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Frederic Dannay papers

Title: Frederic Dannay papers, 1920-1982
Author: Dannay, Frederic, 1905-1982
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	45 Ellery Queen manuscripts Reel 2 [MN# 93-2052]	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8328 45 Ellery Queen manuscripts Reel 2 [MN# 93-2052]	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	45 Ellery Queen manuscripts Reel 1 [MN# 93-2051]	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8328 45 Ellery Queen manuscripts Reel 1 [MN# 93-2051]	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	7 additional Ellery Queen manuscripts [MN# 94-2031]	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8328 7 additional Ellery Queen manuscripts [MN# 94-2031]	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Mss. by Boucher, Carr, King, Queen, and radio scripts [MN# 96-2031-3]	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8328 Mss. by Boucher, Carr, King, Queen, and radio scripts [MN# 96-2031-3]	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	1st draft of "The Glass Village" [MN# 92-2107-1]	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8328 1st draft of "The Glass Village" [MN# 92-2107-1]	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Notes on Wrightsville [MN# 92-2106-3]	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8328 Notes on Wrightsville [MN# 92-2106-3]	Off-site

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Description

Summary

Correspondence, outlines and drafts, manuscripts, letters of agreement, contracts, photographs, artwork, and memorabilia. The collection is divided into two parts: the Frederic Dannay papers and the files of ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE (EQMM). The Dannay papers consist of extensive correspondence with most of the notable mystery writers of this century, as well as well-known authors who sometimes wrote in that genre: Isaac Asimov; Lawrence Block; Ray Bradbury; Pearl S Buck; Edgar Rice Burroughs; James M. Cain; Raymond Chandler; Agatha Christie, etc. Most of the novels and short stories written by Dannay and Lee are represented in manuscript form: "The Roman Hat Mystery;" "Ten Day's Wonder;" "Cat of Many Tails;" "The Scarlet Letters;" "The Glass Village;" "The Player on the Other Side;" "And on the Eighth Day" etc. In addition, there are the manuscripts of books edited by Ellery Queen; manuscripts by Ellery Queen Jr.; scripts by Ellery Queen; poetry by Dannay; contracts between Dannay and Lee, as well as between them both as Ellery Queen and numerous parties. There are also manuscripts by such notables as Jorge Luis Borges; Erskine Caldwell; Raymond Chandler; Agatha Christie; Stanley Ellin; William Faulkner; Dashiell Hammett; O Henry; Nigel Morland; Georges Simenon; Muriel Spark; Julian Symons; Roy Vickers; and Cornell Woolrich.
The second part of this collection is the files of ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE (EQMM). Containing some 4,600 manuscripts submitted to the magazine over a period of 40 years, it is an unrivaled collection of its kind. Nearly all of the manuscripts have Dannay's manuscript corrections.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Contracts
Awards
Drafts (documents)
Fiction (general genre)
Manuscripts (documents)
Outlines (documents)
Photographs
Plaques (flat objects)

Access (note)

This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.

Cite As (note)

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frederic Dannay papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Original Location (note)

Pearl S. Buck letter; manuscript of "The Glass Village" and "Notes on Wrightsville" are on: microfilm.

Terms of Use (note)

Readers must use microfilm of materials specified above.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Source (note)

Papers: Source of acquisition--Dannay, Richard and Douglas. Method of acquisition--Gift.

Biography (note)

Mystery writer, editor, critic of crime fiction, and coauthor with Manfred B. Lee of the Ellery Queen mystery novels and stories. Born Daniel Nathan in Brooklyn, New York on 20 October 1905, Frederic Dannay and his cousin Manfred B. Lee created Ellery Queen in 1929. In a series of novels starting with The Roman Hat Mystery (1929), The Devil to Pay (1938), Calamity Town (1942), Ten Days' Wonder (1948), Cat of Many Tails (1949), and And On the Eighth Day (1964), Dannay and Lee established Queen as one of the most influential and groundbreaking mystery novelists. The cousins also produced a number of mystery anthologies, as well as publishing the acclaimed Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1941. Manfred B. Lee died in 1971, and Frederic Dannay died in White Plains, New York, on 3 September 1982.

Provenance (note)

Gift of Richard and Douglas Dannay, 1985 & 1987.

Processing Action (note)

Papers Entered in AMC HR 02/--/91.
The EQMM series was physically renumbered consecutively after box 101 to avoid confusion. Series was added 07/2021 by YH.

OCLC

309773599
ocn309773599
SCSB-4798185

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries