Series 16: The Eye of the Story, Eudora Welty Collection (Z/0301)

Series 16: The Eye of the Story.

Dates: 1943-1978; n.d.
Size: 5.35 cubic ft.

Note on arrangement and description:

This series contains material prepared for or related to Welty’s collection of essays and reviews, The Eye of the Story, published in 1978. The first part of the series consists of originals and copies of typescripts of individual essays and reviews that were collected in the book. These are arranged according to their order in the section of the published work for which they were prepared. The next part of the series consists of material associated with The Eye of the Story. This includes drafts considered for the book, a number of which were sent to Albert Erskine of Random House by Welty. This section includes folders created by Welty or Erskine, as well as editorial comments by Erskine and Welty’s response to them. There follow projected front pages for The Eye of the Story; the author’s copy and the setting copy of the book; and materials from the printer. These last include galleys, proofs, mechanicals, repros, and blues.

The material added to this series from the gift of Welty’s Estate appears in the first section of individual essays and reviews, and forms part of the “associated materials” immediately following it. This material is indicated by the use of bold font. All pieces have been assigned numbers by the archivist: these appear in this description in brackets. Changes in foldering and boxes have been made throughout this series to permit easier access to the materials and better preservation of them. The researcher may therefore find that original box and folder numbers have changed as well. Published versions of some of the essays and reviews in The Eye of the Story may be found in Series 23 and 24.

Typescripts of Individual Essays and Reviews

ESSAYS APPEARING IN “I. ON WRITERS”

"THE RADIANCE OF JANE AUSTEN"

	Box	Folder
Untitled. 1968. 13 pieces. Typescript; pages 1-12, plus corrected carbon of page 7; a speech delivered at Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.; clean copy except for handwritten revision on carbon.	57	1
"Jane Austen." n.d. 6 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-5; an essay for Atlantic Brief Lives, ed. Louis Kronenberger (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971); handwritten revisions.	57	2
"Jane Austen." 1970. 4 pieces. Galleys [15]-17; an essay for Atlantic Brief Lives, ed. Louis Kronenberger, a few handwritten revisions and corrections; returned to Welty by Atlantic Monthly Press, 05.15.1970.	57	3

"HENRY GREEN: NOVELIST OF THE IMAGINATION”
Drafts

	Box	Folder
"Novelist of the Imagination." n.d. 19 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-14, 16-20, page 15 is missing; published in Texas Quarterly, 4 (1961): 246-56.	57	4
“A Vital Imagination.” n.d. 21 pieces. Original folder marked “Henry Green,” [folder 5] and undated carbon typescript with pages numbered by Welty. This draft bears Welty’s handwritten corrections and a few remarks apparently by Henry Green [the initials “HG” appear on p. 14].	57	5-6

Versions of “HENRY GREEN…”
Grouped together by Welty

Four versions of “Henry Green: Novelist of the Imagination” were organized by Welty in a folder and accompanied by a note by Welty. Each version is listed below. The archivist has assigned page numbers within each draft.

	Box	Folder
Original folder and note by Welty. n.d. 3 pieces. On a red folder, Welty has written in pencil and red and blue ink: “4” “Unrevised article (3 versions) “Henry Green” “Jan. ’60, Jan. ‘’61” “+review of book about him.” The folder included four drafts by Welty but no review. Accompanying the folder is a two-page undated note by Welty commenting on Green’s letters and his essay and photograph in the Texas Quarterly.	58	1
“HENRY GREEN.” n.d. [ca. 1960-1961]. 18 pieces. Typescript draft of sixteen pages with Russell & Volkening, Inc., cover. The draft has page numbers assigned by Welty. On the cover Welty has written in pencil “H. G.” and “Unrevised,” and on the first page “Early version H. G.” There are handwritten corrections in pen and pencil.	58	2
“Novelist of the Imagination.” n.d. [ca. 1960-1961]. 20 pieces. Carbon typescript draft with page numbers, handwritten title, and corrections in ink and pencil by Welty. There is one corrected page with adhesive [p.15].	58	3
Untitled. n.d. [ca. 1960-1961]. 20 pieces. At the top of the first page of this draft, Welty has noted “not revised.” The first part of this draft is typescript, the second carbon. There are two pages numbered by Welty as “11;” one is typescript, one is carbon. Almost all changes are in type, with a rare correction in pencil.	58	4
“A Vital Imagination.” 1961. 20 pieces. The first page of this dated carbon typescript draft has been marked by Welty “not final.” Page numbers have been assigned by Welty. There are handwritten corrections in ink and pencil and a typed strip has been applied to one page [p.15] with adhesive.	58	5

"KATHERINE ANN PORTER: THE EYE OF THE STORY"

	Box	Folder
"The Eye of the Story." 1965. 13 pieces. Typescript, pages [1]-11 plus pages 5A and 6A; numerous paste-ons and handwritten revisions; Welty’s handwritten notation reads, "Draft Sept. 29, 1965"; published in Yale Review 55 (1965), 265-74.	59	1

"THE HOUSE OF WILLA CATHER"

	Box	Folder
"The Physical World of Willa Cather." 1973. 9 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-8, plus page 4A; beneath title is an identification of the essay, "Taken from a talk delivered at an International Seminar on ‘The Art of Willa Cather’ at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. (Oct. 1973)"; later published in NYTBR 27 Jan. 1974: 19, 20, 22; Welty’s handwritten notation reads, "Use complete version in book."	59	2

Material grouped by Welty in one folder:	Box	Folder
Original folder. n.d. 1 piece. The folder was marked by Welty in green ink: “Take with” “NY, May,” and in blue pen “Cather piece cut.” It contained the draft and printed versions below.	59	3
"The Physical World of Willa Cather." [ca. 1973]. 12 pieces. This carbon and photocopied typescript draft bears a handwritten title by Welty in pencil “The Physical World of Willa Cather” with the note “taken from Nebraska lecture, Oct. 1973.” The draft contains pages numbered by Welty, including three labeled “4-a” and a page [p. 12] bearing only a line change for Welty’s page 6. There are corrections in pencil.	59	4
“The Physical World of Willa Cather.” 1974. 4 pieces. Two copies of the printed version appearing in the New York Times Book Review issue of January 27, 1974. Each bears a correction in pen by Welty on the last page.	319	1

	Box	Folder
"The House of Willa Cather." [1973]. 26 pieces. A photocopy of the corrected typescript of the lecture Welty delivered at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, in October, 1973, that was sent to Mary Louise Aswell. The photocopy has a correction in pencil [p. 8] and pages numbered by Welty. The title was handwritten on the original by Welty.	59	5

“REALITY IN CHEKHOV’S STORIES”

	Box	Folder
“Reality in Chekhov’s Stories.” n.d. 26 pieces. Photocopy of a corrected typescript sent to Mary Louise Aswell. The original was numbered by Welty, sometimes with typed, sometimes with handwritten numbers. The photocopy bears a few handwritten corrections in blue ink.	59	6

“Chekhov Paper” or “Reality in Chekhov’s Stories.” n.d. 104 pieces.
A folder labeled by Welty “Chekhov paper” contained a typescript draft consisting of both typed and photocopied pages, with corrections made before copying, and handwritten amendments in ink or pencil. Some of these changes appear on separate pages, and some take the form of pinned and loose strips, or corrections placed on the page with adhesive. The first twenty-six pages in the original folder [now in box 320, folder 2, pp. 1-26] appear to be another copy of the completed version Welty sent to Aswell as described above, but with additional handwritten corrections. That this may have been a near final version is suggested by numbers assigned by Welty on the first page of this draft, “I, 5,” that correspond to this essay’s position in The Eye of the Story. The remaining pages and strips appear variants of pieces or sections of the essay. The draft has been foldered to preserve groupings of pages that may have been made by Welty and existed at the time of processing. Bracketed page numbers have been assigned to each piece by the archivist, but these reflect only the order of the pages and strips at the time of processing.

	Box	Folder
Original folder. n.d. 1 piece. Folder with Welty’s handwritten label “Chekhov Paper,” and her name and address.	320	1
First section of draft, with the title in typescript, “Reality in Chekhov’s Stories.” The pages in this section were originally grouped together. [pp. 1-26].	320	2
Second section of draft originally grouped together in folder [pp. 27-46].	320	3
Third section of draft, originally grouped together [pp. 47-66].	320	4
Additional photocopied pages not grouped together [pp. 67-86].	320	5
Additional photocopied pages not grouped together [pp. 87-100].	320	6
Loose strips from folder pocket [pp. 101-103].	320	7

ESSAYS APPEARING IN “II. ON WRITING”

“LOOKING AT SHORT STORIES”

“Short Stories” or “Some Views on the Reading and Writing of Short Stories." n.d. 59 pieces.
This carbon typescript draft with corrections and annotations in ink and pencil bears the title on its first page “Some Views on the Reading and Writing of Short Stories.” It was contained in a folder labeled by Welty “Short Stories.” On the title page, Welty crossed out a note, probably written to Diarmuid Russell since the draft bears her Russell & Volkening address, stating “writing - this is about the first half of my lectures – will send you remainder when I type it, please read + love.” While the draft is undated, this note and the title changes suggest that the draft was created sometime between Welty’s lecture in 1947 entitled “Some Views on the Reading and Writing of Short Stories," and the publication of "Short Stories” in 1949 (see the description of “Looking at Short Stories” in Box 60, folder 5, written by Suzanne Marrs below). The draft is numbered by Welty and runs forty-eight pages. At the end are pages and strips [numbered 49-58 by the archivist] that appear to be variants. Welty has assigned numbers 2-9, and 11 to some of these, suggesting that these are alternate opening pages.

	Box	Folder
Original folder labeled “Short Stories.”	321	1
Draft of “Some Views on the Reading and Writing of Short Stories,” [pp. 1-20].	321	2
[pp. 21-40].	321	3
[pp. 41-48].	321	4
[pp. 49-58].	321	5

"WRITING AND ANALYZING A STORY"

	Box	Folder
"Writing and Analyzing a Story."1955. 5 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-5; notation reads, "From the Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 1955 Revised in part from ‘How I Write’"; pages [1]-4 are photocopies of the carbon typescript pages described under “Setting Copy of Collection” below; page 5 is a photocopy of part of page 5 described under “Author’s Copy of Collection” below and of ribbon page 116 described in “Setting Copy…” below.	321	6

“PLACE IN FICTION”

	Box	Folder
"PLACE IN FICTION."1954. 35 pieces. This typescript draft with pen and pencil corrections consists of thirty-four pages numbered by Welty. The title page bears the handwritten note “as read at Cambridge, Summer 1954,” indicating that this is the final draft of her lecture at the Fulbright Conference on American Studies at Cambridge University, England.
Original envelope of Cambridge lecture.	322	1
Lecture draft, [pp. 1-17].	322	2
Lecture draft, [pp. 18-34].	322	3

	Box	Folder
“PLACE IN FICTION.” Fragment of title page. n.d. 1 piece. Top half of a photocopy of the title page for “Place in Fiction” found in the correspondence of Welty and Diarmuid Russell, and corrected in a handwritten note by Welty to indicate that this version was not a “Paper” but was “based on a set of lectures” described in typescript as “delivered at the Fulbright Conference on American Studies Cambridge, England, July-August, 1954.” On the verso are handwritten notes by Welty concerning “The Reading and Writing of Short Stories.”	322	4
“PLACE IN FICTION.” 1954-1955. 17 pieces. Photocopy identified as the “paper delivered at the Fulbright Conference on American Studies, Cambridge, England, July-August, 1954,” sent by Welty to Alun Jones, with its envelope postmarked February 10, 1955. The copy is inscribed by Welty.	322	5
“PLACE IN FICTION.” 1954. 16 pieces. Identical to the one sent to Alun Jones, this photocopy of Welty’s paper is inscribed to Mary Louise Aswell.	322	6

"WORDS INTO FICTION"

	Box	Folder
“WORDS INTO FICTION”. [1962]. 16 pieces. This fourteen-page typescript draft has handwritten corrections in ink and pencil. The title on the first page is handwritten, as are Welty’s name and address. That her address is given as Northampton, Mass., indicates that this version was written during Welty’s residence at Smith College in 1962, when she presented “Words into Fiction” as a lecture. The front cover from Russell & Volkening, Inc., bears a note in ink by Welty: “re-written later.”	323	1
"The Opening Sentence." n.d. 16 pieces. Typescript; pages [1]-15 and a new first paragraph on separate sheet; some pages are carbons; some pages use paste method; numerous handwritten revisions; Welty’s handwritten notation reads, "Use SR version"; published as "Words in Fiction." SoR I n.d. (1965): 543-53.	323	2
"The Opening Sentence." n.d. 4 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; incomplete; photocopy of typescript described in “The Opening Sentence” above.	323	3
"Words into Fiction."n.d. 16 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 1-15, plus ribbon typescript of page 15; pages 1-14 are photocopies of typescript described in “The Opening Sentence” in folder 2; handwritten revisions and instructions to typist or printer.	323	4

"MUST THE NOVELIST CRUSADE?"

	Box	Folder
"An Interior Affair." 1966. 9 pieces. Typescript; pages [1]-3, 5-8, plus a variant page 3 and an unnumbered page; a lecture given at Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.; appeared in the Atlantic Monthly as "Must the Novelist Crusade?" (Atlantic Monthly Oct. 1965: 104-08).	323	5
Untitled. n.d. Typescript; 16 full sheets of paper and two parts of sheets; some sheets are numbered, but they are not in sequence; working papers for "Must the Novelist Crusade"; a few handwritten comments or revisions.
Original folder.	323	6
Untitled, [pp. 1-9].	323	7
Untitled, [pp. 10-13].	323	8
Untitled, [pp. 14-18].	323	9

“SOME NOTES ON TIME IN FICTION”

	Box	Folder
“Notes on Time in Fiction” n.d. 12 pieces. Carbon typescript, bearing a handwritten note by Welty on the first page “out of date.” This draft varies from the published version “Some Notes on Time in Fiction,” and is incomplete. There are page numbers assigned by Welty, and corrections in pencil and ink. [pp. 1-12]	323	10

“III. REVIEWS”

	Box	Folder
The Western Journals of Washington Irving. 1944. 3 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-3; published under title "Skies without a Cloud." NYTBR 24 December 1944: 3.	324	1
Granite and Rainbow. Essays by Virginia Woolf. 1958. 4 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-4; primarily a photocopy of the carbon typescript described in “Author’s Copy of Collection” below; published under title "Uncommon Reader."NYTBR 21 September 1958: 6.	324	2
Granite and Rainbow. Essays by Virginia Woolf. 1958. 3 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-3, incomplete; primarily a photocopy of the carbon typescript described in “Author’s Copy of Collection” below; published under title "Uncommon Reader."NYTBR 21 September 1958: 6.	324	3
[The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II.] 1976. 38 pieces. In a folder labeled “Times Review of Virginia Woolf’s Letters, Volume II 1976,” there are: a typescript draft with the handwritten note “Earlier Version, Times Review,” that has corrections in pen and additions on pinned strips; a photocopy with a handwritten note “Earlier Version, Times Review”; and a group of pages and pinned and loose strips with handwritten corrections in ink labeled by Welty as “Omitted material from [?] Times review.” The photocopy duplicates the typescript draft, but contains three additional photocopied pages [pp. 23-25]. No page numbers have been assigned by Welty to this material.
Original folder labeled “Times Review…”	324	4
“Earlier version, Times Review” typescript draft, [pp. 1-11].	324	5
“Earlier version, Times Review” photocopy, [pp. 12-25].	324	6
“Omitted material from [?] Times review,” [pp. 26-37].	324	7
Charlotte's Webb by E. B. White. 1952. 4 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-4; a carbon of the typescript described in “Setting Copy of Collection” below; published under title "'Life in the Barn Was Very Good.'" NYTBR 19 October 1952: 49.	324	8
Intruder in the Dust. By William Faulkner. [1949]. 5 pieces. Carbon typescript with pages numbered by Welty and corrections in ink, originally sent to John Fraiser Robinson. On the first page is a handwritten note by Welty “Would like your opinion of same – This done for Hudson Review,” which suggests the date of the work is 1949.	324	9
Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography, 1797-1887. By E.M. Forster. 1956. 1 piece. Carbon typescript, page 6, incomplete; published under title "The Thorntons Sit for a Family Portrait." NYTBR 27 May 1956: 5.	324	10
MARIANNE THORNTON: A Domestic Biography, 1797-1887. By E. M. Forster. [1956]. 6 pieces. Originally enclosed with Welty’s letter of April 23, 1956, to Frank Lyell (see Series 29a, Box 130), this carbon typescript has pages numbered by Welty, and a few amendments in pencil. On the top of the first page is a handwritten direction by Welty: “(Throw away).”	324	11
Baby, It's Cold Inside. By S. J. Perelman. 1970. 5 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-5; cut and paste revisions; published under title "S. J. Perelman Should be Declared a Living National Treasure." NYTBR 30 August 1970: 1, 25.	325	1
Baby, It's Cold Inside. By S. J. Perelman. 1970.5 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-5; published under title "S. J. Perelman Should be Declared a Living National Treasure." NYTBR 30 August 1970: 1, 25.	325	2
The Saddest Story. A Biography of Ford Madox Ford. By Arthur Mizener. [ca. 1971]. 11 pieces. A handwritten note to “ML” on the first page indicates that Welty sent this photocopy of a corrected typescript to Mary Louise Aswell. The pages are numbered. The draft is undated but identified by Welty as “for the Times,” suggesting it was written in 1971, when it appeared in The New York Times Book Review (see Suzanne Marrs’ description in “Author’s Copy of Collection” below).	325	3
The Underground Man. By Ross Macdonald. [1971]. 11 pieces. A typed note above the title indicates the work was “REVIEWED FROM UNCORRECTED PROOFS.” The January 26, 1971, letter from Walter Clemons (see Series 29b, Box 157) that accompanied this photocopy of a typescript draft, identifies it as a copy of the original version written by Welty, with red marks added to indicate the cuts needed to make the 2500 word limit required for The New York Times Book Review issue of February 14, 1971. Clemons sent it to Welty for comparison with the cut version below.	325	4
The Underground Man. By Ross Macdonald. [1971]. 9 pieces. The January 16, 1971, letter from Walter Clemons (see Series 29b, Box 157) enclosed this photocopy of Welty’s review as it appeared after the cuts proposed above (Box 325, Folder 4) had been made.	325	5
PICTURES AND CONVERSATIONS. Chapters of an autobiography. With other collected writings. By Elizabeth Bowen. n.d. 9 pieces. Photocopy of a corrected typescript apparently sent to Mary Louise Aswell. There are nine numbered pages, and this draft includes a final paragraph not appearing in the published version.	325	6

ESSAYS APPEARING IN “IV. PERSONAL AND OCCASIONAL PIECES”

“A SWEET DEVOURING”

	Box	Folder
“The Camp Fire Girls Beneath the Christmas Tree.” [1957]. 8 pieces. Carbon typescript draft with handwritten corrections in ink and page numbers assigned by Welty. On the first page Welty has written in ink “Mademoiselle,” in which the story was published as “A Sweet Devouring” in 1957.	325	7
“A Sweet Devouring.” n.d. 4 pieces. Photocopy of the version published in That Eager Zest. The photocopy has a typed ending superimposed over the printed one. There are corrections made in ink and changes indicated in pencil: the introductory paragraph has been scratched through. Above Welty’s name has been written in ink “IV, I,” the sequence of “A Sweet Devouring” in The Eye of the Story.	325	8

"SOME NOTES ON RIVER COUNTRY"

	Box	Folder
"Some Notes on River Country." 1943. 22 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-21; mailed to John Robinson overseas; handwritten note to John F. Robinson on page 1; a few handwritten corrections and additions; published in Harper’s Bazaar Feb. 1944: 86-87, 150-56.	325	9

“THE LITTLE STORE”

A folder labeled by Welty “Piece for Esquire Magazine Summer 1975” and in different ink “Original – unrevised” contained three versions of “The Little Store.” 1975. 31 pieces.

	Box	Folder
Original folder. 1975. 1 piece.	326	1
“The Corner Grocery, There and Back.” [1975]. 10 pieces. This incomplete typescript includes changes in pencil, and a torn strip [p. 4] of typescript corrected in ink and pencil attached to the following page. On the first page Welty has noted in ink “Draft not revised.”	326	2
“A Lot for a Nickel.” [1975]. 10 pieces. Carbon typescript with numerous changes, primarily in pencil. The typed title, “Was there a Little Fairy in Your Home?” was changed twice by Welty to “What Did You Get for Your Nickel?” and then to “A Lot for a Nickel,” with the typed subtitle remaining “(A Memoir of the Neighborhood Grocery Store.)”	326	3
“A Lot for a Nickel.” [1975]. 10 pieces. This typescript draft with numerous corrections in ink and pencil bears the same changes in title as the carbon version above (Box 326, Folder 3), but is not identical. Marked in pencil by Welty “not final revision,” this draft appears closer than do the two preceding ones to the version published in The Eye of the Story.	326	4

	Box	Folder
“A Lot for Your Nickel.” 1975. 11 pieces. Photocopy of a corrected typescript draft with a few changes in ink, originally contained in an envelope dated July 28, 1975, addressed to Mary Louise Aswell by Welty. A variant, but not final version of “The Little Store.”	326	5

ASSOCIATED MATERIALS

	Box	Folder
"Fairy Tales.” n.d. 3 pieces. Photocopy of typescript draft with handwritten title bearing the note by Welty “Written for Children’s Book Section, N. Y. Times Book Review, Nov., ’63.” The photocopy has corrections in ink, and page numbers by Welty. On the last page a final passage was added before photocopying, then amended and crossed out in ink. The photocopy is marked above the title as “IV, 3,” indicating the location of “Fairy Tales” in the setting copy of The Eye of the Story) before it was deleted. (See “Setting Copy of Collection,” and Suzanne Marrs’ description of “Galleys” below.)	327	1

“ESSAYS”

A folder of drafts of three essays sent by Welty to Albert Erskine of Random House. All three bear corrections in pencil and ink, including red pencil: some are clearly by Welty herself, others may be editorial corrections.

	Box	Folder
Original folder. n.d. 1 piece. Folder with typewritten label “ESSAYS” “Eudora Welty.”	327	2
“Ida M’Toy.” n.d. 14 pieces. Carbon typescript with corrections and page numbers assigned by Welty. The title on the first page is in pencil, with the notation “Accent” above it, indicating the work in which the piece was originally published.	327	3
“Pageant of Birds.” n.d. 6 pieces. Carbon typescript with corrections and page numbers by Welty. Handwritten in ink above the title is “New Republic,” in which “Pageant of Birds” was originally published.	327	4
“Some Notes on River Country.” n.d. 21 pieces. Carbon typescript with corrections and page numbers assigned by Welty.	327	5

Folder from Albert Erskine

Black folder with three labels: one erased, one marked “Notes for Jane Austen” in Welty’s handwriting,” and one consisting of a note with “A. R. Erskine” letterhead marked “to Eudora” in pencil. Enclosed in the folder were a number of drafts all apparently related to The Eye of the Story. These have been assigned numbers by the archivist to reflect their original order in the folder.

	Box	Folder
Original folder. n.d. 1 piece.	328	1
“The Eye of the Story in the Work of Katherine Anne Porter.” 1965. 13 pieces. Carbon typescript with corrections and cut marks in pen, some clearly by Welty. There are also red pencil marks, perhaps editorial corrections. One page is corrected with an adhesive attachment [p. 4].	328	2
“An Interior Affair.” n.d. 15 pieces. Carbon typescript with handwritten corrections in pencil and pen. Pages are numbered by Welty. On the first page, Welty has written in ink “written as lecture, Millsaps College, fall, 1964” “Appeared in Atlantic Oct. 1965, as “Must the Novel[sic] Crusade?”	328	3
“Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden.” n.d. 6 pieces. Photocopy of pages numbered by Welty as 82-87, identified by Welty as an extract from the Modern Library edition. Her direction “begin” appears at the top of the first page, and there are corrections in ink and pencil by Welty. In 1964, Welty gave a reading of “Keela…” after her lecture of “An Interior Affair” at Millsaps College (see Suzanne Marrs, Eudora Welty: A Biography, p. 313). The juxtaposition of this extract with the draft immediately above suggests that this passage of “Keela…” may have been sent to Erskine as an accompaniment to “An Interior Affair,” although “Keela…” was not published in The Eye of the Story.	328	4
Miscellaneous pages. n.d. 2 pieces. A partial page, handwritten in ink by Welty, discusses as a parenthesis, her inclusion of certain fairy tales in an unnamed work [p. 35]. A carbon typescript of a complete page from “Words into Fiction” is marked “WF” in type, and “13” in ink by Welty [p.36].	328	5
“A Note on Henry Green.” n.d. 20 pieces. Carbon typescript bearing on the first page a handwritten note by Welty “Carbon of copy sent to Heath in London Aug. ’61 final version.” This version is a variant of that appearing in The Eye of the Story as “Henry Green: Novelist of the Imagination.” The pages are numbered by Welty and there are corrections in ink and pencil. One page is corrected with a large adhesive attachment [p. 50].	328	6

Editorial Corrections

	Box	Folder
Memorandum from Albert Erskine. 1976. 4 pieces. A typescript memorandum from Albert Erskine “A E” to Eudora Welty “E W” on Random House, Inc., memorandum paper consisting of three pages signed “Albert.” The fourth piece is a copy of the third and final page of the memorandum. Erskine has dated the memorandum on the first page as “28 Dec 1986,” but on the other two pages as “28 Dec 1976,” apparently the correct date. On the first two pages, Welty has made handwritten responses in ink to Erskine’s comments.	328	7
Response by Welty. [ca. 1976 or 1977]. 3 pieces. Three photocopied or carbon copies of Welty’s typescript reply to Erskine’s comments in the above memorandum. Welty has made handwritten additions and corrections in ink.	328	8

Folder of material grouped by Welty

This folder marked “Copy over for non fiction book?” contained a variety of materials prepared for or related to The Eye of the Story. The pieces have been numbered by the archivist to reflect their position in the folder. Oversized pieces have been removed to a larger box.

	Box	Folder
Original folder. n.d. 1 piece. This folder is marked in pen by Welty “Copy over for nonfiction book?” It also bears titles that are crossed out, and two referring to pieces on Faulkner which are not present in the folder.	329	1
Copyright assignment list. n.d. 3 pieces. A carbon typescript of a list entitled “To make sure of copyright assignments – Eudora Welty.” The list has a code key at the top for the type of each work (local, reviews, pieces on fiction, pieces on fiction writers, personal). There are page numbers and corrections by Welty in pencil and ink.	329	2
Material apparently returned by Albert Erskine. 1977; n.d. 23 pieces. Items clipped together with a note from Erskine at Random House, dated July 26, 1977, stating that he was returning “all of the pieces which are not in the revised Table of Contents…” Clipped to it are a brief note by Erskine stating “using Xerox as setting copy,” placed before a reprint of “Place in Fiction” from The South Atlantic Quarterly LV. 1 (1956): 57-72, that has cross-throughs in pencil and ink. There follows a reprint of the interview with Welty by Linda Kuehl entitled “The Art of Fiction XLVII” from The Paris Review 55 (1972): 72-97.	329	3
List of typographical corrections. n.d. 1 piece. Five typescript lines evidently by Welty noting and remedying three typographical errors in The Eye of the Story.	329	4
“José de Creeft.” 1944. 4 pieces. A photocopy of the printed version of Welty’s essay with a note by Welty in red ink “Magazine of Art February 1944.” There are corrections in pencil and pen. The notation “IV 1.” on the first page, suggests that this essay was originally placed first in the section on “Personal and Occasional Pieces” in The Eye of the Story.	329	5
“Jose [sic] de Creeft.” n.d. 7 pieces. A carbon typescript draft, bearing corrections and additions in ink and pencil. There are page numbers assigned by Welty. Above the title appears a short introduction in pencil by Welty that does not appear in the printed version above.	329	6
“THE ABODE OF SUMMER.” 1952. 6 pieces. One typescript and one photocopy of a typescript draft. On the first page of the typescript is written: “Harper’s Bazaar, June, 1952.” The third page of the typescript has an adhesive attachment. The photocopied version bears corrections in pencil, and the notation “? IV?,” suggesting Welty considered this essay for the “Personal and Occasional Pieces” in The Eye of the Story.	329	7
“The Abode of Summer.” 1952. 2 pieces. Cast proofs for Harper’s Bazaar, June 1952 printing of Welty’s essay.	242	2

Projected Front Pages of Collection

	Box	Folder
"Projected Front Pages for ‘The Eye of the Story.’" n.d. 14 pieces. Manuscript and typescript; 13 pages; a three-page handwritten list of "Times Book Reviews to Xerox"; a two-page handwritten list of reviews to be photocopied; a two-page carbon typescript of contents for The Eye of the Story, with handwritten revisions; a two-page typescript (photocopy) outline or plan for The Eye of the Story, with handwritten revisions and with citations for previously published essays; a typescript (photocopy) page of acknowledgments, thanking editors of various publications for permissions to republish; a three-page carbon typescript of "Specific Credits" for the essays to compose the collection; a manila folder with handwritten notation, "Projected\|Front pages for\|’The Eye of the Story.’"	329	8

Author’s Copy of Collection

“Xerox & Carbon Copies|of Non-fiction|1944-1976|(selected).” 1944-1977; n.d.
Carbon typescript, photocopied typescript, original pages from published essays and reviews, photocopies of published items; 277 pages; the table of contents lists four pieces that will be deleted from The Eye of the Story—1) Rev. of A Haunted House. By Virginia Woolf (1958); 2) Rev. of Henry Green: Nine Novels and an Unpacked Bag. By John Russell (1961); as well as 3) "From Where I Live" (1969); 4) "Fairy Tales: (published as "And They All Lived Happily Ever After, NYTBR 10 Nov. 1963, sec. II: 3); no copy of "Fairy Tales" is included with this typescript; several pieces included in The Eye of the Story are not here—"The House of Willa Cather," "Reality in Chekhov’s Stories," the review of Names on the Land by George R. Stewart, "A Sweet Devouring," and "The Flavor of Jackson."

	Box	Folder
"THE EYE OF THE STORY. Contents." n.d. 2 pieces. Carbon typescript; 2 pages; table of contents; handwritten question mark about deleting the V. Woolf review; a delete symbol is next to the Russell review.	60	1
"The Radiance of Jane Austen." n.d. 13 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-13; published in shorter form in Shenandoah, 20 (Spring 1969): 3-7, and in Atlantic Brief Lives, ed, Louis Kronenberger (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), 23-25. The “Setting Copy of Collection” describes another photocopy of the typescript.	60	2
"Henry Green\|A Novelist of the Imagination." n.d. 11 pieces. Photocopied from Texas Quarterly 4 (Autumn 1961): 246-56.	60	3
"The Eye of the Story." n.d. 10 pieces. Photocopied from Yale Review 55 (1965): 265-74.	60	4
"Looking at Short Stories."n.d. 20 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-20; photocopies of some typed, some printed, and some combined pages; printed pages copied from Three Papers on Fiction (Northhampton, Mass.: Smith College, 1962); a photocopy of the typescript described in the “Setting Copy…” below; an essay originally delivered in another form as a lecture titled "Some Views on the Reading and Writing of Short Stories" (University of Washington, 1947); then published in a shorter form as "The Reading and Writing of Short Stories," Atlantic Feb. 1949: 54-58, March 1949: 46-49; subsequently published in full in a limited edition as Short Stories (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949). Typescript bears date of “1949.”	60	5
"Writing and Analyzing a Story." n.d. 10 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-10; a photocopy of the typescript and carbon typescript pages described in the “Setting Copy…” below; revised in part from "How I Write," VQR, 31 (1955): 240-51.	60	6
"Place in Fiction." n.d. 16 pieces. Photocopied from SAQ 55 (1956): 57-72; some deletions have been made.	60	7
"Words into Fiction." n.d. 10 pieces. Photocopied from Three Papers on Fiction, (Northampton, Mass.: Smith College, 1962) pages 16-25.	60	8
"Must the Novelist Crusade?" n.d. 5 pieces. Photocopied from Atlantic 216 (Oct. 1965), 104-108.	60	9
"‘Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?’" 1974. n.d. 5 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-5; handwritten revisions; the “Setting Copy…” below describes a photocopy of this carbon typescript; published in Critical Inquiry I (1974): 219-21.	60	10
“Some Notes on Time in Fiction.” n.d. 13 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-133; “Setting Copy…” below describes another photocopy of the typescript; published in MQ, 26 (1972-1973): 483-492.	60	11
"Skies Without a Cloud." Rev. of The Western Journals of Washington Irving. n.d. 2 pieces. Photocopied from NYTBR 24 Dec. 1944: 3.	61	1
Rev. of A Haunted House, and Other Stories. By Virginia Woolf. 1944. 4 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-4; published under title "Mirrors for Reality," in NYTBR 16 April 1944: 3.	61	2
Rev. of Granite and Rainbow. Essays by Virginia Woolf. 1958. 4 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-4; there are photocopies of this carbon typescript described in the section on individual reviews above, and in the “Setting Copy…” below; published under title "Uncommon Reader," in NYTBR 21 Sept. 1958: 6.	61	3
Rev. of The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. II: 1912-1922. n.d. 12 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-12; a photocopy of the carbon typescript described in the “Setting Copy…” below; published in NYTBR 14 Nov. 1976: 1, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.	61	4
Rev. of Charlotte's Web. By E. B. White. n.d. 4 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-4; a photocopy of the ribbon typescript described in “Setting Copy…” below; published under title "'Life in the Barn Was Very Good,'" in NYTBR 19 October 1952: 49.	61	5
"In Yoknapatawpha." Rev. of Intruder in the Dust. By William Faulkner. n.d. 3 pieces. Photocopied from Hudson Review I (1949): 596-98.	61	6
Rev. of Selected Letters of William Faulkner. 1977. 9 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-9; a carbon of the ribbon typescript described in “Setting Copy…” below; published as in NYTBR 6 Feb. 1977: 1, 28-30.	61	7
Rev. of Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography 1797-1887. n.d. 7 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-6, plus "new page 6"; primarily a photocopy of carbon typescript described in “Setting Copy…” below; the paragraph on the individual review (above) describes a carbon of old page 6; handwritten revisions; published under title "The Thorntons Sit for a Family Portrait," in NYTBR 27 May 1956: 5.	61	8
Rev. of The Life to Come and Other Stories. By E. M. Forster. n.d. 8 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-8; a photocopy of carbon typescript described in “Setting Copy…” below; published under title "A Collection of Old New Stories by E. M. Forster," in NYTBR 13 May 1973: 27-28, 30.	61	9
Rev. of Henry Green: Nine Novels and an Unpacked Bag. By John Russell. 1961. 5 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-5; page 5 is a ribbon page; the “Setting Copy…” below describes a photocopy of this carbon typescript; published under title "Life's Impact is Oblique," in NYTBR 2 April 1961: 5.	61	10
Rev. of The Most of S. J. Perelman. 1958. 5 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-5; the “Setting Copy…” below describes a photocopy of this carbon typescript; published under title "All is Grist for His Mill," in NYTBR 12 October 1958: 4, 14; a handwritten note on page 5 reads, "Add from review of 'Baby, It's Cold Inside' 1970."	61	11
From Rev. of Baby, It's Cold Inside. By S. J. Perelman. n.d. 2 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-2; photocopy of ribbon typescript described in “Setting Copy…” below; a shortened version of published review; published under title "S. J. Perelman Should be Declared a Living National Treasure," in NYTBR 30 August 1970: 1, 25.	61	12
Rev. of The Saddest Story, A Biography of Ford Madox Ford. By Arthur Mizener. n.d. 11 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-11; a photocopy of the carbon typescript described in “Setting Copy…” below; a few handwritten revisions; published under title "The Saddest Story," in NYTBR 2 May 1971: 1, 14, 16, 18.	61	13
Rev. of The Underground Man. By Ross Macdonald. 1971. 3 pieces. Clipped from NYTBR 14 Feb. 1971: 1, 28-30, and pasted to three sheets of paper; published under titled "The Stuff that Nightmares Are Made Of."	62	1
Rev. of Last Tales. By Isak Dinesen. 1957. 3 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-3; the “Setting Copy…” below describes a photocopy of this carbon typescript; published under title "A Touch That's Magic" in NYTBR 3 Nov. 1957: 5.	62	2
Rev. of The Cockatoos. By Patrick White. n.d. 6 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-6; a photocopy of the carbon typescript described in the “Setting Copy…” below; published under title "Life's Possibilities Are Those Very Things Once Felt as Dangers," in NYTBR 19 Jan. 1975: 4, 37.	62	3
Rev. of Pictures and Conversations. Chapters of an Autobiography. With other collected writings. By Elizabeth Bowen. 1975. 9 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages [1]-9; the “Setting Copy…” below describes a photocopy of this carbon typescript; handwritten revisions; published under title "As If She Had Been Invited into the World," in NYTBR 5 January 1975: 4, 20.	62	4
"Some Notes on River Country." n.d. 6 pieces. Photocopied from Harper's Bazaar Feb. 1944: 86-87, 150-56.	62	5
"Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace." n.d. 19 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-19; a copy of the typescript described in Series 15, “Draft of Essay”; the “Setting Copy…” below describes another photocopy of the typescript; substantial deletions; originally a paper delivered to the Mississippi Historical Society 7 March 1975; published by the Society in 1975.	62	6
"Pageant of Birds." n.d. 3 pieces. Photocopied from New Republic 25 October 1943: 565-67	62	7
"From Where I Live." 1969. 1 piece. Original page from Delta Review 6 (Nov. / Dec. 1969): 69.	62	8
"The Little Store." n.d. 10 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-10; a photocopy of the carbon typescript described in the “Setting Copy…” below; handwritten revision of title; published under title "The Corner Store," in Esquire Dec. 1975: 161, 212, 215.	62	9
"Ida M"Toy." n.d. 9 pieces. Photocopied from Accent 2 (Summer 1942): 214-22; handwritten revisions.	62	10
Foreword to One Time, One Place. n.d. 7 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages [1]-2, 4-7, and a page misnumbered as 2 but actually page 3; Series 14 “Draft of Foreword” describes another photocopy of the typescript; published as foreword to One Time, One Place (New York: Random House, 1971).	62	11

Setting Copy of Collection

"The Eye of the Story." 1943-1977; n.d.
Typescript, carbon typescript, photocopied typescript, original pages from published essays and reviews, photocopies of published items; 366 pages; pages 1-349, plus 12 preliminary pages, pages 86a, 166a, 204a, 271a, and an unnumbered page; a few handwritten revisions; includes "From Where I Live," "Fairy Tales," and reviews of A Haunted House and Nine Novels and an Unpacked Bag, all of which were ultimately deleted from the collection.

	Box	Folder
Front matter. 1977. 12 pages.	63	1

I. On Writers

	Box	Folder
"The Radiance of Jane Austen." n.d. 13 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 1-13; “Author’s Copy of Collection” above includes another photocopy of the typescript. The typescript is marked “1969.”	63	2
"Henry Green: Novelist of the Imagination." 1961. 11 pieces. Original pages from the Texas Quarterly 4 (Autumn 1961) have been pasted to sheets of typing paper; pages 14-24.	63	3
"Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of the Story." 1965. 10 pieces. Original pages from the Yale Review 55 (1965) have been pasted to sheets of typing paper; pages 25-34.	63	4
"The House of Willa Cather." 1974. 26 pieces. Typescript; pages 35-60; the text of an address given at the University of Nebraska for an international seminar on "The Art of Willa Cather"; the ts is dated 1974, but the seminar was held in 1973.	63	5
"Reality in Chekhov's Stories." 1977. 26 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 61-86.	63	6

II. On Writing

	Box	Folder
"Looking at Short Stories." n.d. 21 pieces. Typescript and printed pages; pages 87-106; some typed, some printed, some combined pages; printed pages are from Three Papers on Fiction (Northhampton, Mass.: Smith College, 1962); “Author’s Copy…” includes a photocopy of this typescript. The typescript is marked “(1949).”	64	1
"Writing and Analyzing a Story." n.d. 10 pieces. Typescript and carbon typescript; pages 107-116; pages 107-110 are carbons; remaining pages are ribbon copies; “Author’s Copy…” above includes a photocopy of this typescript. The typescript is marked “(1955).”	64	2
"Place in Fiction." n.d. 16 pieces. Photocopy; pages 117-132; copied from South Atlantic Quarterly 55 (1956); two paragraphs have been marked for deletion. The photocopy is marked “(1956).”	64	3
"Words into Fiction." n.d. 11 pieces. Photocopy; pages 133-143; copied from The Southern Review I n.s. (1965). The photocopy is marked “(1965).”	64	4
"Must the Novelist Crusade?" n.d. 5 pieces. Photocopy; pages 144-148; copied from The Atlantic Monthly 216 (Oct. 1965), 104-108. Photocopy is marked “(1965).”	64	5
"‘Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead’" n.d. 5 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 149-153; a photocopy of the carbon typescript described in “Author’s Copy…” above. Photocopy is marked “(1974).”	64	6
"Some Notes on Time in Fiction." n.d. 13 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 154-166; “Author’s Copy…” above describes another photocopy of the typescript. Photocopy is marked “(1973).”	64	7

III. Reviews

	Box	Folder
"The Western Journals of Washington Irving." n.d. 2 pieces. Photocopy; page 167; copied from NYTBR 24 Dec. 1944. Title page for the section is also included in this folder. Photocopy is marked “(1944).”	65	1
"George R. Stewart's Names on the Land.” n.d. 5 pieces. Photocopy and nine typed lines; pages 168-172; copied from NYTBR 6 May 1945: 1, 14, 15. Photocopy is marked “(1945).”	65	2
"Virginia Woolf's A Haunted House." n.d. 2 pieces. Photocopy; pages 173-174; copied from NYTBR 16 April 1944. Photocopy is marked “(1943).”	65	3
"Virginia Woolf's Granite and Rainbow." n.d. 4 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 175-178; primarily a photocopy of carbon typescript described in “Author’s Copy…” above. Typescript is marked “(1958).”	65	4
"The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II." 1976. 12 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages 179-190; pages 189 and 190 are photocopies; a photocopy of this typescript is described in “Author’s Copy…” above.	65	5
"E.B. White's Charlotte's Web." 1952. 4 pieces. Typescript; pages 191-194; a carbon of this typescript is described in the section on individual reviews above; a photocopy of this typescript is described in “Author’s Copy…” above.	65	6
"William Faulkner's Intruder in The Dust." n.d. 3 pieces. Photocopy; pages 195-197; copied from Hudson Review I (1949). Photocopy is marked “(1949).”	65	7
"Selected Letters of William Faulkner." 1977. 9 pieces. Typescript; pages 198-205; the “Author’s Copy…” above describes a carbon of this typescript.	65	8
"E. M. Forster's Marianne Thornton." 1956. 6 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages 206-211; page 211 is a ribbon copy; four different paper stocks are part of this typescript; the “Author’s Copy…” above describes a photocopy of this carbon typescript.	65	9
"E. M.Forster's The Life To Come." 1973. 8 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages 212-219; the “Author’s Copy…” above describes a photocopy of this carbon typescript.	65	10
"John Russell's Nine Novels and an Unpacked Bag." n.d. 5 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 220-224; a photocopy of carbon typescript described in the “Author’s Copy…” above. Photocopy is marked “(1961).”	65	11
"The Most of S. J. Perelman; S. J. Perelman's Baby, It's Cold Inside." n.d. 7 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 225-231; pages 225-229 are photocopies of carbon pages described in “Author’s Copy…”; pages 230-231 are ribbon pages; the “Author’s Copy…” describes carbons of pages 230-231. Typescript is marked “(1958; 1970).”	65	12
"Arthur Mizener's The Saddest Story." 1971. 11 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages 232-242; the “Author’s Copy…” above describes a photocopy of this carbon typescript.	65	13
"Ross Macdonald's The Underground Man." n.d. 11 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 243-253; page 251 is a carbon. Photocopy is marked “(1971).”	65	14
"Isak Dinesen's Last Tales." n.d. 3 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 254-256; “Author’s Copy…” above describes a carbon of the typescript. The photocopy is marked “(1957).”	65	15
"Patrick White's The Cockatoos." 1975. 6 pieces. Typescript and carbon typescript; pages 257-262; pages 257-258 are ribbon copies; pages 259-262 are carbons; “Author’s Copy…” above describes a photocopy of this typescript.	65	16
"Elizabeth Bowen's Pictures and Conversations." n.d. 9 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 263-271; a photocopy of the carbon typescript described in “Author’s Copy…” above. The photocopy is marked “(1975).”	65	17

IV. Personal and Occasional Pieces

	Box	Folder
"A Sweet Devouring." 1957. 8 pieces. Photocopy; pages 272-278; copied from book published by Albondocani Press (New York, 1969). Included is the title page of this section.	66	1
"Some Notes On River Country." n.d. 10 pieces. Photocopy; pages 279-288; page 288 is a typed page; copied from Harper's Bazaar Feb. 1944.	66	2
"Fairy Tales." n.d. 2 pieces. Photocopy; pages 289-90; copied from NYTBR 10 Nov. 1963.	66	3
"Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace." n.d. 19 pieces. Typescript, photocopy; pages 291-309; a photocopy of the typescript described in Series 15, “Draft of Essay”; “Author’s Copy…” above describes another photocopy of the typescript. The photocopy is marked “(1975).”	66	4
"A Pageant of Birds." 1943. 7 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages 310-316.	66	5
"From Where I Live." 1969. 4 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages 317-320.	66	6
"The Flavor of Jackson." n.d. 3 pieces. Photocopy; pages 321-323; copied from The Jackson Cookbook (Jackson, Miss.: Symphony League of Jackson, 1971, n. pag.).	66	7
"The Little Store." 1975. 10 pieces. Carbon typescript; pages 324-333; “Author’s Copy…” above describes a photocopy of this carbon typescript; handwritten revision of title.	66	8
"Ida M'Toy." n.d. 9 pieces. Photocopy; pages 334-342; copied from Accent 2 (Summer 1942).	66	9
"One Time, One Place." n.d. 7 pieces. Photocopy; pages 343-348; copied from One Time, One Place (New York: Random House, 1971).	66	10
"About the Author." n.d. 1 piece. Typescript, photocopy; page 349; biographical sketch of Eudora Welty.	66	11

Materials from the Printer
GALLEYS

	Box	Folder
"The Eye of the Story."n.d. 194 pieces. Galleys 1-194; author’s set of galleys; Welty suggests deletion of reviews of A Haunted House and Nine Novels and an Unpacked Bag and of essays "From Where I Live" and "Fairy Tales";a few handwritten corrections and revisions; deletions (a three-paragraph deletion from "Place in Fiction," galley 70, a longer one still from "Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace," galley 169); queries to editor Albert Erskine.	OS15
"The Eye of the Story."n.d. 196 pieces. Galleys 1-194; master set of galleys; a few editorial corrections and revisions; substantial deletions, including deletion of four entire pieces: reviews of A Haunted House and of Nine Novels and an Unpacked Bag, "Fairy Tales," and "From Where I Live"; revisions and deletions as suggested on the set of galleys listed above have been incorporated here.	OS22

PAGE PROOF

	Box	Folder
"The Eye of the Story." n.d. 183 pieces. Galley pages 1-181; master set; contains 5 preliminary sheets and pages 3-357; editorial corrections only.	OS22

MECHANICALS

	Box	Folder
"The Eye of the Story." n.d. 5 pieces. Mechanicals of title page and of four part title pages.; interfiled with the first set of Repros below in box 67, fols. 1, 4, 7, and box 68, f. 3.	67 68	1, 4, 7 3
"The Eye of the Story." n.d. 9 pieces. Photocopies of the various type settings for title, chapter headings, section headings, identification of publisher; 9 pages; master set.	68	6
"The Eye of the Story." n.d. 9 pieces. Photocopies of the various typesettings for title, chapter headings, section headings, identification of publisher; 9 pages; the word "REVISED" is stamped in blue on this set.	68	7

REPROS

	Box	Folder
"The Eye of the Story." n.d. [ca. 1978] 188 pieces. 183 repro sheets; 178 whole sheets (two book pages per sheet), 5 half sheets; pages vi, x, 85, l77, 276 are on half sheets; there are no pages 82, 84, l74, l76 because these are blank pages; editorial corrections; essay titles pasted at the head of essays; preliminary pages III and IV have words "Random House" and a device pasted to the repro sheet.
Title page; front matter; Part I title.	67	1
“The Radiance of Jane Austen”; “Henry Green: Novelist of the Imagination.”	67	2
“Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of the Story”; “The House of Willa Cather”; “Reality in Chekhov’s Stories.”	67	3
Title page Part II; “Looking at Short Stories”; “Writing and Analyzing a Story.”	67	4
“Place in Fiction”; “Words into Fiction.”	67	5
“Must the Novelist Crusade?” “Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead?” “Some Notes on Time in Fiction.”	67	6
Title page Part III; Reviews: “The Western Journals of Washington Irving”; “George R. Stewart’s Names on the Land”; “Virginia Woolf’s Granite and Rainbow”; “The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II”; “E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web”; “William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust.”	67	7
Reviews: “Selected Letters of William Faulkner”; “E. M. Forster’s Marianne Thornton”; “E. M. Forster’s The Life to Come, and Other Stories”; “S. J. Perelman’s The Most of S. J. Perelman; Baby It’s Cold Inside”; “Arthur Mizener’s The Saddest Story: A Biography of Ford Madox Ford”; “Ross Macdonald’s The Underground Man”; “Isak Dinesen’s Last Tales.”	68	1
Reviews: “Patrick White’s The Cockatoos”; “Elizabeth Bowen’s Pictures and Conversations.”	68	2
Title page Part IV; “A Sweet Devouring”; “Some Notes on River Country.”	68	3
“Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace”; “A Pageant of Birds”; “The Flavor of Jackson.”	68	4
“The Little Store”; “Ida M’Toy”; “One Time, One Place”; “About the Author.”	68	5

	Box	Folder
The Eye of the Story.” n.d. [ca. 1978] 179 pieces. 179 repro sheets; sheet containing pages 50-51 is missing; pages 83 and 85 are one sheet as are pages 175 and 177; there are no pages 82, 84, 174, 176 because these are blank pages. There is no title page or credits/copyright page. There is a duplicate of pages 146-147. The sheet containing pages 292-293 is missing.
Front matter; “The Radiance of Jane Austen”; “Henry Green: Novelist of the Imagination.”	69	1
“Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of the Story”; “The House of Willa Cather”; “Reality in Chekhov’s Stories.”	69	2
“Looking at Short Stories”; “Writing and Analyzing a Story”; “Place in Fiction.”	69	3
“Words into Fiction”; “Must the Novelist Crusade?” “Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead?” “Some Notes on Time in Fiction.”	69	4
Reviews: “The Western Journals of Washington Irving”; “George R. Stewart’s Names on the Land”; “Virginia Woolf’s Granite and Rainbow”; “The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume I”; “E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web”; “William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust.”	69	5
Reviews: “Selected Letters of William Faulkner”; “E. M. Forster’s Marianne Thornton”; “E. M. Forster’s The Life to Come, and Other Stories”; “S. J. Perelman’s The Most of S. J. Perelman; Baby It’s Cold Inside”; “Arthur Mizener’s The Saddest Story: A Biography of Ford Madox Ford”; “Ross Macdonald’s The Underground Man”; “Isak Dinesen’s Last Tales.”	69	6
Reviews: “Patrick White’s The Cockatoos”; “Elizabeth Bowen’s Pictures and Conversations”; Personal and Occasional Pieces: “A Sweet Devouring”; “Some Notes on River Country.”	69	7
“Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace”; “A Pageant of Birds”; “The Flavor of Jackson.”	69	8
“The Little Store”; “Ida M’Toy”; “One Time, One Place”; “About the Author.”	69	9

	Box	Folder
"The Eye of the Story." n.d. 5 repro sheets; 1) title and credits, 2) pages 50-51, 3) page 50 alone on sheet, 4) p. 51 alone on sheet, 5) credits alone on sheet; editorial revisions on title and credit pages and on pages 50 & 51.	69	10

BLUES

	Box	Folder
"The Eye of the Story." n.d. 92 pieces. 12 signatures; preliminary pages i-x, pages [1]-355, a blank page, and a biographical page; unmarked.	70	1

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