Overview
Preliminary box list only for papers of American playwright and novelist, William Gibson.
Dates
- Creation: 1933-2007
Conditions Governing Access
The bulk of this collection is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Special equipment and surrogate required; consult Houghton staff (box 1).
Extent
16.5 linear feet (17 boxes)0.05904 Gigabytes (1 box)
Collection is chiefly manuscript and typescript compositions, with some correspondence relating to plays and publication and a small amount of personal and biographical material. Compositions series includes correspondence and printed material, and the correspondence series includes composition-related material; readers are advised to use keyword searches.
Biographical / Historical
William Gibson was an American playwright and novelist. He was married to psychotherapist Margaret Brenman-Gibson, and the couple had two sons; she died in 2004.
Arrangement
Minimally processed. Arrangement is original and materials are not fully cataloged. Readers should note that when fully processed, the order of materials may change.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository, b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2012MT-46. Purchased with funds from the Francis W. Hatch Book fund, Billy Rose Theatre fund, Robert Gould Shaw Curatorship fund, Edward Sheldon Book fund, and the Russel Crouse Fund for Twentieth Century Theatre; received: 2013 May 10.
General note
The bulk of this collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. See access restrictions below for additional information.
Processing Information
Accessioned by: Melanie Wisner
- Title
- Gibson, William, 1914-2008. William Gibson papers, circa 1933-2007: finding aid
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou02448
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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