Dan Bessie Papers, 1966-2006

Container Title
Series: Books
Immune System: Your Magic Doctor. By Helen Garvy. Shire Films, 1992
Box   1
Folder   2
Published copy of children's book with illustrations by Dan Bessie, 1992
Box   15
Folder   1
Dan Bessie's original hand-colored artwork, proof sheets, and cell, circa 1992
Rare Birds. University Press of Kentucky, 2001
Box   1
Folder   12
Oral history interview with Simon Michael Bessie, 1977
Note: Oral history from Columbia University, titled “The Reminiscences of Simon Michael Bessie.” Simon Michael Bessie is Alvah Bessie's cousin.
Box   1
Folder   13-14
Laser master of manuscript, circa 2001
Box   1
Folder   3-11, 15
Manuscript drafts, book proposals, and comments, 1994-2000
Note: The only dates listed in the files are 1994 and 1995. It is likely that some of the drafts came later as the book was published in 2001.
Box   1
Folder   48-49
Correspondence with University Press of Kentucky and David Bessie, circa 1999-2001
Box   14
Folder   6
Posters, circa 2001
VHB 809-VHB 810
Rare Birds television interviews, 2000
Physical Description: 80 minutes, VHS 
Note: Central Valley Chronicles, Program 514 (27 minutes) and “Book TV,” Community Television of Santa Cruz County (53 minutes).
Mss 1200
Reeling Through Hollywood. Blue Lupin Press, 2006
Box   5
Folder   1-7
Manuscript drafts and comments, circa 2000-2005
Box   6
Folder   1-3
Initial thoughts, book proposal, and cover ideas, circa 2000-2005
Unpublished
Box   6
Folder   15
Early draft of proposal for Ring and Company, undated
Box   6
Folder   4-5
Correspondence on proposed book, titled The Search for Topsy and proposal, drafts, and research for Volunteer, a proposed memoir on Dina Babbitt-Gottlieb, circa 1979-1992