Box 1
Contains 131 Results:
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, July 29, 1969
Praising Outer Dark and asking if McCarthy will inscribe books.
McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 p, with a holograph addition, August 16, 1969
“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.
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, August 20, 1969
Asking about foreign editions, and promising a complimentary subscription to Works, a magazine that Woolmer had a hand in publishing.
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, September 9, 1969
Thanking for inscribed books.
McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 page, February 17, 1970
McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 page, January 21, 1972
“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…”
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, April 28, 1973
Inquiring about purchasing manuscripts, corrected galleys, etc. of The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark.
McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 page, June 28, 1973
“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.
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, July 23, 1973
Asking for an inventory of manuscripts in order to make an offer.
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, January 22, 1974
Praising Child of God. Includes duplicates of newspaper clippings enclosed with the letter.
McCarthy to Woolmer. TLS, 1 page, March 12, 1974
“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.
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, March 15, 1973
Sending Child of God for signature. Mentions the possibility of McCarthy’s papers going to a university library.
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, November 15, 1976
Mentioning PBS advertisement in NY Times for The Gardeners Son. Requests a copy of the script. [Copy of NY Times ad included.]
McCarthy to Woolmer, ALS, 2 pages, December 13, 1976
“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.
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, January 7, 1977
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.
McCarthy to Woolmer. ALS, 1 page, January 26, 1977
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, January 9, 1979
Thanking him for typescript and asking to have it signed. Suggests Woolmer/Brotherson publish a limited signed edition of “Burial” [previously published in Antaeus].
McCarthy to Woolmer. ALS, 1 page, February 2, 1979
“Thank you for the note. Letter, I guess…” Mentions he did not know that Antaeus had published an excerpt from Suttree. “I dont like to find my name in little magazines, but the idea of a limited edition sounds interesting. I’m working on a western [Blood Meridian] – based loosely on historical events in Mexico in 1849 – illustrated with about 2 dozen period prints – woodcuts mostly. The book is essentially finished (300 pp) but needs to be completely rewritten…”
Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, March 10, 1979
Regarding Suttree, which he does not like as much as McCarthy’s other works, but feels it is still “miles ahead of anything being written by any other writer.” Asks if McCarthy uses a typewriter; discusses possibility of publishing McCarthy’s “western.”