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Series 2: Short stories and novelettes

Box 70 NB 1 Typed Manuscript of novelette, The Avenues of Escape
  NB 2 Typed manuscript copy of novelette, Before I Wake
  NB 3 Typed manuscript of novelette, The Big Tons
  NB 4 Typed manuscript copy of novelette, The Black Pebbles
  NB 5 Typed manuscript copy of novelette, Circulation Feature
Box 71 NB 1 Typed manuscript copy of novelette, The Dark Soul, (retitled To Find a Life Together)
  NB 2 Typed manuscript copy of novelette, The Hand of Yesterday
  NB 3 Typed manuscript copy of novelette, The Least Gift
  NB 4 Typed manuscript copy of novelette, Obsession Island
  NB 5 Typed manuscript copy of novelette, The Odds Against Marriage
Box 72 NB 1 Typed manuscript copy of novelette, Paper Wings
  NB2 Typed manuscript of novelette, A Question of Fidelity
  NB 3 Typed manuscript of novelette, Such Words as These
  NB 4 Typed manuscript of novelette, Travel at Your Own Risk
  NB 5 Typed manuscript of novelette, Wanted -- A Daughter-in-Law
  NB 6 Typed manuscript of novelette, Washington Brat
  NB 7 Typed manuscript of novelette, Yesterday's Wedding, retitled The Mountain Route
Box 73 FF 1 Typed manuscript copy and holograph of short story, "The Amber Light," plus correspondence
  FF 2 Typed manuscript of short story,"The Boom of the Bomb"
  FF 3 Typed manuscript of short story, "Break-off"
  FF 4 Typed manuscript of short story, "City of the Holy Faith"
  FF 5 Typed manuscript of short story, "Collision"
  FF 6 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Dark Gift"
  FF 7 Typed manuscript of short story, "Do No Evil"
  FF 8 Typed manuscript of short story, "Do You Remember"
  FF 9 Typed manuscript of short story, "Emily Griffith"
  FF 10 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Eyeball Bikini"
  FF 11 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Fiction Factory"
  FF 12 Typed manuscript of short story, "Flashback"
  FF 13 Typed manuscript of short story, "For Divers Reasons"
  FF 14 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Golden Wand"
  FF 15 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Great God, DAM"
  FF 16 Typed manuscript of short story, "Gypsy Money"
  FF 17 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Heroes All Had Horses"
  FF 18 Typed manuscript of short story, "The High Altitudes"
  FF 19 Typed manuscript of short story, "The High Places"
Box 74 FF 1 Typed manuscript of short story, "I Wouldn't Co-operate with the G-Men" (Pseudonym-Captain Edmund Barr)
  FF 2 Typed manuscript of essay, "In Defense of Rape"
  FF 3 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Issue of Infidelity"
  FF 4 Typed manuscript of short story, "Last Night"
  FF 5 Typed manuscript of essay, "The Living Character"
  FF 6 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Long Step Away"
  FF 7 Typed manuscript and holograph of short story, "The Lump"
  FF 8 Typed manuscript of short story, "Man's Image"
  FF 9 Typed manuscript copy of short story, "A Matter of Money"
  FF 10 Typed manuscript of short story, "A Matter of Paper Work"
  FF 11 Typed manuscript of short story, "A Matter of Spirit"
  FF 12 Typed manuscript of short story, "A Matter of Tradition"
  FF 13 Typed manuscript of short story, "Memoir"
  FF 14 Typed manuscript of short story, "Mission in Wyoming"
  FF 15 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Morning of November Fourth"
  FF 16 Typed manuscript of short story, "My Sister's Keeper"
  FF 17 Typed manuscript of short story, "Old Goat's Tale"
  FF 18 Typed manuscript of short story, "People Marry Strangers"
  FF 19 Typed manuscript of short story, "Point of View"
  FF 20 Typed Manuscript of short story, "A Pool There Was"
  FF 21 Typed manuscript of essay, "Roses for a Lady"
  FF 22 Typed manuscript of essay, "Santa Fe and Taos"
  FF 23 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Second Doorstep"
  FF 24 Typed manuscript of short story, "Stranger on the Way"
  FF 25 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Temple Thing"
  FF 26 Typed manuscript of short story, "Twelve to One"
Box 75 FF 1 Typed manuscript of short story, "Velma"
  FF 2 Typed manuscript of short story, "Watch in the Night"
  FF 3 Typed manuscript of short story, "Water"
  FF 4 Typed manuscript of short story, "The Way to Handle Women"
  FF 5 Typed manuscript of short story, "A Woman in the Wings"
  FF 6 Typed manuscript copies of variations of articles, "Let's Take a Look at Denver," also the printed magazine version
  FF 7 Typed manuscript of article, "Keep Your Convicts or Make Citizens Out of Them," plus related letter
  FF 8 Typed manuscript of article, "I Bequeath One Half Million Dollars"
  FF 9 Newspaper copy of the poem, "The Beat"
  NB 1 Typed manuscripts and holographs of the short stories, "The Long Night," and "Everything is Tomorrow"
  NB 2 Proceedings of the Conference on Morals and Ethics Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1953, plus relevant correspondence
Box 76   The American Magazine, November 1932, pp. 48-49, 114; containing short story, "I've Got Nine Dollars"
    Liberty Magazine, May 1936, p. 36; containing short story, "The Swimmer"
    Liberty Magazine, September 1936, p. 21; containing short story, "The Man Who Stayed Home"
    Liberty Magazine, November 1937, p. 23; containing short story, "Shanghai Movement"
    Redbook, October 1941, pp. 38-41, 78-80; containing short story, "Salute"
    Redbook, November 1941, pp. 50-53, 93-95; containing short story, "Sergeants Never Miss"
    Blue Book, December 1941, pp. 47-52; containing short story, "The Talisman"
    Blue Book, February 1942, pp. 2-7; containing short story, "Rendezvous in Scotland"
    The Family Circle, December 1943, pp. 3, 16; containing short story, "The Personal Touch"
    American magazine, October 1944, pp. 38-39, 11-114; containing short story, "Heaven is a Man's World"
    Life Story magazine, January 1945, pp. 17-18, 96-99; containing short story, "The Frivolous Type"
    Cosmopolitan magazine, June 1947, pp. 24-25, 100-103; containing short story, "The Last Wedding"
    Cosmopolitan magazine, December 1947, pp. 62-63, 140-144; containing short story, "Christmas is So Expensive"
Box 77   Cosmopolitan magazine, February 1948, pp. 66, 118-121; containing short story, "Wrong Girl"
    Redbook magazine, February 1948, pp. 28-31, 106, 110; containing short story, "Her Mother's Daughter"
    American magazine, March 1948, p. 58; containing short story, "Ladies Man"
    Redbook magazine, May 1948, pp. 38-41, 107-109; containing short story, "It's the Men Who Need Advice"
    Redbook magazine, November 1948, pp. 42-45, 99-102; containing short story, "The Perfect Minute"
    American Magazine, January 1949, pp. 48-50, 126-127; containing short story, "Beginning Tonight"
    Redbook magazine, May 1949, pp. 26-27, 72-76; containing short story, "A Woman's Pride"
    Redbook magazine, November 1949, pp. 38-40, 89-92; containing short story, "The Wives of Men"
    American magazine, February 1950, pp. 48-49, 114-118; containing short story, "The Lady Needed Clothes"
    Today's Woman magazine, July 1950, pp. 47, 118-125; containing short story, "Pilgrimage"
    Redbook magazine, April 1951, pp. 26, 68-71; containing short story, "The Last Night"
    Redbook magazine, November 1951, pp. 41-42, 95-99; containing short story, "Stranger on the Way"
    Redbook magazine, August 1952, pp. 50-51, 78-81; containing short story, "A Matter of Money"
    Redbook magazine, November 1955, pp. 56-59, 74-79; containing short story, "Victory"
    Redbook magazine, December 1956, pp. 46-47, 84-89; containing short story, "Adventure on the Wing"
    Argosy magazine, November 1961, pp. 58-59, 74-79; containing short story, "Gypsy Money"
    Woman's Day magazine, March 1962, pp. 56-57, 112-113; containing short story, "A Matter of Paper Work"
    Redbook magazine, May 1962, pp. 56-57, 112-113; containing article, "Santa Fe and Taos"
Box 78   Redbook magazine, June 1944, pp. 127-158; containing novelette, "To Find a Path Together"
    Life Story magazine, September 1944, pp. 51-58; containing novelette, "Adios to Love"
    Redbook magazine, December 1944, pp. 129-160; containing novelette, "Never Half a Heaven"
    Blue Book, January 1945, pp. 76-96; containing novelette, "Successful Contact"
    Life Story magazine, May 1945, pp. 22-25, 90-101; containing novelette, "Fragile Hour"
    Today's Woman magazine, November 1945, pp. 115-129; containing novelette, "Gift of Wings"
    Redbook magazine, September 1946, pp. 129-160; containing novelette, "Only What the Heart Can Possess"
    Redbook magazine, August 1948, pp. 109-140; containing novelette, "The Stairway to Dreams"
    Redbook magazine, September 1949, pp. 105-136; containing novelette, "Dreams - Bought-and Paid For"
    Redbook magazine, January 1950, pp. 101-132; containing novelette, "The Odds Against the Bride"
    Redbook Magazine, August 1951, pp. 105-136; containing novelette, "Streets of the Town"
    Redbook magazine, December 1953, pp. 105-136; containing  novelette, "The Avenues of Escape"
    Redbook magazine, June 1955, pp. 97-128; containing novelette, "Travel at your own Risk"
Box 79   Redbook magazine, April 1956, pp. 113-144; containing novelette, "The Sudden Strangers"
    Redbook magazine, October 1956, pp. 111-144; containing novelette, "My Sister's Keeper"
    Redbook magazine, November 1958, pp. 137-168; containing novelette, "The Amber Light"
    Redbook magazine, February 1959, pp. 111-144; containing novelette, "The Empty Shrine"
    Cosmpolitan magazine, December 1959, pp. 117-138; containing novelette, "Blind Date on a Lover's Lane"
Box 80   Redbook magazine, April 1939, Part 1, pp. 16-19, 64-81; May 1939, Part 2, pp. 36-39, 104-117; June 1939, Part, 3 pp. 58-62, 64-72; containing novel Flight From Youth
    Redbook magazine, September 1945, Part 1, pp. 18-21, 94-113; October 1945, Part 2, pp. 48-51, 140-148; November 1945, Part 3, pp. 48-51, 140-148; December 1945, Part 4, pp. 50-53, 69-84; containing novel The Number of My Days
    Redbook magazine, July 1950, Part 1, pp. 21-25, 89-95, 100; August 1950, Part 2, pp. 38-41, 87-95, 100; September 1950, Part 3, pp. 46-49, 93-101; October 1950, Part 4, pp. 42-45, 90-98; containing novel The Left Hand of God
Box 81 FF 1 Reprint of Mrs. Barrett's first published article, "The Music of Madness," appearing in Weird Tales, March 1926
  FF 2 - Clipped stories published in 1928:
    "Roarer McGee Fights Alone," from ACE High, February 1928
    "Dry Vengeance," from Complete Stories, February 1928
    "Three Rings," from Complete Stories, June 1928
    "The Palooka," from ACE High, August 1928
    "The Return of the Hoofer," from Complete Stories, December 1928
  FF 3 - Clipped stories published in 1929:
    "An Acrobat of the Air" (no notation of journal or month)
    "The Visitor in Red," from Complete Stories, March 1929
    "Garvey Takes A Job," from Complete Stories, April 1929
    "The Trigger Finger Writes," from Complete Stories, April 1929
    "With Their Own Weapons," from Complete Stories, May 1929
    "Hey, Rube!," from Complete Stories, June 1929
    "A Bargain in Ranches," from Wild West Weekly, June 22, 1929
    "Diaphrams," from Complete Stories, July 1929
    "Three Hours Overdue," from War Birds, August 1929
    ''Jeff Haney's Debt," from Complete Stories, September 1929
    "Round-up in the Riff," from War Birds, September 1929
    "Beau Hunk," from War Novels, September 1929
    "Beyond the Regulations," from Complete Stories, October 1929
    "Faster and More Cunning," from Complete Stories, October 1929
    "Get That Flag," from Sky Riders, November 1929
    "The Black Terror," from Western Outlaws, November 1929
  FF 4 - Clipped stories published in 1930:
    "High Man," from Wings, January 1930
    "Star-face," from Wild West Weekly, January 25, 1930
    "Darcey's Day of Doom," from Complete Stories, February 1930
    "Decoy Duck," from Complete Stories, February 1930
    "Twins and Trouble," (no notation of Journal), February 1930
    "Over-rated," from West, March 5, 1930
    "The Badge of the Law," from West, March 19, 1930
    "A Matter of Honor," from War Aces, April 1930
    "Ace-Deuce," from War Aces, July 1930
    "Immelmann's Last Flight," from War Aces, July 1930
    "Sahara Falcons," from Wings, no month given, 1930
    "The Tarmac," from War Aces, no month given, 1930
    "Dot -- Dash," (no notation of Journal or month) 1930
    A Letter from Mr. Barrett published in Letters Column, West magazine, February 5, 1930
  FF 5 - Clipped stories published in 1931:
    "Ex-pilot," from Air Trails, February 1931
    "Synthetic Ace," from War Aces, February 1931
    "The Gasser," Argosy, March 28, 1931
    "Snatch as Snatch Can," Argosy, March 28, 1931
    "Missing Trucks," from Complete Story, September 15, 1931
  FF 6 - Clipped Stories published in 1932:
    "Gray," from War Aces, March 1932
    "Death's Lament," from War Aces, May 1932
    "The Monument," from Argosy, October 1, 1932
    "Double Death," from Sky Fighters, December 1932
    "Black" from War Aces, (no month indicated) 1932
    Assorted short clippings with no journals or specific dates indicated
  FF 7 - Clipped Stories published in 1933:
    "The Broken Parole," from Sky Birds, January 1933
    "The Dynamic Deuce," from All Detective, March 1933
    "Twenty Bucks," from Argosy, April 1933
    "Eagles of the Black Cross," from War Birds, October 1933
    "Shooting," from War Birds, October 1933
  FF 8 - Clipped story published in 1934:
    "Hand of Horror," from Contact, February 1934
  FF 9 - Clipped story published in 1936:
    "The Man Who Stayed Home," from Liberty, September 12, 1936
  FF 10 - Clipped story published in 1937:
    "Shanghai Moment," from Liberty, November 6, 1937
  FF 11 - Clipped articles published in 1938:
    "Latin American New Deal," from KEN, July 14, 1938
    "Latin America Changes Its Shirt," from KEN, December 29,1938
Box 82 FF 1 - Clipped stories published in 1939:
    "Flight From Youth," from Redbook, April 1939
  FF 2 - Clipped stories published in 1940:
    "Gray Caballero," from Redbook, March 1940
    "A Man Without a Past," from Redbook, July 1940 (also August)
    "Savage Serenade," from The American Magazine, (no month indicated) 1940
    "The Woman He Needed," from Redbook, (no month indicated), 1940
  FF 3 - Clipped stories published in 1941:
    "No Beauty Without Danger," from Redbook, July 1941
    "Time Exposure," from Colliers, September 20, 1941
    "Meet Me Tonight," from The American Magazine, October, 1941
    "Salute," from Redbook, October 1941
  FF 4 - Clipped stories published in 1942:
    "Rendezvous in Scotland," from Blue Book
    "Under the Silk," from Country Gentleman, February 1942
    "A Man's Wife," from Colliers, November 28, 1942
    "To the Last Man," from Adventure, December 1942
    "Girl With Wings," from Cosmopolitan, December 1942
  FF 5 - Clipped stories published in 1943:
    "His Son and Girl Called Betty," from McCalls, November 1943
  FF 6 - Clipped stories published in 1944:
    "Where's Your Girl Tonight?," from unidentified journal, January 1944
    "The Temple Thing," from Collier's, March 25, 1944
    "You Can Never Go Back," from American, May 1944
    "Hero's Privilege," from Argosy, May 1944
    "To Find a Path Together," from Redbook, June 1944
    "Adios to Love," from Life Story, September 1944
    "The Lady Said Please," from Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1944
    "Never Half a Heaven," from Redbook, December 1944
  FF 7 - Clipped stories published in 1945:
    "Successful Contact," from Blue Book, January 1945, 2 copies
    "The Frivolous Type," from Life Story, January 1945, 2 copies
    "Bride's Privilege," from Saturday Evening Post, January 13, 1945
    "The Rift," from Woman's Home Companion, March 1945
    "Before I Wake," from Cosmopolitan, April 1945, 2 copies
    "The Expert," from Life Story, April 1945, 2 copies
    "Fragile Hour," from Life Story, May 1945, 2 copies
    "Hat in Hand," from McCall's, May 1945
    "The Number of My Days," Part 2, from Redbook, September, 1945
  FF 8 - Clipped stories published in 1946:
    "Only What the Heart Can Possess," from Redbook, September 1946
    "Mountain Route," from Saturday Evening Post, September 14, 1946
  FF 9 - Clipped stories published in 1947:
    "The Last Wedding," from Cosmopolitan, June 1947, 2 copies
    "The Last Gift," from Redbook, August 1947
    "Carmelita," from Cosmopolitan, September 1947
    "These, My Sins," from McCall's, October 1947
    "Christmas is so Expensive," from Cosmopolitan, December 1947
  FF 10 - Clipped stories published in 1948:
    "Wrong Girl," from Cosmopolitan, February 1948
    "Her Mother's Daughter," from Redbook, February 1948
    "It's the Men Who Need Advice," from Redbook, May 1948
    "The Blue Sleep," from Cosmopolitan, May-July 1948
    "Merry Christmas, Darling" from Redbook, December 1948
Box 83 FF 1 - Clipped stories published in 1949:
    "Beginning Tonight," from The American Magazine, January 1949
    "The Rolling Tons," from Blue Book, July 1949
    "Dreams - Bought and Paid For," from Redbook, September 1949
    "Wives of Men," from Redbook, November 1949, 2 copies
  FF 2 - Clipped stories published in 1950:
    "The Odds Against the Bride," from Redbook, January 1950
    "The Lady Needed Clothes," from The American Magazine, February 1950
    "The Left Hand of God," from Redbook, July 1950
    "Pilgrimage," from Today's Woman, July 1950
  FF 3 - Clipped stories published in 1951:
    "The Last Night," from Redbook, April 1951
    "Streets of the Town," from Redbook, August 1951
    "Stranger on the Way," from Redbook, November 1951, 2 copies
  FF 4 - Clipped stories published in 1952:
    "A Matter of Money," from Redbook, August 1952
  FF 5 - Clipped stories published in 1953:
    "The Shadows of the Images," from Collier's, October 2, October 16, October 30, November 13, November 27, 1953
    "The Avenues of Escape," from Redbook, December 1953
    "Credo for a New Year," from Empire, December 27, 1953
  FF 6 - Clipped stories published in 1955:
    "Travel at Your Own Risk," from Redbook, June 1955
    "Victory," from Redbook, November 1955
  FF 7 - Clipped stories published in 1956:
    "The Sudden Strangers," from Redbook, April 1956
    "Roadhouse Woman," from Saturday Evening Post, April 7, 1956
    "My Sister's Keeper," from Redbook, October 1956
    "The Fix is On," from Saturday Evening Post, October 27, 1956
  FF 8 - Clipped stories published in 1957:
    "High Places," from This Week magazine, November 10 and November 17, 1957
  FF 9 - Clipped stories published in 1958
    "The Amber Light," from Redbook, November 1958
  FF 10 - Clipped stories published in 1959:
    "The Empty Shrine," from Redbook, February 1959
    "Girl From Nowhere," Star Weekly, May 9, 1959
    "Blind Date on Lover's Lane," from Cosmopolitan, November 24, 1959
    "Leave Her Alone," from Saturday Evening Post, December 19, 1959
    "The Lady or the Murderer?," from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, (no month indicated) 1959
  FF 11 - Clipped stories published in 1961:
    "The Squadron the World Forgot," from Cavalier, March 1961
    "The Eyeball Bikini," from Saturday Evening Post, September 2, 1961
    "The Theory of Women," from McCall's, March 1961
    "Denver," from Redbook, November 1961
    "A Pool There Was," from Star Weekly, November 4, 1961
  FF 12 - Clipped stories published in 1962:
    "Santa Fe and Taos," from Redbook, May 1962
    "Nobody Would Believe It," from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1962
    "Voices in the Sky," from Star Weekly, Ausust 18, 1962
    "City of the Holy Faith," from Extension, September 1962
    "Emily Griffith, Gift of Sod Hut," from Rocky Mountain News, Special Edition, 1962
  FF 13 - Clipped stories published in 1964:
    "When Paul Fought for the Workers," from The Sign, April 1964
  FF 14 - Clipped stories published in 1966:
    "In Old Wyoming," from Extension, September 1966
    "Señor Payroll," from Scholastic Scope, December 2, 1966
Box 84 FF 1 Photographs from movie, The Left Hand of God
  FF 2 Photographs from movie, Lilies of the Field
  FF 3 Photographs from movie, Pieces of Dreams
  FF 4 Article about the movie, The Left Hand of God
  FF 5 Programs from the play, Lilies of the Field
  FF 6 Newspaper clippings on parachutes and blimps
  FF 7 Letter concerning an unpublished short story, "Friends of Ours"
  Mr. Barrett's stories published in foreign language editions of Reader's Digest:
    "Koinnan Som inte gav tappt," reprinted from the Denver Post, February 1948, Sweden
    "Cette Femme Était Muette," reprinted from the Denver Post, February, 1948, France
    "Very Courageous Woman Who Lost Voice" (translation of title in Japanese), reprinted from the Denver Post, February 1948, Japan
    "A mulher que não se deu por vencida," March 1948, Cuba
    "Hän oppi sittenkin puhumaan," Helmikuu 1948, Finland

 

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