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Box 55

 Container

Contains 9 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.

Series 4: Carpenter's Gothic, circa 1980-1992

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Carpenter's Gothic includes manuscripts, source, and publishing materials.

JR notepads, blank

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 3
Description

3 items. "A Memo From......The JR Family of Companies"

Movie concept and outline, “The Rapture”

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 4
Description

Typescript, 3 pages with 1 page draft with 12 pages copies.

Esquire excerpt, "Eleuthera"

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 5
Description

33 pages. Typescript manuscript, xerox copy, assembled from whole sheets, partial sheets, etc. with letter from Rust Hills and cover note from agent. Includes blank postcard depicting "Rapture" by Charles Anderson.

Xerox draft

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

circa 500 pages. Untitled, assembled from various related working sources for work on "The Rapture."

2 folders

First complete draft

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

200 pages. Typescript with mock up of New York tabloid front page, "Heiress Slain..." Uncorrected.

2 folders

Correspondence, 1957-1994

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 1
Description circa 69 items. Correspondence to William Gaddis and others including Bernice Cozzens, Denver Lindley, Shirley Fisher, John A. Pope, Jr., Candida Donadio, Helen Jacobson, Arabel J. Porter, Rudolf Sponar, Roger L. Stevens, Timothy O'Keeffe, Jerome Charyn, Ezra M. Eisen, Aaron Asher, Hal Scharlatt, Lee Kaye, Nina Finkelstein, W.G. Rogers, Gordon Lish, Hy Cohen, Lee Goerner, Lewis H. Lapham, Bob Gottleib, Richard Chapman, Jeanne Schinto, Howard Burman, Toinette Lippe, Jill Taylor, Kathryn...

Photocopies of Penguin Edition, 1985

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 2
Description

17 pages