Author/Origine : | Highsmith, Patricia | |
Title | Life Papers and Documents | |
Scope and content : | C-Life Papers and Documents: 18 diaries written in various languages, around 1,500 photographs, personal and family documents
and memorabilia. |
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Cote : | SLA-PH-C |
C-01 | Diaries |
C-03 | Genealogical and Family Documents | ||
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C-04 | House and Business Documents | ||||||||||||||||||
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C-05 | Photos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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C-06 | Awards and Diplomas |
C-07 | Memorabilia |
C-08 | Notes by Patricia Highsmith (and others) | ||
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C-04 |
House and Business Documents |
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C-04-a |
Business Small Format Booklets (Income and Address) |
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Cote | Title / Description | Dates | Further Info / Remarks | ||||||||||||
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C-04-a/01 | Income 1950-1960 | 1950-1960 |
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C-04-a/02 | Income 1961-66 | 1961-1966 |
Brown spiral. | ||||||||||||
C-04-a/03 | Income 1967-1973 | 1967-1973 |
Red flowered cover. | ||||||||||||
C-04-a/04 | 1974-5-6-7-8-79 with black sticker „I“ | 1974-1979 |
Green patterned cover
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C-04-a/05 | Income 1980-1987 | 1980-1987 |
Blue booklet with flowers on cover and a black sticker with big letter „I“
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C-04-a/06 | Address booklet "Business Eng – France 1963-1970" | 1963-1970 |
Blue patterned cover. | ||||||||||||
C-04-a/07 | Address booklet "Bus – Eng – France 1971 – Apr. 1974" | 1971-1974 |
Blue covers „Collins Mini Memo“. | ||||||||||||
C-04-a/08 | Address booklet "Business Addr. 1976-1979" | 1976-1979 |
Black cover. | ||||||||||||
C-04-a/09 | Address booklet "Business – France, Switz. USA ‘79-82" | 1979-1982 |
Red fleur-de-Lys cover. | ||||||||||||
C-04-a/10 | Address booklet "1980-87 Bus" | 1980-1987 |
Black cover; written on plaster that is stuck on booklet with bright yellow tape. | ||||||||||||
C-04-a/11 | Address booklet "Bus" (no date) | [s.d.] |
Wrapped in white paper.
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C-04-a/12 | Envelope with check stubs (receipts only) | [ca. 1981-1987 (ca.)] |
Nov. ’81 to 87 – 1. April Five books of check stubs. | ||||||||||||
C-04-a/13 | Check stubs 1985/86 | 1985-1986 |
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C-04-a/14 | Envelope with check stubs (receipts only) | 1988 |
’88 UK cheque stubs One book of check stubs. | ||||||||||||
C-04-a/15 | Dollar account Tomes, Inc | [s.d.] |
With handwritten notes by PH and original folder. |
C-04-b |
House Documents |
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C-04-b-01 |
Visitors' Book, 1977-1991 |
With first dated entry: “1977. For Pat. In memory of our first ‘murder’. Love Alexis” [Weissenberg]. Greetings and inscriptions on c. 1/5 of the whole book, among others by Jeanne Moreau, (15.10.1977). Contains 4 calling-cards (three in the beginning, one after the last p. with an entry). | |
C-04-b-02 |
Documents re: Aurigeno House, 1980-1995 |
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Original folders of PH included (1 red, 1 green), 1 envelope (yellow). | |||
Cote | Title / Description | Dates | Further Info / Remarks |
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C-04-b-02.1 | Photograph by (?): Aurigeno house, 1982 Summer | ||
C-04-b-02.2 | Documents and correspondence from/with Union de Banques Suisses[UBS]; E. Lautenbach, Aurigeno; PTT[Schweiz. Post-, Telefon-, und Telegrafenbetriebe]; Comune di Aurigeno, (included location plans and tax documents, 2 certified photocopies (No. 1399 and 1400: Procura to Madame Ellen Rifkin, 4 agosto 1980; Immobiliare Orselina; Schweiz. Mobiliar Versicherungsgesellschaft) | ||
C-04-b-02.3 | Folder Avv. Franco Moretti Studio legale e notarile. With document "Pubblico Istrumento No. 2129: Contratto di compravendita", Copia autentica per la Signora Patricia Highsmith (10.09.1991) and correspondence | ||
C-04-b-02.4 | Pubblico Istrumento No. 762. Avv. , Notaio, Locarno [Procura: ], Copia autentica (26.08.1980) | ||
C-04-b-02.5 | "Werkvertrag [photocopy] zwischen Frau Patricia Highsmith, vertreten durch Frau Ellen Hill, Casigliano und Impresa A. u. T. Gobbi, Verscio und T. Ammann, Casigliano – kurz Gobbi + Ammann genannt, 23. Oktober 1980" | ||
C-04-b-02.6 | Pubblico Istrumento No. 3268. Notaio Avv. , Locarno. Atto: Compravendita, Rettifica confini (Fotocopia autentica, 30.10.1989) |
C-04-b-03 |
Documents re: Tegna House, 1977-1995 |
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Some of the letters and documents with notes and handwritten remarks by PH. Mortgage-calculations, invoices, plan notes re: construction of Tegna house. Correspondence with Sigg, UBS, Locarno, Schnebli + Ammann, architects | ||||
Cote | Title / Description | Dates | Collation | Further Info / Remarks |
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C-04-b-03.1 | Key with inscription on tie-on label “Towkie Maniapik, Pangnirtung, 1982. Canada, Eskimo art esquimau” | Door key (with engraving Swiss 8, 128) | ||
C-04-b-03.2 | Der Architekt. Handbuch für den Bauherrn (S.I.A, BSA, FSAI) | |||
C-04-b-03.3 | Rough draft Tegna house (Drawing by PH, on rear of calendar sheet "Dicembre 1988") | |||
C-04-b-03.4 | Site plan (Drawing by PH) How to come to Tegna house (from Locarno) | |||
C-04-b-03.5 | Correspondence with Agenzia Immobiliare Domenico Cocquio. Site plan (Drawing by PH) House P. H. [less detailed than the one above] | |||
C-04-b-03.6 | 2 Manuals: Exercises for low back pain / Your 15-minute-workout | |||
C-04-b-03.7 | Testament “Atto notarile di Testamento pubblico. Parti: Mary Patricia Highsmith. Copia autentica per: la signora Vivien De Bernardi.” | 1995.02.24 |
Attachment: Inventario "Mary Patricia Highsmith, Tegna 17 febbraio 1995", 7 pp. (photocopies). | |
C-04-b-03.8 | Folder Commune di Tegna | 1987-1990 |
Including "Certificato di Abitabilità". Dr. med L. Piazzoni, 1989 | |
C-04-b-03.9 | Folder "Dog affair" | 1993-1994 |
6 letters (one carbon) | Letters from PH to Sergio Salvioni (Avv.), PH to Lorenz Bichler, Lorenz Bichlerto PH, Sergio Salvioni to Lorenz Bichler, P. Kassovits to PH |
C-04-b-03.10 | Folder UBS | 1987-1990 |
c. 100 invoices, letters etc., 4 notes and 2 letters by PH (partly carbon copies) | On some documents handwritten remarks by PH. Including invoices of craftsmen and artisans, among others [Peter] Carol Giardini correspondence. D. Schnebli + T. Ammann, Architetti, Agno (contains "Haus in Tegna: Schlussabrechnung, 16. 10.1989), Salvioni e Maccanetti, “Notes from talks with Sigg [UBS Locarno] chez moi”, with calculations of estimated house price etc. Partly written on rear of letters to PH (4 notes, 2 letters, partly carbon copies). Including ec card number UBS on a small stub |
C-04-b-04 |
Writing Utensils, TV, Media, 1985-1995 |
Cote | Title / Description |
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C-04-b-04.1 | "F. S. Cassette instructions" [re: cassette recorder] |
C-04-b-04.2 | Brother Fax |
C-04-b-04.3 | Amstrad PC (brochure and correspondence) |
C-04-b-04.4 | Amstrad PC (Word processor) |
C-04-b-04.5 | Apple Mac Classic II |
C-04-b-04.6 | TVExtra AB, BBC Worldwide Television, König SA (Radio TV Hi-Fi Elettrodomestici) |
C-04-c |
Memberships |
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Cote | Title / Description | Dates | Further Info / Remarks |
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C-04-c/01 | Member Card The Authors Guild, New York | 1993 |
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C-04-c/02 | Crime Writers Association. Membership List | 1980 |
List of 18 pp., including PH. |
C-04-c/03 | The Detection Club 1932-1980. Full List of Members | 1981 |
List including PH (since 1975). |
C-04-c/04 | The Detection Club 1930-1994. List of Members | 1994 |
List including PH (since 1975). |
C-04-d |
Editors |
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Cote | Title / Description | Dates | Further Info / Remarks |
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C-04-d/01 | Atlantic Monthly Press: Itinerary for PH author of “Found in the Street” in New York, 1987 | 1987 |
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C-04-d/02 | Memorandum of Agreement between Patricia Highsmith c/o Diogenes Verlag and Circulo de Leitores, Lisboa re: Small g: A Summer Idyll | 1995 |
3 copies. |
C-04-e |
Taxes |
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Cote | Title / Description | Dates | Further Info / Remarks |
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C-04-e/01 | Demande annuelle de réduction de l’impôt français sur les redevances | 1991 |
re: royalties Calmann-Levy. Form signed by PH. |
C-04-e/02 | Imposta Cantonale, Richiesta d’acconto, Ufficio Cantonale di Esazione, Bellinzona | 1992 |
Swiss taxes 1992, with note PH: “Paid toto 18/4/92”. |
C-04-e/03 | Imposta Comunale, Richiesta d’acconto, Cancelleria Comunale, Tegna | 1992 |
Swiss taxes 1992, with note PH: “30 April deadline / paid in toto 4 April 1992”. |
C-04-e/04 | Documentation (press cuttings, photocopies) re:Taxes for U.S. Citizens abroad | 1986-1990 |
Including press cutting: “America’s Gossip Queen Liz [Smith] is a Secret Lesbian”. |