Box 1: Writings, Correspondence, Work-Related Papers

Writings

The Royal Telephone: An Original Play in Three Acts
Typed original.

Master’s thesis for Columbia University, ca. 1952-1953.

Includes Rodeheaver’s Gospel Solos and Duets.  Compiled by Y. P. Rodeheaver.  Winona Lake, Indiana: The Rodeheaver-Hall-Mack Co., 1925, with the song “The Royal Telephone” by F. M. Lehman.

"Struttin’ with Some Barbeque"
Typed original, dated 11 September 1951.

4 handwritten pages.

Photocopy (from The Best American Short Stories 1953).

Short story first published in New World Writing (1953).

Subsequently published in The Best American Short Stories 1953, ed. Martha Foley (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953) and Lilliput (United Kingdom).

T.V. adaptation on CBS’s "Danger" series in the mid-1950s (note from Down Beat 4 April 1956, page 4: the episode was titled "Road Happy.")

[Information on publications taken from handwriting on photocopy of thestory.]

Sideman, Chapter 9
Typed original.

[Front of folder reads "Deleted ‘in toto and intact’ from Published version of Sideman"]

Two Short Stories:
"Madonna with El Greco Eyes" (one typed original, one photocopy)

"The Male Rose" (one photocopy)

"The Male Rose"
Two typed originals.

"Felon Not Engaged Blues"
Typed original, dated 16 January 1952, another typed original but not dated, and one draft.

"Oh, Jazz Oh, Jazz"
Typed original.

"Oh, Jazz, Oh, Jazz"
Notes, typed original.

Published as "Oh Jazz, Oh Jazz" in Eddie Condon’s Favorite Jazz Stories (1957).

"Big Foot Country"
Typed original, draft (typed and handwritten), two photocopies of published story.

Published in Southwest Review (Winter 1962)

"Imogene"
Handwritten draft on letter-size yellow legal pad, dated 2 April 1983

One sheet unlabeled (starts: "Tantrums of ‘Why can’t I, Mommy, why?’")
Typed, in clear protective sleeve.

Back reads "New York--Village about 1957-58."

  

Three-Ring Binder with information about Duke’s publications:

Four pages of WorldCat results (libraries containing the book Sideman)
Three Down Beat issues regarding Sideman:


Vol. 23, No. 7 (4 April 1956): p.4,"Sidemen’s Novel Aptly Named."


Vol. 23, No. 10 (16 May 1956): p. 35, review by Nat Hentoff.


Vol. 23, No. 15 (25 July 1956), advertisement for the book
Criterion Books Spring 1956 Brochure (two brochures)
Criterion Books Fall 1956 Brochure (one brochure)
Reviews, a photo, correspondence, journal entries, and other papers.


95 reviews and press releases (clippings from newspapers; photocopies)


45 pages of correspondence


6 Curriculum vitae


Two typed copies of "Struttin’ with Some Barbeque"


13 pages of journal entries


Two pages of drawings for Sideman


A copy of the inside of the book jacket for Sideman.


One photograph of Duke
 
 

Correspondence: 59 letters

From Myra Duke to Osborn’s parents (photocopy), dated 4 June 1955.
From Wittenberg, Carrington, and Farnsworth, dated 26 November 1957.
From Institute of Group Psychotherapy, New York, NY (no date)
From Duke, to John K. Smith, English Department, Winsocky University, dated 2 January 1958.
From D. C. Allen, Department of English, The Johns Hopkins University, dated 6 January 1958.
From V. A. Elconin, Chairman, Department of English, University of Oklahoma, dated 6 January 1958.
From Paul Engle, Department of English, State University of Iowa, dated 6 January 1958.
From Nolan Miller, Chair of the Department of Literature, Antioch College, dated 6 January 1958. 
From Charles E. Ward, Chairman of the Department of English, Duke University, dated 6 January 1958.
From John Lee Brooks, Chairman of the Department of English, Southern Methodist University, dated 7 January 1957 [postmark indicates1958]
From Charles M. Hudson, Chairman of the English Department, University of Missouri, dated 7 January 1958.
From Ward Pafford, Chairman of the Department of English, Emory University, dated 7 January 1958.
From Floyd Stovall, Chairman of the Department of English, University of Virginia, dated 7 January 1958.
From Forrest G. Murdock, President of El Camino College, dated 8 January 1958.
From J. D. A. Ogilvy, Chairman of the Department of English and Speech, University of Colorado, dated 8 January 1958.
From Solomon Fishman, Chairman of the Department of English, Dramatic Art, and Speech, University of California at Davis, dated 9 January 1958.
From James E. Phillips, Chairman of the Department of English, University of California at Los Angeles, dated 9 January 1958.
From Ralph Prator, President, Bakersfield College, dated 9 January 1958.
From Wallace Stegner, Department of English, Stanford University, dated 9 January 1958.
From Hoyt Trowbridge, Chairman of the Department of English Language and Literature, University of New Mexico, dated 9 January 1958.
From Charles T. Harrison, Professor of English, The University of the South, dated 10 January 1958.
From Desmond Powell, Head of the Department of English, University of Arizona, dated 10 June 1958.
From Duke, to Paul Engle, Department of English, State University of Iowa, dated 13 January 1958 (2 copies).
From Duke, to Floyd Stovall, Department of English, University of Virginia, dated 13 January 1958 (also included is a draft of the letter).
From S. S. Morgan, Head of the Department of English, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, dated 13 January 1957 [postmark indicates 1958]
From Elizabeth Marie Pope, Chairman of the Department of English, Mills College, dated 13 January 1958.
From Lloyd E. Worner, Dean of the College, Colorado College, dated 13 January 1958.
From Woodrow W. Boyett, Acting Head of the Department of English, University of Alabama, dated 14 January 1958.
From J. W. Olmsted, Chairman of the Division of Humanities, University of California at Riverside, dated 14 January 1958.
From C. A. Robertson, Chairman of the Department of English, University of Florida, dated 14 January 1958.
Undated notes for a letter to the University of Florida.
From W. D. Templeman, Head of the English Department, University of Southern California, dated 15 January 1958.
From C. Dwight Dorough, Associate Dean and Chairman of the Department of English, dated 16 January 1958.
From Paul Engle, Department of English, State University of Iowa, dated 17 January 1958.
From Oregon State System of Higher Education, dated 17 January 1958. Unopened.
From Richard H. Fogle, Head of the Department of English, Tulane University, dated 20 January 1958.
From W. D. Templeman, Head of the Department of English, University of Southern California, dated 22 January 1958.
From Mody C. Boatright, Chairman of the Department of English, University of Texas, dated 24 January 1958.
From Paul Engle, Department of English, State University of Iowa, dated 26 January 1958.
From Department of English, University of Virginia, dated 27 January 1958. Empty envelope.
From Columbia University, dated 28 January 1958. Postcard invitation to a University Tea on 14 February 1958.
From Duke, to W. D. Templeman, Department of English, University of Southern California, dated 4 February 1958. Draft of a letter.
From Paul Engle, Department of English, State University of Iowa, dated 14 February 1958.
From T. C. Crenshaw, Chairman of the Department of English, Texas Christian University, dated 5 March 1958.
From Thomas A. Kirby, Head of the Department of English, Louisiana State University, dated 5 March 1958.
From Edward Stone, Chairman of the Department of English, Ohio University, dated 5 March 1958.
From W. S. Ward, Head of the Department of English, Speech, and Dramatic Arts, University of Kentucky, dated 5 March 1958.
From Floyd Stovall, Chairman of the Department of English, University of Virginia, dated 8 March 1958.
From Duke, to Paul Engle, Department of English, State University of Iowa, dated 12 March 1958.
From Duke, to Floyd Stovall, Department of English, University of Virginia, dated 12 March 1958.
From Paul Engle, Department of English, State University of Iowa, dated 15 March 1958.
From Georges de Garmont, dated 19 January 1959.
From Duke, to Ken Casner, Executive Director of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, dated 6 January 1976.
From Lawrence Brown, dated 28 January 1985.
From Dr. Stephen C. Anderson, Associate Professor of Trombone at the University of Kansas, dated 31 July 1985.
From Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, no date (written during 1986, after September 6).
From Bill Harrison, dated 3 December 1989.
From Beth Berg, dated 11 March 1994.
Signed "Louie," no date.
  

Work Papers

Descant 3, no. 2 (1959)
Texas Christian University Literary Journal

Writings and Background: Dr. Paul Dinkins
Correspondence 
1. From Paul Dinkins? To Betsy and Landon, dated 24 August 1956.  Incomplete letter.

2. From Osborn Duke to Miss Aldridge, dated 8 September 1956.

3. From Garland Greever, dated 22 October 1958.

4. From Leonard Unger, dated 11 November 1958.

5. From Garland Greever, dated 20 November 1958.

6. Signed "Bob," dated 22 December 1958.

7. From Osborn Duke to Garland Greever, dated 6 February 1959.

8. From Harry Goldgar, dated 26 February 1959.

9. From Alice Foley Yarish, dated 23 March 1959.

Includes an essay titled "My Aquaintance [sic] with Dinkins..."

10.From J. S. Hartin, dated 22 June 1959.

12  pages (various sizes) of notes


Creative Writing Contests of the English Department: Prize Winning Entries (Texas Christian University, May 1955); Dedicated to the memory of Paul Dinkins (1913-1954)


Publications
1. Human Relationships in the Middle English Romances: A Summary of a Thesis (Submitted 1943), Private edition (Nashville: The Joint University Libraries, 1944).

Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

2. "Katherine Mansfield: The Ending" Southwest Review 38 (1953): 203-210.

3. Descant 3, no. 1 (1958): The Paul Dinkins Memorial Issue

A brief biography and selections from his writings.

Writings (typed)
1. "Katherine Mansfield: An Introduction" (prose)

2. "Souvenir of Euterpe" (prose)

3. "The Birthday" (prose)

4. "Pastoral" (prose)

5. "Aestheticism and the Protestant College: Preserving Things Which Must Be Preserved" (prose)

6. "Indian Poetry" (prose)

7. "Song" (poem) (ca. 1934-36)

8. Three Untitled Poems (ca. 1934-35)

Summary of B-58 Accomplishments, April 1963
Inside reads: "Champion of Champions" Shooting Script

"Champion of Champions" film script signed by Jimmy Stewart with corrections
Office of Pardons and Paroles; Work with Selma Wells

Memorial Service program for Selma Wells.


Letter from Richard Fortenberry (photocopy), dated 10 December 1975.


Letter from Paul F. Cromwell, Jr. (photocopy), dated 10 December 1976; letter of recommendation addressed "To Whom It May Concern."


Draft of script about promotion of Judith Harris Brown.


Script for the "Dedication of the William T. Moore State Office Building of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles" read by Governor Dolph Briscoe in Huntsville, Texas, on 16 September 1976.


Letter from Mrs. Dolph Briscoe, dated 23 September 1976.


"Speech for Senator Moore" (no date)


Script for "Parole and Public Accountability" for the First Lady’s Volunteer Program read by Clyde Whiteside, Chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, on 9 June 1976 (no location given).


"The Role of the Criminal Justice System in Alcoholic Problems" for the Third Annual Institute on Alcohol Studies of the Costal Bend Region,” read by Selma Wells, Member, Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in Corpus Christi, Texas, on 27-28 April 1976.


Two Memorial Service programs for Selma Wells.


"Noted black leader dies," Associated Press article from the Austin American-Statesman (no date)


Letter from Mary Kuenstler to Glenda (photocopy) with handwritten note to Osborn Duke at the bottom.  Transcript of a tape recorded story by Wells is attached (photocopy)


"The Way to Go..."  Read by Selma Wells, Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, at the University of Houston, on 30 April 1976.


"The Role of the Criminal Justice System in Alcoholic Problems" for the Third Annual Institute on Alcohol Studies of the Costal Bend Region.  Read by Selma Wells, Member, Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in Corpus Christi, Texas, on 27-28 April 1976.


Sonny Wells: New Directions Club, Inc. Transcription of audio portion of video cassette recorded January 1974.


"Let’s Talk with Selma: Day at Our House," by Selma Wells (photocopy, no publication information).

Texas Journal of Corrections: Official Journal of the Texas Corrections Association 2., no. 5 (March 1976)

Employment Information

Letter from Paul F. Cromwell, Jr. (photocopy), dated 10 December 1976.


Resume (1958)


Resume (after 1972)


Resume (ca. 1980?)


Job application for Austin Community College, dated 28 April 1980 (photocopy)


Transcript from Texas Christian University (photocopy)


Transcript from Columbia University (photocopy)


Transcript from North Texas State Teachers College (photocopy)