The little girl : typescript with autograph corrections signed.

Record ID: 
414682
Accession number: 
MA 22171.4
Author: 
Paley, Grace, author.
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description: 
1 item (10 pages), bound ; 28 x 21.7 cm
Notes: 

Corrected typescript for Paley's short story "The little girl" published as a part of collection of short stories "Enormous changes at the last minute" by Farrar, Straus, Giroux in 1974. The story also appeared in the Paris Review, No. 57 Spring 1974. The story is based on a true event that was told to Paley by the narrator, a friend she met through the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in the 1950s.
Caption title; lacks title page.
Inscribed by Paley in blue ink on page 1: "The little girl. different versions. Grace Paley"; extensively annotated and marked by Paley throughout.
Extensively marked and corrected in unknown hand in pencil throughout; "The is what happened" written in unknown hand in red ink at end.

Housed in: 
Black cloth drop-spine box (30 cm)
Binding: 
Stapled.
Provenance: 
Carter Burden.