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Nachlass Patricia Highsmith
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Nachlass Patricia Highsmith
Highsmith, Patricia (1921-1995) [Bestandsbildner]
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: Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on 19 January 1921 and died in Locarno (Ticino) on 4 February 1995. She was raised in Fort Worth, Texas, and in New York, where she studied at Barnard College (Columbia University) and found work as a text writer for comic strips. Following the publication of her first novel Strangers on a Train (1950), she was able to make a living as a writer. She spent time in Mexico and traveled extensively to and around Europe, taking up residence in England in 1963. She moved to France in 1967 and finally to Switzerland (Ticino) in 1981. Patricia Highsmith published twenty novels, seven books of short stories, and many essays, newspaper articles and book reviews. She owed much of her fame to the five Ripley novels featuring the multiple murderer Tom Ripley, who always somehow manages to cover up his tracks. The writer was primarily interested in the psychology of her characters, and in human relationships and the way they degenerate into violence. Not all of her work is crime fiction, however. The novel The Price of Salt (1952), published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, depicts a lesbian relationship in a repressive environment. Highsmith received the Edgar Allen Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America, and the Silver Dagger Award of the Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britain. The French Culture Ministry made her Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. There have been numerous film adaptations of her works, by celebrated directors such as René Clément, Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Chabrol, Wim Wenders and Anthony Minghella. : A-Works: typewritten manuscripts of various novels, including lengthy fragments of unpublished or unfinished works; around 400 typewritten manuscripts of partly unpublished short stories, essays and poems; some 39 cahiers, or literary notebooks; more than 300 loose drawings and watercolors and 25 sketchbooks. B-Correspondence: family correspondence, including a large collection of letters between Highsmith and her Texan first cousin Dan O. Coates, and letters between Highsmith and her mother Mary Coates Highsmith, father Jay B. Plangman and step-father Stanley Highsmith. Correspondence with publishers. Correspondence with friends, including a large number of letters to her life-long friend Kate Kingsley Skattebøl, and to Charles Latimer and Barbara Ker-Seymer, as well as copies of letters to Alex Szogyi, Phyllis Nagy and Bettina Berch. Letters from (and occasionally to) fellow writers, especially Graham Greene, Paul Bowles and Gore Vidal (for other established names in the Arts and Letters with a smaller number of letters see list below). C-Life Papers and Documents: 18 diaries written in various languages, around 1,500 photographs, personal and family documents and memorabilia. D-Collections: 14 scrapbooks, personal library, audio-visual collections, collection of newspaper cuttings, and more. E-SupplementationsHighsmith, Patricia (1921-1995) [Abgebildet]
https://www.helveticarchives.ch/archivplansuche.aspx?ID=165068 (Bestandsbeschreibung in HelveticArchives) http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:ch:bel-14240 (Online-Inventar des Schweizerischen Literaturarchivs)
: Acquisition by purchase, 1996. Additional acquisitions and donations. Most significant Donations: Coates Donations in 1998 and 2006 (see C-03-c), the Skattebol Donation in 1999 (see B-01-02-SKA), executors files in 2009 (see E-03) .
The majority of the collection was transferred to SLA in November 1996, with other items following in March 1998. From March to August 1997, Philippa Burton defined the general structure/inventory of the Highsmith Papers and drew up two of the four major inventories for the collection, the one of manuscripts and the one of drawings. In 1997 and 1998, she settled the Coates and Skattebol donations. In 1998 and in 1999, Burton organized and listed the letters in the third of the four large inventories. In early 1999, Lucienne Schwery drew up the remaining large inventory, of photographs, processing identification information that had been provided by Kate Kingsley Skattebøl and the testamentary executors Frieda Sommer and Vivien De Bernardi. During a two-week stay in Bern in the summer of 1999, Skattebøl helped Schwery and Burton with the identification of obscure photographs and letters, principally those of friends of Highsmith. This was, however, only a concentrated example of the on-going help Skattebøl has given SLA since the very beginning. As co-curators of the Highsmith collection, Stéphanie Cudré-Mauroux and Ulrich Weber repeatedly added to the four main inventories, in particular the letters, and inventoried other parts of the papers at different periods over the years. In 2005 and 2006, the final parts of the papers were inventoried by Philippa Burton, Lukas Dettwiler and Ulrich Weber. Lukas Dettwiler converted the full general inventory into Encoded Archival Description (EAD) format, thus facilitating access for researchers and other interested parties. In the following years new items were repeatedly added and inventoried by Ulrich Weber, Lukas Dettwiler and Daniele Cuffaro.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Strangers on a Train" (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-01/01 : Kasten 1
Highsmith, Patricia: "Strangers on a Train" (Titel)
1948. – Manuscript book 200 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Strangers on a Train" (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-01/02 : Kasten 1
Highsmith, Patricia: "Strangers on a Train" (Titel)
1950. – Ts., not complete, 309 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: The Indifferent Needle (=Strangers on a Train); composition scheme (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-01/03 : Kasten F-3-10
Highsmith, Patricia: The Indifferent Needle (=Strangers on a Train); composition scheme (Titel)
1948. – 1 sheet torn in 2 parts
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Highsmith, Patricia: Argument of Tantalus (=The Price of Salt). Composition scheme (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-02/01 : Kasten F3-10
Highsmith, Patricia: Argument of Tantalus (=The Price of Salt). Composition scheme (Titel)
1949
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Price of Salt" (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-02/02 : Kasten 1
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Price of Salt" (Titel)
1980 bis 1990. – correction notes
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Highsmith, Patricia: ["The Blunderer"] (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-[A-01-a-03]
Highsmith, Patricia: ["The Blunderer"] (Titel)
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Highsmith, Patricia: ["The Talented Mr. Ripley"] (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-[A-01-a-04]
Highsmith, Patricia: ["The Talented Mr. Ripley"] (Titel)
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Highsmith, Patricia: ["Deep Water"] (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-[A-01-a-05]
Highsmith, Patricia: ["Deep Water"] (Titel)
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Highsmith, Patricia: ["A Game for the Living"] (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-[A-01-a-06]
Highsmith, Patricia: ["A Game for the Living"] (Titel)
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Highsmith, Patricia: ["This Sweet Sickness"] (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-[A-01-a-07]
Highsmith, Patricia: ["This Sweet Sickness"] (Titel)
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Highsmith, Patricia: ["The Cry of the Owl"] (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-[A-01-a-08]
Highsmith, Patricia: ["The Cry of the Owl"] (Titel)
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Highsmith, Patricia: ["The Two Faces of January"] (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-[A-01-a-09]
Highsmith, Patricia: ["The Two Faces of January"] (Titel)
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Glass Cell" (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-10/01 : Kasten 2
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Glass Cell" (Titel)
1964. – Ts., 321 pp. + t. p.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Glass Cell". Heinemann version (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-10/02 : Kasten 2
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Glass Cell". Heinemann version (Titel)
1964. – Ts., 289 pp. + t. p. + dedication p. + notes
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Highsmith, Patricia: "A Suspension of Mercy" (US: "The Story-teller"). Draft (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-11/01 : Kasten 3
Highsmith, Patricia: "A Suspension of Mercy" (US: "The Story-teller"). Draft (Titel)
Dezember 1964. – Ts., 257 pp. + t. p. + notes
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Highsmith, Patricia: "A Suspension of Mercy" (US: "The Story-teller"). Draft (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-11/02 : Kasten 3
Highsmith, Patricia: "A Suspension of Mercy" (US: "The Story-teller"). Draft (Titel)
1965. – Ts., 247 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Those Who Walk Away". Draft (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-12/01 : Kasten 4
Highsmith, Patricia: "Those Who Walk Away". Draft (Titel)
1967. – Ts., 260 pp. + t. p. + notes + letters
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Those Who Walk Away". Heinemann version (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-12/02 : Kasten 4
Highsmith, Patricia: "Those Who Walk Away". Heinemann version (Titel)
1967. – Ts., 249 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Tremor of Forgery". Draft with many corrections (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-13/01 : Kasten 5
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Tremor of Forgery". Draft with many corrections (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
1969. – Ts., 265 pp. + t. p. + notes + letters
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Tremor of Forgery". Heinemann version (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-13/02 : Kasten 5
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Tremor of Forgery". Heinemann version (Titel)
1969. – Ts. (carbon copy), 259 pp. + dedication p.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "[The Tremor of] Forgery". Orig. Version of Ending (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-13/03 : Kasten 5
Highsmith, Patricia: "[The Tremor of] Forgery". Orig. Version of Ending (Titel)
1969. – Ts., 10 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "[The Tremor of Forgery]". 2nd Ending for Doubleday (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-13/04 : Kasten 5
Highsmith, Patricia: "[The Tremor of Forgery]". 2nd Ending for Doubleday (Titel)
1969. – Ts., 10 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley Under Ground". Draft (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-14/01 : Kasten 6
Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley Under Ground". Draft (Titel)
1970. – Ts., 313 pp. + t.p. + dedication p. + notes
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Highsmith, Patricia: "A Dog's Ransom". Draft (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-15/01 : Kasten 7
Highsmith, Patricia: "A Dog's Ransom". Draft (Titel)
1970 bis 1971. – Ts., 309 pp. + t. p. + notes + letters
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley's Game". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-16/01 : Kasten 8
Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley's Game". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
1974. – Ts., 312 pp. + t. p. + notes + letters
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley's Game". Heinemann version (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-16/02 : Kasten 8
Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley's Game". Heinemann version (Titel)
1974. – Ts. (carbon copy), 279 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Edith’s Diary". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-17/01 : Kasten 9
Highsmith, Patricia: "Edith’s Diary". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
1975 bis 1976. – Ts., 352 pp. + t. p. + notes + letters + orig. Ts. box
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Boy Who Followed Ripley". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-18/01 : Kasten 10
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Boy Who Followed Ripley". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
1979. – Ts., 293 pp. + t. p. + notes + letters
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Boy Who Followed Ripley". Final version (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-18/02 : Kasten 10
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Boy Who Followed Ripley". Final version (Titel)
1979. – Ts. (carbon copy), 289 pp. + t. p. + dedication p. + 3 pp. of musical acknowledgments (1 orig. + 2 carbon copies)
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Boy Who Followed Ripley". Loose correction pages (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-18/03 : Kasten 10
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Boy Who Followed Ripley". Loose correction pages (Titel)
1979. – Ts., 20 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "People Who Knock on the Door". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-19/01 : Kasten 11
Highsmith, Patricia: "People Who Knock on the Door". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
1982 bis 1983. – Ts., 395 pp. (some pages missing) + notes + research info
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Highsmith, Patricia: "People Who Knock on the Door". Final version (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-19/02 : Kasten 11
Highsmith, Patricia: "People Who Knock on the Door". Final version (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
1983. – Ts., 355 pp. + t. p. + notes + letters
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Found in the Street". Draft (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-20/01 : Kasten 12
Highsmith, Patricia: "Found in the Street". Draft (Titel)
1985. – Ts., 334 pp. + t. p. loose pages + notes and research info
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Found in the Street, Elsie and her Friends or Open Season". Final version (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-20/02 : Kasten 12
Highsmith, Patricia: "Found in the Street, Elsie and her Friends or Open Season". Final version (Titel)
1985. – Ts. (carbon copy), 313 pp. + t. p. + notes + letters
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley Under Water". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-21/01 : Kasten 13
Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley Under Water". Draft (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Oktober 1990. – Ts., 310 pp. +t. p. + notes + letters + 2 inset pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley Under Water". Later version with a few corrections (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-21/02 : Kasten 13
Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley Under Water". Later version with a few corrections (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
8. Oktober 1990 bis 1991. – Ts. (carbon copy, partly photocopy), 320 pp. + notes + letters
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley Under Water". 3rd copy (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-21/03 : Kasten 14
Highsmith, Patricia: "Ripley Under Water". 3rd copy (+ suppl. documents) (Titel)
Februar 1991. – Ts. (photocopy), 320 pp. + t. p. + notes + letters
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll". First draft with many corrections (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-22/01 : Kasten 14
Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll". First draft with many corrections (Titel)
20. Dezember 1993. – Ts., 399 pp. + suppl.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll". Second draft with a few handwritten corrections (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-22/02 : Kasten 15
Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll". Second draft with a few handwritten corrections (Titel)
1. Mai 1995. – Ts. (carbon copy), 344 pp. + t. p.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll". Diogenes version (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-22/03 : Kasten 15
Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll". Diogenes version (Titel)
6. Mai 1994. – Ts. (photocopy), 523 pp. + t. p. + dedication p.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll" (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-22/04 : Kasten 16
Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll" (Titel)
6. Mai 1994. – Ts. (photocopy), 523 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll". Editorial Queries (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-a-22/05 : Kasten 16
Highsmith, Patricia: "Small g: a Summer Idyll". Editorial Queries (Titel)
6. Mai 1994. – Ts. 16 pp. (1 original, 1 photocopy)
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Click of the Shutting" (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-b-1/01 : Kasten 16
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Click of the Shutting" (Titel)
1943 bis 1944. – Ts., 272 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Dove Descending". Synopsis 1 (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-b-2/01 : Kasten 17
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Dove Descending". Synopsis 1 (Titel)
1944 bis 1945. – Ts., [2], 16 pp.
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Highsmith, Patricia: "The Dove Descending". Synopsis 2 (Titel)
Signatur: SLA-PH-A-01-b-2/02 : Kasten 17
Highsmith, Patricia: "The Dove Descending". Synopsis 2 (Titel)
1944 bis 1945. – Ts., 2 pp.