circa 2500 pages. Typescript with extensive holograph annotations and corrections; includes false starts, re-writes, etc.; includes material never incorporated into the text or incorporated in the course of working and later deleted. Approximately 50 items of printed source materials, corporate letters of solicitation, advertisements, etc., inserted in the working manuscript.

Highlights include:

JR of the Boy Inside title page

Gaddis plotline typed notes - some cut into strips like dialog; some with additional holograph notes; some points with line drawn thru, maybe to indicate done

Gaddis thematic holograph notes including “Rules”

Pythian Gen. Corp. Org chart and holograph notes

Typescript notes with autograph additions: Spring 1966 Skinner/Gall; 8 Samelike Parts CONTD; 8 Acquisition of (Samelike) Parts Co... [followed by JR-to-Bast dialog]; “Some dodges:(Gibney)”; Acquisitions list and notes; New York Times clipping and Gaddis notes on imports; multiple pages of notes on industries/corporations/government activities/shenanigans

“Ch/pg outline” holograph notes

Fortune October 15, 1955 clippings with outlined paragraphs

Typescript notes on companies JR manipulates, multiple pages

El Paso Natural Gas Co memorandum to Shareholders April 2, 1971 (published)

Numerous printed corporation newsletters and other marketing materials, circa 1960s-early 1970s

Clippings on Christian businessmen; politics of birth control

Correspondence in re: Ford Foundation, including one from a playwright named John

Typescript pages with holograph corrections mixed with typescript notes, clippings, adverts, etc.

Harvard Reunion schedule of events; clipping advertising speed reading

Clipping in re: close of horse racing newspaper

Holograph notes on scenes and JR logo

Typescript cut and taped plot and character notes

Clippings of beauty product advertisements with typescript note

Ford Foundation 1963 Program for Poets and Fiction Writers (spend a year with professional resident theater companies) mailer

Typescript/holograph notes including cut and taped on certain days (Wednesday and Thursday) action, plot, characters, etc.

Newsweek subscription offer with underlining

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