University of Denver

This folder contains the original rationale and outline for ''112 Mercer Street'' when Feldman was still calling it ''Exit Einstein and Friends.''

This folder is the second of four containing copies and drafts of Burton Feldman's curriculum vitae.

This folder contains notes for one of Burton Feldman's fiction projects. These notes are some of the groundwork that would set up his later endeavor to create a character that Feldman referred to as the ''Subhuman.'' The bulk of the developing plot seems to be devoted to the memoirs of a fictional tyrant.

This folder contains more than one hundred drafts by Feldman of the introduction to ''The Rise of Modern Mythology: 1680 - 1860'' that have been extracted from a large binder. Each draft is numbered with the notes that contributed to the changes.

This folder is the contents of a binder labeled ''Themes 1 - 85, Notes 1/2 to 1/20''. The contents pertain to Burton Feldman's research on mythology that would eventually become ''The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680 - 1860''. The notes and drafts are a collection of 85 different themes in mythology compiled by Burton.

This folder contains notes about Franz Liszt for a fiction project by Burton Feldman called ''Chopin's Bones.'' The story is a murder mystery featuring Feldman's stock characters Wrist and Emma Carew.

This folder is the contents of a binder labeled ''Notes A - Z''. The contents consist of a series of notes and drafts, kept alphabetically, by Burton Feldman pertaining to a future project that would chronicle the history of mythology from roughly 1700 to the ''present,'' then being about 1960. These are early notes that eventually would be used in his work ''The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860''.

This folder contains notes and drafts of a play. The piece is called ''Josephus Play,'' and is based loosely on a few historical Judaic figures.

This folder contains notes and outlines for Burton Feldman and Robert D. Richardson's project ''The Rise of Modern Mythology.'' A good portion of these notes are devoted to the ideas of myth in the years following 1870, a span of time which the final book did not actually cover.

This is the first of eight folders containing notes and drafts of fiction projects by Burton Feldman. The stories are mostly short detective fiction.