James Pinckney Miller papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0013

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Content

Drafts, including screenplays, of several of Miller's works including Days of Wine and Roses (1963), Rabbit Trap, and Race for Home (1968); together with correspondence and notes concerning these works, copyright procedures, credits, and research. Includes material relating to Writers Guild of America, West.

Dates

Creation: circa 1939-1999, bulk dates 1960-1999
Creation: Majority of material found within

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish materials from James Pinckney Miller's papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Biographical Note

James Pinckney Miller was born in San Antonio in 1919. Having graduated from Rice University in 1941, and serving in the Navy during WWII, Miller turned to writing as a career. His first success was the play The Rabbit Trap, in 1958. He then went on to write Days of Wine and Roses, another play, and his first novel The Race For Home.

Extent

63.75 Linear Feet (65 boxes)

20.4 Gigabytes (MS0013aip_002)

1.37 Gigabytes (MS0013aip_003)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Drafts, including screenplays, of several of Miller's works including "Days of Wine and Roses" (1963), "Rabbit Trap," and "Race for Home" (1968); together with correspondence and notes concerning these works, copyright procedures, credits, and research. Includes material relating to Writers Guild of America, West.

Acquisition Information

Gift of James Pinckney Miller, received from 1969 through 1974.

Subjects

Genre / Form

Manuscripts

Geographic

United States

Topical

Deaccessions

Folders 8.6 ("Cuda" screenplay, n.d.) and 61.24 (Pennington School correspondence, n.d.), and some personal correspondence from "correspondence" folders in Box 61.