Philip Wylie Papers, 1920-1984 (mostly 1930-1971)

Contents and Arrangement

Series 1: Works, 1925-1965 June 29

168 boxes

Description:

Consists of works of Philip Wylie, including novels, nonfiction, serials, articles, lectures, and poetry.

Consists of the correspondence of Philip Wylie, including fan mail. Notable individuals and organizations include Jennie Ballard, Doubleday and Co., the Federal Civil Defense Administration, Aldous Huxley, the International Game Fish Association, Carl Jung, the Lerner Marine Laboratory, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Harold Ober, Rinehart and Co., and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, as well as others.

7 boxes

1 folder

Stenographers' Notebooks, dates not examined

2 folders

Series 4: Photographs, 1904-1975

5 boxes

Description:

Consists of photographs of Philip Wylie as well as his family, the Ballard Family, Karen Pryor, as well as others.

4 boxes

Description:

Consists of pamphlets, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings of Philip Wylie's work.

Consists of magazines collected by Philip Wylie, including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Magazine, and Redbook Magazine, as well as others.

Consists of works by individuals such as Thomas Aitken, Lester del Ray, Robert Nevers, and Karen Wylie, as well as others.

Consists primarily of scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings of selected works.

Consists of records, audiotapes, and film of interviews and speeches, primarily related to Philip Wylie.

Consists primarily of correspondence and documents of Frederica Wylie.

1 folder

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of manuscripts and correspondence representing the life work of Wylie (Princeton Class of 1924), ranging from his Dormitory Ditties, published during his college days (circa 1920), to The End of the Dream, a novel published posthumously in 1972. All of his works, including 34 novels, 13 nonfiction books, 52 scripts, 13 serials, and many short stories and articles, exist in the collection in typescript form, often with holograph corrections. Among the longer works are The Disappearance, Images of God (unpublished), Generation of Vipers, When Worlds Collide, The Magic Animal, and Island of Lost Souls. There are articles relating to education, morality, ecology, fishing, civil defense, the atom bomb, and other social issues of concern to the people of Dade County, Fla., where Wylie made his home. His popular "Crunch and Des" stories about two Florida fishermen, as well as his syndicated column, "Off My Chest," are also included.

Correspondence is extensive, including letters of Edwin Balmer, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, Robert Lindner, Konrad Lorenz, Harold Ober, the Wylie family, and many letters from friends, family, editors, businessmen, scientists, psychologists, and minor literary contemporaries. Also present is a large amount of fan mail (1930-1971); material on the Lerner Marine Laboratory (Bahamas), on whose steering committee Wylie served; autobiographical material; records of the International Game Fish Association; book reviews; speeches; poetry; photographs; various documents; magazines in which his works appeared; clippings; and non-print media, including records, tapes, TV films, and home movies. Papers of other persons include the manuscript of Lester Del Rey's Nerves, several manuscripts by Max Wylie and Karen Wylie Pryor, and short works by Sidney Fox, Robert Lindner, and Leo Szilard. In addition, there are papers of Frederica Wylie containing correspondence, bank statements, documents, printed matter, and papers of others from 1971 to 1981.

Collection Creator Biography:

Wylie

Philip Gordon Wylie was born in Beverly, Mass. In 1902. He attended Princeton University during 1920-1923. A writer of fiction and nonfiction, his output included hundreds of short stories, articles, serials, syndicated newspaper columns, novels and works of social criticism. He also wrote screenplays while in Hollywood, was an editor for Farrar & Rinehart, served on the Dade County (Fla.) Defense Council, was a director of the Lerner Marine Laboratory, and at one time was a special advisor to the chairman of the Joint Committee for Atomic Energy. Most of his major writings contain critical, though often philosophical views on man and society as a result of his studies and interest in psychology, biology, ethnology, and physics. He died in 1971.

Acquisition:: The bulk of the collection was given by Philip Wylie at the request of the Princeton University Library, with later additions made by his wife and daughter.
Appraisal: No appraisal information is available.
Processing Information: This collection was processed by Barbara Volz in 1982. Finding aid written by Barbara Volz in 1982.

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Collection is open for research use.

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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Credit this material:

Philip Wylie Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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Storage Note:

This is stored in multiple locations.
Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 1-285; 288-292; 226a; 226b; 227a; 258a; 258b; 263a; 263b; 263c; 263d; 283a; L-000018
ReCAP (scarcpxm): Boxes 286-287; 293

Subject Terms:: American fiction. -- 20th century
Animal behavior.
Atomic bomb -- Florida -- Dade County -- Safety measures.
Fathers and sons -- United States -- 20th century
Fishing -- Florida. -- 20th century
Fishing stories, American. -- 20th century
Marine biology -- Bahamas. -- 20th century
Marine laboratories -- Bahamas. -- 20th century
Mothers and sons.
Novelists, American. -- 20th century
Nuclear energy -- United States
Science fiction, American. -- 20th century
Short stories, American. -- 20th century
Social problems -- United States -- 20th century
Genre Terms:: Audiotapes.
Fiction. -- 20th century
Manuscripts (for publication).
Motion pictures.
Photoprints.
Names:: International Game Fish Association
Places:: Bahamas. -- photographs
Dade County (Fla.) -- Civil defense.
Dade County (Fla.) -- History, Local. -- 20th century
Florida -- Description and travel.