parents from Fire Island, NY, July 11, 1961

The William Goyen papers are organized in five general categories: correspondence; manuscripts and notes; serial publications; reviews and publicity; and proofs and galleys. Boxes 1-4 contain correspondence, including correspondence from Goyen to William Hart (1937-1973); and correspondence from Goyen to his family (1940-1963), Boxes 2-4, and one folder of photographs, one folder of "family ephemera" such as newsclippings.

Boxes 5-10 contain notes, correspondence, and drafts for five of Goyen's major works, as follows: The House of Breath (Boxes 5-6); Ghost and Flesh (Box 7); In a Farther Country (Box 8); The Faces of Blood Kindred (Box 9); and The Fair Sister (Box 10). Serial Publications (1947-1978) are in Box 11; Reviews and Publicity are found in Box 12; and Box 13 includes Proofs and Galleys for The Collected Stories of William Goyen, Precious Door, Nine Poems, and A Book of Jesus.

Additionally, a steno notebook listing items at Goyen's home, and interior photo snapshots of Goyen's home, created in 1983, shortly after Goyen death, by colleague Reginald Gibbons, is available in the adminsitrativ control folder for the Goyen Papers.