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Box 42

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Series 3: JR, circa 1956-1996

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

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

JR working materials

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 3
Description

14 corrected typescript pages and 25 pieces corporate promotional ephemera. Advertisements include learn how to become an accountant, American Committee for Safeguarding Human Dignity in Israel, Congress of Racial Equality letter, The Secrets of Black Sexual Power brochure/order form, transister radio order form, Nationwide Wholesalers Service money-making opportunity, Playboy Club keyholder advert, start your own shoe business; etc.

JR introduction, "As submitted to NAL"

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 5
Description

41 pages, xerox copy of annotated typescript; 3 complete sets, 1 partial set.

JR notes

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 4
Description

1 page with cut and taped plot notes, many loose and 2 typescript pages with corrections

JR manuscript, “JR Another damned thick square book”

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

1003 pages. Typescript with Gaddis’s lightly penciled corrections throughout. Extensive cuts, revisions, and new material in the typescript. Originally housed in two boxes, lettered “A” and “B,” “uncorrected mss.”

8 folders

JR rough working notes

 File — Multiple Containers
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...

JR rough draft

 File — Box: 42, Folder: 2
Description

250 pages. Typescript and holograph draft with working notes. including .4-.21, .82-.104, .117-.131, .314-.143 among other pages and paginations. Also includes Antioch College solicitation letter for Interracial Education Program and small number of pages of manuscript notes scattered throughout.

Box 68