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BEN SANTOS PAPERS
MS 86-6

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Series 1 Box 1 Personal Correspondence.
Series 2 Box 1, FF 26 Professional Correspondence.
Series 3 Box 2, FF 10 Diaries.
Series 4 Box 2, FF 14 Notes on Literary Productions.
Series 5 Box 2, FF 16 Early Drafts of Stories and Poems.
Series 6 Box 3 Literary Productions.
Series 7 Box 3, FF 20 Clippings and Reviews.
Series 8 Box 4 Awards and Fellowships.
Series 9 Box 4, FF 5 Board on Textbooks.
Series 10 Box 4, FF 7 Conferences.
Series 11 Box 4, FF 11 University of Nueva Caceres.
Series 12 Box 4, FF 15 Personal Memorabilia.
Series 13 Box 6 Miscellaneous.
Series 14 Box 7 Scrapbooks.
Series 15 Box 7A Scrapbook of Santos' Short Stories Printed in Newspapers and Magazines, December 6, 1933 to December 14, 1941.
Series 16 Box 8 Two Video Tapes by Santos.
Series 17 Box 9 Correspondence Between Bienvenido N. Santos and Leonard Casper.
Series 18 Box 9, FF 4 Photocopies of two of Santos' Books: What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco and The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor.
Series 19 Box 10 Handwritten Copy of Santos' Book Memory's Fiction An Intimate Personal History, November 2, 1989.




File Folder Description

Box 1 FF 1 Leslie Gourse.
Box 1 FF 2 Len Casper.
Box 1 FF 3 P. C. Morantte I.
Box 1 FF 4 David Quemada.
Box 1 FF 5 Miss Lim.
Box 1 FF 6 Abelardo Albis, Writer - Letters and Manuscripts.
Box 1 FF 7 Browns, Friends - Letters and Writings.
Box 1 FF 8 Sister Emanuela.
Box 1 FF 9 Letters and Writings - Frank Sionil José.
Box 1 FF 10 Martin Luschei.
Box 1 FF 11 Manuel A. Viray.
Box 1 FF 12 Janet Ramos.
Box 1 FF 13 Alicia Lanning.
Box 1 FF 14 Marilynne N. Williams.
Box 1 FF 15 Norma Djerassi.
Box 1 FF 16 Jock Netzorg.
Box 1 FF 17 N. V. M. Gonzales.
Box 1 FF 18 Hilma Wolitzer.
Box 1 FF 19 Maximo P. Fabella.
Box 1 FF 20 From 1959 to 1970.
Box 1 FF 21 Letters with various people, 1972-1974.
Box 1 FF 22 Letters: 1972-1978.
Box 1 FF 23 Miscellaneous - various persons, January 1979-1980.
Box 1 FF 24 Miscellaneous - various persons, January 1978-1982.
Box 1 FF 25 Letters: 1970s.
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Box 1 FF 26 Non-dated Letters.
Box 1 FF 27 Miscellaneous 1959-1968.
Box 1 FF 28 Curtis Brown, Ltd. Publishing Company, 1960s.
Box 1 FF 29 Dean B. Santos, 1961 - July 1962.
Box 1 FF 30 Dean B. Santos, 1962-1964.
Box 2 FF 1 Dean B. Santos, 1964.
Box 2 FF 2 Dean B. Santos, 1962-1964.
Box 2 FF 3 Correspondence between Solidaridad Publishing House, and Santos, 1965.
Box 2 FF 4 Dean B. Santos, 1965-1966.
Box 2 FF 5 Miscellaneous, 1966.
Box 2 FF 6 Miscellaneous, late 1969-1970.
Box 2 FF 7 Miscellaneous, 1969-1979.
Box 2 FF 8 Greg Brillantes, 1970s letters between him and Ben.
Box 2 FF 9 Miscellaneous, 1980-1982.
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Box 2 FF 10 December 7, 1941 - January 28, 1942.
Box 2 FF 11 July 1964.
Box 2 FF 12 1967.
Box 2 FF 13 1961-1969.
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Box 2 FF 14 Seven books of notes for novel material.
Box 2 FF 15 Notes for Villa Magdalena, two notebooks.
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Box 2 FF 16 Drafts of "A Winter Coat for Pura." An issue of The Wichitan with an article on Ben's story. Some correspondence.
Box 2 FF 17 Copies of stories.
Box 2 FF 18 Drafts of poems, Ben Santos, some correspondence and notes.
Box 2 FF 19 Drafts of poems by Ben Santos.
Box 2 FF 20 Draft of The Praying Man.
Box 2 FF 21 Drafts of many writings. Papers from drafts to final form.
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Box 3 FF 1 The Bishop's Pets, five stapled stacks, handwritten and typed of this play.
Box 3 FF 2 Notes on Butcher King.
Box 3 FF 3 Typed manuscript of The Contender.
Box 3 FF 4 Manuscripts of The Day the Dancers Came and of Footnote to a Laundry List (typed).
Box 3 FF 5 Typed manuscript of End to Flight, 1962.
Box 3 FF 6 Manuscript of End to Flight and of Footnote to a Laundry List, with handwritten changes.
Box 3 FF 7 The Filipino Novel in English, a critical essay written by Ben in 1965. An issue of a magazine Blue and Gold, from Naga City, 1962.
Box 3 FF 8 Poem, "The Gift Bearers," December 19, 1965.
Box 3 FF 9 Three stapled stacks, Quicker with Arrows, The Vision of Sir, and The Day the Dancers Came.
Box 3 FF 10 Set of papers, each clipped together. A few loose sheets at the end. Race with Seagulls, Things and Things, My Neighbor...(no title), The Passenger...(no title), On these Courts...(no title), In This Iowa City...(no title), They're Singing...(no title), and In Summer Play.
Box 3 FF 11 Manuscripts of The Weight of This. Five stacks, each stapled or clipped and typed with notes all over. On top of the stacks, a few loose sheets, an exchange of typed letters.
Box 3 FF 12 Six stacks: The Contender (1965), The Enchanted Plant, Footnote to a Laundry List (1962), The Day the Dancers Came (3 stacks); brochure on a conference and an issue of The Manila Chronicle, July 19, 1953 with "It is Evening Again," a poem by Ben in it on page 25.
Box 3 FF 13 Magazines and paper clips of Ben's productions and publications. A typed copy of the prelude to The Long Way Home (a play). Years 1952-1970 (?).
Box 3 FF 14 Manuscript of The Praying Man (a novel), part one.
Box 3 FF 15 Manuscript of The Praying Man, part two.
Box 3 FF 16 Draft of The Man who (thought he) looked like Robert Taylor. August 8, 1971, Iowa.
Box 3 FF 17 Typed notes, letters, poems (originally stapled together). Manuscripts of Old Timers.
Box 3 FF 18 Copies of published poems, 1965.
Box 3 FF 19 Note cards on the research Ben did on volcanoes at Iowa University.
Box 3 FF 19A Photocopy of The Wounded Stag.
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Box 3 FF 20 Reviews of Villa Magdalena.
Box 3 FF 21 Clippings from The Legazpinian, December 1957.
Box 3 FF 22 Reviews of The Scent of Apples and of early poems written by Ben. Various clippings, reviews of 1980s.
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Box 4 FF 1 Guggenheim (1960-1966). Letters and application forms.
Box 4 FF 2 Fulbright 1 and personal papers, 1965-1966, letters.
Box 4 FF 3 Fulbright 2 and personal papers, 1969, letters.
Box 4 FF 4 RCH Awards, letters, certificates, photographs.
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Box 4 FF 5 Ben's comments on textbooks he reviewed in the Dept. of Education in the Philippines. Manila 1965-1966.
Box 4 FF 6 Letters and notes: letters of congratulations to Ben for his appointment as Acting Member of the Board on Textbooks. A stack of notes stapled together with a letter. Notes for a plan of a work of fiction. List of titles of works by Ben.
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Box 4 FF 7 Asian Writers' Conference December 1962 in Manila. Two invitations for the events of the Conference.
Box 4 FF 8 1967 and 1968 Fulbright Conferences. Letters, schedules, notes.
Box 4 FF 9 First BIKOL Writes' Workshop, December 26-29, 1969. List of participants, their presentations.
Box 4 FF 10 Midwest Fulbright Conference on higher education. Presentations, a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the General Assembly of the U. N. in December 1948.
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Box 4 FF 11 Notes on course Ben taught about Form and Theory of Fiction. English 207, 1962-1963.
Box 4 FF 12 Notes from the Kabikolan Historical Committee. A thick brochure on the region, and informative stacks of notes on Philippine history.
Box 4 FF 13 Notes for a course on teaching Philippine literature in English.
Box 4 FF 14 Issue of The Nuevas Caceres Bulletin of March 1977, Naga City. A small empty envelope from the University of Nueva Caceres.
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Box 4 FF 15 Class Notes: notebooks and folder with notes on: an eighteenth century English class, the English language, the teaching of poetry, and the teaching of English.
Box 4 FF 16 Lectures and Speeches: typed notes attached together in different stacks.
Box 4 FF 17 Green leather folder containing letters, cards, newspaper clips, a few poems.
Box 4 FF 18 Notebook with notes for an English literature course.
Box 4 FF 19 A book of poems from the University of Iowa, 1964, with a poem by Ben. A notebook with notes for different writings. A blue notebook with notes on The Day the Dancers Came and The Volcano and personal notes, reflections, written in diary style, 1960s. Letter to Ben.
Box 5 FF 1 Notebook on philosophy course.
Box 5 FF 2 Notebook on literature course.
Box 5 FF 3 Diary book with scattered notes and pictures, ribbons, mail.
Box 5 FF 4 Printed writings by Ben, pictures, a letter to Ben.
Box 5 FF 5 Books of notes (2).
Box 5 FF 6 Thesis of Lydia Costillo, 1970, preceded by an article on Filipino literature (1951) and by copies of a letter by L. Costillo to Ben.
Box 5 FF 7 Ph.D. thesis given to Ben by Sebastian Bilangiyil, June 1981.
Box 5 FF 8 Books of notes, 2.
Box 5 FF 9 Conferment of the Ph.D. to Ben, 1981. Biography. University of the Philippines Gazette. Issue of 1981, with papers inserted pertinent to the Ph.D. ceremonies.
Box 5 FF 10 Ben's membership to the National Geographic society. Agreement with University Microfilms Library Services, 1967. Poems for Ben. Vitae of Ben, 1980. Two programs for an evening in his honor, November 1979.
Box 5 FF 11 Papers from the 1940s and the 1960s. Letters between Ben and the U.S. Naval Training Center in 1945. Notes on the invasion of the Japanese in Manila in December 1941.
Box 5 FF 12 Letters between Ben and Mary Rodell, who read his manuscripts, 1960s.
Box 5 FF 13 Russian poems in Russian.
Box 5 FF 14 Manila, letters of the 1940s and the 1960s.
Box 5 FF 15 Address book from Manila, receipts and money matters regarding Villa Magadalena, 1965.
Box 5 FF 16 Poems, newspaper clips, pictures of Ben teaching. Letters to a national bank in Iowa. Other letters to Ben and by Ben, 1969-1970.
Box 5 FF 17 Book of notes and poems. Issue of The Black Warrior Review, dated Fall 1981. Ben's name is on the list on the back cover.
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Box 6 FF 1 Two typed copies of The Purple People Eaters by Thomas Santos.
Box 6 FF 2 Writings from various Filipino writers, among whom is Ben. Each person is introduced at the beginning.
Box 6 FF 3 Manuscript of Shawl from Kashmir and Eight Other Stories by Manuel A. Viray.
Box 6 FF 4 Manuscript of Songs of the East by P. C. Morantte.
Box 6 FF 5 Manuscript of One to Another by P. C. Morantte.
Box 6 FF 6 Manuscript of Dedicated to my Lord by P. C. Morantte, with a letter to Ben dated August 1954.
Box 6 FF 7 Poem in Filipino and in English by Diosdado Macapagal on the death of Don Honorio Ventura dated September 3, 1940. A piece of writing entitled "I speak for Democracy," but not signed. A letter to the Santos' by the Foreign Service of the Philippines dated December 19, 1961. Ben's curriculum vitae date April 17, 1963.
Box 6 FF 8 Several poems by Ben. Letters addressed to him. University of Iowa documents concerning Ben's appointment there and his classes. A newspaper clip about his son Thomas. A curriculum vitae of Ben dated May 1968.
Box 6 FF 9 Poems by various people, letters of a personal character, and pieces of writings by unidentified persons.
Box 6 FF 10 Calling cards, letters, writing newspaper clips, English Department notes, short pieces of prose by Ben to one year old daughter of Willie D. Nolledo, information guide on foreign scholars and U.S. income tax, outline on a Philippine literature course, manuscript of Solo Flight by Martin Luschei.
Box 6 FF 11 Addresses delivered at various conferences.
Box 6 FF 12 Newspaper copies of Naga City about writers including Ben, then a dean, in February 1970. Copies of curriculum vitae of Ben from 1932 to 1966.
Box 6 FF 13 Typed writings by different persons.
Box 6 FF 14 Article analyzing prize winning story by Ben, Brother, My Brother. Various writings for Ben by other people.
Box 6 FF 15 Outlines for courses on the novel. Various writings by different persons. Curriculum vitae facts up to 1964.
Box 6 FF 16 Notes, pieces of writings, typed and handwritten. Calendars with daily appointments and activities for August and September 1968; newspaper clips.
Box 6 FF 17 Part of manuscript. Letter by Ben to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Manila date January 7, 1963 from the city of Naga. Letter from a bank.
Box 6 FF 18 Scattered handwritten notes on the back of a Summer Schedule 1965 to a writer's workshop. Different papers, letters to Ben about his books, his grants, invitations. Pieces of writings. Invitations and schedules for conferences. Certificate of Service awarded to Ben by a Rotary Club in the Philippines.
Box 6 FF 19 Issue of the Examiner of December 1965. Two issues of the B Mail, December 1965 and February 1966.
Box 6 FF 20 Pieces of writings. Notes on Ben's classes as he studied in the 1930s.
Box 6 FF 21 Two copies of The Vision of Sir by Exequiel Young.
Box 6 FF 22 General notes on literature. Program notes for the Tagore Memorial Recital of August 1961. Copy of a final exam question. Notes of Thai literature for the Asian Writer's Conference of December 1962 in Manila.
Box 6 FF 23 Notes for a workshop on Fiction and Form of Fiction. Calendar of 1969, letters.
Box 6 FF 24 Affidavits. Schedule for Commencement of 1970, where Ben delivered address. Award, notes, newspaper clips.
Box 6 FF 25 An issue of Nueva Caceres of July 1980. Letter of Ben included. Article of PVM Santos. An issue of The Manila Review, with a story by Ben Solomon King. Brochure of criticism of Ben's writings included inside. Writings.
Box 6 FF 26 Book Letter in Exile to which Ben contributed indirectly. Teacher's Handbook in which there is a criticism of Scent of Apples.
Box 6 FF 27 Two copies of Gazebo, a WSU poetry journal with poems by Ben. Two copies of Kamadhenu, a poetry journal from Pullman, Washington State University with poems of Ben, 8-18-1982. An issue of Scope, from The Wichita Eagle Beacon, with an article on Ben, November 25, 1979. The Bell Ringer and other Stories by Abelardo S. Albis with an introduction by Ben.
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Box 7 FF 1 Red book with notes from a class on the 17th century, from December 1941. Notes on John Donne.
Box 7 FF 2 Ben's scholarly activities, 1940s.
Box 7 FF 3 Scrapbook of newspaper clips, 1940s and 1950s.
Box 7 FF 4 Scrapbook of Ben's achievements, 1960s.
Box 7 FF 5 Invitations to literary evenings, newspaper clips on novel reviews, a letter from Ben's son who announces his wedding to be, a letter from Alfreds O. Cuencas, two postcards, 1961-1970.
Box 7 FF 6 Burgundy book with an invitation and speech of Ben at a luncheon - general assembly of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in the honor of his work, Legazpi City, November 8.
Box 7 FF 7 Brown cover book with newspaper clips.
Box 7 FF 8 Brown book with newspaper clips, 1960s.
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Box 7A Contains a scrapbook of Santos' short stories that were printed in newspapers and magazines dated from 6 December 1933 to 14 December 1941; 92 in all. The scrapbook contains 376 pages.
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Box 8 Contains two video tapes by Santos, one entitled "Immigration Blues" (26 April 1982) and one entitled Scent of Apples, "Jessica Tarahata Hegedon," Dangerous Music and Petfood and Tropical Apparitions (27 April 1982). Production was by the Asian American Studies Program, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164-5130.
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Box 9 FF 1 Contains six typescript letters from Bienvenido N. Santos to Leonard Casper dated 28 July 1957, 17 November 1964, 12 May 1966, 21 May 1966, 2 November 1972, and 31 July 1973.
Box 9 FF 2 Contains two holograph letters from Bienvenido N. Santos to Leonard Casper dated 30 September 1972 and 21 March 1975.
Box 9 FF 3 Contains two holograph cards from Bienvenido N. Santos to Leonard Casper dated 1 May 1973 and one with no date, but clearly 1973.
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Box 9 FF 4 Contains pages 1-101 of What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco.
Box 9 FF 5 Contains pages 102-219.
Box 9 FF 6 Contains pages 220-322.
Box 9 FF 7 Contains pages 1-100 of The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor.
Box 9 FF 8 Contains pages 101-200.
Box 9 FF 9 Contains pages 201-292.
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Box 10 FF 1 Contains title page - page 50.
Box 10 FF 2 Contains pages 51-100.
Box 10 FF 3 Contains pages 101-150.
Box 10 FF 4 Contains pages 151-200.
Box 10 FF 5 Contains pages 201-250.
Box 10 FF 6 Contains pages 251-300.
Box 10 FF 7 Contains pages 301-350.
Box 10 FF 8 Contains pages 351-400.
Box 10 FF 9 Contains pages 401-459.


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