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Toole, John Kennedy

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1937-1969

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

John Kennedy Toole Manuscript

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Collection 23
Scope and Contents

This manuscript was donated by Lyn Hill Hayward, a longtime friend of Walker Percy's, and described by her as the manuscript given Percy by Thelma Toole. It is a typewritten draft entitled "Ignatius Reilly" (the name of Confederacy's protagonist), with a few penciled edits and blanks where the typist could not identify a word (cf. Ignatius Rising pp. 190-1). It is missing pages 3 and 4.

Dates: Created: 1981; Other: Date acquired: 01/04/2001