A Folder Inventory Prepared by Elizabeth Pate

The Brodsky Collection includes the research files that Joseph Blotner compiled in creating Faulkner: A Biography (2 vols., 1974; one-vol. rev. ed., 1984). These files are cataloged below using the titles that appear on Blotner's original folders.

NOTE: We are in the process of listing the correspondence and interview records contained in the individual folders.  Click on the hyperlinks below to see the contents of the separate boxes/folders. View an alphabetical cross-referenced index of names and titles.

• Box 1

  on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006
  1-1 Colonel William C. Falkner
  1-2 Maud Butler Falkner
  1-3 John Wesley Thompson, Justiana Word
  1-4 Boozer, William
  1-5 Malcolm Cowley
  1-6 Robert X. Williams, Sallie Murry Williams, Aunt Tee
  1-7 Bitterweeds, Malcolm F[ranklin]
  1-8 Malcolm A. Franklin and Judge F[ranklin]
  1-9 Howard Duvall
  1-10 Judge J. W. T. Falkner II
  1-11 Genealogy
  1-12 Henry Falkner
  1-13 Phil Stone, Emily Whitehurst Stone
  1-14 Colonel John Wesley Thompson Falkner
  1-15 William Fielden family
  1-16 Major and Mrs. L.E. Oldham, Tochie
  1-17 Faulkner, Estelle Oldham
  1-18 Faulkner, John(ny) W.T. III; Jimmy, Chooky
  1-19 Falkner, Murry C.
  1-20 Falkner, Murry C., Jr.
  1-21 Falkner, Young Dean; Louise
  1-22 Foote, Shelby
  1-23 Morton Goldman
  1-24 Gresset, Michel
  1-25 Longstreet, Stephen
  1-26 Jonsson, Else
  1-27 Jim Meriwether
  1-28 Oldham, Dorothy Zollicoffer
  1-29 WF, illness, medical history
  1-30 Lyman family
  1-31 Meta [Carpenter] Rebner
  1-32 Jo Pagano
  1-33 Michael Millgate
  1-34 Picon, Leon
  1-35 Vanden Heuvel, Jean [Jean Stein]
  1-36 Ford, Ruth
  1-37 One-Vol. WF Editing and Production
  1-38 WF Stories and Letters Rackham
  1-39 Copies of Reviews
  1-40 One-Vol. WF Biography
  1-41 WF Short Stories

• Box 2

  2-1 Selected Letters of WF
  2-2 Wasson, Ben
  2-3 Material to be Dated or Located
  2-4 Essays A-K [1 of 2]
  2-5 Essays A-K [2 of 2]
  2-6 Essays M-Z [1 of 4]
  2-7 Essays M-Z [2 of 4]
  2-8 Essays M-Z [3 of 4]
  2-9 Essays M-Z [4 of 4]
  2-10 Editing and Permissions: One-Vol. WF
  2-11 Untitled 1-act play for Marionettes
  2-12 The Mansion (1959)
  2-13 Mayday 27 Jan. 1926
  2-14 "Mississippi" (April 1954)
  2-15 "Miss Zilphia Gant" (Nov. 1928)
  2-16 "Moonlight" (1919?)
  2-17 "Morningstar" (Hawks) 1948
  2-18 Mosquitoes (1927)
  2-19 Gertrude Stegbauer
  2-20 "Mr. Acarius" 1952-53 and Post
  2-21 "Mountain Victory" Oct. 1930 p. 3 Dec. '32 Post
  2-22 "Mule in the Yard" (Scrib Ag 1934)
  2-23 Notes on a Horse Thief (1951) (1947)
  2-24 "The Old People"
  2-25 "Once Aboard the Lugger" 1926? 1931
  2-26 "On Fear" Harper's June 1956
  2-27 "Pantaloon in Black"
  2-28 "Pennsylvania Station" (Feb '34) Nov '28
  2-29 "Peter"/"Ny[unreadable]" "Don Giovanni" N.C. 1928?
  2-30 The Portable Faulkner 1946
  2-31 Pylon 1935
  2-32 Pylon
  2-33 "Race at Morning" Sep. 1954
  2-34 Ramey Poems and Drawings "Mississippi Poems" Oct. 1924
  2-35 "Red Leaves" w. July 1930, p. 28 Oct. 1930 Post
  2-36 The Reivers (1962)
  2-37 Requiem for a Nun (Book) 1951
  2-38 Requiem for a Nun (Play) 1957
  2-39 "A Rose for Emily" (Forum, 8 Apr 1930)
  2-40 "Rose of Lebanon" and "A Return" w. Nov. 1930?
  2-41 Salmagundi and Contempo 1932
  2-42 Sanctuary (1931) [1 of 2]
  2-43 Sanctuary (1931) [2 of 2]
  2-44 Sartoris (1925)
  2-45 "Sepulture South" 1954
  2-46 "Shall Not Perish" 1943
  2-47 Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles 1926
  2-48 "Shingles for the Lord" 1943
  2-49 "Smoke" w. 1-1930? p. 4-1932
  2-50 Snopes (trilogy) Oct. 1960
  2-51 "Snow" 1942
  2-52 Soldiers' Pay 1926
  

• Box 3

  3-1 The Sound and the Fury 1929
  3-2 The Sound and the Fury II [1 of 2]
  3-3 The Sound and the Fury II [2 of 2]
  3-4 "Idyll in the Desert" 1931
  3-5 Father Abraham
  3-6 The Faulkner Reader 1953
  3-7 "Fire and the Hearth" "An Absolution" "Apotheosis"
  3-8 "Fool About the Horse" 8-1936
  3-9 "Frankie" 1925?
  3-10 "A Fox-Hunt" w. 1-1930 p. 9-1931
  3-11 "A Ghost Story" 12-1935?
  3-12 Go Down, Moses 5-1942
  3-13 "Go Down, Moses"
  3-14 Gold, A Point of Law
  3-15 "The Golden Book" 1932
  3-16 "Golden Land" 5-1935
  3-17 "The Graduation Dress" 1960
  3-18 A Green Bough 1933
  3-19 The Hamlet 1940
  3-20 "The Husbandman" 1942
  3-21 "The Hill"
  3-22 Intruder in the Dust 1948
  3-23 "A Justice" w. 12-1930? in These 13 1931
  3-24 "Knight's Gambit" 1949
  3-25 Helen: A Courtship 6-1926
  3-26 "The Leg" 4-1934
  3-27 "Landing in Luck" 11-27-1919
  3-28 Light in August 1932
  3-29 "The Lilacs" 8-1925
  3-30 "The Lion" Harper's 12-1935
  3-31 "Literature and War" 1925?
  3-32 "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" w. 1927?  p. 2-27-1932
  3-33 "Lo!" 11-1934
  3-34 "Love" (Manservant) 192?-1933
  3-35 The Marble Faun 1924
  3-36 Marionettes 1920?
  3-37 Faulkner Teaching Notes
  3-38 Early Poetry I
  3-39 Early Poetry II
  3-40 Things to Do and Location Sheet
  3-41 ABC tv synopsis 3-1958
  3-42 Absalom, Absalom! 1936
  3-43 Absalom, Absalom! II
  3-44 "A Dangerous Man" 1930
  3-45 "Ad Astra" w. 1930? p. 4-1931
  3-46 "A Dead Dancer" 1919?
  3-47 "Adolescence" 1922?
  3-48 "All the Dead Pilots" w. 4-1931?
  3-49 "Afternoon of a Cow" 1947
  3-50 "And Now What's to Do" 1925
  3-51 "Artist at Home" 1931
  3-52 "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune" 1919
  3-53 As I Lay Dying 1930
  3-54 "Beyond the Gate" 1930
  3-55 "The Big Shot" 1926?
  3-56 Big Woods 1955
  3-57 "Black Music" 11-1931
  3-58 "The Brooch" 1931
  3-59 "By the People" 1954
  3-60 "Centaur in Brass" 8-1931?
  3-61 "The Christmas Tree" 1933-1934?
  3-62 "The College Widow" (and Nightbird)
  3-63 Collected Stories of WF 1950
  3-64 Contempo--see Salmagundi
  3-65 "Continuous Performance" 1946
  3-66 "Death Drag" w. 12-1930?
  3-67 "Delta Autumn"
  3-68 "Devil Beats His Wife" 1926
  3-69 Doctor Martino and Other Stories 1934
  3-70 Don Giovanni--see "Peter"
  3-71 "Elmer" 1925
  3-72 "Dry September" w. 2-1930?

• Box 4

  4-1 "Dull Tale" 1930
  4-2 "Elly" 2-1929
  4-3 Evangeline 1931
  4-4 A Fable 1954 [1 of 2]
  4-5 A Fable [2 of 2]
  4-6 "That Evening Sun" 1931
  4-7 "Spotted Horses" 6-1931
  4-8 "There Was a Queen" 1933
  4-9 These Thirteen 9-1931
  4-10 "Thrift" 1930
  4-11 The Town 1957
  4-12 "Turn About" 1932
  4-13 "Uncle Willy" 1935
  4-14 The Unvanquished 1938
  4-15 "Was" "Almost"
  4-16 "Vision in Spring"
  4-17 "Wash" 1934
  4-18 "Wild Palms" 1937-1938
  4-19 The Wild Palms 1939
  4-20 The Wishing Tree 1927
  4-21 "With Caution and Dispatch" 1932, 1940, 1948
  4-22 Greenville, Miss.
  4-23 Pascagoula file
  4-24 New York
  4-25 New York trip
  4-26 Oxford working file
  4-27 Texas and Mexico
  4-28 Algonquin people
  4-29 Washington [D.C.]
  4-30 Miscellaneous short speeches and papers
  4-31 Univ. of VA, WF, Miss. [1 of 2]
  4-32 Univ. of VA, WF, Miss. [2 of 2]
  4-33 Copies of lectures [1 of 2]
  4-34 Copies of lectures [2 of 2]
  4-35 Lectures 1980- [1 of 2]
  4-36 Lectures 1980- [2 of 2]
  4-37 "One Way to Catch a Horse"
  4-38 Bibliography of WF's Short Fiction
  4-39 Faulkner lectures--texts [1 of 3]
  4-40 Faulkner lectures--texts [2 of 3]
  4-41 Faulkner lectures--texts [3 of 3]
  4-42 Symposium 1979 [1 of 2]
  4-43 Symposium 1979 [2 of 2]
  4-44 Symposium 1979 II

• Box 5

  5-1 WF Symposium 1982
  5-2 France
  5-3 Misc. clippings; Muna Lee and Misc. [1 of 2]
  5-4 Misc. clippings; Muna Lee and Misc. [2 of 2]
  5-5 William Faulkner
  5-6 Papers on WF
  5-7 Ole Miss Conference and Workshop
  5-8 Ole Miss trip/publicity
  5-9 WF's poetry
  5-10 WF's transcripts
  5-11 Faulkner library catalogue
  5-12 Edited T.S.
  5-13 Stockholm
  5-14 Yugoslavia and Greece
  5-15 Paris
  5-16 newspapers [1 of 2]
  5-17 newspapers [2 of 2]
  5-18 Unedited Sessions #1,2,3 [1 of 2]
  5-19 Unedited Sessions #1,2,3 [2 of 2]
  5-20 Faulkner biography correspondence 1963
  5-21 Faulkner biography correspondence 1964 [1 of 2]
  5-22 Faulkner biography correspondence 1964 [2 of 2]
  5-23 Faulkner biography correspondence 1965
  5-24 Faulkner biography correspondence 1966
  5-25 Faulkner biography correspondence 1967

• Box 6

  6-1 Faulkner biography correspondence 1968
  6-2 Faulkner biography correspondence 1969
  6-3 Faulkner biography correspondence 1970
  6-4 Faulkner biography correspondence 1971
  6-5 Faulkner biography correspondence 1972
  6-6 Faulkner biography correspondence 1973 & 1974
  6-7 Adams, R.P.
  6-8 Bowen, Mrs. (Joan Williams)
  6-9 Hellman, Lillian
  6-10 Carlos Baker
  6-11 Commins [Dorothy], Mr. and Mrs. Saxe
  6-12 Louis Cochran
  6-13 Eric Devine
  6-14 Haas, Mrs. Robert K.
  6-15 Reed, Mack
  6-16 Howard, Leon
  6-17 Linton Massey
  6-18 Elizabeth Langhorn
  6-19 Bob Buckner
  6-20 William Spratling
  6-21 Larry Thompson
  6-22 Von Auw, Ivan
  6-23 Glick and Baird
  6-24 Webb, Jim
  6-25 Misc. brief correspondence [list inside]
  6-26 Revisions and Corresp. III [1 of 2]
  6-27 Revisions and Corresp. III [2 of 2]
  6-28 Permissions, 2-Vol.l
  6-29 Revisions II
  6-30 Misc. material
  6-31 Notes for Revisions
  6-32 Transcribed notes 1964
  6-33 Transcribed notes 1965
  6-34 Transcribed notes 1966 [1 of 2]
  6-35 Transcribed notes 1966 [2 of 2]
  6-36 Transcribed notes 1967
  6-37 Transcribed notes 1968

• Box 7

  7-1 Miscellaneous
  7-2 New WF Material I [1 of 2]
  7-3 New WF Material I [2 of 2]
  7-4 New WF Material II [1 of 2]
  7-5 New WF Material II [2 of 2]
  7-6 Michigan State notebook and locator for files
  7-7 1882 and earlier
  7-8 1883-1884
  7-9 1885
  7-10 1886
  7-11 1887
  7-12 1888
  7-13 1889
  7-14 1890
  7-15 1891
  7-16 1892
  7-17 1893
  7-18 1894
  7-19 1895
  7-20 1896
  7-21 1897
  7-22 1898
  7-23 1899
  7-24 1900
  7-25 1901
  7-26 1902
  7-27 1903
  7-28 1904
  7-29 1905
  7-30 1906
  7-31 1907
  7-32 1908
  7-33 1909
  7-34 1910
  7-35 1911
  7-36 1912
  7-37 1913
  7-38 1914
  7-39 1915
  7-40 1916
  7-41 1917
  7-42 1918
  7-43 RAF
  7-44 1919
  7-45 1920
  7-46 1921
  7-47 1922
  7-48 1923
  7-49 1924
  7-50 1925
  7-51 1925--Europe and return

• Box 8

  8-1 WF European letters and cards
  8-2 1926
  8-3 1927
  8-4 1928
  8-5 1929
  8-6 1930
  8-7 1931 [1 of 2]
  8-8 1931 [2 of 2]
  8-9 1932 [1 of 2]
  8-10 1932 [2 of 2]
  8-11 Grabhorn Press S & F 1932-1935
  8-12 1933
  8-13 1934
  8-14 1935
  8-15 1936
  8-16 1937
  8-17 1938
  8-18 1939
  8-19 1940
  8-20 1941
  8-21 1942 [1 of 2]
  8-22 1942 [2 of 2]
  8-23 1943
  8-23a 1944
  8-23b 1945
  8-24 1946
  8-25 1947
  8-26 1948
  8-27 The Minmagary 1948

• Box 9

  9-1 Intruder in the Dust and Oxford
  9-2 Nobel Prize
  9-3 Manuscript of Nobel draft
  9-4 Nobel duplicates
  9-5 1949
  9-6 1950
  9-7 1951
  9-8 1952
  9-9 1953
  9-10 1954
  9-11 Peru, Brazil 1954
  9-12 1955
  9-13 Japan 1955
  9-14 Iceland 1955
  9-15 Germany
  9-16 France 1955
  9-17 London 1955
  9-18 Italy 1955
  9-19 Philippines 1955
  9-20 People-to-People Comm. 1956
  9-21 1956
  9-22 1957
  9-23 Greece 1957
  9-24 1958
  9-25 1959
  9-26 Denver UNESCO 1959
  9-27 1960
  9-28 Venezuela 1961

• Box 10

  10-1 1961
  10-2 1962 [1 of 2]
  10-3 1962 [2 of 2]
  10-4 1963
  10-5 Hollywood working file
  10-6 Hollywood Correspondence
  10-7 New Orleans
  10-8 Memphis
  10-9 Notes on works read
  10-10 Sending schedule, correspondence and Harper's
  10-11 List of the Rowan Oak manuscripts
  10-12 Rowan Oak
  10-13 Oxford phone book 1976
  10-14 Oxford and Lafayette County and Miss.
  10-15 WF Biography [1 of 2]
  10-16 WF Biography [2 of 2]
  10-17 Essays M-Z [1 of 2]
  10-18 Essays M-Z [2 of 2]
  10-19 Chronology and Notes Vol. I
  10-20 L of A [Library of America] Faulkner Vol. I
  10-21 Vol. II and L o A
  10-22 L of A Faulkner Vol. II
  10-23 The Library of America [1 of 2]
  10-24 The Library of America [2 of 2]
  10-25 Soldiers' Pay (Garland)
  10-26 Mosquitos (Garland)
  10-27 Short Stories (Garland)
  10-28 Flags (Garland)
  10-29 Light in August (Garland)
  10-30 WF Archives/Garland
  10-31 Garland
  10-32 The Library of America folder