Browne Popular Culture Library

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Series Description

Author Files

1969-2001

Arranged alphabetically by author

Files can include correspondence, manuscript fragments, reader’s reports, contracts, royalty information, cover designs, photos for publication, invoices for artwork on cover, invoices to print the book, book publicity and requests to reprint published text.

Inactive Author Files

1970-2002

Arranged alphabetically by author

Can contain correspondence, segments of book or journal article manuscripts, contracts and other contents resembling the author files but less complete. Many of the projects in these files seem not to have been carried through to publication.

Unpublished Manuscript Files

1997-2000

Arranged chronologically then alphabetically by author

Files include predominantly correspondence, rejection letters from the press, manuscript fragments or story synopses, reader’s reports and the like.

Office Files

1971-2007 scattered, 2009

Arranged by kind of record

These can contain correspondence and agreement documents pertaining to the sale of the Popular Press as well as the transfer/sale of various popular culture journals. Miscellaneous manuscript submissions to the journals, author lists, book inventories, royalty tally/detail reports, book contracts, copyright certificates of registration, miscellaneous printed materials and 1 cd about the Popular Culture House are included.

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