Cormac McCarthy Papers
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A Guide to
the Cormac McCarthy Papers
1964-2007
Collection 091
Descriptive Summary
Creator: Cormac
McCarthy
Title: The
Cormac McCarthy Papers
Dates: 1964-2007
Abstract:
The Cormac McCarthy Papers span 1964-2007 and document the literary
career of one of America’s most celebrated authors. The collection is arranged
in two series: Published Works and Unpublished Works. The bulk of the collection
is Published Works. Novels and produced plays and screenplays represented
include: The Orchard Keeper; Outer Dark; Child of God;
The Gardener’s Son; Suttree; Blood Meridian; All the Pretty
Horses; The Crossing; The Stonemason; Cities of the Plain; No Country for Old Men; the Road; and The Sunset Limited.
Unpublished Works include the screenplay, “Whales and Men,” and an unfinished
novel “The Passenger.”
Identification: Collection
091
Extent: 98
boxes (46 linear feet)
Language: English.
Repository: Southwestern Writers Collection, The Wittliff
Collections, Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos
Biographical Sketch
Pulitzer Prize winning
novelist and playwright, Cormac McCarthy, was born Charles McCarthy, Jr., on
July 20, 1933, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the third of six children
born to Charles and Gladys McCarthy, preceded by sisters Jackie and Bobbie, and
followed by Bill, Maryellen, and Dennis. In 1937, his parents moved the family
to Knoxville, Tennessee, where his father was employed as a lawyer with the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
McCarthy spent much of his
life in Tennessee, and his early works are clearly influenced by that region.
His first four published novels, The
Orchard Keeper (1965), Outer Dark
(1968), Child of God (1973), and Suttree (1979), reflect the culture,
myth and character of East Tennessee and Appalachia.
McCarthy briefly attended The
University of Tennessee (UT) from 1951 to 1952 before serving four years in the
U.S. Air Force, including two years in Alaska where he hosted a radio program.
In 1957, he returned to UT where he published the short stories “A Drowning
Incident” and “Wake for Susan” in the student literary magazine, The Phoenix. His literary talent did not
go unrecognized at UT, and McCarthy received the Ingram-Merrill Award for
creative writing in 1959 and 1960, firsts in a long list of literary accolades
to come.
In 1960, McCarthy left UT
without his degree and moved to Chicago where he worked part time in an auto
parts warehouse and pursued his writing. He married poet and former UT student,
Lee Holleman; the couple had one son, Cullen. In 1961, they moved to Sevier County,
Tennessee, where the marriage ended in divorce in 1962. McCarthy left Tennessee
again, this time moving to Asheville, North Carolina, and then New Orleans
where he continued work on his first novel, The
Orchard Keeper. Set in rural Tennessee between the two world wars, it is
the story of a boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the bootlegger, Marion Slyder, who
has killed the boy’s father.
McCarthy has notably kept
his distance from reporters, but in 1992 he granted Richard Woodward a rare
interview published in The New York Times
Magazine. In that interview, he confessed that he sent the manuscript for The Orchard Keeper to Random House
because, “it was the only publisher I had heard of.” At Random House, McCarthy
was paired with renowned editor, Albert Erskine, who had worked with literary
giants such as Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner.
McCarthy’s Southern Gothic novels continue to be compared with those of the
latter, and McCarthy’s debut novel earned him the William Faulkner Foundation
Award in 1965. Erskine remained McCarthy’s editor for over twenty years - until
his retirement in the mid 1980s. Blood
Meridian (1985) was their final collaboration.
In the same year The Orchard Keeper was published,
McCarthy received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters
traveling fellowship, and he used the funds to go to Ireland. En route on the
ocean liner, Sylvania, he met English
dancer and singer, Anne De Lisle, and the two were married in England in 1966.
A Rockefeller Foundation grant McCarthy received that same year supported the
couple as they traveled through Europe and lived briefly on the Spanish island
of Ibiza where McCarthy began work on his second novel, Outer Dark. They eventually moved to Tennessee, settling in
Rockford, near Knoxville.
Outer Dark was published in 1968. It tells the story of brother
and sister, Culla and Rinthy Holme, who have a child together. Culla claims
the child has died, and leaves to search for paying work. Rinthy then searches
for her “littlest chap.” Like McCarthy’s debut novel, Outer
Dark was a critical, if not popular, success. The selection committee
for the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation agreed with the critics, and McCarthy
was awarded a Fellowship for Creative Writing in 1969.
McCarthy’s third novel, Child of God, was published in 1973. The
story of the isolated mass murderer and necrophile, Lester Ballard, is loosely
based on an historical figure in Sevier County, Tennessee. Like his previous
works, Child of God could not be
considered a commercial success, but a steady following of devoted readers and
critics grew.
Following Child of God, McCarthy departed from the
novel format to write the script for The
Gardener’s Son, an episode in the PBS series, Visions. It first aired January 6, 1977 and starred Brad Dourif,
Ned Beatty, and Kevin Conway as members of two feuding South Carolina families,
the wealthy Greggs, and the blue-collar McEvoys.
Suttree, McCarthy’s fourth novel, was published in 1979. Written
over the span of twenty years, the semi-autobiographical novel set in the early
1950s follows Cornelius Suttree, a fisherman on the Tennessee River who lives
on the fringe of society after severing ties with his family and abandoning his
wife and son. Many of the
characters are reflections of people that McCarthy knew in Knoxville and the
surrounding area.
By
the time Suttree was published,
McCarthy was living in El Paso, Texas. He had separated from De Lisle in 1976,
and the two divorced in 1978. In 1981, McCarthy won a coveted MacArthur
Fellowship, commonly referred to as a “genius grant.” The five-year grant
provides recipients with “flexibility to pursue
their creative activities in the absence of specific obligations or reporting
requirements,” and it allowed McCarthy to concentrate on his next writing project.
McCarthy’s move to the
southwest brought a shift in the settings of his novels. He began work on what he termed his
“western,” which was published in 1985 as Blood
Meridian. In his 1992 interview with Woodward, McCarthy states, “I’ve
always been interested in the Southwest. There isn’t a place in the world you
can go where they don’t know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the
West.” In Blood Meridian, McCarthy tackled the myth of the West head-on
with his mid-nineteenth century border story of “the kid” and a band of
American mercenaries hired to kill and scalp Indians in Mexico. The novel
firmly thrust McCarthy into the center of the American literary canon. Critic Harold Bloom declared Blood Meridian, “the authentic American apocalyptic novel,” stating, “The fulfilled
renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood
Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and
of Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even
Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable.”
McCarthy followed Blood Meridian with three novels set on
the Texas-Mexico border in the mid-twentieth century, and which reveal the
dreams and coming-of-age of two remarkable characters, John Grady Cole and
Billy Parham. All the Pretty Horses (1992),
The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998), known
collectively as “The Border Trilogy,” were McCarthy’s first novels published
after Erskine’s retirement and McCarthy’s move from Random House to Knopf. They
also mark another significant shift in McCarthy’s career -- for the first time,
his novels were bestsellers.
McCarthy continued to
receive praise from critics; All the
Pretty Horses won the National Book Award in 1992 and the National Book
Critics Circle Award in 1993. And he received personal accolades with his
induction into the El Paso Herald-Post
Hall of Fame in 1991 and his reception of the Texas Institute of Letters Lon
Tinkle Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. In 2000, All the Pretty Horses was released as a film directed by Billy Bob
Thornton and starring Matt Damon as John Grady Cole. Ted Tally wrote the
screenplay.
While
McCarthy is best known for his novel writing, he has also written in other
formats. The Stonemason, a play about
an African-American family in Louisville, Kentucky that he wrote in the 1970s
was revised and published by Ecco Press in 1994. And in 2006, Sunset Limited, a novel in dramatic form
originally performed by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, was published in
paperback by Vintage Books.
McCarthy
initially began No Country for Old Men
as a screenplay in the 1980s, but he eventually abandoned the format. Instead,
the suspenseful story of sociopathic killer Anton Chiguhr’s pursuit of Llewelyn
Moss was published in 2005 as his ninth novel. Ethan and Joel Coen adapted it
for film in 2007, starring Javier Bardem as Chiguhr, Josh Brolin as Moss, and
Tommy Lee Jones as sheriff Ed Tom Bell. In interviews supporting the film’s
release, the Coen brothers joked that in adapting the novel for
the screen, one of them simply held the book open while the other typed. The film
won four Academy Awards, including best picture, and best screenplay
adaptation.
McCarthy’s tenth novel, The Road, was published in 2006. The post-apocalyptic story of a father and son’s journey across a ruined
landscape was dedicated to his son John Francis, from his third marriage to Jennifer
Winkley. The novel won McCarthy the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction as well as
the United Kingdom’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
for fiction. In March 2007, Oprah Winfrey selected The Road as a reading for her popular book club, and the reclusive
McCarthy made his first televised interview on her show that year.
McCarthy currently resides
in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area, where he enjoys an affiliation with the
multi-disciplinary Santa Fe Institute and continues to write.
Sources:
Brown,
Fred. “Cormac McCarthy: On the Trail of a Legend.” Knoxville News Sentinel (online).
December 16, 2007. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/dec/16/1216cormac/
Coles,
Robert. “The Empty Road.” The New Yorker.
March 22, 1969.
Coles,
Robert. “The Stranger.” The New Yorker.
August 26, 1974,
McGrath,
Charles. “Lone Rider.” The New Yorker.
June 27/July 4, 1994.
Wood,
James. “Red Planet.” The New Yorker.
July 25, 2005.
Woodward,
Richard B. “Cormac McCarthy’s Venomous Fiction.” The New York Times Magazine.
April 19, 1992. http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/mccarthy-venom.html
Scope and Contents Note
The Cormac
McCarthy Papers span 1964-2007 and document the literary career of one of
America’s most celebrated authors. The collection is arranged in two series:
Published Works and Unpublished Works. The bulk of the collection is Published Works,
housed in boxes 1 through 96. All of McCarthy’s published novels and produced
plays and screenplays are represented: The
Orchard Keeper (boxes 1-7); Outer
Dark (boxes 8-15); Child of God
(boxes 16-17); The Gardener’s Son
(box 18); Suttree (boxes 19-34); Blood Meridian (boxes 35-45); All the Pretty Horses (boxes 46-54); The Crossing (boxes 55-65); The Stonemason (boxes 66-68); Cities of the Plain (boxes 69-78); No Country for Old Men (boxes 79-86); The Road (boxes 87-93); and The Sunset Limited (boxes 94-96).
The works
are arranged chronologically by publication/production date. The material for
each title is arranged into the following subseries: correspondence; research;
notes; drafts; fragments; proofs; and production materials. Not every title has
material from each subseries. For example, there is no correspondence
associated with Outer Dark or Child of God; and The Gardener’s Son is the only title with a subseries devoted to
research. Other titles such as Blood
Meridian have some research materials within the “notes” subseries.
Drafts
represent the bulk of material for each title and are arranged chronologically
as best determined. All pages of each draft remain in the original order, and
pagination lists exist for each, representing McCarthy’s unique page-numbering
practice -- particularly for early and revised drafts. Nearly every draft
arrived at the Wittliff Collections with a numbered cover sheet that includes
descriptive information such as title, draft stage, and page numbers. These
sheets remain with the materials, although the listed page number counts are
often inaccurate. The true count and pagination can be found in the container
list of this finding aid.
The second
series, Unpublished Works, contains drafts for McCarthy’s unproduced
screenplay, “Whales and Men,” (box 97) and a novel with the working title “The
Passenger” (box 98). McCarthy began both Cities
of the Plain and No Country for Old
Men as screenplays, and although his scripts were never produced, the notes
and drafts for them are housed in the boxes with the published novels of the
same titles.
Brief
Container List
[Detailed container list follows]
The
Orchard Keeper …................................................................................ 1 - 7
Outer
Dark ………………………………………………………………... 8 - 15
Child
of God ………………………………………………………………. 16 - 17
The
Gardener’s Son ………………………………………………………. 18
Suttree …………………………………………………………………….. 19 - 34
Blood
Meridian …………………………………………………………….
35 - 45
All
the Pretty Horses ……………………………………………………….
46 - 54
The
Crossing ………………………………………………………………. 55 - 65
The
Stonemason, a Play ……………………………………………………
66 - 68
Cities
of the Plain [screenplay]
……………………………………………. 69 - 70
Cities
of the Plain [novel] ………………………………………………….
71 - 78
No
Country for Old Men [screenplay]
…………………………………….. 79
No
Country for Old Men [novel]
…………………………………………. 80 - 86
The
Road ………………………………………………………………….. 87 - 93
Sunset
Limited ……………………………………………………………...
94 - 96
“Whales and Men” ………………………………………………………… 97
“The Passenger” [Restricted]..……………………………………………… 98
Terminology Notes:
•
ALS Autograph [handwritten] Letter Signed (AL = Autograph Letter)
• ANS Autograph [handwritten] Note Signed (AN = Autograph Note)
• Galleys Proof printed on long sheets of normal page width
• Holograph Handwritten
• Leaf A sheet of paper
• Printout A document printed from a computer
• Setting Copy Copy of manuscript with typesetter’s markings
• TLS Typed Letter Signed (TL = Typed Letter)
• TNS Typed Note Signed (TN = Typed Note)
• Typescript A document produced using a typewriter
Access Restrictions
Research
access by appointment only.
Access to unpublished "The Passenger" drafts is restricted until
after publication. Some duplication restrictions exist.
Preferred Citation
Processing
Information
Processed by Katie Salzmann, 2009.
The Southwestern Writers Collection/Wittliff
Collections holds several additional McCarthy-related collections:
• The Perspectives
on Cormac McCarthy
Collection is comprised of drafts and proofs of essays by various authors
on the works of Cormac McCarthy. The essays were edited by Edwin "Chip"
Arnold and Dianne Luce and appeared in
•
Container
List
Series I: Published Works 1964-2007, n.d.
The Orchard
Keeper, 1964-1965, n.d.
Box Folder
Correspondence, 1964-1965, n.d.
1 1 McCarthy
to Albert Erskine, undated. TL, 1 p.
“The
carbon I have doesn’t necessarily have the same page-numbers as
the copies you quote from, hence I am not sure what
transpires on page 67…” Discusses punctuation and chapter divisions.
McCarthy
to Larry Bensky, undated. TL, 1 p.
“I
was glad to get your letter and to know that the book is acceptable to
you…” Wishes him well as he is
leaving Random House.
McCarthy
to Albert Erskine, undated. TL with pencil note on bottom left, 1 page.
“Thank
you for the letter. In regard to the apostrophes I meant all of
them that had been omitted
from negative contractions…” Inquires about
possibility of magazine excerpt of novel; recommends
the cartoons of Fernando Krahn, and discloses that his typewriter is a “Royal
Portable, Quiet Deluxe model, vintage circa 1958.”
McCarthy
[to Albert Erskine], undated. TL with pencil and blue ink annotations
and corrections, 5 pages.
“To
take most important things first, the note on page 260: the passage
does refer to the cat sequence
on 246-248…”
McCarthy
to Albert Erskine, undated. Carbon with pencil annotations and
corrections, 3 pages.
“Enclosed
are the letter and the sheets you sent. Some of the
inconsistencies I was aware
of, others were more in the nature of
typographical errors, or just
plain carelessness…”
Albert
Erskine to unidentified, September 29, 1964. AL, 1 page.
“Remember
to insert galleys McCarthy sent back at later date with
further corrections.”
Vincent
F. Apicella to Joseph Levy, November 24, 1964. TLS, 3 pages.
“I
am shipping you at this date, two pages of the above title [The
Orchard Keeper] consisting of:
Copyright page, About the Author…”
Both pages are included.
Albert
Erskine to unidentified, January 8, 1965. AN, 2 pages (1 leaf).
“May
I give this set of McCarthy galleys to [ ] to send abroad?”
The Orchard
Keeper - continued
Box Folder
Correspondence, continued
1 1 Suzanne
Baskin to McCarthy, April 1, 1968. TLS, 1 p.
“Here,
at last, all of the papers, ms, galleys, etc. on the above [The
Orchard Keeper]…”
1 2 1
page with alternate titles in typescript (“The Workers at the Kiln /
Watchglass and Fiddle /
Hourglass and Fiddle”), as well as pencil notes
regarding word choice and corrections
with page references.
Notes, errata lists, and page
references in blue ink. 10 leaves.
4 index cards with pencil
notes.
Typescript
pages numbered 130, 193, 219, and 264 with pencil corrections. (4
leaves).
Drafts, n.d.
1 3 “Late
draft.” Annotated and revised typescript. 279 pages (272 leaves). Irregular
Pagination.
Pagination: 1-12; [no #];
13-22x; 22; 23-30b; 30-56; º leaf; æ leaf; 57-58; [no #]; 59-144; 144a; 144b;
144c; 144d; 144e; 145/150; 146/151/; 147/152; 153-155; 149/156; 157-167;
162/168; 163/169; 164/170; 165/171; 166-173; [no #]; 175-182; [no #]; 183-200;
201/205; 206-209; 209; [2 no #]; 211-215; [2 no #]; 216; 218; 216b; 217;
219-227; [3 no #]; 229; 228; 228; 228; 230-231; 233; 233; 232; [3 no #]; 234-243;
[1 no #]; 244; 260/264; [3 no #]; 248t; 249-253; 269-274 [double-sided]; 254;
193; 193; [193]; 255-259; 276t-279t.
1 4 Box
for above. Herald Square paper box, labeled in pencil, “Orig Mss—Red
Mtn.”
1 5 “Final
Draft.” Carbon leaves on onion skin paper, with occasional typescript
pages
inserted. Annotated and revised in pencil throughout, with the
heaviest annotations on the
typing paper. 282 pages (291 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: [no #] 1-13;
13a; [no #]; 14-24; 24; 25-27; [no #]; 27; 28-50; 50; 51-53; 56; 57/55- 100/98;
99; 102a; 102/100; 103/102; 103; 105/104 138/137; 139; 140/139-149/148; 149;
151/150- 183/182; 184-1; 184/183-191/190;
192a; 192/191; 193/194-1; 194/193- 210/209; 211+212/210; 211/213-244/242;
245/243; 245a/246; 245b/247; 248? 250/246; 51/247-254/250; 251-253; 258/254-272/268;
266/269/273; 267/270/271; 268/272- 276/279; 277-278; 284? 279/282.
The Orchard Keeper - continued
Box Folder
Drafts, continued
2 1 Box
for above. Southworth typewriter paper box.
Proofs, 1964, n.d.
2 2 Setting
copy, pre-setting notes. Photocopy of “Final Draft” with annotations and
corrections by CM, and green
pencil annotations by his editor Albert
Erskine. 282 pages (285
leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination:
[no #]; 1-260; 260a; 260a (photocopy); 261-282.
3 1 “Final
Draft / Setting copy.” Typescript with setting notes in red ink indicating
minor corrections, occasional
word changes, several instances of added
phrases or lines, and a
handful of cuts of several lines or a full paragraph
or more. 282 pages (284
leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination:
1a; 1-13; 13a; 14-282.
3 2 Box
for above. Hammermill paper box.
4 Long
galley proofs, n.d., 101 pages. (102 leaves).
Uncorrected except for Toilers at the Kiln, changed in red
pencil to “The
Orchard Keeper” on title page.
Pagination:
Title page; 1-101.
5 Long
galley proofs, n.d. Notes and corrections in red ink by AE; corrections in
pencil by CM. Several
duplicated pages. Labeled on back of last page in
red ink, “McCarthy’s Set.”101
pages. (108 leaves). Irregular
pagination
with several duplicate pages.
Pagination: Title page;
1-13; 13-29; 29-30; 30-68; 68-85; 85-99; 99-101.
6 Long
galley proofs, August 11, 1964. Occasional light copyediting in pencil.
101 pages (102 leaves). Pagination: Title page;
1-101.
7 Long
galley proofs, September 23, 1964. Occasional corrections in pencil and
green ink, including some page number notations and
indications of blank pages. 247 pages (124 leaves).
Pagination: Title page;
revised title page; 2nd revised title page; 3; 7-247.
Additional long galley proof leaves, November 6, 1964.
Corrections in blue ink.
(16 leaves).
Pagination:
10-11; 100-101; 170-171; 184-185; 188-189; 224-225; 240-
241; “About the Author;”
10-12.
Box Folder
Drafts,
n.d.
8 1 Typescript,
early draft. Contains pencil corrections. Incomplete. 184 pages (143
leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination 1-16; 23-36;
38-52; [no #]; 43-54; 56-59; [no #]; 61-70; 73; 76-83; 85-88; 94; 99-102;
104-105; 107-134; 136-141; 146; 148-152; [no #]; 155-162; 164-166; 170-173;
177; 179-181; 184.
8 2 Various
typescript and holograph pages, (33 leaves).
8 3 Corrected
typescript, 256 pages (258 leaves). Pagination: [no #]; 1-2; 2a; 3-256.
8 4 Box
for above. Vaysik Creaciones Selectas box labeled in blue ink “Orig Copy
Outer Dark.”
9 1 Corrected
typescript. Contains a few pencil queries and comments throughout
in pencil by Erskine in addition
to McCarthy’s pencil changes. 252 pages
(272 leaves). Irregular
pagination.
Pagination: 1-11; 9
“retype;” 12-19; 24-28; 30-33; 30; 34; 35-51; 47; 52-56; [no #]; 57-63; [no #];
64-88; [no #]; 89; [no #]; 90-92; 96; 96; 96; 96; 100; 101A; 101-117; [no #];
118-120; 122-136; 135; 203/95; 137-188; 192-200; 190-194; A; 197; 204B;
201-203; 198; 204D; 202; 204; 203; 205-215; 217; 217-1- 217-4; 218-220; [no #];
221-222; 222B; 223; 224-230; 233; 233A; 234; [no #]; 235-240; [3 no #];
242-243; (244); 244 (250); 244; (245); 245; 246; (246); 248-249; 241; 251-252.
9 2 Photocopy
of earlier version of above draft. No holograph corrections. 219 pages
(228 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 1-26; 26a;
27-58; 58a; 59-102; 8; 157; 216; 214; 210; 206; 215; 103-219.
9 3 Typescript,
lightly corrected in pencil. 273 pages (275 leaves).
Pagination: [2 no #]; 2-102;
103 “old”; 103-273.
10 1 Box
for above. Orange typing paper box, heavily annotated.
10 2 Carbon
typescript of above draft. Lightly corrected. 273 pages (275 leaves).
Pagination: [2 no #]; 2-270 [page
103 is a photocopy]; 271x; 271-273.
10 3 Photocopy
of above draft. No holograph
corrections. 273 pages (274 leaves).
Pagination: [2 no #] 2-273.
Outer Dark - continued
Box Folder
Proofs, n.d.
11 1 Setting
copy. Photocopy of typescript with very light changes. Includes a small
note and several inserted
leaves with holograph printers instructions. 273
pages (285 leaves).
Pagination: [note] “I blank
II”; “III +1”; “V”; “p.1 (2 blank text begins on p.3)”;
[no
#]; 1; 1a; 2-34; [printers instructions]; 35-49; [printers instructions];
50-104;
[printers
instructions]; 105-140; [printers instructions]; 141-258; [printers
instructions];
259-273.
11 2 Envelope
for above. 9 x 11 manila.
11 3 Unbound
page proofs. Pagination follows published first printing. 242 pages (234
leaves).
11 4 Proof
fragments. Photocopy of corrected page (1 leaf) and 4 page proofs with
holograph annotations in blue
pencil (2 leaves).
12 Long
galley proofs, corrected and annotated. One passage rewritten in pencil by
McCarthy (p. 78A), otherwise,
lightly corrected. 79 pages.
13 Long
galley proofs, same as above. No corrections. 79 pages.
14 Long
galley proofs, including 2 pages of “front matter.” Lightly corrected. 79
pages (81 leaves).
15 Long
galley proofs, marked “Printer’s Proofs” and “Haddon Craftsmen.” Missing
pages 1-6. 242 pages (79
leaves).
OVERSIZED Outer Dark: File of loose
material including form filled in in pencil by Erskine,
dated 6-12-68, from the Editorial
Dept to the Production. Dept,
noting
broken type, bad inking, and
About the Author issues. Setting copy of
copyright page for the Random
House Trade first printing. Setting copy
(from a photocopy typescript
page) of About the Author. Printers Proof of
the About the Author page.
Tracing paper pencil design setting page for
the preliminaries.
Child of God, 1970-1971,
n.d.
Box Folder
16 1 Manuscript
notes: 8 leaves of errata and queries to AE, most annotated with a
black ink “x” suggesting that
they were addressed.
Drafts, 1970-1971, n.d.
16 2 Typescript,
ribbon copy with pencil corrections. Approximately 130 pages (145
leaves). Irregular pagination
including 6 leaves at the end numbered 1-5
and 9. Also included is the
manila file folder tracking his advance in the
text, correlating months and
days to page number, beginning with
September 28, 1970 and ending
February 14, [1971]. Holograph folder
title: “Ballard (inc.
Blacksmith) (leftovers).”
Pagination: 1-15; 1a; 16-22;
24-84; 84a-84e; 88-89; [3 no #]; 94-99; 92-93; 100-101; 101a-101c; 85-87;
102-104; 105a; 105-113; [13 no #]; 153; [no #]; 105; 9.
16 3 Photocopy
draft; clean with marking only on page 70. Includes 3 extra leaves at
end. 161 pages (164 leaves).
16 4 Photocopy
draft; clean with pencil corrections on pages 1, 70, and 79. 161 pages
(164 leaves).
16 5 Photocopy
draft with significant pencil editorial notes addressed to “Mac.” 161
pages (164 leaves).
Proofs, n.d.
16 6 Setting
copy; photocopy with page composition order. 161 pages (169 leaves).
16 7 Photocopy
of stamped setting copy. 161 pages (169 leaves, plus manila folder
with holograph title, “Child
of God”).
17 1 Page
proofs with layout markings. 197 pages (196 leaves plus cardboard).
17 2 Photocopy
of page proofs, lightly corrected. “Dead matter” in red pencil on front
page. 197 pages (102 leaves).
17 3 Photocopy
of pages proofs, uncorrected, stamped “Master Set, 2nd Pass.” 197
pages (103 leaves).
17 4 Page
proofs with minor annotations. 197 pages (104 leaves in 7 sections).
17 5 Page
proofs marked “Erskine” and stamped, “Hand folded samples from
Bloomsburg
Craftsmen.” 197 pages (104 leaves in 8 sections).
The Gardener’s
Son, screenplay
Correspondence,
1976, n.d.
18 1 McCarthy
to Dick Pearce, undated, TL. 2 p.
“A
hurried note. I think the dock scene should go after McEvoy passes
James Gregg’s office on page
twenty five…”
McCarthy to Dick Pearce,
undated. Photocopy of TLS, 1 p.
“I
hope this will be of some use to you but I dont guarantee anything.
Concerning specific actors, I
think Royal Dano would be a good man to
play the doctor…” suggests
Keenan Wynne for Patrick McEvoy, also
John Savage. Recommends John
Cullum for role of James Gregg and
James Earl Jones for Whipper.
Dick
Pearce to McCarthy, June 3, n.y., ALS, 2 p.
Sending
tape of a 67 year old Graniteville mill hand singing traditional
mill songs as well as other
research materials.
Dick [Pearce] to McCarthy, undated. ALS, 2 p. (1 leaf).
Sending research materials.
Call Sheet and Directions to Worthville, April 17, 1976.
Research, n.d.
18 2
“William Gregg, of South Carolina,” from Gallery
of Industry and Enterprise,
pages 348-352. Photostat.
The Advent of William Gregg and the
Graniteville Co., edited by Thomas P.
Martin, reprinted from The Journal of Southern History, Vol.
11, No. 3,
August 1945.
“William
Gregg.” Photocopy, 5 pages.
“Honorable
William Gregg The Founder of Graniteville.” transcription from the
Edgefield Advertiser, June 5,
1879. Photocopy.
“Horses Don’t
Eat Moon Pies” by Pat Conroy in Faces of South Carolina, pages
47-56. Photocopy
“Manufacturers
in South Carolina” by J.H. Taylor in De
Bow’s Review Vol. 8,
No. 1, January 1850, pages
24-29. Photocopy.
“Manufacturers
in South Carolina and the South” in De
Bow’s Review Vol. 11,
No. 2, August 1851, p.
123-140. Photocopy.
“Honorable
William J. Whipper.” Photocopy.
Trial. State of South Carolina. vs. Benjamin
Booth, Marion Booth, Sampson
Booth, Davis Kissick and John Carpenter. Indictment for Murder.
Photocopy.
Untitled
photograph print: deceased infant.
Photocopies
of South Carolina State Archives materials.
Photocopies
of several newspaper articles.
The
Gardener’s Son - continued
Box Folder
Research, continued
18 3 Holograph
research notes, 9 pages (6 leaves).
Drafts, n.d.
18 4 Typescript
with pencil corrections. 113 p.
18 5 Photocopy
of above typescript, incomplete.
Production Materials, 1976, n.d.
18 6 Shooting
script in yellow binder marked “Cormac McCarthy.” Contains a few
pencil notes. 140 p.
18 7 “Characters
in order of their appearance,” 7 p.
Directions to Worthville, 1 p.
Call
sheets, April 1976. 4 leaves
Correspondence, 1977-1978
19 1 Albert
Erskine to McCarthy, May 27-29, 1977. TLS, 4 p.
Recommends
a more compact mss before submitting it for copy editing
and production. Focuses on a
few episodes that he feels need
improvement.
19 2 McCarthy
to Bert [Bertha Krantz, copy editor]. n.d.. TLS, 1 p.
“Here tis. I made a note or
two in the margins, addressed to you, nothing
of earthshaking importance…”
Describes changes and the decision to use
“greatuncle” on page 453 of
the ms.
Bert
Krantz to McCarthy. March 8, 1978. TLS, 1 p.
Has
received Suttree ms. and outlines
process for making corrections and
getting them to McCarthy for
review.
19 3 Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy. March 21, 1978. TLS. 1 p., plus copy-edited pages.
Sending queries. Annotated
photocopy pages are enclosed.
19 4 Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy. March 23, 1978. TLS, 1 p.
Discusses previous copy edit questions; asks what
dictionary McCarthy uses.
19 5 Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy. April 4, 1978. TLS, 1p., plus copy-edited pages.
Sending
queries. Annotated photocopy pages are enclosed.
Suttree - continued
Box Folder
Correspondence, continued
19 6 Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, April 12, 1978. TLS, 1 p.
Discusses
capitalization of “God/god.”
Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, April 20, 1978. TLS, 1 p.
Sending
queries for McCarthy’s review.
Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, April 21, 1978. TLS, 1 p.
Discusses
copy edit questions.
Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, May 8, 1978. TLS, 1 p.
Has
finished first reading; sending queries.
Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, May 9, 1978. TLS, 1 p.
Asking
how strongly McCarthy feels about meeting a February
publishing date.
19 7 Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy. May 11, 1978. TLS, 1 p., plus copy-edited pages.
Is on the second “go-round.” Annotated
photocopy pages are enclosed.
19 8 Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, May 12, 1978. TLS, 1 p. plus envelope.
Regarding
a previous query about capitalization of “Indian.”
19 9 Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy. May 26, 1978. TLS, 1p., plus copy-edited pages.
Sending
queries. Annotated photocopy pages are enclosed.
19 10 Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, May 22, 1978. TLS, 1 p. plus envelope.
Discusses
reading the proofs.
Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, June 8, 1978. TLS, 1 p. plus envelope.
Going on vacation; galleys will be in when she
returns. Asks if McCarthy could get to a phone and call collect to collate.
Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, June 25, 1978. APCS.
Galleys
will be in July 10.
Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, July 10, 1978. ALS, 1 p..
Sending
the galleys. Asks to have them back by August 9.
Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, July 12, 1978. TLS, 1 p. plus envelope.
Moving
offices and phone number is changing.
Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, August 17, 1978. TLS, 1 p. plus 4 photocopy pages
and envelope
Galleys received. Sends
questions about some of McCarthy’s changes.
Suttree - continued
Box Folder
Correspondence, continued
19 10 [Bertha
Krantz] to McCarthy, n.d.. ALS, 1 p.
Asks
McCarthy’s preference for accent marks, capitalizations.
Notes, n.d.
19 11 Spiral
notebook, 3” x 5” with 28 holograph pages.
19 12 Checklists,
2 p.
19 13 “Left
from Suttree.” Folder with 113 pages, typescript, holograph, and
photocopy. Plus the booklet,
“Chess McCarthy, ‘The Goat Man,’
Presidential Handbook,” with inserted
postcard and pages from a short
fiction anthology printing of Wilbur Daniel Steele’s
“How Beautiful With Shoes.”
19 14 “All
Suttree Notes.” Envelope with 70 photocopy pages, irregular pagination.
19 15 “Suttree Trans.” Folder
with McCarthy’s answers to translator’s queries.
Photocopy, 4 p.
Drafts, n.d.
Typescript with some photocopy pages. Holograph corrections
in pencil
throughout. 856 pages (876 leaves) housed in two
parts, each with its original box.
20 1 Part
1 of 2 numbered “DF-1” - 425 (435 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: DF-1-DF 6; 1-11;
11a; 11b; 12-73; 73a; 74; 75a; 75-93; 100; 1c-42c; 143-183; 183a; 184-315;
316a; 316a; 316-321; 321a; 322-325; 325a; 326-357; 357a; 358-383; 383a;
384-406; 407&408; 409-425.
20 2 Box
for above. Niftee Copies, Etc. labeled in blue ink, “Ms in two boxes /
Suttree / orig ms w/ corr’s by
CM / pp 1-425.”
21 1
Part
2 of 2 numbered 426-857 (441 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 426-436;
436b-436c; 437-443; 443a; 444-460; 460a; 461-483; 483a; 484-543; 544/545a;
545-637; 637a; 638-665; [no p. #666]; 667-769; 769a; 770-829; 829-830; 830x;
831-857.
21 2 Box
for above. Niftee Copies, Etc. labeled in blue ink, “Ms in two boxes /
Suttree / orig ms w/ corr’s by
CM / pp 426-857.”
Suttree - continued
Box Folder
Drafts, continued
Near-exact
photocopy of preceding corrected typescript with additional light
pencil corrections, notably on pages 101-142. 856
pages (874 leaves) housed in three parts.
22 1 Part
1 of 3 numbered “DF-1” through 279 (283 leaves). Irregular
pagination.
Pagination: DF1-DF6; 1-11;
11a; 11b, 12-73; 73a; 74-75; 75a; 76-93; 100; 1-42; 143-183; 183a; 184-215;
H-15-H-9; 221-279.
22 2 Part
2 of 3 numbered 280-601 (333 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 280-316-316a;
316b; 317-321; 321a; 322-325; 325a; 326-357; 357a; 358-383; 383a; 384-406;
408-436; 436a; 436a-436c; 437-443; 443a; 444-460; 460a; 461-483; 483a; 484-543;
544/545a; 545-601.
22 3 Part
3 of 3 numbered 602-856 [missing p. 857]. (258 leaves). Irregular
pagination.
Pagination: 602-636; 637a;
637-665; 667-769; 769a; 770-829; 829-830; 830x; 831-856.
Typescript.
Clean with very few pencil marks. 878 pages (879 leaves) housed in
two parts.
23 1 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-400 (401 leaves). Continuous pagination with the
exception of two p. 195s and
no p. 196.
23 2 Box
for above. Green Eagle Typewriter Papers box labeled in blue pen,
“Suttree – orig ms Part
1.”
24 1 Part
2 of 2 numbered 401-878 (478 leaves). Continuous pagination with a
few minor exceptions.
Pagination: 401-736; 737a;
737-742; 743&744; 745-831; 834; 833-878.
24 2 Box
for above. Eagle-A Typewriter Papers box labeled “Albert T.
Erskine” in black; “McCarthy II” in green, and
“Suttree Orig Ms part 2” in blue.
Suttree - continued
Box Folder
Drafts, continued
Photocopy
of preceding typescript, but with cover sheet “Untitled Novel.”
Some page numbers missing, but
pages in order. No corrections. 878
pages (879 leaves) housed in
two parts
25 1 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-400 as original, but with an additional title page
(402 leaves).
25 2 Box
for above. Grey box with white Candida Donadio & Associated, Inc
label “Untitled Novel by Cormac McCarthy, I” typed on
label. “Suttree Xerox” in blue pencil on box.
26 1 Part
2 of 2 numbered 401-878 as original, but photocopy error has
fragments of pages 497 &
498 on one page (477 leaves).
26 2 Box
for above. Grey box with white Candida Donadio & Associated, Inc
label “Untitled Novel by Cormac McCarthy, II” typed on
label. “Suttree Xerox” in blue pencil on box.
Photocopy
with some typescript pages. Holograph corrections in red pen and in
pencil. 878 pages with gaps in numbering (751 leaves) housed
in two parts.
27 1 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-390 [no pages 29-115, 130, 325, and 391-400]
(302 leaves). Irregular
pagination
Pagination: [title page];
1-28; 116-129; 131-324; 326-390.
27 2 Part
2 of 2 numbered 401-878 [no pages 595, 642, 677, 697-706, 736-737,
776-790, 827] (449 leaves).
Irregular pagination
Pagination: 401-433; 433a;
434-440; 440a; 441-594; 596-641; 643-661;
661a; 662-676; 678-696;
707-735; 738-742; 743&744; 745-775; 791-826; 828-878.
Photocopy
with holograph corrections in red ink. 878 pages with some gaps in
numbering (822 leaves) housed
in three parts.
28 1 Part
1 of 3 numbered 1-279 (276 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 1-4; 6-32; 32a;
33-38; 38/39; 39-41; 44-91; 91a; 92-125; 127-
129; 131-155; 155a; 156-167;
167a; 168-176; 177-183; 183a; 184-189; 193-201; 203-279.
Suttree - continued
Box Folder
Drafts, continued
28 2 Part
2 of 3 numbered 280-600 (303 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 280-319;
326-330; 330a; 331; 332a; 332-340; 345-364; 364a;
365-367; 367a; 368-390;
401-409; 412-425; 427-428; 431-441; 441a-
441d; 442-495; 495a;
496-510; 510a; 511-529; 529a; 530; 530a; 531-580; 582-586; 588-592; 596-600.
28 3 Part
3 of 3 numbered 601-878 (243 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 601-605; 605a;
606-636; 639-641; 644-660; 661a; 661-676;
678-696; 707-726; 728-735;
740-742; 743&744; 745-764; 764a; 765-775;
791-793; 793a; 794-805;
805a; 806-821; 823-825; 828-854; 854a; 855-873; 876-878.
Photocopy
draft with “new” photocopy pages. [Original typescript pages are in
the setting copy.] No holograph corrections. 878 pages
with some gaps in numbering (821 leaves) housed in 3 parts.
28 4 Part
1 of 3 numbered 1-279, with front matter (282 leaves). Irregular
pagination.
Pagination: [ad card]; [half
title]; [title page]; [blank]; [second half title];
1-4; 6-32-32a; 33-38; 38a;
39-41; 44-91; 91a; 92-125; 127-129; 131; 132-
155; 155a; 156-167; 167a;
168-176; 176a; 177-183; 183a; 184-189; 193-
201; 204-279.
29 1 Part
2 of 3 numbered 280-600 (298 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 280-319; 326-330;
330a; 331-332; 332a; 333-340; 345-364;
364a; 365-367; 367a;
368-390; 401-409; 412-425; 427-428; 431-441;
441a-441d; 442-495; 495a;
496-510; 510a; 511-529; 529a; 530; 530a; 531-580; 582-586; 588-592; 596-600.
29 2 Part
3 of 3 numbered 601-878 (241 leaves). Irregular pagination.
601-605; 605a; 606-636;
639-641; 644-661; 661a; 662-676; 678-696;
707-726; 728-735; 740-742;
743&744; 745-764; 764a; 765-766; 768-775;
791; 793a; 794-805; 805a;
806-821; 823-824; 827-828; 829-842; 844-845; 845-854; 854a; 855-873; 874/876;
877-878.
Fragments, n.d.
30 1 Photocopy
fragments of early corrected typescript pages. Some variations from
the completed typescript. No holograph corrections.
Arranged in lettered sections. 342 leaves.
Suttree - continued
Box Folder
Fragments, continued
30 2 “X[erox] of
early pages (misc.); no holograph corrections. 71 leaves, plus
envelope.
30 3 “Sut
- early ms xerox” numbered 42-94. No holograph corrections. (55 leaves).
30 4 “Suttree
X[e]rox pp 230-424.” [no p. 230-231]. No holograph corrections. (118
leaves).
30 5 “Sut
- early ms xerox” numbered P1-P83 [669-751]. Includes folder labeled “P.”
30 6 Photocopy
fragments numbered 333-443. Includes folder labeled “Terrell Co.” No
holograph corrections, (111
leaves plus folder).
Proofs, n.d.
31 1 Setting
copy. Mostly photocopy corrected typescript pages with an additional few
dozen typescript leaves (blue) interleaved throughout;
holograph corrections in pencil by McCarthy and in red by Erskine. Numbered
1-878 (869 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: [ad card]; [half
title]; [title page]; [copyright page]; acknowledgements]; [second half title];
1-4; 6-32; 32a; 39-41; 44-91; 91a; 92-125; 127-129; 131; 132-155; 155a;
156-167; 167a; 168-176; 176a; 177-183; 183a; 184-189; 193-201; 203-319;
326-330; 330a; 331-332; 332a; 333-340; 345-364; 364a; 365-367; 367a; 368-390;
401-409; 412-425; 427-428; 431-441; 441a-441d; 442-495; 495a; 496-510; 510a;
511-529; 529a; 530; 530a; 531-580; 582-586; 588-592; 596-605; 605a; 606-636;
639-641; 644-661; 661a; 662-676; 678-696; 707-766; 728-735; 740-742; 744-764;
764a; 765-775; 791-793; 793a; 794-805; 805a; 806-821; 823-826; 828-854; 854a;
855-873; 876-878.
32 1 Envelope
for setting copy labeled in marker “Albert Erskine 12-1 / Dead Matter:
McCarthy / Suttree / Setting Copy.” Also included is a
piece of cardboard with page references in red and blue ink and in pencil.
32 2 Box
for setting copy. Cream and gray.
33 1 Vellum
page proofs with setting notations.
33 2 Photocopy
of page proofs with minor holograph corrections.
34 1 Photocopy
of page proofs stamped “Master Set First Pass.” Includes manila
envelope labeled “Albert Erskine 12-1 / Dead matter:
McCarthy, Suttree / 1st pass.”
Suttree - continued
Box Folder
Proofs, continued
34 2 Photocopy of
page proofs stamped “Master Set Second Pass.” Includes manila
envelope labeled “Albert Erskine 12-1 / Dead matter:
McCarthy, Suttree / 2nd pass.”
34 3 Page
proofs in sections. Printers marks in red and in pencil. Includes envelope
labeled “Albert Erskine 12-1 / Dead matter, McCarthy,
Suttree / repro and blues.”
Blood
Meridian, 1980-1985, n.d.
Correspondence, 1980, 1985, n.d.
35 1 [Folder
cover marked “This folder has only editorial notes for Blood Meridian…]
McCarthy
to Albert Erskine, n.d. Photocopy, 1 p.
“Here are the
corrections. The pages (31ff) with
the red marks on the left
margin are all the
pages in the ms that have Spanish in them…”
Bert
[Krantz] to
McCarthy, June 4, n.y. ANS, 1 p.
Editorial
notes, 20 leaves.
35 2 Alexandra
Halsey to Albert Erskine, June 26, 1980. TNS, 1 p.
Includes 76 leaves of
editorial notes and photocopy manuscript pages.
35 3 Bert
[Krantz] to McCarthy, June 24, 1985. ANS, 1 p.
Includes 121 pages of “late
draft” photocopy manuscript pages.
Notes, 1983-1987, n.d.
35 4 Holograph
notes on language and vocabulary, with page number references. (30
leaves).
35 5 Photocopy
spiral notebook pages with notes. In folder labeled “OV (West)” and
marked “reviewed and abstracted for West
– Sept. 83.” (34 leaves and 1 folder).
35 6 Typescript
vocabulary notes with holograph corrections, December 1983, and
photocopy notes. In folder labeled “Western –
Final Draft / (Blood Meridian – Left) / [June 87 – sacked / For
Pretty Horses.” (17 leaves and 1 folder).
35 7 Typescript
pages with holograph corrections, and some holograph pages of notes.
In folder marked “Nov 84 All useable material TR’d
from these notes. (still some historical stuff here (not useable)).” (79 leaves
and 1 folder).
Blood
Meridian - continued
Box Folder
Notes, continued
35 8 Photocopy
chapter head pages in folder marked “Chapter Heads / Final Notes”
and annotated on inside in red
ink and pencil. (23 leaves plus folder).
Drafts, n.d.
35 9 Typescript.
Heavily corrected in pencil and black ink. Pages 1-169 are absent;
includes many additional pages numbered as inserts and
additions. So-called “First Draft.” (374 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: “Just before A”;
A; [no #]; B; C; 452-453; 453; D; A-1; [no #]; A-2 to A-4; A-4aa; A-4a; 463; A-x;
465?; A-4b; A-7; A-7a; A-8 to A-11; 170-185; 185A to 185C; 22a; 186-192; 26;
[no #]; 28; 26a; 193-197; 198a; 199; [2 no#]; 207a; [no #]; 34a-34b; 200-203;
226-235; 75a; 237-242; 79; 243-258; [no #]; 259-263; [no #]; 103; 264-268; [no
#]; 269-291; [no #]; 292-299; [no #]; 300-301; 143a; 143; 303; 302; 304-309;
150; 310; [no #]; 311-316; [no #]; 317-318; 158; 158a; [no #] 159; 319; 160;
320-332; 173; 333-339; [no #]; 180; 340; 181; 181a; 341-344; 345a; 345-346; 347a;
347; 188; [no #]; 190; 348-376; 213d/214a; 377-381; 228a; [2 no#]; 228;
382-410; 252; 411-415; 258; 416; [no #]; 417a; 417; 262; 418; [no #]; 419; 419a;
420-422; [holograph notebook page, no #]; 423-424; [no #]; 425-432; 277; 433;
119; 121; 434; LA-1; LA-2; 280a; LA-3; [no #]; EW-2; EW-3; 282; EW-4 to EW-8;
444?; 445?; 446-452; [no #]; 453-545; [no #]; 455-464; 464-465; A-5 & A-6;
466-471; [no #].
36 1 Typescript,
early draft. Heavily corrected in pencil. Includes a map of Sonora and
Chihuahua, Mexico, with towns circled in blue ink and
a hand drawn map of the US Northwest Territories on the reverse. Also includes
a portion of manila folder with holograph notes tracking typing progress. (525
leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: [map]; [title
page]; [acknowledgements]; [quotes]; 1-43; 43a; 44-61;
61a; 62-78; 78a; 79-81; 81a;
82-119; 119a; 120-163; 163a; 164-166; 167a; 168-169; 1 (170); 2-25; 25a; 25b;
26-35; 35a; 36-41; 41-44; 44a; 45-48; 49a; 49-56; 56a; 57-63; 63-72; 72a;
73-92; [no #]; 93-114; 114x; 115-117; 117x; 118; [no #]; 119-127; 127a;
128-141; 141a; 142-143; 143a; 143b; 144-148; (149); 149-151; 151a; 152-168;
168a; 169-176; (177); 177-182; 182a; 183-198; (199); 199-203; (204); 204-226;
226a; 227; (228); 228-256; 256a; 257-269; (270); 270-285; (286); 286-303; 303a;
304-305; 305a; 306-314; [folder half].
Photocopy
incorporating pages from two previous drafts. Pencil page numbering
and corrections on pages
170-185c; otherwise clean. 471 pages (459
leaves) housed in 3 parts.
36 2 Part
1 of 3 numbered 1-112 (107 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 1-31; 34-89; 91-100;
103-112.
Blood
Meridian - continued
Box Folder
Drafts, continued
36 3 Part
2 of 3 numbered 113-349. (221 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 113-115;
118-126; 135-138; 147; [no #]; 139-169; 169a; 170-
185; 185a; 185b; 185c;
186-198; 198a; 199-268; 271-273; 275-276; 278-
290; [2 no #]; 291-317; [no
#]; 322-345; 345a; 346-347; 347a; 348-349.
36 4 Part
3 of 3 numbered 350-471 (131 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 350-375;
213d/214a; 376-378; [no #]; 380-389; [no #]; 390-
417; 417a; 418-419; 419a;
420-435; EW-1 to EW-2; LA1; LA-3; EW-3 to
EW-8; 444?; 445?; 446-453;
[no #]; 454-464; 464-465; A-5 & A-6; 466-
471.
Photocopy draft with red editorial marks throughout.
Includes original typescript
title page, “A Novel / by Cormac McCarthy,” numbered
1-451 with additional pages 319a to 319j (462 leaves) housed in 2 parts.
37 1 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-236, plus typescript title page (237 leaves).
37 2 Part
2 of 2 numbered 237-451 with additional numbered pages 319a to
319j (225 leaves).
37 3 Printout
draft with many typescript pages. Holograph corrections in pencil.
Numbered 1-452 (471 leaves).
Irregular pagination.
Pagination: [title page];
[acknowledgments]; [quotations]; 1-124; 124a; 125-169;
169a to 169c; 170-172; 172a;
173-253; 254/255/256; 257-319; 310x to 319x; 320-352; 352a; 353-393; 394/395;
396-412; [no #]; 413a; 413-420; 420a; 421-452.
38 1 Box
for above. Gray Southworth typewriter paper box. Marked “Blood Meridian -
Orig. MS – Draft 2” in
pencil.
Fragments, 1983, n.d.
38 2 Early
draft fragments. Typescript pages with holograph corrections and clean
photocopy pages. Includes a pencil rendering of a
building. Non-continuous pagination. (96 leaves).
38 3 Early
draft fragments. Typescript pages with holograph corrections throughout.
Includes some photocopy pages.
Non-continuous pagination. (134 leaves).
38 4 Typescript
pages with holograph corrections in pencil. Pages contain two non-
continuous numbering sequences. (104 leaves).
Blood Meridian - continued
Box Folder
Fragments, continued
39 1 Partial
photocopy of above fragments. Contains occasional holograph corrections.
Includes folder marked in pencil “final corrected ms
– Aug 83 / (but not retyped).” (68 leaves, plus folder).
39 2 Photocopy
of printout pages incorporating the above edits, with light holograph
corrections. Non-continuously
numbered 310-432. (38 leaves).
39 3 Typescript
pages with holograph corrections. Includes envelope fragment marked
in pencil, “These are the (old pages) Retyped
out of 1st 169 pp – Feb 83.” Non-continuous pagination. (89 leaves, plus
envelope fragment).
39 4 Typescript
pages with holograph corrections. Includes folder fragment marked in
pencil, “These are the last pp Margie Retyped.” Pages
contain two non-continuous numbering sequences. (109 leaves, plus folder
fragment).
39 5 Photocopy
of corrected pages. Non-continuously numbered 312-451. No
holograph corrections. (103
leaves).
39 6 Partial
photocopy of draft. Numbered 1-169c. Includes folder marked in blue ink,
“Xeroxes of pp 1-69 B/MD.” (173
leaves, plus folder).
39 7 Partial
photocopy numbered pp. 1-319 (no p. 222). Contains photocopies of the
original corrected pages replaced with typescript
pages in an earlier draft. No holograph corrections. Includes a holograph note,
“XEROX as of 27 July 83 / pages missing are with typist.” (320 leaves).
39 8 Typescript
and photocopy pages of the epilogue, many with holograph
corrections. Includes folder labeled “Blood –
notes & pages.” (7 leaves, plus folder).
Proofs, 1985, n.d.
Setting
copy. Annotated and corrected photocopy with hand-corrected pagination
numbered 1-465, with front
matter (471 leaves) housed in 2 parts.
40 1 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-239, plus front matter: typescript title page,
copyright page,
acknowledgments, quotes, and half title page.
(244 leaves). Continuous
pagination.
40 2 Part
2 of 2 numbered 240-465. Continuous pagination with inserted
typescript page 433a (227
leaves).
40 3 Setting
notes. (2 leaves).
Blood
Meridian - continued
Box Folder
Proofs, continued.
40 4 Page
proofs with minor annotations. 337 pages (88 leaves in 11 sections).
41 1 Page
proofs. No corrections. Includes Haddon Craftsmen Book manufacturing
transmittal form, 1-16-85. 342
pages (354 leaves).
41 2 Photocopy
of corrected long galley proofs, with occasional holograph corrections.
(164 leaves).
42 Partial
long galley proofs; chapter heading pages, no annotations. (33 leaves).
43 Long
galley proofs, marked “author’s,” no date or stamping. Light corrections in
pencil. (170 leaves).
44 Long
galley proofs, marked “Master Galleys,” October 1, n.y. Moderate
copyeditor’s / setters notes
in pencil and blue ink. (169 leaves).
45 Long
galley proofs, marked “Master Pages,” November 15, n.y. Light
copyeditor’s / setters notes
in pencil and blue ink. (170 leaves).
All the
Pretty Horses, 1990-1994, n.d.
Correspondence, 1994, n.d.
46 1 Folder
labeled “ATPH Trans” containing 2 letters and 1 holograph page.
Guillemette
Belleteste to McCarthy, January 12, 1994. TLS, 1 p.
Sending
list of things that have posed problems with the French
translation (not included).
Hiroshi
Hayakawa to McCarthy, January 14, 1994. Photocopy, 4 p.
Queries
from the Japanese translator. Includes McCarthy’s answers to
twenty-nine questions.
Holograph
page of notes (possibly Belleteste’s queries).
46 2 Richard
Estrada to McCarthy, n.d. TLS, 1 p. (plus 23 leaves and folder)
Compliments
McCarthy’s Spanish and encloses pencil-corrected
photocopies of typescript
pages.
All the
Pretty Horses - continued
Box Folder
46 3 Heavily
annotated manila folder, labeled “Pretty Horses,” marked “old notes,
history (Sep 98),” and
containing typescript note pages, hand-drawn
maps, photocopy maps of Saltillo and Zacatecas, and a photocopy
of a 1954 J. Frank Dobie article, “Babicora,” published in The American Hereford Journal. (20 leaves, plus folder).
46 4 6
manila folders (empty) with holograph notations and corresponding page
numbers.
46 5 Typescript
notes with holograph additions, “October 18 1991, Transcribed from
small notebook notes” (2
leaves), and holograph notes with page number
references (2 leaves).
46 6 Spanish
style sheet, 2 copies. Photocopy. (10 leaves).
46 7 Photocopy
draft pages containing Spanish phrases with occasional pencil notation.
In folder labeled, “Span
– ALL pp / Sept 9 ‘90” (78 leaves, plus folder).
46 8 Holograph
title pages (2 leaves), plus photocopy of mailing list, n.d. (1 leaf).
46 9 Typescript,
first draft. Heavily corrected, 441 pp (501 leaves). Irregular
pagination.
Pagination: 1-18; 18a; 18b;
19-26; 26a; 27-42; 42a; 42b; 43-44; 44a; 45-49; 49a;
50; 50a; 51-56; 56a; 57-82;
82a; 83; 83a; 84; 84a; 85-113; 113a; 114-139; 139a;
140-143; 143a; 144; 144a;
145-149; 149a; 150-152; 152a; 153-163; 163a; 163b;
164-165; 165b; 166-170;
170a; 171-172; 172a; 173-179; 179a; 180-184; 184a;
185-186; 186a; 187/188; 189;
189a; 190-193; 193a; 194-199; 199a; 200-202;
202a; 203-211; 211a; 212; 212a;
212b; 213; 213a; 214-216; 216a; 217-225; 225a;
225b; 226; 226a; 227; 227a;
228-255; 255a; 256; 256a; 257; 257a; 258-259; 259a; 259b; 260; 260a; 261-262;
262; 263-264; 264a; 265-270; 271a; 271-274; 274a; 275-276; 276a; 277-278;
278-28-; 281/282/283; 284-291; 291a; 292-300; 300a; 301-302; 302a; 303; 303a;
304-327; 327*; 328-331; 331a; 332-348; 348*; 349-381; 381a; 382-383; 383x;
384-397; 397a; 398-410; 410a; 411-438; 438x; 439-441.
47 1 Box
for above. White Niftee Copies paper box. Marked “Orig. 1st Draft / All
the Pretty Horses.”
All the
Pretty Horses - continued
Box Folder
Drafts, continued
Photocopy
of heavily corrected early typescript draft. No corrections. 365 pages
(382 leaves) housed in 2
parts.
47 2 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-170. (183 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 1-42; 42a;
43-82; 83; 83a; 84; 84a; 85-97; 97-132; 137-143; 143a; 144; 144a; 145-149;
149a; 150-153; 153a; 154-163; 163a; 163-170.
47 3 Part
2 of 2 numbered 170a-365. (199 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 170a; 171-254;
225a; 225b; 255-311; 311*; 312-365.
48 1 Printout,
“late draft.” Holograph notes and corrections. Page numbers every 15
pages. (383 leaves).
48 2 Box
for above. White Gilbert paper box marked in blue ink, “Orig Mss / 3rd
Draft
/ ATPH,” and in pencil, “1st
copy / unnumbered pp.”
49 1 Printout,
“final draft.” No corrections. 396 pages.
49 2 Box
for above. Grey Southworth paper box marked “orig mss / final draft / ATPH
/ no corr’s.”
50 1 Photocopy
of printout draft with holograph title page and several replacement
typescript pages (pages 38; 93; 107; 177-178; 237;
240; 270; 274-277; 284; 289; 325-333; 333a-333c; 395-396). Heavily corrected.
396 pages (404 leaves).
50 2 Box
for above. White Niftee Copies paper box marked in blue ink, “Original mss /
final draft / ATPH / w/pencil
corr’s.”
51 1 Photocopy
of previous corrected draft, marked “revision 3/19/91.” Contains
additional holograph corrections and editor’s queries.
396 pages (404 leaves).
Fragments, n.d.
51 2 Typescript
pages, heavily corrected. Includes some photocopy pages and 1
holograph page in manila folder labeled “APH various
pages.” (16 leaves, plus folder).
51 3 Photocopy
pages, lightly corrected. (2 leaves).
All the
Pretty Horses - continued
Box Folder
Fragments, continued
51 4 Typescript
pages, heavily corrected in folder labeled “APH.” (21 leaves, plus
folder).
51 5 Final
draft fragments. Print-out pages with holograph corrections. The draft
incorporating these changes is
in box 49 folder 1. (44 leaves).
51 6 Typescript
and photocopy pages, heavily corrected, in manila folder labeled “APH
some unused pages.” (142
leaves, plus folder).
51 7 Photocopy
pages in manila folder labeled “APH.” (38 leaves, plus folder).
Photocopy with copy editor’s
notes and green setters marks. 396 pages.
52 1 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-209.
52 2 Part
2 of 2 numbered 210-396.
52 3 Photocopy
p. 307 “A Note on Type,” with setters marks. 1 page.
First pass proof, November 12-13, 1991. Stamped “Rough
Pages” with
copyeditors notes in red and setters marks in green. (Housed
in 2 parts).
52 4 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-165, plus front matter.
52 5 Part
2 of 2 numbered 166-297.
“Author’s
Galleys” with pencil corrections, November 12-13, 1991. Light pencil
corrections. (Housed in 2
parts).
52 6 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-169, plus front matter.
52 7 Part
2 of 2 numbered 170-207.
Second
pass proof, January 2, 1992. Holograph corrections (Housed in 2 parts).
53 1 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-169, plus front matter.
53 2 Part
2 of 2 numbered 170-301.
53 3 Box
for above. White Niftee Copies paper box marked “”ATPH Proofs /
(no orig corr’s)”
“Master
Proofs” with setters notes, January 2, 1992. (Housed in 2 parts).
53 4 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-175, plus front matter.
53 5 Part
2 of 2 numbered 176-301, plus “dead matter” dated April 22, 1992.
All the
Pretty Horses - continued
Box Folder
Proofs, continued
Final
proofs labeled, “Absolute Last Draft,” January 2, 1992. (Housed in 2 parts).
54 1 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-200, plus front matter.
54 2 Part
2 of 2 numbered 201-307.
Vellum
proofs, January 31, 1992. (Housed in 2 parts).
54 3 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-154, plus front matter.
54 4 Part
2 of 2 numbered 155-306.
54 5 Proof
fragments, marked “AU correx [sic] to pages,” January 2, 1992. (33 leaves).
54 6 Page
proofs with no corrections, 302 pages (80 leaves in 10 sections).
54 7 All the Pretty Horses screenplay
adaptation by Ted Tally, first draft, September 2,
1993. 158 pages. (159 leaves
plus original ICM cover).
55 1 Amanda
(Binky) Urban to McCarthy. April 14, 1993. Facsimile, 40 p.
Forwarding pages with “dicey
transition points” in scenes depicting
Billy’s hunt for the wolf. In
folder labeled “The Crossing.”
55 2 Barry
G. King, Jr. M.D. to McCarthy. November 29, 1993. TLS, 5 p.
Providing
medical commentary on pages depicting Boyd’s surgery in
Mexico: “From a literary
standpoint, there is no doubt that the scene well
depicts the adversity Boyd
faces in the character of the Mexican physician
who intervenes. However, from
a purely medical view, it doesn’t tie
together….” Includes 4
photocopy pages of typescript draft for review.
Oren
H. Ellis, M.D. to McCarthy. December 2, 1993. TLS, 3 p.
Commenting
on pages depicting Boyd’s surgery in Mexico. Provides
suggestions for making it more
believable.
Barry
G. King, M.D. to McCarthy. January 11, 1994. ANS, 1 p.
Note
written on an overdue notice from The University of Texas-El
Paso’s library asking McCarthy
to return books Maria King had checked
out and loaned to him.
The Crossing - continued
Box Folder
Correspondence, continued
55 2 Barry
G. King, M.D. to McCarthy. January 14, 1994. TLS, 10 p.
Expanding
on earlier comments about “how a competent, rural physician
might handle a gunshot wound…I
wanted you to know these things for
the small percentage of readers
who are medically sophisticated…I’d get
a kick out of having them
wonder how in the hell did you know these
things.”
Barry
G. King, M.D. to McCarthy. March 28, 1994. Facsimile, 1 p.
Providing
a follow-up on the period appropriateness for some of the
medical instruments.
Barry
G. King, M.D. to McCarthy. April 13, 1994. Photocopy of facsimile, 14 p.
Suggesting
a few minor modifications to medical description that “could
be eliminated without losing
the structural integrity of the scene.”
Barry
G. King, M.D. to McCarthy. n.d. ANS, 1 p. plus corrected pages. 9 leaves.
Pages
382-388B of Boyd’s surgery scene with note from King on first
page and notes and suggestions
by him throughout.
Barry
G. King, M.D. to McCarthy. n.d ANS, 1 p.
Note
written on a prescription sheet.
Notes, n.d.
55 3 Holograph
notes with medical terminology and description. 5 leaves.
Print
out pages 382-388 of Boyd’s surgery. 9 leaves.
Folder
labeled in blue, “The Crossing – Boyd’s S----, dr…” Contains typescript,
photocopy, and holograph pages
of medical scenes with annotations by
consulting doctors and
McCarthy. 63 leaves.
55 4 Notes
regarding the priest at Caborca: Outline of his monologue. 2 leaves plus
manila folder.
55 5 Style
sheet, photocopy. 6 leaves.
The Crossing - continued
Box Folder
Drafts,
1987-1992, n.d.
55 6 Typescript,
early draft beginning dates October 1987. Heavily corrected, 389
pages (498 leaves). Irregular
pagination.
Pagination: [4 no #]; 1-48;
51-52; 48-55; 58; 56-57; 59-61; 58-70; 74; 71-85; 113; 113; 86-97; 133; 98-100;
136; 136; 101-107; 109; 110; 110a; 111-118; 157; 119-124a; 124-131; 131;
131-144; 144a; 145; 145a; 146-150; 150a; 188-189; 151;190; 152; [no #]; 193;
153; [no #]; 154-157; 198-200a; 202; 158-160; 203; 161-163; 207-208; 164; 208;
208; 182-185; 187; 189-199; 194; 200-201; 197; 202; 198; 203-208; 204; 209;
211; [no #]; 188; 205; 209; 204; 204; [no #]; 205; 186; [no #]; 205; 205; [no
#]; 165; 210; 164; 166-168; 168a; 209; 169a; 169-177; 180; 187-190; 181; 181a;
182-183; 186; 191; 191x; 225; 192-206; 206a; 207-210; 241; 211-224; 224a; 224b;
225; 252-253; 226-237; 262; 238-243; 273; 266-276; 244-246; 280; 246a; [2 no#];
247-249; [no #]; 250-257; [no #]; 258-260; 289; 261-267; [no #]; 269-272; 272a;
272b; 272b; 272c; 273; 272a; 273aa; 273b; 273bb; 275cc; 275cc; 268; 297; 268;
305; 271x; 274; 274; 275(1); 275(2); 275; 306; 275(3); 275(4); [no #]; 319-321;
275(5); 275(6); 275(7); 275(8); 275(9); 275(10); [2 no #]; 275(13); 275(14);
275(15); W-4b; 275(16); 275(17); 275(18); 275(21); 275(22); 275(23); 275(24);
275(25); 275(27); 275(26); 1-13; 13a; 14&15; 16-45; 385; 46-47; 386ish;
389.
Photocopy
of corrected early draft typescript pages, no holograph corrections. 516
leaves. Housed in 2 parts.
55 7 Part
1 of 2. Irregular reverse pagination, 250 leaves.
56 1 Part
2 of 2. Irregular reverse pagination, 266 leaves.
56 2 Box
for above. White Stenocraft box.
Photocopy
of corrected early draft typescript pages, no holograph corrections. 354
leaves. Housed in 2 parts.
56 3 Part
1 of 2. Irregular pagination, 200 leaves.
56 4 Part
2 of 2. Irregular pagination, 154 leaves.
57 1 Box
for above. White Sears bond typewriter box.
The Crossing - continued
Box Folder
Drafts, continued
57 2 Typescript,
first draft, [1991]. Heavily corrected, 596 pages (619 leaves). Irregular
pagination.
Pagination: 1-21; 20; 22-27;
27x; 28-50; 51a-51d; 58; 58; 51f-51h; w::; 51i-51j;
51-68; 82; 69-79; 92; 80-81;
96; 00; 96; 82-83; 97; 84; 98; 85-94; 105; 95-96;
108; 97-100; 113; 101-104;
104a; 105-115x; 115-131; 139; 139a; 132-146; 152;
152a; 147-152; 156; 153-160;
164; 161-164; 169; 165; 170; 170; 166; 168-171;
175; 172-173; 175; 173-180a;
180-195a; 195-208; 179; 217; 216; 209-248; 252-
292; 290; 293-294; 293;
295-297; 295; 298-302; 300; 303-335; 348-385; 387;
386-391a; 392-394; 377-378;
378-379; 395-408; 408x; 409-413; 415; 400; 417;
414; 416; 418-444; 446a;
446; 445; 447-465; 491-499; 501-523; 470; 524-533;
480; 534-535; 480; 536-537;
483; 538; 539a-539b; 539-549; 497a; 550-570;
518aa; 518a; 519; 518a;
571-578; [45-51]; 579-596.
58 1 Box
for above. Plain white typing paper box with writing on bottom edge, “1st
draft – not rewritten,
Jan 15 91.”
Photocopy
of corrected first draft typescript. Contains some unique pages and
includes only some of the changes found in previous
draft 597 pp (612 leaves). Irregular pagination. Housed in 2 parts.
58 2 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-w***. (393 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 1-27; 27x;
28-82; [no #]; 83-104; 104a; 105-115x; 115-169;
[no #]; 170-180; 180a;
181-189; 182-195; 195a; 196-311; 311-319; [no
#]; 320-329; [2 no #];
330-375; w*; w**; w***
58 3 Part
2 of 2 numbered 376-596 (219 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 376-391; [no #];
391a; 392-408x; 408; 410; 410-437; [no #];
438-444; 446a; 445-467;
490-538; 539a; 539b; 539-570+; 570-575; 565-579; [45-51]; 580-596.
The Crossing - continued
Box Folder
Drafts, continued
59 1 Typescript
with some photocopy pages, second draft, [1992]. Heavily corrected,
564 pages (622 leaves). Irregular pagination.
Pagination: 1-4; 4a; 5-27;
27a; 28-30; 30a; 31-34; 34a; 35-46; 46a; 47-48; 48a; 49-58; 58a; 59-61; 61a;
62-95; 95a; 96-98; 98a; 99-105; 105a; 106-145; 145a; 146; 146a; 147-150; 150a;
151; 151a; 152; 152a; 153-158; 158a; 159-161; 161a; 162; 162a; 163-171; 171a;
172-197; 197a; 198-206; 206a; 207-211 (insert); 211-214; 214a; 215-229; 229a;
230-231; 231a; 231b; 232-265; 265a; 266; 266a; 267-270; 270a; 271-272; 272a;
273-281; 281a; 282-296; 296a; 297-327; 327a; 328-384; 382-383; 383a; 384-386; 386-388;
388a; 388b; 388b; 382a; 383-399x; 399-400; 400a; 400-413; 413a; 414-416;
416a-416c; 417-418; 418a; 419-447; 447a; 448-450; 450a-450i; 451-452; 452a-452c;
453-461; 461a; 462-464; 464a; 465-481; 454; 482-494; 494a; 495-501; 501a;
502-506; 506a; 507-508; 508a; 509-512; 512(insert); 513-515; 515a; 516-536;
536a; 537; 537-543; 543a; 544; 544-546; 546a; 547a; 547-564.
Printout, with editor’s [Gary Fisketjon] queries in
green, 556 pages (551 leaves).
Housed in 2 parts.
59 2 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-162; 174-289 (279 leaves).
60 1 Part
2 of 2 numbered 285-556 (272 leaves).
Photocopy
of printout, with editor’s corrections in red, 561 pages (551 leaves).
Housed in 2 parts.
60 2 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-162; 174-289 (279 leaves).
60 3 Part
2 of 2 numbered 290-561 (272 leaves).
Printout of final draft, moderately corrected in
pencil. 528 pages (531 leaves).
Housed in 2 parts.
60 4 Part
1 of 2 numbered 1-268. (268 leaves)
61 1 Part
2 of 2 numbered 269-528 pages. Includes inserted photocopy pages
388a and 388b, and typescript
insert 433x (263 leaves).
Fragments,
n.d.
61 2 Typescript
pages from early draft, heavily corrected. Paginated continuously but
in various sections, (188
leaves).
61 3 Typescript
pages, heavily corrected, numbered 296-549 (131 leaves).
61 4 Typescript
pages, moderately corrected. (20
leaves).
61 5 Typescript
pages, “Sheets removed & replaced
/ Spanish edits / per CMC.” (29
leaves).
The Crossing - continued
Box Folder
Fragments, continued
61 6 Printout
pages from late draft, heavily corrected. Numbered 1-41 (43 leaves).
61 7 Printout
pages, no corrections. Includes partial manila folder with holograph notes
and page references. Numbered
383-413 (31 leaves).
61 8 Printout
pages of final draft with holograph corrections. Numbered 1-162.
61 9 Printout
pages of final draft incorporating changes from above draft with very few
holograph corrections. Numbered 1-162.
Proofs, 1994
62 1 Setting
copy, holograph corrections, Includes internal notes regarding corrections.
[March 1994], 512 pages.
“Rough
page” proofs, moderate corrections. March 21, 1994. 421 pages (438
leaves). Housed in 2 parts.
62 2 Part
1 of 2 numbered 3-212 plus front matter (220 leaves).
62 3 Part
2 of 2 numbered 213-421. Includes twelve inserted printout pages
between p. 303 and 306. (218
leaves).
63 1 First
pass proofs, stamped in red, “Master Copy,” moderate corrections. March 21,
1994. 421 pages with twelve
inserted printout pages after p. 310 and with
photocopy typescript fragment taped
to the top of p. 409.
63 2 Incomplete
lightly corrected proofs, dated March 21, 1994, with April 22, 1994
internal Knopf memo re
corrections.
Photocopy
proofs with minor holograph corrections. April 10 & 11, 1994. 425
pages (436 leaves). Housed in
2 parts.
63 3 Part
1 of 2 numbered 3-210 plus front matter (220 leaves).
64 1 Part
2 of 2 numbered 211-425 (216 leaves).
Photocopy
proofs with minor holograph corrections. April 10 & 11, 1994. 425
pages (436 leaves). Note on
first page, “all logged onto revised pages
note sheet.” Housed in 2
parts.
64 2 Part
1 of 2 numbered 3-210 plus front matter (220 leaves).
64 3 Part
2 of 2 numbered 211-425 (216 leaves).
The Crossing - continued
Box Folder
Proofs, continued
Second
pass proofs with minor holograph corrections. April 10 & 11, 1994. 425
pages (432 leaves). Housed in
2 parts.
64 4 Part
1 of 2 numbered 3-273 plus front matter (279 leaves).
64 5 Part
2 of 2 numbered 274-425 (153 leaves).
65 1 Proof
fragment. Various photocopy corrected typescript pages dated April 10 &
11, 1994. Includes a post-it
note to McCarthy. 108 leaves.
“Final
corrected proofs,” with minor holograph corrections in green, April 18,
1994. 426 pages (430 leaves). Housed
in 2 parts.
65 2 Part
1 of 2 numbered 3-206 plus front matter (209 leaves).
65 3 Part
2 of 2 numbered 207-426 (221 leaves).
Production Materials, n.d.
65 4 Book
jacket proof, Picador.
The
Stonemason, a play, 1985-1999, n.d.
Correspondence, 1993, 1997, n.d.
66 1 [Daniel
Halpern, Ecco Press editor] to McCarthy. October 29, 1993. TLS, 1 p.
plus “interior layouts” and
script page (6 leaves).
Enclosing copyedited
manuscript and sample pages. Requests a list of
characters and a list of acts
and scenes.
66 2 Janice
Paran [McCarter dramaturg] to McCarthy. May 13, 1997. TLS, 3 p. with
McCarthy’s pencil notes.
Follow-up to earlier reading
of The Stonemason with suggestions for
alterations.
Jeffrey
Woodward [McCarter managing director] to McCarthy. May 21, 1997.
TLS, 2 p. plus McCarter
contact sheet (2 leaves) and script page.
Letter serves as an agreement
between the McCarter and McCarthy
regarding the play, The Stonemason.
Emily
Mann [McCarter director] to McCarthy. July 1, 1997. Facsimile, 5 p. with
McCarthy’s pencil notes.
Consolidation of her and
Janice’s notes on the play.
McCarthy
to Emily Mann. Undated. Photocopy, 2 p.
“Here
is the new version. I’ll go over your letter. Changing the location of
the drama is not something
that would work for me…”
The
Stonemason - continued
Box Folder
Notes, 1997, n.d.
66 3 Typescript
pages with holograph corrections. 6 leaves plus manila folder marked
“Stone Mason.”
66 4 Holograph
and typescript pages. 16 leaves plus 1 newspaper clipping and pocket
folder marked “Stonemason.”
66 5 Holograph
and heavily corrected typescript pages. 38 leaves plus annotated manila
folder.
Notes
regarding McCarter production, 1997.
66 6 2
copies of McCarter program, June 20, 1997; one with pencil notes
9 notebook paper pages with
holograph notes.
Photocopy
pages numbered 2-45; 00 with minor holograph corrections
Manila
folder marked “Stone Mason (inc new opening pp).
66 7 Typescript,
heavily corrected early draft with holograph note on first page,
“Begun Thurs Feb 14,” [1985].
83 leaves.
66 8 Photocopy
of corrected draft with no holograph corrections. 110 leaves plus
manila folder marked “S/Mason xrox
– Arena Stage.”
66 9 Typescript
first draft, heavily corrected. 113 pages (120 leaves) plus manila folder
marked “Stonemason orig. ms.”
66 10 Photocopy
draft with no corrections. 102 pages (103 leaves) plus manila folder
marked “S/Mason copy.”
Interior of folder contains notes re: West [Pretty
Little Horses].
66 11 Typescript
of middle draft, heavily corrected. 106 pages (112 leaves).
66 12 Photocopy
of preceding draft with fewer corrections. 106 pages (107 leaves) plus
manila folder marked “S/Mason
xerox – Arena.”
67 1 Typescript
with holograph corrections. 102 pages (106 leaves).
67 2 Photocopy
of preceding draft, bound in ICM talent agency cover. No holograph
corrections. 101 pages
(missing p. 102).
67 3 Photocopy
of heavily corrected draft. No holograph corrections. 102 pages (110
leaves).
67 4 Typescript,
no corrections or page numbers. 108 leaves plus manila folder marked
“(org) theatre version.”
The
Stonemason - continued
Box Folder
Drafts, continued
67 5 Print
out draft. The only pencil correction is on page 1. 152 pages (153 leaves)
plus 3 copies of McCarter
Theatre rehearsal program, June 20, 1997.
67 6 Print
out draft, heavily corrected. 116 pages (128 leaves).
67 7 Print
out draft with title sheet and holograph corrections. March 1999. 152 pages
(153 leaves).
67 8 Print
out draft incorporating corrections from preceding draft. Contains additional
holograph corrections. 150
pages (151 leaves)
Cover letter from Emily Mann
to McCarthy. April 20, 1999. TLS. 1 p.
McCarter
Lab contact sheet, May 7, 1999. 2 p.
McCarter
Theatre Lab schedule overview, May 7, 1999. 1 p.
McCarter
Theatre Lab rehearsal schedule, May 7, 1999. 1 p.
Fragments, [1985], n.d.
68 1 Typescript
pages, early draft, heavily corrected. [1985]. No clear pagination;
possibly from varying drafts.
82 leaves.
68 2 Corrected
typescript page number 65. (1 leaf) plus manila folder marked “The
Stonemason.”
68 3 Photocopy
pages numbered 46-102, late draft. Minor pencil corrections. 58 leaves.
68 4 Photocopy
of corrected pages numbered 94099; 110-130. (26 leaves)
68 5 Photocopy
of corrected draft, with additional holograph corrections in red ink. 102
pages (118 leaves).
68 6 Photocopy
proofs, December 7, 1993 stamped “Master Set First Pass.” No
corrections. 133 pages (132
leaves).
68 7 Photocopy
of corrected proofs, December 7, 1993 stamped “Master Set First
Pass.” No additional corrections.
133 pages (137 leaves).
68 8 Photocopy
of Ecco Press book with holograph corrections. 133 pages (70 leaves).
68 9 Photocopy
proofs, January 20, 1994 stamped “Master Set Second Pass.” Contains
holograph corrections. 133
pages (138 leaves) plus 3 post-it notes and
cover letter
from Vincent Janoski to McCarthy. January 31, 1994, 1 p.
Cities of the
Plain [Screenplay], n.d.
Box Folder
69 1 Treatment.
Typescript with holograph corrections. 19 leaves.
69 2 “El
Paso / Juarez” treatment. Typescript. 16 leaves.
69 3 Synopsis
and McCarthy bio (2 copies). Photocopy. 6 leaves.
69 4 Characters
in order of appearance (2 copies). Photocopy. 4 leaves.
Drafts, n.d.
69 5 Holograph
pages 18-62 on notebook paper. 46 leaves.
69 6 Typescript
draft with holograph corrections. Incomplete, numbered 1-17; 63-127
(83 leaves).
69 7 Typescript
draft, very lightly corrected. 174 pages.
69 8 Photocopy
of 79 pages from previous draft with holograph corrections. Contains
some typescript pages and 3
pages of holograph notes. Incomplete.
69 9 Photocopy
and typescript pages, heavily corrected. 208 pages (246 leaves).
69 10 Printout
draft with penciled page numbers. No corrections. 156 pages (156
leaves).
70 1 Printout
draft with penciled page numbers. No corrections. 215 pages (216
leaves).
70 2 Photocopy
draft with holograph corrections in pencil. 196 pages (205 leaves).
Irregular pagination.
70 3 Shooting
script. Photocopy with minor holograph corrections. 128 pages (129
leaves).
Fragments, n.d.
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