Hutchins mss.

Papers, 1972-2002 , of William M. Hutchins at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Creator: Hutchins, William M.
Title: Hutchins mss.
Collection No.: LMC 2261
Dates: 1972-2002
Quantity:

Quantity: 12.5 linear feet

Quantity: 10 boxes

Abstract: The Hutchins mss., 1972-2002, consists of the manuscripts and proofs of translations from the Arabic made by translator William Maynard Hutchins, 1944-.
Location: ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility) - Temporary; Lilly - Folio
Language: Materials are in English.
Repository: Lilly Library
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500
Business Number: 812-855-2452
liblilly@iu.edu
URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library

Biographical Note

William M. Hutchins, translator, was born in 1944 in Berea, Kentucky. He obtained his BA from Yale University in 1964 in art history and went on to receive an MA in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1967. He received his PhD in Near Eastern languages from the University of Chicago in 1971. Since 1978, Dr. Hutchins has been a Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. He is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature, most notably Naguib Mahfouz's Nobel Prize-winning Cairo Trilogy.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of the manuscripts and proofs of translations from the Arabic made by William Maynard Hutchins, 1944- .

The major work represented here is his translation of all three volumes of Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy . The editor for these volumes at Doubleday was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Editorial comments and queries in her hand are on each of the three manuscripts. Other Arabic, particularly Egyptian, authors translated by Hutchins include Tawfīq al-Hakïm, Abu Uthman Amr ibn al-Jahiz, and Nawal Sadawi..

Arrangement

The collection is organized into two series: I. English translations of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy; and, II. Translations of other Arabic writers.

Restrictions

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Indexed Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item], Hutchins mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Acquisition Information

Gift. 2002

Collection Inventory

Series:

English translations of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy .

Physical Description: (Boxes 1-7)

Palace Walk . Translated by William Hutchins and Olive Kenny (New York: Doubleday, 1990)
box 1
First unpublished version by Olive Kenny, with revisions by William Hutchins

Physical Description: (7 folders)

box 1
William Hutchins' complete draft, with revisions, as sent to editors for suggestions

Physical Description: (5 folders)

box 1
Multiple drafts of translation, partially in photocopy, some with suggestions by Doubleday editor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in pencil and Martha Levin in green ink, revised by the translator in red ink

Physical Description: (7 folders)

box 2
Complete draft of translation, partially in photocopy, edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in pencil and Martha Levin in green ink, revised by the translator in red ink

Physical Description: (6 folders)

box 2
Copy of translation sent to the publishers after final revisions taking into account editors' suggestions

Physical Description: (5 folders)

box 2
Copy-edited photocopy of computer print-out of translation

Physical Description: (5 folders)

box 2
Master-set of galley proofs of translation, corrected by publisher's proofreader

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 2
Palace of Desire: Cairo Trilogy II . Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Lorne M. Kenny and Olive E. Kenny (New York: Doubleday, 1991)
box 3
First unpublished version by Olive and Lorne Kenny

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 3
Multiple drafts, by chapter, of William Hutchins' translation of Palace of Desire, several with suggestions and queries in pencil by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and revisions in red ink by the translator

Physical Description: (11 folders)

box 4
Print-out draft, chapters 1-40, of translation with few additional revisions (lacks final chapters 41-44)

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 4
Photocopy of translation edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in pencil and Martha Levin in ink

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 4
Photocopy of translation sent to the publishers after final revisions taking into account editor's suggestions

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 4
Copy-edited computer print-out of translation

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 5
Uncorrected galley proofs of translation

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 5
Master-set of galley proofs, corrected by proofreader and translator

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 5
Revised proofs of translation, with revised pages

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 5
Final galley proofs, incorporating changes of previous set

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 6
Sugar Street: Cairo Trilogy III . Translated by William Maynard Hutchins and Angele Botros Samaan (New York: Doubleday, 1992)
box 6
First unpublished version translated by Angele Botros Samaan and revised by Olive Kenny

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 6
Multiple drafts, arranged by chapter, of William Hutchins' translation, several with suggestions and queries in pencil by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and revised in red ink by the translator, through chap. 35

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 6
Multiple drafts, arranged by chapter, cont., ...chap. 36-end

Physical Description: (6 folders)

box 6
Draft of translation edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in pencil and Martha Levin in ink

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 6
Copy of translation sent to the publishers after final revisions taking into account editors' suggestions

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 6
Copy-edited manuscript of translation

Physical Description: (4 folders)

box 7
Master galley proofs, corrected by the translator

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 7
Revised galley proofs

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 7
Confirmation galley proofs

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 7
Correspondence with publishers relating to William Hutchins' translation of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy , 1989-1992

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 7
"Translating and Editing the Cairo Trilogy of Naguib Mahfouz. Paper scheduled to be delivered Friday, December, 1989, ...a Panel for the Modern Language Association."

General: 3 drafts, each 17p., all heavily revised

box 7
WMH
box 7
Translation fragments and queries of Mahfouz , 1991
box 7
Miscellaneous notes re: Cairo Trilogy translations
box 7
Mahfouz: "Nobel Lecture, 1988."

General: [copy]

box 7
Clippings, etc. re: Mahfouz; Doubleday acquiring American rights to Mahfouz writings; WMH as translator of Mahfouz, etc.

Series:

Translations of other Arabic writers: al-Hakim, al-Jahiz, et al.

Physical Description: (Boxes 7-10)

box 7
Metaphysical Tales by Tawfīq al-Hakïm, Selected and translated by William Maynard Hutchins. Computer print-out draft with pencil corrections and marginal comments

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 7
al-Hakīm's Return of the Spirit . (Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1990).
box 7
Corrected page proofs
box 7
Later set of corrected page proofs with further corrections in red ink by the translator
box 7
Final corrected page proofs, taking into account translator's previous corrections
box 7
Early drafts of three stories by al-Hakïm: Show me God . (2 - A.D., 5p.; T.D., 4p.), Satan Triumphs . (T.D., 4p.); My Donkey and Hypocrisy (incomplete). The stories are from al-Hakim's In the Tavern of Life & other Stories . (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publisher, 1998
box 7
The Theology of Tawfīq al-Hakïm: An Exposition with Examples . Corrected galleys for July/October issue of Muslim World
box 7
al-Hakīm's Plays . (Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press).
box 7
Incomplete print-out of manuscript of volume II

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 8
Volume Two: Theatre of Society.

Physical Description: (4 folders)

General: Photocopy of corrected page layouts

box 8
The Pride of Ninth Century Baghdad and Basra: Eight Essays of al-Jahiz . Draft of essays by Abu Uthman Amr ibn al-Jahiz, with translator's revisions, later published in Nine Essays of al-Jahiz (New York: Peter Lang, 1989)

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 9
Nine Essays of al-Jahiz . Photocopy of corrected page proofs

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 9
Al-Mazini's Egypt . (Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1983).
box 9
With translator's extensive revisions in pencil for "enlarged and revised Second Edition"
box 9
Computer draft of revised version, with translator's revisions in red ink.
box 10
Copy of computer draft of revised edition with further revisions in red ink by the translator, as sent to Three Continents Press , September 1995
box 10
Partial computer draft of revised edition.
box 10
"Egyptian Stories of the Seventies and Eighties." Complete manuscript for printer. Published as Egyptian Tales and Short Stories of the 1970's and 1980's . Edited by William M. Hutchins (Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1987)

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 10
"The Pages of My Life [My Life, My Fiction] The Autobiography of Dr. Nawal El Saadawi. Translated by W.M. Hutchins. October 11, 1997 . The Free Press." T.D., 152p. Apparently unpublished. Her autobiography appeared in English as A Daughter of Isis: the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi . Translated by Serif Hetata (London, New York: Zed Books, 1999)
box 10
Stories submitted to Playboy for Ribald Classic: "Coral Beads from The Precious Necklace" by Ibn Abd Rabbih. T.D. Draft with revisions and changes, 5p.; T.D., 9p. "Stories from the 'Book of Women' of Uyan al-Akhbar by Ibn Qutayba." T.D. draft with revisions and changes, 4p.; T.D., 6p. Accompanied by a rejection letter from Playboy fiction editor Robie Macauley, August 9, 1976 and a photocopy of a Hutchins translation published in Playboy, "Ribald Classic" , July 1975
box 10
Miscellaneous - notes and fragments

Physical Description: (3p.)

box 10
"Translating Arabic Literature: A Personal Note" Paper presented April 8, 2002 at Lilly Library, Indiana University. T.D.

Physical Description: (23p.)

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