mss007 The two lives of Baby Doe Leslie Czechowski University of Minnesota Libraries October 2004
University of Minnesota Libraries Minneapolis, MN 55455
EAD encoding by Leslie Czechowski, October 2004 English Simmons, Dawn Langley (book written under name Gordon Langley Hall) The two lives of Baby Doe 196? University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collections, Manuscripts Division [mss] .25 linear feet The collection comprises a typewritten manuscript of the book. Mss 7 English Mezzanine Administrative Information Restrictions on Access

Available for use in Manuscripts Division reading room.

Restrictions on Use

Copyright has been retained by the author.

 Preferred Citation

Gordon Langley Hall Manuscript (Mss 7), Literary Manuscripts Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.

 Biographical Note

Dawn Langley Simmons began her life as a boy named Gordon Langley Hall, having been born in England before World War II. In his twenties Gordon moved to New York where he became a biographer and friend of many wealthy people. He inherited a small fortune and moved to Charleston, South Carolina. In 1968 he underwent one of the first sex-change operations and returned to the South as Dawn Langley Hall and soon married John-Paul Simmons.

Scope and Content Note

The collection comprises a typewritten manuscript, corrected, contained in two notebooks: one containing chapters one through five, and one containing chapters six through eleven with the Epilogue and a Postscript.

Related Material

See also the Gordon Langley Hall papers in the Children's Literature Research Collections.

 Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Simmons, Dawn Langley The two lives of Baby Doe