WRIGHT, SARAH E.
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Subseries 2.1
Novels by Wright, circa 1958-2002
Boxes 11-18 and OP2-OP3, OP5, OP8-OP10
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of drafts and other material relating to Wright’s two novels from circa 1958 to 2002. Wright began writing her first novel, This Child’s Gonna Live, around 1958; the novel was published in 1969. The subseries contains complete and incomplete typescript drafts of This Child’s Gonna Live,. Each draft was assigned an arbitrary number; these numbers do not reflect the chronological order in which the drafts were created. Early versions of This Child’s Gonna Live, were titled Tippenneck. Working papers include typescript and manuscript draft pages, annotations, extensive editorial comments by Wright, and notes to herself. These materials are fragmentary and remain in the order in which they were received from the donor; while the working papers do not form cohesive drafts, they do reflect Wright's creative process.
The subseries also contains material relating to Wright’s second novel, Twelve Gates to the City, Hallelujah! This novel, a sequel to This Child’s Gonna Live, was never completed or published. Early drafts have the variant titles Where Is Somewhere Momma or Free Ass Ain’t No Class and Toward Sight. Materials include incomplete typescript drafts, notes, and working papers. Notes and draft fragments relating to Twelve Gates to the City, Hallelujah! may also be found in the working papers for This Child's Gonna Live.
Arrangement Note
Arranged by volume, then in alphabetical order.
This Child's Gonna Live | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
11 | 1 | Acknowledgements, proof, no date |
11 | 2 | Book jacket, proof, no date |
11 | 3 | Campbell, Jennifer, afterword drafts [includes correspondence], circa 2002 |
OP2 | 5 | Complete typescript draft [1], final, chapters 1-4 [corrected], no date |
11 | 4 | Complete typescript draft [1], final, chapters 5 and 6 [corrected], no date |
OP2 | 6 | Complete typescript draft [1], final, chapters 7-10 [corrected], no date |
OP2 | 7 | Complete typescript draft [1], final, chapters 11-13 [corrected], no date |
OP2 | 8 | Complete typescript draft [1], final, chapter 14 [corrected], no date |
OP2 | 9 | Complete typescript draft [1], final, chapters 15 [corrected], no date |
11 | 5 | Complete typescript draft [2], chapters 1-4 [uncorrected] [includes prospectus], no date |
11 | 6 | Complete typescript draft [2], chapters 5-11 [uncorrected], no date |
11 | 7 | Complete typescript draft [3], chapters 1-7 [corrected], no date |
11 | 8 | Complete typescript draft [3], chapters 8-11 [corrected], no date |
11 | 9 | Complete typescript draft [4], chapters 1-3 [corrected], no date |
OP5 | 1 | Complete typescript draft [4], chapters 4 and 5 [corrected], no date |
11 | 10 | Complete typescript draft [4], chapters 6 and 7 [corrected], no date |
OP5 | 2 | Complete typescript draft [4], chapters 8-10 [corrected], no date |
OP5 | 3 | Complete typescript draft [4], chapter 11 [corrected], no date |
11 | 11 | Complete typescript draft [5], chapters 1-6 [uncorrected], no date |
12 | 1 | Complete typescript draft [5], chapters 7-11 [uncorrected], no date |
OP5 | 4 | Complete typescript draft [6], chapters 1 and 2 [corrected], no date |
OP8 | 1 | Complete typescript draft [6], chapters 3 and 4 [corrected], no date |
OP8 | 2 | Complete typescript draft [6], chapters 5 and 6 [corrected], no date |
OP8 | 3 | Complete typescript draft [6], chapters 7 and 8 [corrected], no date |
OP8 | 4 | Complete typescript draft [6], chapters 9 and 10 [corrected], no date |
OP9 | 1 | Complete typescript draft [6], chapter 11 [corrected], no date |
OP9 | 2 | Complete typescript draft [6], chapter 12 [corrected], no date |
12 | 2 | Complete typescript draft [7], chapters 1-9 [uncorrected], no date |
12 | 3 | Complete typescript draft [7], chapters 10-13 [uncorrected], no date |
12 | 4 | Complete typescript draft [8], chapters 1-8 [uncorrected], no date |
12 | 5 | Complete typescript draft [8], chapters 9-15 [uncorrected], no date |
12 | 6 | Complete typescript draft [9], chapters 1-6 [uncorrected], no date |
12 | 7 | Complete typescript draft [9], chapters 7-13 [uncorrected], no date |
12 | 8 | Complete typescript draft [9], chapters 14 and 15 [uncorrected], no date |
13 | 1 | Complete typescript draft [10], chapters 1-6 [corrected], October 23, 1979 |
13 | 2 | Complete typescript draft [10], chapters 7-15 [corrected], October 23, 1979 |
13 | 3 | Contract, no date |
13 | 4 | Dedication [includes correspondence], circa 1968 |
OP9 | 3 | Discards and rewrites, winter 1962-1963 [1 of 3] |
13 | 5 | Discards and rewrites, winter 1962-1963 [2 of 3] |
OP9 | 4 | Discards and rewrites, winter 1962-1963 [3 of 3] |
13 | 6 | Early draft fragments and notes, no date [1 of 2] |
13 | 7 | Early draft fragments and notes, no date [2 of 2] |
13 | 8 | Editorial comments and responses, no date |
13 | 9 | Film screenplay and notes, no date |
13 | 10 | Galley proof [uncorrected], circa 1969 |
13 | 11 | Incomplete typescript draft [1], chapter 1 [uncorrected], no date |
13 | 12 | Incomplete typescript draft [2], chapters 1 and 2 [corrected], no date |
14 | 1 | Incomplete typescript draft [3], chapters 1-3 [corrected], no date |
14 | 2 | Incomplete typescript draft [4], chapters 1-5 [uncorrected], no date |
14 | 3 | Incomplete typescript draft [5], chapters 1-6 [uncorrected], no date |
14 | 4 | Incomplete typescript draft [6], chapter 3 [corrected], no date |
14 | 5 | Incomplete typescript draft [7], chapters 3-5 [corrected], no date |
14 | 6 | Incomplete typescript draft [8], chapters 5?-8 [uncorrected], no date |
14 | 7 | Incomplete typescript draft [8], chapters 9-12 [uncorrected], no date |
14 | 8 | Incomplete typescript draft [9], chapters 6-11 [uncorrected], November 4, 1968 |
14 | 9 | Incomplete typescript draft [9], chapters 12 and 13 [uncorrected], November 4, 1968 |
14 | 10 | Incomplete typescript draft [10], chapter 7 [uncorrected], no date |
14 | 11 | Incomplete typescript draft [11], chapter 8 [uncorrected], no date |
14 | 12 | Incomplete typescript draft [12], chapter 9 [uncorrected], no date |
14 | 13 | Incomplete typescript draft [13], chapters 10-14? [corrected] [includes notes], no date |
15 | 1 | Incomplete typescript draft [14], chapters 14 and 15 [uncorrected], no date |
15 | 2 | Incomplete typescript draft [15], unidentified chapter [uncorrected], no date |
15 | 3 | Jacket flap copy, no date |
15 | 4 | Killens, John Oliver, afterword draft, no date |
15 | 5 | Notes and notebooks, no date [1 of 3] |
15 | 6 | Notes and notebooks, no date [2 of 3] |
15 | 7 | Notes and notebooks, no date [3 of 3] |
15 | 8 | Prospectuses, no date |
OP9 | 5 | Prospectuses, no date |
15 | 9 | Research notes, no date [1 of 2] |
15 | 10 | Research notes, no date [2 of 2] |
15 | 11 | Tippenneck [variant title of This Childs Gonna Live], incomplete typescript draft [1], chapters 1-2 [corrected], no date |
15 | 12 | Tippenneck [variant title of This Childs Gonna Live], incomplete typescript draft [2], chapters 1-3 [uncorrected], no date |
15 | 13 | Tippenneck [variant title of This Childs Gonna Live], incomplete typescript draft [3], chapters 1-5 [uncorrected], April 23, 1959 |
16 | 1 | Unidentified loose pages, no date |
16 | 2 | Working papers, unidentified chapter, no date |
16 | 3 | Working papers, chapter 7, no date |
16 | 4 | Working papers, chapters 14 and 15, no date |
16 | 5 | Working papers, chapter 15, no date |
OP9 | 6 | Working papers, no date [1 of 36] |
16 | 6 | Working papers, no date [2 of 36] |
16 | 7 | Working papers, no date [3 of 36] |
16 | 8 | Working papers, no date [4 of 36] |
16 | 9 | Working papers, no date [5 of 36] |
16 | 10 | Working papers, no date [6 of 36] |
OP3 | 1 | Working papers, no date [7 of 36] |
17 | 1 | Working papers, no date [8 of 36] |
OP3 | 2 | Working papers, no date [9 of 36] |
17 | 2 | Working papers, no date [10 of 36] |
OP3 | 3 | Working papers, no date [11 of 36] |
17 | 3 | Working papers, no date [12 of 36] |
OP3 | 4 | Working papers, no date [13 of 36] |
17 | 4 | Working papers, no date [14 of 36] |
17 | 5 | Working papers, no date [15 of 36] |
OP3 | 5 | Working papers, no date [16 of 36] |
17 | 6 | Working papers, no date [17 of 36] |
17 | 7 | Working papers, no date [18 of 36] |
17 | 8 | Working papers, no date [19 of 36] |
17 | 9 | Working papers, no date [20 of 36] |
17 | 10 | Working papers, no date [21 of 36] |
17 | 11 | Working papers, no date [22 of 36] |
17 | 12 | Working papers, no date [23 of 36] |
17 | 13 | Working papers, no date [24 of 36] |
17 | 14 | Working papers, no date [25 of 36] |
17 | 15 | Working papers, no date [26 of 36] |
18 | 1 | Working papers, no date [27 of 36] |
18 | 2 | Working papers, no date [28 of 36] |
OP3 | 6 | Working papers, no date [29 of 36] |
OP3 | 7 | Working papers, no date [30 of 36] |
18 | 3 | Working papers, no date [31 of 36] |
OP6 | 1 | Working papers, no date [32 of 36] |
18 | 4 | Working papers, no date [33 of 36] |
OP6 | 2 | Working papers, no date [34 of 36] |
18 | 5 | Working papers, no date [35 of 36] |
OP6 | 3 | Working papers, no date [36 of 36] |
Twelve Gates to the City, Hallelujah! | ||
OP6 | 4 | Incomplete typescript draft [1], chapter 1 [corrected], no date |
18 | 6 | Incomplete typescript draft [2], chapter 1 [corrected], no date |
18 | 7 | Incomplete typescript draft [3], chapter 1 [uncorrected], no date |
18 | 8 | Incomplete typescript draft [4], chapter 1 [corrected], no date |
18 | 9 | Incomplete typescript draft [5], chapter 1 [uncorrected], no date |
18 | 10 | Notes, no date [1 of 2] |
18 | 11 | Notes, no date [2 of 2] |
18 | 12 | Prospectuses, no date |
18 | 13 | Unidentified loose pages, no date |
18 | 14 | Working papers, no date [1 of 3] |
OP6 | 5 | Working papers, no date [2 of 3] |
18 | 15 | Working papers, no date [3 of 3] |