A Guide to the Papers of William Faulkner, 1917-1946 #9817-b

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

No microfilm, electrostatic, or other types of copies may be made of materials written by William Faulkner that are in our William Faulkner Collections. Other materials in the collections may be copied subject to the normal rules of the Library established under the conditions of the Copyright Act.

Preferred Citation

Papers of William Faulkner, Accession #9817-b, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

Deposit of Jill Faulkner Summers, 1974.

Scope and Content

The collection contains the manuscripts for the following poems and short stories: "Old ace, ""Dead dancer, ""Continuous performance, ""The husbandman [A green bough], ""L'apres-midi d'un faune, ""The lilacs, ""Music dying languidly in darkness, " and "One way to catch a horse, " as well as untitled fragments and a brief outline for parts of Sanctuary. The collection also contains several sketches including a Japanese woman, soldiers and an airplane; and "Landing in luck, " as printed in the Oxford Eagle (Miss.) in 1919.

Contents List

Manuscripts

Poems, "This girl, she is dead, is dead, "ca. 1917-1918

AMss (1 p. on 1 l.; 2 p. on 1 l.)
Variants on "The Ace "
- Poem, "The Ace, "ca. 1918
  
  AMS (1 p. on 1 l.)
- Poem, "Old Ace, "n.d.
  
  TMS (3 p. on 1 l.)
- Poem, "A Dead Dancer, "ca. 1918
  
  AMss (1 p. on 1 l.; 2 p. on 2 l.)
Variants on "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune "
- Poem, "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, "ca. 1918
  
  TMs with holograph additions (1 p. on 1 l.)
- Poem, "I follow her through singing trees, "n.d.
  
  AMss, two drafts (1 p. on 1 l.; 1 p. on 1 l.)
- Poem, "Shakes down her blown and vagrant hair "from "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, "bearing on one page a simple sketch of the torso of a male figure wearing a hat, n.d.
  
  AMs fragment (2 p. on 1 l.)
Poem, "Hank Cadwalader.... "1919

TMS (1 p. on 1 l.)
Variants on "The Lilacs "
- Poem, "The Lilacs, to A...and H...,Royal Air Force, "1925 August
  
  TMs (carbon copy) (5 p. on 5 l.)
- Poem, "The Lilacs, "n.d.
  
  AMs (3 p. on 3 l.)
- Third verse of poem, "The Lilacs, "n.d.
  
  AMs fragment (2 p. on 1 l.)
Poem, "The Husbandman, "194[2]November 11

TMs (1 p. on 1 l.)
Film story snyopsis, "Continuous Performance.... " 1946?

TMsS fragment (38 p. on 38 l.)
Film story synopsis, "One Way to Catch a Horse (Story line suggested by 'Norfleet') "1946?

TMs(6 p. on 6 l.)
Poem, "Music dying languidly in darkness, "n.d.

AMs(1 p. on 1 l.)
Outline for Acts I-IV of Sanctuary, n.d.

AN(1 p. on 1 l.)

Miscellaneous

Ten drawings
- Three views of a Japanese woman (head, full length smelling flowers, and full length from back) n.d.
  
  (2 p. on 1 l.)
- Sketch executed in brown pencil on blue-lined notebook paper entitle "C.O.'s parade 4.S of A. RAF "n.d.
  
  (1 p. on 1 l.)
- Five sketches executed in blue pencil of soldiers, each on a sheet of blue-lined notebook paper, and one of an airplane being started
  
  (6 p. on 6 l.)