Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy Collection

Note to Researchers 

The Southwestern Writers Collection/Wittliff Collections holds several additional McCarthy-related collections:

• The Cormac McCarthy Papers The comprehensive archive of Cormac McCarthy's personal papers.

• The Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy, which consists of letters between McCarthy and bibliographer J. Howard Woolmer. The Woolmer Collection also includes 140 books and other published materials related to McCarthy. Many are signed and inscribed by the author

• The John Sepich Papers include research, correspondence and drafts of works of commentary by John Sepich focusing on the novel, Blood Meridian. Sepich published Notes on Blood Meridian in October, 1993. A revised and expanded edition of Notes on Blood Meridian was published by the University of Texas Press as part of the Southwestern Writers Collection/The Wittliff Collections Book Series in 2008.

• McCarthy's Drafts of two screenplays: "Whales and Men," and "Cities of the Plain," along with a typescript for McCarthy's stage play "The Stonemason." Donated by McCarthy and Bill Wittliff.

• Dale L. Walker Collection of Cormac McCarthy-related clippings, reviews, and photocopies.

Also of note: The University of Virginia Special Collections holds the papers of Albert Erskine, McCarthy's editor for twenty years. http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/viu03211.xml.frame

Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy Collection

 

1991-1993

 

 

1 linear foot

26 folders

   

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Acquisition:  Gift donated by Edwin “Chip” Arnold, 1996.

 

Research access by appointment only.

 

Processed by:  Amanda Oates, 1999.

 

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Southern Quarterly, a journal of the arts in the South, is published by the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

 

BOOKS PUBLISHED

Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi,1993. Arnold, Edwin T., and Luce, Dianne, eds.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

This collection is comprised of drafts and proofs of essays by various authors focusing on novelist Cormac McCarthy. The essays were edited by Edwin “Chip” Arnold and Dianne Luce, and appeared in Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy, the book version of the Southern Quarterly, published by the University Press of Mississippi, September, 1993.

 

The collection has been arranged into the following series: 1. Drafts, 2. Proofs, and 3. Correspondence. Dates range from 1991 to 1993.

 

The Drafts Series includes photocopies of typewritten, hand annotated drafts, accompanied in many cases by brief correspondence regarding the status of the draft. Some folders include several drafts.  Proofs also include handwritten annotations and minimal correspondence. Both the drafts and the proofs have been arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the author, followed by one set of proofs for the work as a whole.

 

The Correspondence Series contains several letters between the editors and the University Press of Mississippi, regarding the status of the work in its entirety. This material is arranged in chronological order.

 

 

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