Series IV: Publishing Records

Scope and content:

Series IV of the William Faulkner Collection contains William Faulkner's publication records. Materials in the collection range in date from 1924 to 1986 and are divided into three subseries based on record provenance. The first subseries is comprised of records relating to the original publication of Faulkner's works from Random House, Inc., and Albert Erskine. The second subseries is made up of records from Noel Polk, a Faulkner scholar and editor who worked on posthumous editions and publications of Faulkner's writings. The third and last subseries, Subseries C, contains all publishing-related records not from Random House, Albert Erskine, or Noel Polk. Prominent individuals whose publishing-related correspondence and records are featured in this subseries include William Faulkner's literary agents Harold Ober and Morton Goldman.

Language:
English
Processing information:

While original order has been prioritized in the arrangement of Series IV, specific folders related to William Faulkner have been pulled from the rest of Albert Erskine's materials within MSS 10280-d and 10280-e for Subseries A. For ease of researcher use, these materials were pulled so that all of William Faulkner's publication records would be together, and so that the remaining materials within 10280-d and 10280-e relating to other authors would not be included within the William Faulkner collection.

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Parent restrictions:

This collection is open for research use with the following exceptions: Material pertaining to individual student records may be restricted in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Please contact the Archives with specific questions regarding access to such records.

We are currently organizing and describing this collection—which spans 180 different catalog records—to create a single William Faulkner Collection (MSS 16807) and finding aid that will improve access and discoverability. Due to the very large size and complexity of this collection, we are enacting partial, rolling closures while processing to facilitate and expedite this work. We expect to complete the project in late 2026.

Parent terms of access:

This collection contains some in-copyright material. Visit our Permissions and Publishing page for more information about use of Special Collections materials. The library can provide copyright information upon request, but users are responsible for making their own determination about lawful use of collections materials.

Permissions and Publishing Page: https://www.library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/publishing

Please note that W.W. Norton holds copyright to all of Faulkner's published works.

If you would like to publish images in print or online of original manuscript materials from our collection that pertain to these published works, including holograph drafts and typescripts, please contact: Penguin Random House LLC Random House Publishing Group 1745 Broadway New York, NY 10019 Attention: Permissions Department Phone: 212-782-9000

For permission to quote from or publish images in print or online of any of Faulkner's unpublished works or correspondence, please contact: W.W. Norton Company, Inc. Attention: Permissions Department 500 5th Avenue New York, NY 10110 Phone: 212-354-5500 Email: permissions@wwnorton.com

For permission to use copyrighted Faulkner materials in any way than listed above, please contact: Faulkner Literary Rights, LLC P.O. Box 1408 Charlottesville, VA 22902 Phone: 434-296-2156

Photocopies of correspondence between Andrew Brown and T.F. Hickerson regarding "William Faulkner: Man of Legends" came from original copies housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and are not to be quoted in print without their permission.

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