Biographical Note
Breon Mitchell, 1942- , is an Indiana University professor of Germanic Studies, a translator of German to English, and a Samuel Beckett bibliographer. He began his professional career with a Ph.D. from Oxford University in Comparative Literature, and joined the Indiana University faculty in 1968, in both the Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature departments.
During his time at IU, Mitchell co-founded the Friends of the Lilly Library, served as a chair of the Lilly advisory committee and eventually became the acting Lilly Library director from 2001-2012.
Mitchell has also been an avid scholar of literary translation and a notable translator. With his colleague Philip Kimball he established a bilingual literary magazine in German and English while still an undergraauate at the University of Kansas. His works include translations of The Tin Drum , by Günter Grass, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The God of Impertinence by Sten Nadolny, Shadowlife by Martin Grzimek, The Silent Angel by Heinrich Böll, Laura's Skin by J.F. Federspiel, and The Color of the Snow by Rüdiger Kremer.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence includes communications with other translators, authors and publishers as well as other colleagues. Professional Files includes author/title files, subject files, pulications, and writings. Translations include edited drafts and final manuscripts of Mitchell's major translations, including Tin Drum , The Trial , Laura's Skin , The Silent Anger , and Spies . Miscellaneous files include some edits of translation, miscellaneous personal and professional files, and correspondence.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into the following series: I. Correspondence, II. Personal Files, III. Professional Files, IV. Translations, V. Miscellaneous and VI. Oversize.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions:
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Indexed Terms
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Persons
- Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
- Mitchell, Breon
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Corporate Bodies
- American Literary Translators Association
- IU Faculty
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Subjects
- Indiana University
- Literature--translating
- Translating and Interpreting
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
[Item], Mitchell, B. mss II, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Acquisition Information
Acquired: 2008, 2019
Collection Inventory
box 1
Applebaum, Stanley (Dover Pub.)
box 1
Böll, Heinrich: corresp. Susan Harris
box 1
Bradbury, Malcolm & Elizabeth
box 1
Brussig, Thomas; Bewick, Thomas
box 1
Cunningham, Rodger; Ogma, 9-12 chapter
box 1
Dawood, Ibrahim & Bowles, Paul
box 2
Fox, Peggy (New Directions)
box 2
Heid, Marfred & Marcel Beyer
box 2
Herman, Mark & Ronnie Apter
box 2
Homel, David
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 3
Laughlin, James (N.D.)
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 3
Leuz, Sigfried, corresp. , 1989-95
box 3
Leuz, Sigfried, corresp. , 1986-1988
box 3
Mibeck, Carl [HS Tennis Coach]
box 3
Napier, Elizabeth (Middlebury College)
box 3
Overbeck, Lois
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 3
Paschke, Barbara
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 4
Safranski, Rudiger - Nietzsche
box 4
Bill Smith - IAS , Oct 12, 2006
box 4
Joseph Sobrer, IAS , Oct 23, 2003
box 4
Stoehr, Ingo R. Snyder, Emile
box 20
Subseries:
Other Correspondence
box 20
BM: letters of congrats, thanks
box 20
Cushman, Keith
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 22
BM: ALTA Austin Meeting , 1994
box 22
BM: McMaster trans. conf.
box 22
BM: James Joyce and the German Novel
box 22
Goethe House: Translation Award Committee , 1994
box 22
BM: The Ralph Manheim medal
box 22
BM: Swiss Dossier trans. , 2000
box 22
BM: Basbanes, Nicholas, essay on B.M.
box 22
BM: Mexico Nobel Talk , Feb 19, 2013
box 22
BM: Hubert Essay , October 1, 1994
box 22
Czernin, Franz Josef, poems, translations
box 22
Hull, Jim: illustrations for Kafka
box 22
Reader's Reports for Journals
box 22
Fancy Good/Open ALL Night
box 22
Brown University , Spring 1998
box 22
ATA Conf. Hilton Head, Nov. 4-8
box 22
ATA Conference Dec 3-5 Guadalajara
box 22
Northwestern UP/Böll volume
box 31
Kirschenbaum, Sandra (Fine Print)
box 31
Tom Lofton: Honorary Degree
box 36
Center for the Art of Translation
box 36
Garland Library of World Literature
box 36
Correspondence - Grand Street Jürg Laederach
box 36
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
box 36
Journal of Beckett Studies
box 36
Journal of Beckett Studies requests
box 36
New Directions Publishing
box 36
Seminar - Journal of Germanic Studies
box 36
Southern Humanities Review
box 36
Correspondence - Chronological Jürg Lederach
box 36
Leidner, Alan (Colloquia Germanica)
box 36
Overbeck, Lois
Physical Description: (empty folder)
box 36
Tim, Uwe & Ploetz, Dagmar
box 36
ue_colloq translators list
box 38
Richter-Bernberg, Melanie
box 39
Talk @ Butler University BM
box 39
IAS Seminar Fall & Spring , 2012-13
box 39
Miscellaneous personal files, Rhodes Sch. reunion , '14
box 39
Income Tax Returns , 1994-1995
box 39
Home paid off Equity Loan , 1996
box 39
Farm payments, etc. , '95
box 40
Troubled Being & Being Troubled , Richard Ingram , April 2005
box 40
BM High School yearbook, Salina H.S. , 1959
box 40
Along the Route , columns written by Jacob "Uncle Jake" Luder, B.J. Schultz
box 41
miscellaneous personal files
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 41
B.M. - Youth Leadership contest
box 41
Sarang, Vilas, permissions , 2014
box 41
Various issues ATA Chronicle , 2013-2014
box 41
Corresp. & files related to Poe/Manet/Mallarmé
Physical Description: (4 folders)
box 41
Retirement IRA Gary , 2012
box 41
Lichter trans. mss. misc.
box 41
Lichter trans. French mss.
box 41
Lichter trans. early English trans. by someone else
box 41
Tax Material for , 2011, 2010-2012
box 41
Rhodes 50th Reunion DC Sept 19-21
box 41
William Weaver Essay (Eco)
box 41
Kley, Heinrich - invoices, etc.
Series:
Professional Files
Subseries:
Author/Title files
box 5
Adam, Tracy. Tous Pour la nation
box 5
Aldaz, Anna-Marie. 19th Century Spanish Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology
box 5
Aldaz & Walker. 19th Century Spanish Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology
box 5
Aldaz & Walker. The Poetry of Gertudis Gomez de Avellaneda & Caroline Cornado: A Sampler
box 5
Aldaz & Walker. 19th Century Women's Poetry
box 5
Anastasio, Maria. Selected Stories
box 5
Anastasio, Maria & Kaplan, Gregory B. Short Narrative by Juan Jose Millás
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 5
Bailey, Matthew. Mocedadaes de Rogrigo
box 5
Beustein, John. El Prodigio de Etiopia
box 5
Condini, Ned. Yet Fire is Present: A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry
box 5
de Castenlau, Henriette Julie. Voyage de Campagne
box 5
DeJean, Joan & Stephen Rendall. Historie de la Marquise - Marquise de Banneville
box 5
Desbordes - Valmore, Marceline. Sarah
box 5
Ezra, Aron & Jason Linder. The Trial by Kafka
box 5
Fauske, Christopher & Jefferey Voccola. Skipper Worse Alexander Lange Kielland
box 5
Fauske, Christopher. Skipper Worse
box 5
Favorou, Nora Seligman. City Folk & Country Folk
box 5
Favorou, Nora S. City Folk & Country Folk , Khvoschinskava, Sofya
box 5
Galip, Seyh. Beauty & Love
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 5
Gingerich, Stephen P. Una tumba and Numa
box 5
Gingerich, Stephen P. An Empty Grave & Numa , Juan Benet
box 5
Hart, Kathleen - Gabriel , by George Sand
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 5
Hawthorne & Constable - Monsieur Venus
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 5
Huergo, Elizabeth M. - El Balneario & El Castillo...
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Johnston, Bill. Baladina. Juliusz Slowacki
box 5
Kadish, Doris & Jenson, Deborah. Sarah , by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
box 5
Karolle, Julia. Schlumpp Erwin Mord
box 5
Kaplan, Jane. La Bibliotheque bleue
box 5
Le Conte, Franz & Osuna, Alfonso Garcia. La Montagne Ensorceleé
box 5
McNerry, Kathleen. A Monologue and Ten Stories by Caterina Albert
box 5
McNerry, Kathleen. Prospectus by Caterina Albert
box 5
McNerry, Kathleen. Pitchfork Prong
box 5
Mosley, Phillip. L'Intelligence des Fleurs , Maurice Maeterlinick
box 6
Otechestvennye Zapiski translation
box 6
Rendall, Steven. "Historie de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville"
box 6
Robbins, Rhea Cote, Sue Hoseman & Sylvie Charron. Canuck
box 6
Romani, Gabrielle. Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck
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Romano, Evelia - Dos Farsas
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 6
Rooksby, Emma. Three Women Trois Femmes
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Rooksby, Emma. Trois Femmes
Physical Description: (2 folders)
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Trois Femmes - Three Women
box 6
de Charriere, Isabelle. Trois Femmes
box 6
Isabelle de Charriere, Belle Dezuylen Three Women
box 6
Schultz, Gretchen An Anthology of 19th-century French Women's Poetry
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Schultz, Gretchen. 19th Century French Women's Poetry
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Schultz, Gretchen. Anthology of French Women's Poetry
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 6
Sobrer, Josep Miquel. Mirall trenca. Mercé Redoreda
box 6
Tallet, Joséz. La Semilla Estéril & The Sterile Seed
box 6
Von Hammersteim, Katharina
box 6
Washbourne - Spanish American Modernism , Kelly
box 6
Washbourne, Kelly & Sergio Waisman. An Anthology of Spanish American Modernismo
box 6
El clavo del que uno se ahorea
box 6
Webste, Brenda & Gabriella Romani. Letter to my Mother by Edith Bruck
box 6
Witinger, Raleigh & Diana Spokane. Confessions of a Prisoner: Written by Herself
box 6
Wyszynski, Matthew - The Right Track
box 18
Herring, Phillip (U. of Wisc. - Madison)
box 18
Hoban, Russell (empty folder)
box 18
Cunningham, Rodger
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 18
Cushman, Keith
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 18
Denman, Hugh
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 18
Diederichs, Ranier (Zurich, Switzerland)
box 18
Coetzee, J.M.
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 18
Beard, Michael & Victoria
box 18
Books purchased - Beckett (empty folder)
box 18
Abish, Walter
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 18
Amis, Martin
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 26
Timm/Mitchell/Schultz interview TR
box 26
Timm, Uwe. Conjunctions excerpt
box 26
Timm, Uwe. Morenga reviews
box 26
Kurt & Helen Wolff Prize Morenga
box 26
Timm/Mitchell chapter excerpt for translation (Howard)
box 26
Timm/Mitchell Morenga , drafts
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 26
Timm/Mitchell/early draft
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 26
Timm Morenga transl. draft 1
box 26
Timm/Mitchell Morenga excerpts
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 26
Timm: Morenga , drafts of revised proofs, part I
box 26
Timm: Morenga , drafts of revised proofs, part II
box 26
Morenga corrected proofs to N.D.
box 26
Morenga uncorrected proofs pages
box 26
Timm, Uwe. Morenga reviews
box 29
Grass: New Zealand lecture , Oct 2008
box 29
Grass: Tin Drum queries discussed with Christoph Irmscher
box 29
Grass: Tin Drum corresp. & editing with Harcourt
box 29
Grass: Tin Drum correspondence with Random House UK
box 29
Grass: BM corresp. eith Steidl publishers
box 30
Grass: Newspaper Clippings
box 30
Grass: Tin Drum Kurt & Helen Wolff Prize gathering Chicago 2007
box 30
Grass: Tin Drum BM drafts, misc. revisions
box 30
Grass: Tin Drum reading with BM in NY Goethe Ins. , 2007
box 30
Grass: Tin Drum queries for Christoph Irmsher
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Grass: Tin Drum reading at LCB & radio interview Berlin
box 30
Grass: Tin Drum editing Harcourt
box 30
Grass: Tin Drum pub. Steidl
box 30
Grass: Tin Drum excerpt in Two Lines , , Center for Art in Translation , 2009
box 31
Sarang, Vilas: trans. of S. Beckett
box 31
Grass, G: Translators gathering for lyric poetry , Feb 2013
box 34
Grass Portugese publish , 2009
box 34
G.Grass/What must be said
box 34
Grass, Günter - Breon Mitchell collection, appraisals, etc.
box 34
Grass: Tin Drum , ready NY , Oct 27, 2006
box 34
Grass: early drafts of Tin Drum
box 34
Gunter Grass Workshop (Tin Drum) Chicago Goethe , Oct 27, 2006
box 34
Grass-Haus, Grass life and works , 2012
box 34
Grass: Gdansk gathering , June 2005
box 34
G. Grass: H,F. nachgerufen
box 34
G.Grass: Damals wie heute
box 35
Federspiel Laura's Skin , corresp.
box 35
Beyer, Marcel Spies reviews
box 35
Beyer, Marcel correspondence
box 35
Sonnenberg, Ben Foolish Lovers
box 37
Anders-Salome, Lou; Look Back
box 38
Coetzee: Bib., for Australia
Scope and Contents: This box contains 38 empty unlabeled folders
box 38
Calinescu, YGCL - , 2014-5
box 38
Calinescu, M. Selected books from his library at Lilly
box 39
Smith, Cathy, Plaything of the Gods
box 7
Adam Rovner defense, Sept 4 3:30 BH 916
box 7
ALTA - Chicago , 2002 Oct 16-20
box 7
ALTA Montreal , Nov 4-6 '05
box 7
ALTA , New York , Nov 12-16, Nov 17-20, 2003
box 7
ALTA Raleigh, N.C. , Oct 2001
box 7
Annual FOLLY Dinner , Nov 4, 2004
box 7
Toronto ATA , Oct 13-16, '04
box 7
ATA Atlanta, GA , 2002, Nov 6-9
box 7
(W.H.) Auden & Isherwood/Spender
box 7
Various Banff , Aug 2003-Feb 2004
box 7
Biennial Report Archives of Traditional Music
box 7
Bill & Terrie Cagle visit, May 21-25
box 7
Books to be Reimbursed , 2005
box 7
Boston Trip , Oct 17-20, 04
box 7
Braille Beckett/get brailled
box 7
Center for Art in Translation
box 7
IPP23 - Chicago 31 July-Aug 4
box 7
Chicago Wolff prize trip , June 1-4 2003
box 7
Collection Development Policy
box 7
Current book & mss. purchases
box 15
Trip to Martha's Vineyard , Sept 2001
box 15
Trip to Martha's Vineyard , Sept 17-19, 2002
box 15
MLA Texts & Translations, N.Y. , Feb 12-14 (2004)
box 15
Monthly Operating Statement
box 15
Muller papers
Scope and Contents: This is an empty folder except for a post-it note.
box 15
Trip to Naples & Dallas , Aug. 2001
box 15
Newspaper clippings on African Langs.
box 15
Norton publisher/Nietzsche
box 15
NY - The Grolier Club & Heads mtg. , June 22-26, 2003
box 15
N.Y. Trip , June 23-29 (2002)
box 15
NY Visit Chicago , May 27-June 5 (2002)
box 15
Paris - London , 2003 March
box 15
PEN Translation Committee
box 15
April 29, Portugese IAS , (2002)
box 15
Puerto Rico , April 11-14 (2002)
box 15
Rhodes/Marshall Committee , 2002-3
box 15
S. Sanders reception , July 15 (2003) -
box 15
St. Louis trip , Jan 30-Feb 1, 2003
box 15
Search & Screen/Develop. Officer
box 15
the Times Literary Supplement
box 15
Toronto , June 6-8 (2003)
box 15
Translation Roundtable , 18-19 Feb 2002
box 15
Translations meeting , Oct 20-21 2002
box 20
BM: Review of Reeds German Ex. Art , 1977
box 20
ALTA Conf. #5 Stanford , 1992
box 20
ALTA Conference no. 11 , 1998
box 20
ALTA Conf. Pittsburgh #15 , Oct 28-31, '92
box 20
ALTA Conference Atlanta #16 , 1993
box 20
ALTA Conference at I.U. #19 , 1996
box 20
BM: Rouault & Manet/Mallormé, Press vols.
box 20
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
box 20
Pamuk, Orham trans. Beckett & Illus. Book, Oppenheim essay
box 20
Iowa Trans. Conf. Fall , '94
box 20
University of Kansas fund raising
box 20
Lilly Exhibition on Translation , 92-93
box 20
BM: Chair MLA: William Riley Parker Prize , 1994
box 20
Cathy Smith mss.
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 20
Beckett: Word & Image
Physical Description: (6 folders)
box 20
NCTE Committee on Comparative and World Literature minutes, correspondence
box 20
Guide to World Short Story, NCTE
box 20
NCTE Pittsburgh World Lit. , 1993
box 20
NCTE Me - ( Retreat) , 1998, 1997
box 20
NCTE Conference Nashville , 1998-Nov 19-24
box 20
Third Annual Conference for Beckett Translators , 1998
box 20
BM: Chair, Wolff Prize , 2000
box 20
Kurt & Helen Wolff Prize , 1998
box 20
Wolff Sympos. Chicago , June 11-13, '07
box 20
ALTA Nominating Committee , 1993
box 20
Translation Workshop Lilly , May '03
box 20
Lilly Library Roundtable , 2002
box 20
Böll, Heinrich: St. Martin Press
box 20
Lewis Galantiere Prize Committee
box 20
Beckett Collection for Lilly
box 20
Sam Beckett: Word & Image, A.
box 20
BM: retirement as Chair of Comp. Lit. IU
box 20
MacArthur Fellow Nomination
box 20
Catalogs and Books, Requests and Acknowledgements
box 20
Trivium (British general journal of the humanities)
box 20
BM: 1976 College of Art Assoc. panel, LA
box 20
Montreal Conference , 1992
box 20
Hugo O'Brien Leadership Seminar
box 27
Dimension , , issues , 1972, 1997
box 27
Dimension , , vol. vii, no. 1, 3 , 1974
box 27
Chicago Review: New Writing in German , 2002
box 27
James Joyce Quarterly , , , 1967, 1986, 1987
box 27
New Orleans Review , vols. 9(3), 12(1)
box 27
Translation Review , & , 1982, 2012
box 27
World Literature Today , issues & reprints
box 23
Bennett, Martin/Pavese/Ungaretti/Freraud/Desnos
box 23
Claeson, Eva/Söderberg, Hjalmar
box 23
Conti, Gregory/Stern, Rigoni
box 23
Cotter, Sean/Ursu, Liliana
box 23
Dassow, Gregory/Sologub, Fyodor
box 23
Beacons - Fordyce/Nerval , 2000
box 23
Galvoni/Jakob, Beacons , 2000
box 23
Jaffe, Daniel/Grivinia, I Accepted
box 23
Jerome, Linda/Leão, Lúcia
box 23
Kaplansky, Jonathon/Helene Rioux
box 23
Lasker, Carroll/Small, Adam (empty)
box 23
Maj/Riel/Turell Beacons , 2000
box 23
Martikke/Stickelmann Beacons , 2000
box 23
Powell, Ron/Obrestaf/Klyue/
box 23
Beacons - Racz/Chirinos , 2000
box 23
Renaud, Rachelle/Girard Jean
box 23
Rodgers/Ocamo Beacons , 2000
box 23
Sensoy/Atiok Beacons , 2000
box 23
Skomp/Moritz Beacons , 2000
box 23
Sotelino/Assis/Gomes Beacons , 2000
box 23
Stephanides/Stephanos/Nicolau, Theo.
box 23
Zimmerman/Mandelstram Beacons , 2000
box 20
BM: Seeing the Unsayable, essay
box 20
BM: A Rose by Any Other Name, essay
box 22
Essay for volume ed. by Ulrich Weissler
box 31
Mann, Thomas, essay draft material
box 31
Kafka essay: Kafka & the Hunger Artist
box 31
BM: Essay on Shaw/Pound/Joyce
box 39
Lives of the Translator - B.M. essay
box 39
The Man Between: M. Henry Heim, A life in Translation
Subseries:
General Professional Files
box 37
Susan Sontag Prize for Translation
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 37
Sumie/Yearbook
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 37
James Joyce Foundation, Zurich
box 37
Goethe, Hans - Grzimek , June 5-7, '06
box 37
MLA Texts & Translations (materials) N.Y. , March 2-3 2006
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 37
Kurt & Helen Wolff Prize, Chicago , June 20-23 '10
box 37
Polish-German Conference , April 2007
box 37
Kurt & Helen Wolff Symposium, Chicago , June 8-10, '09
box 37
Dallas ALTA , Nov 7-11, &07
box 37
HRC Flair Conf. , Nov 13-15, '00
box 37
Helen & Kurt Wolff Symposium , June 10, 2008
box 37
Literature Colloquium Berlin
box 37
Lit Trans A German American NY , April 8, 1992
box 37
Symposium on German American Trans., Austin, Texas , Oct 22, 1990
box 37
Oxford Society of Bibliophiles
box 37
Banff Translation Fellowships
box 37
Tim Mitchell Art History Award
box 37
Reviews & evaluations of translations/books/articles
box 37
Miniature books Conf. , Aug 2001
box 37
NY - Grolier, Heads , Jan 20-25, 2004
box 37
MLA Texts & Translations Editorial Board , 2002-2006
box 37
Oak Knoll Fest , Oct 1-3, 2004
box 37
Wolff Symposium, June 6-7
box 37
Max Kade Board Meeting , Aug 2009
box 37
Kurt & Helen Wolff Prize , 2004
box 37
IPP Helsinki, Finland , 22-25 Sept '05
box 37
HRC - Flair Symposium on Modernism , Feb 19-21, 2004
box 37
Gontarski letter for Oct 1
box 37
Future of the Books - Oct 2
box 37
Goethe Chicago , Dec 7-13, 2001
box 37
PEN Translation Committee
box 37
Recommendations & evaluations
box 37
James Joyce & the German novel
box 37
Fritz von Unrah collection
box 38
Agreement, NYRB , 10/6/2015
box 38
various journals & catalogues
box 38
Various prof. journals, books
box 38
IAS Lit Trans. Sem material
box 39
Western Ontario Conf. Calinescu, M. , Oct 20-23, 2011
box 39
ALTA Display Lilly , 2013
box 39
AATG Panel Orlando , Nov. 2013
box 39
Butler University Seminar , Jan. 24, 2014
box 39
Conf. Goethe Institute Chicago, Nov 7-8
box 39
Archipelago Board of Directors , 2007-
box 39
Kansas Visit, Kade , 2013 Sept.
box 39
Banff Canada , June 10-24, 2012
box 39
Doug Hofstadter future dirt. file
box 39
Bill Johnston promotion file , 2012
box 39
Cliff Landers event , 2012
box 39
Scaglione Prize Committee , 2014
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 39
Bibliophile ephemera Breon Mitchell
box 9
Henrich Böll The Silent Angel proofs, part I
box 9
Henrich Böll The Silent Angel proofs, part II
box 9
Kafka Trial , t.s. , pp. 1-146 , 1992
box 9
Kafka Trial , t.s. , pp. 147-326 , 1992
box 9
L.A.S. mss Looking Back
Physical Description: (4 folders)
box 9
People/Places and Events in Kafka's Tragedy , Hugo Hect.
box 9
Performing Without a Stage , pp. 1-135
box 9
Performing Without a Stage , pp. 136-319
box 11
Also by Siegfried Lenz , proofs by Mitchell , 1989
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 11
Draft, works of Siegfried Lenz , 1989
box 11
Final draft, works of Siegfried Lenz , 1989
box 11
When Freedom Comes , Martha Kent, t.s.
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 11
Heinrich Böll Der engel schwieg , copy with notes
box 11
Heinrich Böll The Silent Angel , pp. 1-85
box 11
Heinrich Böll The Silent Angel , pp. 86-170
box 11
Heinrich Böll The Silent Angel , Mitchell's copy sent to St. Martin's , 1995
box 11
Heinrich Böll The Silent Angel , copy of trsl. "for Ingrid"
box 20
Kremer, Rüdiger: poems trans.
box 20
Krol, Gerrit: Digital Man, trans. Ria Leigh-Loohuizen
box 20
Heßenbüttel, Helmut: poem 39, trans
box 20
BM: Review of Breon translations
box 20
Lame Duck, Kafka collection sale + catalogue , 1997
box 20
BM: Lit trans. , Univ. of Kansas & summer study , 1960-64
box 20
BM: Versuch lit. trans. , 1961-64
box 20
Hermann Kasack, trans. The Birch Grove , , R.M. Riilke & B.M. poems , 1962
box 20
Kimball, Philip Cross Country
box 20
Kremer, Rüdiger: Das Moj 2
box 20
Grzimek, Martin Feuerfalter
box 20
Grzimek, M. Heartstop galleys
box 22
BM: Kafka, "Elf Söhne" essay , 1973
box 22
Kafka, Intro to The Trial
box 24
BM: Cathy Smith The Village
box 29
Grass: Die Box & BM reader's report
box 29
Grass intro to Tin Drum and B.M. afterword to T.D. , 2009
box 29
Tin Drum 2009 - Reviews and reactions
box 29
G. Grass: Peeling the Onion
box 29
Grass/notes from Cedar meeting
box 29
Heßenbüttel, Helmut: poem 39, trans
box 29
Grass, Günter: Tin Drum t.s., pp. 1-257
box 29
Grass, Günter: Tin Drum t.s., pp. 258-517
box 29
Grass, Günter: Tin Drum t.s., pp. 518-729
box 29
Grass, Günter: Tin Drum edited draft, pp. 1-229
box 29
Grass, Günter: Tin Drum edited draft, pp. 230-380
box 29
Grass, Günter: Tin Drum edited draft, pp. 381-545
box 29
Grass, Günter: Tin Drum draft, pp. 546-729
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "The Wide Skirt"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "Under the Raft"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "Moth and Light Bulb"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "The Photo Album"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "Glass, Glass, Little Glass"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "The Schedule"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "Rasputin and the ABC's"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "Long Distance Song Effects"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "The Grandstand"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Shop Windows"
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Grass/Mitchell, "No Miracle"
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Grass/Mitchell, "The Good Friday Fare"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Tapering the Foot"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Herbert Truczinski's Back"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Faith Hope Love"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Scrap Metal"
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Grass/Mitchell, "The Polish Post Office"
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Grass/Mitchell, "House of Cards"
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Grass/Mitchell, "He Lies in Saspe"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Fizz Powder"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Special Communiqués"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Taking my Helplessness to Fran Graff"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Five and Seventy Kilos"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Bebra's Frontline Theatre"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Inspecting Concrete - or Mystic Barbaric Bored"
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Grass/Mitchell, "The Imitation of Christ"
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Grass/Mitchell, "The Dusters"
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Grass/Mitchell, "The Nativity Play"
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Grass/Mitchell, "The Ant Trail"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Should I or Shouldn't I"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Disinfectant"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Growth in the Boxcar"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Flintstones and Gravestones"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Fortuna North"
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Grass/Mitchell, "Madonna"
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Grass/Mitchell, "The Hedgehog"
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Grass/Mitchell, "In the Wardrobe"
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Grass/Mitchell, "On the Coco Rug"
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Grass/Mitchell, "The Onion Cellar"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "atlantic wall"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "The Ring Finger"
box 29
Grass/Mitchell, "streetcar"
box 30
Grass/Mitchell Tin Drum , drafts
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 30
Tin Drum , corrected proofs sent to L. Cooper , 2009
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 30
Tin Drum , orig. page proofs corrected by B.M. &Drenka , 2009
Physical Description: (4 folders)
box 30
Tin Drum , 2nd page proofs , June-July 2009
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 30
BM: unpublished trans. of Kafka's The Hunger Artist
box 30
Kafka: Trial, draft pp. 64-205 , June 1992
box 30
Kafka: Trial, draft pp. 226-326 , June 1992
box 30
Kafka, Franz: misc. newspaper clippings
box 30
early drafts, Kafka, Trial
box 30
van de Boom, R. Patients/story trans.
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Tin Drum , final ed. draft , Feb 2009
Physical Description: (4 folders)
box 34
Tin Drum , ed. by B.M. with Drenka , Feb-March 2009
Physical Description: (4 folders)
box 34
Tin Drum , ed. by B.M. & Drenka , 2009
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 34
Tin Drum , ed. with Drenka , late Fall '08
Physical Description: (4 folders)
box 35
Federspiel Laura's Skin , 1-120
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Federspiel Laura's Skin , 121-213
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Federspiel Laura's Skin , 1-100
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Federspiel Laura's Skin , 101-191
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Federspiel Laura's Skin , 1-94
box 35
Federspiel Laura's Skin , 96-190
box 35
Lederach, Jürg Canal Session, Jürg Lederach
box 35
Marcel Beyer Spies/Spione
box 35
Beyer Spies page proofs 1-130
box 35
Beyer Spies p age proofs 131-209
box 35
Beyer/ Spies page proofs 210-269 end
box 35
Beyer/Mitchell Spies, edited drafts , May-June 2003
box 35
Beyer/Mitchell Spies, edited drafts , July 2003
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 35
Beyer/Mitchell Spies, edited drafts , August 2003
box 35
Beyer/Mitchell Spies, edited drafts , Sept 2003
box 35
Beyer/Mitchell Spies, edited drafts , Jan 2004
box 35
Smith, Cathy: New Barns Story I
box 35
Smith, Cathy: New Barns Story II
box 37
Hofmannsthal, Hugh v., Death & the Fool
box 37
Die literarische Übersetzung reviews
box 37
Publishing Samuel Beckett review
box 38
Grass, G. Endlichkait , 2015
box 38
Tin Drum , parts I-III, master copies on flash drives , 2007
box 38
Lichter/ Archipelago Books , 2014
box 38
Timm, Uwe, The Barrel from Morenga in Translation mag.
box 38
Cohen, Jessica, not yet accessioned Glossma Hebrew
box 38
Rosenberg, Samuel M. not yet accessioned Lancelot
box 38
Valentino mss. (not accessioned) Materada
box 39
Jonathon Silber: Keyserling
box 40
Grass, Günter. Of All That Ends , manuscript with edits , Feb. 2016
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 40
Grass, Günter. Of All That Ends , order forms & reciepts
box 28
Calinescu, Matei. The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter. Sessions 1 and 2 , December 2013
Language: English , Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan .
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Addition: 2022
box 28
Calinescu, Matei. The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter. Session 3 , January 20, 2014
box 28
Calinescu, Matei. The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter. Session 4 , February 3, 2014
box 28
Calinescu, Matei. The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter. Session 5 , February 2014
box 28
Calinescu, Matei. The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter. First completed draft with corrections , February 26, 2014
box 28
Calinescu, Matei. The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter. Draft with revisions , March 23, 2014
Box 42
Subseries:
Nadolny, Sten. The Joy of Sorcery [ Das Glück Des Zauberers ]. Translated by Breon and Lynda Mitchell , 2020
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Addition: 2021.
Arrangement: Materials are in their original order.
Separated Materials: The Mitchells' copy of the German novel and copy of the English translation transcribed by the Mitchells were cataloged separately.
Box 42
Correspondence , 2018-2020
Box 42
Cover Letter-Fifth Letter
Box 42
Sixth Letter-Ninth Letter
Box 42
Cover Letter - 1st draft , October 26, 2018
Box 42
Cover Letter; First Letter , December 19, 2018
Box 42
Second Letter; Third Letter , February 25, 2019
Box 42
Seventh Letter; Twelfth Letter , May 15, 2019
Box 42
Fourth Letter , June 11, 2019
box 4
Letters, Calculations & Other Personal Notes
box 6
Materials for Meeting , 25 Apr. 2003
box 6
Materials for Meeting , Feb 13 2004
box 6
Materials for meeting, Correspondence , 3 March 2006
box 8
Kremer, Rüdiger The Glazier 1
box 8
Kremer, Rüdiger The Color of Snow
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 8
A God of Impertinence Na'dolmy ch.7
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 1 pgs. 1-130
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 2 pgs. 131-260
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 3 pgs. 261-388
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé 4
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 5 pgs. 1-85
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 6 pgs. 85-biblio.
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 7 pgs. 1-80
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 8 pgs. 81-160
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 9 pgs. 161-238
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 10 notes 1-80
box 8
Memoirs of Lou Andreas Salomé Part 11 pgs. 81-144
box 8
Andreas Salomé, Lou Family Life 1
box 8
Rothmann, Ralf: Knife's Edge
box 8
Rothmann, Ralf: Knife's Blade 1, pgs. 1-55
box 8
Rothmann, Ralf: Knife's Blade 2, pgs. 56-122
box 8
Rothmann, Ralf: Knife's Blade 3, pgs. 1-56
box 8
Rothmann, Ralf: Knife's Blade 4, pgs. 57-124
box 8
Safranski's Biography of Nietzsche
box 8
Smith, Katherine Allen Koh-Chi-Nor City
box 8
Wikoff, Lynne Morrie's Gold
box 10
Correspondence 2 Samuelson, Arthur/Schocken Books
box 10
Correspondence 4 Jim Canary
box 10
Correspondence 7 Jordan, Fred (Pantheon)
box 10
Correspondence 10 Corresp. to be done
box 10
Mad Dog Proofs
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 10
Herman's Castle , m.s. 1, pp. 7-178
box 10
Herman's Castle , m.s. 2, pp. 179-330
box 10
Misc. translation The Trial
box 10
The Trial proofs
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 10
Misc. translations, writings
box 10
Misc. files
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 11
When Freedom Comes , Martha Kent, t.s.
Physical Description: (3 folders)
box 12
The Mad Dog , m.s., with edits
box 12
The Trial , setting m.s., pp. i-138
box 12
The Trial , setting m.s., pp. 139-253
box 12
Goethe House Conf., May 25-26
box 12
Goethe Institute, June 5-7
box 12
Items related to S. Beckett, Beckett Collection
box 12
"Words and Image: Samuel Beckett..." final proof
box 12
Corresp., Lois M. Overbeck, rel. to S. Beckett
box 12
The Illustrated Book: A Contemporary Perspective , draft
box 12
Items related to S. Beckett
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 12
Misc. Correspondence, Avigdor Arikha
box 13
Warning Signs , Drafts, various
box 13
Warning Signs , final draft, , pp. 1-174 , 8/7/2002
box 13
Warning Signs , final draft, , pp. 175-397 , Aug 2002
box 13
Warning Signs , 3rd draft, , pp. 1-200 , 2002
box 13
Warning Signs , 3rd draft, , pp. 201-397 , 2002
box 13
Warning Signs , 2nd draft, , pp. 1-249 , 2002
box 13
Warning Signs , 2nd draft, , pp. 250-419 , 2002
box 13
Warning Signs , 1st complete draft, , pp. 1-95 , 2002
box 13
Warning Signs , 1st complete draft, , pp. 96-196 , 2002
box 13
Warning Signs , 1st complete draft, , pp. 197-305 , 2002
box 13
Warning Signs , 1st complete draft, , pp. 306-419 , 2002
box 13
Leaving Home m.s., Robert Philipson
box 14
George Mason University workshop, April 26-28
box 14
NCTE: Committee on World Lit.
box 14
The Trial , drafts & edits, notes
box 14
Yearbook of Comp. & General Literature , 1984-85
box 14
The Trial , drafts, edited
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 14
Translation, "Amanda: Ein Hexenroman"
box 14
The Trial , drafts, various
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 14
The Trial , draft, pp. 103-197
box 14
The God of Mischief , manuscript, Nodolny, pp.1-104
box 14
The God of Mischief , manuscript, Nodolny, pp.105-249
box 14
The Trial , drafts , 1997
box 14
The Trial , draft & notes
box 14
"The Hunger Artist" Kafka, translation and copy
box 14
The Trial , "The Arrest" draft
box 14
The Trial , copy sent to Shocken, , pp. 1-149 , 2/3/1997
box 14
The Trial , copy sent to Shocken, , pp. 150-262 , 2/3/1997
box 14
Böll stories, drafts with edits , 1996
box 16
BM: Juvenilia, age 12-16 , 1950s
box 16
Salina High School , 1956-1960
box 16
BM: University of Kansas , 1960-4
box 16
BM: drafts of poems , 1961-3
box 16
Beckett: The Great Kiva (paper delivered)
box 16
BM: The Story Prize , 2012
box 16
BM: essay on Brecht, paper read in Chicago
box 16
Dintinjova/Slovenian; Bosnian, Beacons
box 16
Elizabeth M. Snyder Book Collecting Page, Univ. of Kansas
box 16
Summer Trip to Europe , with transl. , 1987
box 16
BM: offprints of essays and reviews
box 16
BM: family member brothers John & Tim, Lynda
box 16
BM: "the Eleven" H.S. friends , 1957-60
box 16
BM: Infinite Set Theory - Science Fair project , 1959-1960
box 16
BM + PK: Hofmannsthal - Death & trans. drafts The Fool , 1962
box 16
BM: family correspondence
box 16
Pinter, Harold (typescript copy)
box 16
Richter-Bernburg, Melanie
box 16
Smullyan, Raymond Blanche
box 16
Weidberg, Ron (WFG Opera)
box 16
Richter-Bernburg, Melanie
box 16
Shawn, Wallace & Eisenberg, Deborah
box 16
Schulte, Ranier
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 16
Emile Snyder - Dist. Prof.
box 16
Staley, Thomas F., University of Tulsa
box 16
Stanisfer, Ryan ( Versuch ) U. of Kansas
box 16
Vaid, Krishna Baldev (SUNY-Potsdam)
box 16
Waggoner, George R. University of Kansas (Lawrence)
box 16
Woods-Dorda, Ulrike (Goethe House, New York)
box 16
Nadja Krämer, Ph.D., Grimm
box 20
Grass: Tin Drum. Polish-American Conf. IU , 2007
box 20
LCB conf. on Kafka: Trial with Tin Drum passage
box 20
Appointment books, addresses
box 20
BM: misc. papers on trans.
box 20
Retirement recognition cert., Indiana University
box 20
BM: Research project, Vienna, summer , 1962
box 20
BM: Study Abroad, maps, summer , 1962, 3, 4
box 20
BM: Study Abroad, summers , 1961, 2, 3
box 25
The New Yorker , Sept. 24, 2011
box 25
Paul Churchill, "genuine faux" The Naval Treaty , rolled script
box 28
DVD-ROM, alta 30: celebrating the past, imagining the future , 2007
box 28
poster, Reading & the Arts of the Book
box 28
Vocabulary of the Indian Language
box 31
Gifts to the Lilly Library
box 33
various empty envelopes realted to correspondence with Kurt Vonnegut
box 38
Misc. professional files
Physical Description: (2 boxes)
box 38
Misc. transl. files & corresp.
box 20
epitaph, trans., art piece , '69
box 39
Oversize art print, Gary Varvel to Breon Mitchell