Series 4: Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty Collection (Z/0301)
Series 4: Delta Wedding.
Dates: 1942; 1945
Size: __ cubic ft.
Subseries 4.1: Preliminary Story.
"The Delta Cousins." [1942] 38 pieces.
Typescript; pages [1]-36, title and end pages; title page is on grey Russell and Volkening letterhead construction paper; a few holograph revisions and corrections.
Box 6, folder 1
"The Delta Cousins." 1942. 20 pieces.
Carbon typescript; pages [1]-36 (pages [1]-6, 8-35 are on recto and verso sides of 17 sheets of paper) and an 11.05.[1942] holograph note from Eudora Welty to John Robinson; at the time of donation, Eudora Welty dated this typescript as 1942; it may, however, date from 1943; a few holograph additions and corrections; holograph notes to Robinson on pages 14 and 16.
Box 6, folder 2
Subseries 4.2: Typescript Setting Copy of Novel.
"Delta Wedding." 1945. 250 pieces.
Typescript; pages 1-239 plus pages 31A, 120A, 137A, 142A, 228A, 229A, 2 carbons inserted to substitute for pages 132-35, 2 blank pages, and an MDAH title page; paste-overs and holograph revisions; the carbon substitutes for pages 132-35 call for changes in the galleys; editorial corrections; some editorial comments or queries and some authorial responses. Each folder contains 50 pieces.
Box 6, folders 3-7