©834John R. Hawkins '56 Literary Manuscript Collection, 1972-1980 John R. Hawkins '56 Literary Manuscript Collection, 1972-80 Haverford College Library Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, May 2002. ENG John R. Hawkins '56 Literary Manuscript Collection, 1972-1980 Haverford College Library Descriptive Summary HAWKINS, JOHN R. '56 LITERARY MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION Papers, 1972-80 Coll. no. 834 2 document boxes (1 linear ft. Haverford College Library Special Collections
Haverford, PA 19041
The First Edition Society's initiative to publish a special edition of the works of more than 60 authors resulted in their correspondence with the editor of the publication, John R. Hawkins. Included are such literary lights as Simone de Beauvoir, John Cheever, John Kenneth Galbraith, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, John Le Carre, Norman Mailer, James Michener, Françoise Sagan, C.P. Snow, William Styron, Burbara Tuchman, John Updike, Leon Uris and many others. Authors' typescripts for the preface to each represented work are also present in most instances.

Hawkins, John R. `56 Literary Manuscript Collection

Ms. Coll. No. 834

 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

John R. Hawkins graduated from Haverford College in 1956. He became an editor with the First Edition Society of the Franklin Library based in Philadelphia.

Gifts, 1991 & 2004.

accession no. 6967

The collection is formed around the correspondence of more than 60 authors with John R. Hawkins, editor of the First Edition Society of the Franklin Library located in Philadelphia. In most cases, this is combined with a 2-3 page preface, generally in typescript form to be published by the Society along with a work selected by the Society for a special edition.

A record has been prepared for each of the 60 authors. Each record employs the following data fields: Box No., Author, Recipient, Place, Date 1, Date 2, Type, No. of items and content.

Correspondence is always listed as between an author and John Hawkins, although it is occasionally with someone else in the office.

Place reflects location used by the author when writing letters.

The item count does not include the photocopied letters of Hawkins or his substitutes to an author, but refers only to the amount written by the person noted in the "author" field.

There is a small group of strictly Society business letters, not to or from any of the authors

Content: description uses the term "preface" though in the correspondence, the author's work may be called a "special message to readers", "foreword" or other such term.

Arrangement within boxes is alphabetical.

A restriction had been placed on the use of the Michener material for the lifetime of that author -- which has now been lifted..

For further detail, please see the inventory which follows.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 10/25/77 Date 2: 02/14/78 # of Items: 4, 1, 1

Author: Anderson, Robert

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: NY

Type: TLsS, TS, sig. sheet

Content:

Getting Up and Going Home is Society selection. TS is 3-p. preface.

 Box #: 2 # of Items: 1

Author: Atkinson, Brooks

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Durham, NY

Type: TS, annotated

Content: Placed as part of the Thornton Wilder file, this 3-p. TS is preface written by Atkinson for Wilder's Alcestiad, the Society's choice. There is also an ALS by Isabel Wilder about the book.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 08/05/76 Date 2: 12/30/76 # of Items: 4, 5

Author: Auchincloss, Louis S.

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: NY

Type: TLsS, copies of TLsS

Content: The Rector of Justin as Society selection.

 Box #: 1

Author: Beauvoir, Simone de

Content: See Morante, Elsa

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 09/07/79 Date 2: 01/17/80 # of Items: 11, 1, 1

Author: Bourjaily, Vance

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Iowa City, Iowa

Type: TLsS, TS, copy of TS

Content: A Game Men Play is Society selection. TS is 2p. signed preface. Also article about Bourjaily in photocopy is annotated by him.

 Box #: 1

Author: Bradbury, Walter I.

Content: See Catton, William B.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 10/18/79 Date 2: 03/03/80 # of Items: 2, 1, 1

Author: Brown, Dee

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Little Rock, Arkansas

Type: TLsS, TS, sig. sheet

Content: Creek Mary's Blood is Society selection. 3-p. preface to this work is TS.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 08/05/78 # of Items: 1, copy

Author: Catton, Bruce

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: Sig. sheet

Content: See entry for William B. Catton.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 07/24/79 Date 2: 05/23/80 # of Items: 5, 1, 1

Author: Catton, William B.

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Middlebury, VT

Type: TLsS, TS, sig. sheet

Content: About Catton's The Coming Fury which is the Society's selection. Also about Bruce and William B. Catton's The Bold and Magnificent Dream which was also chosen by the Society and for which there is a 3-p. preface.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 05/30/80 Date 2: 06/06/80 # of Items: 2

Author: Cheever, John

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Ossining, NY

Type: TLsS

Content:...about getting copies of his stories published by the Society, and their choice of The Wapshot Chronicle.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 01/18/78 # of Items: 1,1

Author: Coles, Robert

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Cambridge, MA

Type: TLS, TS

Content: 2-p. TS is preface to Women of Crisis by Robert Coles and Jane Hallowell Coles.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 07/24/80 # of Items: 1

Author: Crichton, Michael

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Beverly Hills, CA

Type: TSS

Content: 2-p. preface to Society's selection of Crichton's Congo.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 08/24/77 Date 2: 12/15/77 # of Items: 1,1

Author: Donleavy, J.P.

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Co. Westmeath, Ireland

Type: TLS, TSS, annotated

Content: TS is a 2-p. preface to Society's selection of Donleavy's Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 08/11/76 Date 2: 08/16/78 # of Items: 2, 3, 4

Author: Drury, Allen

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Tiburon, CA

Type: ANsS, TSs, TLsS, telegram

Content: The TSs are annotated; 2 of the TLsS are photocopies. TSs are prefaces to Anna (2-p.), A God Against the Gods (1-p. and 3-p.).

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 07/11/78 # of Items: 1

Author: Farrell, James T.

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: NY

Type: TLS

Content: Letter encloses list of Farrell's books.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 08/18/76 Date 2: 01/19/77 # of Items: ca. 15

Author: (Faulkner, William)

Recipient: John Hawkins

Content: This is a group of materials by various people, particularly Paul Gardner who did interviews all over the country toward the Society's A Faulkner Perspective.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 12/29/78 # of Items: 1

Author: Fowles, John

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: APCS

Content: Thanks for his copy of The French Lieutenant's Woman.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 05/25/79 # of Items: 1, 1

Author: Fraser, Antonia

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: London

Type: ALS, copy, TS, annotated

Content: 2-p. preface for the Society's selection of Fraser's Mary Queen of Scots.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 08/10/76 # of Items: 1

Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Cambridge, MA

Type: TLS and copy

Content: Re Galbraith's Affluent Society for Franklin Society and on marketing of the editions.

 Box #: 1

Author: Giroux, Robert

Content: See Percy, Walker

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 10/12/76 Date 2: 04/15/77 # of Items: 5, 1, 2, 1

Author: Grau, Shirley Ann

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Metairie, LA

Type: TLsS, ANS, TS, sig. sheet

Content: 2 of the TLsS are photocopies. In addition to the 2-p. annotated TS, which is the preface to the Society's selection of Grau's Evidence of Love, there is also the galley-proof of this preface.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 12/15/76 # of Items: 1

Author: Green, Gerald

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Stamford, CT

Type: TLS

Content: The letter was supposed to accompany Green's preface to An American Prophet, but the latter was not present.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 10/16/77 # of Items: 1

Author: Greene, Graham

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: TS

Content: 2-p. TS is preface to Society's selection of Greene's The Human Factor.

 Box #: 1 # of Items: 1, 1

Author: Heller, Joseph

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: ANS, annotated TSS

Content: 3-p. TS is preface to Society's selection of Heller's (Good as Gold?).

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 08/19/77 Date 2: 12/07/78 # of Items: 3

Author: Hellman, Lillian

Recipient: Neil Zelenetz

Type: TLS, copy

Content: financial issues.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 07/16/77 # of Items: 1

Author: Hersey, John

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: MA and CT

Type: ALsS Box #: 1 Date 1: 08/01/80 # of Items: 1

Author: Kaplan, Justin

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Truro, MA

Type: TS, annotated

Content: TS is 3-p. preface to Society's selection of his Walt Whitman: A Life.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 10/04/76 Date 2: 05/27/79 # of Items: 2, 2

Author: Lash, Joseph P.

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: New York, NY

Type: TLsS, TSs, annotated

Content: One TLS is a photocopy (1979); the 2- and 3-p. TSs are prefaces to Lash's Roosevelt and Churchill and Eleanor and Franklin.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 08/09/79 Date 2: 08/17/79 # of Items: 2, 2

Author: Le Carre, John

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Cornwall, England

Type: ANsS, TSsS Memo: John Le Carre is the pseudonym for David Cornwell.

Content: TSs are 2- and 3-p. prefaces to Le Carre's books Smiley's People and The Honourable Schoolboy.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 11/15/79 Date 2: 01/03/80 # of Items: 1, 2, 2, 1

Author: Lindbergh, Anne M.

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Darien, CT

Type: ALS, TLS, TS, sig. sheet

Content: One 9-p. annotated TS is preface to Lindbergh's War Within and Without for the Society, the other TS is a 3-p. preface for the same book.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 10/08/79 # of Items: 1

Author: Mailer, Norman

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Brooklyn, New York

Type: TLS

Content: TLS thanking Hawkins upon receiving a copy of The Naked and The Dead.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 11/14/78 Date 2: 12/01/78

Author: Malamud, Bernard

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: ALS Box #: 1 Date 1: 02/23/79 Date 2: 09/03/79 # of Items: 5

Author: Masters, John

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Sante Fe, New Mexico

Type: TLS Memo: Marjorie Canton Jones is English researcher 1 TLS

Content: 1, 2, 3, concern the mailing of Now, God Be Thanked to English researcher and meeting Hawkins in NY. 4, 5 relate to errors in the illustrations.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 3/13/78 # of Items: 1, 1

Author: Matthiessen, Peter

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: TLS, TS

Content: TLS cover for the TS. TS message for The Snow Leopard.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 06/03/79 Date 2: 07/21/80 # of Items: 1, 1, 1, 1

Author: Michener, James

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: St. Michaels, MD

Type: TS, ANS, doc., TLS Memo: This material was restricted for the life time of the author!

Content: TS is a 2-p. preface to Society's choice of The Covenant with ANS attached and is signed 8 times. Document is photocopied transcript of interview of Michener by Darby Perry with photocopied follow-up letter by Michener.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 01/20/77 Date 2: 04/29/77 # of Items: 2, 1, 1, 1

Author: Morante, Elsa

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: TSS, sig. sheet, TLS, ALS

Content: Elsa Morante's annotated, signed 3-p. TS is preface to Society's choice of History, the original Italian title. There is also ALS by William Weaver, TLS by Ellen Wright and 3-p. TS by Simone de Beauvoir.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 05/02/80 Date 2: 07/24/80 # of Items: 2, 2, 1

Author: Oates, Joyce Carol

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Princeton, NJ

Type: TLsS, TSs, APCS

Content: 3-p. TS is preface to Society's choice of Bellefleur; also TS, photocopy, marked "Author's Copy", of introduction.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 10/77 # of Items: 1

Author: Paton, Alan

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: TSS

Content: 3-p. TS is preface to Society's choice of Cry the Beloved Country.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 02/26/80 Date 2: 03/19/80 # of Items: 1, 2, 1

Author: Percy, Walker

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Covington, LA

Type: TSS, TLsS, TS copy

Content: TSS is 3-p. preface of Society's choice of The Second Coming. One TLS by Robert Giroux is about getting around in N.Y.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 09/12/79 # of Items: 1

Author: Roth, Philip

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Cornwall Bridge, CT

Type: TLS Memo: No TS preface present.

Content: Concerns Roth's book chosen by the Society.

 Box #: 1 # of Items: 1

Author: Safire, William

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: TSS, annotated

Content: Ts is 3-p. preface to the Society's choice.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 06/22/78 # of Items: 1

Author: Sagan, Françoise

Recipient: John Hawkins

Type: TS, annotated

Content: 2-p. Ts, in French, is preface to the Society's choice, The Unmade Bed.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 01/27/78 # of Items: 1

Author: Salisbury, Harrison

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: [New York]

Type: ANS Memo: No TS for preface present. Box #: 2 Date 1: 03/04/76 Date 2: 06/10/77 # of Items: 4, 1, 1, 9

Author: Saroyan, William

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Fresno, CA

Type: TLsS, TS, ALS, TLsS copy, TLS transcription

Content: Photocopied, annotated 3-p. TS is preface to Society's choice Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang on Forever. One TL is signed four times.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 04/11/77 Date 2: 08/03/79 # of Items: 1, 1

Author: Schlesinger, Arthur

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: New York, New York

Type: TNS, TLS Memo: No TS for preface present. Box #: 1 Date 1: 06/21/77 Date 2: 08/15/79 # of Items: 2, 1, 2, 1

Author: Shaw, Irwin

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: London and New York

Type: TLsS, TS, ANsS, ALS

Content: 4-p. TS is preface to Society's choice, Beggarman, Thief.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 02/07/79 # of Items: 1, 1

Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: New York, New York

Type: T. fragments., TS Memo: No TS for preface present.

Content: Photocopied TS is editor's introduction and other information for Society's choice, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories. This appears annotated in the author's hand.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 04/23/79 # of Items: 1, 2, 2

Author: Smith, Red

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: New York, New York

Type: TLS, TSs, sig. sheet

Content: One TS is 4-p. annotated preface about John O'Hara. The other is a reformatted photocopy.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 06/05/79 Date 2: 10/15/80 # of Items: 7, 1

Author: Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy)

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: London

Type: TLsS, TSS

Content: 2-p. TS is preface to Society's choice of A Coat of Varnish. There are also materials re payments to his estate.

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 12/19/75 Date 2: 04/02/80 # of Items: 11, 1, 1, 8

Author: Spender, Stephen

Recipient: Ken McCormick

Place: Gainesville, FL

Type: ALS, TS copy

Content: The 3-p. annotated TS is for Society's choice of Auden material.

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 05/10/76 # of Items: 1, 1

Author: Stegner, Wallace

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Los Altos Hills, CA

Type: TLsS, TS, ANS, TLsS copy

Content: The 3-p. annotated TS is for Society's choice of Recapitulation. The second group of TLsS noted above is photocopies. There is also a set of publicity photos of Stegner.

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 08/04/75 Date 2: 07/30/80 # of Items: 4, 2, 1

Author: Stone, Irving

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Beverly Hills, CA

Type: TLsS, TSs, TSS

Content: The 3-p. TSS is an introduction to Lust for Life; the 10-p. annotated TS is the author's copy of editors' introduction to The Origin; the 5-p. TS is preface to the Society's choice for The Agony and The Ecstasy. There is a copied set of the TLsS and 1-p. TS.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 06/02/76 # of Items: 3, 1, 1

Author: Styron, William

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Vineyard Haven, MA

Type: HMS, ANS, TLS, TS, copy

Content: The 3-p. holograph manuscript describes how Styron's dream about a Polish Catholic woman who had lived in his rooming house in 1947 led him to write Sophie's Choice. The 4-p. photocopied TS is preface for Society's choice of Nat Turner.

 Box #: 1 Date 1: 01/31/78 Date 2: 08/28/78 # of Items: 2, 2, 1, 1

Author: Theroux, Paul

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: London and MA

Type: TLsS, TSs

Content: One annotated 3-p. TS is preface for Society's choice of Picture Palace; the other is a 1-p. annotated photocopy.

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 03/14/72 Date 2: 08/16/78 # of Items: 2, 1, 1, 1

Author: Tuchman, Barbara

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: New York and CT

Type: ALsS, APCS, TS, ANS

Content: This slightly annotated 3-p. TS is preface to the Society's choice of A Different Mirror. There is also an author-corrected brochure put out by the Society for this selection.

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 06/22/76 Date 2: 10/22/80 # of Items: 11, 3, 2

Author: Updike, John

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Georgetown, MA

Type: TLsS, TSs, galleys

Content: One 3-p. annotated TS is preface for the Society's choice of Marry Me with an annotated galley proof; the other is for Rabbit, Redux for which there is also an annotated photocopy and 3 photocopies. There is an annotated galley for Rabit Run and 6.

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 05/21/76 Date 2: 12/08/76 # of Items: 1, 1

Author: Uris, Leon

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Aspen, CO

Type: TLsS, TSS

Content: One TL is signed 3 times; there are photocopies of 3 additional TlsS; one discusses Israel and her standing among the nations of the world. The 1-p. annotated TS is for the Society's choice of Exodus.

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 07/30/76 # of Items: 3, 1

Author: Vonnegut, Kurt

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: New York

Type: TS, TLS, copy

Content: The 3-p. annotated TS is preface to the Society's choice of Jailbird.

 Box #: 1

Author: Weaver, William

Content: See Morante, Elsa

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 06/29/79 Date 2: 07/06/80 # of Items: 3, 3

Author: Welty, Eudore

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Jackson, MI

Type: TLsS, TSs

Content: 1-p. TS is preface for the Society's choice of her Collected Stories. One annotated, photocopied TS is the author's copy of the editor's introduction; the other, heavily annotated by Welty, is biographical and labelled "To Our Subscribers".

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 08/07/79 Date 2: 03/26/80 # of Items: 1, 1, 1

Author: West, Jessamyn

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Napa, CA

Type: TS, sig. sheet, ANS

Content: The 3-p. TS is preface, quite possibly, to the Society's choice The Life I Really Lived.

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 12/08/78 Date 2: 02/02/79 # of Items: 1, 1

Author: West, Morris

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Westworth, Surrey, England

Type: TLS, TSS

Content: The 2-p. TS is preface for the Society's choice of Proteus.

 Box #: 2

Author: Wilder, Isabel

Content: See Atkinson, Brooks

 Box #: 2

Author: Wilder, Thornton

Content: See Atkinson, Brooks

 Box #: 2 Date 1: 12/09/76 Date 2: 11/27/78 # of Items: 2, 2

Author: Wouk, Herman

Recipient: John Hawkins

Place: Washington, D.C.

Type: TLsS, TSs, copied

Content: Both 2-p. TSs are for the Society's choice of The Caine Mutiny, but one of them is annotated.

 Box #: 1

Author: Wright, Ellen

Content: See Morante, Elsa