Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

Container	Title
	Series: Writings of Alvah Bessie
	Miscellaneous unpublished manuscripts
Box 1 Folder 35	“The Ballad of the International Brigade”: libretto for oratorio or radio ballad, undated
Box 1 Folder 35	Untitled play about the Spanish Civil War, undated
Box 1 Folder 35	Jules Roy, The Horses of the Sun, translated by Sylviane and Alvah Bessie, undated
Box 1 Folder 35	“Condena,” poem in Spanish by Rafael Alberti, December 8, 1970, with translation by Alvah Bessie, as “Sentence”
	Novels
Box 1 Folder 36	Chapter from The Un-Americans with preface for publication in The Contemporary Reader, undated, 1950s
	Short stories
	Five short stories by Alvah Bessie with unsigned cover letter to “Bruce” [Rubinstein] from Dan or David Bessie
Box 1 Folder 37	“Like Father,” 1935
Box 1 Folder 37	“Libation,” 1935
Box 1 Folder 37	“The Professor's Friend,” undated
Box 1 Folder 37	“Problem in Design,” 1936
Box 1 Folder 37	“Vermont Landscape: 1931”
Box 1 Folder 38	“American Underground,” by Peter Redman [pseudonym?], 1950
Box 1 Folder 38	“In French,” undated
Box 1 Folder 38	“I Am Mr. Russki,” undated
Box 1 Folder 39	“Bubo virginanus” (first published in Alvah Bessie's Short Fictions, 1982)
	Poetry
	Unbound Typescripts
Box 1 Folder 40	“Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?”, undated
Box 1 Folder 40	“The Co-Existence Blues,” 1956
Box 1 Folder 40	“Five Prison Poems” ( August 10, 1951-titles: “White Night,” “For My Dead Brother,” “A Song for the New Year”-two versions, “For Mr. Lincoln,” “The Free World”)
Box 1 Folder 40	“Five Songs for Spain” (Missing titles: “Lamentations, For My Dead Brother”; Present titles: 2. “Memory of Battle,” 1951; 3. “Flamenco,” , 1952; 4. “The Dead Past,” , 1952; 5. “For Steve Nelson,” , 1953)
Box 1 Folder 40	“For My Daughter,” undated
Box 1 Folder 40	“For My Dead Brother/Love and Live,” undated
Box 1 Folder 40	“For My Sons,” undated
Box 1 Folder 40	“For the Political Prisoners,” December 30, 1953) Physical Description: 3 versions
Box 1 Folder 40	“Getting Short,” undated
Box 1 Folder 40	“I Am Addicted to You,” undated
Box 1 Folder 40	“June 19, 1953,” undated
Box 1 Folder 40	“Miltown Blues” ( 1956), and copy with “Miltown” crossed out and replaced with “Valium” throughout
Box 1 Folder 40	“Outside Looking In,” 1951
Box 1 Folder 40	“Parole Board,” undated
Box 1 Folder 40	“Rest Room,” October 21 with Los Angeles Times, , October 20, 1949, clipping on arrest of Dalton Trumbo for drunkenness
Box 1 Folder 40	“Those Subversive Blues,” verse play, 1960
Box 1 Folder 40	Untitled, January 1, 1956
Box 1 Folder 41	The Free World (and other captive verse) by Alvah Bessie (introduction, April 9, 1951) Physical Description: Bound typescript of poetry collection
	Film stories and screenplays
Box 1 Folder 42	Cross of Gold, 1950 story by Alvah Bessie(?) Physical Description: Inscribed “Black market original ... sold by Ned Young”.
Box 1 Folder 43	Executive Action, screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, revisions by Alvah Bessie, May 1973; letter concerning Executive Action from Alvah Bessie, , May 9, 1973 Physical Description: Annotated cylostyled typescript of screenplay with revises inserted
Box 1 Folder 44	The “S” Bomb, screenplay by Jerrold I. Zinnamon [and Alvah Bessie, uncredited], 1956
Box 1 Folder 45	To Kill a Man, Film Treatment by Alvah Bessie and Helen Clare Nelson [Bessie] based on Bessie's novel Bread and a Stone, undated, but before Alvah Bessie's imprisonment
Box 1 Folder 46	The Un-Americans, screenplay by Alvah Bessie from his novel, undated
Box 1 Folder 47	The Wasteland, film story by Alvah Bessie, registered April 28, 1976
Box 1 Folder 48	Without Fear or Favor, screenplay by Alvah Bessie, October 6 - November 18, 1943
	Miscellaneous articles and a speech
Box 1 Folder 49	“Wanted: A People's War” ( undated, but during World War II)
Box 1 Folder 49	“A Hero for this Month,” undated, but , late 1940s or 1950s Note: Newspaper article on Joseph Rosmarin
Box 1 Folder 49	“Casablanca Revisited,” article, 1979
Box 1 Folder 49	“Fanning the Flames of Discontent,” text of speech to First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, May 29, 1983
	Unpublished Articles
	Group of typescripts originally in folder labeled “unpublished”
Box 1 Folder 50	Open letter by Alvah Bessie calling for purchase of War Bonds, January 19, 1942
Box 1 Folder 50	“There's a Difference,” short article by Alvah Bessie, with letter from Frances Pinduck reporting rejection by Liberty magazine, January 5, 1943
Box 1 Folder 50	“Wings of Victory,” film review, undated, but early 1940s
Box 1 Folder 50	Untitled review of film All the King's Men, undated but contemporary with the release of the film
Box 1 Folder 50	“The Touchstone (Franco Spain and America since 1939),” unpublished pamphlet, undated (, 1950 or 1951, by internal evidence)
Box 1 Folder 50	Letter of resignation by Alvah Bessie from the Communist Party of the USA, February 15, 1957 Physical Description: Carbon draft
Box 1 Folder 50	Unpublished reviews of various books on the Spanish Civil War commissioned by Ramparts and San Francisco Chronicle (, 1966-1967)
Box 1 Folder 50	Review of Studs Terkel's Hard Times, commissioned but not published by Scanlan's Monthly, March 30, 1970
	Autobiographical Writings
Box 1 Folder 51	“Where are you, Leon Ansbacher?” (autobiographical essay), undated Physical Description: Photocopy
Box 1 Folder 51	“Slice of Life: Prospectus for a Memoir,” by Alvah Bessie, July 15, 1981 Physical Description: Carbon typescript
Box 1 Folder 52	“Sequel (to Inquisition in Eden)”: correspondence with Carey McWilliams of The Nation, 1972, concerning writing reviews for the magazine and possible sequel to Inquisition in Eden; 1951 clippings on Edward Dmytryk's switching sides; , 1972 clippings about Dmytryk and letters to the press by Alvah Bessie; corrected proof of “Sequel”