Unpublished drafts of "May the Blue Door of Happiness Shut on You" a fiction short story by Nancy Friday, undated

File — Box: 30, Folder: 8

Identifier: Series 2

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Scope and Contents

From the File:

Assorted Writing Drafts, 1970-2009, undated includes drafts of unpublished works, unidentified book planning notes with partial drafts, drafts of blog posts for Friday's website, and unrealized projects. The unrealized projects are short, fiction stories titled "Nekkid Party", "The Faithful Girl: 1970", "Jealousy Kills", and "May the Blue Door of Happiness Shut on You". Friday also wrote several book to TV adaptations of her works that never happened like a screenplay for My Mother/My Self and a television series idea based on My Secret Garden. Nancy Friday had several other full-length, unrealized projects like a book titled How To Be Annie and an essay about her thoughts after My Secret Garden was published.

Dates

Creation: undated

Access

The users of this collection may not publish, photocopy, transcribe, disseminate, or photograph any personally identifiable information (PII) associated with the individuals writing to Friday about sexual fantasies, personal experiences, or other topics for inclusion in her work, including but not limited to: addresses, phone numbers, legal first and last names or initials, photographs or likenesses, birthdays, and employment/educational information. Materials written by minors (those who were under 18 years of age at the time of writing these materials) are restricted until January 1st, 2072. This includes a small portion of the materials in Series 1, Sexual Fantasies and Fanmail. All users of the Nancy Friday collection will need to sign an NDA (latest version: https://archives.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/NancyFridayNDA2023.pdf) that ensures they have read and agreed to the restrictions in place with these materials before accessing the collection.