A Wake for the Living Manuscript
circa 1975
In 1998, the Vanderbilt University Special Collections purchased the original manuscript typescript and author's corrected galleys for Andrew Nelson Lytle's
A Wake for the Living from Henry Turlington. A Wake for the Living, published in 1975 is a chronicle of the Lytle family from the Pre-Revolutionary era until
his generation.
Container List
Series I. A Wake for the Living, circa 1975 (3 boxes)
This is the only series in the collection and it contains three specially made linen clamshell boxes that hold the typescripts and galleys for A Wake for the
Living. The book was published in New York in 1975, however the date is unknown for when the typescript and galleys were compiled. The typescript and galleys both
contain marked corrections.
- Linen Clamshell Box 1: Original Typescript Part 1
- Linen Clamshell Box 2: Original Typescript Part 2
- Linen Clamshell Box 3: Original Typescript and Original Galley
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