Dale L. Walker Collection on Cormac McCarthy

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.

• 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 Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy, published in 1993.

• 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 Cormac McCarthy and Bill and Sally Wittliff.

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

Dale L. Walker Collection on Cormac McCarthy

Accession 2008-025

In 2008 El Paso author Dale L. Walker donated materials on Cormac McCarthy and his work; includes magazines, various newspaper clippings, photocopies of work and reviews, and printouts from the “Cormac McCarthy Home Pages.”

Listed below is an archival inventory of the Dale L. Walker Collection on Cormac McCarthy.

Research access by appointment only. Also, note that access to unprocessed archival materials is granted on a case-by-case basis.

Box # 1015 folder 1

The New York Times Magazine April 19, 1992; article page 28 titled “Cormac McCarthy’s Venomous Fiction” by Richard B. Woodward

Texas Monthly July 1992; article on page 42 titled “The Invisible Man” by Robert Draper

Texas Monthly July 1998; article on page 76 titled “Desperately Seeking Cormac” by Michael Hall

Firsts: Collecting Modern First Editions April 1993; article on page 24 titled “The New McCarthyism - Collecting Cormac McCarthy” by Kenneth L. Privratsky

Box # 1015 folder 2

Two issues of the July 1993 magazine Esquire; piece on page 95 contains the opening pages of the next volume of The Border Trilogy called “The Wolf Trapper”

Esquire magazine issue March 1992; installation from All the Pretty Horses on page 121

Box # 1015 folder 3

Various newspaper clippings and photocopies of articles about Cormac McCarthy and of his work; includes information from the “First Conference on Cormac McCathry”

Box # 1015 folder 4

Various newspaper clippings and photocopies of articles about Cormac McCarthy and of his work; includes print outs from “The Cormac McCarthy Home Pages”