Correspondence, 1988

The papers contain approximately 2790 letters, cards, and documents between Lafferty, his literary agent Virginia Kidd, colleagues and friends, publishers and editors, organizations, etc. Convention progress reports and programs. Drafts of short stories, novels and novelettes, collected works, book reviews, poems, and essays, consisting primarily of carbon copy typescripts with autograph revisions and corrections and arranged alphabetically by title or subject (e. g., Bibliographical, Nonsense poems). Original typescript drafts and autograph preliminary notes and fragments. Card file box consisting of 413 3x4 inch index cards and 2 spiral pocket notebooks containing records of expenses, submission/return/publication histories, and earnings, by title of work. 2 plaques and 4 trophies, (including the Hugo trophy awarded in 1973).