Box 1

Written by Caldwell during the summer between the fifth and sixth grades. Also includes thirty-five poems written by Caldwell in the fourth and fifth grades.

Typescript with extensive autograph revisions and added pages. Pages are not consecutive and several versions of the first chapter are present

plus ca. 100 pages of revisions

Autograph, typescript and typescript (carbon) pages bearing the titles, "Mass at Cock-crow" and "The Easter People." The approximately 400 pages bear extensive autograph revisions and added pages. A letter from Father Keehan, explaining Good Friday processions, is also included.

plus photograph

Typescript bears extensive autograph revisions by the author and editor. Includes a four-page sample printer's proof of chapter 1.

95 sheets bearing author's revisions.

With the 95 sheets is a note from the printer, Maryland Linotype (1977 Jun 7). Bears editor's corrections.

The 118 sheets include a note from Maryland Linotype (1977 Aug 15) and bear editor's corrections.

Clean copy of same proofs as F19.

Page proofs bearing a few editor's notations and corrections. Also includes typescript and typescript (carbon) draft pages of chapter one, which bear changes by the author. Also includes a small group of 14 proof pages with the note "called in 9/15/1977."

Dust jacket quotes from Eileen Simpson, Hilma Wolitzer, Christopher Isherwood, Leonard Michaels, Robert Phelps, and Howard Moss. Also includes a promotional postcard and a Farrar, Straus & Giroux catalog listing the title.

Includes proofs, clippings, photocopies, and off-prints.

Letters of congratulations on In Such Dark Places, including letters from the cover artist Antonio Frasconi, David Del Tredici, and a letter from Rembert Weakland, Archbishop of Milwaukee (to Tom Smith).

The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters awarded Caldwell the Rome Fellowship on May 23, 1979, for In Such Dark Places. Includes letters, a program, an exhibition catalog, and a biographical information.