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Box 27

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Notebooks, circa 1951

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 8
Description

2 items. One notebook inscribed "Seville 2.4.1951." Includes holograph notes and ideas. Also includes notes toward the epilogue for the Recognitions.

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.

Bound commonplace book, circa late 1940s

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

Fragile. 8vo, 152 pages. Inscribed "Panama." Includes correspondence, ephemera, notes on Faust and other subjects that were used for the composition of the Recognitions. Also includes notes on chapters and structure of The Recognitions.

2 folders

Some pages scanned here.

Bound record notebook, circa 1945-1950

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

4to, 140 pages. 8 pages of manuscript notes at front and rear only. Undated, but circa 1945/1950 in Spain.

2 folders

Bound record notebook, 1950

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

4to. 288 pages. Very early notebook for The Recoginitions, complied in Central America, with laid in ephemera, correspondence, and clippings. Also laid in are three small stapled children's notebooks labeled "Rec pt II - 1 Palamos August 1950" "Rec pt. II - 2," and "Rec III pt "

3 folders

See also here.