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The three documents on which this article is based will be recorded in a subsequent volume of Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection by Louis Daniel Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin (Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi). I wish to extend my ongoing appreciation to Jill Faulkner Summers for consenting to let me make available to scholarship all items in my Faulkner collection through publication of the Comprehensive Guide and, by extension, intervening scholarly publications that call attention to the multi-volume Guide. Also, I would like to make special acknowledgement to Professor James W. Silver, who, in 1981, entrusted to me these and many other extraordinary mementos given him by William Faulkner throughout their extended friendship. In addition, I wish to express my devoted gratitude to Professor Robert W. Hamblin, who scrutinized the introduction to this article and provided several expert suggestions for clarification and amplification. Finally, to Fredson Bowers, I am profoundly indebted for his editorial concern for the presentation of this material.

All further references to the 8-page "Revised Complete Holograph" shall be denoted in the text by the parenthesized term: (RCH).

All further references to the 12-page "Holograph Working Draft" shall be denoted in the text by the parenthesized term: (HWD).

toward] towards

didn't] did not

Which] (no ¶) This

in] on

into] in

told] said to

themselves] himself

forgot] forgotten

the] a

wagon] wagon might be

where carpet, runner, was] omit

(no space) So] (i-line space) So

with . . . almost] an expression on his gaunt face almost

he] and

absolutely] absolute

mystery] mystry

for a time] omit

his] Sutpen's

he] Wash himself

are] omit

ever] never

lantern] lantern light

tell . . . not] omit

and unerringly] omit

until] till

exploded] exploding