Scope and Contents

JR includes manuscripts, source, and publishing materials. See also Series 8: Essays and Critical Writings, Nobody Grew But the Business.

Description

334 pages. Typescripts and holograph with extensive corrections. Includes charts of characters, notes on corporations, advertisement for German Reader’s Digest, early typescript draft of opening pages with manuscriot note: “Possible title: FUTURES," and a few pages of typescript or manuscript notes, including a page on Mozart.

2 folders

Description 250 pages. Typescript and holograph notes on music, composers, school, characters, etc. Some notes are on scraps of papers, envelopes, etc. Also includes a June 10, 1964 Army Pictorial Center memo regarding Gaddis' role as temporary duty contact writer; typescript microfiction, “The Sex Life of an Electron by Eddy Current,” with manuscript note, “adapted by Vogel for teaching sex ed;” and clippings including Alaska homesteading, 12-year-old boy threatening Birch Society, Ford Foundation...

Description

circa 500 pages. Typescript with occasional sheets of cut and mounted slips and holograph pen and pencil with extensive corrections and revisions throughout. Also includes large hand drawn JR logo; manuscript list of queries in re: stocks, shareholders, etc.; and clipping, Stock Exchange Safari. Originally housed in a folder labeled “out."

4 folders