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Papers of William Faulkner and Family, Accession #9817-l, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
These papers were loaned to the University of Virginia Library by Jill Faulkner Summers on May 4, 1998.
This addition to the papers of William Faulkner, ca. 1898-1997, 1,250 items (6 boxes, ca. 2.5 linear feet) contains manuscripts and proofs; literary correspondence and legal papers; photographs and printed items relating to Faulkner; recordings; daybooks and ledgers; papers relating to Estelle Oldham Faulkner and Jill Faulkner Summers; and a few miscellaneous items.
Manuscripts and proofs include typescripts with autograph revisions of the stories "Almost, ""Snow, " "With caution and dispatch " [photocopy only], "Knight's Gambit, " [photocopy only], and the play "Twixt Cup and Lip "; several speeches [photocopies only]; and galley proof of "The Reivers " and the introduction of "Light in August. " With these are periodical publications of several Faulkner short stories.
Financial and legal papers include various agreements with Liveright, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Brothers, Winchester Pictures, Random House, Harold Ober Associates, Esquire and the University of Mississippi. Correspondents include Albert Erskine, Harold Hayes, and Peter Shepherd.
Miscellaneous items in the collection include two copies of Faulkner's broadside "To the voters of Oxford " on beer; drawings; personal financial and legal papers; memorabilia; early school reports and an 1897 reader; programs; daybooks, ledgers, and flight logs; and a record of horse breeding.
Audio recordings include a University of Virginia news conference on Faulkner with comments by Fredson Bowers, Floyd Stoval, James B. Colvert, F. W. Bernhauser and John Cook Wyllie and "the Faulkner story " by the Ford Foundation.
Family papers include correspondence, stories, poems, a painting and a lullaby by Estelle Faulkner, and school programs and honors of Jill Faulkner Summers. The collection also contains manuscripts by Mrs. Phil Stone, Enrique Auvert, Paul D. Summers, Jr. and Malcolm Franklin.
This collection is arranged alphabetically within series and has six series, including: Series I: Literary Works by William Faulkner (Boxes 1-2), which includes Subseries A: Manuscripts of William Faulkner and Subseries B: Printed Manuscripts of William Faulkner; Series II: Literary Correspondence and Legal Papers concerning William Faulkner's Works (Box 2); Series III: Topical Subjects relating to William Faulkner (Boxes 3-4); Series IV: Photographs and Printed relating to William Faulkner and family (Boxes 4-5); Series V: Papers relating to Estelle Oldham Faulkner and Jill Faulkner (Box 6); and, Series VI: Bound Volumes and Audio Recordings (Box 6)
With autograph revisions by author, 10 pages; with cover letter from Dan Brennan (on letterhead of Eric G. Hoyer, Mayor of Minneapolis) in which Brennan returns these pages and a photograph [not present] to [Faulkner?].
Extremely fragile.
Printer's proof with notations and revisions.
Printer's proof for first edition with notations and revisions.
Copy made from original in the University of Virginia Special Collections, 9 pages; with a 14-page transcript.
With autograph revisions by author, 21 pages; black paper cover entitled "Snow by William Faulkner/Harold Ober Associates. . . "
Includes "Snow, " 16 pages; "With Caution and Dispatch, " two versions 15 pages and 21 pages [photocopies only], ; and, "Knight's Gambit, " 23 pages [photocopy only]. "A Courtship, " which is listed on the first page, is not present. Black paper cover entitled "Unpublished Stories by William Faulkner/Harold Ober. . . "
8 pages.
5 pages.
10 pages.
Armed Services Edition with introduction by Saxe Commins.
20 pages; also includes 5 portraits of Faulkner by various artists.
13 pages.
Electrostatic copies.
Includes an unsent letter 1962 Jun. 30, from William Faulkner to "Chere Madame" (Ginette Strickland)
Negative photostats.
Cover letter, January 7, 1937, from Morton Goldman, New York, New York.
Confirmation of agreement and cover letter attached.
Concerns the publication of one of William Faulkner's manuscripts in a special issue on the literary scene in America; copy of "Snow " attached.
Concerns a Slovak edition of The Wild Palms .
Enclosing two copies of an agreement concerning the motion picture rights to "Dry September "; agreements not present.
Authorization for the composition of an opera based on The Bear ; carbon sent to Mrs. Paul D. [Jill Faulkner] Summers, Jr.
Confirming an agreement to allow Random House to license Franklin Library quality hardcover reprint rights to Absalom, Absalom and The Sound and the Fury ; Random House consents to reprint arrangement for five title.
Printed as a correction to the paid printed statement of others concerning "beer."
3 pen-and-ink sketches with an equestrian theme, 2 copied pages of 6 pen-and-ink drawings depicting cartoon characters from WF's works, pen-and-ink sketch of survey-map from WF's stories (OS Box T-25).
3 copies; "The Literary Career of William Faulkner: Catalogue of an Exhibition " by James B. Meriwether, Spring 1960- 2 copies; "Faulkner Meditations: The Wild Palms " by Thomas Merton, Summer 1975; "Time and Unburdening and the Recollections of the Lamb: The Easter Service in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury " by Thomas Merton, n.d.
Quiet Birdmen Goodfellow card, Farmington Hunt colors and buttons card, cadet pass 1918, operator's license, hunting and fishing license, vaccination certificate, passports, wallets.
S.S. Republic Menu, Red Cross armband, postcards, Farmington Hunt Club booklet, printed poem- "Une Balad Hedes Femmes Perdues " by WF, children's drawings.
The Marionettes present "The Arrival of Kitty, " World Premiere of "Intruder in the Dust "].
27 pages.
With autograph revisions, 65 pages (copy).
Includes poems "Lament of a Purist " and "Madison Avenue Blues " and essay "Dear Silent Unity. "
With autograph revisions by William Faulkner; "A Christmas in Columbus, " an excerpt from his book of reminiscences of his stepfather, William Faulkner, by Malcolm A. Franklin, 6 pages.
Contains an exhibit catalog and invitation for the opening of the exhibit, copies of some of the pieces, copy of the guest list, and copies of correspondence about the exhibit.
With comments by Fredson Bowers, Floyd Stovall, James B. Colvert, F. W. Bernhauser, and John Cook Wyllie, ca. 30 minutes.