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Part A: Writings File, circa 1925-1977 (continued)
"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, 1929-1933, undated
"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, circa 1940)
"Preface to the 50th Anniversary Edition, 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")
BOX 35-37 Part A: Financial Records, 1934-1960
Correspondence, bills, receipts, income tax data kept on card files, and other related matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically therein.
BOX 35 Correspondence and related matter
Bank of America
Bills and receipts
Dean Witter & Co.
Gang and Kopp, Attorneys at Law
Hanna and Morton, Lawyers
Income tax
Watkins, David
BOX 36 Income tax file
1944-1952
BOX 37 1953-1960
BOX 38 Part A: Legal File, 1946-1947
Case file material pertaining to an obscenity suit.
BOX 38 Obscenity suit, Marcel Rodd case, 1946-1947
(2 folders)
BOX 38-43 Part A: Miscellany, circa 1930-circa 1960
Awards, address cards, clippings, and miscellaneous printed and near-print matter and various mementos.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 38 Awards and assorted notes, cards, lists, and related matter
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)
BOX 44-50 Part B: Family Papers, 1901-1977
Correspondence and a small subject file.
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of family member and chronologically therein. The subject file is 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.
BOX 44 Correspondence
Cain, Elina Sjöstedt Tyszecka (second wife), 1946-1974, undated
Cain, Genevieve (sister), 1945-1951
Cain, Mrs. James William (mother), 1945-1953
Cain, Virginia (sister), 1943-1953
Girvin, Lois, 1956-1976, undated
(2 folders)
Holmes, Henrietta, 1966-1977, undated
Macbeth, Florence (fourth wife), 1946-1950, undated
McComas, Rosalie Cain (sister), 1946-1977
(4 folders)
BOX 45 Pringle, Aileen (third wife), 1948-1976, undated
(3 folders)
Rutledge, Christine, 1966-1971
Tyszecka, Leo and Edie (children of second wife), 1937-1977
Other, 1947-1969
Subject file
Cain, James William
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, 1946-1950
Notes, lists, and miscellany
Questionnaires
(2 folders)
BOX 46 Research cards compiled by Cain
BOX 47 Correspondence, 1901-1971, undated
(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, 1934-1954
Income taxes
Macbeth, Alice
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