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Box 2

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Contains 5 Results:

Pages 1-200 plus 3 information pages

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
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
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Writings by Cormac McCarthy / The Crossing / Photocopy of page proofs, 513 pp. complete, printed on rectos only. Preceded by 3 information pp, the first “Cormac McCarthy June” in green felt pen. The second, title page, “Volume Two of The Border” reproduced holograph. The third, the copyright page with “2nd of 3 book contract untitled” with holograph note re the material published in Esquire and a note indicating to whom copies of this typescript should be sent, January 21, 1994. This is a proof for Knopf salesmen.

Pages 201-400

 File — Box: 2, 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
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Writings by Cormac McCarthy / The Crossing / Photocopy of page proofs, 513 pp. complete, printed on rectos only. Preceded by 3 information pp, the first “Cormac McCarthy June” in green felt pen. The second, title page, “Volume Two of The Border” reproduced holograph. The third, the copyright page with “2nd of 3 book contract untitled” with holograph note re the material published in Esquire and a note indicating to whom copies of this typescript should be sent, January 21, 1994. This is a proof for Knopf salesmen.

Pages 401-513

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
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
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Writings by Cormac McCarthy / The Crossing / Photocopy of page proofs, 513 pp. complete, printed on rectos only. Preceded by 3 information pp, the first “Cormac McCarthy June” in green felt pen. The second, title page, “Volume Two of The Border” reproduced holograph. The third, the copyright page with “2nd of 3 book contract untitled” with holograph note re the material published in Esquire and a note indicating to whom copies of this typescript should be sent, January 21, 1994. This is a proof for Knopf salesmen.

Pages 1-200 plus publication information proofs

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
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
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Writings by Cormac McCarthy / The Crossing / Photocopy of page proofs ready for book printing with line numbering on left side of each page. Loose sheets, 421 pp., printed on rectos only, March 21, 1994. Printed note: “This pass was done in the ‘Rough Page’ format as requested. Please be advised that standard paging specifications such as window, number lines of the of the last page of a chapter are purposely ignored…” Holograph inscription, “Sent to me for review by McCarthy’s editor Gary Fisketjon, Michael Mewshaw.”

Pages 201-421

 Sub-subseries — Box: 2, Folder: 5
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
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-092, Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Writings by Cormac McCarthy / The Crossing / Photocopy of page proofs ready for book printing with line numbering on left side of each page. Loose sheets, 421 pp., printed on rectos only, March 21, 1994. Printed note: “This pass was done in the ‘Rough Page’ format as requested. Please be advised that standard paging specifications such as window, number lines of the of the last page of a chapter are purposely ignored…” Holograph inscription, “Sent to me for review by McCarthy’s editor Gary Fisketjon, Michael Mewshaw.”