TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS - Autographed Letter Signed
Ted E. Dikty
Erle Korshak

1/1: Synopsis of Ray Bradbury letters, January 10, 1949 - March 25, 1953 (9 leaves, typed)

• Included are the handwritten original and a photocopy of the typed version.

1/2: Correspondence from Ray Bradbury to Erle Korshak (Shasta Publishers)

• Explaining what happened on the trip back to Los Angeles. August 21, 1939 (TLS, 2 leaves, with photocopy)
• Postcard regarding FuFa. October 2, 1939 (TLS)

1/3: Correspondence from Ray Bradbury to Erle Korshak

• Re: selling stories to magazines. December 17, 1946 (TLS with photocopy)
• Re: using material in an anthology. January 10, 1949 (TLS with photocopy)
• Re: tear sheets of Mars is Heaven and a permission letter. January 26, 1949 (TLS with photocopy)
• Re: The Illustrated Man, Dark Carnival, and a short biography. February 18, 1949 (TLS with photocopy)

1/4: Correspondence from Ray Bradbury

• To Erle re: The Martian Chronicles, and Frost and Fire. June 29, 1949 (TLS with photocopy)
• To Erle re: material for anthology, purchase of some stories. July 23, 1949 (TLS with photocopy)
• To Dikty re: including stories in Best SF Stories of 1950, and original manuscripts. December 29, 1949 (TLS with photocopy)
• Postcard to Erle re: thank you for book, story from Dark Carnival dramatized on radio. October 12, 1949 (TLS with photocopy)
• Small card to Erle re: releases for And the Moon Be Still as Bright and Mars is Heaven. January 27, 1949 (TLS with photocopy)
• Hand-drawn Christmas card to Erle (with photocopy)

1/5: Correspondence from Ray Bradbury

• To Everett re: release on The Man, selling story to magazine for $1000. January 9, 1950 (TLS with photocopy)
• Postcard to Dikty re: Way in the Middle of the Air. January 20, 1950 (TLS with photocopy)
• To Dikty re: sending manuscript, selling story. January 22, 1950 (TLS with photocopy)
• Postcard to Erle re: Way in the Middle of the Air, Heinlein books. March 3, 1950 (TLS with photocopy)
• To Dikty re: forthcoming anthology, contracts, delayed publication of The Martian Chronicles. March 8, 1950 (TLS with photocopy)
• To Erle, Dikty, and Everett re: proposal to meet. April 17, 1950 (TLS with photocopy)
• To Erle re: schedules, autograph parties. May 1, 1950 (TLS with photocopy)
• To Erle re: visit to Waukegan. May 5, 1950 (TLS with photocopy)
• Postcard to Dikty re: not received gratis copy of The Best SF of 1950. November 24, 1950 (TLS with photocopy)

1/6: Correspondence

• Dikty to William Grant re: the birth of son, proposed magazine Escape, proof for an ad. August 8, 1954 (TLS)
• Change of address card.
• Judy Dikty to Bill Grant re: wedding gift thank you note. March 25, 1953 (ALS with envelope)
• Ray to Dikty re: contracts, To The Future. February 2, 1951 (TLS with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: To The Future. February 20, 1951 (TLS with photocopy, 2 leaves, signed carbon copy)
• Ray to Dikty re: rewrite of Subterfuge. July 7, 1951 (TL with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: Subterfuge, proofs. July 9, 1951 (TLS carbon copy and photocopy)
• Ray to Erle, Dikty, and Everett re: The Fire Man. July 31, 1951 (TLS with photocopy)
• Ray to Dikty and Everett re: The Reporter, The Fire Man. September 9, 1951 (TLS with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: Best SF Stories of 1950. September 22, 1951 (TLS carbon copy and photocopy)
• Postcard from Ray to Dikty re: new version of Referent. September 25, 1951 (TLS with photocopy)
• Ray to Dikty re: 1952 anthology. September 29, 1951 (TLS with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: Referent, Subterfuge. October 19, 1951 (TLS, 2 leaves, with carbon copies and photocopies)
• Ray to Dikty re: rewrites, The Journal of SF article, Mars is Heaven. October 23, 1951 (TLS with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: Fox in the Forest, Journal of SF article. December 13, 1951 (TLS carbon copy, with photocopy)

1/7: Correspondence Between Ted E. Dikty and Ray Bradbury

• Ray to Dikty re: The Pedestrian. January 19, 1952 (TLS with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: The Pedestrian. January 17, 1952 (TLS carbon copy, with photocopy)
• Ray to Dikty re: The Pedestrian, The Reporter. January 22, 1952 (TLS with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: The Pedestrian, current anthology, contest. January 23, 1952 (TLS, signed carbon copy, with photocopy)
• Ray to Dikty re: Bantam anthology, publishing The Illustrated Man. February 7, 1952 (TLS with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: Imagination Unlimited. February 21, 1952 (TLS carbon copy, with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: sending a copy of Imagination Unlimited. April 15, 1952 (TLS carbon copy, with photocopy)
• Ray to Dikty re: material for the anthology. October 11, 1952 (TLS with photocopy)

1/8: Correspondence Between Ted E. Dikty and Ray Bradbury

• Ray to Dikty re: withdrawing offer, publishing stories. February 22, 1953 (TLS with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: review of The Golden Apples of the Sun, anthology. March 22, 1953 (TLS carbon copy, with photocopy)
• Ray to Dikty re: Tribune clippings, being busy. March 25, 1953 (TLS with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: radio adaptation of a story, material for The Best SF Stories: 1953. January 30, 1953 (TLS carbon copy, with photocopy)
• Dikty to Ray re: tear sheets for A Piece of Rope, new stories. February 18, 1953 (TLS carbon copy, with photocopy)
• Ray to Dikty re: The Man, story for The Golden Apples of the Sun, unpublished stories, comic adaptations. February 3, 1953 (TLS with photocopy)
• Magazine clipping, "A Piece of Wood" by Bradbury sent to Dikty (2 leaves in an envelope with photocopies)

1/9: From Ray to George re: Bob Jacobs, speech to students. December 27, 1982 (TLS with photocopy)

1/10: Christmas greeting to Erle from Ray and Maggie. The printed verse from the play Leviathan "99", with signatures. 1987

This collection consists almost entirely of correspondence from Ray Bradbury regarding submissions and publishing during Bradbury's early career, 1939-1950s. Most of the letters were written to Erle Korshak, founder of Shasta Publishers, but some of the correspondence is both to and from Ted Dikty, Shasta's managing editor and a well-known SF anthologist.

There are a few later pieces of correspondence, dating from the 1980s.