A Guide to the Papers of William Faulkner and Family, circa 1898-1997
A Collection in
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The University of Virginia Library
Accession Number 9817-l
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Preferred Citation
Papers of William Faulkner and Family, Accession #9817-l, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
These papers were loaned to the University of Virginia Library by Jill Faulkner Summers on May 4, 1998.
Scope and Content
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.
Arrangement
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)
Contents List
- Subseries A: Manuscripts of William Faulkner
- Box-folder 1:1
"Almost, " various pages from a story by William Faulkner, n.d.TMs.
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?].
- Box-folder 1:2
"Bench for Two " and "Light in August, " manuscript pages denied by Faulkner as being his work, n.d.TMs (carbon).
Extremely fragile.
- Box-folder 1:3
"Light in August " introduction by Richard H. Rovere, n.d.Galley Proof.
- Box-folder 1:4
"The Reivers, " 1962 January 10Galley Proof.
Printer's proof with notations and revisions.
- Box-folder 1:5
"The Reivers, " 1962 February 9Galley Proof.
Printer's proof for first edition with notations and revisions.
- Box-folder 1:6
"The Reivers, " [1962]
- Box-folder 1:7
"Rose of Lebanon, " short story by William Faulkner, n.d.AMs (copy).
Copy made from original in the University of Virginia Special Collections, 9 pages; with a 14-page transcript.
- Box-folder 1:8
"Snow, " short story by William Faulkner, n.d.TMs.
With autograph revisions by author, 21 pages; black paper cover entitled "Snow by William Faulkner/Harold Ober Associates. . . "
- Box-folder 1:9
"Twixt Cup and Lip, " play by William Faulkner, n.d.TMs (copy). 22 pages.
- Box-folder 1:10
"Unpublished Stories by William Faulkner, " with autograph revisions by the author, n.d.TMs.
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. . . "
- Box-folder 1:11
Speeches by William Faulkner (all untitled), [photocopies only] n.d.4 items.
- Box-folder 1:1
- Subseries B: Printed Manuscripts by William Faulkner
- Box-folder 2:1
"Delta Autumn, " story by William Faulkner published in Story , 1942Printed. 10 pages.
- Box-folder 2:2
"Gold is not Always, " story by William Faulkner published in The Atlantic , 1940 NovemberPrinted.
8 pages.
- Box-folder 2:3
"Kentucky: May: Saturday/Three Days to the Afternoon, " article by William Faulkner in Sports Illustrated , 1955 MayPrinted.
5 pages.
- Box-folder 2:4
"A Name for the City, " story by William Faulkner, published in Harper's Magazine Centennial Issue 1850-1950 , 1950 OctoberPrinted.
10 pages.
- Box-folder 2:5
A Rose for Emily and other stories by William Faulkner, 1942Paperbound Book.
Armed Services Edition with introduction by Saxe Commins.
- Box-folder 2:6
"Rose of Lebanon, " story by William Faulkner published in The Oxford American , 1995 May/JunePrinted.
20 pages; also includes 5 portraits of Faulkner by various artists.
- Box-folder 2:7
"Spotted Horses, " short story by William Faulkner, published in Scribner's Magazine , 1931 JunePrinted.
13 pages.
- Box-folder 2:1
- Box-folder 2:8
Correspondence of William Faulkner, 1944-19619 items.
- Box-folder 2:9
Correspondence of William Faulkner, 1959, n.d.5 items.
Electrostatic copies.
- Box-folder 2:10
Correspondence of William Faulkner, 196210 items.
Includes an unsent letter 1962 Jun. 30, from William Faulkner to "Chere Madame" (Ginette Strickland)
- Box-folder 2:11
Certificates of Registration of Claim to Renewal of Copyright between William Faulkner and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. for stories: "Ambuscade, ""Retreat, ""Raid, " and "Skirmish at Sartoris. "1934-19354 items.
Negative photostats.
- Box-folder 2:12
Memoranda of Agreement between William Faulkner and the Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, for the dramatization of "Soldier's Pay, "1937-19383 items.
Cover letter, January 7, 1937, from Morton Goldman, New York, New York.
- Box-folder 2:13
Letter agreement from Warner Bros. Pictures, West Coast Studios, Burbank, California, to William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi, taking care of the extension in his leave of absence from the studio, 1945 March1 item.
- Box-folder 2:14
Agreement between William Faulkner and Random House, Inc., New York, New York, to follow Intruder in the Dust with a certain work of fiction, presently untitled, and a volume of short stories, 1948 July1 item.
- Box-folder 2:15
Agreement between William Faulkner, Random House, Inc., and Loew's Incorporated, New York, New York, for motion picture rights for Intruder in the Dust ; rider attached, 1948 August1 item.
- Box-folder 2:16
Agreement between William Faulkner and Winchester Pictures Corporation in connection with the motion picture now entitled The Left Hand of God , 1951 February1 item.
Confirmation of agreement and cover letter attached.
- Box-folder 2:17
Agreement between William Faulkner and Random House, Inc., collectively, and Fred Zinnemann and Jay/Julien, collectively, for motion picture rights to The Old Man , 1952 November1 item.
- Box-folder 2:18
Assignment of Copyright for "world-wide 'motion picture and related rights'" for a portion of The Hamlet , under the title of "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard "; cover letter, March 11, 1960, from Harold Ober Associates, Inc., New York, New York, 1960 March1 item.
- Box-folder 2:19
Albert Erskine, Random House, Inc., to William Faulkner, relating to proof questions and other literary matters concerning The Hamlet , Sanctuary , and The Reivers , 1962 February1 TLS.
- Box-folder 2:20
Harold Hayes, Managing Editor, Esquire , New York, New York, to Mrs. Paul D. [Jill Faulkner] Summers, Jr., 1963 March 14TLS.
Concerns the publication of one of William Faulkner's manuscripts in a special issue on the literary scene in America; copy of "Snow " attached.
- Box-folder 2:21
Agreement between Jill Faulkner Summers and the University of Mississippi, granting and leasing the property of "Rowan Oak, " Oxford, to the University to be preserved as a memorial to William Faulkner, 1963 May1 item.
- Box-folder 2:22
Albert R. Erskine, Random House, Inc., to Mrs. Paul D. [Jill Faulkner] Summers, Jr., 1974 July 1TLS.
Concerns a Slovak edition of The Wild Palms .
- Box-folder 2:23
Harold Ober Associates to Mrs. Paul D. [Jill Faulkner] Summers, Jr., 1975 January 6TLS.
Enclosing two copies of an agreement concerning the motion picture rights to "Dry September "; agreements not present.
- Box-folder 2:24
Peter Shepherd, Harold Ober Associates, to Prof. Donald MacInnis, McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia, 1975 May 14TL (carbon).
Authorization for the composition of an opera based on The Bear ; carbon sent to Mrs. Paul D. [Jill Faulkner] Summers, Jr.
- Box-folder 2:25
Random House, Inc. to Mrs. Jill Faulkner Summers, 1976 June 23TLS.
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.
- Box-folder 3:1
Broadside, "To the Voters of Oxford " from William Faulkner, Private Citizen, [1950]2 copies.
Printed as a correction to the paid printed statement of others concerning "beer."
- Box-folder 3:2
Drawings by William Faulkner, n.d.5 items.
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).
- Box-folder 3:3
Essays re: Faulkner's works: "On William Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury' " by Evelyn Scott, 1929, 1929-19757 items.
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.
- Box-folder 3:4
Faulkner Library, Miscellaneous, 1933-196120 items.
- Box-folder 3:5
Financial and Legal Papers: Insurance [Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Continental Casualty Company, The Home Insurance Company, North British & Mercantile Insurance Company, Phoenix Insurance Company], 1936-193941 items.
- Box-folder 3:6
Financial and Legal Papers: Insurance [Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Continental Casualty Company, The Home Insurance Company, North British & Mercantile Insurance Company, Phoenix Insurance Company], 1940-196217 items.
- Box-folder 3:7
Financial and Legal Papers: Internal Revenue Service, 1933-194242 items.
- Box-folder 3:8
Financial and Legal Papers: Last Will and Testament and Codicil, 1934, 19513 items.
- Box-folder 3:9
Financial and Legal Papers: Okatoba Hunting and Fishing Club, 193519 items.
- Box-folder 3:10
Financial and Legal Papers: Oxford Property, 1930-193848 items.
- Box-folder 3:11
Financial and Legal Papers: Property Tax receipts, 1928-195216 items.
- Box-folder 3:12
Financial and Legal Papers: Receipts, bank deposit slips, etc., 1938-194016 items.
- Box-folder 3:13
Financial and Legal Papers: State of Mississippi Taxes, 1937-196136 items.
- Box-folder 3:14
Honors and Awards [Republique Francaise recognition of WF's Prix Nobel de Littererature, National Institute of Arts and Letters award of gold medal fiction to WF], 1950, 19622 items.
- Box-folder 3:15
Identification cards, passports, and ration cards for Estelle (Oldham) and William Faulkner, 1918-196230 items.
Quiet Birdmen Goodfellow card, Farmington Hunt colors and buttons card, cadet pass 1918, operator's license, hunting and fishing license, vaccination certificate, passports, wallets.
- Box-folder 3:16
Memorabilia, 1925-195613 items.
S.S. Republic Menu, Red Cross armband, postcards, Farmington Hunt Club booklet, printed poem- "Une Balad Hedes Femmes Perdues " by WF, children's drawings.
- Box-folder 3:17
Programs for stage and movie presentations of Faulkner's work, 1921, n.d.2 items.
The Marionettes present "The Arrival of Kitty, " World Premiere of "Intruder in the Dust "].
- Box-folder 3:18
Royal Air Force, 1918-191910 items.
- Box-folder 3:19
School Reading by Grades/Baldwin's Readers First Year , owned by "William Falkner, Oxford, Miss., 1905, "1897Printed.
- Box-folder 3:20
School Report cards, 1905-19072 items.
- Box-folder 3:21
Southern Literary Festival/A Tribute to William Faulkner; Oxford's Second Pilgrimage, 1965 April-May10 items.
- Box-folder 4:1
Venezuela: "Danzas Venezuela " honors, 1961 Aprilca. 100 items.
- Box-folder 4:2
Verdun: Festival of Inauguration of the Crossroad of this Highway of Freedom. . . 194730 items.
- Box-folder 4:3
Verdun: Travel brochures and maps, [1947]13 items.
- Box-folder 4:4
Victoria y Otros Cuentos for Julia de Asensi , owned and signed by William Faulkner, 1905Printed.
- Box-folder 4:5
Photographs of William Faulkner, [1898-1900]5 items.
- Box-folder 4:6
Photographs of William Faulkner, [1901-1902]5 items.
- Box-folder 4:7
Photographs of William Faulkner (also see OS Box T-25), [1907-1931]9 items.
- Box-folder 4:8
Photographs of William Faulkner, [1930s-1940s]7 items.
- Box-folder 4:9
Photographs of William Faulkner (also see OS Box T-25), [1950s]18 items.
- Box-folder 4:10
Photographs of William Faulkner (also see OS Box T-25), [1960s]17 items.
- Box-folder 4:11
Photographs of William Faulkner, Estelle Oldham, and Jill Faulkner Summers (also see OS Box T-25), [1962, n.d.]10 items.
- Box-folder 4:12
Photographs of William Faulkner family and friends, 1947-196522 items.
- Box-folder 4:13
Photographs of William Faulkner at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio, 194915 items.
- Box-folder 4:14
Photographs of William Faulkner's Awards and Dedications, 1955-196516 items.
- Box-folder 4:15
Photographs of William Faulkner's Visit to Japan, 195730 items.
- Box-folder 5:1
Photographs: Negatives and Slides, n.d.18 items.
- Box-folder 5:2
Printed Articles and Newspaper Clippings, 1924-1959ca. 50 items.
- Oversize (OS Box T-25).
Printed Articles and Newspapers, 1949-1987ca. 25 items.
- Box-folder 5:3
Printed Articles and Newspaper Clippings, 1960-1979ca. 50 items.
- Box-folder 5:4
Printed Articles and Newspaper Clippings, 1981-1985ca. 30 items.
- Box-folder 5:5
Printed Articles and Newspaper Clippings, 1987-1988ca. 30 items
- Box-folder 5:6
Printed Articles and Newspaper Clippings, 1989ca. 20 items.
- Box-folder 5:7
Printed Articles and Newspaper Clippings, 1990-1997ca. 15 items.
- Box-folder 5:8
Printed: Congressional Record with note of the death of William Faulkner, 1962 JulyPrinted.
- Box-folder 5:9
Printed: The Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review , 19923 items.
- Box-folder 6:1
"A Crossing, " story by Estelle Oldham Faulkner, n.d.2 TMss.
27 pages.
- Box-folder 6:2
Correspondence of Estelle Oldham Faulkner, 1969, n.d.3 items.
- Oversize OS Box T-25.
Crayon and watercolor drawings by Tad Summers as a young boy, n.d.25 items.
- Box-folder 6:3
"Dr. Wohlenski, " story by Estelle Oldham Faulkner, with autograph revisions, n.d.TMs. 33 pages.
- Oversize OS Box T-25.
"'Lullaby for Jill'- with all my Heart, " lyrics by Estelle Oldham Faulkner; music score by Bowen, McDuff, and Garnett, June 24, n.y.TMs.
- Oversize OS Box T-25.
Painting of a little boy, head and upper chest, framed, by Estelle Oldham Faulkner, n.d.1 item.
- Oversize OS Box T-25.
Painting of a little girl, head and shoulders, looking upward, by "M Falkner " [Murray C. Falkner], n.d.1 item.
- Box-folder 6:4
School Programs and Honors for Jill Faulkner, 1941-19537 items.
- Box-folder 6:5
"Star-Spangled Banner Stuff, " story by Estelle Oldham Faulkner, n.d.TMs.
With autograph revisions, 65 pages (copy).
- Box-folder 6:6
Writings by Estelle Oldham Faulkner, n.d.5 items.
Includes poems "Lament of a Purist " and "Madison Avenue Blues " and essay "Dear Silent Unity. "
- Box-folder 6:7
Writings- Family: "A Hunter's Branch, " story by Paul D. Summers, 1962, n.d.2 items.
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.
- Box-folder 6:8
Writings- Miscellaneous: "The Quarrelsome King, " story by Mrs. Phil Stone; "A Latin-American Publishing House of Technical Texts, " speech by Enrique Auvert, 1939, 19595 items.
- Subseries A: Bound Volumes
- Box-folder 6:9
Daybook, kept by William Faulkner, 1938-1943
- Box-folder 6:10
Daybook, kept by William Faulkner, 1942-1943
- Box-folder 6:11
Daybook, kept by William Faulkner, 1942-1959
- Box-folder 6:12
Flight Log/Engine Log, kept by William Faulkner, 1936-1938
- Box-folder 6:13
Ledger, kept by William Faulkner, 1949-1955
- Box-folder 6:14
Ledger, kept by William Faulkner, 1955-1960
- Box-folder 6:15
Miscellaneous: grocery lists, notes, etc., 1942-1946
- Box-folder 6:16
Pilots Log, kept by William Faulkner, 1933-1942
- Box-folder 6:17
Record of Horse Breeding, kept by William Faulkner, 1938-1942
- Box-folder 6:18
Exhibition of Paintings by Estelle Oldham Faulkner, 1964, 1964
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.
- Box-folder 6:9
- Subseries B: Audio Recordings
- Record
Faulkner SMMSS [ "Verchul Jones "], ca. 1938Home-disc recording, acetate-aluminum. 78 rpm.
- Reel-to-reel
University of Virginia News Conference on Faulkner, taped by WINA, Charlottesville, 1962 July 6
With comments by Fredson Bowers, Floyd Stovall, James B. Colvert, F. W. Bernhauser, and John Cook Wyllie, ca. 30 minutes.
- Reel-to-reel
"The Faulkner Story, " The Ford Foundation, TV-Radio Workshop, n.d.
- Reel-to-reel
"Faulkner 1st period, " n.d.
- Reel-to-reel
"Faulkner 2nd period, " n.d.
- Reel-to-reel
[Faulkner ? ] n.d.
- Record