JAMES M. CAIN
A REGISTER OF HIS PAPERS
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Prepared by
Allan Teichroew
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 1995
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PROVENANCE
The papers of James Mallahan Cain (1892-1977), journalist,
screenwriter, and novelist, were given to the Library of Congress
between 1966 and 1986 by Cain and his literary executor Alice M.
Piper. An addition was given by Bruce Howard and I. Michael
Schulman in 1983, and other material was purchased in 1983 and
1991.
A description of the James M. Cain Papers was published in
_Library of Congress Acquitisions: Manuscript Division, 1983_,
pp. 26-29.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of James M. Cain in
these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of
the Library of Congress is controlled by Alice M. Piper.
Prints, photographs, and phonodiscs have been transferred to
the appropriate divisions of the Library where they are
identified as part of these papers.
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Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 36
Approximate number of items: 30,000
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
1892, July 1 Born, Annapolis, Md.
1910 A.B., Washington College, Chestertown, Md.
1917 M.A., Washington College, Chestertown, Md.
1917-18 Reporter, _Baltimore American_
1918-19 Served with Headquarters Troop, Seventy-ninth
Division, American Expeditionary Forces
1918-23 Reporter, _Baltimore Sun_
1919 Editor-in-chief, _Lorraine Cross_, official
newspaper of the Seventy-ninth Division,
American Expeditionary Forces
Published, with Gilbert Malcolm, a history of
Headquarters Troop, Seventy-ninth Division,
American Expeditionary Forces
1920 Married Mary Rebekah Clough (divorced 1923)
1923-24 Professor of journalism, St. John's College,
Annapolis, Md.
1924-31 Editorial writer, _New York World_
1927 Married Elina Sjostedt Tyszecka (divorced 1942)
1930 Publication of _Our Government_ (New York: A. A.
Knopf. 241 pp.), a collection of satirical
essays which first appeared in the _American
Mercury_
1931 Managing editor, _New Yorker_
Moved to Hollywood, Calif.
1931-48 Magazine writer, syndicated columnist, and
scriptwriter for motion picture studios
1934 Publication of _The Postman Always Rings Twice_
(New York: A. A. Knopf. 187 pp.)
1936 Began "Double Indemnity" (published in book form
in 1943) as serial in _Liberty_
1937 Publication of _Serenade_ (New York: A. A. Knopf.
314 pp.)
1941 Publication of _Mildred Pierce_ (New York: A. A.
Knopf. 388 pp.)
1944 Married Aileen Pringle (divorced 1947)
1946 Publication of _Past All Dishoner_ (New York: A.
A. Knopf. 232 pp.)
1947 Married Florence Macbeth (died 1966)
1948 Moved to Hyattsville, Md.
Publication of _The Moth_ (New York: A. A. Knopf.
373 pp.)
1953 Publication of _Galatea_ (New York: A. A. Knopf.
242 pp.)
1962 Publication of _Mignon_ (New York: Dial Press.
246 pp.)
1965 Publication of _The Magician's Wife_ (New York:
Dial Press. 233 pp.)
1976 Publication of _The Institute_ (New York:
Mason/Charter. 220 pp.)
1977, Oct. 27 Died, Hyattsville, Md.
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The papers of James M. Cain span the years 1901-78, with the
bulk of the items concentrated in the period 1925-78. The
collection is divided into three main parts, A, B, and C, and
includes two small portions, Part D and E, added in 1993 and
1995. Parts A and B contain six series each: Family Papers,
General Correspondence, Writings, Financial Papers, Legal File,
and Miscellany. Part B is a separate and later accession and may
be used only with the permission of the donor. The first two
parts are closely related and overlap chronologically. For
example, a copy of a Cain letter might be in Part A, while the
original of the reply is located in Part B. For the convenience
of readers using Part B, therefore, the organization of the two
parts is the same. Part C consists of major unpublished writings
by Cain and is totally closed to readers. Part D is open for use
and consists of typescripts of writings. Part E contains
additional writings and may be used only with the permission of
the donor.
Best known today for his hard-bitten "tough guy" novels,
Cain was already past forty when he published his first novel,
_The Postman Always Rings Twice_ (1934). It was an instant best-
seller. Before that he had trained as an opera singer, but
failing, as he said, to make the grade, he drifted briefly into
the insurance business, tried several years of college teaching,
and then became a journalist in 1919. In Baltimore, where he
worked for two city dailies and wrote occasional pieces for the
_American Mercury_, Cain met H. L. Mencken. Though sparse for
Cain's early years, the letters in the Family Papers and General
Correspondence series give valuable information about most
aspects of his entry into journalism. The earliest exchange with
Mencken in the collection is dated 1930, but the previous decade
is represented by the numerous reminiscences which Cain furnished
to scholars, friends, and literary acquaintances.
Also in the papers is retrospective evidence, much of it
noteworthy, of the six years (1924-31) Cain spent as editor of
the _New York World_. Especially significant is his post-1930s
correspondence with and about Walter Lippmann, Arthur Krock,
Bernard A. Bergman, and Herbert Bayard Swope. The paper folded
in 1929, and after ten unhappy months as editorial helpmate
("26th Jesus," he called it) at Harold Ross's _New Yorker_, Cain
left for Hollywood. Writing screenplays, his appointed task,
soon disillusioned him, but the salaries were generous and in
Southern California he found the time and material to complete
his novels. Included in the Writings series are early
holographs, typescripts, proofs, and other manuscripts of Cain's
many novels, shorter fiction, film scripts, stage plays, and
numerous nonfiction pieces. Among the more significant
manuscripts are those of his unfinished autobiography and the
various drafts of _Postman_, _Past All Dishonor_, _Mignon_, and
_The Institute_.
The richest part of the collection is the General Corre-
spondence series. The letters are longer and more numerous after
1948, when Cain was married to former opera singer Florence
Macbeth and moved to Hyattsville, Maryland. Among the
correspondents are Charles Angoff, E. Manchester Boddy, Joan
Crawford, Ruth Goetz, Allan Nevins, Sean O'Faolain, Samson and
Dorshka (Dorothy Wegman) Raphaelson, Edward G. Robinson, Laurence
Stallings, Barbara Stanwyck, Rebecca West, and Katharine and E.
B. White. In later years, Cain wrote frequently about the giants
of literature he had met--Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, and Michael Arlen. Among a
younger generation of writers with whom he corresponded were Tom
Wolfe (a Cain revivalist), David Madden, Gore Vidal, and Joyce
Carol Oates. Also in the collection are the letters of
Huntington Cairns, Raymond Chandler, James T. Farrell, Wolcott
Gibbs, La Nora Griffith, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Paul Hume, E. J.
Kahn, Constance Cummings Levy, Carey McWilliams, Gilbert Malcolm,
Morris Markey, Hamilton Owens, Wheeler Sammons, Robert B.
Sinclair, and Edmund Wilson.
Another topic reflected in these papers is the "business
end" of Cain's more than four decades in the writing trade, as
documented in income tax records, royalty statements, and corre-
spondence with publishing concerns and agents such as Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc., H. N. Swanson, Inc., and Harold Ober Associates.
The correspondence with Knopf (both Alfred and Blanche) is
personal as well as professional, chronicling Cain's progress as
a writer. In the 1940s he led a controversial fight to protect
authors' rights and earnings through a centralized authority
which would represent writers in the courts, in contract negotia-
tions, and in congressional legislation. Information on this
effort can be located throughout the general correspondence. In
the Legal File are documents regarding a law suit against Cain
for alleged plagiarism, a case he won at great expense, and some
material pertaining to obscenity cases which plagued him and
other writers of the 1930s and 1940s.
Cain was married four times. There is a substantial amount
of correspondence with his second and third wives, Elina Sjostedt
Tyszecka and Aileen Pringle, a silent-screen star, but the
largest portion of the family papers concerns his fourth wife
Florence Macbeth's singing career and the personal and financial
papers from her previous marriage. Another topic of importance
is Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, where Cain studied
and taught and where his father, James W. Cain, was president.
The elder Cain wrote an unpublished manuscript on the financial
history of the United States which his son donated to the Library
of Congress as a separate collection.
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DESCRIPTION OF SERIES
Container Nos. Series
1-43 PART A: UNRESTRICTED
1 Family Papers, 1927-53, n.d.
Letters sent and received by Cain, organized
alphabetically by name of family member and
chronologically therein. Also, a subject file
arranged by name of family member and
containing, in this part, a manuscript about
Cain's father.
1-6 General Correspondence, 1925-60, n.d.
Letters sent and received by Cain, with
related matter and various enclosures, organized
alphabetically by name of person or organization
and chronologically therein.
7-34 Writings File, ca. 1925-1977.
Holographs, typescripts, proofs, and other
manuscripts of novels, plays, film scripts,
short fiction, and nonfiction writings, arranged
according to category and alphabetically by
title therein. If known, the published title
precedes the working title(s) Cain used. Also
includes miscellaneous research notes and data
and some printed copies of Cain's shorter works,
especially his newspaper columns.
35-37 Financial Papers, 1934-60, n.d.
Correspondence, bills, receipts, income tax
data kept on card files, and other related
matter, organized alphabetically by type of
material and chronologically therein.
38 Legal File, 1946-47.
Case file materials pertaining to an
obscenity suit.
38-43 Miscellany, ca. 1930-ca. 1960.
Awards, address cards, clippings, and
miscellaneous printed and near-print matter and
various mementos, alphabetically arranged by
type of material.
44-85 PART B: PARTIALLY RESTRICTED
44-50 Family Papers, 1901-77, n.d.
Letters sent and received by Cain, organized
alphabetically by name of family member and
chronologically therein. Also, a subject file,
arranged alphabetically by name of family member
and thereunder by type of material, including
manuscripts, address books, correspondence,
notes, lists, questionnaires, research data,
certificates, miscellaneous financial matter,
legal files, and other printed and near-print
material. Most of the papers in the subject
file belonged to or concern Cain's fourth wife,
Florence Macbeth.
51-63 General Correspondence, 1920-78, n.d.
Letters sent and received by Cain, with
related matter and various enclosures, organized
alphabetically by name of person or organization
and chronologically therein.
63-74 Writings File, ca. 1925-1977.
Holographs, typescripts, proofs, and other
manuscripts of novels, plays, film-scripts,
short fiction, and nonfiction writings, arranged
according to category and alphabetically by
title therein. If known, the published title
precedes the working title(s) Cain used. Also
includes unarranged "outsheets," or discarded
pages and miscellaneous materials (research
notes, interviews, and story ideas).
75-79 Financial Papers, 1933-77, n.d.
Correspondence, bills, receipts, card files
of income tax data, and other related matter,
organized alphabetically by type of material and
chronologically therein.
79-80 Legal File, 1933-77.
Correspondence, legal briefs, contracts,
leases, will and testament, divorce judgments,
and other miscellaneous papers used in legal
proceedings, organized alphabetically by type of
material.
81-85 Miscellany, ca. 1920-1977.
Address cards, documents and certificates,
medical data, Christmas gift lists, clippings,
and miscellaneous printed and near-print matter,
arranged alphabetically by type of material.
86-92 PART C: TOTALLY RESTRICTED
Unpublished writings, ca. 1940-1977.
Holographs and typescripts of Cain's
unpublished autobiography, a holograph of an
article on H.L. Mencken titled "Mr. M," and
various holographs and typescripts of
unpublished novels by Cain, arranged according
to category of writing and alphabetically by
title therein.
93 PART D: UNRESTRICTED 1993 ADDITION
Writings, 1948, n.d.
Typescript drafts of articles and a
memorandum concerning _Our Government_, arranged
alphabetically by title of writing.
94 PART E: PARTIALLY RESTRICTED 1995 ADDITION
Writings, 1942, 1952, 1956, n.d.
Typescripts, carbons of typescripts, and a
tear sheet of articles, film-scripts, and other
writings by Cain and by Henry Myers, arranged
alphabetically by name of author and therein by
title.
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CONTAINER LIST
Container Nos. Contents
PART A: UNRESTRICTED
FAMILY PAPERS, 1927-53, n.d.
Box 1 Correspondence, 1927-53, n.d.
Cain, Elina Sjostedt Tyszecka (second wife),
1927-44, n.d.
Cain, Genevieve (sister), 1941-51, n.d.
Cain, Mrs. James W. (mother), 1943-53, n.d.
Cain, Virginia (sister), 1941-43
Holmes, Henrietta and Judson, 1944
McComas, Rosalie Cain (sister), 1934-49, n.d.
Sjostedt, Sofia, 1939-43 (mother of second wife)
Subject file
Cain, James W. (father), memoir by James M.
Cain, n.d.
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1925-60, n.d.
"A" miscellaneous, 1934-52
American Authors' Authority, 1946-47
_American Mercury_, 1945-52
Angoff, Charles, 1934-47
"B" miscellaneous, 1934-54, n.d.
Box 2 Bassler, Robert and Joan, 1942-48
Bergman, Bernard, 1934-46
Blizzard, Rae, 1946
Boddy, E. Manchester, 1942-48
"C" miscellaneous, 1934-60, n.d.
Cairns, Huntington, 1950-51
Catlin, Fulton, 1938
Chandler, Raymond, 1944
Clothier, William J., 1945
Crawford, Joan, 1946
"D-E" miscellaneous, 1934-37, n.d. (2 folders)
Erkko, Eero, 1941-46
"F" miscellaneous, 1934-55, n.d.
Farrell, James T., 1942-43
Fitzpatrick, Clarke J., 1934-46, 1951
"G" miscellaneous, 1934-55, n.d.
Gibbs, Wolcott, 1934-44
Goetz, Ruth, 1936-49, n.d.
Goodman, Philip, n.d.
Griffith, La Nora, 1948-50
"H" miscellaneous, 1933-50, n.d.
Hayes, Ralph, 1936-47
Hopkins, Harry Powell, 1934-52
Hunt, Rockwell D., 1939-45
Box 3 "I-K" miscellaneous, 1934-51, n.d. (2 folders)
Knopf, Alfred A. and Blanche, 1929-52, n.d.
(4 folders)
Krock, Arthur, 1934-47
"L" miscellaneous, 1934-59, n.d.
Lardner, John, 1959
Laurence, Vincent, 1943
Box 4 Lippmann, Walter, 1933-47
_Los Angeles Times_, 1934-47, n.d.
"M" miscellaneous, 1930-54, n.d. (2 folders)
Malcolm, Gilbert, 1937-49
Markey, Morris, 1942-51, n.d.
Mencken, H. L., 1934-50
Mignon, Francois, 1950-51
Moley, Raymond, 1944-47
Morris (William) Agency, 1938-44
Morrow (William) & Co., 1934-44
Myers, Henry, 1934-42
"N" miscellaneous, 1934-59, n.d.
Nathan, Robert and Janet, 1944-47, n.d.
Nevins, Allan, 1948
_New York Times Book Review_, 1950
_Newsweek_, 1946
"O" miscellaneous, 1934-50, n.d.
Ober (Harold) Associates, 1943-59
Box 5 O'Faolain, Sean, 1939-42
Owens, Hamilton and Olga, 1934-51, n.d.
"P" miscellaneous, 1932-55
Palmer, Paul, 1927-45
"Q-R" miscellaneous, 1934-50, n.d.
Raphaelson, Samson and Dorshka (Dorothy Wegman),
1934-51
Rathbone, Robert, 1941-48
Roberts, George, 1948-49
Robinson, Edward G., 1944
Ross, Harold, 1937-51
Ruby, Harry, 1944-50
"S" miscellaneous, 1925-55, n.d. (2 folders)
Sammons, Wheeler, 1947-50
_Saturday Evening Post_, 1947
Screen Writers' Guild, 1938-53, n.d.
Sergeant, Winthrop, 1949
Seward, William W., 1950
Sinclair, Robert B., 1944-51
Sirich, Edward and Marjorie, 1934-49, n.d.
Stallings, Laurence, 1944-46
Stanwyck, Barbara, 1944-60
Swanson (H. N.) Inc., 1942-59
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1936-46
Box 6 "T" miscellaneous, 1933-55, n.d.
Targ, William, 1943-47, n.d.
_Time_, 1944
"U-W" miscellaneous, 1934-54, n.d. (4 folders)
Wald, Jerry, 1944-47
Washington College, Chestertown, Md., 1942-59,
n.d.
West, Rebecca, 1945
White, E. B. and Katharine, 1941-44, n.d.
_Who's Who in America_, 1939-45
Wilson, Carey, 1944-47, n.d.
Writers' War Board, 1942-46
Unidentified, 1934-55, n.d.
WRITINGS, ca. 1925-1977
Box 7 Novels
_The Butterfly_ (7 folders)
_Cloud Nine_ ("The Purification")
(1 folder)
Box 8 (1 folder)
_The Enchanted Isle_ ("The Mink Coat")
_Galatea_ ("The Slim Girl")
(3 folders)
Box 9 (3 folders)
_The Institute_
(2 folders)
Box 10 (5 folders)
Box 11 (7 folders)
Box 12 Novels
_The Institute_
(8 folders)
Box 13 (5 folders)
_Jealous Woman_ ("The Lady Waiting Upstairs,"
"The Modern Cinderella," and "Nevada Moon")
(2 folders)
Box 14 (4 folders)
_Love's Lovely Counterfeit_ (2 folders)
Box 15 _The Magician's Wife_ ("Pagliaccio") (2 folders)
_Mignon_ ("The Silver Mountain" and "The Pie
Rat")
(4 folders)
Box 16 (6 folders)
Box 17 (5 folders)
Box 18 (9 folders)
Box 19 (8 folders)
Box 20 (4 folders)
Box 21 _The Moth_
(5 folders)
Box 22 (2 folders)
_Past All Dishonor_ ("Pot of Gold") (6 folders)
Box 23 _The Postman Always Rings Twice_ ("Bar-B-Q'")
(3 folders)
_Rainbow's End_
(5 folders)
Box 24 (5 folders)
_Serenade_ ("Sombra y Sol")
Box 25 Novels
_Sinful Woman_ ("At the Galloping Domino" and
"Sierra Moon") (2 folders)
Unidentified fragment, pp. 387-96
Plays
"Buggy Ride"
"Clouds Over the Continent"
"The Concertmaster"
"First Mortgage"
"40 Hommes, 8 Chevaux"
"The 49'ers"
(6 folders)
Box 26 (3 folders)
"Give Me One Day"
"The Guest in 701"
"Jubilee" (2 folders)
"The Lifeline"
(2 folders)
Box 27 (2 folders)
"Lone-Star"
"Marble Halls" (3 folders)
"Petting Party" (revised version by Orrie
Lashin)
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" (2 folders)
"7-11"
Unidentified play in German and English
Film scripts
"Algiers," Pepe le Moko") (2 folders)
"Beachcomber"
"Build My Gallows High"
(1 folder)
Box 28 (1 folder)
"Flame of Louisiana" ("Well of Enchantment"), by
Drexel W. Truitt
"Golden Venus"
"The Glass Heart"
By Cain
By Marty Holland
"The Governor General"
"The Gypsy Wildcat"
Box 29 "Hot Bus," with Herman Michelson
"I Know You," by Keith Frings, with breakdown by
Cain
"Mister Sugar"
"Money and the Woman," by Robert Presnell, based
on _Liberty_ serial by Cain
"The Moon, Their Mistress"
"Pepe le Moko" (2 folders)
"Serenade," by Elliot Paul, based on Cain's
novel
Box 30 "The Shanghai Gesture," from play by John
Colton; with collaboration of Jules Furthman,
Karl Vollmoeller, and Geza Herczeg
"Ten Days of Heaven"
Undated version
1938 version
"The Victoria Docks at 8"
By Cain
By Rufus King, screen treatment by Robertson
White
"Wings of the Dove," breakdown by Cain
Short fiction
"Badger Game"
"The Bishop's Hair Shirt"
"Boatride"
"Boogie-Woogie Hour"
"Breakfast at Bombo's"
"The Celebrity"
"Comeback"
"The Contralto"
"Diving Venus"
"Everything But the Truth" ("The Annapolitan")
"The Feud"
"Fruit Flies" ("The Foundation of Life")
"The Game of Skill"
"The Ghost"
"The Girl in the Storm" ("The Storm")
"Guns"
"Hip, Hip, the Hippo"
Box 31 "Hit and Run"
"Hit, Run, and Repent"
"The Jinniwink"
"Joy Ride to Glory"
"The Minstrel Boy"
"Mistake in Identity"
"Mommy's a Barfly"
"Normal Indemnity"
"The Old Hag"
"Pastorale,"
"Pretty Puma"
"The Renumbered Page"
"Slave Girl"
"Spangles"
"The Star"
"Stick-Up"
"The Trumpeter"
"The Whale, the Cluck, and the Diving Venus"
Unidentified fragments
Nonfiction
Aphorisms written or collected by Cain
"Armageddon: 1952"
"Avis Rara"
"Bonds"
Book reviews
Box 32 "Camera Obscura"
"The Champion Catch-as-Catch Can Plain and Fancy
Word Doubter This Side of Kingdom Come"
("Will You Hold")
"Charles Laughton: A Reminiscence of a
Revelation" ("Laughton")
"Christmas Past-'Silent Night 1918'" ("The
Christmas I Best Remember")
"Close Harmony"
"Coal Baron"
"The Critics"
"The Danger of Treason"
_For Men Only_, introduction
"The Gentle Side of W. C. Fields" ("Fields" and
"Correction for the Record")
"The Girl in the Storm" ("The Storm")
"Give Clothes"
"The Holluschickle"
"How to Tell Good Art from Bad"
"I Punditti"
"Job No. 1"
Newspaper columns, 1929-33, n.d.
"O Say Can You Sing It" ("The Dawn's Early
Light," "Our Anthem Is Singable," and "Our
Anthem, Right or Wrong")
"Oh les Crepes-Suzettes" ("Les Crepes-Suzettes")
"Preface" (introduction to unidentified
anthology of four Cain novels, ca. 1940)
"Preface to the 50th Anniversary Edition [of
_Who's Who in America_]"
"The Raccoon Always Rings Twice" ("Trouble in
Paradise, Or It Never Rains But It Pours")
"Remembrances of Kann's Past" ("Kann's: A
Memoir")
"Re Sinclair Lewis"
Review of Civil War books
"Sabres and Armor"
"The Sour Note"
"Spaghetti"
"Spirits" ("How to Make a Mint Julep")
"That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do"
("Great Expectations of 1976")
"Them Ducks"
"Treason by Any Other Name" ("Treason: An
Anachronism?")
"U.S.A.: Round Trip"
"Walter Lippmann Had Style" ("Walter Lippmann: A
Memoir")
"What Price Chinchilla?"
"Where the Wild Things Are" ("The Wildlife
Preserve")
Box 33 Miscellaneous
Research note cards
Meat ("Magician's Wife")
Red River ("Mignon")
Box 34 Red River ("Mignon")
FINANCIAL PAPERS, 1934-60, n.d.
Box 35 Correspondence and related matter
Bank of America
Bills and receipts
Gang and Kopp, Attorneys at Law
Hanna and Morton, Lawyers
Income tax
Watkins, David
Witter (Dean) & Co.
Box 36 Income tax file
1944-52
Box 37 1953-60
LEGAL FILE, 1946-47
Box 38 Obscenity suit, Marcel Rodd case, 1946-47
(2 folders)
MISCELLANY, ca. 1930-ca. 1960
Awards and assorted notes, cards, lists, etc.
Printed matter
Clippings
American Authors' Authority (3 folders)
Box 39 _The Butterfly_ (2 folders)
_Galatea_
_Mildred Pierce_ (3 folders)
_Past All Dishonor_
(1 folder)
Box 40 (1 folder)
_The Postman Always Rings Twice_
(4 folders)
Box 41 (4 folders)
_Serenade_
(1 folder)
Box 42 (4 folders)
"7-11"
_Sinful Woman_
Box 43 Unidentified (6 folders)
PART B: PARTIALLY RESTRICTED
FAMILY PAPERS, 1901-77, n.d.
Box 44 Correspondence
Cain, Elina Sjostedt Tyszecka (second wife),
1946-74, n.d.
Cain, Genevieve (sister), 1945-51
Cain, Mrs. James W. (mother), 1945-53
Cain, Virginia (sister), 1943-53
Girvin, Lois, 1956-76, n.d. (2 folders)
Holmes, Henrietta, 1966-77, n.d.
Macbeth, Florence (fourth wife), 1946-50, n.d.
McComas, Rosalie Cain (sister), 1946-77
(4 folders)
Box 45 Pringle, Aileen (third wife), 1948-76, n.d.
(3 folders)
Rutledge, Christine, 1966-71
Tyszecka, Leo and Edie (children of second
wife), 1937-77
Other, 1947-69
Subject file
Cain, James W.
Lecture on the Bible as literature
Memories of St. John's College, Annapolis,
Md., by Ned Duval
Macbeth, Florence
Address book and cards
Concert history compiled by Cain
Correspondence, 1946-50
Notes, lists, etc.
Questionnaires (2 folders)
Box 46 Research cards compiled by Cain
Box 47 Correspondence, 1901-71, n.d. (3 folders)
Death, 1966 (2 folders)
Family history
Financial and legal
Atwater Kent estate
Bills and receipts
(1 folder)
Box 48 (1 folder)
Family burial plots
General correspondence, 1934-54
Income taxes
Macbeth, Alice
Passports
Spotswood, N.J., estate, 1922-56
(3 folders)
Box 49 (2 folders)
Will and testament
Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Poetry, notes, and writings
Scripts and lyrics
Whitwell, Edward
Correspondence with D. Philip Dear, 1939-40
New York Coliseum, Inc., 1932-38
Passports and immigration papers
Royal Institute of British Architects,
1933-41
Box 50 Starlight Amusement Park, 1939-40
War service, 1939-40
Miscellaneous
Printed matter
Christian Science scripture
Clippings
Programs (3 folders)
Scrapbook
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1920-78, n.d.
Box 51 "A" miscellaneous, 1922-77, n.d. (2 folders)
Angoff, Charles, 1957
Arlen, Michael, 1967-71
"B" miscellaneous, 1938-76, n.d. (4 folders)
Baker, Carlos, 1963-64
Bartholomew, Ed and Sophie, 1955-75
Bassler, Robert and Joan, 1959-77, n.d.
Beard, Dita, and family, 1972-76, n.d.
Bell Flowers, 1967-74
Bergman, Bernard, 1961-76, n.d.
Bernstein, Hazel, 1966-69, n.d.
Box 52 Bliven, Bruce, 1974-75
Blizzard, Rae, 1953-75
Boddy, E. Manchester, 1952-67
Bode, Carl, 1952-76, n.d.
Bono, Chastity, 1975
Brinkley, David, 1967-72
Brittain, Joan, 1971
Buyers, Ethel, 1966-67 (4 folders)
"C" miscellaneous
1946-76 (3 folders)
Box 53 Undated
Cairns, Huntington, 1950-76
Caitlin, Fulton, 1961-64
Chamberlain, John E., 1951-76
Cohen, Ilene, 1971-73
Cooke, Charles, 1969
Crawford, Joan, 1962-75
Culligan, Glendy, 1963-65
Cummings, Constance _See Container 56_, Levy,
Constance Cummings
"D" miscellaneous, 1949-77, n.d. (3 folders)
Deck, Robin, 1973-76
Decker, Karl, re Mona Lisa article, 1946-47
Devlin, Bernadette, 1971-72
Dial Press, 1961-76, n.d.
Donley (R. A.) & Son, 1963-77
Dunklee, Leona, and family, 1967-77
"E" miscellaneous, 1947-77, n.d.
Box 54 "F" miscellaneous, 1950-77, n.d. (2 folders)
_Family Weekly_, 1966-68
Fan mail, 1952-77, n.d. (2 folders)
Fitzpatrick, Clarke J., 1951-70, n.d.
"G" miscellaneous, 1954-76, n.d.
Gale, Frank, 1942
Gibbs, Wolcott, 1950-58
Gibson, Daniel Z. 1952-74
Goetz, Ruth, 1951-76, n.d.
Goodman, Philip, 1930
Griffith, La Nora and William, 1952-57
Box 55 "H" miscellaneous, 1924-77, n.d. (2 folders)
Hayes, Ralph, 1959-75
Higginbotham, Maurine, 1972-77, n.d.
Hornblow, Arthur, Jr., 1966-76
Hume, Paul, 1951-74
Hyattsville, Md., post office, 1967-74
"I-K" miscellaneous, 1950-77, n.d. (2 folders)
Kahn, E. J., 1962-65
Knopf, Alfred A. and Blanche
1933-68 (2 folders)
Box 56 1969-76, n.d. (2 folders)
Krock, Arthur, 1942-74
"L" miscellaneous, 1950-77, n.d. (2 folders)
Lardner family, 1956-76
Levy, Constance Cummings, 1969-77, n.d.
Lewis, Carroll and Jane, and family, 1964-77
Library of Congress, 1920-75
Lippmann, Walter, 1933-74
Box 57 Lowdermilk (W. H.) & Co., 1951-69
"Mc" miscellaneous, 1950-77
McAleer, John J., 1973-76
McConnell, Martha, 1960-75
McGrory, Mary, 1969-75
McLain, Joseph H., 1973-77
McWilliams, Carey, 1956-75
"M" miscellaneous, 1946-77, n.d. (3 folders)
Madden, David, 1961-75, n.d.
Malcolm, Gilbert, 1953-65
Markey, Morris and Helen, 1949-56, n.d.
Martinetti, Ronald, 1969-75, n.d.
Maryland Arts Council, 1971-77
Box 58 Mason/Charter--Mason/Lipscomb, 1973-77
Mayfield, Sara, 1968-70
Mencken, August and H.L., 1930-60
Meriman, re Herman Menkiewicz, n.d
Mignon, Francois, 1950-63
Moley, Raymond, 1965
Morris (William) Agency
General, 1930-53
Haggard, Edith, 1934-35
Myers, Henry, 1951-74, n.d.
"N" miscellaneous, 1950-77
Nash, Ogden, l967
Nathan, Robert, 1975
Nevins, Allan, 1959-65
_New York Times Book Review_, 1950-70
_Newsweek_, 1962
"O" miscellaneous, 1969-75
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1970
Ober (Harold) Associates
1950-58 (2 folders)
Box 59 1960-75 (4 folders)
O'Faolain, Sean and Julia, 1977
Owens, Hamilton and Olga, 1950-70
"P" miscellaneous, 1946-77, n.d. (2 folders)
Pierson, Robert Hunter, 1950-62
_Playboy_, 1963-78
Posner, Barbara and Don, 1949-75, n.d.
"Q-R" miscellaneous, 1948-77, n.d. (3 folders)
Box 60 Raphaelson, Samson and Dorshka (Dorothy Wegman),
1945-76, n.d.
Rathbone, Robert, 1950-68
Reading, William R., and family, 1957-76, n.d.
Resek, Lura, 1966-72
Roberts, George, 1951-70, n.d.
Ross, Harold, 1952
Ruby, Harry, 1963
"S" miscellaneous, 1946-77, n.d. (3 folders)
Sammons, Wheeler (_Who's Who in America_), 1945-59
Santelmann, William F. H., 1943-44
_Saturday Evening Post_, 1946-67
Schonthal, Ruth, 1967-77
Schulberg, Budd P., 1959-69
Box 61 Sergeant, Winthrop, 1963-73
Seward, William W., 1950-75
Silberman, James H., 1962-64
Sinclair, Robert B. and Heather, 1956-77
Sirich, Edward and Marjorie, 1951-63, n.d.
Spellman, Gladys, 1975-77
Stallings, Laurence, 1963-68, n.d.
Stanwyck, Barbara, 1950-58
Steiner, George, 1968-73
Swanson (H. N.) Inc., 1948-76 (3 folders)
"T" miscellaneous, 1942-47
Tankersley, Fay, 1969-72
_Time_, 1950-74
Traver, Paul, 1963-77
Tydings, Millard and Joseph, 1950-70
"U-V" miscellaneous, 1950-75, n.d.
University of Maryland, College Park, Md., 1952-77
Box 62 Van Wyck, Terry, 1970-75
Vidal, Gore, 1975
"W" miscellaneous, 1923-77, n.d. (2 folders)
Wald, Jerry, 1957-62
Walt, James, 1956-60
Washington College, Chestertown, Md., 1952-77
_Washington Post_, 1952-77
_Washington Star_, 1952-75
West, Rebecca, 1960-76
White, E. B. and Katharine, 1954-77
_Who's Who in America_, 1960-75, n.d.
Wilder, Isabel, 1975-77
William, George H., 1965-71
Wolfe, Tom, 1965-68
Box 63 Wood, Lois B., 1951-52
Woodward and Lothrop, 1965-77
Wyatt, Victoria, 1971-76
Wycherly, Alan, 1963-69
"X-Z" miscellaneous, 1938-77
Unidentified
WRITINGS, ca. 1925-1977
Plays
"The Butterfly" (adapted from Cain novel by
Ramon Gordon), 1962
"The Defalcation"
"The 49'ers" (3 folders)
"Galahad Rides Again"
(1 folder)
Box 64 (5 folders)
"The Guest in 701"
(3 folders)
Box 65 (9 folders)
Box 66 (8 folders)
Box 67 (8 folders)
Box 68 (1 folder)
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" (3 folders)
"Restitution in Full"
"Sacred and Profane Love"
Film scripts
"Congressional Investigation," television pilot
"Hayworth Story," prospectus
Suggested story line for Jack Benny show
Unidentified fragment, re "The Great Gatsby,"
prospectus
Short fiction
"Afternoon at the Beach"
"Blackmail"
"The Circus Girl"
Box 69 "The Dainty Little Thing"
"Days"
"Dennis"
"Dreams"
"The Frogs"
"The Guest in 717"
"Guest Stars"
"Hatcheck Girl"
"Hideaway"
"Mignon"
"Minor Child"
"One of Eve's Family"
"Payment in Full"
"Power"
"Serpent of the Nile"
"The Shark"
"Stick Up"
"Suburbia"
"Sunny"
"Tawny Blonde"
"Teche"
"Vagabonds"
"What Will Mildred Do Next?"
"Yegg Chick"
Nonfiction
"Animals/Birds/Fish/Insects/Reptiles Do the
Strangest Things"
"Avis Rara"
"Anecdote"
Blurb for _The Detective_ by Roderick Thorp
"Coal Baron"
"The End of the _World_"
Foreword to Civil War Round Table yearbook
Foreword to _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_,
by B. Traven
"From the Kibitzer's Angle"
"Good News"
"Hallowe'en, 1971"
[Henry Mencken]
"Home Sweet Homework"
"How We Used to Pass the Time"
"Memoir"
Box 70 "Nicky" (with Florence Macbeth)
"Note on Norman Mailer"
"The Pax"
"Sliced Peaches for Desert"
"Suffer the Little Children"
"Sunken Treasure"
"The Sweet Singers"
"That Was Hollywood"
"Thornton"
[Vincent Laurence]
"Washington Gridders Beat U. of Md. 17-0, Upset
Victory Ends 1905 Season"
Outsheets
(5 folders)
Box 71 (5 folders)
Box 72 (5 folders)
Miscellaneous
Interviews
Backas, Margot, 1975
"Today Show," 1969
Story and play ideas
Unidentified typescripts
Research
Clippings
Box 73-74 Note cards
FINANCIAL PAPERS, 1933-77, n.d.
Box 75 Automobile
Checkbook stubs, 1943-69 (6 folders)
Contributions
Box 76 Income tax file
1935-53 (18 folders)
Box 77 1954-61 (9 folders)
Box 78 1962-75 (13 folders)
Box 79 1976-77 (2 folders)
Life insurance, 1966-67
Property insurance, 1945-71
RCA
Royalties, Alfred A. Knopf, 1933-65
Watkins, David, 1950-76
Miscellaneous
Bill, statements, etc.
Correspondence
LEGAL FILE, 1933-77
Assault and battery case, 1972
Beatty & McNanee, 1960-71
Brylawski, Fulton, 1951-77
Box 80 Gang, Martin, 1938-73
Caro case
Contracts, 1937
Correspondence, 1934-51 (4 folders)
Scripts, 1944-49
Miscellaneous
Copyright law, 1975
Correspondence
Divorce from Aileen Pringle, 1946
Leases and contracts, 1936-67
Will and testament, 1946-48
MISCELLANY, ca. 1920-1977
Box 81 Address cards
Box 82 Christmas and other lists
Documents and certificates
Medical reports
Printed matter
Clippings
(6 folders)
Box 83 (9 folders)
Pamphlets, flyers, cards, etc.
Announcements (2 folders)
Box 84 Authors' League of America
Cards
Civil War Roundtable
Dramatists Guild (4 folders)
Box 85 Maryland Arts Council
Mason/Charter--Mason/Lipscomb
Programs and playbills
Screen Writers' Guild
Trip to Mexico, 1937
Washington College, Chestertown, Md.
Unarranged (3 folders)
PART C: TOTALLY RESTRICTED
UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS, ca. 1940-1977
Box 86 Autobiography
"Cain and Cain"
"The Cat, the Fiddle, the Moon"
(8 folders)
Box 87 (8 folders)
Nonfiction, "Mr. M"
Novels
"Beauty, Booty, and Blood"
Box 88 "The Cocktail Waitress"
(6 folders)
Box 89 (9 folders)
Box 90 "The Forbidden Game"
"Jinghis Quinn"
(5 folders)
Box 91 (6 folders)
Box 92 (4 folders)
"The Kingdom by the Sea" ("The Foundling")
(3 folders)
"The Unregistered Guest"
PART D: UNRESTRICTED 1993 ADDITION
WRITINGS, 1948, n.d.
Box 93 "The Annapolitan ("Everything But the Truth")
"The Dangers of Treason," 1948
_Our Government_, memorandum re, n.d.
"Sabres and Armour," n.d.
PART E: PARTIALLY RESTRICTED 1995 ADDITION
WRITINGS, 1942, 1952, 1956, n.d.
Box 94 By Cain
"Brush-Fire," n.d.
"The 49'ers," n.d. (2 folders)
"Gallahad Rides Again," n.d.
"The Guest in 701," 1956, n.d. (3 folders)
"The Modern Cincerella," n.d.
"Mommy's a Barfly," n.d.
"Pay-Off Girl," 1952
"Signal Corps Story," 1942
By Myers, Henry
"The Spaghetti Aria," n.d.
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