First editions from the Peden Collection
The private library of William Harwood Peden (1913-1999) was given to the MU Libraries after his retirement. Dr. Peden was a professor of English at MU from 1946 to 1979. Besides being on the editorial committee of Studies in Short Fiction, he was the editor of Story magazine as well as the author of numerous short stories, essays, and books. Dr. Peden was well known as an early advocate and literary critic of the short story as a genre of literature.
Dr. Peden established the University of Missouri Press and was co-founder of Missouri Review. The Peden Prize for Short Fiction is given annually by Missouri Review in honor of him.
The Peden Collection includes volumes of short story collections and anthologies. Included are review copies as well as works by former students and authors with whom Dr. Peden had established close relations during his extensive professional life; many are inscribed.
Dr. Peden laid newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, publisher's slips, and other ephemera into many of the books. This material has been filed as the William Peden Short Story Collection Ephemera, recording as much as possible their original context.
This collection is supplemented by journals containing the personal stories of Dr. Peden which were donated by the Pedens to Special Collections in 2003.
Holdings: 458 volumes
All titles are cataloged and available through MERLIN, the University's online catalog.
The collection does not circulate. Photocopying is permitted subject to the condition of the volume. Books must be used in Special Collections' reading room during service hours or by appointment.
Items are listed under the author, title, and call number of the book in which they were found. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name.
Abbreviations:
NYTBR: New York Times Book Review
NYR: New York Review
TLS: Times Literary Supplement
Abrahams, William. Fifty Years of the American Short Story.
PS645 .A2 1970
Letter, Samuel Vaughan to William Peden, 20 January 1971.
Peden, William. Review of Fifty Years of the American Short Story. Kansas City Star 3 January 1971, 6E.
Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus.
PS3551.C48 L3 1983
Letter, Diane Ackerman to Margaret Peden, 4 April 1985
Acosta, Sofía. Puebla de Los Angeles.
PQ7798.1.C6 P7 1982
Letter, William Peden to Sofía Acosta, 10 October 1983
Agnon, S.J. Tehilla and other Israeli Stories.
PJ5059.E8 T4 1956
Peden, William. Book review.
Aiken, Conrad. The Collected Short Stories.
PS3501.I5 A17 1960
Publisher's review copy slip
Bevington, Helen. "The Siren's Story." NYTBR 22 May 1983, n.p.
Algren, Nelson. Nelson Algren's own book of lonesome monsters.
PS648.S5 A43 1963
Publisher's press release
Allen, Walter. The Short Story in English.
PR829 .A47 1981
Publisher's review copy slip
Letter, William Peden to William Stafford, 9 February 1981
Peden, William. Review of The Short Story in English. Modern Fiction Studies 27/4 (winter 1981-82): 767-68.
Angus, Douglas (ed.). Best Short Stories of the Modern Age.
PN6120.2 .A5 1962
Publisher's review copy slip
Barnes, Djuna. Selected Works.
PS3503.A614 A6 1962
Rose, Phyllis. "The Stature of an Eccentric." NYTBR 26 June 1983, 9.
Bates, H.E. The Watercress Girl.Publisher's review copy slip
Bates, H.E. Seven by Five.
PR6003.A965 S49 1972
Newspaper advertisement
Bates, H.E. The Grapes of Paradise.
PR6003.A965 G7 1960
Publisher's review copy slip
Bates, H.E. An Autobiography. Volume 1: The Vanished World.
PR6003.A965 Z5
TLS 9 January 1981, 27-28.
Review copy slip, "sent with the compliments of H.E. Bates."
Christmas card
Postcard
Letter, William Peden to Sandra Taylor, 26 October 1981
Peden, William. Foreword to the American edition of The Vanished World.
Typewritten notes
Bates, H.E. Summer in Salandar.
PR6003.A965 S8 1957
Typewritten notes
Bates, H.E. The Enchantress and Other Stories.
PR6003.A965 E5 1961
Dennis, Nigel. "The Climate Remains the Same." Unknown source.
Clipping, information on The Enchantress.
Clipping, "H.E. Bates."
Beachcroft, T.O. The English Short Story.
PR99 .B5 169
Letter, William Peden to "Writers and Their Work," 18 February 1980.
TLS 12 October 1956, 599-600.
Berry, John. Flight of White Crows.
PS 3503.E7382 F5 1961
Vita for John Berry
Betts, Doris. Beasts of the Southern Wild.
PS3552.E84 B4 1973a
Letter, M.S. Wyeth to William Peden, 21 September 1973
Bierce, Ambrose. In the Midst of Life.
PS1097 .A15 1909
Copy order slip.
Blotner, Joseph Leo. Faulker: A Biography. Vol. 1.
PS3511.A86 Z63 1974
Letter, Thorpe Menn to William Peden, 21 February 1974
Publisher's press release
Notepaper with manuscript notes
Faulkner symposium speakers
Borowski, Tadeus. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
PG7158.B613 T4 1967
Publisher's review copy slip
Bowen, Elizabeth. Early Stories.
PR6003.O6757 A15 1951
Glendinning, Victoria. "Sleepy Sub-Texts." Unknown source.
Bowles, Jane. The Collected Works.
PS3503.O837 A6 1966
Newspaper advertisement
Marten, Harry. "A Writer Cut off from Words." NYTBR 28 July 1985, 10.
Briarcliff Quarterly.
PN6010.5 .B7
Letter, Norman Pearson to William Peden, 18 April 1972
Brodkey, Harold. First Love and Other Sorrows.
PS3552.R6224 F5 1957
Publisher's review copy slip
Broughton, Irv. In Appreciation of George Garrett. Special edition of
Mill Mountain Review, vol. 1-4.
PS3557.A72 Z7 1971
Manuscript notes.
Burnett, Whit. Story Jubilee.
PN6120.2 .S7 1965
Peden, William. Review of Story Jubilee. Typescript.
Busch, Frederick. Hardwater Country.
PS3552.U814 H37 1979b
Letter, [illegible signature] to William Peden, 13 December 1978
Letter, [illegible signature] to William Peden, n.d. photocopy.
Caldwell, Erskine. We Are the Living.
PS3505.A322 W4 1933
Publisher's press release for Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965
Card, "Compliments of Houghton Mifflin Company"
Get well card
Index card with manuscript notes
Letter, Virginia Moffett Caldwell to William and Margaret Peden, June 1983
Calvino, Italo. Difficult Loves.
PQ4809.A45 A813 1984
Typewritten notes
Publisher's press release
Publisher's review copy slip
Towers, Robert. "Light and Lively." NYR, n.d, n.p.
Vidal, Gore. "On Italo Calvino." NYR, n.d., n.p.
Camoin, François André. Why men are afraid of women.
PS3553.A437 W48 1984
Publisher's review copy slip
Camoin, François André. The end of the world is Los Angeles.
PS3553.A437 E5 1982
Press release from the Missouri Review
Announcement, William Peden Prize in Fiction
Capote, Truman. A tree of night, and other stories.
PS3505.A59 T65 1949
"Murió en Los Angeles el Novelista Truman Capote." Excelsior 26 August 1984, 33-A+.
Clemons, Walter. "Handcarved Capote." Newsweek 11 August 1980, 70.
Kroll, Jack. "Truman Capote: 1924-1984." Newsweek 3 September 1984, 46.
Carroll, Paul. Irish Stories and Plays.
PR6005.A74 I7 1958
Publisher's review copy slips
Carver, Raymond. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
PS3553.A7894 W5 1976
Wood, Michael. "Stories Full of Edges and Silences." NYTBR 26 April 1981, 1.
Towers, Robert. "Low-Rent Tragedies." NYR 14 May 1981, 37.
Clute, John. "Word-Danger." TLS 24 May 1985, 572.
"Celebrating Wagner on Disc." Newsweek 5 September 1983, 65.
Clemons, Walter. "Handcarved Capote." Newsweek 11 August 1980, 70.
Prescott, Peter S. "Lost and Found." Newsweek 27 April 1981, 96.
Cassill, R.V. The Happy Marriage and Other Stories.
PS3553.A796 H3 1966
Invitation to show of paintings, drawings and lithographs of R.V. Cassill
Cheever, John. The enormous radio, and other stories.
PS3505.H6428 E5 1953
Hislop, Andrew. "Unrevealing All," TLS 28 November 1980. Newspaper clipping.
Hardwick, Elizabeth. "Cheever, or The Ambiguities," source unknown, 20 December 1984. 3 Newspaper clippings.
Newspaper advertisement.
Cheever, John. The Housebreaker of Shady Hill.
PS3505.H6428 H6 1958
Publisher's review copy slip
Letter, Ray Walters, Jr. to William Peden
Clayton, John Bell. The strangers were there.
PS3553.L385 S8 1957
Peden, William. Review of The Strangers Were There. Typescript.
Publisher's review copy slip for The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac.
Publisher's press release for The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
Colwin, Laurie. Passion and Affect.
PS3553.O4783 P3 1974
Photograph of Laurie Colwin
Publisher's review copy slip
Publisher's press release
Newspaper advertisement for The Lone Pilgrim
Connell, Evan S. The anatomy lesson, and other stories.
PS3553.O5 A65 1957
Yourgrau, Barry. "Modulations of Mood," source unknown.
Newspaper advertisement, NYTBR 8 July 1976
Curley, Daniel. That Marriage Bed of Procrustes.
PS3553.U65 I5 1957
Letter, Daniel Curley to William Peden, 8 June 1970
Current-García, Eugene. What is the short story?
PN3373 .C8 1961
Letter, William Peden to Helmut Gerber, 30 April 1968
Dahl, Roald. Someone Like You.
PR6054.A35 S6 1953
Draft of book review. Typescript.
Paper with manuscript notations.
Dawson, Fielding. Krazy Kat & 76
more: collected stories, 1950-1976.
PS3554.A948 K7 1982
Publisher's review copy slip
De la Mare, Walter. The Collected Stories.
PR6007.E3 A15 1950
Inside flaps of dust jacket.
Decker, Clarence (ed.). Modern Stories from Many Lands.
PN6120.2 .L5 1963
Draft of book review. Typescript.
Dodd, Susan M. Old Wives' Tales.
PS3554.O318 O4 1984
Brochure, The Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
Order form
Letter signed Teri Gullickson
Drewe, Robert. The bodysurfers.
PR9619.3 D77 B6 1984
Publisher's review copy slip
Eaton, Charles Edward. Write Me from Rio.
PS3509.A818 A15 1959
"Eaton wins poetry prize for a work-in-progress." Source unknown. Newspaper clipping.
Elliot, George P. Among the Dangs.
PS3555.L58 A7 1961
Newspaper clipping with several book reviews, source unknown.
Notes on J.T. Judith and Other Stories by James T. Farrell. Typescript.
Manuscript notes
Enright, Elizabeth. The Moment Before the Rain.
PS3555.N7 M6 1955
Publisher's review copy slip
Farrell, James T. French girls are vicious, and other stories.
PS3511.A738 F7 1955
Photograph of James T. Farrell
Farrell, James T. A Dangerous Woman and Other Stories.
PS3511.A738 D3 1957
Publisher's review copy slip
Faulkner, William. Big Woods.
PS3511.A86 B5 1955
Postcard, Tom Hawkins to William Peden, 1986
Notecard with manuscript notes
Ferguson, J.M. The Summerfield Stories.
PS3556.E713 S8 1985
Publisher's review copy slip
Fisher, Vardis. Love and Death.
PS3511.I744 L6 1959
Publisher's review copy slip
Foley, Martha (ed.). The Best American Short Stories 1973.
PS659.B5 1973
Publisher's review copy slip
Foley, Martha (ed.). The Best American Short Stories 1967.
PS659.B5 1967
Publisher's review copy slip
Foley, Martha (ed.). Fifty best American short stories, 1915-1965.
PS648.S5 B44 1965
Peden, William. "Worthwhile Stories by Little-Known Writers." source unknown.
Letter to William Peden signed Jim, undated.
Foley, Martha. The
Story of Story Magazine.
PN149.9.F6 A37 1980
Saroyan, William. "Editor and Heroine." Source unknown.
Sorensen, Ralph C. Letter to the editor. NYTBR 7 September 1980, 39.
Afterword, The Story of Story Magazine, 271. photocopy.
Ford, Jesse Hill. Fishes, Birds, and Sons of Men.
PS3556.O7 F5
Letter, Jesse Hill Ford to William and Margaret Peden, 21 February 1968
Letter, Jesse Hill Ford to William and Margaret Peden, 11 December 1970
Francis, Richard. Swansong.
PR6056.R277 S93 1987
Christmas card
Friedman, Bruce Jay. Let's Hear It for a Beautiful Guy.
PS3556.R5 L4 1984
Publisher's review copy slip
Photograph of Bruce Jay Friedman
García Márquez, Gabriel. Collected Stories.
PQ8180.17.A73 A27 1984
Gray, Paul. "Fragments of a Fabulous World." Time 31 December 1984, 68.
Reefer, Mary M. "Bizarre stories of a compliant, trusting people." Kansas City Star 30 December 1984, 1F+.
Advertisement for Collected Stories, NYR 20 December 1984.
Garrett, George. The Magic Striptease.
PS3557.A72 M3 1973c
Draft of review, manuscript and typescript.
Letter, Samuel S. Vaughan to William Peden, 13 September 1973
Garrett, George. An Evening Performance.
PS3557.A72 E9 1985
Letter, Studies in Short Fiction to Doubleday & Company, 26 August 1985
Garrett, George. Welcome to the Medicine Show.
PS3557.A72 W4
Garrett, George. "Little Movie without Middle." Palaemon Broadside no. 8, copy no. 50, signed by the author.
Garrett, George. Do Lord, Remember Me.
PS3557.A72 D6 1965b
Newspaper advertisement.
"In Short." Unknown source, 6 October 1985.
Publisher's review copy slip for An Evening Performance
Flyer for An Evening Performance
Gellhorn, Martha. The Honeyed Peace.
PS3513.E46 H6 1953
Publisher's review copy slip
Gellhorn, Martha. Pretty Tales for Tired People.
PS3513.E46 P7 1965
Newspaper advertisement
Georgian Stories 1922.
PR1309.S5 G46
Dust jacket.
Gilchrist, Ellen. Victory over Japan.
PS3557.I34258 V5 1984
Sexton, David. "The wacky woman's whyyyyyy not world." TLS 24 May 1985, n.p.
Newspaper advertisement
Letter, Ellen Gilchrist to William Peden, n.d.
Ginzburg, Ralph. An Unhurried view of erotica.
HQ471 .G5 1958b
Publisher's review copy slip
Publisher's press release
Letter, Ralph Ginzburg to William Peden, 21 May 1958
Review form
Gordimer, Nadine. Friday's Footprint and other stories.
PR9369.3 G6 F7 1960
Publisher's review copy slip
Wakeman, John. "Below the Surface of Life," unknown source.
Newspaper clipping.
Gordimer, Nadine. Selected Stories.
PR9369.G6 A15 1976
Newspaper advertisement for A Soldier's Embrace
Tuohy, Frank. "Breaths of Change," TLS, 25 April 1980, n.p.
Goyen, William. The house of breath.
PS 3513.O97 H6 1975
Letter, James Silberman to William Peden, 20 March 1975
Letter, William Peden
to James Silberman, 7 March 1975 (copy)
Grau, Shirley Ann. The Wind Shifting West.
PS3557.R283 W5 1973
Photograph of Shirley Ann Grau
Greene, Graham. May we borrow your husband? And other comedies of the
sexual life.
PR6013.R44 M3 1967
Publisher's review copy slip
Guerney, Bernard Guilbert. New Russian Stories.
PG3286 .G8 1953
Publisher's review copy slip
Guthrie, A.B. The big it, and other stories.
PS3513.U855 B5 1960
La Farge, Oliver. "One Ear Was Kept Cocked for the Sound of Blackfeet," source unknown, 21 February 1960.
Hale, Nancy. Heaven and Hardpan Farm.
PS3515.A273 H4 1957
M.P. "Eight Women in Sanitarium." Source unknown.
Biographical information for Nancy Hale.
Contemporary novelists list
Henry, O. The pocket book of O. Henry.
PS2649.P5 A6 1956
Publisher's review copy slip
Humphrey, William. The Last Husband.
PS3558.U464 L3 1953
Letter, William Humphrey to William Peden, 26 February 1958.
Intro.
PS508.C6 I63 no.2
Invitation to meet Peter Leach
Kafka, Franz. The Penal Colony.
PT2621.A26 P4 1948
Dust jacket.
Kafka, Franz. The Complete Stories.
PT2621.A26 A15 1971
Michaels, Leonard. "Everything Human was Alien to Him." NYTBR 10 June 1984, 1.
Prescott, Peter S. "A Key to Unknown Rooms." Newsweek 1 February 1982, 65.
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace.
PS3561.N68 S4
Letter, John Knowles to William Peden, 18 August 1959
La Farge, Oliver. Behind the Mountains.
F801.L23 1956
Publisher's review copy slip
Leavitt, David. Family Dancing.
PS3562.E2618 F3 1984
Remnick, David. "Critics Nominate Doerr, Leavitt Books." Washington Post 13 December 1984, n.p.
Notecard with manuscript notes.
Newspaper advertisement.
Leskov, Nikolai. Selected Tales.
PG3337.L5 A25 1961
Salisbury, Harrison. "The Story is Russia." NYTBR 10 September 1961, n.p.
Lessing, Doris. The Habit of Loving.
PR6023.E833 H3 1957
Publisher's review copy slip
Lessing, Doris. This Was the Old Chief's Country.
PR6023.E833 T4 1953
Newspaper advertisement.
Lowry, Malcolm. Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place.
PR6023.O96 H4 1961
Publisher's biographical note on Malcolm Lowry
Publisher's press release
Newspaper advertisement
McAlmon, Robert. A Hasty Bunch.
PS3525.A1143 H3 1977
Publisher's review copy slip
MacLaverty, Bernard. Secrets and Other Stories.
PR6063.A2474 S4 1984
Publisher's press release
Lehman, David. "A Silver Age of Short Stories." Newsweek 14 January 1985, 68-70.
Madden, David. The Shadow Knows.
PS3563.A339 S4 1970
Newspaper clipping, unknown source.
Malamud, Bernard. Stories of Bernard Malamud.
PS3563.A4 A6 1983
Prescott, Peter S. "Malamud: 'A Universal Writer.'" Newsweek 31 March 1986, 78.
Malamud, Bernard. Rembrandt's Hat.
PS3563.A4 R4 1973
Manuscript notes.
Marlett, Melba. The Frightened Ones.
PS3525.A628 F7 1956
Publisher's review copy slip
Matheson, Richard. The shrinking man a gold medal original.
PS3563.A8355 S57
Letter, Richard Matheson to William Peden, 8 June 1956
Mayes, Herbert R. (ed.). Editor's choice; 26 modern short stories from
Good Housekeeping.
PN6120.2 G6 1956
Publisher's review copy slip
Menaker, Daniel. Friends and Relations.
PS3563.E46 F7 1976
Peden, William. Book review. Typescript.
Metcalf, John (ed.). Making it New: Contemporary Canadian Stories.
PR.9197.32 M34 1982
Letter, Leon Rooke to William Peden, 3 September 1982
Rough draft of comment on Making It New with manuscript corrections, undated
Letter, Leon Rooke to William Peden, 12 December 1982
Letter, William Peden to Leon Rooke, undated
Michaels, Leonard. I Would Have Saved Them if I Could.
PS3563.I28 I2 1975
Publisher's review copy slip
Michaels, Leonard. "Anything Might Influence Me." NYTBR 9 August 1981, 3.
Miguéis, José Rodrigues. Steerage and Ten Other Stories.
PQ8261.M568 A254 1983
Publisher's review copy slip
Moss, Howard. The Poet's Story.
PS648.S5 M6 1973
Publisher's review copy slip
Publisher's press release
Nabokov, Victor. Nabokov's dozen; a collection of thirteen stories.
PS 3527.A15 A15 1958
Invitation to the presentation of the National Medal for Literature to Victor Nabokov, 16 April 1974
Norman, Gurney. Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories.
PS3564.O57 1977
Letter, William Peden to Gurney Norman , 1 May 1984
O'Connor, Flannery. Everything that rises must converge.
PS3565.C57 E85 1965
Postcard, Tom Hawkins to William Peden, 1980
Postcard, William Peden to Sally Peden, 1958
O'Hara, John. Selected Stories.
PS3529.H29 A6 1956
Publisher's review copy slip
Oates, Joyce Carol. The Goddess and Other Women.
PS3565.A8 G6 1974
Postcard, George Core to William Peden, 12 December 1974
Letter, William Peden to George Core, 30 December 1974
Letter, George Core to William Peden, 3 January 1975
Olsen, Tillie. Tell me a riddle.
PS3565.L82 T45 1961
Letter, Tillie Olsen to William Peden, n.d.
Paley, Grace. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute.
PS3566.A46 E5 1974
Newspaper advertisement
Shapiro, Laura. "Handcrafted Fictions." Newsweek 15 April 1985, 91.
Notecard with manuscript notes.
Invitation to public lecture and readings
Pritchett, V.S. Selected Stories.
PR6031.R7 A6 1979
Letter, Joy F. Shaw to William Peden, 12 June 1979
Roth, Phillip. Goodbye Columbus.
PS3568.O855 G6 1959
Publisher's review copy slip
Samuel, Edwin. His Celestial Highness.
PR6037.A6 H5 1968
Publisher's review copy slip
Sansom, William. Lord Love Us.
PR6037.A75 L6 1954
Letter, Ronald Tobias to William and Margaret Peden, n.d.
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1959
PS648.S5 S37 1959
Publisher's review copy slip
Schwarzchild, Bettina. The Not-Right House.
PS3531.U426 Z85 1968
Publisher's review copy slip
Letter, Bettina Schwarzchild to William Peden, 17 March 1969
Seager, Allan. The Old Man of the Mountain.
PS3537.E123 O5 1950
Publisher's review copy slip
Selzer, Richard. Rituals of Surgery.
PS3569.E585 R5 1974
Publisher's synopsis and short bio
Seventeen from Seventeen.
PS648.S5 R6 1967
Publisher's review copy slip
Shacochis, Bob. Easy in the islands.
PS3569.H284 E27 1985
Christmas card
Christmas card signed Bob and Cat, undated
Letter, Milton Glick to William Peden, 25 November 1985
Todd, Russell G. "Hemingway Clone: Queasy in the Islands," The Asian Wall Street Journal, undated.
Postcard, signed Bob, to Bill and Margaret Peden
Gray, Paul. "Paradise Lost," Time 18 February 1985, 100.
Fein, Cheri. "Free, White and Hairy-Chested," NYTBR, n.d., n.p. Newspaper clipping.
Manuscript notes on Easy in the Islands, one page.
Shaw, T.E. The Odyssey of Homer.
PA4025.A5 L3 1932A
Letter, A.W. Shaw to whom it may concern, June 1975
"Lawrence's Own 'Epitaph.'" Source unknown.
Sholokhov, Mikhail. One Man's Destiny.
PG3476.S52 S53 1967
Publisher's review copy slip
Sholokhov, Mikhail. Fierce and Gentle Warriors.
PG3476.S52 F5 1967
Publisher's review copy slip
Short Story.
PS645.S5 S43
Publisher's review copy slip
Silvis, Randall. The Luckiest Man in the World.
PS3569.I47235 L8 1984
Publisher's review copy slip
Publisher's press release
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Short Friday.
PJ5129.S49 S4 1964
Newspaper advertisement
Sneider, Vern. A Long Way from Home.
PS3537.N28 L6 1956
Publisher's review copy slip
Stafford, Jean. The Collected Stories.
PS3569.T2 A15 1969
Clipping, "The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford," NYTBR 29 April 1984, n.p.
Giroux, Robert. "Hard Years and 'Scary Days': Remembering Jean Stafford." NYTBR 10 June 1984, 3+.
Newspaper clipping, "Everything Human was Alien." unknown source.
Stafford, Jean. "An Etiquette for Writers." 1952 Writer's Conference in the Rocky Mountains, University of Colorado.
Steele, Wilbur Daniel. The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele.
PS3537.T2787 A15 1946
Picture and short bio of author
Stegner, Wallace. The Women on the Wall.
PS3537.T316 W6 1948
New book notice, source unknown.
Publisher's review copy slip
Peden, William. "Wallace Stegner." Proofs from unknown publication.
Stegner, Wallace (ed.). Twenty Years of Stanford Short Stories.
PS648.S5 S7 1966
Card, "Sent with the compliments of the editors."
Stern, James. The Man Who Was Loved.
PS3537.T424 M3 1951
Front cover of dustjacket and inside flap with photo and bio of author
Story: The Magazine of the Short Story in Book Form
PN6120.2.S73 (1951) no. 1
Card, "With all the best wishes for the holiday season"
The Story Today, 1966-67
PN6120.2 S7 1967
Publisher's review copy slip
Straus, Dorothea. Palaces and Prisons.
PS3569.T6918 Z52 1976
Letter, Dorothea Straus to William Peden, 22 December 1976
Straus, Dorothea. Showcases.
CT275.S8812 A29 1975
Newspaper advertisement for Under the Canopy by Dorothea Straus
Stuart, Jesse. My Land Has a Voice.
PS3537.T92516 M9 1966
NYTBR 19 August 1984, 11-12.
Publisher's review copy slip
Sullivan, Nancy. The History of the World as Pictures.
PS3569.U35 H5
"Poet Succeeds with First Volume," source unknown.
Taylor, Peter. Collected Stories.
PS3539.A9633 A15 1969
TLS 23 August 1985, 923-26.
Letter, Armon Yanders to William Peden, 24 April 1970
Letter, Roger W. Straus to William Peden, 12 May 1970
Letter, Robert Giroux to William Peden, 5 May 1970
Thomas, Dylan. Adventures in the Skin Trade.
PR6039.H52 A2 1955
Notes, typescript. 2 pages.
Thomas, Dylan. Quite Early One Morning.
PR6039.H52 A6 1954
Publisher's catalogue description of Collected Stories by Dylan Thomas
"Notes and Comment" from "The Talk of the Town." The New Yorker 29 March 1982, 39-40.
Christmas card, 1984
Thurber, James. The World of John McNulty.Publisher's review copy slip
Tuohy, Frank. The Admiral and the Nuns.
PR6070.U5 A72 1962
Cantor, Jay. Review of The Collected Stories of Frank Tuohy. Unknown source.
Prescott, Peter S. "The Whiplash Effect." Newsweek 4 February 1985, 78.
Walser, Robert. Selected Stories.
PT2647.A64 A25 1982
Publisher's press release
Notecard with notes
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. Kingdoms of Elfin.
PR6045.A812 K5 1977
Publisher's review copy slip
Letter, Joy F. Shaw to William Peden
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. The Innocent and the Guilty.
PR6045.A812 I5 1971
"The Good Witch of the West." NYR 18 July 1984, 27-29.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. Winter in the Air.
PR6045.A812 W5 1956
Duchene, Anne. "Witty and Well-Mannered." TLS 24 August 1984, 955.
Clipping, note for One Thing Leading to Another
Newspaper advertisement
NYTBR 17 January 1982, 9-10.
"Books." The New Yorker 30 May 1983, 98-101.
FF 24. Welty, Eudora. The Eye of the Story.
PS3545.E6 E9 1977
Drafts and notes for book review
Williams, Tennessee. Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed.
PS3545.I5365 E4 1974
Letter, Griselda Channessian to William Peden, 19 June 1974
Invitation to Gotham Book Mart meeting with Tennessee Williams
Postcard, announcement for conference on Tennessee Williams
Price, Reynolds. "His Battle Cry Was 'Valor!'" source unknown. Newspaper clipping.
Hobson, Harold. "Peccadilloes." TLS 18 May 1984, 552.
Newspaper advertisement
Newspaper advertisement, TLS 18 May 1984, n.p.
Wilson, Edmund. Memoirs of Hecate County.
PS3545.I6245 M4 1959
Cowley, Malcolm. "Hecate County Revisited." NYTBR 8 June 1980, 11+.
Winter's Tales.
PN6120.2 .W56
Telegram, Raymond Walters to William Peden, 3 December 1957
Miscellaneous Correspondence from unknown books.
Letter, [illegible signature] to William Peden, Writers and Their Work Letterhead, 18 October 1972
Postcard, Fred McKinney to William Peden, n.d.
Postcard, Jane Morrel to William Peden, 1973
Postcard, Jane Morrel to William Peden, n.d.
Letter, Martha to Bev, 27 February 1991
Letter, Bill and Kate to Bill, 24 November 1977
Postcard, Martha Sherwood Johnson to William Peden, 1963
Letter, Martha Sherwood Johnson to William Peden, n.d.
Letter, Mike to William and Margaret Peden, 9 March 1984
Letter, Sandi Enders to Wiliam Peden, 18 October 1981
Letter, William Peden to Sandi Enders, 28 October 1981
Letter, Eve Shelnutt to William Peden, 6 March 1986
Letter, William Peden to Eve Shelnutt, 13 March 1986
Letter, Thorpe Menn to William Peden, 21 May 1974
Telegram, Raymond Walters, Jr. to William Peden, 14 August 1959
Telegram, Raymond Walters, Jr. to William Peden, 23 July 1959
FF 26. Miscellaneous Ephemera.
Abrahams, William (ed.). Prize Stories 1976. Publisher's review copy slip
Abrahams, William (ed.). Prize Stories 1974. Publisher's review copy slip
Abrahams, William (ed.). Prize Stories 1968. Publisher's review copy slip
Jack Conroy Day announcement
Whitman, Alden. "Jack Conroy's common folk, warts and all, return in 32 stories." Chicago Tribune 25 August 1985, 33. Photocopy.
Letter, Doug Wixson to William Peden, n.d.
Foley, Martha (ed.). Fifty best American short stories, 1915-1965. 1961.
"Best of the Year." New York Post 3 September 1961, magazine page 11.
Watson, Richard. "Fine Harvest of Short Stories." Washington Post, n.d., n.p.
Foley, Martha (ed.). Best American Short Stories of 1956. Publisher's review copy slip
Article about Jean Reti Forbes from The Leader Post News and Notes (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) 20 May 1972. Photocopy from microform.
Saroyan, William. This World 10/4 (2 June 1946).
Letter, Faye R. Kensinger to Friends of the Library, 21 May 1981
"William Saroyan dies, cancer victim at 72." Peninsula Times Tribune 18 May 1981, B-2.
Green, Loretta. "Saroyan's friend, cousins remember the early days." Peninsula Times Tribune 19 May 1981, C-5.
"The World's Too Lovely." Time 10 June 1946, n.p.
Letter, Carol Saroyan to Mrs. Weeks, 27 February 1946
Letter, Carol Saroyan to Mrs. Weeks, 9 January 1948
Photograph, black-and-white, "Dylan Thomas, 20 Years Old," with manuscript notation: "Given me by Oscar Williams"
Thomas, Dylan. "Conversation about Christmas." Printed at Christmas 1954 for the friends of J. Laughlin and New Directions.
"A Conversation with Peter Taylor." Source unknown. Photocopy.
Paper with signature of William Peden
"Hebrew and Yiddish Legacies - A Symposium." TLS 3 May 1985, n.p.
Proofs for The Best American Short Stories 1969.
NYTBR 22 November 1981, 13-14.
Doubleday & Company review copy slip.
Manuscript notes on Prize Stories 1966. 2 pages.
Old Abilene Gazette Souvenir Newspaper
Father's Day card
Thomas Moore Johnson Collection of Philosophy
Frank Luther Mott Collection of American Best Sellers
William Peden Short Story Collection
University of Missouri Collection
Weinberg Journalists in Fiction Collection
September 11th terrorist attack materials
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