William Hoffman Papers William Hoffman Papers SC.000116

William Hoffman Papers SC.000116


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Hampden-Sydney College Archives & Special Collections

Hampden-Sydney College
Walter M. Bortz III Library
P.O. Box 7
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943
salmond@hsc.edu
URL: http://libguides.hsc.edu/library

Transcribed from handwritten, undated records by Sarah E. Almond

Repository
Hampden-Sydney College Archives & Special Collections
Identification
SC.000116
Title
William Hoffman Papers 1950s/2000s
URL:
http://archivespace.hsc.edu:8081/ark:/45832/10550
Quantity
86 Boxes
Language
English .

Administrative Information

Use of These Materials

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Access to Materials

Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access will require additional advanced notice. Copies of digital files will be provided for use upon request.


Biographical / Historical

William Hoffman (born 1925) was a graduate of of Hampden-Sydney College (1949) and a well-known author of short stories, novels, and plays.

Scope and Contents

This collection containts manuscripts, galley proofs, printed publications, and correspondence related to Hoffman's novels, short stories, and plays.

Container List

Mixed Materials box: 1 Archival Resource Key
Manuscript: The Hallelujah Dance, 350pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 2 Archival Resource Key
Manuscript: Come to Jericho, 165 pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 3A Archival Resource Key
By Land, By Sea
1988English.
Mixed Materials box: 3B Archival Resource Key
The Land that Drank the Rain
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 3C Archival Resource Key
A Walk to the River, 336pp
1970English.
Mixed Materials box: 4A Archival Resource Key
Godfires
1985English.
Mixed Materials box: 4B Archival Resource Key
Wild Thorn, 293pp
2002English.
Mixed Materials box: 4C Archival Resource Key
Blood and Guile, 239pp
2000English.
Mixed Materials box: 5 Archival Resource Key
Unpublished manuscript of Pagans and Pilgrims, 374pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 6 Archival Resource Key
Two partial mauscripts, possibly Legs and Blood and Guile
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 7 Archival Resource Key
Washington Post Magazine
10-04-2001/10-14-2001English.
Mixed Materials box: 8 Archival Resource Key
The consecutive manuscript pages from Legs, an unpublished novel (1 of 2)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 9 Archival Resource Key
The consecutive manuscript pages from Legs, an unpublished novel (2 of 2)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 10 Archival Resource Key
By Land, By Sea, 187pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 11 Archival Resource Key
Doors: Ten Stories by William Hoffman, 212pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 12 Archival Resource Key
First draft of Blood and Guile (originally Mountain Blood) w/ note from Erica Johanson, 289pp
2007-07-17English.
Mixed Materials box: 13 Archival Resource Key
Doors Manuscript and proofs, with letter from Julia Schroeder, University of Missouri Press, 411pp
2000-01-12English.
Mixed Materials box: 14 Archival Resource Key
Follow Me Home printer's copy with numerous notes, 354pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 15 Archival Resource Key
Blood and Guile (typeset copy), 248pp; Mountain Blood (typed copy), 282pp
2000-05-30English.
Mixed Materials box: 16 Archival Resource Key
Furor's Die, 353pp
1989English.
Mixed Materials box: 17 Archival Resource Key
Follow Me Home, 229pp
1994-04-08English.
Mixed Materials box: 18 Archival Resource Key
Blood and Guile (typed copy), 289pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 19 Archival Resource Key
Doing the Dance (manuscript), 287pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 20 Archival Resource Key
The Ghost Grouse, 310pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 21 Archival Resource Key
Miscellaneous pages of incomplete manuscript, Legs
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 22 Archival Resource Key
Reapings, 365pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 23 Archival Resource Key
After the Lies, 317pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 24 Archival Resource Key
The Blind Sheep Hunt, 354pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 25 Archival Resource Key
Script for a Talk; Scenes from play "The Spirit in Me"; Patterns
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 26 Archival Resource Key
William L. Frank writings on Hoffman
1989-10-30English.
Mixed Materials box: 27 Archival Resource Key
W;t by Margaret Edson, My Poems by Stephen M. Crotts
1998-07; 2009English.
Mixed Materials box: 28 Archival Resource Key
Down to Jericho
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 29 Archival Resource Key
Short Stories
1968/1973English.
Scope and Contents

"Going Home," "The Flaming Sword and the Potter Tattoo," "My Meat," "The Gentle Way," "The Mountain Way," "Grouse Camp," "Where Roses Fade," "Flowers of My Garden," "Showdown," "Atlas," "The Way Up", "Bug Dust," "The Journey Home"

Mixed Materials box: 30 Archival Resource Key
Short Stories (Box 1 of 2)
1964/1969English.
Scope and Contents

"The Day [Rinse] Blew the Bugle," "A Winter's Day," "Ridge Red," "Not Yet Over the Hill," "The Rams Home," "The Sword of Angels," "I Did It Just for You," "When Last She Played," "Last Rites," "The Chase," "Quarry," "Yellow Leaf," "Rivers of the Mountain," "The Shape of Darkness"

Mixed Materials box: 31 Archival Resource Key
Short Stories (Box 2 of 2)
1964/1969English.
Scope and Contents

"The Day [Rinse] Blew the Bugle," "A Winter's Day," "Ridge Red," "Not Yet Over the Hill," "The Rams Home," "The Sword of Angels," "I Did It Just for You," "When Last She Played," "Last Rites," "The Chase," "Quarry," "Yellow Leaf," "Rivers of the Mountain," "The Shape of Darkness"

Mixed Materials box: 32 Archival Resource Key
Short Stories
1964/1973English.
Scope and Contents

"Untitled," "A Walk to the River," "The Birds in the Trees," "You Throw Me," "Sea Treader," "Breaking Cover," "Journey into Egypt"

Mixed Materials box: 33 Archival Resource Key
Miscellaneous Items
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 34 Archival Resource Key
Short Stories
1964/1974English.
Scope and Contents

"Jaywalk," "The Summer Days," "Beau," "Run," "The Slow Dance," "That Lonesome Road," "A Hill View," "We Must See More of Each Other," "The Voyage Out," "Giving Tongue," "Days We Were Brothers," "Dinner with Gordon"

Mixed Materials box: 35 Archival Resource Key
Short Stories
1969/1974English.
Scope and Contents

"When Last We Played," "The Way to the River," "The Sword of Angels," "A Hill View," "Sea Treader," "Tattoo," "Pentecost," "Rite of Spring," "The Birds in the Trees," "City of Lights," "The Weight of Your Hand"

Mixed Materials box: 36 Archival Resource Key
Short Stories
1966/1970English.
Scope and Contents

"Fete," "Volley," "Left Hand, Right Hand," "When Last She Played," "The Hero's Grave," "The Journey Home," "The Summer Party," "Where Roses Fade," "The Snare," "The Yellow Days," "Bugler"

Mixed Materials box: 37 Archival Resource Key
Short Stories
1977English.
Scope and Contents

"Mountain Mother," "The Middle Drawer," "On the River," "Valedictory," "Ridge Red," "Valley's End," "Coronation," "Come Home With Me," "Winning is Losing," "Pinky At The Window," "The Shape of Darkness"

Mixed Materials box: 38 Archival Resource Key
Partial and Complete Novels
undatedEnglish.
Scope and Contents

Misc pagese from Lies (40pp); Misc Pages from Untitled (pp 5-10)

Mixed Materials box: 39 Archival Resource Key
John Calvin Laughing, 699pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 40 Archival Resource Key
John Calvin Lauging, 278pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-A Archival Resource Key
The Mountain Way
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-B Archival Resource Key
The Shape of Darkness
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-C Archival Resource Key
The Sword of Angels
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-D Archival Resource Key
The Ram's Horn
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-E Archival Resource Key
Your Hand, Your Hand
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-F Archival Resource Key
Sojurn
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-G Archival Resource Key
The Mountains in Order Stood
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-H Archival Resource Key
The Dark Way Down
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-I Archival Resource Key
Sea Treader
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-J Archival Resource Key
Fete
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-K Archival Resource Key
Breaking Cover
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-L Archival Resource Key
The Mountains in Order Stood
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 41-M Archival Resource Key
Come to My House
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 42-A Archival Resource Key
The Gentle Way
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 42-B Archival Resource Key
The Far Side of the River
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 42-C Archival Resource Key
Virginia Reels
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 42-D Archival Resource Key
Poor Willie
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 42-E Archival Resource Key
The Dark Side of the Mountains
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 42-F Archival Resource Key
The Flaming Sword and the Potter Tattoo
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 42-G Archival Resource Key
Come to My House
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 42-H Archival Resource Key
Quest
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 42-I Archival Resource Key
Copies of Reviews sent by Harper Collins Publishers
2002/2003English.
Mixed Materials box: 43 Archival Resource Key
"The Love Touch" (play)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 44 Archival Resource Key
No Angels, 351pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 45 Archival Resource Key
Miscellaneous Pages
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 46 Archival Resource Key
No Angels (Carbon Copy), 351pp
1966English.
Mixed Materials box: 47 Archival Resource Key
Westly East (Virginia Reels), 162pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 48 Archival Resource Key
Miscellaneous Pages
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 49 Archival Resource Key
"The Anniversary Dance" (play)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 50 Archival Resource Key
"The Anniversary Dance," "The Love Touch"
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 51 Archival Resource Key
"The Other Cheek" (play)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 52 Archival Resource Key
Moon's Funeral (O Moon), 397pp
1966-07-19English.
Mixed Materials box: 53 Archival Resource Key
Godfires, 202pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 54 Archival Resource Key
Reapings (Tidewater Blood), 359pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 55 Archival Resource Key
Tidewater Blood, 301pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 56 Archival Resource Key
Furor's Die, 158pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 57 Archival Resource Key
Legs, 428pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 58 Archival Resource Key
The Hallelujah Dance (A Walk to the River), 484pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 59 Archival Resource Key
Lies, 269pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 60 Archival Resource Key
"The Spirit in Me" (play)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 61 Archival Resource Key
The Land That Drank the Rain, 249pp
1989English.
Mixed Materials box: 62 Archival Resource Key
Fresh as Grass (A Death of Dreams), 415pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 63 Archival Resource Key
Furor's Die, 345pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 64 Archival Resource Key
Lies; Follow Me Home
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 65 Archival Resource Key
Sully, 443pp
1964-03-17/1964-03-24English.
Mixed Materials box: 66 Archival Resource Key
"Return, Return" (play)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 67 Archival Resource Key
"The Love Touch" (play)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 68 Archival Resource Key
"The Love Touch" (play)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 69 Archival Resource Key
"The Love Touch" (play)
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 70 Archival Resource Key
Doors (typed ms), 211pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 71 Archival Resource Key
Pinky at the Window (Furor's Die), 350pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 72 Archival Resource Key
By Land, By Sea, 187pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 73 Archival Resource Key
Canticle, 364pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 74 Archival Resource Key
Sojourner, 413pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 75 Archival Resource Key
Road's End, 530pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 76 Archival Resource Key
Wild Thorn, 369pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 77 Archival Resource Key
Pagans and Pilgrims, 374pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 78 Archival Resource Key
Legs, 367pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 79 Archival Resource Key
Road's End, 530pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 80 Archival Resource Key
A Walk to the River, 350pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 81 Archival Resource Key
Yancey's War, 427pp
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 82 Archival Resource Key
Yancey's War
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 83 Archival Resource Key
Yancey's War
1965/1966English.
Mixed Materials box: 84 Archival Resource Key
A Death of Dreams, Galley Proofs
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 85 Archival Resource Key
A Death of Dreams, A Way of Grass, Galley Proofs
undatedEnglish.
Mixed Materials box: 86 Archival Resource Key
Hoffman Correspondence with Susan and Bill French
1990s/2000s
Mixed Materials box: 87 Archival Resource Key
Miscellaneous correspondence, typescript, fan mail, and signage for Hoffman events on H-SC Campus
2008