Highsmith, Patricia: Nachlass Patricia Highsmith

Works



Swiss Literary Archives (SLA)
Hallwylstrasse 15
CH-3003 Berne


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Overview

Author/Origine : Highsmith, Patricia
Title Works
Scope and content : A-Works: typewritten manuscripts of various novels, including lengthy fragments of unpublished or unfinished works; around 400 typewritten manuscripts of partly unpublished short stories, essays and poems; some 39 cahiers, or literary notebooks; more than 300 loose drawings and watercolors and 25 sketchbooks.
Cote : SLA-PH-A

A-01 Prose
A-01-a Novels
A-01-b Unfinished / Unpublished Novels
A-01-c Short Stories, Articles and Essays
A-01-c-1/01-61 "Oldest Short Stories 1945-1955 c"
A-01-c-2/62-110 "Short Stories: Middle"
A-01-c-3/111-180 "Short Stories: 1972-74-78-80-81-82"
A-01-c-4/181-237 "Short Stories 1983-88/Book Reviews"
A-01-c-5/238-299 "Stories - Articles 1989"
A-01-c-6_to_10 Collections of Short Stories
A-01-c-11_to_14 Essays / Incomplete Old Stories, etc.
A-02 Poems
A-03 Theatre Plays [no Ms.]
A-04 TV and Radio Scripts
A-05 Notebooks [Cahiers]
A-06 Drawings
A-06-a Small Format Drawings and Sketchbooks
A-06-b Medium Format Drawings and Sketchbooks
A-06-c Large Format Drawings


A-05

Notebooks [Cahiers]

Rem.: “These are not diaries, but contain ideas for short stories and novels, some poems, notes on countries and cities I have visited, people I have met. At very back of these cahiers, quotations I copied out from other writers, etc.”
Patricia Highsmith: “Inventory of hardcover first editions at Highsmith house, Dec. 1987”
Rem.: Preservation restriction: Fragile material, available copies must be consulted in place of the original documents.
s.a. s.a. E-01
Cote Title / Description Dates Further Info / Remarks
A-05/01 1938 until 1939   1938-1939
 
A-05/02 November 1939 until July 1940   1939-1940
 
A-05/03 October 1940 to June 1941   1940-1941
 
A-05/04 August 1940 to November 1940   1940-1940
 
A-05/05 June 1941 to December 1941   1941-1941
 
A-05/06 December 1941 to May 1942   1941-1942
 
A-05/07 May 1942 to July 1942   1942-1942
 
A-05/08 August 1942 to November 1942   1942-1942
 
A-05/09 October 1942 to January 1943   1942-1943
 
A-05/09a December 1943 to May 1944 ("Mexico Diary")   1943-1944
 
A-05/10 January 1943 to November 1943   1943-1943
 
A-05/11 November 1943 to October 1944   1943-1944
 
A-05/12 October 1944 to August 1945   1944-1945
 
A-05/13 July 1945 to June 1946   1945-1946
 
A-05/14 June 1946 to December 1946   1946-1946
 
A-05/15 January 1947 to July 1947   1947-1947
 
A-05/16 July 1947 to January 1948   1947-1948
 
A-05/17 January 1948 to July 1948   1948-1948
 
A-05/18 September 1948 to October 1949   1948-1949
 
A-05/19 November 1949 to September 1950   1949-1950
 
A-05/20 October 1950 to October 1951   1950-1951
 
A-05/21 November 1951 to December 1952   1951-1952
 
A-05/22 December 1952 to February 1954   1952-1954
 
A-05/23 February 1954 to September 1955   1954-1955
 
A-05/24 December 1955 to February 1958   1955-1958
 
A-05/25 März 1958 to May 1960   1958-1960
 
A-05/26 June 1960 to September 1962   1960-1962
 
A-05/27 August 1962 to December 1964   1962-1964
 
A-05/28 December 1964 to January 1967   1964-1967
 
A-05/29 January 1967 to July 1968   1967-1968
 
A-05/30 August 1968 to January 1970   1968-1970
 
A-05/31 December 1969 to November 1971   1969-1971
 
A-05/32 October 1971 to November 1973   1971-1973
 
A-05/33 December 1973 to August 1976   1973-1976
 
A-05/34 September 1976 to October 1979   1976-1979
 
A-05/35 November 1979 to July 1983   1979-1983
 
A-05/36 August 1983 to August 1988   1983-1988
 
A-05/37 September 1988 to December 1992   1988-1992
 
A-05/38 Empty Notebook.   [ca. 1993]
On front cover h.w. note by PH:
"Book Thirty-Eight Tegna". Affixed special stamp of Deutsche Bundespost 1 DM: 200. Todestag Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1991], stamped Hannover (date 1993?), second stamp beside "Schreib mal wieder". Handwritten note by PH on inside of backside cover: Titles [listed up on three lines:] The Perfect Stranger, The Whispers of Strangers, The Wrong Mountain