JR manuscript
circa 250 pages. Typescript drafts, notes, strips of cut sentences pasted onto sheets with occasional insert of printed ephemera used as part of the writing process.
Also includes scene outlines and character lists including a hand-drawn blueprint of apartment and lists of contents; manuscript notes on Wagner’s The Ring; numerous loose text strips, not taped to pages, in envelope, including some photocopied proof excerpts; clippings on topics including schools, banks, trials, elephants, post office, privacy, technology, auctioned houses, and racktrack winners; Texas Gulf Suphur Company stockholders notice of settlement hearing; character/corporation list with manuscript notes; stockholder correspondence and consumer newsletter and Research Institute of America report and Who’s Who marketing; and Leukemia Society of America pamphlet.
5 folders
Collecting Area Details
Part of the Manuscripts Collecting Area
Joel Minor
Olin Library, 1 Brookings Drive
MSC 1061-141-B
St. Louis MO 63130 US
(314) 935-5495
spec@wumail.wustl.edu