BIB_ID
350010
Accession number
MA 8568.1
Creator
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, author.
Display Date
Iowa City, Iowa?, between 1970 and 1979.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (15 pages) ; 28 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Typescript of an early draft of the short story "Descent of man." Published as a part of the collection of short stories entitled "Descent of man" by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1979.
Extensively corrected and revised in various colored inks by Boyle throughout.
Title written in ink above text.
Written over various years while Boyle attended Iowa's Writer's Workshop.
Accompanied by a collection of four revised typescript drafts of the story: 1. an early typescript draft with numerous autograph revisions and corrections (15 pages) ; 2. an intermediate typescript draft with some autograph revisions (12 pages) ; 3. an intermediate draft consisting of a photocopied typescript (12 pages), revised, and followed by 11 additional typescript pages containing two variant endings, revised; 4. a late, but not final, typescript draft, with autograph corrections throughout (16 pages) ; 5. isolated pages of corrected typescript (5 pages) from other drafts.
Extensively corrected and revised in various colored inks by Boyle throughout.
Title written in ink above text.
Written over various years while Boyle attended Iowa's Writer's Workshop.
Accompanied by a collection of four revised typescript drafts of the story: 1. an early typescript draft with numerous autograph revisions and corrections (15 pages) ; 2. an intermediate typescript draft with some autograph revisions (12 pages) ; 3. an intermediate draft consisting of a photocopied typescript (12 pages), revised, and followed by 11 additional typescript pages containing two variant endings, revised; 4. a late, but not final, typescript draft, with autograph corrections throughout (16 pages) ; 5. isolated pages of corrected typescript (5 pages) from other drafts.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (30 cm)
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