Collection number: UA 9/11/2
Size:
(66 boxes)
(Ca. 66 cu.ft.)
About Donald Morison Murray (1924-2006)
Donald Murray was a Pulitzer Prize winnning journalist, writing teacher, and newspaper columnist. He was a veteran of WWII, professor of the University of New Hampshire. He was well known for his long-running "Over 60" column in the Boston Globe, and for his role in starting the Writing Program at UNH. He was husband of Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray (1920-2005), with whom he had three daughters.
About the Donald Murray Collection (1897-2007)
Donald Murray's collection consists primarily of drafts of written materials related to teaching English rhetoric: textbooks, poetry, newspaper columns, articles, seminar speeches, etc. Smaller sections include photographs, art, Minnie Mae Murray's work, and Murray's personal/family history.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open.
Copyright Notice
Contents of this collection are governed by U.S. copyright law. For questions about publication or reproduction rights, contact Special Collections staff.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], [Box number], Donald M. Murray Papers, 1898-2007, UA 9/11/2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Donation of the creator and his estate in multiple acquistions. Collection was briefly housed at the Poynter Institute in Florida before returning to UNH for final processing.
Related Material
Milne Special Collections also holds papers of Thomas Newkirk, Christopher Scanlan, and the UNH Writing Center Papers.
Separated Material
Document and draft duplicates were removed during processing, retaining the original.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is divided into 8 series:
- Series 1: Family vital records starting with Murray's grandparents, Murray's educational carreer starting in elementary school and ending with retirement, World War II service memorabilia and correspondence, obituaries of Donald and Minnie Mae Murray, Donald Murray's resumes and booklists, and materials created by Minnie Mae.
- Series 2: Donald Murray's Daybooks, daily writing schedules and writing word count records from 1940s to his death, correspondence to and from Murray.
- Series 3: Photographs of the Murray family beginning with his grandparents, family photos from his childhood and that of his daughters, Murray's professional photos throughout his career. This series contains extensive artwork drawn by Murray himself.
- Series 4: Poetry by Murray, as well as poetry related correspondence and submission/rejection slips.
- Series 5: Newspaper editorials, serial columns, freelance articles submitted for publication on a range of topics, and interviews with and by Murray.
- Series 6: Short stories by Murray (many of which were later reworked into novels), drafts and published copies of novels, two memoirs and copius drafts of writing textbooks. Some textbooks were never published, while some were in revision when he died.
- Series 7: Murray's teaching materials, including the birth of the UNH Journalism Program, materials from classes taught at UNH and elsewhere, seminars, handouts, recommended reading, and collected quotations on writing.
- Series 8: Emphemera and awards (including his Pulitzer Prize), audiovisual materials (interviews with Murray, others), and material too large to fit earlier in the collection. This latter catagory includes Pulizer Prize scrapbooks, WWII materials, art and more.
Collection Contents
- Series 1: Personal History, Family, and Military Materials, 1890-2007
- Series 2: Daybooks, Writing Rules and Schedules, and Correspondence, 1944-2007
- Series 3: Photographs and Artwork, 1898-2003
- Series 4: Poetry, ca. 1946-2007
- Series 5: Newswriting: Editorials, Columns, Articles/Essays, Interviews, 1943-2007
- Series 7: Short Stories, Fiction, Memoirs, and Textbooks, 1940-2005
- Series 8: Teaching Materials, UNH Journalism Program, Writing Seminars, Murray on Writing, 1950-2006
- Series 8: Awards, Ephemera, Audiovisual, Oversize Materials, 1945-2006
Series 1: Personal History, Family, and Military Materials, 1890-2007
(1.5 cubic feet)Series 1 contains vital records and material from Murray's parents John Murray and Edith Smith. The rest is related to the various stages of Donald Murray's own education in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, his military service during World War II, and honorary academic degrees he was bestowed later in life. A small number of autobiographies are included, along with resumes and book lists from various stages of his career. At the end is a small amount of writing by Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray.
| Box 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Donald Murray Family Vital Records, 1924-2007 | |
| Box 1, Folder 2 | John Murray, Edith Smith: Religious materials, Vital documents, Letters, 1920-1973 | |
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Murray/Smith Family Letters, 1920-1981 and undated | |
| Box 1, Folder 4 | Murray Family Genealogy, 1972/2003 | |
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Donald Murray (DMM): Elementary School, Boy Scouts, Paper Route, 1930-1941 | |
| Box 1, Folder 6 | Stamp Collecting, 1930-1940 | |
| Box 1, Folder 7 | Autobiographies by Murray, 1976-2006 and undated | |
| Box 1, Folder 8 | North Quincy High School Junior Yearbook, 1941 | |
| Box 1, Folder 9 | North Quincy High School Senior Yearbook, 1942 | |
| Box 1, Folder 10 | North Quincy and Winthrop Junior High Schools, 1938-1942 | |
| Box 1, Folder 11 | North Quincy and Winthrop Junior High Schools (continued), 1938-1942 | |
| Box 1, Folder 12 | Tilton Junior Academy for Boys, 1940-1947 | |
| Box 1, Folder 13 | Tilton Academy (graduated 1943), 1939-1943 | |
| Box 1, Folder 14 | Tilton Academy diploma, 1943 | |
| Box 1, Folder 15 | University of New Hampshire papers/essays (graduated 1948), 1944-1948 | |
| Box 1, Folder 16 | UNH: Exams, grades, commencement program, Sigma Delta Chi certificate, 1946-1954 | |
| Box 1, Folder 17 | UNH B.A. Diploma, 1948 | |
| Box 1, Folder 18 | UNH Senior Key Award, 1968 | |
| Box 1, Folder 19 | UNH Distinguished Teaching Award, 1981 | |
| Box 1, Folder 20 | UNH Distinguished Teaching Award (continued), 1981 | |
| Box 1, Folder 21 | UNH Doctor of Humane Letters Diploma, 1990 | |
| Box 1, Folder 22 | 22. UNH Alumnus materials, 1990s-2000s | |
| Box 2 | ||
| Box 2, Folder 1 | US Army: Official paperwork, orders, certificates of training, correspondence, identification ("doggie") tags, armband, 1943-1959 | |
| Box 2, Folder 2 | US Army: Paratrooper maps, European tour ephemera, 1943-1959 | |
| Box 2, Folder 3 | US Army: History of the U.S. 17th Airborne Division, undated | |
| Box 2, Folder 4 | US Army: Letters home to parents, news clippings about his service, war diary, 1943-1945 | |
| Box 2, Folder 5 | European trip and letters home to family, 1973 | |
| Box 2, Folder 6 | Obituaries and Tributes to Donald Murray, 2007 | |
| Box 2, Folder 7 | Resumes and Booklists, 1950s-1979 | |
| Box 2, Folder 8 | Resumes and Booklists, 1980-1989 | |
| Box 2, Folder 9 | Resumes and Booklists, 1990s-2000s and undated | |
| Box 2, Folder 10 | Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray: Vital records, Autobiography, certificates, 1920s-2005 | |
| Box 2, Folder 11 | Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray: Short stories, editorials, diary of 1969 roadtrip, 1969 and undated | |
| Box 2, Folder 12 | Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray: English 703/803 Advanced Non-Fiction materials, 1977 | |
| Box 2, Folder 13 | Anne Murray: essay, undated | |
Series 2: Daybooks, Writing Rules and Schedules, and Correspondence, 1944-2007
(14.5 cubic feet)This series consists largely of daybooks and correspondence. Murray's daybooks are a combination of diary, writing workbook, and anything else he found important to include. They are different from his desk calendars which follow them in the series. Murray's grid-like writing schedules document the number of words written each day from the early 1970s until his death. The remainder of the series is correspondence arranged alphabetically within each year.
| Box 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 2, Folder 14 | Essay on keeping a daybook, undated | |
| Box 2, Folder 15 | Daybook/Journal, 1957-1959 | |
| Box 2, Folder 16 | Journal and Journal Of Writing A Novel, 1964-1965 | |
| Box 2, Folder 17 | Journal, 1961 | |
| Box 2, Folder 18-29 | Daybooks 1-9, October 1976-1989 | |
| Box 3 | ||
| Box 3, Folder 1-28 | Daybooks 10-37, September 1979-September 1984 | |
| Box 4 | ||
| Box 4, Folder 1-22 | Daybooks 38-59, September 1984-July 1987 | |
| Box 5 | ||
| Box 5, Folder 1-21 | Daybooks 60-77, August 1987-July 1991 | |
| Box 6 | ||
| Box 6, Folder 1-17 | Daybooks 78-93, July 1991-March 1996 | |
| Box 7 | ||
| Box 7, Folder 1-14 | Daybooks 94-107, March 1996-October 1998 | |
| Box 8 | ||
| Box 8, Folder 1-12 | Daybooks 108-118, 2000s-November 2005 | |
| Box 8, Folder 13 | Daybook Notes, October 1989-September 1990 | |
| Box 8, Folder 14 | Daybook notes, undated | |
| Box 8, Folder 15 | Writer's workbook, begun July 1971 | |
| Box 8, Folder 16 | Daily Workbook, July 1972-1938 | |
| Box 8, Folder 17 | "A Journal of a Novel," April 1961-unknown | |
| Box 9 | ||
| Box 9, Folder 1-4 | Miscellanious Daybooks, 2000-2006 and undated | |
| Box 9, Folder 15-29 | Writing Schedules, 1970s-2000s and undated | |
| Box 9, Folder 30 | Murray's Rules For Writing, 1970s-1990s | |
| Box 9, Folder 31-39 | Calendars, 1979-1984 | |
| Box 10 | ||
| Box 10, Folder 1-19 | Calendars, 1895-2002 | |
| Box 11 | ||
| Box 11, Folder 1-8 | Calendars, 2002-2007 | |
| Box 11, Folder 9-38 | Correspondence, 1944-1981 | |
| Box 12 | ||
| Box 12, Folder 1-23 | Correspondence, 1981-1986 | |
| Box 13 | ||
| Box 13, Folder 1-26 | Correspondence, 1986-1990 | |
| Box 14 | ||
| Box 14, Folder 1-27 | Correspondence, 1990-1994 | |
| Box 15 | ||
| Box 15, Folder 1-26 | Correspondence, 1994-1997 | |
| Box 16 | ||
| Box 16, Folder 1-26 | Correspondence, 1998-2001 | |
| Box 17 | ||
| Box 17, Folder 1-22 | Correspondence, 2001-2006 | |
| Box 17, Folder 23-25 | Correspondence, unidentified, undated | |
| Box 18 | ||
| Box 18, Folder 1-6 | Correspondence, unidentified, undated | |
| Box 18, Folder 6 | Correspondence, Family/Personal, 1970s-2000s | |
Series 3: Photographs and Artwork, 1898-2003
(1 box (1 cu. ft.))This series contains photos of the Murray and Smith families starting with DMM's grandparents. Further photos document his childhood, army service, professional career, and tenure at UNH. The bulk of the series is DMM's artwork.
| Box 18 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 18, Folder 7 | Smith / Murray family photos, 1898-1900s | |
| Box 18, Folder 8 | Murray's childhood photos, 1920s-1940s | |
| Box 18, Folder 9 | Army photos, 1940s | |
| Box 18, Folder 10 | Murray / Emmerich family photos, 1950s onwards | |
| Box 18, Folder 11 | Early Professional Photos, 1950s onwards | |
| Box 18, Folder 12-13 | "The Amazing World Of Sound Recording", photos 1967 | |
| Box 18, Folder 14-15 | UNH era professional photos, 1960s-2000s | |
| Box 18, Folder 16 | New Hampshire College commencement photos (Murray's honorary PhD), 1997 | |
| Box 18, Folder 17 | Don Murray Colloquium, 1999 | |
| Box 18, Folder 18 | Scrapbook, 1933 | |
| Box 18, Folder 19 | Scrapbook of classic cars, 1950s | |
| Box 18, Folder 20 | Sketchbook: "The Mother-In-Law And Other Friends Of The Family", 1950s | |
| Box 18, Folder 21 | Sketchbook: Linekin Bay Maine, 1980s | |
| Box 18, Folder 22 | Sketchbook: Portraits of Minnie Mae, 1980 | |
| Box 18, Folder 23 | Sketchbook: Norway (1994), untitled (1998) 1994-1998 | |
| Box 18, Folder 24 | Sketchbook: "Following The Line" drawings, 1998 | |
| Box 18, Folder 25 | Sketchbook: untitled, 2001 | |
| Box 18, Folder 26 | Sketchbook: Imagined trip to Italy, 2001 | |
| Box 18, Folder 27 | Sketchbook: untitled, 2002 | |
| Box 18, Folder 28 | Sketchbook: "Morning Sketches", 2003 | |
| Box 18, Folder 29 | Sketchbook: "Trees: Observed, Remembered, Imagined", 2004 | |
| Box 18, Folder 30 | Sketchbook: Untitled, 2000s | |
| Box 18, Folder 31 | Drawings of people and miscellaneous subjects, undated | |
| Box 18, Folder 32 | Self-potraits, portraits by others, drawings of war, undated | |
| Box 18, Folder 33 | Household / Buildings, undated | |
| Box 18, Folder 34 | Drawings for "Garden Lane" publication, 2000s | |
| Box 18, Folder 35 | Nature / Tree drawings, undated | |
| Box 18, Folder 36 | Cartoons about writers and writing collected by Murray, undated | |
Series 4: Poetry, ca. 1946-2007
(1.5 cubic feet)This series opens with a small amount of poetry-related correspondence and lists of Murray's poems, before moving on to his poetry collections and then individual poems. Most are undated, so the drafts are organized by title (where available) or first line. Subjects are predominantly his WWII experiences and relations with members of his family.
| Box 19 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 19, Folder 1 | Poetry related correspondence, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 2 | Ideas for poems, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 3 | Lists of poems and publications, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 4 | Submission / Rejection slips, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 5 | Teaching materials and workshops on poetry, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 6 | New Hampshire Writers and Publishers workshop with poet Wes McNair, 1993 | |
| Box 19, Folder 7 | Series: "Black Ice", undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 8 | Early poems, 1946-1964 | |
| Box 19, Folder 9 | Early Collections of poems, 1970s | |
| Box 19, Folder 10 | "Finding My Father's Glasses in the Drawer" series part 1 undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 11-12 | Father's Glasses series drafts notebooks, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 13 | "Five Poems for Lisa" series, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 14 | "Home On Leave" series, 1993 | |
| Box 19, Folder 15 | "Intensive Care" series, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 16-18 | "Occupied Territory" series drafts, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 19 | "Spring Visit Home" series, 1965 | |
| Box 19, Folder 20 | "The Swords Survive," undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 21 | "Thief of Lives," 1992 | |
| Box 19, Folder 22 | "This Daily Dying," 1971 | |
| Box 19, Folder 23 | Untitled series, 1974 | |
| Box 19, Folder 24 | Untitled groups of poems, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 25 | Published collections of 2-6 poems, undated | |
| Box 19, Folder 26-34 | Titles / first lines beginning A through G, undated | |
| Box 20 | ||
| Titles / first lines beginning H through G, undated | ||
Series 5: Newswriting: Editorials, Columns, Articles/Essays, Interviews, 1943-2007
(9.0 cubic feet)Series 5 opens with 18 scrapbooks of Murray's editorials written while working at the Boston Post, ca. 1951-1954, for which he won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize. Later he wrote a weekly column for the Post entitled "Over Sixty," from 1986-2007. Drafts of this and other columns are arranged chronologically in boxes 23-24. Murray also wrote freelance articles throughout his career on a wide array of topics - articles from 1950-ca. 1968 are on non-writing topics, while those ca. 1968 and later cover the mechanics and teaching of writing (boxes 25-29). The latter half of box 29 contains interviews with and by Murray and materials from television- and internet-based writing programs.
| Box 21 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 21, Folder 1-8 | Scrapbooks of Murray's editorial and newspaper articles, 1951-July 1952 | |
| Box 22 | ||
| Box 22, Folder 1-10 | Scrapbooks continued, including articles written while working for Time Magazine in 1954-1955, September 1952-December 1954 | |
| Box 23 | ||
| Box 23, Folder 1-22 | Rights, reflections, and drafts/finished texts of “Over Sixty” column written for the Boston Globe, 1986-2000 | |
| Box 24 | ||
| Box 24, Folder 1-9 | “Over Sixty” columns for the Boston Globe, 2001-2007, 2001/2007 | |
| Box 24, Folder 10-17 | “Writer on Writing” columns for the Boston Globe, 1987-1990 | |
| Box 24, Folder 18-19 | “Craft Notes” columns for the Portsmouth Herald, 2005-2006 | |
| Box 24, Folder 20-21 | “From the Sidelines” column for the Boston Globe, 1980 | |
| Box 25 | ||
| Box 25, Folder 1 | Six Ways to Judge Your Schools, 1950s | |
| Box 25, Folder 2 | Noted School Reader Creation, 1951 | |
| Box 25, Folder 3 | Defense in an Air Age, 1953 | |
| Box 25, Folder 4 | What Had Been Given (1953), 1953 | |
| Box 25, Folder 5 | Paint Your Dreams (1953), 1953 | |
| Box 25, Folder 6 | Fulham Brothers / Fish Sticks, 1954 | |
| Box 25, Folder 7 | How To Knock The Reds Off Balance [Pulitzer Prize winner], 1954 | |
| Box 25, Folder 8 | I was a Nay, 1954 | |
| Box 25, Folder 9 | (Book of unidentified quotations from Time Magazine – probably includes Murray), 1954 | |
| Box 25, Folder 10 | The Weapon of Knowledge, 1954 | |
| Box 25, Folder 11 | Drafting Common Sense (Pulitzer Prize editorial excerpted as article), 1954 | |
| Box 25, Folder 12 | The Too Well Contemplated Navel (for Time Magazine), 1954 | |
| Box 25, Folder 13 | How It Feels To Catch Fire (with R.P. Carter), 1954 | |
| Box 25, Folder 14 | How To Keep A Home Running, 1955 | |
| Box 25, Folder 15 | Last Chance For Problem Children, 1955 | |
| Box 25, Folder 16 | The Moll in the Nursery: Old Ma Goose or Crime School for Parents, ca. 1955 | |
| Box 25, Folder 17 | They Guard the Ramparts, 1955 | |
| Box 25, Folder 18 | Boston Science Museum, 1956? | |
| Box 25, Folder 19 | East Orange Public Library, 1956 | |
| Box 25, Folder 20 | New York’s Toughest Cop, 1956 | |
| Box 25, Folder 21 | Socony Mobil Building, NYC, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 22 | TV’s Nicest Guy, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 23 | The Best Job in the World, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 24 | The Cop Was Scared, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 25 | “Doc” Draper’s Wonderful Tops, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 26 | Charles Draper’s flight simulators, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 27 | Article about Murray family farm vacation, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 28 | Nixon’s My Boss [article about Rosemary Woods], 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 29 | Notes on my Trade, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 30 | The Un-American Dream, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 31 | What Do You Mean By Hopeless?, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 32 | YMCA, 1957 | |
| Box 25, Folder 33 | 23 Ways To Find Money On Your Doorstep, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 34 | Blue Collar Workforce, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 35 | Blueprint for Toughening Up Our Schools, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 36 | Children of the Empty World, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 37 | Employments, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 38 | The Great Summer Gold Rush, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 39 | He Saves Minds with the Sweat Cure, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 40 | The Man Who Stopped Time / Edgerton and His Magic Light, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 41 | The Most Powerful Instinct, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 42 | The Mural (written as Edgar Williams), 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 43 | Percy Spencer and His Itch to Know, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 44 | Secrecy Does Not Mean Security, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 45 | They Win, and They Win, and They Win, 1958 | |
| Box 25, Folder 46 | (Article ideas), 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 47 | Air Force Idea Center, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 48 | Burns, Kansas, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 49 | Captured: The Wonderful World Of Sound, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 50 | Conventions, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 51 | Edwin Link / Aviation Simulation, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 52 | The Exciting World of Recorded Sound, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 53 | A Father’s Helping Hand, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 54 | Man-Made Muscle: New Horizons for the Paralyzed, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 55 | Ride With Death, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 56 | Ride With Our Firemen, 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 57 | Wind Tunnel, ca. 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 58 | Your Doctor’s New Silent Partner, ca. 1959 | |
| Box 25, Folder 59 | Captain Kangaroo, 1950s-1960s | |
| Box 25, Folder 60 | Amazing Machines That Make Believe, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 61 | Birth Control Pill, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 62 | Calvin Coolidge, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 63 | Undated notes for an article about coal production, ca. 1960s | |
| Box 25, Folder 64 | Dana Buxton (polio survivor), 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 65 | David Morse and his Global Skills Building Program, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 66 | Dillinger – Public Enemy No. 1, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 67 | The Facts Behind Food Scares, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 68 | Jascha Heifetz, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 69 | The Other John F. Kennedy, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 70 | Palm Springs: Wonderland in a Wasteland, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 71 | Tranquilizers At The Zoo, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 72 | U.S. Speedtraps, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 73 | U.S. Timberland Bonanza, 1960 | |
| Box 25, Folder 74 | Airports, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 75 | Damndest Yankees: 26th Infantry Division, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 76 | Flying Saucers, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 77 | Giorgio Tozzi, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 78 | The Lovely Lady of Wall Street, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 79 | Now I Walk Alone, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 80 | One Million Times 98 Cents, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 81 | O’Sullivan’s Wonderful Lead Balloon, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 82 | Pasadena: Where They Light Up The Stars, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 83 | Speed Traps Follow Up, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 84 | What Should A Funeral Cost?, 1961 | |
| Box 25, Folder 85 | Library of Congress, 1961-1965 | |
| Box 25, Folder 86 | Aerospace Corporation, ca. 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 87 | American Cancer Society, 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 88 | Chuck Yaeger article proposal, 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 89 | Article contract for Reader’s Digest publications, 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 90 | Education, 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 91 | Grandma, Stay Away From My Door! (with Minnie Mae, written under the pseudonyms Robert and Ruth Neilson), 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 92 | The Housewife’s Secret Sickness, 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 93 | I Live With Grocery Carts, 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 94 | Violence, 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 95 | What Had Been Given, 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 96 | When You Are Called To The Stand, 1962 | |
| Box 25, Folder 97 | My Business Is Selling Dreams, 1963 | |
| Box 25, Folder 98 | Nursing Homes in New Jersey, 1963 | |
| Box 25, Folder 99 | The Secret Life of Richard Watt, 1963 | |
| Box 25, Folder 100 | The Secret World of the Suburban Cop, 1963 | |
| Box 26 | ||
| Box 26, Folder 1 | Steuben at Valley Forge, 1963 | |
| Box 26, Folder 2 | Turn Off That Shower And Run A Tub!, 1963 | |
| Box 26, Folder 3 | What You Should Know About The Drugs You Take, 1963 | |
| Box 26, Folder 4 | Eight Dangerous Myths About TB, 1964 | |
| Box 26, Folder 5 | Influenza, 1964 | |
| Box 26, Folder 6 | Condition Critical: Cause Unknown, 1965 | |
| Box 26, Folder 7 | Diabetes, 1965 | |
| Box 26, Folder 8 | Flu: The Underestimated Enemy, 1965 | |
| Box 26, Folder 9 | An Eye For An Eye, 1965 | |
| Box 26, Folder 10 | New Cure for the Fatal Sadness, 1966 | |
| Box 26, Folder 11 | Obituary of Robert S. Gerdy, 1966 | |
| Box 26, Folder 12 | The Secret To Saving Your Teeth, 1966 | |
| Box 26, Folder 13 | Emphysema, 1967 | |
| Box 26, Folder 14 | The Explorers of Inner Space, 1968 | |
| Box 26, Folder 15 | Give Your Students The Writer’s 5 Experiences, 1968 | |
| Box 26, Folder 16 | The Twelve Basic Elements of Dramatic Writing, After 1968 | |
| Box 26, Folder 17 | 34 Questions Teachers Ask About Teaching Writing, 1969 | |
| Box 26, Folder 18 | Evaluating Creative Writing, 1969 | |
| Box 26, Folder 19 | Finding Your Own Voice: Teaching Composition In An Age Of Dissent, 1969 | |
| Box 26, Folder 20 | The Practical Advantage of An Impractical Education, 1969 | |
| Box 26, Folder 21 | Writer’s Cycle Of Craft, 1969 | |
| Box 26, Folder 22 | A Writer On Writing, 1969 | |
| Box 26, Folder 23 | The Writer’s Toughest Reader, 1969 | |
| Box 26, Folder 24 | Your Elementary Pupil And The Writer’s Cycle of Craft, 1969 | |
| Box 26, Folder 25 | Making Writing Clear, ca. 1970 | |
| Box 26, Folder 26 | The Interior View: One Writer’s Philosophy of Composition, 1970 | |
| Box 26, Folder 27 | 58 Ways to Make Writing Clear and Vigorous, 1970 | |
| Box 26, Folder 28 | Untitled, for “In Parenthesis” magazine, UNH, 1970s | |
| Box 26, Folder 29 | The Old Crisis in Writing, 1970 | |
| Box 26, Folder 30 | The Process Approach: One Writer’s View of How Meaning Is Made, 1970 | |
| Box 26, Folder 31 | Some Of My Best Friends Are Lawyers, But… 1970 | |
| Box 26, Folder 32 | Untitled, undated 1st draft of article about editing writing, 1970 | |
| Box 26, Folder 33 | What Does A Novelist Believe? ca. 1970s | |
| Box 26, Folder 34 | What To Do Until The Writing Comes, 1970s | |
| Box 26, Folder 35 | A Writer’s Day, 1970s | |
| Box 26, Folder 36 | Dominant Impression, 1972 | |
| Box 26, Folder 37 | Finding A Poem, 1972 | |
| Box 26, Folder 38 | Listening To Voices, 1972 | |
| Box 26, Folder 39 | Teaching Writing As A Process, 1972 | |
| Box 26, Folder 40 | Teach Process or Product? 1972 | |
| Box 26, Folder 41 | How A Newspaper Can Help You Teach Composition, ca. 1973 | |
| Box 26, Folder 42 | The Maker’s Eye, 1973 (later revised in 1998) | |
| Box 26, Folder 43 | Perhaps The Professor Should Cut Class, 1973 | |
| Box 26, Folder 44 | Research for an article on Scottish Tartan patterns, 1973 | |
| Box 26, Folder 45 | Reports From Inner Space, ca. 1973 | |
| Box 26, Folder 46 | What Can You Say Besides Awk? 1973 | |
| Box 26, Folder 47 | Why Creative Writing Isn’t – Or is 1973 | |
| Box 26, Folder 48 | Why Teach Writing, and How? 1973 | |
| Box 26, Folder 49 | The Lonely Communities, 1974 | |
| Box 26, Folder 50 | What, No Assignment? 1974 | |
| Box 26, Folder 51 | Introduce The Writing Process – Tomorrow, 1975 | |
| Box 26, Folder 52 | Internal Revision: A Process of Discovery, 1975 | |
| Box 27 | ||
| Box 27, Folder 1 | On The Work of Writing, 1975 | |
| Box 27, Folder 2 | Write To Read: Creative Writing in the Reading Program, 1975 | |
| Box 27, Folder 3 | The Feel of Writing, 1976 | |
| Box 27, Folder 4 | How To Write An Article – I Think – And How I Feel While I’m Doing It – I Think, 1976 | |
| Box 27, Folder 5 | Reading For Surprise 1976, 1976 | |
| Box 27, Folder 6 | Teach The Motivating Force of Revision 1976, 1976 | |
| Box 27, Folder 7 | What NH Means To Me In This Bicentennial Year, 1976 | |
| Box 27, Folder 8 | From Subject To Draft, 1976 | |
| Box 27, Folder 9 | Notes On Editing A Non-Fiction Article, 1977 | |
| Box 27, Folder 10 | The Old Crisis In Writing, ca. 1977 | |
| Box 27, Folder 11 | Our Students Will Write – If We Let Them, 1977 | |
| Box 27, Folder 12 | They Want To Write, 1977 | |
| Box 27, Folder 13 | The View From The Field: What Writers Feel, Do, and See During the Writing Process, 1977 | |
| Box 27, Folder 14 | Write Before Writing, 1977 | |
| Box 27, Folder 15 | How Writing Finds Its Own Meaning: The Process of Teaching Process, 1978 | |
| Box 27, Folder 16 | Man Against The Earth, 1978 | |
| Box 27, Folder 17 | Do Newspapers Want Writers? 1979 | |
| Box 27, Folder 18 | Grant Your Students Their Voting Rights, 1979 | |
| Box 27, Folder 19 | The Listening Eye: Reflections on The Writing Conference, 1979 | |
| Box 27, Folder 20 | The Qualities Of Good Writing, 1979 | |
| Box 27, Folder 21 | What Makes Readers Read? 1979 | |
| Box 27, Folder 22 | Writing For Surprise, 1979 | |
| Box 27, Folder 23 | How I Got That Story, ca. 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 24 | Brainstorming And Writing, early 1980s | |
| Box 27, Folder 25 | 23 Ways To Make Your Story More Interesting, 1980s | |
| Box 27, Folder 26 | Basic Rules of Journalism, 1980s | |
| Box 27, Folder 27 | Can Writing Be Taught? 1980s | |
| Box 27, Folder 28 | Editing In An Age Of Diversity, 1980s | |
| Box 27, Folder 29 | The Feel of Writing – And Teaching Writing, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 30 | Five Steps Towards Implementing A Writing Program, with Don Graves, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 31 | The Hidden Art of Editing Exposed, 1980s | |
| Box 27, Folder 32 | How Do You Rate The Writer’s Successes? 1980s | |
| Box 27, Folder 33 | How Writing Finds Its Own Meaning, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 34 | Listening To Writing 1980, 1980, republished 2009 | |
| Box 27, Folder 35 | The Making of ‘Listening To Writing,’ 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 36 | Not-So-Good-Old Days, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 37 | A Program To Improve Writing, 1980s | |
| Box 27, Folder 38 | Read The Language of Discovery ca. 1980, 0 | |
| Box 27, Folder 39 | Reflections On Language Arts, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 40 | Revision: In the Writer’s Workshop And In The Classroom, with Don Graves, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 41 | Some Notes On Teaching Freshmen English, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 42 | Speech on journalism and editors, for the American Press Institute, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 43 | Variations on a Theme: Truth, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 44 | The Writer’s Seven Steps, 1980s | |
| Box 27, Folder 45 | Writing As A Process, 1980 | |
| Box 27, Folder 46 | Editors Must Find New Ways To Develop And Retain Writers, 1981 | |
| Box 27, Folder 47 | Flemming, 1981 | |
| Box 27, Folder 48 | Making Meaning Clear: The Logic of Revision, 1981 | |
| Box 27, Folder 49 | Out of Silence, A Voice, 1981 | |
| Box 27, Folder 50 | The Politics of Respect, 1981 | |
| Box 27, Folder 51 | Reading What Isn’t Written – Yet, 1981 | |
| Box 27, Folder 52 | The Revisor’s Craft, 1981 | |
| Box 27, Folder 53 | The Teaching Craft: Telling, Listening, Revealing, 1981 | |
| Box 27, Folder 54 | Which Books On Writing And Editing Should Be In The Newsroom? 1981 | |
| Box 27, Folder 55 | Conference Guidelines, 1982 | |
| Box 27, Folder 56 | From What to Why: The Changing Style of Newswriting, 1982 | |
| Box 27, Folder 57 | Teaching The Other Self: The Writer’s First Reader, 1982 | |
| Box 27, Folder 58 | UNH Campus Journal profile of Charles Simic, 1982 | |
| Box 27, Folder 59 | What Is A Practical Education? 1982 | |
| Box 27, Folder 60 | Wind Turbines, 1982 | |
| Box 27, Folder 61 | Write Research To Be Read, 1982 | |
| Box 27, Folder 62 | Consultive Editing, 1983 | |
| Box 27, Folder 63 | First Silence, Then Paper, 1983 | |
| Box 27, Folder 64 | Listening For Meaning: A Celebration of the Prose Line, 1983 | |
| Box 27, Folder 65 | A Process Approach To Newswriting, 1983 | |
| Box 27, Folder 66 | Writing Badly to Write Well, 1983 | |
| Box 27, Folder 67 | Writing Fiction: A Self-Interview, 1983 | |
| Box 27, Folder 68 | Writing For Many Roles: Newswriting, 1984 | |
| Box 28 | ||
| Box 28, Folder 1 | How To Write The Lead Notes For the Lead Writer,, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 2 | On The Cutting Edge Of Writing, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 3 | Relating Reading And Writing In The College Years, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 4 | Writing And Teaching For Surprise, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 5 | How I Write? 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 6 | Memo to a New Feature Writer, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 7 | Newswriting, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 8 | Switzerland At Its Best, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 9 | What Happens When Students Learn To Write, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 10 | Tricks of the Nonfiction Trade, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 11 | An Essay On Not Writing An Essay, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 12 | The Essential Delay: When Writer’s Block Isn’t, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 13 | Expecting Writing, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 14 | The First Draft: A Celebration, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 15 | Getting Under The Lightning, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 16 | Listening To Writers, 1984 | |
| Box 28, Folder 17 | Publish And Flourish, 1985 | |
| Box 28, Folder 18 | Response To Teaching Of Writing, 1985 | |
| Box 28, Folder 19 | Seven Hints To Improve Any Newspaper Story, 1985 | |
| Box 28, Folder 20 | Tricks Of Our Trade, 1985 | |
| Box 28, Folder 21 | What Makes Students Write, 1985 | |
| Box 28, Folder 22 | The Writer’s I, 1985 | |
| Box 28, Folder 23 | Imagine Not Writing, 1985or later | |
| Box 28, Folder 24 | The Most Important Development of the Last Five Years for High School Teachers of Composition, ca. 1985 | |
| Box 28, Folder 25 | Is Textbook Writing Writing?, 1985-1986 | |
| Box 28, Folder 26 | Case History Of An Article, 1985 | |
| Box 28, Folder 27 | The Importance of Bad Writing And How We Can Encourage It, 1986 | |
| Box 28, Folder 28 | One Writer’s Secrets, 1986 | |
| Box 28, Folder 29 | Tackling The Lead, Winning Out In The End, 1986 | |
| Box 28, Folder 30 | Rehearsing Rehearsing, 1986 | |
| Box 28, Folder 31 | Writing Is Thinking, 1986or later | |
| Box 28, Folder 32 | Address at CWP spring conference, 1987 | |
| Box 28, Folder 33 | Notes Of A Long Distance Writer, 1987 | |
| Box 28, Folder 34 | A Tale of Two Cities, 1987 | |
| Box 28, Folder 35 | To Heck With Nostalgia, 1987 | |
| Box 28, Folder 36 | When I Retire, 1987 | |
| Box 28, Folder 37 | Eulogy for George Griewank, 1988 | |
| Box 28, Folder 38 | Exploring The Magic of the Line, 1988 | |
| Box 28, Folder 39 | How The Text Instructs: Writing Teaches Writing, 1988 | |
| Box 28, Folder 40 | Writers Teach Researchers / Researchers Teach Writers / Teachers Instruct Both (as Ian Morison), 1988 | |
| Box 28, Folder 41 | Reading For Surprise, 1988 | |
| Box 28, Folder 42 | Writing On Writing: The Craft of Description, 1988 | |
| Box 28, Folder 43 | Cultivating Surprise, 1989 | |
| Box 28, Folder 44 | Don’t Profess, Coach, 1989 | |
| Box 28, Folder 45 | Lecture on writing news columns, 1989 | |
| Box 28, Folder 46 | One Writer’s Notes On Narrative, 1989 | |
| Box 28, Folder 47 | Read The Reading Before The Text, 1989 | |
| Box 28, Folder 48 | Unlearning to Write, 1989 | |
| Box 28, Folder 49 | Use Genre As Lens, 1990s | |
| Box 28, Folder 50 | Receiving A Poem, 1990 | |
| Box 28, Folder 51 | Literature Of Tomorrow / Notes on Creative Writing, 1990 | |
| Box 28, Folder 52 | Writing By Ear / Tune Your Creative Writing Voice, 1990 | |
| Box 28, Folder 53 | Fifteen Ways To Make Writing Easy, 1990s or later | |
| Box 28, Folder 54 | Going Public: The Craft of Writing To Yourself for Others, 1990s | |
| Box 28, Folder 55 | Pushing The Edge, 1990 | |
| Box 28, Folder 56 | Writing After A Career of Writing, 1990 | |
| Box 28, Folder 57 | Teaching Don Murray To Write (Bonnie Sunstein), 1990 | |
| Box 28, Folder 58 | What A Beginning Writer Needs To Know, 1990 | |
| Box 28, Folder 59 | Case History Of An Essay, 1990 | |
| Box 28, Folder 60 | Why Murray was hired at UNH, 1991 | |
| Box 28, Folder 61 | How Poems Think, 1991 | |
| Box 28, Folder 62 | If I Returned As A Freshman, I’d... 1991 | |
| Box 28, Folder 63 | How Writer’s See the Unseen Text, 1991 | |
| Box 28, Folder 64 | Taking A Poetic Trip To Manitoba, 1991 | |
| Box 28, Folder 65 | All Writing Is Autobiography, 1991 | |
| Box 28, Folder 66 | One Writer’s Curriculum, 1991 | |
| Box 28, Folder 67 | The Writer In The Newsroom, 1991 | |
| Box 28, Folder 68 | What I Need From My Editors, 1992 | |
| Box 28, Folder 69 | One Writer’s Processes, 1992 | |
| Box 28, Folder 70 | Why And How I Write, 1992 | |
| Box 28, Folder 71 | A Writer’s Habits, 1992 | |
| Box 28, Folder 72 | How I Write A Column, 1993 | |
| Box 28, Folder 73 | Following The Voice of the Draft, 1993 | |
| Box 28, Folder 74 | How To Get The Writing Done, 1993 | |
| Box 28, Folder 75 | Write To Teach Writing, 1993 | |
| Box 28, Folder 76 | Letter To A Young Article Writer, 1993 | |
| Box 28, Folder 77 | A Confession of Strengths, 1993 | |
| Box 28, Folder 78 | "Let The Draft Teach" response to Writing Fiction: A Self-Interview, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 79 | The Writing Conference, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 80 | Forward to “How Writers Journey To Comfort and Fluency," 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 81 | Memo To A Beginning Essay Writer, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 82 | Where Do You Find Your Stories? 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 83 | Laer og Skriv, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 84 | A Preface On Rejection (written in 1994, about article entitled “Pushing The Edge” which was written in 1990), 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 85 | My One-Desk Schoolhouse, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 86 | Newspapers Need Writers, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 87 | The Craft Of Telling, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 88 | Writing At Seventy: Still Lost In The Work, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 89 | Knowing Not Knowing, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 90 | How The Draft Instructs, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 91 | Minnie Mae Cooks A Poem, 1994 | |
| Box 28, Folder 92 | Forward to Clark’s “Free To Write”, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 93 | Oklahoma: Fight The Urge To Fight Back, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 94 | My Legs Run My Life, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 95 | Qualities of Good Writing, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 96 | Real Writers Don’t Burn Out, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 97 | Writing Fiction: A Self-Interview, 1995, reprint | |
| Box 28, Folder 98 | Before Writing: Remember What Makes Writing Easy, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 99 | To Compose, 1995? | |
| Box 28, Folder 100 | Rewriting Teaching, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 101 | Why I Write The Personal Essay, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 102 | Being Retired Takes Too Much Time, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 103 | What Writers Can Do For Newspapers, 1995 | |
| Box 28, Folder 104 | Some Notes On Revision, 1995 | |
| Box 29 | ||
| Box 29, Folder 1 | Why You Should Write When You Have No Time To Write And How You Can Get It Done, 1996 | |
| Box 29, Folder 2 | Response to ‘Nutshells, Monkeys, and The Writer’s Craft,' 1996 | |
| Box 29, Folder 3 | An Earfull on Picking and Pecking Corn, 1996 | |
| Box 29, Folder 4 | Rewriting Teaching, 1996 | |
| Box 29, Folder 5 | Do’s and Don’ts of Magazine Article Writing, 1996 | |
| Box 29, Folder 6 | Notes On Creative Writing, 1996 | |
| Box 29, Folder 7 | Why – And How – You Should Write When You Have No Time To Write, 1996 | |
| Box 29, Folder 8 | The Seeing Line, 1997 | |
| Box 29, Folder 9 | Response/Reading of Essay by Bill Mayher, 1997 | |
| Box 29, Folder 10 | Reprints of “How To Develop Your Craft”, “What I need From My Editors”, and “Covering The Self”, 1997 | |
| Box 29, Folder 11 | A Bookstore on the Road to Serendipity [about the Water Street Bookstore in Exeter NH], 1998 | |
| Box 29, Folder 12 | Dual Citizenship, 1998 | |
| Box 29, Folder 13 | Write What You Don’t Know, 1998 | |
| Box 29, Folder 14 | Leaping Onto The Blank Page, 1998 | |
| Box 29, Folder 15 | The Maker’s Eye (1998, reprint of 1973), 1998 | |
| Box 29, Folder 16 | Homeward Bound, 1999 | |
| Box 29, Folder 17 | The Art of the Essay, 1999 | |
| Box 29, Folder 18 | Celebrate Your Life: The Craft of Writing The Family Memoir, 1999 | |
| Box 29, Folder 19 | Twenty Ways To Unfinal A Draft, 2000s | |
| Box 29, Folder 20 | The Therapy Of The Writing Desk, 2000 | |
| Box 29, Folder 21 | West Running Brook, 2000 | |
| Box 29, Folder 22 | Forward to Christopher Scanlan’s “Reporting and Writing Basics for the 21st Century”, 2000 | |
| Box 29, Folder 23 | How To Cook Corn On The Cob, 2000 | |
| Box 29, Folder 24 | For Garden Lane: The Seeing Hand, 2000 | |
| Box 29, Folder 25 | How To Make Writing Easy, 2000 | |
| Box 29, Folder 26 | What’s Not In The History Books (essay on war), 2000 | |
| Box 29, Folder 27 | Don Murray’s Editing Guidelines, 2000 | |
| Box 29, Folder 28 | A Landscape Of Words, 2000 | |
| Box 29, Folder 29 | Dear Teachers (2001, response to 9/11/2001), 2001 | |
| Box 29, Folder 30 | Finding The News Source Within Yourself, 2001 | |
| Box 29, Folder 31 | Forward to ‘Breaking Traditions: Stories for 2001, 2001 | |
| Box 29, Folder 32 | Some Things I Wish I Had Known About Writing When I Was 21, 2002 | |
| Box 29, Folder 33 | Reading What I Haven’t Written, 2004 | |
| Box 29, Folder 34 | Can Writing Be Taught? 2004 | |
| Box 29, Folder 35 | How To Write Before Writing, ca. 2005 | |
| Box 29, Folder 36 | The Privilege of Giving Care, 2005 | |
| Box 29, Folder 37 | Write Before Writing (not the same as the 1970s article of the same name), 2006 | |
| Box 29, Folder 38 | Teach Writing Your Way, 2006 | |
| Box 29, Folder 39 | Fragments of unidentified, undated writing, undated | |
| Box 29, Folder 40 | Television series: “Books + Writers” – WNEH-TV, 1965-66, 1965-1966 | |
| Box 29, Folder 41 | Proposal for a series of TV journalism workshops/shows, 1967 | |
| Box 29, Folder 42 | “Writah.com” – teaching writing through the medium of the web (website sketches, proposal), 2006 | |
| Box 29, Folder 43-61 | Interviews of Donald Murray, 1960-2006 and undated | |
| Box 29, Folder 62 | Series of interviews with other writers conducted by Murray, dated, ca. 1968-1972 | |
Series 7: Short Stories, Fiction, Memoirs, and Textbooks, 1940-2005
(23 cubic feet)A single folder at the beginning of this series contains reviews Murray wrote of other writer's works. Murray's own short fiction (box 30) are often kernals of his later novels, which are found chronologically ordered in boxes 30-36. His two published memoirs ("My Twice Lived Life" and "The Lively Shadow") are found in box 37. The rest of the series consists of Murray's published and unpublished textbooks. These are arranged chronologically by date of first publication. Editions are chronologically filed within each title.
| Box 30 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 30, Folder 1 | Reviews of other’s works, 1950s-2000s | |
| Box 30, Folder 2 | Untitled: Memories of WWII, undated | |
| Box 30, Folder 3 | Untitled: Short stories / Fragments, 1970s-2000s and undated | |
| Box 30, Folder 4 | The Black Temptation / The Beach Temptation, ca. 1940-1950s | |
| Box 30, Folder 5 | A Gal Called Hackett, 1940s | |
| Box 30, Folder 6 | The Importance of Journalism, 1940s | |
| Box 30, Folder 7 | I Live On Sucker Street, 1940s-1950s | |
| Box 30, Folder 8 | The God Coke, 1950s | |
| Box 30, Folder 9 | My Brother Cain, 1950s | |
| Box 30, Folder 10 | The Remembered Gifts, 1959 | |
| Box 30, Folder 11 | Walking Like An Indian, 1960s? (undated) | |
| Box 30, Folder 12 | Four Eyes, ca. 1960 | |
| Box 30, Folder 13 | The Gun, 1962 | |
| Box 30, Folder 14 | Edge of the Shadow, undated | |
| Box 30, Folder 15 | When She Could Not Get Ideas For Writing, undated | |
| Box 30, Folder 16 | Experiments in Beginning, undated | |
| Box 30, Folder 17 | Untitled story about a veteran named Craig, undated | |
| Box 30, Folder 18 | Wonderful Long White Apron, 1972 | |
| Box 30, Folder 19 | Waiting: A Woman’s Story, 1977 | |
| Box 30, Folder 20 | Bruce Norden, 1980 | |
| Box 30, Folder 21 | Sweet Mistreaters (1980s, possibly written by Murray under the name “Mark Smith”), 1981 | |
| Box 30, Folder 22 | Drawing From Life, 1981 | |
| Box 30, Folder 23 | Life With Hannah’s Rubber Tree, 1981 | |
| Box 30, Folder 24 | The Weight of Sunlight on a Maple Leaf, 1980s, undated | |
| Box 30, Folder 25 | Pearl Harbor, 1987 | |
| Box 30, Folder 26 | Untitled, incomplete fiction, 1989 | |
| Box 30, Folder 27 | War Stories, 1990 | |
| Box 30, Folder 28 | Listening To Stories, 1990s | |
| Box 30, Folder 29 | “Duke’s Secret” and “Ian Morison”, 1991 | |
| Box 30, Folder 30 | Seder Haggadah rewritten from Egyptian Solders’ point of view, 2000s | |
| Box 30, Folder 31 | Another Dead Solder, 2002 | |
| Box 30, Folder 32 | Emma’s Revenge, 2002 | |
| Box 30, Folder 33 | Envelope with “Stories Don Has Written” on the front, undated | |
| Box 30, Folder 34 | “The Bayonet”: notebook outline for a non-fiction history of the weapon, 1960s | |
| Box 30, Folder 35-45 | “The Godplayer” novel materials (begun ca. 1959): correspondence, proposal, drafts, journals, 1959-1966 | |
| Box 31 | ||
| Box 31, Folder 1-2 | Godplayer (complete drafts), ca. 1960s | |
| Box 31, Folder 3 | Brainstorming (ghostwritten fiction, contract only), 1957 | |
| Box 31, Folder 4 | Man Against Earth (non-fiction), published 1961 | |
| Box 31, Folder 5 | When Passion Governs (historical fiction book proposal), 1961 | |
| Box 31, Folder 6 | To Be Dying (novel), 1961 | |
| Box 31, Folder 6-10 | The Sensation (romance novel written under pseudonym Ian Morison), 1963 | |
| Box 31, Folder 11-18 | The World Of Sound Recording (juvenile non-fiction), published 1965 | |
| Box 31, Folder 19-28 | Out Of The Thorn (novel), begun ca. 1961 | |
| Box 32 | ||
| Box 32, Folder 1-6 | Out Of The Thorn (novel), 1961-1964 | |
| Box 32, Folder 7-20 | The Man Who Had Everything (novel), 1960s-1970s | |
| Box 33 | ||
| Box 33, Folder 1-25 | The Ghosting of Mantin Blake (novel), 1965-1978 | |
| Box 34 | ||
| Box 34, Folder 1-13 | The Ghosting of Mantin Blake (later titled simply "Ghosting"), 1979-1985 | |
| Box 34, Folder 14 | One On One (novel), 1968 | |
| Box 34, Folder 15-19 | The Kovel Accountancy (novel, cowritten with Christopher Scanlan), 1986 | |
| Box 34, Folder 20-22 | My Military History of the Twentieth Century (fiction), 1983-1985 | |
| Box 35 | ||
| Box 35, Folder 1-22 | My Military History of the Twentieth Century (continued), and related short stories, 1983-1985 | |
| Box 35, Folder 23-25 | Untitled novel - possibly a version of "My Military History...", undated | |
| Box 36 | ||
| Box 36, Folder 1-2 | Field Of Fire (novel), 1990 | |
| Box 36, Folder 3 | An Ordinary War (novel), 1992 | |
| Box 36, Folder 4 | Letting Go (novel), 1998 | |
| Box 36, Folder 5 | Life Support (novel), 2000 | |
| Box 36, Folder 6-8 | A Military History of the United States 1898-2007 (novel, different from Murray's similarly titled works), 2002 | |
| Box 36, Folder 9-25 | My Twice Lived Life (memoir), 2002 | |
| Box 37 | ||
| Box 37, Folder 1-6 | My Twice Lived Life (continued), 2002 | |
| Box 37, Folder 7-18 | The Lively Shadow (memoir), 2003 | |
| Box 37, Folder 19 | Book proposals for unwritten works, ca. 1970-2006 | |
| Box 37, Folder 20 | Terminated contracts for unwritten works, 1963-2007 | |
| Box 37, Folder 21 | Contracts whose related work is unclear, 1986-1994 | |
| Box 37, Folder 22 | Textbook fragments, undated | |
| Box 37, Folder 23-32 | New England School Development Council (NESDC) writing curriculum, 1965-1966 | |
| Box 38 | ||
| Box 38, Folder 1-10 | NESDC (continued), 1966-1967 | |
| Box 38, Folder 11-24 | A Writer Teaches Writing, 1st edition (1968) and 2nd edition (1985); reissued 2002 (possible early title: “Pushing The Edge”), 1968-2002 | |
| Box 39 | ||
| Box 39, Folder 1-5 | A Writer Teaches Writing (continued), 1985-2002 | |
| Box 39, Folder 6 | A Writer Writes (proposal for unwritten work), 1969 | |
| Box 39, Folder 7-27 | Write To Communicate, 1973 | |
| Box 40 | ||
| Box 40, Folder 1-23 | Write To Communicate (continued), 1973 | |
| Box 41 | ||
| Box 41, Folder 1-24 | Write To Communicate (continued), 1973 | |
| Box 42 | ||
| Box 42, Folder 1-6 | Write To Communicate (continued), 1973 | |
| Box 42, Folder 7-9 | Write To Know, 1973 | |
| Box 42, Folder 10-14 | Writing As A Process, 1980 | |
| Box 42, Folder 15 | The Card Exercise, early 1980s | |
| Box 42, Folder 16-17 | Write To Pursuade, ca. 1981 | |
| Box 42, Folder 18-25 | Learning By Teaching (1st edition 1982, 2nd edition 1992), 1982-1992 | |
| Box 42, Folder 26-30 | Writing For Your Readers, 1938 | |
| Box 43 | ||
| Box 43, Folder 1-10 | Writing For Your Readers (continued), 1938 | |
| Box 43, Folder 11 | Colleague in the Classroom, 1985 | |
| Box 43, Folder 12 | A Writer's Handbook, 1985 | |
| Box 43, Folder 12-22 | Write To Learn (1st edition), 1985 | |
| Box 44 | ||
| Box 44, Folder 1-22 | Write To Learn (1st edition continued, 2nd edition), 1985 | |
| Box 45 | ||
| Box 45, Folder 1-28 | Write To Learn (3rd edition 1990, 4th edition 1993, 5th edition 1996, 6th edition 1999), 1990-1999 | |
| Box 46 | ||
| Box 46, Folder 1-23 | Write To Learn (6th edition continued, 7th edition 2000), 1999-2000 | |
| Box 47 | ||
| Box 47, Folder 1-20 | Write To Learn (7th edition continued, 8th edition 2005 unpublished), 2000-2005 | |
| Box 47, Folder 21-22 | Read To Write (1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition 1993), 1985-1993 | |
| Box 48 | ||
| Box 48, Folder 1-23 | Read To Write (1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition 1993), 1985-1993 | |
| Box 49 | ||
| Box 49, Folder 1-25 | Read To Write (1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition 1993), 1985-1993 | |
| Box 50 | ||
| Box 50, Folder 1-15 | Read To Write (1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition 1993), 1985-1993 | |
| Box 50, Folder 16-23 | Expecting The Unexpected, 1989 | |
| Box 51 | ||
| Box 51, Folder 1-15 | Shoptalk, 1990 | |
| Box 51, Folder 16-26 | Craft Of Revision (1st edition 1990, 2nd edition 1994, 3rd edition 1998, 4th edition 1999, 5th edition 2002, 6th edition unpublished 2005), 1990-2005 | |
| Box 52 | ||
| Box 52, Folder 1-24 | Craft Of Revision (1st edition 1990, 2nd edition 1994, 3rd edition 1998, 4th edition 1999, 5th edition 2002, 6th edition unpublished 2005), 1990-2005 | |
| Box 53 | ||
| Box 53, Folder 1-5 | Craft Of Revision (1st edition 1990, 2nd edition 1994, 3rd edition 1998, 4th edition 1999, 5th edition 2002, 6th edition unpublished 2005), 1990-2005 | |
| Box 53, Folder 6-10 | Write To Teach Writing, 1995 | |
| Box 53, Folder 11-16 | Crafting A Life In Essay, Story, Poem, 1996 | |
| Box 53, Folder 17-23 | Learning To Write By Drawing / Following The Line 1996-1998 | |
| Box 53, Folder 24-25 | A Writer In The Newsroom, 1996 | |
| Box 53, Folder 26-32 | Working Journalist / Writing To Deadline, 1999 | |
| Box 54 | ||
| Box 54, Folder 1-3 | Working Journalist / Writing To Deadline, 1999 | |
| Box 54, Folder 4-5 | Welcome To The Writer's Craft, 2002 | |
Series 8: Teaching Materials, UNH Journalism Program, Writing Seminars, Murray on Writing, 1950-2006
(5 boxes (5.0 cubic feet))This series covers Murray's formal teaching activities, starting with the Boston Globe and continuing through his tenure at UNH (1963-1987). UNH materials include syllabi/notes for specific classes organized by course number, and the creation of the UNH Journalism Lab. Non-UNH teaching materials include syllabi/notes/speeches for conferences, speaking engagements, and writing seminars. The rest of the series consists of printed handouts, quotations on writing and bibliographies which are not identified by specific event.
| Box 54 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 54, Folder 6-14 | Boston Globe journalist teaching program, 1960s-1980s | |
| Box 54, Folder 15-19 | UNH Journalism Program, 1960s-2000s | |
| Box 54, Folder 20-29 | UNH teaching and class materials arranged by course number, 1963-1987 | |
| Box 55 | ||
| Box 55, Folder 1-16 | UNH teaching and class materials (continued), 1963-1987 | |
| Box 55, Folder 17-28 | Murray's professional UNH activities; hiring, annual reports, tenure, retirement, 1963-1987 | |
| Box 55, Folder 29-35 | Conferences, Speaking Engagements, Seminars, 1950s-1975 | |
| Box 56 | ||
| Box 56, Folder 1-20 | Conferences, Speaking Engagements, Seminars (continued), 1976-1989 | |
| Box 57 | ||
| Box 57, Folder 1-19 | Conferences, Speaking Engagements, Seminars (concluded), 1990-2006 | |
| Box 57, Folder 20-21 | Murray on writing (unidentified handouts and notes), 1960s-1980s | |
| Box 58 | ||
| Box 58, Folder 1-8 | Murray on writing (continued), 1970s-2006s and undated | |
| Box 58, Folder 9 | Bibliographies of recommended reading for writers, undated | |
| Box 58, Folder 10-13 | Collected quotations on writing, undated | |
Series 8: Awards, Ephemera, Audiovisual, Oversize Materials, 1945-2006
(8 boxes (ca. 8.0 cubic feet))This series contains the many awards Murry recieved, including his Pulitzer Prize certificate (Box 58 f. 14), emphemera from his employment at Time Magazine and the Boston Herald, and UNH/personal emphemera. A small amount of multimedia contains lectures, interviews and drafts. Five oversize boxes contain large drafts and art, two Pulitzer scrapbooks the Murrays made for their daughters, framed memorabilia/awards, and newspapers/emphemera from his military career and overseas service.
| Box 58 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 58, Folder 14 | Pulitzer Prize certificate, 1954 | |
| Box 58, Folder 15 | Air Force Association Citation of Honor, 1954 | |
| Box 58, Folder 16 | Awards, 1981-1985 | |
| Box 58, Folder 17 | University of Lowell award, 1986 | |
| Box 58, Folder 18 | NH School Boards Association award, 1987 | |
| Box 58, Folder 19 | Awards, 1990-1996 | |
| Box 58, Folder 20 | Fitchburg State College, honorary doctorate, 1992 | |
| Box 58, Folder 21 | NH Assocation of Teachers of English award, 1994 | |
| Box 58, Folder 22 | New Hampshire College (Manchester) honoary doctorate, 1997 | |
| Box 58, Folder 23 | NH Writer's Project award, 2001 | |
| Box 58, Folder 24 | Awards, undated | |
| Box 59 | ||
| Box 59, Folder 1 | "Carols of Glad Tidings Shout" (music by Alison Demarest, text by Murray), undated | |
| Box 59, Folder 2 | Yankee Quill Award, 1981 | |
| Box 59, Folder 3 | UNH Alumni Association Profile of Service award, 1985 | |
| Box 59, Folder 4 | Time Magazine: "What Makes Time Tick" employee welcome packet, 1954 | |
| Box 59, Folder 5 | Time Magazine: paperweight, 1954 | |
| Box 59, Folder 6 | Sign reading "Don Murray, The Boston Herald", undated | |
| Box 59, Folder 7 | NH automobile license plates reading "OVER60", 2001 | |
| Box 59, Folder 8 | "nulla dies sine linea" wall art, undated | |
| Box 60 | ||
| Box 60, Item 1-40 | 15 VHS tapes, 16 cassette tapes, and 9 discs of interviews with Murray, (some have Minnie Mae and Hannah Murray too). Topics include writing and aging. 1977-2006 and undated | |
| Box 60, Item 41-42 | 3.5” floppy discs labeled “failed novel drafts”, 1999 | |
| Box 60, Item 43-47 | Cassette tapes of Don Graves talking about writing, 1993-1998 and undated | |
| Box 60, Folder 48 | New Hampshire Literary Awards: 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award given to Don Murray (glass desk sculpture), 2001 | |
| Oversize Box 1 | ||
| Oversize Box 1, Item 1 | “Occupied Territory” daybook, 1990 or later | |
| Oversize Box 1, Item 2 | Writing Schedules 1962, including one specifically for the novel “Out of the Thorn”, 1962 | |
| Oversize Box 1, Item 3 | Poster for a reading of "Ghosting", 1970s-1980s | |
| Oversize Box 1, Item 4 | Original diagrams drawn by Murray for unidentified book, returned by publisher in 1985 | |
| Oversize Box 1, Item 5 | Matted book covers for "Shoptalk" and "The Craft of Revision", 1990-2000 | |
| Oversize Box 1, Item 6 | Tribute book of letters and art from former students, 1996 | |
| Oversize Box 2 | ||
| Oversize Box 2, Item 1 | Pulitzer Prize: Homemade scrapbook “A Series of Editorials on National Defense / Written by Don Murray / Published in the BOSTON HERALD / in 1952”, 1952 | |
| Oversize Box 2, Item 2 | Large scrapbook about Pulitzer Prize, put together by Don and Minnie Mae Murray for their daughters. Items include the original telegraph informing Murray of his achievement, large publicity and awards ceremony photographs, articles Murray wrote, and letters/telegrams of congratulations, 1956 | |
| Oversize Box 3 | ||
| Oversize Box 3, Item 1 | Framed book cover: "Write To Learn" 3rd edition, 1990 | |
| Oversize Box 3, Item 2 | Framed book cover: "Read To Write", 1985-1993 | |
| Oversize Box 3, Item 3 | New Hampshire College Doctor of Humane Letters diploma, 1997 | |
| Oversize Box 3, Item 4 | UNH wallclock in commemoration of Murray's Distinguished Teaching Award, 1981 | |
| Oversize Box 4 | ||
| Oversize Box 4, Item 1 | Poster for the 1991 John McGrath Memorial Speaker at St. Anselm’s College (NH), featuring Murray on the topic “Teaching for Diversity”., 1991 | |
| Oversize Box 4, Item 2 | Topographical map centered on Casper, Wyoming (home of the Wyoming Writing Project), undated | |
| Oversize Box 4, Item 3 | Boston’s Best of 1991 award to “Best Columnist: Donald M. Murray, Boston Globe”, 1991 | |
| Oversize Box 4, Item 4 | Oversize cartoon map of the writing process, produced by Mayfield Publishers and drawn by David W. Chapman and Preston Lynn Waller, undated | |
| Oversize Box 4, Item 5 | Fitchburg State College honorary doctoral diploma, 1992 | |
| Oversize Box 5 | ||
| Oversize Box 5, Item 1 | Boston Herald issues featuring Murray's editorials, mostly 1953-1954 | |
| Oversize Box 5, Item 2 | The Glen Ridge Paper (NJ) announcing Murray workshop, 1957 | |
| Oversize Box 5, Item 3 | Life Magazine, Vol. 18 no. 15 “Overseas Service Edition”, featuring an article about Allied paratroopers, 1945 | |
| Oversize Box 5, Item 4 | Newspaper clippings, including one about Murray’s service in the 17th Airborne (also included in Box 1), the progress of the war, and a small amount of printed Nazi propaganda, 1943-1945 | |
| Oversize Box 5, Item 5 | Newspapers and magazines published by the 17th Airborne Division about their activities and Division. Includes articles about specific soldiers, including Murray, 1943-1945 | |
| Oversize Box 5, Item 6 | The Berlin Sentinel newspaper (in English), 1945 | |
| Oversize Box 5, Item 7 | “The Story of the 82nd All American Airborne Division”, published in Berlin, 1945 | |
| Oversize Box 5, Item 8 | World's Fair caricature drawing of Murray, 1960s | |
| Oversize Box 5, Item 9 | Ann Murray drawings of Donald Murray, undated | |
| Oversize Box 5, Item 10 | Drawing of a whale, possibly by Minnie Mae, undated | |
Collection Content
- Series 1: Personal History, Family, and Military Materials, 1890-2007
- Series 2: Daybooks, Writing Rules and Schedules, and Correspondence, 1944-2007
- Series 3: Photographs and Artwork, 1898-2003
- Series 4: Poetry, ca. 1946-2007
- Series 5: Newswriting: Editorials, Columns, Articles/Essays, Interviews, 1943-2007
- Series 7: Short Stories, Fiction, Memoirs, and Textbooks, 1940-2005
- Series 8: Teaching Materials, UNH Journalism Program, Writing Seminars, Murray on Writing, 1950-2006
- Series 8: Awards, Ephemera, Audiovisual, Oversize Materials, 1945-2006
Subjects
Formats
Books
Diaries
Letters & Postcards
Manuscripts & Typescripts
Military Papers
Newspapers & Publications
Photographs, Slides & Negatives
Scrapbooks
Sketches & Illustrations
