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Praising Outer Dark and asking if McCarthy will inscribe books.

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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.

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

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Thanking for inscribed books.

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...

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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…”

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.]

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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.

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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.

Contents “Thank you for the book. It is very exotic looking. This was the only one of Millers books I didnt have and I’ve been looking forward to reading it for years…” Mentions his early publications: “I’m afraid theres not much research to do in the way of bibliography. Think I published a story once in a college rag…When I started writing novels I stopped writing anything else. Never wrote no poetry.” Ends with “I’m in Tucson working on my ‘western’ [Blood Meridian] Long book supposed to be out...

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Thanking him for typescript and asking to have it signed. Suggests Woolmer/Brotherson publish a limited signed edition of “Burial” [previously published in Antaeus].

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“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…”

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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.”

Contents “Thank you for your letter and here’s your book…” Robert Coles sent him proofs of a review to appear in the New Yorker. Mentions another review: “I suppose by now you may have seen the thing in Esquire, I enjoyed the cartoon. Thought it showed a wit and discernment the reviewer [Geoffrey Wolff] could have used. Also the cartoonist managed to get all the words spelled right.” Answers Woolmer’s question about his writing process: “I normally use a typewriter (you asked) and I think you can...