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Griffin, John Howard "The Cage", Mansfield, Texas, [n.d.], 21 page t.ms. (carbon
[Dedicated to Abraham Rattner
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Griffin, John Howard "The Peas", Mansfield, Texas, [1951?], 23 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections
[About a young boy growing up blind on a farm. This is a more successful reworking of "The Cage". It was submitted to magazines 1951-1953 (unpublished)
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Griffin, John Howard "Scraps for a Feast" ["The Seawall"], Mansfield, Texas,, [1955?], 13 page t.ms.
[Fictional rendering of an actual trip Griffin made to Galveston (unpublished)
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Griffin, John Howard "The Seawall", Mansfield, Texas, [1952], 13 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections
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Griffin, John Howard "Black Noon", Mansfield, Texas, [1952], 5 page t.ms.
[Vignette about blind man going to town (unpublished)
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Griffin, John Howard "Just Ask Wooly" Catholic Digest, November 1956, 7 page photocopy (incomplete
[Reprint of story that appeared originally inCatholic World.
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Griffin, John Howard "Blindness - what it is and what problems it entails.", [n.p.],, May 1959, 2 page t.ms.
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Smollett, Lew "The Big-Time Stockman" Farm and Ranch, February 1952, 2 page photocopy
[Story about blind farm boy who raises livestock. Griffin's first published short story
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Gantz, H. L. "Trouble is what you make it" Farm and Ranch, [n.d.], 2 page photocopy
[Profile of Griffin. Reveals that Lew Smollett is really Griffin
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Daniel, Bradford Notes on Griffin's short stories, [n.p.], [1967], 3 page photocopy
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Griffin, John Howard "Withdrawal of the Artist" The Nation, May 1953, 1 page photocopy
[On being a writing member of the Silent Generation
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Griffin, John Howard Review of Bonner McMillion's The Lot of Her Neighbors The Daily Times Herald, March 1953, 1 page photocopy
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Griffin, John Howard "Sauce for the Gander", New York: New American Library,, 1953, 10 page photocopy
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Griffin, John Howard Reprint of "Sauce for the Gander" , New York: Macmillan,, 1956, 8 page photocopy
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Griffin, John Howard "Friar Clud", [Mansfield, Texas], [1953], 10 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections
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Griffin, John Howard "Friar Clud", [Mansfield, Texas], [1953], 33 page t.ms. (incomplete, with ms. corrections
[Unpublished. Sequel to "Sauce for the Gander"
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Griffin, John Howard "Metamorphosis", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 11 page t.ms. (missing page 1
[ Third draft. Unpublished short story which is reminiscent ofThe Devil Rides Outsidein that it takes place in a monastery and portrays similar monk characters
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"Metamorphosis", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 3 page t.ms. (carbon
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Griffin, John Howard "Metamorphosis", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 3 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard "Roadblock", Mansfield, Texas, [1950s], 54 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections
[Short story about working in the French Underground based on Griffin's actual experience
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Griffin, John Howard "Roadblock", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 14 page t.ms. (playscript
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Griffin, John Howard "Samuel Mullins's Unfortunate Jinx", [Mansfield, Texas],, [n.d.], 29 page t.ms (carbon, with ms. corrections
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Griffin, John Howard "Samuel Mullins's Unfortunate Jinx", Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 28 page t.ms. (carbon
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Griffin, John Howard "Samuel Mullins's Unfortunate Jinx", Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 20 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard "Samuel Mullins's Unfortunate Jinx", Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 19 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard "The Bargain", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 8 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard "Model Boy", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 14 page t.ms. (carbon)First draft(?
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Griffin, John Howard "The Weakling" [Model Boy], [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 14 page t.ms. (carbon
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Griffin, John Howard "Southern Dirge in Black and White" [Model Boy], Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 13 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard "Miss Henrietta Briggs and Her Metamorphosis" Story Number Three, The Magazine of the Short Story in Book Form,, 1953, 16 page photocopy
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"Clovis's Thirst", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 10 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard "Noble Vision", Mansfield, Texas, [n.d.], 20 page t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections
[Early draft of "The Cause" a story published inThe John Howard Griffin Reader
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"The Whole World in His Hands", New York: New Voices 2, 1955, 12 page photocopy
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Griffin, John Howard "Afternoon Hooch", Mansfield, Texas, [1953], 15 page t.ms., (with autograph corrections
[Unpublished. Based on a 1953 trip to the Bowery with Clyde Holland
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Griffin, John Howard "Diversions", [Mansfield, Texas], [1955-1957], 12 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections
[Humorous vignettes, published inThe John Howard Griffin Reader
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Griffin, John Howard More "Diversions", [Mansfield, Texas], [ca. 1955], 10 p, t.ms.
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Lamfamboise, Jean-Charles "Pontifical Teaching and the Christian Family". Translated from the French by Griffin, [Mansfield, Texas],, 1956, 10 page t.ms.(carbon
[Also a copy of a letter from Father Lamfamboise and an offprint of the original French text. . Besides translating his own fiction from the French, Griffin spoke both of his novels,The Devil Rides OutsideandNuni, into a wire-recorder, in French, and then transcribed the novels into English. He translated various other French texts. Few were published but he made these translations as much to keep himself bilingual and for the intrinsic value of what he translated. During this period he was also receiving tapes, in both English and French, from Jacques Maritain, Father Stanley Murphy, and Gerald Vann, the British Dominican scholar. He considered it all part of his continuing classical education in language, in philosophy, and in theology. He speaks also of translating some of Albert Camus' novelThe Strangerinto English, but none of those pages have been found. In his Journals there are various letters and short texts translated into English for his own purposes.
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Griffin, John Howard "Nuestra Senora de la Resurreccion", Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 9 page t.ms. (carbon
[This is a piece written about the Benedictine monastery located between Mexico City and Cuernavaca . One of Griffin's abiding passions was the study of the monastic life. In the case of this piece, he did hope to publish it but was not successful. Nonetheless, in writing it, he was consistent in his ongoing interest in monasticism. Several of his short stories of this period are about characters in monasteries--both serious, like "Metamorphosis" and comic, like the Friar Clud stories. His first novel,The Devil Rides Outside, takes place in part in a monastery. Relating in general to this passion for the monastic life are his lectures on Gregorian Chant, combining the roots of monasticism with the flower of medieval music.
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Griffin, John Howard "Preface" to the Dallas lectures on Gregorian Chant, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard Notes on music used in lecture, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard Notes on Music Article, [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard Dallas lecture number one: "Preliminary study of Modality", [n.p.],, [n.d.], 25 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard Dallas lecture number two: "Neum notation and Modality", [n.p.],, 23 Feb. [n.y.], 10 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard Dallas lecture number three: "Rhythm", [n.p.], [n.d.], 8 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard 18 Lectures on the History of Music. Introduction and recordings list, Forth Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 9 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on the history of music: lecture one, Forth Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 24 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections
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Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on the history of music: lecture two, Forth Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on the history of music: lecture three, Forth Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 10 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture seven, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture for Feb. 2nd, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 3 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture for Feb. 19th, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 3 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture on Mozart, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 4 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture 15, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 14 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard 18 lecture on music: modern music, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 5 page t.ms.
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Griffin, John Howard Detroit Lecture on Gregorian Chant, [Detroit], 28 Feb. 1954, 10 page t.ms.