Scope and Contents "A very important black loose-leaf book in which I kept my maps, my records, my dates of birth and death for characters, and a great deal more detailed and difficult research material which proved invaluable. Missing from the book, but most useful when I was working, were the detailed maps I made of each locality. These were delivered to the map maker. "Also, a list of characters who appeared in more than one episode, or who were particularly important in the episode they did appear...

Scope and Contents "A small red notebook in which I kept a record of when I sent my finished draft of each chapter to Nadia Orapchuck, my typist in Bucks County, with a record of when she received it, typed it and sent it back. This was crucial, since I felt almost sick each time I had to send a chapter, so carefully edited and so almost irreplaceable, to Nadia. I bit my nails till she sent notice of its safe arrival. "Included with this book is a set of the postcards Nadia airmailed me. Their receipt was...

Scope and Contents "Fourteen heavy manila envelopes, each containing a verbatim carbon of everything typed for each of the chapters. Providing such a carbon was essential when things were being sent by mail. Their value now, the carbons that is, is that from them one can reconstruct each stage of the manuscript as it developed. Obviously, the carbons do not contain the very heavy hand-written changes I made on the face of the original; on the other hand, they do provide versions which had been pasted over when...

Scope and Contents "Two large notebooks containing the working notes for the novel. "l.A was started on April 4, 1970, and shows the very beginnings of the idea. With very few changes, the original outline of twelve chapters withstood all kinds of challenges and alterations. (Obviously, an opening chapter was added, and a closing.) The principal change was the switch in order of the chapter on railroads and the one on sheep. Among the people the major change was the demotion of the black family and the...

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"1.B was started in January 1973 and contains much detailed material on Chapters IX through XIV. Almost every page evokes memories of the most intense work on the practical subjects covered in these chapters."

Scope and Contents "Three small books in which I took notes during field trips. Many of these notes were later ripped from the booklets and pasted into the larger preceding notebooks. I carried one of these three with me wherever I went, so they contain a fearful hodgepodge of stuff, all of it of interest to me when I took it down. 2.C, the green book, contains also the brief notes I took of the long meetings Albert Erskine and I held in August through October, when we were revising the manuscript and...

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"A set of pasted-up maps used in great detail and almost hourly during the writing of the novel. It is of extreme importance to me to have complete maps of what I am writing about, and I go to considerable pains to collect them and arrange them so that I can see a total situation at a glance. These were invaluable."