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Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1998 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #10973 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman LibraryUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22903USA
 Papers of John Casey 1939-1990 10973 ca. 1700 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research. Photocopying is restricted except by written permission of Mr. Casey.

 Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

Papers of John Casey, Accession #10973, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was loaned to the library on August 22, 1990.

 Scope and Content

This collection consists of the papers of American writer John Dudley Casey(1939-), 7.5 linear feet, ca. 1700 items, 22 Hollinger boxes, 1939-1990, containing John Casey's juvenilia; correspondence; manuscripts of his magazine articles and book reviews; manuscripts of his short stories and novellas; manuscripts of his novels, An American Romance,Everyman's Dream,Monticello and People's Drug Store,Spartina, and Testimony and Demeanor; and cassette tapes of his interviews and readings.

Casey was educated at Harvard College (B.A. cum laude 1962), Harvard Law School (L.L.B. 1965), and the University of Iowa (M.F.A. 1968). He has taught at the University of Iowa Law School, the University of Rhode Island, Randolph-Macon Women's College, and the University of Virginia. Casey's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1979-1980), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1982), the O. Henry Award (1988), and the National Book Award (1989). Casey's published works include the books An American Romance (1977), Testimony and Demeanor (1979), and Spartina (1989); short stories in The New Yorker (1968-1988), Chicago Magazine (1983), Ploughshares (1981), Redbook (1972), and Sports Illustrated (1969); book reviews; and magazine articles.

The collection is organized into five series: topical and miscellaneous personal papers, including autobiographical materials, juvenilia, college essays and other work, teaching notes and evaluations, and students' stories; correspondence, separated by subject and correspondent, with separate folders for more widely-known writers, and including alphabetized miscellaneous letters; manuscripts of book reviews and magazine articles, short stories, and novels; sound recordings of Casey's readings and interviews; and two items, a manuscript of the story "A Political Primer" and an author's proof of the story "Avid," in oversize folders.

The organization of the collection groups the novella "A Year in Mid-Air" (Redbook, 1972) with the short stories, and the story collection Testimony and Demeanor (1979) with the novels.

 Container List Correspondence Correspondence re Employment 1967-1969, n.d. Box 1 Correspondence re Book Publishing 1967-1990 Box 1 Correspondence re Magazine Publishing 1965-1988, n.d. Box 1 Letters of Congratulation 1968-1990 Box 1 Letters from Other Authors 1968-1990 Box 1 Letters from Ann Arensberg 1980,1986 Box 1 Letters from the Barnes Family n.d. Box 1 Letters from Elizabeth Benedict(formerly Elizabeth Neidetz) 1978-1980 Box 1 Letter from Vance Bourjaily 1978 Box 1 Letter from T. Alan Broughton 1980 Box 1 Letters from Rosamond Pittman Casey 1980, n.d. Box 1 Letters from Jane Barnes Caseyand Maudand Nell Casey 1979-1989, n.d. Box 1 Letters from the Casey Family 1966-1989 Box 1 Letters from Susan Heeger 1978-1989 Box 1 Letters from John Irving 1968, 1977-1988 Box 1 Letters from Peter Janet 1978, n.d. Box 1 Letters from Richard Jones 1977-1989 Box 1 Letters from Steve Jones 1977-1988 Box 1 Letter from Jim MacPherson 1980 Box 1 Letters from Jonathan Penner 1979, 1990 Box 1 Letters from David Plimpton 1968, n.d. Box 1 Letters from Peter Taylor (1965-1968)1980, n.d. Box 1 Letters from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1967-1971 Box 2 Letters from Richard Wertime 1980 Box 2 Miscellaneous Letters 1966-1990, n.d. Box 2 (2 folders) Topical and Miscellaneous Autobiographical Materials [1988], n.d. Box 2 Awards and Speech Notes 1964, 1989, n.d. Box 2 Childhood Correspondence and Papers 1939-1952, n.d. Box 2 College Essays n.d. Box 2 School Records and Related Correspondence 1947-1956 Box 2 Photographs and Stamps n.d. Box 3 Poetry 1960, n.d. Box 3 Students' Stories 1978, 1988, n.d. Box 3 Teaching Notes n.d. Box 3 Travel Diary: Russia n.d. Box 3 Manuscripts Manuscripts: Articles and Book Reviews Arkansas National Bass Fishing Tournamentarticle n.d. Box 3 Book Reviews n.d. Box 3 Cross-Country Ski article n.d. Box 3 "In Praise of Womens' Muscles" 1978-1980 Box 3 Interview of Kurt Vonnegut n.d. Box 3 Kindly Lights foreword n.d. Box 3 Memorial Essays 1977-1983 Box 3 Rowing article n.d. Box 4 "The Social Life of the Long-Distance Runner" 1969 Box 4 Sports: Research Clippings 1973, 1976, n.d. Box 4 Sports Writings n.d. Box 4 The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake afterword n.d. Box 4 "Tom Brown, Tracker" 1982-1983 Box 4 "The Watch that Ends the Night" 1969 Box 4 (2 folders) Manuscripts: Short Stories "Avid," with autograph revisions by the author n.d. Box 4 AMs "Avid" n.d. Box 4 Ams, Tms "Avid," notes n.d. Box 4 AMs "Avid" (2 folders) n.d. Box 5 TMs "Avid: Revised Version" n.d. Box 5 TMs "Avid," with comments by others (2 folders) n.d. Box 5 TMs "Avid," with publication copy 1988 Box 5 galley proofs "Bobbie Booth" n.d. Box 5 AMs, TMs "Connaissance des Arts" (2 folders) n.d. Box 5 AMs "Connaissance des Arts," originally titled "Lapses" n.d. Box 5 TMs "Connaissance des Arts" n.d. Box 5 TMs "Connaissance des Arts" n.d. Box 6 AMs, TMs "Connaissance des Arts" n.d. Box 6 TMs "Connaissance des Arts," notes n.d. Box 6 AMs "Conspirators," with autograph revisions by the author n.d. Box 6 AMs "Conspirators" (3 folders) n.d. Box 6 TMs "The Fisherman and His Wife" n.d. Box 6 AMs, TMs "Home Again, Home Again" n.d. Box 6 AMs, TMs "Mandarins in a Farther Field," with published copy 1969 Box 6 AMs "A More Complete Cross-Section" n.d. Box 7 AMs, TMs "My Last Captain" 1965 Box 7 TMs "Peter Downing" n.d. Box 7 AMs "Rapunzel" n.d. Box 7 AMs, TMs Rhode Island cycle (Volume I) notes n.d. Box 7 AMs "Sleeping Beauty" n.d. Box 7 AMs "Sleeping Beauty" n.d. Box 7 TMs "Smythe" n.d. Box 7 AMs, TMs "Smythe," notes n.d. Box 7 AMs "Snow White" n.d. Box 7 AMs, TMs "Snow White" n.d. Box 7 TMs "Snow White," with publication copy 1983, n.d. Box 7 galley proofs "Starry Night" n.d. Box 8 AMs, TMS "Starry Night" (2 folders) n.d. Box 8 TMs "Supper at the Black Pearl" n.d. Box 8 AMs "Supper at the Black Pearl" n.d. Box 8 TMs "Testimony and Demeanor" n.d. Box 8 AMs "Testimony and Demeanor," with publication copy 1971 Box 8 galley proofs "The Use of Her Estate" n.d. Box 8 AMs, TMs "A Year in Mid-Air," under earlier title n.d. Box 8 AMs "A Year in Mid-Air," with galley proofs and publication copy 1972, n.d. Box 8 AMs, TMs "A Year in Mid-Air," draft as notes for a screenplay based on the author's novella n.d. Box 8 AMs, TMs untitled story n.d. Box 9 TMs Washington story notes n.d. Box 9 AMs Washington story fragments (2 folders) n.d. Box 9 AMs Miscellaneous untitled stories n.d. Box 9 AMs, TMs Story fragments (2 folders) n.d. Box 9 AMs Story fragments in Harvard notebook 1964 Box 10 AMs Story fragments in notebooks 1964, n.d. Box 10 AMs Notebooks and inserts (3 folders) 1960, 1962, n.d. Box 10 AMs Manuscripts: Novels An American Romance , early draft (partially incomplete) with autograph revisions by the author (5 folders) n.d. Box 11 AMs An American Romance , draft with extensive autograph revisions by the author (2 folders) n.d. Box 11 TMs An American Romance , draft with extensive autograph revisions by the author (3 folders) n.d. Box 12 TMs An American Romance draft (5 folders) n.d. Box 12 TMs An American Romance draft (2 folders) n.d. Box 13 TMs An American Romance publication copy (3 folders) [1970's] Box 13 TMs (EC) An American Romance publication copy [1970's] Box 14 TMs (EC) An American Romance , proofs with holograph corrections by the editor 1977 Box 14 galley proofs An American Romance 1977 Box 14 galley proofs An American Romance 1977 Box 14 page proofs An American Romance , synopsis for a film version of the author's novel n.d. Box 14 AMs, TMs An American Romance , loose notes and text excerpts marked "throwaway pages" by the author n.d. Box 14 AMs, TMs An American Romance , notes n.d. Box 15 AMs, TMs An American Romance , notes and text fragments in notebook pads n.d. Box 15 AMs An American Romance , editor's comments and author's synopses n.d. Box 15 AMs, TMs An American Romance 1977-1979 Box 15 reviews Everyman's Dream , early draft with extensive autograph revisions by the author (2 folders) [1960's] Box 15 AMs Everyman's Dream , early draft with autograoph revisions by the author [1960's] Box 15 AMs Everyman's Dream , marked "Novel-in-Progress," written while at Iowa Creative Writing Workshop [1960's] Box 15 TMs (mimeo) Everyman's Dream [1960's] Box 16 TMs Everyman's Dream , draft with autograph revisions by the author [1960's] Box 16 AMs Everyman's Dream , draft of AMs in previous folder [1960's] Box 16 TMs Everyman's Dream [1960's] Box 16 TMs Everyman's Dream (3 folders) [1960's] Box 16 TMs Everyman's Dream , draft with autograph revisions by the author [1960's] Box 16 TMs Everyman's Dream , draft with autograph revisions by the author [1960's] Box 17 TMs Everyman's Dream , narrative fragments [1960's] Box 17 AMs, TMs Everyman's Dream , notes [1960's] Box 17 AMs Monticello and People's Drug Store , notes and narrative fragments n.d. Box 17 AMs Monticello and People's Drug Store , draft in spiral- bound notebook tablets n.d. Box 17 AMs Spartina , draft segments in notepads (4 folders) n.d. Box 18 AMs Spartina , draft of opening chapters, with autograph revisions by the author n.d. Box 18 AMs, TMs Spartina , draft segments with autograph revisions by the author (2 folders) n.d. Box 18 AMs Spartina , draft with autograph revisions by the author and others n.d. Box 18 TMs Spartina , draft with autograph revisions by the author and others (2 folders) n.d. Box 19 TMs Spartina (2 folders) n.d. Box 19 TMs Spartina , setting copy with printer's notes (2 folders) 1989 Box 19 TMs Spartina , setting copy with printer's notes (3 folders) 1989 Box 20 TMs Spartina , final draft (2 folders) 1989 Box 20 TMs(ec) Spartina , research materials: clippings, notes n.d. Box 20 Spartina , revision notes n.d. Box 20 AMs, TMs Spartina , loose pages from a draft n.d. Box 20 TMs Spartina , notes and text fragments n.d. Box 20 AMs Spartina , notes and text fragments n.d. Box 21 AMs Spartina , advertisements and posters 1989 Box 21 Spartina , notes and itineraries for the author's post-publication book tour 1989, 1990 Box 21 Spartina 1989, 1990 Box 21 reviews Volume III/ Elsie's Novel [1980s] Box 21 AMs Volume III/ Elsie's Novel , draft with autograph revisions by the author [1980s] Box 21 AMs Volume III/ Elsie's Novel , draft with autograph revisions by the author [1980s] Box 21 TMs Volume III/ Elsie's Novel (2 folders) [1980s] Box 22 TMs Testimony and Demeanor , draft with autograph revisions by the author n.d. Box 22 TMs Testimony and Demeanor (2 folders) n.d. Box 22 TMs Testimony and Demeanor, loose pages n.d. Box 22 TMs Testimony and Demeanor 1980 Box 22 Galley Proofs Testimony and Demeanor 1979, n.d. Box 22 reviews Sound Recordings Interview with Kurt Vonnegut T-907 [1960s] (3 cassettes: a,b,c) "Nightscope" with Barry Burnsen, episode on Iowa Citybarhopping which includes a recording of John Casey(masquerading as an Irishman) telling fictitious drinking stories T-908 [1960s] (1 reel-to-reel tape) "FM Insights: John Casey's 'The Fisherman and his wife'": Casey reads the title story for a WTJU(University of Virginia student radio) reading series T-909 1981 (1 cassette) "N. Adams w/ John Casey": interview with John Casey about Breece D'J Pancake T-910 1983 (1 cassette) "Virginia Writers II / Program #7: Walter Norris": Ben Clearyinterviews Walter Norris, an author from Virginia's Northern Neck, for a public radio series T-911 n.d. (1 cassette) "Virginia Writers II / Program #11: John Casey": Ben Clearyinterviews John Casey for a public radio series T-912 n.d. (1 cassette) Oversize Materials "Avid," proof with inserts and autograph revisions by the author and a reader 1987 Oversize author's proof "A Political Primer," draft with autograph revisions by the author n.d. Oversize AMs