Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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,...

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Vittorio Curtoni, editor to Lafferty. Regarding the start-up of the new Italian science-fiction magazine and Lafferty's several contributions of essays and columns.

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Lafferty to/from Virginia Kidd (Literary agent). General business; negotiations in reference to "Heart of Stone, Dear," "Cliffs That Laughed," and "Chosky Bottoms."

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Lafferty to Virginia Kidd (Literary agent).

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Lafferty to American Bible Society.

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Membership card.

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Mrs. Judie Brown, President, to Lafferty.

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John W. Campbell, editor to Lafferty. Rejection of the short story, "All Pieces of a River Shore."

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Carbon copy typed short story originally titled “Is He a Wreck,” with handwritten revisions and corrections, 12p. Includes handwritten list of story’s characters and submission history. Copyright certification, 12 Mar 1974. See also Series 2: Writings: “The Man Underneath. Stories of the ‘Ocean’”.