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Box 1

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Contains 131 Results:

McCarthy to Woolmer. Christmas card, January 6, 1999

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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Signed, and with a print-out of a digital image of the John Francis McCarthy, 5 months.

Dates: January 6, 1999

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, January 29, 1999

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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Inquires about screenplays “Whales and Men” and “Cities of the Plain.”

Dates: January 29, 1999

McCarthy to Woolmer. Printout of digital image, November 28, 1999

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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Printout of digital image with holograph annotation “John Francis McCarthy 15 months/Nov ’99 All best, Cormac.”

Dates: November 28, 1999

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, December 4, 1999

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Thanking for photograph

Dates: December 4, 1999

McCarthy to Woolmer. Printout of digital image, January 28, 2001

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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Printout of digital image with holograph annotation “John Francis McCarthy, Age 2.”

Dates: January 28, 2001

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, July 29, 1969

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Praising Outer Dark and asking if McCarthy will inscribe books.

Dates: July 29, 1969

McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 p, with a holograph addition, August 16, 1969

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“Thank you for your very kind letter…” Mentions stories in Yale Review and Sewanee Review. “I don’t write short stories…I won’t have another book finished for a couple of years.” He will inscribe the books.

Dates: August 16, 1969

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, August 20, 1969

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Asking about foreign editions, and promising a complimentary subscription to Works, a magazine that Woolmer had a hand in publishing.

Dates: August 20, 1969

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, September 9, 1969

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Thanking for inscribed books.

Dates: September 9, 1969

McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 page, February 17, 1970

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Contents “Thank you for the letter and note…I have an artist friend who wants to do an illustrated edition of my forthcoming book [Child of God] but it remains to be seen whether the publisher will take to the idea.” Supplies the names of publishers of foreign editions of his books. Thanks Woolmer for Works: “I was really amazed at the quality of material they’re publishing. Most literary quarterlies these days are pretty grim. I particularly liked Lyn Lifshin’s poems. And Paul Blackburn’s Bertran de...
Dates: February 17, 1970

McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 page, January 21, 1972

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“Thank you for the book of poems…This girl is very good. I particularly liked ‘You who rejoice in Symmetry’, but of the ones I have had a chance to read there are none bad…”

Dates: January 21, 1972

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, April 28, 1973

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Inquiring about purchasing manuscripts, corrected galleys, etc. of The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark.

Dates: April 28, 1973

McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 page, June 28, 1973

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“Sorry to be so long in answering your letter. The new book [Child of God] is on the fall lists and will be out, I am told, in December. It is not the longer book that I was writing, but a shorter one which intruded itself in the middle of writing the other one.” Replies to Woolmer’s inquiry about buying manuscripts saying he has all the “stuff” and would consider an offer if Woolmer tendered one.

Dates: June 28, 1973

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, July 23, 1973

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Asking for an inventory of manuscripts in order to make an offer.

Dates: July 23, 1973

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, January 22, 1974

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Praising Child of God. Includes duplicates of newspaper clippings enclosed with the letter.

Dates: January 22, 1974

McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 page, March 12, 1974

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“Thanks for you letter and the comments on the book…” Sends new address in Tucson and agrees to sign books. Hasn’t had a chance to go through his manuscripts.

Dates: March 12, 1974

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, March 15, 1973

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Sending Child of God for signature. Mentions the possibility of McCarthy’s papers going to a university library.

Dates: March 15, 1973

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, November 15, 1976

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Mentioning PBS advertisement in NY Times for The Gardeners Son. Requests a copy of the script. [Copy of NY Times ad included.]

Dates: November 15, 1976

McCarthy to Woolmer, ALS, 2 pages, December 13, 1976

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“Thanks for your letter. Sorry you’ve been looking for my book without success…” Is going to have a copy of the typescript of The Gardner’s Son made for Woolmer and would like a copy of The Michael Fraenkel - Henry Miller Correspondence, Called Hamlet in return.

Dates: December 13, 1976

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, January 7, 1977

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Sending the Miller-Fraenkel book; discussing the reviews of The Gardener’s Son; and asking about early works in preparation for a possible bibliography [as yet unpublished]. Corresponding New York Times advertisement for the PBS Visions series, and a November / December 1976 issue of Coda: Poets and Writers Newsletter with mention of the series on p. 9.

Dates: January 7, 1977