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Box 20

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Ducdame, 1947-1948

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 6
Description

Typescript and holograph in pen and pencil, 100 pages. Corrections throughout with substantial deletions and some additions; working draft. Erased "Blague," early version of The Recognitions.

Series 1, Sub-series 2, Sub-sub-series c: Incoming Personal Correspondence, circa 1900-1998

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Incoming Personal Correspondence consists of correspondence from family members to William Gaddis, as well as correspondence between family members other than William Gaddis. It also contains other personal correspondence from educational institutions and close family friends.

Early draft outline for The Recognitions

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 7
Description

3 leaves; typescript and manuscript

Blague, Called the "Lie with Circumstance" draft and outline

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 8
Description

Outline is 5 pages; draft is 65 pages. Typescript with light graphite manuscript corrections with corrections throughout, substantial deletions, alterations and additions in the latter third. Includes Harold Matson folder.

Je m'amuse serieusement

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 9
Description

Holograph, pen and pencil, 42 pages

Series 2: The Recognitions, 1947-1993

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

The Recognitions includes manuscripts, source, and publishing materials, including notebooks primarily maintained by Gaddis during the late 1940s while travelling in Panama and Europe. See also Series 7. Short Fiction.

Sheri Martinelli correspondence and clippings, circa 1955-1993

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 5
Description Includes 2 typescript letters from Sheri Martinelli signed, 1955 April and 1957 July 30; 1 typescript letter signed from Anatole Broyard 1955 September; 1 manuscript letter from Sheri Martinelli signed 1988 October 3; “La Martinelli” booklet, 1956; Lux dia fana photo slide, 1987; review by Morris Dickstein of “Kafka was the Rage” New York Times Book Review clipping, 1993 October 31, with manuscript note by Gaddis.Sheri Martinelli was the model for Esme, the central...

Blague, Called the "Lie with Circumstance"

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 10
Description

71 pages, typescript fragments, most pages stamped “copy”; some holograph notes and fragments

Personal Correspondence, 1970-1979

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 1
Description

11 items. Includes correspondence to Gaddis and others from Sarah Gaddis, Matthew Gaddis, and others.

Personal Correspondence, 1980-1989

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 2
Description

3 items. Includes correspondence to Gaddis and others from Matthew Gaddis, Sarah Gaddis, and others.