Miller, Henry
TYPESCRIPT WITH NUMEROUS EMENDATIONS AND DELETIONS IN INK, OF THE SHORT STORY “MARA-MARIGNAN”
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Miller, Henry
TYPESCRIPT WITH NUMEROUS EMENDATIONS AND DELETIONS IN INK, OF THE SHORT STORY “MARA-MARIGNAN”
63 pages (11 x 8 1/2 in.; 279 x 216 mm). 22pp. carbon typescript and 41pp. original typescript, final page typed: "Henry Miller | N.Y. City | May, 1940", in manilla folder SIGNED "Henry Miller | "Mara-Marignan Marinated" in black ink; some toning to leaves, very minor chips and closed tears to preliminary leaves, folder separated and repaired with binding tape.
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[with]: Envelope (11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 285 x 194 mm). Addressed in black ink in Miller's hand to Emil Schnellock, potmarked 15 February 1944, Fredericksburg, VA; some wrinkles and tears to envelope. — 48pp. draft copy (11 x 8 1/2 in.; 279 x 216 mm). Later draft of Quiet Days in Clichy, including "Mara-Marignan Marinated", in textured green paper folder, "Ben T. Allison, Sra." stamped in gilt on upper cover.
Literature
Wickes, Selected Letters, p. 123
Catalogue Note
Original 41pp. typescript, with manuscript corrections, SIGNED AND TITLED BY HENRY MILLER on the folder. Never published in this format, "Mara-Marignan Marinated" was completely rewritten for publication in 1956, and appeared as the second part of the novella Quiet Days in Clichy. The envelope present with this collection is addressed to Emil Schnellock, Miller's childhood friend and chief mentor. The manuscripts for both the story and the novella went missing in the 1940s, with Miller noting: “The scripts (two) were lost for over ten years...Turned up miraculously—where I won’t say now—and I rewrote."
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