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Miscellaneous Short Stories, 1943-1964
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection comprises 17 archival boxes of manuscripts of some of Tsitselē's novels, short stories, radio scripts, translations of Greek works into English, and correspondence with friends and associates. Included in these papers are autograph manuscript and typescript drafts, as well as notebooks of No Name in the Street (1953), her first novel, Ten Seconds from Now (1957), a novel, The Way to Colonos (1960), and many drafts of stories to be included in an unpublished work, The Painter and His Model (ca. 1978). In addition, there are translations from Greek into English by Tsitselē of Koula (1991) by Menēs Koumantareas and The Wife of Candaulus (1954) by Margarita Lymperakē, as well as a libretto for an opera composed by Arghyris Kounadis called The Return (1962), based on The Way to Colonos.
There are letters to Tsitselē, in English and in Greek, by Michael Cacoyannis, Kimon Friar, E. M. Forster, W. Hollerer, Margarita Lymperakē, Iris Murdoch, Peter Mackridge, Arghyris Kounadis, Angelos Staurou Vlachos, and others; literary and other magazines; and Greek newspapers containing articles, book reviews or short stories by Tsitselē. Also included are postcard photographs by Sougioutzoglou-Seraidarē, Nelly's of the Delphic Festival of 1930 in Delphi, Greece, and a few others.
Collection History
- Archival Appraisal Information:
Nothing was removed from the collection.
Access & Use
- Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions for Reproduction and Use:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Miscellaneous Short Stories; Kaiē Tsitselē Papers, C0801, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 4