Printed Matter, 1986-1995

This series contains clippings from serial publications, page proofs of books that were subsequently published, and various other publications. It is divided into three sections: "About Barnes," "On or By Others," and "Other." Some of the items in this series belonged to Miss Barnes and are annotated in her hand.

The first section includes a 1916 clipping from the New York Sun that comments on Miss Barnes's interview with Adolf Bohm; a copy of the 1972 festschrift published in her honor; page proofs from two Barnes biographies; and a copy of a Provincetown Players playbill that lists her play, "An Irish Triangle," on the program for January 1920.

The second section contains a single leaflet from Leaflets from the Beyond, a series published by Barnes's paternal grandfather, the spiritualist H. A. Budington. Also included is a pamphlet published in memory of M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, whom Miss Barnes knew from the Provincetown Players. This copy, which was apparently owned by Susan Jenkins Brown, contains Brown's handwritten comments on Chouteau Dyer (aide to Erwin Piscator), Carlotta O'Neill (Eugene O'Neill's third wife), Kenneth MacGowan, the Provincetown Players, Miss Barnes, and E. J. Ballantine. This second section of the series also includes page proofs for Peter Klappert's The Idiot Princess of the Last Dynasty, a sequence of dramatic monologues purportedly spoken by Daniel Mahoney, the real-life model for Barnes's character Matthew O'Connor in her novels Ryder and Nightwood. This section also includes two items related to Courtenay Lemon, with whom Miss Barnes lived in Greenwich Village between 1917 and 1919.

The final section in this series, "Other," consists of three items clipped by Miss Barnes from serial publications.

The three sections are arranged alphabetically, as are the items within each section.