Frederic Dannay Papers



Frederic Dannay Papers

ca.1920-1982

Finding Aid Prepared by Patrick Lawlor

September 2001

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Date Range: ca.1920-1982

Size of Collection: 85 linear ft (ca.25,000 items in 190 boxes).

Date of Acquisition: Gift of Richard and Douglas Dannay, 1985 & 1987

Material on Microfilm: Pearl S. Buck letter; manuscript of "The Glass Village" and "Notes on Wrightsville" are on microfilm

Terms of Access: Available for faculty, students, and researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects

Restrictions on Use or Access: Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts

Location in Stacks: In sequence

Processing Information: Processed by Patrick Lawlor and student assistants

BIB ID: 4079731

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BIOGRAPHY

Born Daniel Nathan in Brooklyn, New York on 20 October 1905, Frederic Dannay and his cousin Manfred B. Lee created Ellery Queen in 1929. In a series of novels starting with The Roman Hat Mystery (1929), The Devil to Pay (1938), Calamity Town (1942), Ten Days' Wonder (1948), Cat of Many Tails (1949), and And On the Eighth Day (1964), Dannay and Lee established Queen as one of the most influential and groundbreaking mystery novelists. The cousins also produced a number of mystery anthologies, as well as publishing the acclaimed Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1941. Manfred B. Lee died in 1971, and Frederic Dannay died in White Plains, New York, on 3 September 1982.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Correspondence, outlines and drafts, manuscripts, letters of agreement, contracts, photographs, artwork, and memorabilia. The collection is divided into two parts: 1. The Frederic Dannay Papers, and 2. Files of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (EQMM).

The Dannay papers consist of extensive correspondence with most of the notable mystery writers of this century, as well as well-known authors who sometimes wrote in that genre: Isaac Asimov; Lawrence Block; Ray Bradbury; Perl S Buck; Edgar Rice Burroughs; James M. Cain; Raymond Chandler; Agatha Christie, etc. Most of the novels and short stories written by Dannay and Lee are represented in manuscript form: "The Roman Hat Mystery;" "Ten Day's Wonder;" "Cat of Many Tails;" "The Scarlet Letters;" "The Glass Village;" "The Player on the Other Side;" "And on the Eighth Day," etc. In addition, there are the manuscripts of books edited by Ellery Queen; manuscripts by Ellery Queen Jr.; scripts by Ellery Queen; poetry by Dannay; contracts between Dannay and Lee, as well as between them both as Ellery Queen and numerous parties. There are also manuscripts by such notables as Jorge Luis Borges; Erskine Caldwell; Raymond Chandler; Agatha Christie; Stanley Ellin; William Faulkner; Dashiell Hammett; O Henry; Nigel Morland; Georges Simenon; Muriel Spark; Julian Symons; Roy Vickers; and Cornell Woolrich.

The second part of this collection is the files of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (EQMM). Containing some 4,600 manuscripts submitted to the magazine over a period of 40 years, it is an unrivaled collection of its kind. Nearly all of the manuscripts have Dannay's msnuscript corrections.

THE FREDERIC DANNAY PAPERS

I. Cataloged Correspondence

Note: For complete entries see volume 1 of the Catalog

1 Alexander, David

1 Allingham, Margery

1 Ambler, Eric

1 Anderson, Fred I.

1 Armstrong, Charlotte

1 Arnott, Noeline

1 Arthur, Mildred

1 Arthur, Robert

1 Ashbaugh, Richard

1 Asimov, Isaac

1 Atkey, Bertram

1 Austin, Margaret

1 Avallone, Michael

1 Bachrach, Sylvia Farnham

1 Bailey, H.C.

1 Baldwin, Faith

1 Ball, John

1 Barker, Shirley

1 Barr, Stephen

1 Barzun, Jacques

1 Baxt, George

1 Beach, Stewart

1 Bell, Josephine

1 Bellamy, Ralph

1 Bennett, Margot

1 Bentley, E.C.

1 Bentley, Phyllis

1 Biggle, Lloyd, Jr.

1 Bingham, John Michael Ward, 7th Baron Clanmorris

1 Blochman, Lawrence

1 Block, Lawrence

1 Boileau, Pierre

1 Bond, Raleigh

1 Boucher, Anthony

1 Bradbury, Ray

1 Brand, Christianna

1 Brande, Anna Janet

1 Brandner, Gary P.

1 Brean, Henry

1 Breen, Jon L.

1 Breit, Harvey

1 Bretnor, Reginald

1 Brittain, William

1 Brough, James C.

1 Brown, Frederic

1 Brown, Wenzell

1 Buck, Pearl S.

1 Burgess, Gelett

1 Burnett, W.R.

1 Burroughs, Edgar Rice

1 Bush, Geoffrey

1 Butler, Gwendoline

2 Cain, James M.

2 Caldwell, Taylor

2 Cameron, Owen

2 Campbell, Oscar J.

2 Canby, Henry Seidel

2 Carr, Albert Z.

2 Carr, John Dickson

2 Caspary, Vera

2 Cave, Hugh

2 Cerf, Bennett

2 Chandler, Raymond

2 Charteris, Leslie

2 Child, Charles B.

2 Christ, Jay Finley

2 Christie, Agatha

2 Ciardi, John

2 Clemens, Cyril

2 Coe, Charles Francis

2 Cohen, Roy Octavus

2 Coles, Manning

2 Cornier, Vincent

2 Costain, T.B.

2 Crane, Frances

2 Creasey, John

2 Crispin, Edmund

2 Crofts, Freeman W.

2 Cronin, A.J.

2 Curtis, Richard

2 Curtiss, Ursula

2 Cushing, Richard Cardinal

2 Daly, Elizabeth

2 Daly, Carroll John

2 Daniels, Harold R.

2 Daniels, Norman

2 Dannay, Frederic

3 Davidson, Avram

3 Davis, Dorothy Salisbury

3 Day-Lewis, Cecil

3 Deal, Borden

3 Dedger, David

3 deFord, Miriam Allen

3 de la Torre, Lillian

3 Detzer, Karl

3 Dewey, Thomas E.

3 Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron

3 Eberhart, Mignon S.

3 Eckels, Robert E.

3 Ellin, Stanley

3 Elston, Ralph Vaughn

3 Erskine, Laurie York

3 Fairman, Paul

3 Ferrars, Elizabeth

3 Fish, Robert L.

3 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

3 Fleming, Joan

3 Francis, Dick

3 Freeling, Nicholas

3 Freeman, C.J.A.

3 Fremlin, Celia

3 Gardner, Erle Stanley

3 Garfield, Brian

3 Garve, Andrew

3 Gilbert, Anthony

3 Gilbert, Elliot L.

3 Gilbert, Michael

3 Godfrey, Peter

3 Golding, Louis

3 Gollancz, Livia

3 Gollancz, Victor

3 Gordon, Arthur

3 Gordon, Richard M.

3 Gores, Joe

3 Goulart, Ron

3 Grant, Richard

3 Green, Charles

3 Greene, L. Patrick

3 Gruber, Frank

3 Gulik, Robert H. van

4 Haggard, Edith

4 Hale, Christopher

4 Halliday, Brett

4 Hammett, Dashiell

4 Harrington, Joyce

4 Harrison, Michael

4 Harvester, Simon

4 Hay, Jacob

4 Haycraft, Howard

4 Hayes, Brian

4 Hecht, Ben

4 Hellman, Lillian

4 Helu, Antonio

4 Highsmith, Patricia

4 Hilton, James

4 Hitchens, Dolores

4 Hoch, Edward D.

4 Hoffman, Banesh

4 Holding, James

4 Holding, Elizabeth Sanxay

4 Honce, Charles

4 Howard, John Hayden

4 Hughes, Dorothy B.

4 Hunter, Evan

4 Huston, John

4 Innes, Michael

4 Jesse, F. Tennyson

4 Jordan, Luis A.

4 Kantor, MacKinlay

4 Keating, H.R.F.

4 Kemelman, Harry

4 Kendrick, Baynard

4 Kenneryly, Mitchell

4 Kersh, Gerald

4 Kiernan, John

4 King, Frank

4 King, Rufus

4 Knowlton, Don

4 Kreymborg, Alfred

4 Krutch, Joseph Wood

4 Kummer, Frederic Arnold

4 la Cour, Tage

4 Lacy, Ed

4 Lathen, Emma

4 Lawrence, Hilda

5 Lee, Manfred B.

5 Lerner, Max

5 Lewis, Richard O.

5 Ley, Willy

5 Lipsky, Eleazar

5 Little, Lou

5 Lochte, Richard S.

5 Lockridge, Frances

5 Lovesey, Peter

5 McConnor, Vincent

5 McCulley, Johnston

5 McCutchan, Philip

5 MacDonald, John D.

5 MacDonald, Philip

5 McGerr, Patricia

5 McGivern, William P.

5 McKelway, St. Clair

5 McNear, Robert

5 Martindale, Robert C.

5 Marsh, Ngaio

5 Masur, Harold Q.

5 Mathieson, Theodore

5 Matsumoto, Seicho

5 Maugham, W. Somerset

5 Mayberry, Florence V.

5 Millar, Kenneth

5 Millay, Edna St. Vincent

5 Miller, Wade

5 Morland, Nigel

5 Morley, Christopher

5 Morrell, David

5 Narcejac, Thomas

5 Nebel, Frederick

5 Nevins, Francis M., Jr.

5 Nielson, Helen

5 Niven, David

5 Norman, Charles

5 Nolan, William

5 Oboler, Arch

6 Pachter, Josh

6 Palmer, Suart

6 Parry, Henry T.

6 Patrick, Q.

6 Paul, Elliot

6 Peirce, J.F.

6 Perelman, Sidney Joseph

6 Perowne, Barry

6 Peterson, Charles Alden

6 Pierce, John

6 Plumb, Jack

6 Pollock, Channing

6 Porcelain, Lidney E.

6 Porges, Arthur

6 Porter, Joyce

6 Powell, James

6 Prather, Richard S.

6 Priestley, J.B.

6 Priestley, John Boynton

6 Prince, Jerome and Harold

6 Pronzini, Bill

6 Quick, Dorothy

6 Rascoe, Burton

6 Rawson, Clayton

6 Reach, Alice Scanlan

6 Redman, Ben Ray

6 Revesz, Etta

6 Rice, Craig

6 Richter, Joan

6 Rinehart, Mary Roberts

6 Roberts, S.C.

6 Robinson, Jackie

6 Rockwell, Norman

6 Rogers, Joel Townsley

6 Rohmer, Sax

6 Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt

6 Rosten, Leo

6 Roth, Holly

6 Rubin, Rick

6 Rukeyeser, Muriel

6 Rutledge, Nancy

6 Salinger, Pierre

6 Serling, Rod

6 Schier, Norma

6 Seeley, Mabel

6 Shellabarger, Samuel

6 Sherwood, Robert E.

6 Shiel, M.P.

6 Shore, Viola Brothers

6 Simenon, Georges

6 Slater, Elaine

6 Slesar, Henry

6 Speed, Jane

6 Spivak, Lawrence E.

6 Starrett, Vincent

6 Steele, Frederic Don

6 Steele, Wilbur Daniel

6 Stoughton, Arthur A.

6 Stout, Rex

6 Stribling, T.S.

6 Sturgeon, Theodore

7 Suter, John

7 Symons, Julian

7 Targ, William

7 Tey, Josephine

7 Thurber, James

7 Treat, Lawrence

7 Tucker, Luttrell

7 Twohy, Robert

7 Tyre, Nedra

7 Ullman, James M.

7 Untermeyer, Louis

7 Updike, John

7 Upfield, Arthur W.

7 Van de Wetering, Janwillem

7 Van Doren, Carl

7 Van Doren, Irita

7 Van Doren, Mark

7 Vickers, Roy

7 Walsh, Thomas

7 Watson, Colin

7 Waugh, Hilary

7 Weiman, Barbara Owens

7 Weir, Charlene M.

7 Wellen, Edward

7 Westlake, Donald E.

7 White, William

7 Whitehall, Joseph

7 Wilde, Percival

7 Wodehouse, P.G.

7 Woolrich, Cornell

7 Wylie, Philip

7 Wyndham, Martyn

7 Yaffe, James

7 Yates, Donald A.

7 Young, Alan K.

II. Cataloged Manuscripts

Note: Alphabetical by author. For a complete description of each manuscript see volume 2 of the printed catalog

Boxes 8-63B:

8 A

To

Christie, Agatha "Death . . ."

9 Christie, Agatha "Double . . ."

To

Dannay, Frederic "The Golden Summer."

10 Dannay, F. "The Golden Summer."

11 Dannay, F. "The Golden Summer."

To

Dannay, F. "A Group of Poems."

12 Dannay, F. "The International Poll to Determine the Ten Best Living Mystery Writers."

See also Box 89 & Box 23A of the EQMM Series following.

13 Dannay, F. "The Macquarries."

14 Dannay, F. "The Macquarries"

To

Dannay, F. "O Lost and Lonely Star."

15 Dannay, F. "O Lost and Lonely Star"

To

de la Torre, Lillian

16 Dower, Yasuko

To

Kyne, Peter B.

17 Lambert, Gerard

To

Perowne, Barry

18 Queen, Ellery "The Adonis . . ."

To

Queen, Ellery "The Adventure of the Four."

20 Queen, Ellery "The Adventure of the Needle's"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Adventure of the Yang Piece."

21 Queen, Ellery "Af"

To

Queen, Ellery "And on the Eighth Day."

22 Queen, Ellery "And on the Eighth Day."

23 Queen, Ellery "And on the Eighth Day"

To

Queen, Ellery "Bi"

24 Queen, Ellery "The Black"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Body"

25 Queen, Ellery      "Br"

To

Queen, Ellery "Cam"

26 Queen, Ellery "Camp"

To

Queen, Ellery "Cas"

27 Queen, Ellery     "The Cat on Many Tails."

28 Queen, Ellery     "The Cat of Many Tails."

29 Queen, Ellery     "Cop Out."

30 Queen, Ellery     "Cri"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Crooked Road."

31 Queen, Ellery      "The Crooked Road."

To

Queen, Ellery "De"

32 Queen, Ellery     "Di"

To

Queen, Ellery "Do"

33 Queen, Ellery     "Dr"

To

Queen, Ellery "E"

34 Queen, Ellery "Face to Face."

35 Queen, Ellery "Face to Face"

To

Queen, Ellery "Fat"

36 Queen, Ellery    "A Fine and Private Place"

37 Queen, Ellery "A Fine and Private Place"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Finishing Stroke."

38 Queen, Ellery "The Finishing Stroke."

39 Queen, Ellery "Fir"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Fourth Side of the Triangle."

40 Queen, Ellery "The Fourth Side of the Triangle"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Glass Village."

41 Queen, Ellery "Gr"

To

Queen, Ellery "The House of Brass."

42 Queen, Ellery "The House of Brass"

To

Queen, Ellery "Hu"

43 Queen, Ellery     "Id"

To

Queen, Ellery "Ino"

44 Queen, Ellery     "Int"

To

Queen, Ellery "Its"

45 Queen, Ellery     "J"

To

Queen, Ellery "King"

46 Queen, Ellery     "King"

To

Queen, Ellery "Kr"

47 Queen, Ellery     "Kry"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Last Woman"

48 Queen, Ellery     "The Last Woman"

To

Queen, Ellery "Lo"

49 Queen, Ellery     "Losers"

To

Queen, Ellery "Mu"

50 Queen, Ellery     "Mu"

To

Queen, Ellery "Ob"

51 Queen, Ellery     "The Origin of Evil."

52 Queen, Ellery     "The Origin of Evil"

To

Queen, Ellery "Ou"

53 Queen, Ellery     "The Parisian"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Player on the Other Side."

54 Queen, Ellery     "The Player on the Other Side"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Roman Hat Mystery."

55 Queen, Ellery     Sample permission letters

To

Queen, Ellery "The Scarlet Letters."

56 Queen, Ellery     "The Scarlet Letters"

To

Queen, Ellery "A Study in Terror."

57 Queen, Ellery     "Stu"

To

Queen, Ellery "Ten"

58 Queen, Ellery     "Ten Days' Wonder."

59 Queen, Ellery     "Ten Days' Wonder"

To

Queen, Ellery "The Thin Man's Son."

60 Queen, Ellery     "To Vincent Starrett"

To

Queen, Ellery "Where Is Bianca?"

61 Queen, Ellery     "Whe"

To

Queen, Ellery "Who"

62 Queen, Ellery "Who Spies"

To

Queen, Ellery "Wr"

63 Queen, Ellery and Lowell Brentano

To

Queen, Ellery, Jr.

63A Queen, Ellery, Jr. - Si

63B Sk To Y

III. Arranged Correspondence

Note: Arranged by date [Boxes 64-72]

64  1930s-1949

65  1950-1954

66  1955-1959

67  1960-1965

68  1966-1969

69  1970-1973

70  1974-1977

71  1978-1979

72  1980-1982

  

IV. Arranged Manuscripts

Note: Boxes 73-78 & Boxes 89-90

73 Introductions to Department of First Stories and anonymous manuscripts.

89 "The Ten Most Famous Fictional Detectives of all Time"

Hilda Dannay's death: correspondence and funeral registers

The Queen's Awards: 1947 and 1948..galleys, proofs, etc.

90 Miscellaneous notes and signatures collected by Dannay.

74 Photocopies of manuscripts.

75 Photocopies of manuscripts.

76 Fragments of manuscripts.

77 Fragments of manuscripts.

78 Fragments of manuscripts.

V. Documents

--Cataloged and Arranged Documents

Note: Arranged alphabetically [Boxes 79-81]

79 Dannay, Frederic

       2 Jan. 1965 & April 1977

79 Dannay & Lee

       15 Sept. 1931 & 23 Nov. 1953

79 Lee & Dannay

       13 Oct. 1943; 6 March 1946; 2 July 1947; 27 Nov. 1967

79 Wells, Orson

       3 Aug. 1970

79 Contracts, A - F.

80 Contracts, J - N.

81 Contracts P - W.

--Arranged Documents

Note: Arranged chronologically [Boxes 82-87]

82 Documents 1930-1963

83 Documents 1964-1967

84 Documents 1968-1972

85 Documents 1973-1978

86 Documents 1979-1982

87 Documents: ledger books

VI. Artwork and Photographs

Note: Cataloged and arranged

88 Dannay, Frederic

      Photograph

88 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

      Photograph

88 Fletcher, J. S.

      Photograph.

88 Lee, Manfred B.

Photograph.

88 "S. F.”

Photograph

Note: Cartoons with a mystery theme

88 Sayers, Dorothy

Photograph.

88 "The Ten Best Active Mystery Writers of All Time"

Photograph

88 Woolrich, Cornell

Photograph.

88 Arranged photographs and artwork

VII. Printed Materials

Note: Boxes 91-100

91 Printed stories

92 Printed stories.

93 Printed stories.

94 Magazines and booklets.

95 Magazines and booklets.

96 Magazines and booklets.

97 Magazines and booklets.

98 Miscellaneous printed materials.

99 Newspaper clippings.

100 Newspaper clippings.

VIII. Memorabilia

101 Objects and Memorabilia

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Cataloged Manuscripts

Note: This part of the collection comprises 87 Boxes of manuscripts submitted to EQMM from its beginning in 1941 till the early 1980s. Each manuscripts has been cataloged. For a complete alphabetic description if the manuscripts please consult the volumes 2 & 3 of the Catalog at the Reference Desk.

1 A - Am

2 An - Arm

3 Art - Asimov, Isaac "The Phoenician Bauble"

4 Asimov, Isaac "The Phony Ph.D." - Bal

5 Ban - Bark

6 Barr - Bel

7 Ben - Berg

8 Berk - Blockman, Lawrence G. "The Girl with the Burgundy Lips"

9 Blockman, Lawrence G. "Goodbye, Stranger" - Boucher, Anthony "Like Count Palmieri"

10 Boucher, Anthony "A Matter of Scholarship" - Breen, Jon L. "The Babe Ruth Murder Case"

11 Breen, Jon L. "The Body in the Bullpen" - Bret

12 Brig - Brit

13 Bro - Cam

14 Can - Carr, John Dickson "The House in Goblin Wood"

15 Carr, John Dickson "The Jury Box" - Chi

16 Christie, Agatha - Con

17 Col - Cre

18 Cri - Daniels, H.

19 Daniels, N. - Davis, C.

20 Davis, D. - de la Torre, Lillian "The Lost Heir"

21 de la Torre, Lillian "Milady Bigamy" - Di

22 Do - Eckels, Robert Edward "Never Trust a Partner"

23 Eckels, Robert Edward " Nobody Can Win 'em All"

23A Poll: "Who are the Ten Most Famous Fictional Detectives of all Time"?

24 Ellin, Stanley "The Moment of Decision" - Ev

25 Fa - Fish, Robert L. "Adventure of the Snared Drummer"

26 Fish, Robert L. “Advenure of the Spectacled Band” – Fl

27 Fo – Gard

28 Garf, Gilbert E.

29 Gilbert, Michael “A” to “O”

30 Gilbert, Michael “P” to “Z”

31 Gordon, R. – Gre

32 Gren – Hare

33 Harrington-Harrison

34 Hart – Heidenfeld W. “Bread, Bacon, Pease and’ Tea”

35 Heidenfeld W. “Moonshine” – Hoch, Ed “Captain Leopold Bloom Looks for the Cause”

36 Hoch, Ed “Captain Leopold Bloom on the Spot” – “I”

37 Hoch, Ed “K” – “So”

38 Hoch, Ed “Sp”

39 Hoch, Ed “Th”

40 Hoch, Ed “Tr”

41 Hoding, James “The Photographer and the Policeman” – Huns

42 Hunt – In

43 Ir – Johns

44 Johnson – Kem, B.

45 Kemelman – King, P.

46 King, R. – Kn

47 Ko – Lei

48 Len – Ly

49 Maca – McDonald, J.

50 Mcdonald, P. - McM

51 McN – Mar

52 Mas – Mayberry, Florence V. “The Girl Downstairs”

53 Mayberry, Florence V. “Good Night, Sweet” – Mon

54 Moo – Nas

55 Nat – Nib

56 Nie – Ols

57 Oly – Pall

58 Palm – Pas

59 Pat – Pentecost, Hugh “Chambrum Gets the Message”

60 Pentecost, Hugh “Chambrum Plays it Coll” – Jericho and the Painting Clue”

61 Pentecost, Hugh “Jericho and the Sea of Faces” – Pere

62 Pero – Pete

63 Petr – Pop

64 Por – Powell, James “Pocketful on Noses”

65 Powell, James “The Policeman’s Whereabouts” – Pu

66 Q

67 Ra

68 Re – Ren

69 Req – Ri

70 Ro – Ry

71 Sa – See

72 Seg – Si

73 Sk – Spa

74 Spe – Ste

75 Sti – Stu

76 Su – Sy

77 Ta – Tra

78 Tre

79 Tro – Ty

80 U – Vickers, Roy “A” to “F”

81 Vickers, Roy “I” to “Y”

82 Wal – Wat

83 We – Wig

84 Wil – Wy

85 X – Ye

86 Yo - Z

Arranged EQMM Manuscripts

87 Breen, Jon L.

"The Jury Box"

      2 folders

87 Carr, John Dixon

      "The Jury Box"

      4 folders

87 Penzler, Otto

"Crime Dossier"

      6 folders

87 Porter, R. E.

      "Crime Beat"

      3 folders

87 Steinbrunner, Chris

      "Bloody Visions"

      2 folders

87 Miscellaneous

      1 folder

87 Book reviews

      1 folder

87 Indices and Table of Contents

1 folder

87 Dannay, Frederic

      Notes

      1 folder

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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