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The Keystone THE KEYSTONE THE WITTLIFF COLLECTIONS SPRING 2008 | SOUTHWESTERN WRITERS COLLECTION | SOUTHWESTERN & MEXICAN PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS A member of The Texas State University System from the CURATOR (right) Connie Todd, ¡Saludos! and drove straight south, hung a left when we were out of THE ACQUISITION OF the Cormac the National Board of Review, and in (left) Book jacket photo 2008, Ave Bonar Last December, I traveled to the snow, and headed back to San Marcos, arriving around by Marion Ettlinger, McCarthy Papers by the Southwestern February it garnered four Oscars, All the Pretty Horses, Santa Fe with staffers Steve Davis, one in the morning to offload at the library. Although road Writers Collection resulted from years including Best Adapted Screenplay Knopf, 1992 OUR VISITORS Beverly Fondren and Katie weary, we were euphoric, feeling the import of the trip—so of ongoing conversations between (by the Coens) and Best Picture. (below) First step in the ARE SAYING... Salzmann to retrieve perhaps the pleasant and personal but filled with deep resonance for the McCarthy and Bill Wittliff, with the McCarthy’s literary papers docu- processing: Lead Archivist Katie Salzmann unpack- Great inspiration for most sought after literary archive collections, for the university, and for McCarthy scholars all subsequent purchase being funded by ment his entire writing career. At the “writer’s block”— ing McCarthy’s bins in the country—the papers of over the world, many of whom are postponing books and a combination of individual and foun- core are correspondence, notes, hand- need to get Vaquero Cormac McCarthy. dissertations to wait for us to open this amazing archive, dation support raised specifically for written and typed drafts, setting and Goodbye to a We flew to Albuquerque, which we will do come fall. acquisitions by The Wittliff Collec- copies, and proofs of each of his 10 River. Thanks so rented two vans, drove to Santa And if this weren’t enough excitement, in February we much. Worth the tions and Texas State funds allocated novels, from The Road (2006) back to unexpectedly had the opportunity, through a trusted donor drive. —C.M., Fe, settled into our hotel, and for library collection development. The Orchard Keeper (1965); also Fairlawn, OH went out for a late lunch…where- and collector, to purchase 20 rare, vintage press prints by upon it began to snow, icing on Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, storied names in the his- YOUR HELP Having an opportu- the cake of an already sweet trip. tory of photography, Mexican photography in particular. IS NEEDED nity to read the manu- southwestern writers collection acquires complete archives of They were made for Anita Brenner’s 1929 book Idols Behind We ask all who share a scripts I did compares Santa Fe was a vision, snow falling on the pine trees in the commitment to pre- with the other highlights Plaza and on the holiday luminarias along the adobe Altars, and each one is an elegant little piece of history. They serve the cultural her- in my life, such as the rooflines. Cormac invited us to breakfast the day we were to are truly a magnificent addition to the collections. itage of our region and birth of my children, pick up his papers, but the snow and ice Speaking of magnificent additions—in CORMAC McCARTHY all who enjoy our exhi- meeting my wife, and my made the road to his house suspect—to June, construction begins on a long- bitions and public pro- bypass surgery. Well, me at least, unaccustomed as I am to awaited new gallery and event space, to In order to maintain the integrity of included is the draft of an unfinished which predates the novel by 14 years; gramming, to invest in maybe not those three such conditions and feeling responsible be completed by October/November, the papers, the SWWC has contracted novel. Additionally, the archive con- and an unpublished script, “Whales The Wittliff Collections. but easily with all 19 for the staff. So, we erred on the side of enabling us to present more than one right of first refusal to purchase all tains similar materials related to his and Men” (n.d.), all donated by Your support is essen- times I saw the [Grate- caution and waited for the snow to melt photo exhibit at a time and larger images tial if we are to contin- ful] Dead. —R.C., future materials relating to work by work on the 1994 play, The Stone- McCarthy and Bill Wittliff. a bit. I hadn’t seen Cormac in years, and as well. Additionally, the work will ue growing these world- Mineral Wells, TX the author, who is in the process of mason, as well as four screenplays, In July of 2006, the SWWC pur- he made coffee for us when we arrived encompass a new entrance to the collec- writing three new novels. including “No Country for Old Men,” chased from book collector and bibli- class repositories. The Lots of detail, great pho- and we sat in his living room and talked tions, new office space, and the new McCarthy’s body of work includes which McCarthy began as a script in ographer J. Howard Woolmer an impact of the Cormac tography. Like my wife McCarthy archive—on for an hour or so. Wonderful talk. Then Cormac McCarthy Reading Room. Time some of the finest novels of our times. 1984 then adapted as a novel 20 years excellent subset of McCarthy materi- said, ‘Before Hi Def, there # the substance and repu- we all worked together, hauling his for a Happy Dance. —Connie Todd Of Blood Meridian (1985), critic later (see p. 15). There are also over als spanning 1969–2005, featuring was Bill Wittliff.’ tation of the collections Rubbermaid bins out to the vans and —E.T., Buda, TX (left) Our Lord of the Tree, circa 1926 Harold Bloom states, “The fulfilled 100 letters between McCarthy and and the university—is loading them up. We said our goodbyes Edward Weston My grandson, Augustus renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Woolmer and 200 McCarthy books enormous. Not only Edward, was born Dying is augmented by Blood Merid- —including foreign language edi- does it elevate our pro- October 15, 2007 and is ian, since Cormac McCarthy is the tions and first editions of all his pub- file and attract major named after Augustus united under a new name To convey the composite nature of the collections, worthy disciple both of Melville and lished works—many signed and authors and artists, it from Lonesome Dove…. unite them under a common name, and acknowledge the of Faulkner. I venture that no other inscribed. Among the materials is a also raises the bar for Father Matthew graduat- THE WITTLIFF great and generous contributions of the founding living American novelist, not even photocopy of the original Blood purchasing new ed from Texas State, as donors—Bill and his wife Sally—the two counterparts Pynchon, has given us a book as Meridian typescript with holograph archives. A substantive acquisition fund is nec- did his uncle and grand- will now be known as THE WITTLIFF COLLECTIONS. strong and memorable….” corrections. father… maybe someday COLLECTIONS essary if we are to com- Where necessary, the names “Southwestern Writers In 1992, McCarthy won the Lead Archivist Katie Salzmann is Baby Gus will go to pete in today’s market WHEN THE SOUTHWESTERN Writers Collection was Collection” and “Southwestern & Mexican Photography National Book Award for his bestseller currently processing the McCarthy school there also! place for important lit- —S.C., Austin, TX founded at the University Library in 1986, its collecting Collection” will be used to refer to the two components of All the Pretty Horses, and in 2006 he Papers according to archival standards erary archives and pho- activities focused on the literature, film, and music of the The Wittliff Collections. We are in the process of chang- was given the Pulitzer Prize for his in the manner most effective for tographs, and make region. Several years later Bill Wittliff and Connie Todd ing all pertinent materials and documents. The former recent novel, The Road. The recipient research. The complete inventory them available to the began to collect photographs, and in 1996 the Wittliff term “Special Collections” is no longer being used to refer of numerous other awards, including (finding aid) of the contents will be public. Your gift directly Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography was for- to The Wittliff Collections, although for now all location a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Gug- online, perhaps by early fall. supports the acquisi- mally christened at the Alkek Library. codes in the library catalog will remain the same. Book- genheim Fellowship, and MacArthur 250 pieces of professional correspon- A new Cormac McCarthy Room tion, preservation, and Although sharing facilities and operating as one mark our new web address and watch for updates on all our Fellowship (the so-called “genius” dence. will be built this summer at The exhibition activities of The Wittliff Collections. organization within the university, each collection contin- happenings: http://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu. # grant), McCarthy has been highly The new acquisition is comple- Wittliff Collections on the Alkek Please use the enclosed ued to function separately for the most part in terms of praised from the start of his career. mented by several related archives Library’s seventh floor and will be envelope to make a ON THE COVER archival activities, exhibitions, and public programming. In December, the recent movie by already held at the SWWC: signed equipped for exhibits and general difference in our future, The Revolution, mural But it became increasingly complicated to explain how TheWittliff Collections Joel and Ethan Coen based on typescript photocopies of the play, The research.
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