Archival Holdings of McCarthy’s Correspondence and Drafts
Compiled by Dianne C. Luce
November 2021
Note: Entries are alphabetical by the first word in the collection’s title. Listed here are only those
holdings I have been able to verify through the finding aids, correspondence, or visits to the archives. The census will be updated as further holdings are identified.
Albert Erskine Random House Editorial Files, 1933-1993. Accession # 13497. Special Collections, U of Virginia Lib., Charlottesville. Correspondence, publication documents, drafts.
https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03211.xml
Arena Stage Records, 1949-2010. Collection # C0017. Special Collections Research Center, Fenwick Lib., George Mason U, Fairfax, Virginia. Box 493, folder 7: production files for The Stonemason.
https://scrc.gmu.edu/finding_aids/arenastage.html
Carmen Boullosa Papers, 1970-2016. MssCol. 23211. Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Correspondence with McCarthy in electronic email files, according to correspondence with the library.
https://archives.nypl.org/mss/23211
Cormac McCarthy Collection. Southwestern Writers Collection, The Wittliff Collections, Albert B. Alkek Lib., Texas State U-San Marcos. Typescripts of The Stonemason, “Cities of the Plain” (screenplay), and “Whales and Men.” https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/mccarthydrafts.html
Cormac McCarthy Correspondence [with John Fergus Ryan], 1976-1985. MS # 3762. Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, U of Tennessee, Knoxville.
https://scout.lib.utk.edu/repositories/2/resources/4338
Cormac McCarthy Papers. Coll. 091. Southwestern Writers Collection, The Wittliff Collections, Albert B. Alkek Lib., Texas State U-San Marcos. Drafts, notes, correspondence.
https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/mccarthypapers.html
Ecco Press Records, 1963-2004. MSS Coll. 111. Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Box 32, folders 12-17: author files. Box 206, folders 2-5 and box 207, folders 1-3: editorial files. Box 349: The Gardener’s Son.
https://archives.nypl.org/mss/111
Guy Davenport Papers. MS-4979. Harry Ransom Center, U of Texas, Austin. Letters to Davenport from Cormac McCarthy and from Lee McCarthy.
https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01111&kw=guy%20davenport
John Graves Papers. Coll. 010. Southwestern Writers Collection, The Wittliff Collections, Albert B. Alkek Lib., Texas State U-San Marcos. Correspondence.
https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/graves.html
Lyndhurst Foundation Records, 1970-2013. Collection # 04723. Southern Historical Collection, The Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Lib., U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Box 15, Cormac McCarthy folder: correspondence about the Lyndhurst Award and publication of Suttree in paperback; ts. of The Stonemason.
https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04723/#
Negro Ensemble Company Records, 1960-1993. Call number Sc MG 345. Schomberg Centre for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Box 118: The Stonemason script.
https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20880
New York Review of Books Records, 1955-2016. Mss Col. # 23385, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Series 1: Robert B. Silvers File, box RBS1279, folder 1.
https://archives.nypl.org/mss/23385#c1459083
New Yorker Records, 1924-1984. Mss Col. 2236, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Box 1636, folder 10: Robert Coles’s review of Suttree. Box 868, folders 2 and 10.
https://archives.nypl.org/mss/2236
Peter Greenleaf Papers, 1981-1988. Southwestern Writers Collection, The Wittliff Collections, Albert B. Alkek Lib., Texas State U-San Marcos. Correspondence.
https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/greenleaf.html
Random House Records, 1925-1999. Ms # 1048. Rare Book and Manuscript Lib., Columbia U, New York. Boxes 1156; 1611: correspondence.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079581/
Richard Pearce Papers. Accession # 8471. South Caroliniana Library, U of South Carolina, Columbia. Shooting script of The Gardener’s Son; research newsletters with extracts from the drafts.
Robert Coles Papers, 1954-1999. Collection # 04333. Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Lib., U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Series 1, folder 288: correspondence, 1966-1987. (Access is by permission of Dr. Coles.)
https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04333/#d1e10414
Robert Coles Papers. MSS # 323. Special Collections, Michigan State U Libraries, East Lansing. Cormac McCarthy folder: correspondence, 1975-2003.
https://findingaids.lib.msu.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/459517
Robert Penn Warren Collection, 1905-1989. YCAL Mss 51. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Lib., Yale U. Series 1, box 43: correspondence.
Shelby Foote Collection. Archives and Special Collections, Rhodes College, Memphis Tenn. Box 37, folder 17: one letter from McCarthy. Box 39, folder 8: two drafts of Foote’s letter to editor of Memphis Press-Scimitar about a hostile review of Suttree. Box 39, folder 9: one letter from Foote to John Sepich.
https://dlynx.rhodes.edu/jspui/handle/10267/14413
Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy. Coll. 092. Southwestern Writers Collection, Albert B. Alkek Lib., Texas State U-San Marcos. Correspondence.