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Collection Title: Daniel Pratt Mannix Papers

Collection Number: DG0665

Accession Number: unknown

Inclusive Dates: 1954-1978; no date

Volume: 7.2 cubic ft.

Given By : Daniel Pratt Mannix

Copyright: This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).

Form of Material:

Tales of the African Frontier by J. A. Hunter and Daniel Pratt Mannix; Harper, 1954.

26 Photographs ["The Memoirs of a White Hunter"]
Manuscript ["The Memoirs of a White Hunter"]
Book condensation in magazine Outdoor Life ["Hunter"]

Drifter by Daniel Pratt Mannix; Reader's Digest Press/Dutton, 1974.

Manuscript [corrected by publisher]
Manuscript [photocopied finished manuscript]
4 pages typed outline and 25 pages holograph notes
Research material
Notes
Correspondence
Contracts and reviews
Mechanical
Proof

The Wolves of Paris by Daniel Pratt Mannix; Dutton, 1978.

Magazine [National Wildlife]
Research material
Correspondence and notes
Proof
Galley
Manuscript (2)
Manuscript [typesetting copy]

A Sporting Chance: Unusual Methods of Hunting by Daniel Pratt Mannix; Dutton, 1967.

Manuscript (with correction & printer's notes)
Repro proofs of illustration captions
Repro proofs of main jacket lettering
Successive color proofs of jacket
Jacket layout showing lettering [combined with photostat of art work]
6 photos
Selected bibliography
Correspondence
Book jacket
Manuscript (2)
Photos
Galley
Editorial correspondence

Trouble Waters by Daniel Pratt Mannix, illustrated by Patricia Collins; Dutton, 1969.

Galley
Page proofs
Book jacket
Dummy
Manuscript
Flap copy
Research material [A Literature Survey of Life History of the Redfin and Grass Pickerels]
Research material
Correspondence
Mechanical
Successive color proofs of jacket
Editorial correspondence

Secret of the Elms by Daniel Pratt Mannix; Reader's Digest Press/Crowell, 1975.

Manuscript

The Fox and the Hound by Daniel Pratt Mannix, illustrated by John Schoenherr; Dutton, 1967.

Front matter (8 pp) and manuscript
Manuscript
Outline, 3pp
Draft of illustrations
Repro proof of jacket flap copy
Repro proof of main jacket lettering
Successive color proofs of jacket
Jacket blueprint
Jacket color proofs -- unvarnished and varnished
Photostat of illustrations
Dutton news
Publisher's manuscript of jacket flap copy
Galley
Agreement
Correspondence
German reviews clipping
Correspondence
Holograph
Manuscript
1 poster
1 program of 1967 OZ convention w/name tag
1 Playboy clipping
Miscellaneous correspondence

The Killers by Daniel Pratt Mannix; Dutton, 1968.

Manuscript
Book jacket (2)
Original illustrations
Galley
Book reviews clipping
Correspondence
Manuscript
Holograph
Research material
Notes
Correspondence
3 negatives of skunks

The Last Eagle by Daniel Pratt Mannix; McGraw Hill, 1966.

Outline
Manuscript
Photos (7)

All Creatures Great and Small by Daniel Pratt Mannix; McGraw-Hill, 1963

Galley
Page proof

The Healer by Daniel Pratt Mannix; E.P. Dutton, 1971.

Manuscript
Xerox copy of manuscript
Galley
Manuscript, corrected pages
Records of sales and finances

Kiboko by Daniel Pratt Mannix; Lippincott, 1958.

Galley
Page proofs
Manuscript

The Wildest Game by Peter Ryhiner and Daniel Pratt Mannix; Lippincott, 1958.

Holograph
Manuscript

The Outcasts by Daniel Pratt Mannix; Dutton, 1965.

Galley
Dummy
Manuscript
1 photo

"The Feral Cats" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Galley

"Greyhound of the Gods" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Original manuscript
Photos (2)
Illustration
Correspondence

"Hunting Coyotes With A Leopard" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript

"Spotted Lightening On My Leash" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript

"How To Be A Hypnotist" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript -- 12 pages
Notes and related material

"Magician Of the Mind" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript
Magazine articles ["Do As You're Told"; "Polgar, Mind Detective"]

"My Son, the Sword Swallower" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript, carbon copy
Correspondence

"White Gold" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript, carbon copy
Related material

"The Werewolves" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript [carbon copy]
Manuscript
Outline of chapters 5, 6, 7
Research material

"The Smartest Animal" by Daniel Pratt Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript [carbon copy]

"There's No Use Coming Up For Air: The Sewer's Full of Alligators" by Daniel P. Mannix. [publication information unknown]

Manuscript
Holograph

"Hunter Without Guns" by Daniel P. Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript
Magazine articles

"The Strange Story of Human Wolves" by Daniel P. Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript, 23 pp.
Magazine article clipping

Articles:

"My Beauty and My Beast" by Peter Ryhiner, as told to Daniel P. Mannix.

Article in magazine [Post]

"The Day I Operated on a Man-Eating Tiger" by Peter Ryhiner and Daniel P. Mannix.

Article in magazine [John Bull]

"The Great Lion Killer" by Daniel P. Mannix.

Magazine Article

"The Spotted Hunter Who Never Misses" by Daniel Pratt Mannix

Magazine article

"Ostriches Aren't So Dumb" by Daniel P. Mannix

Magazine article and related material

Jule Mannix original material:

Adventure Happy by Jule Mannix; Simon and Schuster, 1954.

Manuscript
Photos
Magazine articles
Manuscript, 22 pages ["We Followed Our Eagle to Hollywood"]
Newspaper clippings
Sales records
Correspondence

Married to Adventure by Jule Mannix; H. Hamilton, 1954.

Manuscript ["I Live With Adventure"]

"My Darling Husband" by Jule Mannix [publication information unknown]

Manuscript

"How To Swallow A Sword" by Great Zadma as told to Jule Junker Mannix

Magazine Article

"We Live With A Cheetah" by Jule Mannix

Magazine Article

"We Kept A Cheetah In Our Bedroom" by Jule Mannix

Magazine Article

Miscellaneous:

Correspondence

Miscellaneous correspondence

German copy of Playboy

Magazine articles

Agreement

Notes

Unused, changed story

2 photos w/negatives

Invoices

Book-Of-The-Month News [Midsummer 1967]

 


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