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Box 82

 Container

Contains 30 Results:

The Rehearsal, 1947 October

 File — Box: 82, Folder: 14
Description

Typescript, 12 pages

"Unfinished", circa 1946-1947

 File — Box: 82, Folder: 27
Description 191 pages. Typescript and holograph drafts and fragments including "Ernest and the Zeitgeist or the Centipede With the Wooden Leg," "A Father is Arrested," "On the Road to the Citadel," "Joy," "Much Virtue in 'if'," "Kotalik," "Mona, You Shall Be Free," "The Junk Hustler," "Paul's Child," "What Is There to Wait For," "A Matter of Necessity," "Arma Virumque," "Blague or, What Happened to Thursday?," "The Bloody Horse," "The Night a Star Went Out," "The Truth About the Past," "The First Papers...

"Notes, Possible Projects Aborted"

 File — Box: 82, Folder: 10
Description

86 pages. Typescript and holograph drafts and fragments including "The Blood in the Red White and Blue" and "Art's Place." Original folder titled "Notes, Possible Projects Aborted."

Series 7: Short Fiction, circa 1941-1957

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Short Fiction includes various drafts and notes on Gaddis' short fiction, both published and unpublished. Also includes short stories primarily written while at Harvard and while living in Greenwich Village.

The Story of Joe Magarac

 File — Box: 82, Folder: 24
Description

circa 36 pages. Typescript drafts and holograph and typescript notes. Also includes materials related to life insurance and Dramex paint.

The Proposal

 File — Box: 82, Folder: 13
Description

Includes Beethoven's Nephew, That's All She Wrote, The Last Best Friend, and Acegmorty. Also includes notes toward JR and Agapē Agape.

48 pages. Includes typescript and holograph notes and typescript draft fragments. Originally housed in envelope marked "Plot Story Poison, Beethoven's Nephew."

The Myth Remains, 1947 July

 File — Box: 82, Folder: 8
Description

Typescript, 14 pages. Typescript, 7 pages

An Interview

 File — Box: 82, Folder: 5
Description

Typescript, 3 pages

Where Is Miss Horse?

 File — Box: 82, Folder: 28
Description

Typescript, 9 pages

Still Alive at Twenty-Two

 File — Box: 82, Folder: 23
Description

Typescript, 8 pages