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Photocopy of typescript, 107 pp., including cover sheet and title page plus pages 2a and 85a and b. Agent’s stamp is on cover sheet. Holograph inscription on title page “For Howard All the best Cormac.” The Ecco Press edition is revised from this typescript. The holograph changes that appear in the typescript are mostly incorporated in the Ecco version and there are considerable other changes both in dialogue and in stage directions. Also includes 1 photocopy p. from Publishers Weekly, March 28, 1994 with note on Ecco Press publication.

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2

Series Description

From the Series:

Writings by McCarthy includes photocopies of drafts of Blood Meridian, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, The Road, The Stonemason, and The Gardener’s Son. The works are arranged into following subseries: Novels, Plays, and Screenplays.

Dates

  • circa 1994

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 2.5 Linear Feet

From the Collection: 5 boxes

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English