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Book collecting -- United States

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 351 Collections and/or Records:

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, May 28, 1983

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
Contents

Gave copy of Orchard Keeper to neighbor who is reading it for a second time. Sending photo for inscription.

Dates: May 28, 1983
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, June 20, 1983

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
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Thanks for signing the photograph.

Dates: June 20, 1983
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, November 29, 1984

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
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Asking when western will be published; inquires about status of agent search

Dates: November 29, 1984
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, December 16, 1984

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
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Glad Blood Meridian is coming out; offers $100 to buy Xerox copy McCarthy had sent to Peter Shepherd [copy in box 1 folders 10 and 11].

Dates: December 16, 1984
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, February 1, 1985

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
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Received the Xerox copy from Peter Shepherd; surprised at Shepherd’s lack of response to McCarthy. Praises Blood Meridian; asks if McCarthy actually traveled the country described. Endorsed/canceled check to McCarthy included, as is a Spring 1985 advertisement for Random House.

Dates: February 1, 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page, February 16, 1985

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
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Received his copy of Blood Meridian; likes the Dali painting. Will send copy for inscription if McCarthy agrees.

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

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

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
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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

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
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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

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

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
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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

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
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Christmas greetings.

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

Woolmer to McCarthy. Carbon, 1 page with typed annotations, December 10, 1993

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
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Sending Thomas Staley’s review of All the Pretty Horses for Harper & Queen. TMs included, inscribed: “To Howard Woolmer, I’ve cut and cut for Harper and Queen. I could write a book on this fine novel. Best wishes, Tom 12/7/92”

Dates: December 10, 1993
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

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
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, September 8, 1995

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
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Alerting McCarthy to bookmarks quoting him. Inquires about future limited editions.

Dates: September 8, 1995
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, November 22, 1995

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
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Heard that Thomas Staley met McCarthy in El Paso; urges McCarthy to consider the HRHRC as home for his papers.

Dates: November 22, 1995
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, September 24, 1996

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
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Thanking for inscribed Gardener’s Son; just back from Vancouver.

Dates: September 24, 1996
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, September 9, 1998

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 9
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Thanking for Cities of the Plain; recommends The Bandana, a new opera with a libretto written by Paul Muldoon.

Dates: September 9, 1998
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, January 30, 2001

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 9
Contents

Thanking for photograph; Comments on All the Pretty Horses film.

Dates: January 30, 2001
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, October 29, 1986

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 6
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Trying to get French translations. Discusses book collecting (Yount, Gilbert White Graham Swift) and bibliography writing.

Dates: October 29, 1986
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, December 24, 1986

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 6
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Thanking him for Yount book. Recommends Robert Herring books. Enclosing Anatole Broyard New York Times Book Review article, “To Squalor, With Love” that references Suttree. [clipping included].

Dates: December 24, 1986
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence

Woolmer to McCarthy. Photocopy, 1 page, January 9, 1988

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 7
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Asking if McCarthy has an extra copy of the play script.

Dates: January 9, 1988
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy / Correspondence