Florence King papers (Ms.2016.001)

Brown University Library

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Providence, RI, 02912
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Inventory

Series 1. Biographical and Personal Information

Series 1. Subseries A. Biographical

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	My Baby Book Contents Note: Birth certificate, parents and grandparents marriage licenses, father's birth certificate	1936-1946
Box 1, Folder 2	Elementary and High School Records	1942-1953, 1993
Box 1, Folder 3	College and Graduate School Records	1953-1959
Box 1, Folder 4	Photographs: self, family, and friends (1 of 2)	1897-1990
Box 1, Folder 5	Photographs: self, family, and friends (2 of 2)	1897-1990
Box 1, Folder 6	Family photos and grandfather's army record Contents Note: Army record from 1896	1945-1988

Series 1. Subseries B. Correspondence

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 7	Chittom, Jane	1984-1989
Box 1, Folder 8	Cholmeley, Jane - British editor and bookseller	2002-2014
Box 1, Folder 9	Cholmeley, Jane Contents Note: Florence Hart King "Grannie Florrie" Genealogy	2014-2015
Box 1, Folder 10	Holditch, Kenneth - Ole Miss classmate	1992-2014
Box 1, Folder 11	Langsan, Jill (nee Jamison) - college friend	1998-2002, undated, 2009-2010
Box 1, Folder 12	Parks, Bob - college beau	1999-2012
Box 1, Folder 13	Ruding cousins - Karol Ruding Robinson, Laura Ruding Dyer, and Kevin Robinson	2006-2012
Box 1, Folder 14	Sprague, Patrick E. - my foster cousin Ellen's oldest son	2009-2010, 2012-2013
Box 1, Folder 15	Former students from Suitland High School, Maryland	1992
Box 1, Folder 16	Fredericksburg, Virginia friends	2004-2005
Box 1, Folder 17	Personal and local matters Contents Note: Correspondence, clippings, and memos	1983-2000, 2005
Box 1, Folder 18	Personal Correspondence - miscellaneous	1999-2012

Series 1. Subseries C. Publicity

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 19	Assorted professional mementos, clipping, awards, and correspondence	1966-2002
Box 1, Folder 20-22	"Re: Me" quotes and mentions Contents Note: Articles in newspapers and magazines that mention Florence King and her work.	1980s-2014
Box 1, Folder 23	"Re: Me" Internet Printouts	2002-2007, 2012

Series 1. Subseries D. End-of-life matters

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 24	End-of-life matters Contents Note: Correspondence, events, changes, thoughts, etc.	2014-2015
Box 1, Folder 25	End-of-life matters Contents Note: Documents found on her HP laptop computer after her death	2015
Box 1, Folder 26	End-of-life matters Contents Note: Medical and executor documents founds after her death	2015
Box 1, Folder 27	Carriage Hill Health and Rehabilitation Center Contents Note: Paperwork on stay	2015
Box 1, Folder 28	Last Will and Testament, and correspondence with lawyer	2008

Series 2. Literary

Series 2. Subseries A. Book Projects in Chronological Order

Container	Description	Date
Box 2, Folder 1	Early Writing: Raleigh News and Observer	1964-1967
Box 2, Folder 2	My Pornographer Days: Contracts and correspondence	1969-1973
Box 2, Folder 3	Early Books: Files Contents Note: Editorial memos and correspondence, first four books	1974-1987
Box 2, Folder 4	My Sweet-Savage Romance Days: Bernard Geis Assoc. (1 of 3) Contents Note: Correspondence	1975-1989
Box 2, Folder 5	My Sweet-Savage Romance Days: Bernard Geis Assoc. (2 of 3) Contents Note: Correspondence	1975-1989
Box 2, Folder 6	My Sweet-Savage Romance Days: Bernard Geis Assoc.(3 of 3) Contents Note: Correspondence	1975-1989
Box 2, Folder 7	Wasp Where is Thy Sting Contents Note: Correspondence, reviews	1976-1980
Box 2, Folder 8	He: An Irreverent Look at the American Male Contents Note: Correspondence and reviews	1977-1986
Box 2, Folder 9	When Sisterhood was in Flower Contents Note: Correspondence and reviews	1979-1982
Box 2, Folder 10	Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady Contents Note: Editorial and production	1984-1988
Box 2, Folder 11	Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady Contents Note: Publicity Tour and some reviews (US and UK)	1984-1990
Box 2, Folder 12	Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady Contents Note: Bantam paperback	1985-1986
Box 2, Folder 13	Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady Contents Note: United States reviews	1985
Box 2, Folder 14	Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady Contents Note: British editions, correspondence, and reviews	1985-1987
Box 2, Folder 15	Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady Contents Note: British reviews	1985-1990
Box 2, Folder 16	Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady - Movie option Contents Note: Incomplete file	1985-1988, 1990 and 1996
Box 2, Folder 17	Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady Contents Note: Correspondence	1986-1996, 2002-2003, 2012
Box 2, Folder 18	Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye Contents Note: Editorial and production	1988-1990
Box 2, Folder 19	Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye Contents Note: First copyeditor's flags and worst pages	c. 1988
Box 2, Folder 20	Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye Contents Note: Publicity and extracts of reviews	1989-1993
Box 2, Folder 21	Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye Contents Note: United States reviews	1989
Box 2, Folder 22	Lump It or Leave It Contents Note: Correspondence, editorial, and publicity	1989-1991
Box 2, Folder 23	Lump It or Leave It Contents Note: Publicity, reviews, and fan mail	1990
Box 2, Folder 24	Lump It or Leave It Contents Note: Reviews	1990-1991
Box 2, Folder 25	With Charity Toward None Contents Note: Editorial correspondence	1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 26	With Charity Toward None Contents Note: Publicity and production	1991-1992
Box 2, Folder 27	With Charity Toward None Contents Note: Reviews	1992-1993
Box 2, Folder 28-30	The Florence King Reader: Original Manuscript	c. 1994
Box 3, Folder 1	The Florence King Reader: Original Manuscript	c. 1994
Box 3, Folder 2	The Florence King Reader Contents Note: Reviews, correspondence, and paperback edition	1994-1996

Series 2. Subseries B. Contracts/Proof of Authorship

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 3	Various book contracts	1978-1994
Box 3, Folder 4	Proof of authorship pages Contents Note: Assorted first draft pages from three books	1980-1994

Series 2. Subseries C. Agent and publisher correspondence

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 5	Ex-Agents Contents Note: Including Harper's and Alanna Nash	1974-1989
Box 3, Folder 6	Berger, Mel - Literary Agent, William Morris Agency	1974-1989, 2007
Box 3, Folder 7	Berger, Mel - Literary Agent, William Morris Agency	1990-1995
Box 3, Folder 8	Safier, Gloria - deceased agent	1983-1985
Box 3, Folder 9	St. Martin's Press/Tom McCormack, misc. correspondence	1986-1991
Box 3, Folder 10	Morgan, Cal - editor of St. Martin's Press	1992-1993
Box 3, Folder 11	Morgan, Cal - editor of St. Martin's Press	1994
Box 3, Folder 12	Morgan, Cal - editor of St. Martin's Press	1995-1997
Box 3, Folder 13	Morgan, Cal - editor of St. Martin's Press	1998-2002, 2007
Box 3, Folder 14	British Publishers Contents Note: Correspondence regarding paperback editions	1989-1990
Box 3, Folder 15	UPI/John O'Sullivan	2002

Series 2. Subseries D. Miscellaneous business correspondence

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 16	Miscellaneous business correspondence	1963-1979
Box 3, Folder 17	Miscellaneous business correspondence	1983-1991
Box 3, Folder 18	Miscellaneous business correspondence	1990-2000
Box 3, Folder 19	Miscellaneous business correspondence	2001-2011
Box 3, Folder 20	Post-retirement miscellaneous correspondence	2003-2004

Series 2. Subseries E. Fan mail

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 21-22	Fan mail from my books Contents Note: Books represented in these folders: Southern Ladies and Gentleman; WASP, There is Thy Sting?; He: An Irreverant Look at the American Male; When Sisterhood Was in Flower; Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady; Reflections of a Jaundiced Eye; Lump It or Leave It; With Charity Toward None; The Florence King Reader.	1975-1999
Box 3, Folder 23	Obsessed fans: neurotic readers (as opposed to nutcases)	1985-1989

Series 2. Subseries F. Journals and notes

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 24	Journals/notebooks Contents Note: 2 spiral bound books of quotes and notes	undated
Box 3, Folder 25-26	Unused notes and annotated clips	1971-2002, undated
Box 3, Folder 27	Favorite readings and clippings	undated
Box 3, Folder 28	Free-Association handwritten notes	2005-2008

Series 3. National Review

Container	Description	Date
Box 4, Folder 1	National Review nut mail and controversies	1989-1999
Box 4, Folder 2	National Review nut mail and controversies	2000, 2011
Box 4, Folder 3-10	National Review fan mail	1990-2001
Box 4, Folder 11	National Review Retirement fan mail	2002-2005
Box 4, Folder 12-13	National Review fan mail	2006-2014
Box 4, Folder 14	National Review firing fan mail, awkward sizes	2012
Box 4, Folder 15	National Review firing fan mail	2012
Box 5, Folder 1	National Review, tearsheets Contents Note: Articles and reviews by Florence, mentions of Florence in letters	1990-1998
Box 5, Folder 2	National Review, tearsheets and miscellaneous
Box 5, Folder 3	National Review, "The Misanthrope's Corner" Contents Note: Tearsheets, complete set	1991-2002
Box 5, Folder 4	National Review - correspondence and editorial	1991-1994
Box 5, Folder 5-6	Molly Ivins's plagiarism of me Contents Note: Correspondence and clippings	1995-2003
Box 5, Folder 7	National Review - "Pudenda Crisis"	1994-1995
Box 5, Folder 8	National Review and Ludwig von Mises Institute - Murray Rothbard obituary	1993-1995
Box 5, Folder 9	Fowler, Jack - associate publisher, National Review Contents Note: Correspondence	1995-1999
Box 5, Folder 10	Fowler, Jack - associate publisher, National Review Contents Note: Correspondence	2000-2010
Box 5, Folder 11	Fowler, Jack - associate publisher, National Review Contents Note: Correspondence	2011-2015
Box 5, Folder 12	National Review: Editorial Production, "The Misanthrope's Corner"	1995-2002, 2006
Box 5, Folder 13	National Review - correspondence and editorial	1995-2002, 2008-2012, 2014-2015
Box 5, Folder 14	Lowry, Richard - editor, National Review Contents Note: Correspondence	1997-2001
Box 5, Folder 15	Nordlinger, Jay - managing editor, National Review Contents Note: Correspondence	2001-2002
Box 5, Folder 16	Retirement correspondence, National Review	2002
Box 5, Folder 17	"STET, Damn It!" - correspondence Contents Note: Volume of collected National Review columns (to be published by NR in 2003) and reviews	2002-2004
Box 5, Folder 18	National Review Column, "The Bent Pin" Contents Note: Tearsheets and correspondence	2006-2012
Box 5, Folder 19	My National Review Firing Contents Note: Correspondence	2012
Box 5, Folder 20	Post-Columnist National Review Work Contents Note: Reviews and Articles	2012-2014
Box 5, Folder 21	Potemra, Mike - literary editor, National Review Contents Note: Correspondence	2012

Series 4. Personal Appearance

Container	Description	Date
Box 5, Folder 22	Personal Appearance - "Funny Women by Pen and Performance" at the University of Texas Contents Note: Correspondence, clippings, and photos	1987 March 25
Box 5, Folder 23	Personal Appearance - "Funny Women by Pen and Performance" at the University of Texas Contents Note: Cassette tapes	1987 March 25

Series 5. Other Writings

Container	Description	Date
Box 5, Folder 24	Women's Magazines - Cosmopolitan editorial correspondence and playgirl fanmail	1974, 1993, undated
Box 5, Folder 25	Newsday: book reviewing and correspondence with Nina King	1983-1991
Box 5, Folder 26	Newsday: book reviewing and correspondence Contents Note: Includes Jack Schwartz debacle	1988-1992
Box 5, Folder 27	Free Lance - Star, (Fredericksburg, VA paper)	c. 1989-1992
Box 5, Folder 28	Free Lance - Star (Fredericksburg, VA paper) Contents Note: Bimonthly column, clippings, and correspondence.	2000-2003
Box 5, Folder 29	The Oxford American (literary magazine) Contents Note: Correspondence	1991-1999
Box 6, Folder 1	Book Reviewing Files: American Spectator and Washington Times Contents Note: Correspondence	1990-2002
Box 6, Folder 2	Los Angeles Times, My 1993 magazine piece on Bill Clinton Contents Note: Correspondence, production, response	1993
Box 6, Folder 3	TAS Redux, book reviews for the American Spectator Contents Note: Tearsheets and editorial correspondence	2006-2009
Box 6, Folder 4	American Enterprise Magazine Contents Note: Correspondence regarding column.	1995
Box 6, Folder 5	Walker, Scott - exec. editor, American Enterprise Contents Note: Personal correspondence	1995-2002
Box 6, Folder 6	Girlfriends Magazine Contents Note: Correspondence and copy	2003-2004
Box 6, Folder 7	"The Spectator" - UK Magazine Contents Note: Correspondence	2011-2013
Box 6, Folder 8	"The American Conservative" - Magazine Contents Note: Correspondence and tearsheets	2012, 2014
Box 6, Folder 9	American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel: Resignation	2013
Box 6, Folder 10	Miscellaneous tearsheets, articles, op-eds, and reviews	1975-2000
Box 6, Folder 11	Book Reviews by Florence King Contents Note: Newsclippings and photocopies.	1980s-1990s
Box 6, Folder 12	Book Reviews by Florence King Contents Note: Newsday clippings and photocopies.	1980s-1990s
Box 6, Folder 13	Book Reviews by Florence King Contents Note: Tearsheets	1990-2001
Box 6, Folder 14	Book reviewing correspondence Contents Note: From authors and readers	1983-1999
Box 6, Folder 15	Book Reviews by Florence King Contents Note: Tearsheets and correspondence	2006-2010, 2012, 2014-2015
Box 6, Folder 16	Book reviewing correspondence and payments	1989-1998
Box 6, Folder 17	Blurbs and publicity quotes by Florence King Contents Note: Correspondence and book jackets	1985-2002
Box 6, Folder 18	Autographs: jackets and inscription pages of books autographed to me	1979-1996, 2002

Series 6. Writer Friends and V.I.P.s

Container	Description	Date
Box 6, Folder 19	Alice Regan, Kathleen Winsor, P. Highsmith, James Wolcott, Christopher Hitchens, Oleg Cassini, and Paul Greenberg	1971-2002, 2008-2011
Box 6, Folder 20	Helen Gurley Brown and Roberta Ashley, Cosmopolitan	1974-1983
Box 6, Folder 21	Smith, Liz	1974-1996
Box 6, Folder 22	Allistair Cooke, Elizabeth Langford, Edith Efron, Jonathan Yardley, Janis Ian, Greg Gutfield	1979-1995, 2008, 2014
Box 6, Folder 23	Daniell, Rosemary	1983-1998
Box 6, Folder 24	Brownmiller, Susan	1984-1986
Box 6, Folder 25	Flagg, Fannie	1985-1999, undated
Box 6, Folder 26	Carolyn See and Cathie Pelletier	1986-1993
Box 6, Folder 27	Rivers, Joan	1987-1994
Box 6, Folder 28	Carol Channing and Fannie Flagg Contents Note: Photos and sound recording	1987
Box 6, Folder 29	Peter Kurth and Walter Olson	1989-1998
Box 6, Folder 30	Dworkin, Andrea	1989-2000, 2003
Box 6, Folder 31	Jon Winokur, Susan Kelly, and Patricia O'Toole	1990-1999
Box 6, Folder 32	Buckley, William F., Jr.	1992-2008
Box 6, Folder 33	Ferguson, Andrew	1993-2001
Box 7, Folder 1	Buckley, F. Reid	1993-2002
Box 7, Folder 2	Dreele, William von - poet, National Review	1999-2003, 2006
Box 7, Folder 3	Wynn, Edmond Keenan	1999-2000
Box 7, Folder 4	Simmons, Tracey Lee	1999-2000
Box 7, Folder 5	Buckley, Priscilla	2000-2005
Box 7, Folder 6	Miscellaneous writer friends	1985-1994, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015

Series 7. Legal and Financial Documents

Container	Description	Date
Box 7, Folder 7	Book Reviews by Florence King: Ledger Pages	1983-1995
Box 7, Folder 8	Miscellaneous Tax and Financial Records	1969-1979
Box 7, Folder 9	Royalty Statements, all books	1977-1999
Box 7, Folder 10	Royalty Statements	2000-2005
Box 7, Folder 11	Tax memos and expenses, itemized worksheets	1970-1983, 1985-1989
Box 7, Folder 12	Tax memos and expenses, itemized worksheets	1990-1998
Box 7, Folder 13	Writing income: check stubs	1980-1998

Series 8. Daily Log Books
Daily calendars in which Florence recorded her appointments and activities. Florence called them Daily Log Books.

Container	Description	Date
Box 7, Folder 14-19	Daily Log Books	1985-1996
Box 8, Folder 1-5	Daily Log Books	1997-2007, 2015

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