Caroline Schimmel collection of Truman Capote material, 1949-1988

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Series II: Capote Texts in Secondary Publications, Anthologies, and Periodicals



Box 6 Abrahams, William, ed. Fifty Years of the American Short Story, Vol I, Doubleday,, 1970


Box 6 Bowles, Jane. My Sister"s Hand in Mine. Ecco Press, 1978


Box 6 Cowley, Malcolm, ed. The Paris Review Interviews Writers. Penguin,, 1977


Box 6 Davis, Myrna. The Potato Book. William Morrow, 1973


Box 6 First-Prize Stories: 1919-1954. Hanover House, 1954


Box 6 Frost, David. The Americans. Stein and Day, 1970


Box 6 Kazin, Alfred. The Open Form. Harcourt Brace & World, 1961.


Box 6 Nance, William. The Worlds of Truman Capote. Stein & Day, 1973.


Box 6 Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters. Putnam, 1976



Box 7 Burnett, Whit. This is My Best. Doubleday, 1970.


Box 7 Cochrane, James, ed. Penguin Book of American Short Stories. Penguin Books, 1982.


Box 7 Esquire: The Best of 40 Years. David McKay Co., 1973.


Box 7 Hills, L. Rust. Great Esquire Fiction. Penguin Books, 1983.


Box 7 Levin, Ira. Rosemary's Baby. Dell, 1967.


Box 7 Tang-Tan Mei-Kuo Tuan'-p'ien Hsiao-shuo Chi [Contemporary American Short Stories] Shanghai, 1979.


Box 7 Wallace, Irving, ed. The Book of Lists. William Morrow, 1980.



Box 7a Meredith, Scott, ed. The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor. NY: Simon & Schuster,, 1963


Box 7a Rudisill, Marie. Sook's cookbook, des. & ill. by Barry Moser, Atlanta: Longstreet Press,, 1989



Box 8 Atlantic, August 1947. "Should a Biographer Tell"


Box 8 Harper, February 1949. "Master Misery"


Box 8 Horizon, January 1949. "Master Misery"


Box 8 Du, September 1952. "Miriam" in German. Pp 49-54 and back cover only


Box 8 Esquire, July 1960 "Among the Paths to Eden.", July 1960


Box 8 Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1962. "Master Misery"


Box 8 McCalls, 10/1966. "Double Exposure: Oliver Smith"


Box 8 Vogue, April 15, 1967. "Extreme Magic"


Box 8 Family Circle, October 1968. "The School that Dreams Built."


Box 8 Cosmopolitan, July 1972. "Portrait of Myself."


Box 8 Esquire, July 1975. "Mojave." Offprint


Box 8 Esquire, November 1975. "La Cote Basque."


Box 8 Esquire, May 1976 "Unspoiled Monsters.", May 1976


Box 8 Esquire, December 1976. "Kate McCloud"


Box 8 New Yorker, Sept 17, 1979. "Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Martinique"


Box 8 Esquire, December 1979. "Dazzle41


Box 8 Cecil Brown's Quilt, vol.1, 1981. "Plate du Jour: Soul Food: Truman Capote on Black Culture."


Box 8 Esquire, March 1983. "Observations"


Box 8 National Geographic, May 1983. Quotation used as caption for photo in article on Brooklyn, p. 588



Box 13 Decade of Short Stories, 1943. "The Walls are Cold"

First published story