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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.

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Manfred Lee Papers (MS#1729), 9999

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Materials generated by Manfred Lee, one of the writers, along with Frederic Dannary, behind the penname Ellery Queen

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Alan K. Young: My Brief Mystery-Writing Career, 1967-1980

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Alan K. Young created these three 3-ring binders and entitled them "My Brief Mystery-Writing Career as recorded in documents collected, conserved, compiled, collated, captioned and clarified by Alan K. Young." In the spring of 1968, Mr. Young's first short story entitled "Letter from Mindoro" was published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's series of "First Stories," being stories by authors who had never before had a short story published. As always, the story was prefaced by editor Frederic Dannay's introduction: "The author, Alan K. Young, is a former junior-college English instructor, with a B. A. in English from Harvard and an M. A. in the same subject from the University of California (impressive credentials, indeed). At the time Mr. Young wrote "Letter from Mindoro," he was 39, single, and living in California (though a native of Pennsylvania, born and raised in a suburb of Pittsburgh). He has tried his hand "at a goodly cross-section of those jobs in which English majors who don't write The Great American Novel so often wind up" ... How can this man miss if he but persist?" Thus began Mr. Young's 13-year mystery-writing career. In these three volumes, Alan Young has mounted the originals of his correspondence with Fred Dannay and others, tear sheets from EQMM, photographs, and all with a running commentary on the experience of being an Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine author.

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Richard Lockridge papers, 1951-1969

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Literary papers of Lockridge, including manuscripts, drafts, typescripts, correspondence, and signed first editions of nine of his novels, several of which he wrote with his wife, Frances. The collection dates from THE PROUD CAT (1951) to A RISKY WAY TO KILL (1969). The manuscripts bear corrections and emendations which illustrate to the critic of this genre the origin and development of the intricate plot lines of the mystery novel.

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Crime Writers' Association records, 1958-1972

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This collection is a group of letters from various authors to Herbert Harris, editor of RED HERRINGS, the Association's bulletin of news in the field of crime writing. Among the correspondents are John Dickson Carr, John Creasey, C. Day-Lewis, John le Carré, and Julian Symons.

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Harry Stephen Keeler papers, 1929-1980

34 boxes
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Manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, contracts, and other legal documents, photographs, book jackets, clippings, and other printed materials of Keeler. This collection includes many of his later book-manuscripts which remain unpublished, his writings on plot construction, and biographical and bibliographical articles about Keeler. Among his manuscripts are THE AMAZING WEB, THE CHINESE TICKET MURDER, THE SCARLET MUMMY (in progress), and SING SING NIGHTS. Also, one letter from Edgar Wallace.

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Cornell Woolrich papers, 1958-1964

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This collection contains primarily articles and manuscripts by the crime writer Cornell Woolrich.
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Julian Symons papers, 1980-1985

1 box
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Correspondence, manuscripts and illustrations concerned with Symons' two most important historical works on the detective story, The Great Detectives, 1981, and the 1985 revised edition of Bloody Murder, which received the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award for the 1972 first edition. Most of the correspondence is concerned with The Great Detectives, including 2 letters from Frederic Dannay, 2 letters from Lady Gregory Bromet (daughter of A. Conan Doyle), and 1 letter from Tom Adams with drafts of his illustrations for this book. There is also a letter from Canadian author Derrick Murdoch, founder of Crime Writers of Canada.

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Dorothy Craigie papers, 1960-1966

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Correspondence, notes, and proofs relating to the publication of VICTORIAN DETECTIVE FICTION compiled by Graham Greene, Eric Osborne, and Dorothy Craigie under the name of Dorothy Glover. Of primary interest is the correspondence from Graham Greene to Eric A. Osborne regarding the bibliography; also in Greene's hand are several notes and corrected galleys for the publication. There are also correspondence and notes by Osborne and Glover, and Greene's secretary Josephine Reid.

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Percival Wilde letters, 1941-1951

1 box
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Letters and postcards from Wilde to Prof Paul Robinson Coleman-Norton, professor of classical philology at Princeton University. The letters are personal in content, reminiscing on their former association at Burgoyne Trail, a nudist camp, asking Coleman-Norton's professional aid, and giving some account of Wilde's current activities. Many of the letters are signed "Jimmy.".

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Mike Jahn papers, 1976-2004

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Manuscripts, proofs and printed copies of eight novels by Jahn: Night Rituals (New York, W.W. Norton & Co., c1982); The Quark Maneuver (New York, Ballantine Books, c1977); Murder In Central Park; Murder In Coney Island; Murder On Fifth Avenue; Murder At The Museum Of Natural History; Murder On Theatre Row; Murder On The Waterfront

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