Stuart Wright Collection: John Updike Papers

1946-2010, undated
Manuscript Collection #1169-023
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Updike, John
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4.5 Cubic Feet, 8 archival boxes & 5 oversized folders, 395 items, 7,705 p. , Stuart Wright Collection: John Updike Papers (#1169-023) consists manuscripts and manuscript volumes, correspondence, clippings, photographic materials; also including drafts & proofs of published materials, including interviews for Writers at Work: Seventh Paris Review & original art; also including loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection & oversized materials.
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Stuart Wright Collection: John Updike Papers (#1169-023), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
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Papers of John Updike (1946-2010, undated) documenting the life and literary career of the noted Reading, Pennsylvania-born American novelist, poet, short story writer, art and literary critic, cartoonist, golfer and golf writer; including manuscripts and manuscript volumes, correspondence, clippings, photographic materials; also including drafts & proofs of published materials, including interviews for Writers at Work: Seventh Paris Review; original art; loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection; also oversized materials.

Biographical/historical information

John Updike the American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic, was born John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Linda Grace (née Hoyer), an aspiring writer, and Wesley Russell Updike, a high school math teacher, and grew up in nearby Shillington, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The family later moved to the unincorporated village of Plowville. His mother's efforts to publish her writing inspired him as a child. Updike's Berks County, childhood also influenced the environment of his Rabbit Angstrom series of novels and many of his other writings.

In 1950, Updike graduated from Shillington High School as co-valedictorian and class president. He then attended Harvard on a full scholarship. At Harvard, he achieved early recognition as a contributor to and president of the Harvard Lampoon. He graduated summa cum laude in 1954 with a degree in English. After graduating from Harvard, Updike decided to become a graphic artist and attended The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford. At first, he wanted to be a cartoonist. After returning to the United States, however, Updike and his family moved to New York, where he became a regular contributor to The New Yorker. This was the beginning of his writing career. He occasionally contributed cartoons to various publications.

Updike's most famous work is his Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom series, including the novels Rabbit, Run (1960); Rabbit Redux (1971); Rabbit Is Rich (1981); and Rabbit at Rest (1990); and the novella Rabbit Remembered (2001). In the series, Updikes followed the life of a middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from his young adulthood to his death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1982) and Rabbit at Rest (1991) won Pulitzer Prizes, making Updike one of only three authors to have won the award more than once. Altogether, Updike published more than twenty novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, art criticism, literary criticism and children's books. Many of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker, starting in 1954, and The New York Review of Books. He also became an accomplished cartoonist and an excellent amateur golfer. Updike achieved great literary fame and success during his lifetime. In addition to winning the two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, he won two National Book Awards, three National Book Critics Circle awards, the 1989 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Humanities Medal. He also received the Rea Award for the Short Story. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Updike to present the 2008 Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. government's highest humanities honor; Updike's lecture was entitled "The Clarity of Things: What Is American about American Art."

In 1953, Updike married Mary E. Pennington, an art student at Radcliffe College. Their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1955 while Updike attended Oxford. They had three more children together. They divorced in 1974. In 1977 Updike married Martha Ruggles Bernhard with whom he lived for the remainder of his life, in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. Updike died of lung cancer at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts, on 27 January 2009, at the age of 76.

Sources: "John Updike." [Biographical Sketch] Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike

Guide to the John Updike papers, 1940-2009 (MS Am 1793). 300 linear ft. Houghton Library, Harvard Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA. http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou01365

John Updike Papers, 1962-1969 (MSS43729). 2.6 linear ft. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC USA. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010250

Author: Jonathan Dembo, 11/18/2016, 4/17/2017.

Stuart Wright. The John Updike Papers were collected and compiled by Stuart T. Wright. Wright was born, Stuart Thurman Wright, on 30 March 1948 in Roxboro, North Carolina. He was the son of Frances Critcher Wright (1919-2010) and Wallace Lyndon Wright (1921-1965). An avid reader as a boy, Wright developed a strong interest in the American Civil War and with his father toured many of the war's battlefields searching for artifacts and studying the history of the era. At the age of 12, he won a statewide "Johnny Reb" essay contest and by the age of 15 had visited every major battlefield of the Civil War. Wright attended Roxboro High School, from which he graduated in 1966. It was during these years that he developed an interest in collecting historical books and manuscripts and began relationships with a number of local collectors and dealers.

In the fall of 1966, Wright enrolled at Wake Forest University as a pre-med, history, German and music student. Wright earned a B.A. in German and music in 1970. As a graduate student at Wake Forest University, Wright focused his studies on Southern history and literature, his ambition being to build an authoritative Southern Studies collection for the university. He received a master's degree in Southern Studies in 1973 and a second master's degree in U.S. History in 1980. Additionally Wright holds a professional degree from England in a medically related field. It was while studying there that he became interested in Thomas Wolfe, the noted North Carolina native and novelist.

Following his graduation from Wake Forest, Wright began to develop his collections more systematically, acquiring many first editions of Southern writers. In 1976 he began teaching at Reynolda House, a Wake Forest University affiliate dedicated to the arts and arts education. Wright taught classes in American music as well as human anatomy for art students. In 1978 Wright became Lecturer in Education at Wake Forest University. During his 10 years teaching at Wake Forest University, Wright authored numerous works of Civil War and North Carolina history, and dozens of articles, bibliographies, essays and reviews on Southern literature and the writers whose papers he collected. In addition, he developed a strong interest in the writings of the English poet Donald Davie and the Minnesota-born poet Richard Eberhart, whose works he also collected.

At the same time, Wright also began a career as a publisher by starting Palaemon Press in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. By 1984, Palaemon Press had produced 316 titles, consisting mainly of broadsides and limited editions, of the poetry and essays of such Southern writers as A. R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James Dickey, William Goyen, George Garrett, and Eudora Welty. He also built comprehensive collections and compiled book-length descriptive bibliographies of A.R. Ammons, Andrew Lytle, Reynolds Price, James Dickey, William Goyen, Walker Percy, Randall Jarrell, Peter Taylor, George Garrett, Richard Eberhart, and Donald Davie. As well as serving as editor of the contemporary literature section of the Bulletin of Bibliography throughout the 1980s, Wright also contributed pioneering checklists of the writings of Southern poets Henry Taylor, Charles Wright, and Robert Morgan. For Meckler Publishing he served as series editor for a number of book-length bibliographies and checklists. In recognition of these accomplishments, when he was just 32, Wright was elected to membership in New York's prestigious Grolier Club.

All of these works are represented in the Stuart Wright Collection. In his dealings with these various authors Wright made consistent efforts to acquire personal papers, letters and documents, photographs, manuscripts, drafts, proofs, and published materials to supplement his continuing activities as a purchaser of their works. In this way, Wright acquired perhaps a majority of his overall collection. Over the years a number of biographers used Wright's collection to aid their research. For example, James A. Grimshaw, Jr. used the collection extensively for his Robert Penn Warren: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1922-1979 published by the University Press of Virginia, in 1981 and Craig S. Abbott did so as well for John Crowe Ransom: A Descriptive Bibliography, published by Whitston Publishing Company, Inc. in 1999. Joseph Blotner also used the Wright collection in researching Robert Penn Warren: A Biography, published by Random House in 1997.

Nevertheless, from the mid- to late 1980s, Wright began to look for a permanent home for his collection, which he felt had grown too large and yet had been too little used. Unable to find a repository willing to accept the entire collection under suitable conditions, he sold a number of individual author collections to Vanderbilt University, Duke University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Emory University. It was not until 2010 that he reached agreement to house the remaining, and largest part of his collection at East Carolina University. The Stuart Wright Collection in the East Carolina Manuscript Collection of J.Y. Joyner Library includes 22 sub-collections of the papers of Southern American writers. The related Stuart Wright Book Collection holds several thousand volumes by or about many of the same writers. Many of these volumes contain annotations, inscriptions, and insertions that reveal much about the authors in the collection and their relationships with one another. In 1998 Wright moved to England, and since 2001 he has resided in the medieval market town of Ludlow, in Shropshire.

Scope and arrangement

Stuart Wright Collection: John Updike Papers (#1169-023) document the life and literary career of John Updike, 1946-2010, undated. The Updike Papers are arranged in original order in 3 series consisting of an initial acquisition of manuscript materials and two additions: Cary Addition #1, & Ludlow Addition #2. Included in the collection are manuscript volumes, correspondence & typescripts, drafts of literary works, original art & clippings, proofs of published works, clippings, photographic prints, proofs, and audio cassettes, oversized materials, pamphlets and other printed materials, and loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection. The collection focuses on Updike's literary career, but also sheds light on Updike's early life and family, education, and interests, including his skills as an artist, illustrator, cartoonist, and golfer.

Series 1: Manuscript Materials is arranged in four sub-series, including manuscripts volumes, correspondence & typescripts, printed materials, original art & clippings, and proofs of published works. Included are composition notebooks that represent Updike's life at Harvard University, ca. 1950-1954; correspondence, speeches, drafts of poems, short stories & a script, broadsides, cartoons of public figures and issues in the news, ca. 1958 - 1960; drawings; photographic prints of John Updike and Kurt Vonnegut by Jill Krementz; it also includes edited transcriptions of oral interviews for Writers at Work: Seventh Paris Review (1986), including interviews with Eugene Ionesco, Philip Larkin, May Sarton, John Ashbery, Malcolm Cowley, Guillermo Cabrera, Raymond Carver, Arthur Koestler, William Maxwell, Milan Kundera, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, John Barth, Elizabeth Hardwick, Elie Wiesel, and Thomas McGuane; and issues of the Harvard Lampoon containing Updike's work. Series 1 also contains 38 proofs of published works that Updike received as a publisher's reader or reviewer, including loose manuscripts such as clippings, letters, advertising, and reviews by Updike and others about the works. Series 1 is held in Box 1.a - 6.h

Series 2: Cary Addition #1 to the Stuart Wright Collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographic material, proofs, and audio cassettes. Also included in this series are oversized materials, pamphlets, and loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection, 1950-2004. Series 2 is held in Box 7.a-8.m, os.1-os.5

Series 3: Ludlow Addition #2 to the Stuart Wright Collection contains correspondence, clippings, and loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection, 1955-2000. Series 3 is held in Box 8.o-8.za

Note to Researchers: Series 1, 2, & 3: Loose Manuscript Items Transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection consists of items found laid in works in the Stuart Wright Book Collection by, about, associated with, or owned by John Updike. They include notes and bookmarks inserted by Updike, Stuart Wright, and others; also notes, cards, correspondence, clippings, advertising, reviews, ephemera, etc. relating to his published works. The loose manuscripts are linked to the books from which they came by their Stuart Wright Book Collection Number (e.g. Stuart Wright Book Collection #40.15).

Administrative information
Custodial History

27 October 2011, (Cary Addition #1), 1.25 cubic feet; 1.5 archival boxes & 5 oversized folders; 192 items; 846 p. Papers (1950-2004, undated) documenting the life and literary career of John Updike (1932-2009), the noted American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, & literary critic, including correspondence, clippings, photographic materials, loose manuscripts transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection, proofs of published works, audio recordings & printed materials. Vendor: Stuart Wright.

20 July 2012, (Ludlow Addition #2), 0.25 cubic feet; 0.5 archival box; 24 items; 101 p. Papers (1955-2000) documenting the life and literary career of John Updike (1932-2009), the noted American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, & literary critic, correspondence, clippings & loose manuscript materials transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection. Vendor: Stuart Wright.

1 November 2013, 130 items, 3.0 cubic feet; Papers (1946-2010, undated) of John Updike, noted American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic; including notebooks, correspondence, manuscript and drafts of published materials, original art, proofs, annotated and inscribed printed works, etc. relating to his life and literary career. Vendor: Stuart Wright.

Source of acquisition

Purchased from Stuart Wright, 10/27/2011, 7/20/2012, 11/1/2013

Processing information

Processing, Preliminary inventory, & Container list by Jonathan Dembo, with the assistance of Saundra Pinkham, Nathaniel King, Shelby Sapp, 11/19/2010; revised 10/27/2011, 6/18/2013, 10/9/2013, 12/10/2013; Finding aid by Jonathan Dembo, 11/8/2011, revised 7/6/2012, 12/10/2012; Updated Archivists Toolkit, Jonathan Dembo, 11/21/2013, 12/10/2013, 12/12/2013, 4/22/2016, rev. 2/21/2018.

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Language of material

English

Related material

Guide to the John Updike papers, 1940-2009 (MS Am 1793). 300 linear ft. Houghton Library, Harvard Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA

John Updike Papers, 1932-2009 (MSS118). 1 box. Department of Special Collections, Olin Library, Washington University, St. Louis, MO USA

John Updike papers concerning Surviving: the uncollected writings of Henry Green, 1990-1991(MS Am 2649), Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA

John Updike Papers for Howells as anti-novelist, 1987 (MS Am 2650), Houghton Library, , Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA

John Updike Papers, 1962-1969 (MSS43729) Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC USA

Lowell-Adams House Printers Papers (MS Am 1881) Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA

Key terms
Personal Names
Updike, John
Wright, Stuart, 1948---Correspondence
Topical
Authors, American--20th century
Container list
Box 1 Folder a John Updike's Composition Book No. 1148, including notes for assignments, quotations, grades of students, doodles, sketches of students, etc. (ca. 1950 - 1954) Manuscript volume. 1 item. 30 p. used out of 116 sheets ; Note : Inscribed on cover : "John Updike 6 Warren House, Harvard College, Cambridge 38" ; Notes on just a handful of pages; mostly fragments of verse; and three small drawings ; Page one has "John Updike, Helen Matheson, Albert M. Brown" on consecutive lines and crossed out; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #208.000
Box 1 Folder b John Updike's University Notebook No. 2566, including notes for assignments, quotations, doodles, sketches & cartoons with captions including of John F. Kennedy & Nikita Khrushchev, etc. (ca. 1961) Manuscript volume. 1 item. 7 p. used out of 66 sheets ; Note : Includes loose manuscript materials inside front cover: John Updike holograph note card (ca. 1961) 1 item. 1 p.; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #208.000
Box 1 Folder c Writers at Work: Seventh Paris Review Interview Collection Manuscript: "John Updike's Archive: A Great Writer at Work," by Sam Tanenhaus, The New York Times (20 June 2010 ; printed 8 November 2010) Printed from NYTimes.com. 1 item. 6 p. ; Note : Includes cover letter : John Updike to Stuart [Wright] with his signature over his stamped address: "This may or may not be of interest to you, but I don't want it. I wrote an introduction to the 7th Paris Review interview collection and read through and annotated (lightly) this photocopy of the Ms. Only 13 of the interviews were used, in the end. The book will be out in a month or two." (7 June 1986) ALS. Ink on cardboard. 1 item, 1 p.; cardboard acidic ; needs conservation ; Source : Box #208.000
Box 1 Folder d Writers at Work: Seventh Paris Review Interview Collection Manuscript: Art of Theater & Art of Poetry (ca. 1986) Photocopy typescript. 3 items, 86 p. ; Note : Interviews: Eugene Ionesco, Philip Larkin, May Sarton ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #208.000
Box 1 Folder e Writers at Work: Seventh Paris Review Interview Collection Manuscript: Art of Poetry & Art of Fiction (ca. 1986) Photocopy typescript. 3 items, 93 p. ; Note : Interviews: John Ashbery, Malcolm Cowley, Guillermo Cabrera ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #208.000
Box 1 Folder f Writers at Work: Seventh Paris Review Interview Collection Manuscript: Art of Fiction (ca. 1986) Photocopy typescript. 3 items, 81 p. ; Note : Interviews: Raymond Carver, Arthur Koestler, William Maxwell ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #208.000
Box 1 Folder g Writers at Work: Seventh Paris Review Interview Collection Manuscript: Art of Fiction (ca. 1986) Photocopy typescript. 3 items, 75 p. ; Note : Interviews: Milan Kundera, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #208.000
Box 1 Folder h Writers at Work: Seventh Paris Review Interview Collection Manuscript: Art of Fiction (ca. 1986) Photocopy typescript. 4 items, 129 p. ; Note : Interviews: John Barth, Elizabeth Hardwick, Elie Wiesel, Thomas McGuane ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #208.000
Box 2 Folder a Morgan Library Speech, by John Updike (4 October 1977) Edited photocopy typescript. 1 item. 15 p. ; Note : J. Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY; signed by Updike; an untitled speech; inscribed by Updike at the top of page one, "Given at the Morgan Library, 10/4/77, John Updike" ; also includes : 1-3) three slips of corrections in the folder (undated) Corrected typescripts ; photocopy brittle, fragile ; needs conservation ; Source : Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder b After - Anent of Handsome Columnists - So Varified With Spots . . . - Shaving Mirror [Poetry Manuscripts & Drafts] (undated) Edited typescripts. 5 items. 6 p. ; Note : 1) "AFTER" [Poem], by Anonymous (undated) Holograph on 5" x 7" index card. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) "Anent Our Handsome Columnists" by Anonymous, which reads in part, "But you, Mr. Korbrin, stand proudly aloof – " includes photographs of columnists McDermott, Focht, Reedy, Moser, March & Kobrin glued to page (undated) Typescript with Photographs attached. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) Quotations from Gulliver's Travels (four lines) (undated) Typescript. 1 item. 1 p. ; 4) "Shaving Mirror" [Poem] by John Updike ; to which the following note has been written at the top: "Dear JHU. Here's your poem [Shaving Mirror] found lying around in the piano music. Never could read your writing but can admire at a glance your craftsmanship. Maybe your writing would go better if you'd stop hob-knobbing with the likes of Jill Krementz. XXM;" [Updike had written the address and phone number of Krementz at the top of the page] (undated) Holograph. 1 item. 1 p. ; 5) "Shaving Mirror" [Poem] by John Updike (undated) Photocopy typescript. 1 item. 2 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder c Moral Prospects of Man, The . . . ", by John Updike [Speech] (ca. 1950) Carbon typescript. 1 item. 4 p. ; Note : Updike's person copy of his Shillington High School valedictory address; the untitled speech contrasts "the moral progress of Man" with scientific progress "in the last fifty years." ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder d Shaving Mirror, by John Updike [Poem] (undated) Edited typescript. 1 item. 1 p. ; Note : Ribbon typescript with corrections of the poem, "Shaving Mirror." ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder e Krementz, Jill. Photographs of John Updike & Kurt Vonnegut (11 July 1977 & 26 December 1979) Photographic prints. Black & White. 8" x 10" 2 items. 2 p. ; Note : Signed photographic prints by photographer Jill Krementz: 1) Boardwalk beach scene (11 July 1977) of a woman with Updike & Kurt Vonnegut ; and 2) Kitchen table scene with Updike, Vonnegut, and a woman (26 December 1979) ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder f Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals, The, by John Updike [Short story] (29 March 1975) Holograph & Carbon typescript. 2 items. 21 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder g Carnival of the Animals [Poems] by Ogden Nash ; supplemented by John Updike ; for Camille Saint-Säens' musical composition (16 July 1973) Holograph & Edited Typescripts. 3 items. 12 p. ; Note : Poems include 1) "The Kangaroo" [Poem] by John Updike (undated) Holograph. 1 item. 2 p. ; 2) Camille Saint Saens Was Wracked With Pain [Poems] by Ogden Nash, supplemented by John Updike (16 July 1973) Corrected typescripts. 2 items. 10 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder h Leaving Church Early, by John Updike ; letters from editors regarding publication [Poem] (ca. 1975-1976) Holograph ; ALS ; TLS ; Edited typescripts ; Edited photocopy typescripts, etc. 12 items. 37 p. ; Note : Three (3) letters from editors re publication of "Leaving Church Early;" four (4) versions of the poem, including Updike's holograph corrected ribbon typescript with a note to himself: "Rework – make for more regularly iambic tetrameter – no rhyme" ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder i Leaving Church Early Corrections, by John Updike [Poem] (20 November 1975) Edited typescripts. 2 items. 12 p. ; Note : Corrections in Updike's hand, with his annotation, "Nov 20 75" at top of one draft, and a second typescript with somewhat fewer changes ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder j Three Texts From Early Ipswich: A Pageant Composed by John Updike . . . [Script] (3 August 1968) Pamphlet. 1 item. 16 p. ; Note : First printing. A very good plus copy, with moderate foxing to the covers; John Updike's own copy with his holograph corrections on p. 8 ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder k Raining at Magens Day, by John Updike ; copy 7 of 200 [Poem] (29 October 1975) Broadside ; Carbon typescript & Holograph. 3 items. 4 p. ; Note : Two copies of Updike's poem, Raining at Magens Bay: (1) a limited edition broadside (1976), No. 7 of 200, "issued as a part of the John Updike Newsletter"; also: (2) a carbon typescript, dated "Oct 29 75" in Updike's hand at top of page; and (3) a two-page holograph version of the poem ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder l Cartoons, by John Updike [Pen & Ink Drawings] (ca. 1958 - 1960) Original Art. Pen & Ink Drawings. 5" x 7" (approx.) 11 items. 11 p. ; Note : Eleven (11) original drawings by Updike: (1) two Cubans commenting unfavorably while watching Fidel Castro on TV; (2) lampooning (1958) of a Southern politician bragging about the closing of a Southern school over integration; (3) a political cartoon showing Updike's town of Ipswich being shackled to the larger town of Amesbury; (4) a cartoon (1958) lampooning Middle Eastern countries as dragging the world into World War III; (5) a simple black cartoon commenting on the Congo; (6) a cartoon (1958) showing Khrushchev before the skyline of the city of New York; (7) a golfing President Eisenhower depicting West Berlin as being outside of the "fairway" of the Free World, and thus "in the rough"; (8) a 1958 cartoon of the Middle East's oil reserves, caught between the interests of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R.; (9) another 1958 cartoon depicting the Cold War submarine race to reach the North Pole; (10) a 1959 cartoon depicting the Congressional investigation over the Quiz Bowl scandal; and (11) a humorous depiction of the 1960 presidential race, showing Nixon and Kennedy as two young boys holding balloons with the word "Nomination." ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder m Cartoons Published in Amesbury Daily News, by John Updike [Drawings] (ca. 1958 - 1960) Clippings. 8 items. 8 p. ; Note : The clippings bear pencil annotations of the date of publication in Updike's hand ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder n Harvard Lampoon Issues Including Poems, Etc. by John Updike, Vol. 143, nos. 1 - 3 (February - April 1954) Periodicals. 3 items. 78 p. ; Note : Three (3) good to very good copies of the Harvard Lampoon from 1954 (February, March, & April); Updike's own copies with his occasional markings, mostly in blue pencil, to identify his own contributions; (John Updike was a member of the Board of Editors.) The April issue has a one-page poem on page 9 by Updike. February issue has a one-page poem, "I Like to Sing Also," by Updike on page 2, a poem on page 23 titled "Ballade for Subway Sitters," as well as a humorous piece, "Supply Is Limited," on pages 14 & 15, and a final piece, "Music for the Messes," on page 24; Updike also wrote a humorous piece, "Coming Detractions," on pages 18-19 of the March issue. Covers on two of the copies detached ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder o Hate Sonnet & Pencil Sketches, by John Updike [Poem & Drawings] (9 September [1954]) Original Art ; Typescript. 2 items. 2 p. ; Note : Two items, likely done at Harvard: (1) "A Hate Sonnet," one-page, dated "Sep 9" with a self-profile of Updike above the ribbon typescript; and (2) a single-page mimeograph of a mathematics assignment, on the verso of which Updike (apparently) has added pencil sketches of a professor gesturing and of a male student reclining ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder p Father - My God - Footnote to a News Item - Letter to Mr. Morrison - Etc., by John Updike [Poem & Drafts] (undated) Typescripts & Edited typescripts. 4 items. 5 p. ; Note : Five items, almost certainly from 1954: 1) typescript one-page poem, "FATHER"; 2) program for Harvard commencement, 6/17/54; 3) half-page corrected typescript of a four-paragraph work, "ALVIN PAFF MEETS DEATH"; 4) typescript [untitled] single-page of a longer work of fiction, upon which a six-line untitled corrected typescript of a poem has been appended which begins, "What higher meaning can avail/A camel's face?...; 5) single leaf, the front of which contains a corrected typescript of "Footnote to a News Item" [about "Calvin Paff"], and the verso of which contains a corrected typescript of a poem, "Myth to Be Engraved on a Peal of Thunder"; and 6), an unsigned typescript page addressed by Updike to "Mr. Morrison," upon which someone [apparently Morrison] has written an extensive response in pencil, which begins, "There are a lot of items here, and I respond to them variably." Updike's typescript note had begun: "You said you would allow me one assignment of poetry. Here it is. The bulk of the poems – the first eight in order – are intended for a sequence of fifty-two lyrics entitled "Kindly Dewe," taken from the November eclogue of "The Shepehardes Calender." My mother, who maintains that I am wasting my time on the project, awaits your opinion as anxiously as I do." ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder q Harvard University Commencement 1954 [Program] (17 June 1954) Brochure. 1 item. 2 p
Box 2 Folder r Earthworm, by John Updike [Poem] (© by John Updike) Postcards. 2 items. 2 p. Note: An "Ontario Review Poetry Postcard." [Poem was first published in Telephone Poles and Other Poems] ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 2 Folder s Cartoons & Captions, by John Updike [Pen & Ink Drawings] (undated) Original art. 5 items. 5 p. ; Note : Five sheets of printed cartoon drawings by Updike, four of which are on oversized cardstock: (1) a scene outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre; (2) a Photostat copy of a drawing lampooning the Heritage Fund, likely at Harvard; (3) a drawing of a hanging platform bearing a sign, "WATCH YOUR STEP," upon the steps up to the platform; and (8) eight small circular cartoon drawings of male characters on two (s) sheets ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #209.000
Box 3 Folder a King, The, By Donald Barthelme ; Illustrated by Barry Moser ; An Edward Burlingame Book (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, [May 1990]) Printed. Paperback. ADVANCED UNCORRECTED PROOFS NOT FOR SALE ISBN 0-671-47268-2. 1 item. 117 p. ; Note : Inscribed: "For Martha - My really favorite fan whose unflagging support has mean a hell of a lot to me [illegible], Fred [Barthelme]" on front cover ; includes 1) mimeographed typescript review & resume of Donald Barthelme, by J. U. [John Updike] 1 item. 1 p. ; John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder b Moon Deluxe: Stories, by Frederick Barthelme (New York: Simon and Schuster (c) 1983) Printed. Paperback. ADVANCED UNCORRECTED PROOFS NOT FOR SALE ISBN 0-671-47268-2. 1 item. 117 p. ; Note : Inscribed by Frederick Barthelme: "For Martha - My really favorite fan whose unflagging support has mean a hell of a lot to me [illegible], Fred [Barthelme]" on front cover ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder c Wartime Lies: A Novel, by Louis Begley (New York: Alfred A. Knopf © 1991 by Louis Begley] Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-679-40016-8. 1 item. 104 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly "John Updike . . . [Louis Begley] Harvard '54 -- my class! on front cover" ; includes loose manuscript items inside front cover: 1) John Updike holograph note on Turnberry Hotel and Golf Courses, Ayrshire, Scotland notepaper (undated) 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) Elizabeth holograph note to John Updike (ca. Dec. 1990) 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder d Watermark, by Joseph Brodsky (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux © 1992 by Joseph Brodsky) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-374-14812-0. 1 item. 55 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly "John Updike" on front cover; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder e Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The. Volume I: A New Collection, Edited and with a Preface by Matthew J. Bruccoli (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (c) 1989 by Charles Scribner's Sons) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED ADVANCED PROOF. ISBN 0-684-19160-1. 1 item. 232 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on cover: "Can't be beat . . . - John Updike" ; includes loose manuscript items: 1) Susan Richman letter to "Dear Reviewer" (31 July 1989) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) Draft foreword by Charles Scribner III (ca. 1989) Typescript. 1 item. 4 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder f Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The. Volume II: A New Collection, Edited and with a Preface by Matthew J. Bruccoli (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (c) 1989 by Charles Scribner's Sons) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED ADVANCED PROOF. ISBN 0-684-19160-1. 1 item. 178 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on cover: "Makes Hawthorne pale . . . - John Updike". ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder g Mr. Palomar, by Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver ; A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book (San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers © 1983 by Giulio Einaudi, editore ; English translation © 1985 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Printed. UNCORRECTED PROOF. 1 item. 53 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials: 1) "Books: States of Mind", [Review of Mr. Palomar] by John Updike, The New Yorker (18 November 1985) Clipping. 1 item 3 p. pp. 167-168, 171-172, 174, inserted inside front cover ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder h Stranger, The, by Albert Camus ; Translated from the French by Matthew Ward ; Borzoi Books (New York: Alfred A. Knopf © 1988 by Matthew Ward) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-394-53305-4. 1 item. 72 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials: 1) biographical sketch of Camus (ca. 1988) Photocopied clipping. 1 item. 1 p. ; inside front cover ; 2) Maron L. Waxman, Executive Director, Book Development, Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. Business Card (ca. 1988) Ephemera. 1 item. 1 p. ; between pp. 54-55 ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder i Journals of John Cheever, The, edited by Benjamin Cheever ; Borzoi Books (New York: Simon and Schuster © 1990, 1991 by Mary Cheever, Susan Cheever, Benjamin Cheever, and Federico Cheever) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED READER's PROOF. ISBN 0-394-572474-2. 1 item. 192 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript material: 1) "The Wapshot Chronicle, by John Cheever ; The Journals of John Cheever" The New Republic (2 December 1991) Clipping. 1 item. 2 p. ; between pp. 322-323 ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder j Letters of John Cheever, The, edited by Benjamin Cheever (New York: Simon and Schuster © 1988 by Benjamin Cheever) Printed. Paperback. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED READER's PROOF. ISBN 0-671-62873-9. 1 item. 192 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; included loose manuscript material: 1) [John Updike Interview transcript (partial) Wall Street Journal (17 October 2008) Photocopy. 1 item. 1 p. ; inside front cover ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder k Letters from Colette [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette] ; by Sidonie-Gabrielle Collete ; selected and translated by Robert Phelps (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux © 1980 by Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Printed. 1 item. 109 p. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 3 Folder l Curfew: A Novel, by José Donoso ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, © 1986 by José Donoso) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS. ISBN 1-55584-166-X. 1 item. 159 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover "John Updike" ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript items: 1) John Updike, "Books: In Dispraise of the Powers That Be" [Review of Curfew] The New Yorker (13 June 1988) Clipping. pp. 112-116 slipped inside front cover. 1 item. 3 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder a Radiant Way, The, by Margaret Drabble (New York: Alfred A. Knopf © 1987 by Margaret Drabble) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-394-56143-0. 1 item. 216 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly "John Updike" on front cover ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; text block separated ; includes loose manuscript materials: 1) photocopied review & biographical sketch of Drabble ca. 1987 ; 2) undated holograph note by John Updike inside front cover ; 3) "Seeking Connections in an Insecure Country" review of The Radiant Way, by John Updike, The New Yorker (26 Nov. 1987) Clipping. 1 item. 4 p. ; Source : Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder b Hotel New Hampshire: A Novel, The, by John Irving ; A Henry Robbins Book (New York: E. P. Dutton, © 1981 by John Irving) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-525-12800-X. 1 item. 214 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly by John Updike on front cover ; John Updike's holograph notes on rear endpages ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder c Nothing Happens in Carmincross, by Benedict Kiely (Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, © 1985 by Benedict Kiely) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOFS. 1 item. 133 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials: 1) John Updike, "Books: Bad Neighbors" [Review of Nothing Happens in Carmincross] The New Yorker (21 October 1985) Clipping. pp. 145-150 slipped between pp. 34-35 ; 2) paper slip between 46-47 ; 3) paper slip between 54-55 ; 4) paper slip between 152-153 ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder d Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul De Man, by David Lehman (New York: Poseidon Press, © 1991 by David Lehman) Printed. Paperback. ADVANCED UNCORRECTED PROOFS. ISBN 0-671-68239-3. 1 item. 152 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; cover splitting from text block ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder e Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa ; Translated by Alfred MacAdam (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux © 1987 by Mario Vargas Llosa) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. 1 item. 70 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials: 1) John Updike, "Books: Resisting the Big Guys" [Review of Who Killed Palomino Molero?] The New Yorker (24 August 1987) Clipping. 1 item. 2 p. pp. 83-86 ; slipped inside front cover ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder f As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s, by Karal Ann Marling (Cambridge, MA & London, Eng.: Harvard University Press, © 1994 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOFS. 1 item. 163 p. Note: Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder g Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography, by Jeffrey Meyers (New York: HarperCollins © 1994 by Jeffrey Meyers) Printed. Paperback. ISBN 0-06-019036-1. UNCORRECTED PROOF. 1 item. 216 p. Note: Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials: 1) "Books of the Times: Troubled Life and Times on this Side of Paradise," by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Book Review (ca. 1994) Clipping. 1 item. 1 p., inserted between pp. 32-33 ; 2) Publisher's Weekly reprint (21 February 1994) Printed. Broadside ; 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) HarperCollins Publishers News (ca. 27 April 1994) Photocopy typescript. 1 item. 2 p. inserted between pp. 324-325 ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder h Painter of Signs, The, by R. K. Narayan (New York: The Viking Press, May 1976) Printed. Paperback. 1 item. 96 p. SBN 53567-2. UNREVISED PROOF. GALLEY. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials: 1) The Painter of Signs advertising review & 2) biographical note on Narayan, inserted inside front cover ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder i I Lock My Door Upon Myself, by Joyce Carol Oates (New York: The Eco Press © 1990 by The Ontario Review, Inc.) Printed. Paperback. ISBN 0-88001-260-9. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS. 1 item. 45 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #210.000
Box 4 Folder j Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays, by Camille Paglia ; Vintage Books (New York: Vintage Books A Division of Random House ©1992 Camille Paglia) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED BOUND GALLEYS. ISBN 0-679-74101-1. 1 item. 162 p. Note: John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript material (all inside front cover): 1) Stuart Wright Post-it note: "See also John's note to me about the 'exploding proof copy' laid in Memories of the Ford Admin." 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) John Updike Postcard to Stuart Wright, in part: "Thanks for the nice letter & cash. Have a great time in England. Best, John" (12 Nov. 1992) ALS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) "Books: She's Got Personality" [Review] by John Updike, The New Yorker (19 October 1992) Clipping, pp. 115-122. 1 item. 4 p. ; text blocks separated from cover ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 5 Folder a Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka, The, by Pawel Ernst (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux © 1984 by Ernst Pawel) Printed. UNREVISED, UNCORRECTED PROOFS. ISBN 0-374-22236-3. 1 item. 240 p. ; Note : Autographed on front cover: "John Updike" ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials (all laid inside front cover): 1) advertising clipping (ca. May 1984) Photocopy typescript. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) "Books: The Process and the Lock" [Review of The Nightmare of Reason] by John Updike, The New Yorker (18 June 1984) Clipping. 1 item. 3 p., pp. 108-109, 111-114 ; Note : Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 5 Folder b Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free, by V. S. Pritchett (New York: Random House, Inc. © 1988 by V. S. Pritchett) Printed. Paperback. 1 item. 94 p. ADVANCED PROOFS [UNCORRECTED] Note: Autographed boldly "John Irving 10/29/93" on title page ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; text block separated ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 5 Folder c Mating: A Novel, by Norman Rush (New York: Alfred A. Knopf © 1991 by Norman Rush) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-394-54472-2. 1 item. 248 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials: 1) John Updike letter to Stuart Wright (26 November [1991]) accompanying copy of Mating. TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 5 Folder d Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend, by Ernest Samuels (Cambridge, MA & London, Eng.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press © 1987 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF. ISBN 0-674-06779-7. 1 item. 330 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; includes 2 Updike sketches of hid "Mother [sleeping] 2/13/1987" Original art; inside back cover ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 5 Folder e Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz with Selected Prose, by Bruno Schulz ; edited by Jerzy Ficowski (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers © 1988 by Jacob Schulz) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-06-015896-4. 1 item. 128 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" & inscribed "Studies in Perspective" ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 5 Folder f Artful Partners: Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen, by Colin Simpson (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company © 1986 by C. & J. Simpson) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF. ISBN 0-02-611330-9. 1 item. 160 p. Note: Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials: 1) Macmillan Publishing Company publicity information on Artful Partners inside front cover [taped] Typescript. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) John Updike holograph note (undated) inside front cover. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) "'Artful Partners' Toned Down: Controversial Book on Berenson Coming Out Next Month," by Norman Keyes, Jr., Boston Globe (19 January 1987), p. 14. Clipping. 1 item. 1 p. ; 4) Mitchel Levitas, The New York Times Book Review, Letter to John Updike request 2,000 word book review of Artful Partners (12 December 1986) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 5) Susan Richman, Director of Publicity, Macmillan Publishing Company, Letter to Dear Reviewer [John Updike] enclosing galleys and requesting "major attention" (4 December 1986) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 5 Folder g Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman, by L. E. Sissman ; edited and with a Preface by Peter Davison. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. First Printed May 1978 (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company © 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 by L. E. Sissman ; 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978 by Anne B. Sissman) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF. ISBN 0-316-79311-6. 1 item. 147 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; also includes John Updike pen sketch of a bespectacled man captioned "Holsten = Braurerei" on back cover ; includes loose manuscript materials inside front cover: 1) "Witness to His Dying: Hello Darkness: the Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman" Review by John Updike, The New York Times Book Review (14 May 1978) Photocopy clipping. 1 item. 2 p. ; 2) Little, Brown and Company advertising sheet (ca. May 1978) Typescript. 1 item. 1 p. [Stapled to flyleaf] ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 5 Folder h Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, by Anne Stevenson ; with additional material by Lucas Myers, Dido Merwin and Richard Murphy ; A Peter Davison Book (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company © 1989 by Anne Stevenson, Lucas Myers, Dido Merwin and Richard Murphy) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-395-45374-7. 1 item. 195 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials inside front cover: 1) John Updike, Holograph note with sketch of holly leaves & berries, to Stuart Wright to accompany "Ten (10) fantastic bound galleys for you at Christmastime All best, John [Updike]" (undated) 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 6 Folder a Pigeon, The, by Patrick Süskind ; translated by John E. Woods (New York: Alfred A. Knopf © 1988 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-394-56315-8. 1 item. 64 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials on front cover [taped] & inside front cover [stapled] including 1-2) Alfred A. Knopf publicity (ca. 1988) Photocopy clippings. 2 items. 2 p. ; 3) "Books: Small Packages [including The Pigeon] Review by John Updike, The New Yorker (4 July 1988) Clipping. 1 item. 2 p. inserted between pp. 30-31 ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 6 Folder b Naomi, by Junichiro Tanizaki ; translated by Anthony H. Chambers ; A Borzoi Book (New York: Alfred A. Knopf © 1985 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-394-53663-0. 1 item. 128 p. ; Note : Autographed on front cover: "John Updike" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials inside front cover [stapled]: 1) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. publicity information, describing Naomi, biography of Tanizaki & Chambers (1985) Photocopy clipping. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 6 Folder c Millroy the Magician, by Paul Theroux (New York: Random House, [Jan. 1994]) Printed. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-679-40247-0. 1 item. 212 p. ; Note : Autographed "John Updike" on cover ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; Includes loose manuscript materials: 1) Note from John Updike to Stuart Wright inside front cover [1994] Holograph. Post-it note. 1 item. 1 p.; 2) G. P. Putnam's Son's Newsletter advertising Paul Theroux's My Secret History (9 July 1989) Mimeographed typescript. between pp. 114-115. 1 item. 3 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 6 Folder d Reindeer Moon: A Novel, by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company [Feb. 1987]) Printed. Paperback. 1 item. 171 p. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF. ; Note : Autographed boldly twice by "John Updike" on flyleaf ; John Updike's holograph notes throughout ; also includes : 1) ANS from John Updike to Stuart Wright, which begins "Do let me know if sending these to you is just a nuisance . . . . " (28 May [1987]) Holograph. Loose manuscript item inside front cover. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 6 Folder e Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler (New York: Alfred A. Knopf © 1982 by Anne Tyler Modaressi) Printed. Paperback. Boxed [Special clamshell box] UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-394-52381-4. 1 item. 145 p. ; Note : Autographed on front cover: "John Updike" ; Autographed on title page: "Anne Tyler" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials inside front cover: 1) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. publicity information, describing Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, biography of Tyler (1985) Photocopy clipping. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) George Core, Letter to Anne Tyler accompanying an audiocassette of Dinner (24 July 1986) TL. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) Anne Tyler, Letter & envelope to George Core commenting on audio books (27 July 1986) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 6 Folder f Buccaneers, The, by Edith Wharton ; completed by Marion Mainwaring (New York: Viking Press [1993]) Printed. Paperback. ADVANCED UNCORRECTED PROOFS NOT FOR SALE ISBN 0-670-85219-9. 1 item. 192 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly "John Irving 10/29/93" on title page ; John Irving's holograph notes throughout ; text block separated ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 6 Folder g Naturalist, by Edward O. Wilson ; A Sheerwater Book (Washington, DC & Covelo, CA: Island Press © 1994 by Island Press ; Illustrations by Laura Simonds Southworth) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 1-55963-288-7. 1 item. 176 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 6 Folder h That Mighty Sculptor, Time, by Marguerite Yourcenar ; translated by Walter Kaiser ; in collaboration with the author. First U. S. edition (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux © 1992 by Walter Kaiser) Printed. Paperback. UNCORRECTED PROOF. ISBN 0-374-27358-8. 1 item. 109 p. ; Note : Autographed boldly on front cover: "John Updike" ; includes John Updike's holograph notes scattered throughout ; includes loose manuscript materials inside front cover: 1) John Updike. Post-it note to "Dear Stuart [Wright]" accompanying bound galleys "the way you like them" (ca. 1992) Holograph. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #211.000
Box 7 Folder a Steener, Henry J., Governor Mifflin Schools, Shillington, PA. Letters to Stuart Wright (19 Aug. - 20 Oct. 1983) ALS. 3 items. 35 p. ; Note : Includes biographical notes & clippings on John Updike's early literary career ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder b Updike, John Papers, Beverly Farms, MA. Letters, Envelopes, Checks to Stuart Wright (1982) ALS, Envelopes, Checks. 7 items. 11 p. ; Note : Includes uncanceled check #1057 by John Updike, dated 15 July 1982 ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder c Updike, John Papers, Beverly Farms, MA & Charlottesville, VA. Letters & Postcards to Stuart Wright (1983) ALS, TLS, Printed forms, Envelopes. 12 items. 19 p. ; Note : Letter of 13 Aug. 1983 includes original art watercolor by John Updike ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder d Updike, John Papers, Beverly Farms, MA. Letters & Postcards to Stuart Wright (1984 - 1989) ALS, TLS. 17 items. 21 p. ; Note : Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder e Updike, John Papers, Beverly Farms, MA. Postcards & Copy of Media Exchange to Stuart Wright (1991 - 1995) ALS, TLS & Periodical. 5 items. 9 p. ; Note : Media Exchange, Vol. 2, no. 2 (Summer 1991) inscribed by John Updike ; Letter of 19 Dec. 1992 includes British coin attached with pressure sensitive tape, needs conservation ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder f Updike, Martha (Mrs. John), Beverly Farms, MA. Letter to Stuart Wright (29 July 1983) ALS. 1 item. 2 p. ; Note : Thanking SW for gift of Mrs. Babcock's book ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder g Updike, John Papers, Beverly Farms, MA. Letters & Ephemera to Stuart Wright (undated) ALS, TLS, Ephemera. 7 items. 11 p. ; Note : Includes Clover Park Athletic Association drinks coaster ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder h Flirt [Poem] by John Updike (undated) Photocopied Holograph. 4 items. 4 p. ; Note : Signed "John Updike" ; Source : Cary Addition Box #145.000
Box 7 Folder i Papier-Mâché Santa Claus, The, by Linda Grace Hoyer. The New Yorker (27 Dec. 1976) Clipping ; 1 item. 2 p. ; Note : Linda Grace Hoyer was John Updike's mother ; holograph publication notes on clipping, ca. 1983 ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder j Guest Speaker : John Updike : Fictional Houses [Interview] Architectural Digest (Jan. 1985) Clipping. 1 item. 5 p. ; Note : John Updike mailed to Stuart Wright, ca. Jan. 1986 ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder k John Updike Photographs (ca. 1950s - Oct. 1981) Photographic prints. Color & Black & White. Various dimensions. 8 items. 8 p. ; Note : Includes publicity photographs & photographs of Updike with his Macdowell medal (1981), typing in his office, playing golf, playing the recorder (ca. 1970), posed with his son David, his mother (Linda Grace Hoyer), and his horse (Oct. 1981) ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 7 Folder l Brazil : A Novel, by John Updike (© 1994) Note : 1) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Mailing label addressed to Stuart Wright (ca. 1994) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.005
Box 7 Folder m Bulletin of Bibliography, vol. 42, no. 4 (Dec. 1985) Note : 1-2) "John Updike's Contribution to Chatterbox", by Stuart Wright, vol. 42, no. 4 (Dec. 1985) , pp. 171-178. Reprint & Photocopy. 2 items. 8 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #159.008
Box 7 Folder n Bulletin of Bibliography, vol. 47, no. 1 (March 1990) Note : 1-2) John Updike, Beverly Farms, MA. Letter to Gentlemen including bibliographic references to his earliest publications, inspired by Stuart Wright's bibliography of Updike's Shillington High School Chatterbox contributions (17 Dec. 1989) Photocopy TLS & Envelope. 2 items. 3 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #159.007
Box 7 Folder o Child's Calendar, A : A Poem For Each Month Catches the Mood of the Changing Seasons, by John Updike ; Illustrated by Nancy Eckholm (© 1965) Note : 1) Fred Chappell, Charlottesville, CA. Letter to Stuart Wright concerning John Updike's books (30 July 1983) ALS with original watercolor. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) Nancy Eckholm Burkert, Milwaukee, WI. Letter to Stuart Wright regarding publication of "Snow White" (1 Sept. 1983) ALS & Envelope. 1 item. 2 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.005
Box 7 Folder p Collected Poems 1953-1993, by John Updike (© 1993) Note : 1) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Mailing label addressed to Stuart Wright (ca. 1993) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. With Compliments of the Author slip (ca. 1993) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.008
Box 7 Folder q Dogleg Madness, by Mike Bryan (© 1987) Note : 1) Gary L. Fisketjon, Editorial Directory, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, NY. Letter to John Updike requesting Updike's review comments on Bryan's book on golf (28 Dec. 1987) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #159.009
Box 7 Folder r Fork River Space Project, The, by Wright Morris (c. 1977) Note : 1) Harper & Row review copy slip (14 Sept. 1977) ; Letter from M. S. Wyeth, Jr., Harper & Row, Publishers to John Updike, enclosing copy of book (13 Sept. 1977) TLS ; 2) Letter from M. S. Wyeth, Jr., Harper & Row, Publishers to John Updike, enclosing copy of letter saying it went to his former address (14 Sept. 1977) TN. 2 items. 2 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #68.009
Box 7 Folder s Golf Dreams : Writings on Golf, by John Updike (© 1996) Note : 1-27) Includes John Updike - Stuart Wright correspondence (1983 - 1995) ALS, TLS (27 items) ; 28-30) 3 golf scorecards ; 31-32) 2 color photographs of John Updike paddling a canoe (1986) ; 33) Golf Digest clipping (Feb. 1985) ; 33 items 51 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.012
Box 7 Folder t Following Through, by Herbert Warren Wind (© 1985) Note : 1) John Updike. Note to Stuart Wright enclosing two books he had reviewed & noting his "elderly" golf game (ca. 1985) [No original] Digitized ANS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #159.010
Box 7 Folder u Hugging the Shore : Essays and Criticism, by John Updike (© 1983) Note : 1) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Mailing label addressed to Stuart Wright (ca. 1993) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.013
Box 7 Folder v Late Warning, by Reynolds Price (© 1966, 1968) Note : 1) John Updike. Post-it note to [Stuart Wright] (ca. 1968) ANS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.003
Box 7 Folder w Limited Inc., by Jacques Derrida (© 1988) Note : 1) Rina Ranalli, Publicity Director, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL. Letter to "Dear Book Reviewer" enclosing bound galley of "Limited Inc." (23 Oct. 1988) TLS. 1 item. 2 p. ; Edges deteriorated ; Conservation needed ; Source : Cary Addition Box #159.011
Box 7 Folder x Luzhin Defense, The, by Vladimir Nabokov (© 1964) Note : 1) John Updike. Christmas Greetings to "Dear Stuart" thanking him for his "elegant book of English parks" ; enclosing "two bound galleys marked up for review, and a tiny present of a lonely Nabokov novel with an afterword by yr. pal, John" (ca. Dec. 1994) ALS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #159.016
Box 7 Folder y Memories of the Ford Administration : A Novel, by John Updike (© 1993) Note : 1-2) John Updike. Letters to Stuart Wright (1992-1993) TLS Postcards. 2 items. 2 p. ; 3) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Mailing label addressed to Stuart Wright (ca. 1992-1993) Printed form ; 4) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. with compliments of the author card (ca. 1992-1993) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.014
Box 7 Folder z Museums and Women, by John Updike (© 1972) Note : 1) Stuart Wright. Introduction for John Updike at Unknown speaking event ; annotated on verso of p. 2 : "My introduction" (ca. 1972) Edited typescript. 1 item. 2 p. ; Fragile, brittle ; conservation needed ; Source : Cary Addition Box #159.012
Box 7 Folder za My Romance : A Novel, by Gordon Lish (© 1991) Note : 1) Gerald Howard, Editor, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY. Letter to John Updike enclosing galley of My Romance at request of the author commenting that it is Lish's best book (18 Feb. 1991) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Brittle, fragile ; conservation needed ; Source : Cary Addition Box #159.013
Box 7 Folder zb Prize Stories 1967 : The O. Henry Awards, edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams (c. 1967) Note : 1) Doubleday & Company, Inc. book for review slip (3 March 1978) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #95.003
Box 7 Folder zc Rabbit at Rest : A Novel, by John Updike (© 1990) Note : 1) Stuart Wright note (ca. 1986) TN. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY. Mailing label addressed to Stuart Wright (ca. 1990) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3-4) John Updike, Beverly Farms, MA. Letters to Stuart Wright regarding medical books, golf, his divorce settlement, comments on Robert Penn Warren at ceremony in New York, NY (15, 23 May 1986) TLS. 2 items. 2 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.019
Box 7 Folder zd Rabbit Run : A Novel, by John Updike (© 1960) Note : 1) Stuart Wright note (ca. 1986) TN. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY. Mailing label addressed to Stuart Wright (ca. 1990) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) Wachovia Bank Check#1126 to Clover Park Athletic Association for $12 signed by Stuart Wright (8 July 1983) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; 4) Harding Lemay, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY. Business card (undated) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.022
Box 7 Folder ze Recent Poems 1986-1990, by John Updike (© 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989) Note : 1-2) Stuart Wright's, Quality Inn King's Grant Motel Bill & Credit Card Receipt, Danvers, MA (8, 10 Aug. 1991) Printed forms. 2 items. 2 p. ; 3) Myopia Links Golf Score Card including scores of John [Updike], David & Stuart [Wright] (undated) Printed form ; 4) Robert Wallace. Note to Stuart [Wright] with proof of the first paragraph of "Emmersonianism" (Undated) Annotated Proof. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.023
Box 7 Folder zf Self - Consciousness, by John Updike (© 1989) Note : 1) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Publicity Department, New York, NY. With the compliments of the author card (undated) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY. Shipping label addressed to Stuart Wright (ca. 1989) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) John Updike, Beverly Farms, MA. Letter to Stuart Wright, thanking him for comments on "Consciousness", tell him when to stop sending him bound galleys, will he be coming up to play golf, declines Confederate flag "and I don't want to give away on the links what our boys in blue won on the bloody killing grounds." (13 April [1989] TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 4) John Updike, Beverly Farms, MA. Letter to Stewart [sic] Wright, enclosing two bound galleys, "also Robert Penn Warren, Are you coming for the annual golf match this spring? I played once and was poor." (ca. 15 April 1989) ALS on torn envelope. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.027
Box 7 Folder zg Witches of Eastwick : A Novel, The, by John Updike (© 1984) Note : 1) John Updike, Beverly Farms, MA. Letter to Stuart Wright regarding mail received, including Confederate flag, thanks for visiting (14 July 1983) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) John Updike, Beverly Farms, MA. Letter to Stuart Wright regarding Eudora Welty "celebration", receipt of signed photos (6 Aug. 1983) TLS on postcard. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) John Updike, Beverly Farms, MA. Letter to Stuart Wright thanking for "cloverleaf T-shirt", and for photo for possible use on a dust jacket (29 Aug. 1983) ALS on postcard. 1 item. 1 p. ; 4) Virginia Tech Union Presents John Updike Reading Ticket (23 May 1983) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; 5) "Hello my name is Stuart Wright" Stick-On Label (Undated) Printed form. 1 item. 1 p. ; 6) Virginia Tech University, University Bookstore, John Updike Reception Invitation (12 May 1983) Printed form & Envelope. 1 item. 2 p. ; 7) Michael Wade. Account of John Updike's reading at the Brendle Recital Hall, Wake Forest University (undated) Clipping. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.029
Box 8 Folder a Best English Short Stories 1989, The [Book] edited by Giles Gordon and David Hughes (New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, © 1989) Uncorrected Proofs. 1 item. 145 p. ; Note : Autographed "John Updike" on cover ; Holograph corrections marked on folder ; Rusty staples ; needs conservation ; Source : Cary Addition Box #070.033
Box 8 Folder b Books : The Sinister Sex, by John Updike The New Yorker [Review] (25 June 1985 ; 22 May 1986) Envelope, Corrected Page Proofs. 3 items. 20 p. ; Note : Updike's review of Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel, The Garden of Eden ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder c Books : What You Deserve Is What You Get, by John Updike The New Yorker [Review] (28 Dec. 1987) Envelope, Corrected Page Proof with Original Art. 1 item. 7 p. ; Updike Pulls Another Rabbit from His Hat, by Sue Bennett. The News : The Voice of Lehigh Valley's College Students, Vol. 4, no. 6 (6 March 1982), p. 1. Clipping with Original Art. 1 item. 1 p. ; also envelope sent to Stuart Wright by Susan Moritz of The New Yorker (ca. 1988), 1 item. 1 p. ; Note : Updike's review of Joyce Carol Oates' You Must Remember This ; proofs & clippings autographed & inscribed by John Updike with caricatures ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder d Hugging The Shore, by John Updike (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 25 April 1983) Uncorrected Page Proofs 1 item. 21 p. ; John Updike. Cover letter to Stuart Wright (15 May 1983) ALS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Envelope (16 May 1983) 1 item. 1 p. 3 items. 23 p. ; Note : Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder e In Praise of the Stepmother [Elogio de la Madrastra], by Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane ; First edition (New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990) ISBN 0-374-1758-7. Uncorrected Proof, Album Cover & Loose manuscript materials. 12 items. 82 p. ; Note : John Updike holograph Post-It note to Stuart Wright (ca. 1990) attached to Album Cover. 1 item. 1 p. ; Prints used to illustrate book. 6 items. 6 p. ; Invitation from Ingersoll Foundation to Ingersoll Awards Banquet where Llosa will receive the T. S. Eliot Prize (14 Nov. 1991) Printed. 1 item. 1 p. ; John Updike. "Books : A Materialist Look at Eros" [Review of "In Praise of the Stepmother", New Yorker (1 Oct. 1990), pp. 107-110. 1 item. 2 p. ; Helene Atwan, Vice President, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Letter to John Updike thanking him for agreeing to review the book 8 Aug. 1990) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder f Papier-Mâché Santa Claus, The, by Linda Grace Hoyer. Privately printed for Stuart Wright, Christmas 1983. (© 1976, 1983 by Linda Grace Hoyer) Corrected page proof ; 1 item. 13 p. ; Note : Linda Grace Hoyer was John Updike's mother ; "50 copies printed for private distribution" ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder g Personal History : A Soft Night in Shillington, by John Updike. The New Yorker, Vol. 60, no. 45 (24 Dec. 1984), pp. 37-57. Periodical. 1 item. 46 p. ; Note : Entire issue included ; John Updike mailed to Stuart Wright, ca. Jan. 1986 ; John Updike autographed, p. 37 ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder h Predator, The, by Linda Grace Hoyer with drawings by Elizabeth Updike Cobblah (New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1990) ISBN 0-89919-923-2 Code 6-87771-0. Uncorrected Page Proof. 1 item. 58 p. ; Note : Linda Grace Hoyer was John Updike's mother ; Elizabeth Updike Cobblah was John Updike's daughter ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder i John Updike Discusses His Craft ; Interview with Dick Cavett on the Dick Cavett Show, WNET-TV, New York, NY [14 Dec. 1978] Audio Cassette & Box. 2 items. 2 p. ; Note : Audio Cassette #39074 ; Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder j Invasion of the Book Envelopes [Short Story] by John Updike (Concord, NY : William B. Ewert, Publisher, © 1981) Brochure. 4 items.. 16 p. ; Note : 4 copies ; Printed for private distribution ; originally published in The New Yorker ; 125 copies printed ; Source : Cary Addition Box #145.000
Box 8 Folder k Kent State University December 19, 1981 Commencement (1981) Pamphlet. 1 item. 23 p. ; Note : Autographed on front cover by John Updike ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder l Thanatopses [Views or Contemplations of Death], by John Updike (Cleveland, Bits Press © 1991 by John Updike) Pamphlet & Envelope. 1 item. 6 p. ; Note : Holograph note on title page : "for Stuart Wright and his wonderful Updike collection. Cheers, John [Updike] 9.004.0091" ; printed letterpress by James A. Miller in an edition of 237 copies ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder m Personal History : A Soft Night in Shillington, by John Updike (16 Nov. 1984), pp. 37-57. Corrected Galley Proof #9444, GNS 1st Revision for publication in The New Yorker, Vol. 60, no. 45, Envelope. 2 items. 29 p. ; Note : Published in The New Yorker 25 Dec. 1984 ; Holograph note "for Stuart Wright - to wish him Merry Christmas . . . John [Updike]" ; Proof also includes original art, pen & ink caricature, of Santa Claus by John Updike ; John Updike mailed to Stuart Wright, ca. Jan. 1986 ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Folder os1 Dirty Young Man Comes of Age : John Updike, the doyen of sexually explicit fiction, is polishing off his 21st novel. But does the 'bard of the bedroom' have sufficient stamina to carry on? Interview by Anthony Quinn. Sunday Telegraph [London, UK] Review (13 June 2005), p. 5 Oversized Clipping. 1 item. 1 p. ; Note : Transferred from #1169.23.158.001.b ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.000
Folder os2 John Updike on Time Magazine Cover (18 Oct. 1982) Clipping. Color. On poster board. 8.5" x 10.75" 1 item. 1 p. ; Note : Filed oversized ; Autographed "John Updike" ; foxing on photograph ; needs conservation ; Source : Cary Addition Box #135.000
Folder os3 John Updike on Time Magazine Cover (26 April 1968) Clipping. Color. On poster board. 8.5" x 10.75" 1 item. 1 p. ; Note : Filed oversized ; Autographed "John Updike" ; foxing on photograph ; needs conservation ; Source : Cary Addition Box #135.000
Folder os4 Predator, The, by Linda Grace Hoyer (13 July 1989) Envelope & Corrected First Galley Proofs [Author's Extra Set] 2 items. 95 p. ; Note : Filed oversized ; Linda Grace Hoyer was John Updike's mother ; envelope contains list of corrections made in proofs ; transferred from #1169.23.158.001.m ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Folder os5 Updike Pulls Another Rabbit From His Hat [Rabbit is Rich] by Sue Bennet, The News, Lehigh Valley College, Vol. 4, no. 6 (March 1982), p. 1. Clipping. 11.5" x 17.25" 1 item. 1 p. ; Note : Filed oversized ; ; Source : Cary Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder o Updike, John, Ipswich, MA. Letter to John Ciardi (19 Oct. 1970) TL, TLS. 2 items. 2 p. ; Note : Regarding publication of poem in SR ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box 189.032-1
Box 8 Folder p Hemmig, Charles J., Shillington, PA. Letter to Stuart Wright (17 Aug. 1984) TLS & Clippings. 1 item. 6 p. ; Note : Conveying biographical clippings on John Updike ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder q Hoyer, Linda Grace (Mrs. W. R. Updike, Morgantown, PA. Letters to Stuart Wright (2 June - 3 Nov. 1983) ALS, TLS. 4 items. 8 p. ; Note : Source : Ludlow Addition Box #158.001
Box 8 Folder r 1949 Hi - Life [Yearbook of Shillington High School] (© 1949) Note : 1) John Updike. Postcard to L. A. Weik, Shillington High School, Shillington, PA telling him to "Remove chemistry from my schedule" (26 July 1949) TLS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.020
Box 8 Folder s Anselm : Fides Quaerens Intellectum [Faith Seeking Understanding] [Book] by Karl Barth ; translated from the German by Ian W. Robertson (© 1960) Note : 1) Books : Faith in Search of Understanding ; review of Anselm, by John Updike, The New Yorker (12 Oct. 1963), pp. 203-210. Clipping. 1 item. 3 p. ; Brittle, fragile ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.002
Box 8 Folder t Corre Conejo [Book] by John Updike (© 1960, 1965) Note : 1) John Updike. Note to Stuart Wright : "Every one, a gem! All best, John" [written on torn cover of envelope] (ca. 1988) ANS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.025
Box 8 Folder u From the Journal of a Leper [Book] by John Updike (© 1978) Note : 1) John Updike. Note to Stuart Wright : "Still use for these? or had enough? Best, John" (undated) ANS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.026
Box 8 Folder v Hamlet [Script] by William Shakespeare, Edited by R. C. [Robert Cecil] Bald (© 1946) Note : 1) "John Updike's Subversive Prequel to 'Hamlet' Proves His Astonishing Versatility ; To Catch the Conscience of the King ; Review of 'Gertrude and Claudius" by John Updike, by John Lanchester, The Daily Telegraph (24 June 2000) Clipping. 1 item. 1 p. ; Brittle, fragile ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.016
Box 8 Folder w In The Ipswich Chronicle 1958 - 1980 ; Collected and Annotated References to Material Written by or about John Updike (© 1980) Typescript. Spiral bound. Soft cover. 1 item. 61 p. ; Note : Also includes : 1) Bibliography of the Reviews of Castle Hill Concerts, by John Updike [pseud. "H.H."] 1961 - 1965 (ca. 1980) Corrected typescript. 1 item. 2 p. ; 2) Letters to the Editor, by John Updike [pseud. "H.H."] [1962 - 1972] (ca. 1980) Typescript. 1 item. 1 p. ; 3) Play Review of "A Night of 'Revolutionary Wildness' by John Updike (24 Dec. 1970), p. 7. Typescript. 1 item. 1 p. ; 4) Poems, 1969 - 1965, by John Updike (ca. 1980) Typescript. 1 item. 1 p. ; 5) H. H. [John Updike] Reviews [1961 - 1965] (ca. 1980) Corrected typescript. 1 item. 3 p. ; 6) Two Sonnets Whose Tytles Came to Me Simultaneously, by John Updike (Winston-Salem, NC : Palaemon Press, Ltd. © 1983) Broadside. Uncorrected Proof. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Transferred from Ludlow Addition Loose Manuscripts Box #198.029 Brittle, fragile ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.016
Box 8 Folder x Magic Flute with Musical Themes, The [Book] by Wolfgang A. Mozart, The, ; Adapted & Illustrated by John Updike & Warren Chappell (© 1962) Note : 1) John Updike. Post-it Note to Stuart Wright : "Stu - These are wonderful books. Enjoy! J.U." (ca. Dec. 1988) ANS. 1 item. 1 p. ; 2) John Updike standing with his daughter Elizabeth [b. 1955] in his arms (1955) Photographic print. Black & White. 6.5" x 5.5" 1 item. 1 p. ; Note : Annotated on verso : "with Liz 1955" (1955) ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.032
Box 8 Folder y People One Knows : Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans [Book] by John Updike (© 1980) Note : 1) Notes on Rabbit Run & Rabbit Redux characters, by John Updike (undated) AN. 1 item. 1 p. ; Brittle, fragile ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.029
Box 8 Folder z Silences [Book] by Tillie Olsen (© 1978) Note : 1) Tillie Olsen. Letter to John Updike praising his comments on Herman Melville in the recent New Yorker (11-12 May [1982]) ALS & TLS 1 item. 3 p. ; Brittle, fragile ; needs conservation ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.012
Box 8 Folder za Verse [Book] by John Updike (© 1963) Note : 1) John Updike. Note to Stuart Wright : "Every one a treasure, Stuart! With my warm regards and good wishes for a prosperous 1989. John" [Dec. 1988] ANS. 1 item. 1 p. ; Source : Ludlow Addition Box #212.031