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Contains 131 Results:

McCarthy to Woolmer. ALS, 1 page, March 12, 1985

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“By all means send the book and I will be happy to scribble in it and return it…Saw a nice review in USA Today (national newspaper) this past week-end but nothing other. Book in a few stores friends tell me…”

Dates: March 12, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, March 18, 1985

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Sending copy of Blood Meridian for signature; discusses reviews and mentions meeting Dali once.

Dates: March 18, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, May 2, 1985

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Sending Xerox of Times review. Mentions meeting Albert Erskine at a fugitive poets exhibit at The University of Virginia. Newspaper clipping from April 28, 1985 Times included.

Dates: May 2, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

McCarthy to Woolmer. ALS, 2 pages, June 28, 1985

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“Thank you very much for sending the Southern Literary Journal. Discusses Erskine. “Mostly these days I’m trying to get a film script produced into a film. The MacArthur largess expires in a little over a year and I’ve gotten used to eating regularly and dont know what will happen when the money stops. Other than that I have 2 or 3 novels that I have notes and a few sections for but I dont know which one to hone in on. Probably the most difficult one…”

Dates: June 28, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

McCarthy to Woolmer. ALS, 1 page, October 16, 1985

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“Thanks for sending the review (Images of the Southern Writer)…” Just back from a week-long rafting/hiking trip in Big Bend. “I’m working on a couple of stories in filmscript form. Very good form for conserving the word…”

Dates: October 16, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

McCarthy to Woolmer. ALS, 1 page, November 4, 1985

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“My good friend and attorney here - Bobby Perel - has an opportunity to buy an original set of Curtis’s Indian photographs…” Asks if Woolmer knows what they might be worth. McCarthy’s brother and wife visited and they went rafting down the Rio Grande “Very beautiful country. It rained in the night and the river came up 5 feet and we brought out refugees with us…”

Dates: November 4, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy with holograph addition, 1 page, November 20, 1985

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Curtis’ The North American Indian valued at about $50,000. Advises about what attorney should look for; offers to help auction it.

Dates: November 20, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, November 23, 1985

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Follow-up on Curtis book. Recent auction at only $22,000 but not a fine set.

Dates: November 23, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, December 17, 1985

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Christmas greetings.

Dates: December 17, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

McCarthy to Woolmer. ALS, 2 pages, December 17, 1985

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“Ecco sent me about a half dozen of these [advance cover for paperback Blood Meridian] and I was just [martialing] all forces for a note to you I should I would send you one…” The Curtis book “has escaped.” Asks what book Woolmer is working on. Included: advance cover inscribed “Guaranteed to be the first autographed copy. All the best, Cormac.”

Dates: December 17, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, December 24, 1985

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Thanks for Blood Meridian cover. Working on checklist of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press.

Dates: December 24, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence