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Screenwriters.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala manuscripts, 1975-1976

 Collection
Identifier: 1980-004
Scope and Contents

Consist of handwritten drafts of the short stories, "Desecration" and "How I Became a Holy Mother," published in How I Became a Holy Mother and Other Stories, 1976; the play, "A Lost Cause," [date unknown]; and the novel, Heat and Dust, (1975), all written in three manuscript notebooks with multiple notes and draft fragments clipped to the pages and notes laid in.

Dates: 1975 - 1976

Sidney J. Perelman correspondence, 1967-1979

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-005
Scope and Contents

Consist primarily of 95 handwritten and typed letters, postcards, and telegrams from Perelman to his lover Irene O. B. Kemmer. Other correspondence includes letters from Perelman’s secretary to Kemmer, Princess Margaret to Perelman, and letters from Laura, Abby, and/or Sidney Perelman to Kemmer. Also included are newspaper and magazine clippings that Perelman enclosed with some of his letters, many of which bear his added notes and commentaries.

Dates: 1967 - 1979