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Box 14

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Contains 15 Results:

"Introduction to Kay Boyle" by Sandra Whipple Spanier, [n.d.]

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F118
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Typescript (photocopy) with autograph revisions made by Boyle

"A Friendship Across Two Continents" by Helga Einsele, [n.d.]

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F119
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Includes a typescript (photocopy) with extensive corrections and revisions made by Boyle, a typescript (photocopy) with autograph corrections, and one page of revisions suggested by Boyle

Editorial and crossword puzzle related to Boyle, 1986-1988

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F120
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Includes a tear sheet of a crossword puzzle (The New York Times Magazine) which includes a reference to Boyle and a photocopy of an editorial from The Torch regarding Boyle's 1986 visit at Valparaiso University.

Dates: 1986-1988

Passport, 1976 May 28

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F121
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Issued to Kay Boyle Franckenstein

Dates: 1976 May 28

Autograph notebook, [n.d.]

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F122
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Small leather notebook with autograph notes, listing telephone numbers and information about Madame DuPont and other individuals.

Appointment book, 1971-1984

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F123
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Appointment book containing autograph notes and a diary kept by Boyle. Includes material dated 1971-1972, 1978, 1980 and 1984. Entries mention Maud Gonne, Harry Moore, Henry Miller, West With the Night by Beryl Markham, and Howard Nemerov's Figures of Thought. Also mentioned are Gerassi, William Carlos Williams, Ian, Rene Crevel, as well as comments on faith, and writing. A poem titled "The Road" is present, as are chapter outlines for The Underground Woman

Dates: 1971-1984

Contract for Fifty Stories, 1981 Oct 22

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F124
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Contract between Boyle and Penguin Books Limited (England) for hardcover and paperback editions of Boyle's Fifty Stories

Dates: 1981 Oct 22

Boyle's lawsuit against Paget Press, 1984

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F125
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Typescript copy of the lawsuit and correspondence related to Boyle's legal action (handled by Jerome M. Garchik) against Paget Press for printing an excerpt from Being Geniuses Together without permission and including a photograph of Kay Boyle. The excerpt appeared as the preface to Confessions of a Harvard Man (memoir of Harold Stearns)

Dates: 1984

"Supply Operation in Swiss Border Area--Forts Aid Maquis at Grassy", [1940s]

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F126
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Photograph of a military supply operation

Dates: [1940s]

List of 11th and 12th grade students, [n.d.]

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F127
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Autograph list made by Boyle on a manilla folder

Medical notes on Boyle's health, 1977, 1990

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F128
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Boyle's autograph notes written in May 1977, for her doctor, in which she describes her medical problems. Also includes notes made by Boyle's daughter, describing her mother's behavior following her surgery on October 10, 1990.

Dates: 1977; 1990

Scroll of appreciation from the School of Humanities, San Francisco State University, 1979 Dec 18

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F130
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Autograph note of appreciation with various signed messages

Dates: 1979 Dec 18

Christmas messages on a scroll, [n.d.]

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F131
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Christmas messages on an oversize scroll, one says: "Ho Chi Minh Kay Boyle is Going to Win!"

Miscellaneous items, [n.d.]

 File — Box: 14, Folder: F132
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Empty notebook, packets of mounting corners, paper bag and a scarf