Guide to the Matthew J. Bruccoli Research Materials on Kenneth Millar MS.L.003
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Kenneth Millar Manuscripts undated
Far Side of the Dollar undated
Carbon typescript, revised for magazine version. undated
Carbon typescript, magazine version. undated
Galley Proof. undated
Underground Man undated
Carbon Typescript undated
Sleeping Beauty undated
Galley Proofs undated
Review of Ian McMillan's Man and the California Condor. 3 p. ms. undated
Millar's Notes on draft of Bruccoli's Checklist 1971
Millar's review of James Cain's Cain x 3, entitled " The Durable Art of James M. Cain". (Earlier title: "Oedipus in Hollywoodland"). Ms. drafts [12 loose pages]. Carbon transcript. 6 leaves. Note on reviewer. undated
Review of Edgar Smith's Brief Against Death, entitled, "The Man in the Death House". Ms drafts, including Final version. Also, Carbon typescript. 4 leaves. Folder also includes telegram from Francis Brown, editor of New York Times book review. Aug. 9, 1968; and clipping from Santa Barbara News-Press concerning convicts on death row in 1967. 1967-1968
Kenneth Millar Correspondence undated
Matthew J. Bruccoli undated
1968-1969. 17 Letters, 4 envelopes 1968-1969
1970. 16 Letters. 1970
1971. 17 Letters. 1971
1972-1973. 15 letters 1972-1973
1974-1977. 11 letters 1974-1977
Undated. 6 notes and letters undated
"Steve". Dec. 18, 1967. ALS Photocopy. 1 p. "Miss Pat Cork, Agent". Mar. 19, 1970. 1 p. "Robert Knittel, Director". Mar. 19, 1970. 1 p. "The Editor, Toronto Saturday Night" ALS 1 p. "To the Reader" ANS 1 p. 1967-1970
Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar Biography) undated
1st Draft: Writing Pad (no. 1 of 3) undated
1st Draft: Writing Pad (no. 2 of 3) undated
1st Draft: Writing Pad (no. 3 of 3) undated
Draft. Ms. includes photocopy of pp. 163-164 of "Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler", edited by Frank MacShane. Columbia University Press, 1981. (Letters to Jaems Sandoe from Raymond Chandler. April 14, 1949. 1949, 1981
Draft. Ms. and typescript with Ms revisions. undated
Draft (Seed Copy). "Ross Macdonald/Kenneth Millar, the Poorhouse Prince". Typescript with Ms revisions. Photocopy. Also: TLS to M. Bruccoli from Eleanor Van Cott (of Millar Trust). July 26, 1983. 1 p. 1983
Draft("Inserts reworked"). Ms and typescript photocopy with Ms Revisions. undated
Notes, xeroxes of photos, etc. Notes. Typescript and Ms. KM's letter to New York Times Book review concerning Crawford Wood's review of "Sleeping Beauty". Letter to the editor. Aug 5, 1973. p. 24. Photocopy. Photocopies of Photographs. 1973
Clippings about RM undated
Drafts. undated
Drafts. undated
Drafts. undated
Drafts. undated
Drafts. Photocopy undated
Drafts. undated
Revised galley. undated
Revised galley. Photocopy. undated
Branson, Henry C. undated
Margaret Millar undated
Permissions and Acknowledgements. undated
Correspondence. undated
Correspondence and notes. undated
Photocopies, etc. undated
Miscellaneous. undated
Ross Macdonald/Kenneth Millar, A Descriptive Bibliography undated
Drafts, etc. undated
Working draft. undated
Notes, drafts, etc. undated
Notes, etc. undated
Notes, etc. undated
Notes, etc. undated
Notes, etc. undated
Notes, etc. undated
Notes, etc. undated
Data on publication dates; size of 1st printing. undated
Proof. undated
Correspondence undated
Checklist (1971). Draft with K. Millar revisions, etc. Photocopy. 1971
Checklist (1971). Skeleton file of correspondence, notes, etc. 1971
Information on editions, serializations, book club sales, foreign translations, 1969. 1969
Draft. Photocopy, and notes. undated
Draft. M.J. Bruccoli working set. undated
Draft. Cagle copy. Photocopy undated
Draft. Myerson set. Photocopy. undated
R. Berry's notes on draft. undated
Draft. Photocopy. undated
Notes, Sections C and D. undated
Advertisements of Ross Macdonald books. undated
Newspapers and magazines undated
Publishers catalogs and flyers: Mysterious Press undated
Publishers catalogs and flyers. Misc. (Includes books about RM) undated
Booksellers' catalogs: Joseph the Provider undated
Booksellers' catalogs: Pepper and Stern undated
Booksellers' and auction catalogs: Miscellaneous undated
Television productions undated
Exhibits of Ross Macdonald books: Grolier Club (196-?) 1960s
Ross Macdonald books in Library publication, etc. undated
Movies undated
Blurbs, by Ross Macdonald. undated
Interviews: undated
(Adler, Dick). Los Angeles Times, West, Dec. 10, 1967 1967
(Barkham, John) New york Post, Aug 21, 1971 1971
(Berges, Marhsall) Los Angeles Times, Home, June 29,1975 1975
(Burn, Heather) undated
(Carroll, Jon) Esquire, June 1972 1972
[based on an interview]: (Dolbier, Maurice) New York Herald Tribune, Nov 13, 1960 1960
(Foster, William) Scotsman [Edinburgh], Nov. 20, 1971 1971
(Grogg, S. L., Jr.) Journal of Popular Culture (1973) 1973
[based on an interview]: (Hemsley, John) Belfast Telegraph, Sept. 17, 1976 1976
(Japenga, Ann) Los Angeles Times, Dec. 20, 1979 1979
(Jones, Robert F.) Los Angeles Magazine, Mar. 1963 1963
(Linderman, Verne) Santa Barbara News-Press, Mar. 30, 1952 1952
(MacGregor, Martha) N.Y. Post, Nov. 27, 1960; May 9, 1965; May 29, 1971 1960, 1965, 1971
(Oakes, Philip) Sunday Times [London], Oct. 24, 1971 1971
(Preston, Peter) Manchester Guardian, Oct. 23, 1971 1971
[unsigned] Seattle Times, Aug. 17, 1958 1958
Miscellaneous (& notices with quotes) undated
Articles about Ross Macdonald undated
from MLA bibliography undated
Seidenbaum, Art. undated
Symons, Julian undated
Walbridge, Earle F. undated
Miscellaneous notes, etc. (including British Library book applications forms) undated
M.A. thesis on Ross Macdonald: Carter, Steven Ray (Ohio State University, 1967) 1967
Notes on "Stories" undated
The Bearded Lady, appearing in American Magazine (1948). 1st page only. Photocopy. 1948
The Sky Hook, appearing in American Mercury (1948). Photocopy. 1948
Sleeping Dog, appearing in Argosy (1965). Photocopy. 1965
The Dying Animal, appearing in Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1962) 1956
A Zebra-Striped Hearse. Photocopy. Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1962) 1962
The Chill. Photocopy. Cosmopolitan (August 1963) 1963
The Far Side. Photocopy. Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1964) 2 copies 1964
The Demon Lover. Photocopy. Cosmopolitan (Dec. 1965) 1965
Review of Graham Greene, the Entertainer, by Peter Wolfe. Detroit News (Oct. 22, 1972). Photocopy. 1972
Midnight Blue. Story from Ed McBain's Mystery Book (1960). Photocopy 1960
Find the Woman. Photocopy. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (June 1946); Bring the Killer to Justice. Photocopy. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Feb. 1962) 1946, 1962
Blue City. Condensed version. Esquire, Aug. 1950 (Part 1) and Sept. 1950 (Part 2). Photocopy. 1950
Articles by Kenneth Millar appearing in Literary Supplement (1934-1937). Photocopies. 1934-1937
Stories appearing in Manhunt: The Guilty Ones, (May 1953); The Beat-Up Sister, (Oct. 1953); The Singing Pidgeon, (May 1964). Photocopies. 1953, 1964
Reviews of Kidnap, the Story of the Lindbergh Case, New York Post (1961). Photocopy 1961
Reviews appearing in San Francisco Chronicle. Photocopies undated
Articles appearing in Santa Barbara News Press (1959-1968, & undated). Photocopies 1959-1968, undated
Articles and clippings from Saturday Night (Toronto). Photocopies undated
Articles appearing in The School (1940-1941) 1940-1941
"A Death Road for the Condor". Articles in Sports Illustrated (April 6, 1964 pp. 86-89. Photocopy. 2 copies. 1964
Review by KM in The New York Times Book Review. undated
MJB's notes on RM's dissertation, "The Inward Eye" undated
Reviews of Ross Macdonald books (by year) 1944-1981
1944: Dark Tunnel 1944
1946: Trouble Follows Me 1946
1947: Blue City 1947
1948: Three Roads 1948
1949: Moving Target 1949
1950: Drowning Pool 1950
1951: The Way Some People Die 1951
1952: Ivory Grin 1952
1953: Meet Me at the Morgue 1953
1954: Find a Victim 1954
1956: Barbarous Coast 1956
1958: The Doomsters 1958
1959: The Galton Case 1959
1960: The Ferguson Affair 1960
1961: The Wycherly Woman 1961
1962: The Zerbra-Striped Hearse 1962
1964: The Chill 1964
1965: The Far Side of the Dollar 1965
1966: Black Money 1966
1968: The Instant Enemy 1968
1969: The Goodbye Look 1969
1971: The Underground Man 1971
1973: On Crime Writing 1973
1973: Sleeping Beauty 1973
1976: The Blue Hammer 1976
1977: Lew Archer 1977
1981: Self-Portrait 1981
Review of anthology, Crimes and Misfortunes, to which Ross Macdonald contributed a story; review of Great Stories of Suspense, edited by Ross Macdonald. undated
BOOK: Queen, Ellery. The Queen's Awards, 1946; the Winners of the First Annual Detective Short-Story Contest Sponsored by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Boston; Little, Brown, 1946. Includes Find the Woman, pp. 270-292, with Kenneth Millar's ms. revisions. 1946
KM [bookmark] "To an Unknown Reader". (1971). Signed. 1971
Film script, "Ross Macdonald: in the First Person" (1970). Davidson Films. Typescript. Photocopy. 1970
Pamphlets by K.M.
1969. "Santa Barbara Decleartion of Environmental Rights." January 28 Committee. [3] p. Signed, Ross Macdonald. 1969
1970. "Report of the Santa Barbara Citizens Commission on Civil Disorders". Sept. 15, 1970. 41 p. KM signature on p. 1. 1970
1977. "Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, Private Investigator". New York, The Mysterious Press, 1977. xiii p. 1977
1982. "Early Millar, the First Stories of Ross Macdonald and Margaret Millar." Introductory note by Ralph B. Sipper. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Cordelia Editions, 1982
Archer, the Underground Man. Television script; Screenplay by Douglas Heyes (1974. 1974
Periodicals (with articles, interviews, quotes, etc. by RM) - arranged chronologically 1964-1980
Homage to Dashiell Hammett by Ross Macdonald. In: Mystery Writers' Annual. 1964 Edgar Allen Poe Awards Dinner. Pp. 8, 24. Small portrait. Baby picture appears on p.13. 1964
The Far Side by Ross Macdonald; illustrated by Robert Weaver. In: Cosmopolitan, v. 157, no. 3, (Sept, 1964). pp. 100-117, 121-130. 1964
The Demon Lover; Cosmopolitan's complete mystery novel by Ross Macdonald; illustrated by Howard Terpning. In: Cosmopolitan v. 159, no. 6 (Dec. 1965) pp. 110-133, 136-139. 2 copies. 1965
Murder in the Library by Kenneth Milar. In: Mystery Writers' Annual. 1965 Edgar Allen Poe Awards Dinner. P. 2. Brief speech given upon his election as president of Mystery Writers of America. Portrait. 1965
Life With the Blob by Ross Macdonald [Santa Barbara offshore oil slick]. In: Sports Illustrated, v. 30, no.16 (April 21, 1969). pp. 50-52, 57-60. Illustrations, portrait. 1969
The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald, illustrated by Jim Sharpe. In: Cosmopolitan, v. 170, no. 2 (Feb. 1971). pp. 173-176, 178, 180, 184, 186-190, 192, 194-204 1971
The Art of Murder by Raymond A. Sokolov. In: Newsweek, Mar. 22, 1971. pp. 101-101, 104, 106, 108. Illustrations. Millar on cover. 2 copies (c.2 lacks cover). 1971
Authors & Editors: Ross Macdonald. Publishers' Weekly. v. 200, no. 6 (Aug. 9, 1971). pp. 19-20. Portrait. 1971
By Any Other Name, [by] L.D. Westwinds column in Westways, v. 63, no. 9 (Sept. 1971) pp. 2,4. 1971
Ross Macdonald in Raw California by Jon Carroll. In: Esquire, v. 77, no. 6 = whole no. 463 (June 1972) pp. 148-149, 188. Color photograph of Millar and grandson [?] 1972
New York Magazine Competition no. 118. " Competitors are invited to submit an extract from a speech seconding Mr. Nixon's nomination, as delivered by any ... present-day personality." Ross Macdonald entry submitted by Bruce Kahn, Putney, Vt. New York Magazine, June 12, 1972. p. 81. 1972
PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. V. 88, no. 6 (Nov. 1973). November 1973 Program. 1973
How to Tell Sam Spade from Philip Marlowe from Lew Archer, by Richard R. Lingeman. Esquire, v. 84, no. 2 = whole no. 501 (August 1975) pp. 62, 64. 1975
Happy Moments at the Mailbox ; some celebrated authors describe how they sold their first writing--and what that experience meant to them, by Peter Gardner. In: Bookviews, v. 1,no. 1 (Sept. 1977). pp. 10-13. (Macdonald, p. 13)
Tracking the Mystery Bookstores, by Daisy Maryles. In: Publishers Weekly, v. 213, no. 11 (March 13, 1978) p. 64. (missing, need to photocopy and insert) 1978
Booze and the Writer. In: Writer's Digest, Oct. 1978, pp. 25-33 (Macdonald, p. 26-27) 1978
Ross Macdonald Interview, by Gene Davison and John Knoerle. In: Mystery, Nov./Dec. 1979. pp. [5]-8. Photographs. 1979
The Faces of Ross Macdonald, by Ralph Sipper. Illustration by Doug Medved. In: Santa Barbara Magazine, v. 6, no. 4 (winter 1980) pp. 66-69. 1980
[Boxes 11-14 are restricted: Unprocessed and not yet available for research use.] 1987, 1991, undated
1987 additions 1987
1991 additions 1991
Miscellaneous Additions undated
Miscellaneous Additions undated