proof prints (on thin paper).

Memoirs

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

Awards / Photographs

Box 46, Folder 20

PM at Library of Congress, speaking, and with Neil Baldwin and John Cole. January 28, 1993. Photograph by Jim Higgins Library of Congress.

Various Photographs

Various Occasions

Additions 1995

Box 46, Folder 21

PM dressed in jean shirt with jeans with one hand on hip and the other hand up leaning against garage door ca. 1978

Creator/Collector: Star Black, photographer

Box 56

Many are duplicates of previously listed groups of photographs. In unnumbered folders.

Writings Including Additions

Poetry

The Self-Winding Staircase

Manuscript Material

Box 9, Folder 1

Poems / Paul Monette. 1963-1965. Photocopy is: The Staircase. n.d.

Physical Description: [46] leaves. Typescript. Also one leaf typescript (photocopy).

The Staircase

Post Manuscript Material

Box 36, Folder 19

Fair copy(?). n.d.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Calligraphy, with the name Paul Monette, Jr.

Nonfiction

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 2

n.d. In: The Serpent's Tooth, a Yale residential college publication.

Scope and Content Note

About Dudley Fitts' appointment as college fellow.

Editorship

The Serpent's Tooth

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 3

n.d.

Scope and Content Note

College publication. PM on editorial board.

Poetry

Poems 1965-1970

Manuscript Material, etc.

Box 9, Folder 4

Typescripts, notes. n.d.

Physical Description: 49 leaves total.

Scope and Content Note

PM: Poems from Yale & the years just after.

Six Poems By Paul Monette

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 5

In: Yale Lit. n.d. vol.141 no.1.

Paul Monette: Four Poems

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 6

In: The Yale Lit. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Cf. manuscripts filed Poems circa 1965-1970.

Fiction

Gifted Brick Day

Manuscript Material

Box 9, Folder 7

Miscellaneous pages. 1967-1968 [date supplied by PM].

Physical Description: [41] leaves. Typescript.

Scope and Content Note

Present: 57, 82-97, unnumbered leaf [Chapter Four], 98-118, 122, 127. PM: Stuff / Other Dreams: revised typescript.

Box 9, Folder 8

Novel. n.d.

Physical Description: 53pp. Typescript with holograph corrections.

Scope and Content Note

Chapter 1 Transcript of rough draft revised. Also excerpts from Chapter 2 and Chapter 4.

Box 9, Folder 9

Chapter 2: 34-68. n.d. Also includes Chapter 1: 1-30.

Physical Description: 66pp. typescript.

Box 9, Folder 10

Chapter 3: 98-131. n.d.

Physical Description: 35 leaves typescript.

Box 9, Folder 11

Chapter 2 & 4. Transcript of rough draft revised. n.d.

Physical Description: 57pp. typescript and holograph with notecards.

Box 9, Folder 12

Stuff / Other Dreams: Paul's (Bart's) and Jane's Chapters Rough D. n.d.

Physical Description: 28 holograph leaves in yellow notebook.

Box 9, Folder 13

Gifted Brick Day and Winters We Went Away. n.d.

Physical Description: Typescripts.

Scope and Content Note

51pp. typescript of Gifted Brick Day. 15pp. typescript. 6 typescript ( Gifted Brick Day).

Poetry

Hobo / The Technicolor Angel

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 14

January 1967. In: Criterion (a Yale Literary Journal), edited by PM.

Nonfiction

The Draft and the Dilemma of the Graduate Student

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 15

In: Yale Alumni Magazine. April 1968.

Physical Description: Clipping and photocopy.

Poetry

Reviews, etc.

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 16

Newspapers not identified. 1970(?)- .

Physical Description: Clippings (newsprint) and photocopies.

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper published in Andover? (reverse of clippings has ads for businesses in Andover).

Sarah

Publication Material

Box 36, Folder 4

In: Magazine. 1970.

Physical Description: 3 copies.

Box 9, Folder 17

Leaves from Magazine [section of 5 poems]. n.d.

Post-Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 18

Interview. March 30, 1970. Clipping: Lawrence Eagle Tribune.

Leaving Cheshire: For My Students. May 1970.

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 19

In: Midpoint, The Academy Review [Cheshire Academy, Cheshire, Connecticut]. 1970(?).

Nonfiction

Various Essays / Articles

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 20

In: Milton Bi-Weekly, Milton Academy [name varies]. 1970-1972 (inclusive).

Scope and Content Note

Articles in issues for: 12 / 15 / 70, 2 / 18 / 71, 3 / 16/ 71, 3 / 15 / 72.

Poetry

Early Poems

Manuscript and other Material

Box 9, Folder 21

Various drafts and publications. 1972-1976, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

PM's description: Letters - manuscript. Early rejections, acceptances, etc. James Dickey, Daniel Halperin, Richard Howard, etc. Carpenter ... letters refiled.

Box 9, Folder 22

Contracts, check stub. 1973, 1975, n.d.

The Looker-On

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 23

The Looker-On: Fra Angelico, Crucifixion, about 1450. By Paul Monette. Milton, Massachusetts: Chapbook Press, n.d. ca. 1973 [per PM]

Physical Description: 3 folded leaves (unnumbered pages).

Scope and Content Note

Contains poems: 1. Friday, 2. Saturday, 3. Sunday.

Nonfiction

The China Connection

Publication Material

Box 9, Folder 24

In: Holiday. April / May 1974.

Physical Description: pp.15-16.

Scope and Content Note

About The Musuem of the American China Trade, Milton, Massachusettts.

Screenplay

The Widow's Walk

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 1

An original screenplay by John Kane and Paul Monette. 1975-1976 [supplied by PM].

Scope and Content Note

119 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). Signed by PM on the title page.

Poetry

The Carpenter at the Asylum [Published September 1975]

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 2

Various drafts. 1973-1975 [per PM].

Physical Description: 76 leaves total. Typescript and holograph.

The Carpenter at the Asylum

Publication Material

Box 10, Folder 3

Letters from editor, etc. April 1973-November 1974.

Post-Publication Material

Box 10, Folder 4

Reviews. Choice and Southwest Review. Spring 1976 and May 1976.

Physical Description: Clippings (photocopies).

Scope and Content Note

Spring 1976 signed by editor, not reviewer(?).

The Wedding Letter

Post-Publication Material

Box 10, Folder 5

Letter from Louis Untermeyer. February 28, 1977.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

On notepaper: from the desk of Louis Untermeyer ....

My Shirts

Publication Material

Box 10, Folder 6

In: Christopher Street. October 1977.

Scope and Content Note

To Roger. Collected in No Witnesses.

Screenplay

No Contest

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 7

First draft by Paul Monette. 1977-1978 [supplied by PM].

Physical Description: 119 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

Producers: Rosenman / Missel. This material is the property of Universal Studios....

Pre-Production Material

Box 10, Folder 8

Mentions. In: Variety. June 4, 1979. Also photocopy of Liz Smith column (publication unknown), in PM's hand: 11/6/79.

Poetry

Various Poems, Including No Witnesses

Manuscript Material

Box --, Folder -

Poems / Drafts. ca. 1973-1978 [per PM].

Note

PM's title (former Box 10): Poems / Drafts. [Separate descriptions follow]

No Witnesses / Getting On

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 9

Getting On. n.d.

Physical Description: [5] leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

From Poems / Drafts folder. No poem this title in No Witnesses volume. Never published [per PM].

Box 10, Folder 10

Getting On, Palm Sunday, San Juan, other early poems, etc. Beginning 1970s(?).

Physical Description: 22 leaves total typescript (primarily photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

Another copy kept by PM in red plastic folder. Deering Mansion (1 leaf typescript).

Note

Waiting to Die (1988) removed to Box 19 folder 22.

No Witnesses / Musical Comedy

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 11

Musical comedy / To Cesar. n.d.

Physical Description: [1 (epigraph)], 8, 14, 6, [7] leaves. Typescript [1] and holograph. 7 unnumbered leaves are marked: B [black ink], C [red], A-C [blue], unmarked (not carnal), and A [black ink].

Box 10, Folder 12

Corrected version. n.d.

Physical Description: 15 leaves. Typescript with minor holograph corrections.

Scope and Content Note

Numbered to 9 in typescript, thereafter in PM's hand.

Box 10, Folder 13

Drafts, evidently removed when previous material corrected. Pages begin: I mention the Indian ..., It started with ... , We slowed and slowed ... n.d.

Physical Description: [3] leaves. Typescript and holograph. Typescript (1) and holograph (2-3).

Note

Continued next folder.

Box 10, Folder 14

Drafts. n.d.

Physical Description: [2] leaves. Typescript.

Scope and Content Note

Evidently removed when previous material corrected. Pages begin: This place is not a valley (corrected to: L.A., whatever else, is the Wild West), to pass from cloud to cloud ...

No Witnesses / This Spring

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 15

Beginning: The lilacs say, write about us ... n.d.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph on lined paper.

Scope and Content Note

No poem this title in volume No Witnesses. Never published.

No Witnesses / The Wedding Letter

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 16

The Wedding Letter. n.d.

Physical Description: [10] leaves. Typescript and holograph. Numbered [1], 2-9 [with a 3A], unnumbered or repeated numbers in next folder. Published Poetry ca. 1974-1975 [per PM].

Box 10, Folder 17

Withdrawn leaves(?). n.d.

Physical Description: [5] leaves. Holograph.

Scope and Content Note

Unnumbered: to light, A: I would take naps ..., B: And when, one summer day, ..., C: a piece of gingerbread, D: Every child ... [crossed out] (Continued in next folder).

Box 10, Folder 18

Withdrawn leaves(?). n.d.

Physical Description: [3] leaves. Holograph on lined paper.

Scope and Content Note

6 (blue ink): Everyone is / specially scarred ..., 7 (green ink): All we ask is / That you get us the ground to bless, [numbered:] E (green ink, or 7, blue ink): This is the key passage - We want you to marry.

No Witnesses / No Witnesses [Individual Poem]

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 19

No Witnesses. n.d.

Physical Description: 18 leaves. Holograph. Numbered by PM in green, red, black, and blue ink.

Box 10, Folder 20

Withdrawn leaves(?) . n.d.

Physical Description: [4] leaves. Typescript ([1]) and holograph.

Scope and Content Note

As follows: turned laughing, I couldn't halt the plans, I was through (inserted above: I couldn't halt the plans [another leaf]), Now, kiss me. ... (Continued next folder).

Box 10, Folder 21

Withdrawn leaves(?). n.d.

Physical Description: [2] leaves. Typescript ([1]) and holograph ([2]).

Scope and Content Note

As follows: I wish, she says, a quatrefoil tattoo ..., (and perfectly erect) ... Let me explain: wasted on time, ...

No Witnesses / Old Friends

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 22

Old Friends. n.d.

Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript ([1]) and 2 and holograph (unnumbered and 3).

Scope and Content Note

Unnumbered leaf: Is it the boy? No poem this title in No Witnesses volume. Never published [per PM].

No Witnesses / The Oasis Wish

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 23

The Blind Man [?] and The Oasis Wish. Drafts in spiral binder. Domestic notes in later leaves: Leave me the car key ... n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Binder, [4] leaves (one loose from binder) seem to be poem drafts.

Filed in Poems / Drafts folder which includes manuscript of No Witnesses. This poem does not appear in the volume No Witnesses. Never published [PM].

No Witnesses [Individual Poem]

Post-Publication material(?)

Box 10, Folder 24

Letter from Louis Untermeyer. April 11, 1977.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed. On notepaper: from the desk of Louis Untermeyer ....

Bones and Jewels

Post-Publication Material

Box 10, Folder 25

Award. Letter from Eleanor W. Shakin, executive director, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. 1977 May 10.

Scope and Content Note

Poem published in Shenandoah. Collected in No Witnesses.

No Witnesses

Publication Material

Box 36, Folder 5

Occidental Poets: 10. ca. May 15, 1978.

Physical Description: 1 printed leaf signed by PM.

Scope and Content Note

Quote: [from No Witnesses]: We were / a self-contained erotic joke, because / the great are furious with the great, ...

Screenplay

Time Out

Manuscript Material

Box 10, Folder 26

First draft. November 7, 1979.

Physical Description: 140 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). On cover: Universal City Studios, Incorporated, ....

Box 11, Folder 1

Second Draft. February 22, 1980.

Physical Description: 114 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). On cover: Universal City Studios, Incorporated. Also, address of agent (Major Talent Agency) on inside.

Pre-Production Material

Box 11, Folder 2

Mention. In: Liz Smith column. November 6, 1979(?). Also mentions PM's having written No Contest.

Physical Description: Clipping (photocopy).

Fiction

Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll [Published in 1978]

Manuscript Material

Box 11, Folder 3

Last page. 1975 (Date per PM).

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph.

Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll

Post-Publication Material

Box 11, Folder 4

Reviews. 1978 and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Clippings, photocopies, and issue of GPU News (March 1978).

Box 11, Folder 5

Mentions. Reading announcement, lack of promotion of the book, etc. July 12, 1978; September 6, 1984 and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

In Bay Area Reporter: Mrs. Carroll on list of gay books banned in England. Also clipping: Monette Claims Bias [in promotion of book], publ. unknown.

Box 11, Folder 6

Interviews. ca. 1978-1979.

Scope and Content Note

With Craig Rowland in Gay Community News, others in: In Touch, After Dark, etc.

The Gold Diggers [Published March 1979]

Manuscript Material

Box 11, Folder 7

Notes, drafts. ca. 1978.

Physical Description: 10 leaves total. Holograph.

Scope and Content Note

Some leaves from spiral notebook. Some leaves numbered consecutively. Some scenes have characters: Nick, Rita....etc.

The Gold Diggers

Manuscript Material

Box 11, Folder 8

Outline. ca. 1978 [per PM].

Physical Description: [6] leaves. Holograph.

Box 11, Folder 9

First draft. ca. 1978.

Physical Description: 141 leaves total. Primarily holograph.

Publication Material

Box 11, Folder 10

Gold Diggers. Parts one and two. In: Blueboy. March-April 1979.

Scope and Content Note

Part one March, pp.34-35, 17-18, 21, 28.

Part two April, pp.19-22, 24-25, 29.

Box 11, Folder 11

Editor's letters, publicity, etc. 1979.

Scope and Content Note

Some with enclosures: sample cover illustration, review of gay literature (George Whitmore about Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, but sent 1979?), etc.

Post-Publication Material

Box 11, Folder 12

Letter received. January 26, 1979.

Box 11, Folder 13

Interviews. August 1979. In: The Advocate, Issue 274, (also review).

Scope and Content Note

Here: Follies [section of unnamed paper, or is name of paper?].

Note

Filed in Box 40 (OVERSIZE)

Re-Publication Material

Box 11, Folder 14

Letter from Sasha Alyson. June 17, 1987.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Play

Out of Her Head

Manuscript material(?)

Box 11, Folder 15

Notes. 1979(?).

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph.

Scope and Content Note

Notes for music, etc. Unclear as to whether for Out of Her Head. Filed with program in Long Shot manuscript envelope.

Production Material

Box 11, Folder 16

Program. 1979(?).

Screenplay

Bourbon Street

Manuscript Material

Box 11, Folder 17

Screenplay written by Paul Monette. Second draft. December 5, 1980.

Physical Description: [1], 108 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

Also on cover: no.00758. This material is the property of Universal Studios ....

Poetry

Changing Places

Publication Material

Box 11, Folder 18

In: Southwest Review. Spring 1980.

Physical Description: p.176.

Post-Publication Material

Box 11, Folder 19

Award from Southwest Review. ca. 1980.

Fiction

Lightfall [Published in 1982]

Research Material

Box 36, Folder 6

[Map of Trinidad and Patrick's Point]. Trinidad, California. Mapped, edited, and published by the National Geological Survey. 1966.

Scope and Content Note

With photograph and map (photocopy) of Eureka laid on. PM's note: setting for Lightfall.

Lightfall

Manuscript Material

Box 11, Folder 20

Final Meeting: Outline for a Novel by Paul Monette. 1980.

Physical Description: 7 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). 2 copies.

Scope and Content Note

Became the novel Lightfall.

Box 11, Folder 21

First draft. 1980.

Physical Description: 274 leaves total. Primarily holograph.

Scope and Content Note

PM: From the dating in the upper left corner, it appears that the pages are in reverse order, going backward from the ending.

Post-Publication Material

Box 55, Folder 6

Article / interview by Craig Rowland. In: New York Native. December 19, 1983 / January 1, 1984.

Physical Description: p.31.

Note

Also described in sequence with Box 55.

The Long Shot [First Printing, March 1981]

Research Material(?)

Box 11, Folder 22

Letters, postcards, clippings. Late 1970s.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Ed ___, from Cesar [Albini], postcards of Santa Barbara, clippings from Blueboy.

The Long Shot

Manuscript Material

Box 11, Folder 23

Notes. Late 1970s.

Physical Description: 9 leaves total. Holograph.

Box 11, Folder 24

Chapters 1 & 2. n.d.

Physical Description: 77 leaves total.

Scope and Content Note

Novel #3 up through pp.98,99.

Research Material(?)

Box 12, Folder 1

Clippings. n.d. / v.d.

Note

Filed with following draft.

Manuscript Material

Box 12, Folder 2

PM: 6 / 20-9 / 11 into / almost through Chapter 5. n.d.

Physical Description: 72 leaves total. Primarily holograph.

Box 12, Folder 3

PM: Manuscript 9 / 12-11 / 10. n.d.

Physical Description: 64 leaves total. Primarily holograph.

Box 12, Folder 4

PM: Manuscript 11 / 11-12 / 31. n.d.

Physical Description: 59 leaves total. Primarily holograph.

Box 12, Folder 5

Unidentified chapters. n.d.

Physical Description: 52 leaves total. Primarily holograph.

Box 12, Folder 6

Part 1 of 2. n.d.

Physical Description: 86 leaves typescript with holograph corrections.

Scope and Content Note

1-19, 43-48, 49-59 (27-28), 55 (31), 59 (32), 60-63(33-36), 26(21), 27-35, 37-42, 64-67, 69-72A, 78, 73-75, 79-89, 51 (29), 52, 68, 54(30), 53, 90-98.

Box 12, Folder 7

Part 2 of 2. n.d.

Physical Description: 61 leaves typescript with holograph corrections.

Scope and Content Note

76, 99-110, 108, 112,111, 113-118, 19, 69 (75), 22, 25 (20),1 unnumbered, 120-148, 20, 149-151. Includes PM note from original Box.

Box 12, Folder 8

The Long Shot Box 1. n.d.

Physical Description: 474 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.

Scope and Content Note

Includes original Box top, cover page with PM signature, dedication page another to Roger, my fellow friend.

Box 13, Folder 1

Copyedited manuscript. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

407 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.

Post-Publication Material

Box 13, Folder 2

Review. n.d.

Physical Description: Photocopy.

Screenplay(?)

Nothing but the Truth

Manuscript Material

Box 13, Folder 3

Draft with corrections. 1981 [supplied by PM].

Physical Description: 130 leaves. Typescript with extensive holograph corrections.

Play

The Hamptons

Manuscript Material

Box 13, Folder 4

1981 [supplied by PM].

Physical Description: 143 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). Signed by PM on leaf [1].

Seven Point Two

Manuscript Material

Box 13, Folder 5

First draft. 1981(?).

Physical Description: [80] leaves (recto and verson). Holograph.

Box 13, Folder 6

A play in three acts. 1981.

Physical Description: [2], 126 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). Signed by PM on the title page.

Poetry

No Witnesses

Manuscript Material

Box 14, Folder 1

Manuscript. 1973-1975, 1981 [date collected and published by Avon].

Physical Description: Typescript (photocopies) in binder.

Post-Publication Material

Box 14, Folder 2

Publicity. n.d. / v.d.

Box 14, Folder 3

Reviews. n.d. / v.d.

Fiction

The Paradise Chronicles [Never Published]

Manuscript Material

Box 14, Folder 4

Draft. 1981.

Physical Description: 83 leaves total. Primarily holograph.

The Paradise Chronicles

Manuscript Material

Box 14, Folder 5

Draft. 1981.

Physical Description: [2], 129 leaves. Typescript.

Box 14, Folder 6

Miscellaneous pages. 1981.

Physical Description: 130-145. Typescript.

Screenplay

15 Min

Manuscript Material

Box 14, Folder 7

An original screenplay by Paul Monette. First draft. 1983(?).

Physical Description: [1], 134 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

Embassy Pictures. Manuscript differs from other also labeled first draft. Note from PM: For Norman Lear.

Box 14, Folder 8

First draft. 1983.

Physical Description: [1], 126 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

Howard Rosenman Productions. Embassy Pictures. Note from PM: revised first draft.

Pre-Production Material

Box 14, Folder 9

Mention. In Liz Smith column. n.d.

Fiction [Novelization]

Scarface [August 1983, 2nd Printing: December 1983]

Post-Publication Material

Box 14, Folder 10

Promotional ads (color) for movie and the novelization. 1983.

Scarface

Post-Publication Material

Box 14, Folder 11

Mention. 1983.

Physical Description: Clipping.

Scope and Content Note

In advertisement for Crown Books.

Nosferatu

Post-Publication Material(?)

Box 36, Folder 7

Posters. n.d.

Screenplay

Secret of the Catacombs

Manuscript Material

Box 14, Folder 12

By Paul Monette and Alfred Sole. 1984 [supplied by PM]. Just Greene Productions for CBS.

Physical Description: [1], 105 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). Signed by PM on title page.

American Maids

Manuscript Material

Box 14, Folder 13

An original screenplay by Paul Monette. First draft. February 17, 1984. Howard Rosenman Productions. The Ladd Company.

Physical Description: [1], 123 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Play

Just the Summers

Manuscript Material

Box 15, Folder 1

Outline. 1985(?).

Physical Description: [12] leaves in spiral notebook (some verso), 1 loose leaf.

Box 15, Folder 2

First draft. n.d. Also: clipping of Michael Delfino (or Michael Kearns) from In Touch.

Physical Description: [109] leaves (some verso), primarily torn from a spiral binder.

Box 15, Folder 3

A play in two acts. Second draft. n.d.

Physical Description: [2], 121 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). Signed by PM on the title page.

Box 15, Folder 4

A play in two acts. Third draft. n.d.

Physical Description: [2], 112 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). Signed by Paul Monette on the title page.

Fiction

Small Powers [Never Published]

Manuscript Material

Box 15, Folder 6

First draft, holograph. 1985 [last worked on by PM, date supplied by PM].

Physical Description: 68 leaves total. Holograph.

Scope and Content Note

Cf. Borrowed Time.

Small Powers

Manuscript Material

Box 15, Folder 7

Revised first draft. n.d.

Physical Description: 113 leaves typescript with holograph corrections.

Box 15, Folder 8

A sketch for a novel. n.d.

Physical Description: 119 leaves typescript. In folder: Julian Bach Literary Agency, Incorporated.

Box 15, Folder 9

Copy 1. n.d.

Physical Description: 176 leaves. Typescript.

Box 15, Folder 10

Copy 2. n.d.

Physical Description: [1], 100, 4 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). Bound in plastic cover.

Box 16, Folder 1

A sketch for a novel by Paul Monette. n.d. Corrections by (?).

Physical Description: [2], 11 leaves. Typescript (photocopy) with holograph corrections.

Note

Removed from these materials for cataloging: 100 Years of Laguna Beach.

Box 16, Folder 2

Draft. n.d.

Physical Description: 45 leaves. Holograph.

Box 16, Folder 3

Holograph draft. n.d.

Physical Description: 3 leaves holograph (recto and verso).

Note

Found separately with later donation.

Box 16, Folder 4

Draft. n.d.

Physical Description: 54 leaves typescript with holograph corrections.

Box 16, Folder 5

Draft. 1985.

Physical Description: 49 leaves typescript.

Scope and Content Note

Last work. Cf. Borrowed Time.

Screenplay

The Manicurist

Manuscript Material

Box 16, Folder 6

July 1985.

Physical Description: [1]. 116 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

Howard Rosenman Productions. Walt Disney Studios. Signed by PM on the title page. Cf. Borrowed Time.

Poetry

The Carol Poems

Manuscript Material

Box 16, Folder 7

1985-1986. Cf. Borrowed Time.

Physical Description: 90 leaves total. Primarily typescripts, extensive holograph corrections.

Scope and Content Note

PM: 1st draft worksheets for Love Alone & Poems to Carol (1985-86).

Poems

Manuscript Material

Box 16, Folder 8

1985-1986.

Physical Description: 29 leaves total. Typescripts [lacking corrections].

Screenplay

Panic Attack

Manuscript Material

Box 16, Folder 9

By Alfred Sole and Paul Monette. First draft. March 28, 1986.

Physical Description: [1], 113 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). Signed by PM on the title page.

No Secrets

Manuscript Material

Box 16, Folder 10

By Alfred Sole and Paul Monette. October 1986. CBS MOW.

Physical Description: [1], 76 leaves. Typescript(?).

Box 16, Folder 11

By Alfred Sole and Paul Monette. October 1986. CBS MOW.

Physical Description: [1], 76 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Untitled

Manuscript Material

Box 16, Folder 12

n.d. The Movie Company. Krost / Simon.

Physical Description: 123 leaves.

Draw me a Picture

Manuscript

Box 17, Folder 1

By Alfred Sole and Paul Monette. n.d.

Physical Description: [1], 119 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Television Script

Wavelength

Manuscript Material

Box 17, Folder 2

A pilot by Paul Monette and Alfred Sole. Second draft. December 10, 1986.

Physical Description: [2], 54 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). On title page: Vanessa Greene, Adrienne Levin. Signed by PM on the title page.

Fiction [Novelization]

Predator [June 1987]

No Material in Collection

Box --, Folder -

n.d.

Poetry

Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog [published 1988]

Pre-Publication Material

Box 17, Folder 3

Letters from Betty [Berzon?] and David [Schorr] after reading drafts. 1987 and n.d.

Physical Description: 3 items, 5 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

1987 June 26 [postmark and n.d. (Berzon), n.d. (Schorr). Schorr also seemingly reading poems before publication.

Publication Material

Box 17, Folder 4

Letter from Arthur [Vogelsgang?] ( American Poetry Review). June 10, 1987.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph, signed.

Box 17, Folder 5

In: Christopher Street. Issue 119. c. 1988.

Post-Publication Material

Box 17, Folder 6

Letter from Charles Corcoran. n.d.

Physical Description: 1 leaf (recto and verso). Holograph, signed.

Manuscript Material

Note

[in bound journals, not yet at UCLA]

Box --, Folder -

n.d.

Pre-Publication Material

Box 17, Folder 7

Letters rejecting publication of individual poems. February 20 and March 3, 1987.

Physical Description: 2 items, 3 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

From Mark Thompson ( The Advocate) and [illegible signature] ( Southwest Review).

Post-Publication Material

Box 17, Folder 8

Letters of appreciation from friends. n.d. / v.d.

Box 17, Folder 9

Reviews. n.d. / v.d.

Physical Description: Primarily photocopies.

Box 17, Folder 10

Letter from Rudy Kikel about reprinting No Goodbyes. 1987 January 29.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

First printed in Bay Windows, Kikel is writing to ask permission to print in Boston Bisexual Men's Network Newsletter.

Box 17, Folder 11

Letter from Mass Benefit: a performance of Bach's Mass in B minor for AIDS care and education (John O'Brien). March 28, 1988, enclosure date March 18.

Physical Description: Typed, signed. 1 item, 2 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

About including a statement and poem in the program booklet.

Box 17, Folder 12

Letters from Greg Myers. August 19, 1988 and August 8, 1990.

Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

About adapting poem for a dance. Also: announcement for performance of dance.

Box 17, Folder 13

Musical setting. August 18, 1988 (postmark); November 11, 1988; April 22, 1989; May 23, 1990.

Physical Description: [5 leaves total] (letters). Holograph and typed, signed and 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Ned Rorem about setting Here, and various productions of the setting. Includes letter from Sylvia Goldstein (Boosey & Hawkes) about the setting: August 23, 1988.

Box 17, Folder 14

Love Alone. For men's chorus and piano (four hands). Music by Ned Rorem. Poem [Here] by Paul Monette. 1988. NR's note at end: New York City November 1-9, 1988.

Physical Description: 13pp. [4 folded leaves]. Holograph score (photocopy).

Box 17, Folder 15

Ned Rorem. Love Alone, Men's Chorus and Piano Four Hands. Poem by Paul Monette. No place, Boosey & Hawkes. c. 1989.

Scope and Content Note

Contains brief description from NR, stating first performed in New York, first week of November 1988.

Box 17, Folder 16

Love Alone. June 1989.

Scope and Content Note

Program for The New York City Gay Men's Chorus [world premiere of Rorem's setting of Here].

Note

Kept in Louis Sherry Box.

Box 17, Folder 17

Love Alone. 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Program for The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles [California premiere of Rorem's setting of Here].

Box 17, Folder 18

Letters received. March 20, 1990; August 7, 1992.

Scope and Content Note

Peter Schellin, poet and chorus singer(?), Jon Bailey, conductor Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus performance of Rorem's Here [also Halfway Home fan letter].

Box 17, Folder 19

Mention and review. April 10 and May 2, 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles performance of Rorem setting.

Box 17, Folder 20

Performance of Rorem's Here at Tanglewood Music Festival. August 24, 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Letter from Cornelia Fitts, program, program notes, and review of performance in Berkshire Eagle. Letter from Dave Drake Beauvais and program.

Box 17, Folder 21

Performance of Ned Rorem's setting. Review. October 28, 1993.

Physical Description: Clipping.

Box 17, Folder 22

Performance of Ned Rorem's setting. Program. 1993.

Scope and Content Note

With holograph note from NR: Dearest Paul - Every place this piece is sung, the audience dissolves. It's the words, only the words - ....

Post-Publication Material / Honors

Box 17, Folder 23

First Words Project for AIDS dinner. March 23, 1989.

Scope and Content Note

Clipping about dinner. Love Alone won for best poetry / fiction.

Box 38, Folder 9

First Words Project for AIDS dinner(?). n.d.

Physical Description: 1 video cassette (VHS).

Post-Publication Material

Box 17, Folder 24

Reading announcement. December 2, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 folded leaf. Printed(?).

Scope and Content Note

Poetry Center [New York?], benefit reading in support of artistic freedom.

Box 17, Folder 25

Letter from Jeffrey David Brody. 1991 October 2. Also: JDB resume.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Box 36, Folder 8

Elegies for Rog: Song-cycle for Baritone and Large Orchestra, by Jeffrey Brody. To Paul Monette. Vocal score. Piano reduction by the composer. 1991-1992. New York City. October 30, 1991 - Boston. February 23, 1992.

Physical Description: [vi], 82 pp. Blue print. Inscribed on title page: For Paul from Jeff, Boston, III 26 92.

Box 36, Folder 9

... the wisest and justest and best ... n.d.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph(?).

Scope and Content Note

Last page of the score by JDB. Lines are from RH's gravestone.

Box 17, Folder 26

Elegies for Rog [JRB setting]. n.d..

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Printed(?).

Scope and Content Note

The poems set were: Here, No Goodbyes, Gardenias, Half Life. Flier / program for performance of Elegies for Rog, Harvard Musical Association, June 15, 1992. Brian Davis, baritone. Jeffrey Brody, pianist.

Box 17, Folder 27

Letters from Jeffrey Brody. February 27, March 26, June 2, October 2 and December 1, 1992.

Physical Description: 4 items, 5 pieces. Typed, signed.

Box 17, Folder 28

Correspondence re Jeffrey Brody's songs. December 17, 1993; April-September 1994; February 2, 1995.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Brody and business manager. Includes press release and program from premiere, and review of Indiana concert in 1995 [Review from DL].

Box 51, Folder 8

Performance of Jeffrey Brody settings. introduction, Here, Gardenias, etc. June 16, 1992.

Physical Description: Cassette recording.

Note

[Also described in sequence with Box 51]

Box 17, Folder 29

All There Is Is Love, music by Roger Bourland, words by Paul Monette [TTBB]. c. 1993.

Physical Description: 5 leaves. Printed(?).

Scope and Content Note

Dedicated to the Gay Men's Chorus. Text adapted from Preface to Love Alone, beginning: The story that endlessly eludes the decorum of the press ....

[None given]

18 Elegies for Rog / Preface

Post-Publication Material

Box 17, Folder 30

All There Is Is Love, setting by Roger Bourland. April 3-4, 1993; Spring 1994.

Physical Description: Program and magazine.

Scope and Content Note

Program is signed by RB. Portrait of PM, RB, and Jon Bailey on cover of Choruspondence, The Quarterly Magazine of GMCLA.

Poetry

Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog / Preface

Post-Publication Material

Box 17, Folder 31

All There Is Is Love. 1993(?).

Physical Description: [11] leaves. Holograph (photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

For baritone solo, small chorus, and large chorus. Words by Paul Monette. Music by Gary Bachlund.

Box 17, Folder 32

Letter from Gary Bachlund. March 16, 1993. Also: resume. About setting a version of Preface and part of Here.

Physical Description: Typed, signed (Fax).

Box 17, Folder 33

Anthology: Confronting AIDS Through Literature. Letter from Judith Pastore, ed. January 8, 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Sending proofs.

Box 17, Folder 34

Flier for reading, Highways. n.d.

Physical Description: 1 leaf.

Scope and Content Note

Paul Monette ... will read from his poetry and new political writings.

Box 17, Folder 35

Letter from Robert Maggio to PM. n.d.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Mentions having just returned from your reading at the U. Of Penn and wanting to set some poems to music.

Box 17, Folder 36

Letter from Richard Link. September 30, 1994.

Scope and Content Note

Asking to set Here to music.

Box 17, Folder 37

David Cohen performs poems. 1994.

Scope and Content Note

Letter and newspaper article about Cohen's reading of poems from Love Alone.

Memoirs

Borrowed Time: an AIDS Memoir [Published 1988]

Manuscript Material

Box 17, Folder 38

Borrowed Time [notes]. 1987 (per PM).

Physical Description: 5 leaves. Holograph. On lined yellow paper, numbered by PM.

Borrowed Time: an Aids Memoir

Manuscript Material

Box 17, Folder 39

Further notes. n.d.

Physical Description: 11 leaves. Holograph on lined yellow paper, numbered by PM.

Box 17, Folder 40

Further notes, a chronology. n.d.

Physical Description: [2] leaves. Holograph on lined yellow paper.

Box 17, Folder 41

Borrowed Time: A Book Proposal by Paul Monette. n.d.

Physical Description: [1], 12 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Box 17, Folder 42

Borrowed Time: A Book Proposal by Paul Monette. n.d.

Physical Description: [2], 23 leaves. Typescript (photocopy?).

Scope and Content Note

Includes publications list, poems: No Goodbyes [ Love Alone], Your Sightless Days [ Love Alone], The Worrying [ Love Alone], 40, Buckley, Burnout.

Box 17, Folder 43

First draft. folder 1 of 2. n.d.

Physical Description: 158 leaves total. Typescript with holograph corrections .... Also inserted leaves, holograph on lined yellow paper.

Note

[see next Box]

Box 18, Folder 1

First draft. folder 2 of 2. n.d.

Physical Description: 246 leaves total. Typescript with holograph corrections .... Some holograph leaves inserted.

Box 18, Folder 2

Borrowed Time: A Memoir of War. Draft typed from previous corrections. n.d.

Physical Description: [3], 509 leaves. Typescript.

Pre-Publication Material

Box 18, Folder 3

Letter received re reading at Cal Arts. March 15, 1987.

Box 18, Folder 4

Letter from friend(?). March 27, 1987.

Box 18, Folder 5

Letter from Larry Goldstein of the Michigan Quarterly Review. September 7, 1987.

Physical Description: 1 leaf typed, signed.

Publication Material

Box 18, Folder 6

Letter from Jack McHugh and Neal Colton to PM. March 22, 1988.

Scope and Content Note

1 folded note. Holograph, signed (Jack McHugh? with both names). Thanks David Groff (?) for letting them see the manuscript.

Box 18, Folder 7

Letter from Ned Rorem to Lynn Goldberg. April 10, 1988.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

With a statement meant for publicity.

Box 18, Folder 8

Announcement. In: Publishers Weekly. May 1, 1987.

Physical Description: pp.41-42. Photocopies.

Post-Publication Material

Box 18, Folder 9

Advertisement. New York Times Book Review(?). n.d.

Box 18, Folder 10

Press releases, copies of reviews. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

From Lynn Goldberg Communications, Incorporated, from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, from Noirin Lucas at The Wendy Weil Agency.

Box 38, Folder 11

Sound recording. John Eastman show, WKTN radio. June 22, 1988.

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette.

Box 18, Folder 11

Memo from Lynn Goldberg Communications. July 11, 1988.

Scope and Content Note

Describes positive response from radio and television hosts who have interviewed PM.

Box 18, Folder 12

Reviews. n.d. / v.d.

Box 18, Folder 13

Review proofs. n.d. / v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Articles by Rudy Kikel, David Eberly, Phil Gambone.

Box 19, Folder 1

Mentions. n.d. / v.d.

Box 19, Folder 2

Interviews. n.d. / v.d.

Box 19, Folder 3

Letters of congratulation from friends, fellow writers, those who knew Roger or Cesar, etc. Fan mail filed elsewhere. n.d. / v.d.

Box 38, Folder 10

Diane Rehm show [interview?]. July 7, 1988.

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette.

Box 19, Folder 4

Paperback sale(?) Letter from Michael Kazan (Avon Books). June 3, 1988.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Box 19, Folder 5

Party invitation. June 25, 1988.

Physical Description: Printed (?) card. 2 copies.

Scope and Content Note

David Bohnett and Rand Schrader invite you to celebrate the publication of Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir ....

Box 38, Folder 12

Interview, Good Day, WCVB (Boston). July 6, 1988.

Physical Description: 1 video cassette.

Box 19, Folder 6

Awards. National Book Critics Circle nomination. 1988.

Physical Description: 1 leaf [calligraphed?]. Signed by Nina King.

Scope and Content Note

Also postcard ( The Threepenny Review) from Wendy Lesser. n.d. (January 10). Typed, signed.

Box 19, Folder 7

Reading at LATC. Review and program. January 1, 1989.

Scope and Content Note

In: Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Event was in November 1988.

Box 19, Folder 8

Lecture / Reading. University of California Santa Barbara. January 13, 1989.

Scope and Content Note

Letter of invitation with notes.

Box 19, Folder 9

Lecture / reading. University of California, Santa Barbara. Press release. January 17, 1989.

Box 19, Folder 10

Clippings University of California, Santa Barbara. February 6-8, 1989.

Box 19, Folder 11

The 1st Annual Lambda Literary Awards Banquet (program). June 2, 1989.

Scope and Content Note

Borrowed Time and Love Alone nominated.

Box 19, Folder 12

Invitation to Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights annual banquet. December 8, 1989. PM was guest speaker.

Box 19, Folder 13

Reviews for Borrowed Time and Love Alone. n.d. / v.d.

Box 19, Folder 14

French translation. Correspondence from Manuela Dumay. 1988-1989.

Physical Description: 2 cards. Holograph. 1 typescript letter.

Box 19, Folder 15

Award for French translation. Grand Prix Litteraire du Medec 1990. Letter from Fabienne Delmote. n.d. Enclosures with names of jury, etc.

Physical Description: 1 item, 6 pieces.

Box 19, Folder 16

Letters received from Bill Bowersock about setting BT to music. October 10, 1993 and April 11, 1994. Includes score of We have been here.

Box 38, Folder 13

Sound recording of Bill Bowersock We have been here. 1994.

Physical Description: 1 cassette tape.

Box 38, Folder 14

Tony Goldwyn reading from Borrowed Time, Arts & Entertainment Revue. November 28, 1990.

Physical Description: 1 video cassette.

Box 19, Folder 17

Correspondence regarding Books-on-Tape version. 1994.

Scope and Content Note

From The American Audio Prose Company. Tape of PM reading Borrowed Time.

Poetry

To GB from Tuscany

Pre-Publication Material

Box 19, Folder 18

Letter from Larry Goldstein. December 7, 1987. Michigan Quarterly Review. Date of poem, 1987 per PM.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Box 19, Folder 19

Printer's proof and letter from Larry Goldstein. n.d. Published in Fall 1988 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.

Physical Description: 3 leaves (photocopy). Letter typed, signed, with holograph additions.

Post-Publication Material

Box 19, Folder 20

Postcard of appreciation from Ruth Weisberg. n.d. [postmark illegible].

Box 19, Folder 21

Letters received from John De Marzo. March, May and October-November 1994.

Scope and Content Note

re Setting to music and recording it. Also Gardenias, The Girl in the Field (from Carpenter at the Asylum), House on Kings Road, Widower, Contexts.

Waiting to Die

Manuscript Material

Box 19, Folder 22

Drafts. 1988(?).

Physical Description: 4 leaves total. Typescript (holograph corrections) and photocopy. Typescript (photocopy) makes corrections from typescript.

Publication Material

Box 19, Folder 23

Memorial service program for Robert David Almgren. June 12, 1988.

Scope and Content Note

Contains printing of poem dedicated to Almgren.

Ed Dying

Publication Material

Box 19, Folder 24

In: Christopher Street. Issue 123. c. 1988. CS Poetry.

Physical Description: Clipping.

Re-Publication Material

Box 19, Folder 25

Conference (Miami). November 18, 1989.

Physical Description: Clipping.

Scope and Content Note

Conference organized by John Preston. Also: Edmund White, Andrew Holleran ... . Poem republished Tribes vol.1 no.2 (Spring 1990).

Box 19, Folder 26

In: Tribes. vol.1 no.2. Spring 1990 [from DL].

Note

Note: publicity airs [sic?] on the right side ...

Buckley

Post-Publication Material

Box 19, Folder 27

Letter from Lev Raphael. December 1988.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Mentions poem's publication in Out / Look.

Box 19, Folder 28

Reviews. August 1, 1989 and n.d.

Physical Description: Clippings.

Box 19, Folder 29

Mention. In Newsday. August 4, 1989.

Physical Description: Clipping (photocopy).

Stephen at the FDA

Manuscript Material

Box --, Folder -

Stephen at the FDA. [n.d.].

Scope and Content Note

Written after Stephen Kolzak's protest at Federal Drug Administration building (Alexandria, Virginia?).

Note

For draft(?) (holograph) see Box 20 folder 2.

Publication Material

Box 40, Folder 1

In: Frontiers. vol.9 issue 15. November 23, 1990 [written 1988].

Physical Description: p.27.

Television Script

Positive [for Thirtysomething]

Manuscript Material

Box 19, Folder 30

First draft. 1990. Also draft for end of (?) Halfway Home.

Physical Description: [39] leaves in pad, [6] leaves loose. Recto and verso. Holograph.

Box 19, Folder 31

1990.

Physical Description: [1], 61 leaves. Typescript.

Scope and Content Note

Signed by Paul Monette on the title page with note in his hand: Summer / Fall 1990. Episode first aired: Spring 1991.

Pre-Airing Material

Box 19, Folder 32

Letters mentioning script being done. July 16, 1990 and n.d. (no year, July 14).

Physical Description: 2 items, 3 pieces.

Post-Airing Material

Box 19, Folder 33

Letters of congratulation. April 18, 1991.

Physical Description: 1 item, 1 piece.

Fiction [Novelization]

Havana [January 1991]

No Material in Collection

n.d.

Note

Copy of novelization cataloged for Special Collections.

Publicity Quotations

For: Decade Dance

Manuscript Material

Box 19, Folder 34

For Michael Lassell. 1990.

Dedications

Articles

Publication Material

Box 19, Folder 35

Love Sick by Michael Lassell. February 14, 1992.

Scope and Content Note

For his talent, intelligence, industry, wit and compassion; for his dogged romanticism, consummate hospitality and limitless friendship....

Fiction

Afterlife [c. 1990]

Manuscript Material

Box 19, Folder 36

The Widowers [outline]. ca. 1989. [per PM].

Physical Description: Holograph. 1 folded leaf torn from bound composition book.

Afterlife

Manuscript Material

Box 19, Folder 37

The Widowers, Notes for a Novel. n.d.

Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections and additions.

Box 19, Folder 38

Outline, beginning: The Country Beyond Tears is the story of three AIDS widowers ... n.d.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typescript with holograph additions.

Box 19, Folder 39

Untitled synopsis. n.d. Unclear as to which preliminary version this applies.

Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.

Box 19, Folder 40

Manuscript. folder 1 of 2. n.d.

Physical Description: In five note pads, some leaves loose. 2 notepads this folder.

Note

[see next Box]

Box 20, Folder 1

Holograph manuscript. folder 2 of 2. n.d.

Physical Description: In five note pads. 3 notepads this folder.

Box 20, Folder 2

Drafts. n.d.

Physical Description: 22 leaves total. Primarily holograph. Loose leaves. One leaf folded to enclose others.

Scope and Content Note

Draft(?) of Stephen at the FDA [poem] verso one leaf , here beginning: raging under a banner, crosslegged ....

Box 20, Folder 3

Last page draft. n.d.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph.

Box 20, Folder 4

The Country Beyond Tears, a novel by Paul Monette. n.d.

Physical Description: 10 leaves. Typescript(?). Also photocopies.

Box 20, Folder 5

n.d.

Physical Description: ca. 200 leaves. Typescript (photocopy). Incomplete.

Box 20, Folder 6

Editor's copy. n.d.

Physical Description: [3] preliminary leaves, 472 leaves. Typescript with editor's corrections. David Groff's copy editing in green pencil.

Box 21, Folder 1

Letter from David Groff. May 30, 1989.

Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typed, signed. One photocopy of same. Enclosing copy edited manuscript.

Box 21, Folder 2

Printer's copy. n.d.

Physical Description: [7] preliminary leaves, 439 leaves. Typescript with corrections.

Scope and Content Note

Editors' final corrections and PM's.

Publication Material

Box 21, Folder 3

Letters from Susan Brownmiller to PM, David Groff. February 26, December 8, 1989.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed. and 1 leaf. Typed, signed (photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

To PM: about rewview (book unknown); To Groff: After reading the novel in galleys; asked to review in Chicago Tribune.

Note

[See clipping in reviews folder]

Box 21, Folder 4

Editorial Fact Sheet. n.d.

Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript (photocopy?) with minor holograph corrections.

Scope and Content Note

A selling tool, for example segments are: Handle, Selling points, etc.

Publication Material (Serial Excerpt)

Box 40, Folder 2

In: LA Style. February 1990. Also brief introduction by PM.

Physical Description: pp.84-86, 88, 90, 92, 94.

Post-Publication Material (serial excerpt)

Box 21, Folder 5

Letters to LA Style after publication of excerpt. n.d. / v.d.

Post-Publication Material

Box 21, Folder 6

Letters of appreciation from friends. n.d. / v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Fan mail filed elsewhere.

Box 21, Folder 7

Publicity tour agenda. n.d.

Physical Description: 26 leaves.

Box 21, Folder 8

Letter received from Judy Bendt, host on book tour. September 28, 1990.

Box 21, Folder 9

Interviews. n.d. / v.d.

Physical Description: Clippings.

Box 21, Folder 10

Interview with Phil Gambone. April 26, 1990. In Bay Windows.

Box 21, Folder 11

Reviews. n.d. / v.d.

Box 38, Folder 15

Video recording. Interview with Michael Cart, In Print (#2157). n.d.

Physical Description: 1 video cassette (VHS).

Nonfiction

The Meek Are Contesting the Will

Publication Material

Box 40, Folder 3

In: Frontiers. vol.9 issue 15. November 23, 1990.

Physical Description: pp.23-24, 26-27.

Scope and Content Note

The following address was delivered by Paul Monette at the UCLA Gay and Lesbian Writers Conference.

Note

See Box 4 (folder 2)

Forewords

A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story

Pre-Publication Material

Box 21, Folder 12

Letter from Tony Johnson. August 7, 1991.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph, signed verso.

Scope and Content Note

A fan letter about Borrowed Time and Love Alone. Unknown if this letter accompanied TJ's manuscript.

Manuscript Material

Box 21, Folder 13

See Farther, Fly Highest, dedicated to Paul Monette With Love from Anthony R. Johnson 1991 [short memoir]. 1991.

Physical Description: [1], 10 leaves. Holograph. Title and dedicatory first leaf.

Scope and Content Note

Published as chapter of A Rock and a Hard Place. Also 5 × 7 color photograph: To my friend Paul, love Tony 13 yrs old.

Letters Received / Sent, etc.

Box 21, Folder 14

From David Groff, Rudy [Kikel], from Winston Wilde (copy) to Newsweek. June 10, 1993 and n.d.

Physical Description: Primarily photocopies.

Scope and Content Note

A file of copies of reviews, including that by Michele Ingrassia ( Newsweek) implying the book is a ruse, photocopy of WW's letter to her June 10, 1993.

Letter Sent / Received

Box 21, Folder 15

Letter from Richard Labonte (March 1993), note from Irvin Sasaki (July 1993) encloses Gregory House Gazette no.210, with photocopy of PM's letter to IS (June 28, 1993) discussing reception of Johnson's work. March 26 and July 7, 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Labonte writes after reading A Rock and a Hard Place and PM's introduction in galleys.

Fiction

Halfway Home [c. 1991]

Research Material

Box 21, Folder 16

Lifton, Sarah. Adamson House: Malibu's Colorful Link with History From: Angeles. July 1989.

Scope and Content Note

Clipping about Malibu house used in novel.

Halfway Home

Manuscript Material

Box 21, Folder 17

Outline. [ca. 1990 per PM].

Box 21, Folder 18

Holograph manuscript. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

In 4 (gray) note pads. First sheet of first pad attached with tape.

Note

See also notepad for Positive (Thirtysomething episode), Box 19 (folder 30).

Box 22, Folder 1

Printer's copy. n.d.

Physical Description: [6] preliminary leaves, 457 leaves. With editor's corrections and markings by printer.

Box 22, Folder 2

Letter from Carol _____ to PM. March 23, 1992.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed. Enclosing printer's copy.

Publication Material

Box 22, Folder 3

Mention. New York Native. March 4, 1991.

Physical Description: Clipping (photocopy).

Scope and Content Note

Mentions galleys of Halfway Home.

Post-Publication Material

Box 22, Folder 4

Letters of congratulation from friends. n.d. / v.d.

Scope and Content Note

From: Tony and Jane.

Box 22, Folder 5

Reviews. n.d. / v.d.

Physical Description: Primarily photocopies.

Box 22, Folder 6

Publicity tour agenda. April 17, 1991.

Box 22, Folder 7

Interviews. n.d. / v.d.

Physical Description: Clippings.

Box 39, Folder 1

Interview with Michael Cart, In Print #2157. n.d.

Physical Description: 1 video cassette.

Box 22, Folder 8

Letter from David Groff. December 9, 1991.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph, signed. On Crown Publishers letterhead.

Scope and Content Note

Note enclosing specially bound copy of the novel for PM [Copy retained by PM / WW].

Box 22, Folder 9

Award. March 30, 1992.

Physical Description: Two letters.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Susan Hoffman, chair, ALA Gay / Lesbian Book Awards Committee. One letter is to David Groff.

Box 22, Folder 10

Exhibits. Copy of UCLA With Equal Pride catalog, by Dan Luckenbill. January 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Materials shown were items pertaining to Halfway Home.

Note

See exhibit checklist (in Special Collections) for details.

Box 22, Folder 11

Letter from David Groff. April 19, 1993.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Encloses statement, gives news about remaindering the novel.

Box 22, Folder 12

Letter from Jeff Baron. May 19, 1993.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Mentions potential (?) film of the novel and encloses his script, Custody [not in Monette papers].

Box 22, Folder 13

Correspondence from John Fadel re movie rights. 1993.

Memoirs

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story [c. 1992]

Publication Material

Box 22, Folder 14

In: The Advocate [two parts]. March 1991(?).

Scope and Content Note

First part has introduction by Mark Thompson. Called autobiography in progress.

Post-Publication Material

Box 22, Folder 15

Letter received re Advocate excerpt(s). March 26, 1991. Encloses poem.

Publication Material

Box 22, Folder 16

Letter from Denise Accardi. May 28, 1991.

Physical Description: Notecard. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

re excerpt(s) in Advocate.

Box 22, Folder 17

Excerpts in: QW, Out of New York. no.29. May 17, 1992.

Box 22, Folder 18

Excerpts in: Yale GALA. September 1992.

Post-Publication Material

Box 22, Folder 19

Publicity tour items. June 1992(?).

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter from staff, Sonya Live. June 30, 1992.

Box 22, Folder 20

Reviews and mentions. 1992 primarily.

Box 22, Folder 21

Interviews. 1992. In: The Advocate (June 2, 1992) with excerpt, interview with Owen Keehnen. September 1992 (clipping).

Box 22, Folder 22

Letters from people mentioned in the book. 1992-1994.

Box 22, Folder 23

Letters of appreciation from friends. n.d. / v.d.

Note

See also: Get Well card from Lambda Rising Book Store (Washington, D.C.).

Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story

Post-Publication Material

Box 36, Folder 10

Card from Lambda Rising. n.d. / v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Get well card from store employees.

Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story

Post-Publication Material

Box 22, Folder 24

Letters of appreciation which mention Andover, etc. n.d. / v.d.

Box 39, Folder 2

Ed Anderson's Journal. Guest: Paul Monette. May 11, 1992.

Physical Description: 1 video cassette (VHS).

Box 22, Folder 25

Note from Ed Anderson. June 21, 1992.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph, signed. Enclosing videotape.

Box 23, Folder 1

Press kit. August 10, 1992.

Scope and Content Note

Made for offering paperback rights for bidding.

Box 23, Folder 2

Letters from Kevin Bentley and Matthew Lore. v.d.

Scope and Content Note

About paperback sales, backlist, etc. Harper San Francisco. August 20, September 11, 1992; July 16, August 13, September 3, 1993; September 19, 1994. ML letter is September 11, 1992. 1994 letter mentions Gay Soul and Sister and Brother anthologies.

Box 23, Folder 3

Honors. National Book Awards nomination certificate. 1992.

Physical Description: 1 [printed?] leaf [removed from frame].

Scope and Content Note

1992 nonfiction finalist.

Letters Received

Box 23, Folder 4

After National Book Award nomination, announcement, etc. October 1992-June 1993.

Scope and Content Note

From: Sascha Bittner, Gay Block, Peter Bunnell, Alexander (Cobbold?), Malka Drucker, Spence Halperin, Barbara Horwitz, Tim Miller, Doug Sadownick.

Post-Publication Material

Box 23, Folder 5

Honors. National Book Award ceremonies program. November 18, 1992.

Post-Publication Material / Manuscript Material

Box 23, Folder 6

Honors. The Politics of Silence. Library of Congress Center for the Book lecture. n.d.

Physical Description: [12] leaves. Typescript (photocopy) with holograph corrections, holograph.

Scope and Content Note

Part of the text is in outline form with extensive holograph corrections and one leaf holograph. With this: copy of State Univeristy of New York Oswego address (refiled).

Box 23, Folder 7

Honors. Library of Congress Center for The Book Lecture by Paul Monette [transcription]. January 28, 1993. Date of lecture.

Physical Description: 52 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Post-Publication Material

Box 23, Folder 8

Honors. February 22 and April 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Article and clippings about Library of Congress speech.

Box 23, Folder 9

Honors. National Book Award articles and mentions. 1992-1993.

Physical Description: Clippings, primarily.

Scope and Content Note

Some refer to the controversy of award winner Dorothy Allison's ban from speaking in Oklahoma.

Box 23, Folder 10

Honors. National Book Award. Letter from Robert Roehr. February 17, 1993.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, not signed.

Scope and Content Note

From editor of 10 Percent Magazine requesting permission to reprint portions of PM's acceptance speece.

Box 57, Folder 8

Samples of printed cards sent to well wishers after receiving National Book Award. c. 1993.

Scope and Content Note

Descriptive note by WWL I had Paul make these up c. 1993 (post-NBA) to deal w / the deluge.

Post-Publication Material / Publication Material

Box 40, Folder 9

Honors. The Politics of Silence [excerpts from Library of Congress lecture]. In: The New York Times OP-ED. March 7, 1993.

Physical Description: Photocopy.

Box 23, Folder 11

Honors. The Politics of Silence [excerpts from Library of Congress lecture]. In: 10 Percent. Summer 1993.

Physical Description: p.8.

Post-Publication Material

Box 23, Folder 12

Honors. February 23, 1993. Also snapshot.

Scope and Content Note

Letter from Susan Hoffman, chair, Gay / Lesbian Book Award, American Library Association.

Box 23, Folder 13

Letter from Christopher Sands to Lambda Book Report. March 3, 1993.

Physical Description: Photocopy.

Box 23, Folder 14

Letter from John Preston about Lambda Book Report review. 1993(?).

Physical Description: Holograph on notecard, signed Prest.

Box 23, Folder 15

Letter from Donald Corren about movie rights. March 15, 1993.

Physical Description: Typed, signed. 1 item, 2 pieces.

Box 23, Folder 16

Remainder statement. May 1993.

Box 23, Folder 17

Letter from Barry Herem enclosing review. August 17, 1993.

Box 23, Folder 18

Exhibits. Letter from Dan Luckenbill (October 22, 1993), enclosing UCLA Librarian article. vol.46 no.1 (Spring / Summer 1993).

Physical Description: 1 typed leaf, signed.

Post-Publication Material / Reprint

Box 23, Folder 19

Letters received from David Rosen, Quality Paperback. 1993-1994.

Physical Description: 2 letters and catalogs.

Scope and Content Note

Mentions Time Warner forum and Last Watch of the Night.

Box 23, Folder 20

Letters from Andrew Wille, Little Brown (England). June 3 and December 9, 1993; February 4 and August 15, 1994.

Physical Description: All letters are typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Details of Abacus reprint, wrapper photograph (Bruce Weber), reviews, etc.

Reprint

Box 23, Folder 21

English edition reviews. 1994.

Physical Description: Photocopies.

Reprint / Translation

Box 23, Folder 22

Letter received requesting an Author's foreword for Japanese translation of Becoming a Man. June 8, 1994. Includes snapshot of PM with author.

Post-Publication Material

Box 23, Folder 23

Letter from Steve Murray about stage adaption. n.d.

Physical Description: Typed, signed (photocopy). Holograph notes on copy by Wendy Weil.

Television Script

Trials

Pre-Manuscript Material

Box 23, Folder 24

Letter from Kimberly Myers. September 23, 1991. Ms. Myers worked with PM on the project.

Physical Description: Holograph notecard, signed. With envelope.

Manuscript Material

Box 23, Folder 25

Introduction, Synopsis, Writers. 1992(?).

Physical Description: 3 leaves, 4 leaves, 3 leaves. Typescript (printer? photocopy?). On Thirteen / WNET letterhead.

Scope and Content Note

PM listed as supervising writer, teleplay for episode one.

Box 23, Folder 26

Trials: A Multi-Part Series About the AIDS Crisis, outline by Paul Monette, Outline: Episode 1: 90 minutes, Priest on Trial, the Story of Bernard Lynch. 1992.

Physical Description: [2], 9 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Box 23, Folder 27

Outline: Episode 1. [1992].

Physical Description: [1], 22 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Box 23, Folder 28

Trials: Outline for Episode 2. [1992].

Physical Description: [1], 11 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Box 23, Folder 29

Trials: Outline for Episode 3. [1992].

Physical Description: [1], 11 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Box 23, Folder 30

Trials: Outline for Episode 4. [1992].

Physical Description: [1], 10 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Box 23, Folder 31

Revised. April 4, 1992.

Physical Description: 95 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Box 23, Folder 32

Priest on Trial: The Story of Bernard Lynch. June 9, 1992.

Physical Description: [1], 33 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Screenplay

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End

Manuscript Material

Box 23, Folder 33

First draft. July 28, 1993.

Physical Description: [1], 10 leaves. Word processing laser printer(?).

Scope and Content Note

Fund-raising trailer written by Devin Hawker.

Box 23, Folder 34

Treatment. January 16, 1994.

Physical Description: 12 leaves. Word processing laser printer(?).

Box 23, Folder 35

Continuity script. January 14, 1993.

Physical Description: [1], 43 leaves. Typescript (photocopy or laser printer?).

Scope and Content Note

A documentary using film and audio of PM. Is date 1993 or 1994(?).

Pre-Production Material

Box 23, Folder 36

Fundraising letter. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Describes project.

Nonfiction

Mantrack / Guest Opinion [ Playboy Magazine]

Publication Material

Box 23, Folder 37

Uncorrected proof. February 9, 1993.

Physical Description: 1 folded leaf.

Box 23, Folder 38

In: Playboy. vol.40 no.5. May 1993.

Physical Description: p.40.

Post-Publication Material

Box 23, Folder 39

Letter from Dorothy B. Atcheson. n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Accompanied copies of issue containing essay.

Poetry

Committing to Memory: To Winston, Who Asked for it

Publication Material

Box 40, Folder 4

In: Frontiers. vol.11 issue 21. February 12-26, 1993.

Physical Description: pp.56-57.

Scope and Content Note

Three poems: Have you thought of this ... , If it was swimming ... , Sometimes like Vincent and his burning sky ...

Memoirs

Beauty and the Noble Beast

Publication Material

Box 40, Folder 5

In: Frontiers. vol.11 issue 24. March 26, 1993.

Physical Description: pp.53-57, 59-62.

Scope and Content Note

Reprinted in Last Watch of the Night as Puck.

Post-Publication Material

Box 24, Folder 1

Letter to editor. In: Frontiers. July 2, 1993.

Physical Description: Clipping.

Last Watch of the Night: My Priests

Manuscript Material

Box 24, Folder 2

Letters from priests: from John A. Mazzitello and Otis Charles. March 24, 30 and April 4, 1993. 24 March from OC, others JM.

Publication Material

Box 24, Folder 3

Letter from Rachel A. Peller, The New Yorker. June 11, 1993.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

Written as Tina Brown's assistant, rejecting Gert and Visiting the Dead.

Manuscript Material

Box 24, Folder 4

PM or WW: Long hand notes on essays while traveling (3 sets) 1993. July 30, etc.-October 5, 1993.

Physical Description: 24 leaves. total. Holograph on lined paper from notepads.

Scope and Content Note

Beginning: Roger and I wandered around, ... They developed a rigorous skepticism, ... I'll sleep when I'm dead, ... . With other notes.

Box 24, Folder 5

Draft. December 10-18, 1993.

Physical Description: 12 leaves. Holograph. On sheets from lined tablet.

Scope and Content Note

PM's note: Part of Mortal Things, pp.21-50 written in Polynesia.

Publication Material

Box 40, Folder 7

In: Frontiers. vol.12 issue 27. May 6, 1994.

Physical Description: pp.50-60.

Scope and Content Note

Reprinted in Last Watch of the Night as 3275.

Box 24, Folder 6

Special edition. vol.1 of 2. December 1993.

Physical Description: 2 volumes.

Scope and Content Note

PM note: A limited edition of these essays has been prepared for the author's friends. 25 in all. This is copy #8.

Box 24, Folder 7

Special edition. vol.2 of 2. December 1993.

Box 24, Folder 8

Publisher's catalog(?). n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Leaf torn from catalog, Harvest Books.

Box 36, Folder 18

Dustjacket art board. n.d.

Post-Publication Material

Box 24, Folder 9

PM's publicity notes. n.d.

Physical Description: 3 leaves. Holograph on Fax form and blank paper.

Scope and Content Note

Sent from Four Seasons Hotel Boston To Drenka Willien, Harcourt Brace.

Box 24, Folder 10

Publicity tour itinerary. May 1994(?). Includes date for ABA appearance.

Box 24, Folder 11

Press kit prepared for ABA, letter. May 1994(?). Letter from Chris regarding publicity, copies of previous reviews, print of Gay Block's photograph, etc.

Box 24, Folder 12

Invitation to publisher's party. May 29, 1994. RSVP: Dori Weintraub, held Maple Drive, Beverly Hills.

Box 24, Folder 13

Letter. March 8, 1994 and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Enclosing review, interview transcript. From Steven Bach, Bob Roehr (interview).

Box 24, Folder 14

Reviews. n.d. / v.d.

Physical Description: Clippings and photocopies.

Box 39, Folder 3

Letters from friends (video). n.d.

Physical Description: 1 video cassette (VHS).

Scope and Content Note

From Andover friend Cinnie Thompson.

Box 36, Folder 1

Letter from Judy Wieder, enclosing issues of The Advocate with reviews. January 6, 1995.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Note

Two issues of The Advocate in publicity folder. Filed in Box 36 (folder 17) (OVERSIZE)

Box 24, Folder 15

Letter from Andrew Wille about English edition. January 31, 1995.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed Andrew Wille.

Scope and Content Note

Encloses proof of wrapper, has Post-It correction to text made by PM.

Box 24, Folder 16

Honors. Mention, Nomination for Lambda Literary Award. 1995. Also nominated: West of Yesterday East of Summer.

Poetry

West of Yesterday East of Summer: New and Selected Poems (1973-1993) [c. 1994]

Manuscript Material

Box 47, Folder 1

Gathering of introduction, copies of poems, with title page, dedication page, etc. n.d. for this assembly of works.

Physical Description: Largely unnumbered, 126 leaves total. Typescript (photocopy) and photocopies from various printings.

West of Yesterday East of Summer: New and Selected Poems (1973-1993)

Post-Publication Material

Box 47, Folder 2

Reviews. n.d. / v.d.

Physical Description: Clippings.

West of Yesterday East of Summer: New and Selected Poems (1973-1993) / Dr. Burnout, To GB from Tuscany

Post-Publication Material

Box 51, Folder 14

Musical adaptions, composer / performer not indentified. n.d.

Physical Description: Cassette recording.

Note

[Also described in sequence with Box 51]

Miscellaneous

Manuscript Material(?)

Box 49, Folder 18

Copies of The Bee-Eater, Buckley, The Supreme Pork, etc. n.d.

Physical Description: 49 leaves total. Typescript (?) and photocopies, no corrections.

Scope and Content Note

These seem to be extra copies made for various publishing purposes. Cf. New Poems (1987-1993) in West of Yesterday, ....

Nonfiction

Gay Soul / On Becoming

Manuscript Material

Box 47, Folder 3

Transcription of interview with Mark Thompson and MT's introduction. 1993(?).

Physical Description: [22] leaves. Typescript (word processing?). With Post-It note from MT.

Publication Material

Box 47, Folder 4

Page proofs. n.d.

Physical Description: 13pp. Photocopies.

Box 47, Folder 5

Letters from Mark Thompson. August 24 and October 2, 1993. Also greeting card.

Physical Description: Each is 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Box 47, Folder 6

Letter from staff (signature illegible), Harper San Francisco. March 8, 1994(?).

Physical Description: 2 leaves. Holograph. On postcard and notepaper.

Scope and Content Note

Refers to wrappers for Gay Soul, etc.

Memoirs

Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About One Another / Gert

Manuscript Material

Box 47, Folder 7

Letter from Merloyd Lawrence Books. March 23, 1993.

Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript, signed Merloyd. 4 leaves.

Scope and Content Note

Giving reactions to PM's manuscript about Gert Macy, ML's maternal aunt.

Publication Material

Box 47, Folder 8

Letter from John Preston. December 13, 1992.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Box 47, Folder 9

Letter from Joan Nestle. August 28, 1993.

Physical Description: 1 leaf (from word processor?). Incomplete(?). Numbered 2, does not have leaf with signature or copy of contract.

Post-Publication Material(?)

Box 47, Folder 10

Letter from Merloyd Lawrence Books. January 28, 1994.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph, signed. Two photographs.

Scope and Content Note

Enclosing photographs of Gert Macy. Photographs identified: Gert Macy, Robert Benchley, late 30s(?), Gert Macy, Martha's Vineyard late 1940s(?).

Nonfiction

A Difficult Celebration: A Voice from 'the Generation of the Incomplete' Contemplates the Gay Nation 25 Years After the Stonewall Uprising that Launched a Movement

Publication Material

Box 40, Folder 8

In: Los Angeles Times Magazine. June 19, 1994.

Physical Description: pp.16-18.

Poetry

The Bee-Eater

Publication Material

Box 47, Folder 11

Letters from Wendy Lesser, ed. The Threepenny Review. March 2 and March 30, 1994.

Physical Description: 1 leaf each. Typescript, signed. Each an oblong card.

Scope and Content Note

First letter mentions PM's quote, evidently about the Review, and WL's review of Borrowed Time. Second letter gives publishing details of the poem.

Box 47, Folder 12

In: The Threepenny Review. Fall 1994.

Physical Description: [Page unknown] Clipping.

Nonfiction

Advocate

Editorial Response

Box 47, Folder 13

Letters printed in the Advocate. November 15, 1994.

Scope and Content Note

re article by Bruce Bawer. From Paul Monette and Winston Wilde. And Teresa DeCrescenzo. Printed in the letters to the editor column.

Fables

Sanctuary

Manuscript Material

Box 47, Folder 14

Draft. August 22, 1994(?).

Physical Description: 12 leaves. Holograph. On lined paper in notepad.

Scope and Content Note

The only such parable extant? Read by PM at the GLAAD benefit(?).

Publication Material (possible)

Box 47, Folder 15

Letter from Bill O'Sullivan. September 19, 1994.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typed, signed.

Scope and Content Note

About possibility of publishing PM's queer fables in Common Boundary, ed. by O'Sullivan.

Nonfiction

Publicity

Post-Publication Material

Box 47, Folder 16

Letter from Rudy Kikel. February 3, 1995.

Physical Description: 1 leaf. Holograph, signed verso.

Scope and Content Note

Thanks PM for doing book blurb: we're together again in the book 'one last time'.

Appearances / Readings / Interviews

Winning the War: By Bohdan Zachary

Publication Material

Box 47, Folder 17

In: The Advocate. no.677. March 21, 1995.

Physical Description: pp.59-60, [62-63].

Nonfiction

Choosing My Religion

Publication Material

Box 47, Folder 18

Letter from Out magazine staff member. February 10, 1995.

Physical Description: 1 notecard. Holograph, signed verso. Signature illegible.

Box 47, Folder 19

In: Out. May 1995.

Physical Description: p.136.

Scope and Content Note

Excerpt from St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church of Hollywood speech, given November 6, 1994.

Requests for Publications

From Various Persons

Letters Received

Box 47, Folder 20

1989-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Brian Bouldrey (for Wrestling with the Angel, no contribution by PM), Kenneth Hanes, Michael Klein, Edward Osowski.

Requests for Publicity Quotations

From Various Persons

Letters Received

Box 47, Folder 21

From Katherine V. Forrest, Linda Gray Sexton, etc. 1993-1994.

Box 47, Folder 22

1993. Unknown if quotations used.

Fiction

Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll

Post-Publication Material / Manuscript Material

Box 47, Folder 23

Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll. May 18, 1994. Also letter from David [Mettee?]. May 26, 1994.

Physical Description: 96 leaves. Typescript(?) (photocopy) and holograph letter.

Scope and Content Note

A Musical based on the novel ... by Paul Monette. Book by Martin Casella, lyrics by Georgia Holof, music by David Mettee

Box 51, Folder 10

Recording of musical adaption. 1994(?).

Physical Description: 1 cassette tape.

Note

[Also described in sequence with Box 51]

Memoirs

Borrowed Time and Becoming A Man

Post-Publication Material / Adaption

Box 47, Folder 24

Requests from Christopher Tibbetts to make PM's works into a play. July 11 and August 20, 1994.

General

Criticism

Manuscript / Publication Material

Box 47, Folder 25

Letters and enclosures of critiques of PM's work. 1993-1995 and n.d.

Physical Description: Primarily photocopies.

Scope and Content Note

Includes critques from: Joseph Cady, John Clum, Ed Madden, Deborah Nelson, David Roman, Sharon Warner.

Fiction

The Gold Diggers

Letters of Appreciation

Box 25, Folder 1

From writers / friends. 1988, 1994.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Lev Raphael (1988), Paul Reed (1994).

Poetry

West Running Brook

Letters of Appreciation

Box 25, Folder 2

From writers / friends. 1988.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter from: Jim _____.

Memoirs

Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog

Letters of Appreciation

Box 25, Folder 3

From writers / friends. 1987 and n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Larry Kramer, Ethan Mordden (?).

Borrowed Time: an Aids Memoir

Letters of Appreciation

Box 25, Folder 4

From writers / friends. 1988-1994 (inclusive).

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Alfred Corn (?), Katherine V. Forrest, David Groff, Joseph Hardy, Andrew Holleran, Rudy Kikel, William Koelsch.

Box 25, Folder 5

From writers / friends. n.d. / v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Craig Lucas, John Mazzitello, S.J., James Merrill, Carol Muske.

Box 25, Folder 6

From writers / friends. n.d. / v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Eric Rofes, Vito Russo, John Schlesinger, David Schorr.

Fiction

Afterlife

Letters of Appreciation

Box 25, Folder 7

From writers / friends. 1990.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Christian Draz, David Feinberg (about his review of Afterlife), Peter Schellin.

Memoirs

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

Letters of Appreciation

Box 25, Folder 8

From writers / friends. 1991-1993 (inclusive), n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Bill Clinton (Fax), Kate Clinton, Alison Bechdel, Betty Berzon, Robert Dawidoff, Nisa Donnelly, Katherine V. Forrest.

Box 25, Folder 9

From writers / friends. 1992-1994 (inclusive).

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from: Eric Garber, Ellen Gavin, Boze Hadleigh, Rudy Kikel, Terrence McNally.

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