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Kay Kenyon Collection
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Kay Kenyon Collection

  • TxAM-CRS C000480
  • Collection
  • 1990 - 2020

This collection consists of the manuscripts and associated materials, that document the life and career of award-nominated science fiction and fantasy writer Kay Kenyon. Materials in this collection include typescripts, drafts, notes, summaries, and correspondence.

Kenyon, Kay

Manuscripts

1/1: Biographical information from author's website, December 2019

1/2: The Seeds of Time (1997), planning information, 1994-1996; and transmittal letter to Cushing Library, 2020

1/3: The Seeds of Time (1997), planning notebooks, 1994, undated

1/4: The Seeds of Time (1997), typescript draft, cover page - page 109, Fall 1993

1/5: The Seeds of Time " (1997), typescript draft, pages 110 - 238, Fall 1993

1/6: The Seeds of Time (1997), typescript draft, pages 239 - 302, Fall 1993

1/7: The Seeds of Time (1997), original version typescript with handwritten editorial comments, cover page - page 197, undated

1/8: The Seeds of Time (1997), original version typescript with handwritten editorial comments, pages 198 - 337, undated

1/9: The Seeds of Time (1997), original version typescript with handwritten editorial comments, pages 338 - 453, undated

1/10: The Seeds of Time (1997), original version typescript with handwritten editorial comments, pages 454 - 570, undated

1/11: The Seeds of Time (1997), revised typescript, cover page - page 149, undated

1/12: The Seeds of Time (1997), revised typescript, 'Metal Futures' cover - page 280, undated

1/13: The Seeds of Time (1997), revised typescript, pages 281 - 398, undated

1/14: The Seeds of Time (1997), revised typescript, pages 399 - 481, undated

1/15: The Dark Blooms of Time ('sequel' to The Seeds of Time (1997), combined with original), typescript with handwritten edits, cover page - page 111, May 1994

1/16: The Dark Blooms of Time ('sequel' to The Seeds of Time (1997), combined with original), typescript with handwritten edits, pages 111 - 220, May 1994

1/17: The Dark Blooms of Time ('sequel' to The Seeds of Time (1997), combined with original), typescript with handwritten edits, pages 221 - 335, May 1994

1/18: Against A Dark Dimension ('sequel' to The Seeds of Time (1997), combined with original), typescript with handwritten edits, cover page - page 123, Fall 1994

1/19: Against A Dark Dimension ('sequel' to The Seeds of Time (1997), combined with original), typescript with handwritten edits, pages - 124 - [338], Fall 1994

1/20: Against A Dark Dimension ('sequel' to "The Seeds of Time "(1997), combined with original), typescript with handwritten edits, pages [234] - 337, Fall 1994

1/21: The Seeds of Time (1997), cover flat and publicity card, 1997

1/22: Rift (1999), a planning notebook, 1997 - 1998

1/23: Rift (1999), preliminary planning notebook, undated

1/24: Rift (1999), research notes, 1998, undated

1/25: Rift (1999), editorial correspondence, January - March 1999

1/26: Rift (1999), copyeditor style sheet, 1999?

Manuscripts

7/1: Leap Point (1998), working notebook, 1995 - 1996

7/2: Leap Point (1998), typescript second draft with handwritten edits, pages 2 - 125, December 1996

7/3: Leap Point (1998), typescript second draft with handwritten edits, pages 126 - 245, December 1996

7/4: Leap Point (1998), typescript second draft with handwritten edits, pages 246 - 378, December 1996

7/5: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, title page - page 107, 1997

7/6: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, insert Scene 2 - pages 106 - 108, 1997

7/7: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, pages 108 - 133, 1997

7/8: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, insert pages 137 - 141, 1997

7/9: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, pages 134 - 219, 1997

7/10: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, insert pages 237 - 243, 1997

7/11: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, pages 220 - 229, 1997

7/12: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, insert pages 236 - 238, 1997

7/13: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, pages 230 - 236, 1997

7/14: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, insert pages 244 - 245, 1997

7/15: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, pages 246 - 288, 1997

7/16: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, insert pages 289 - 291, 1997

7/17: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, pages 289 - 358, 1997

7/18: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, insert pages 410 - 413, 1997

7/19: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft with handwritten edits, pages 359 - 404, 1997

Manuscripts

2/1: Rift (1999), typescript with handwritten edits, cover page - 117, October 1998

2/2: Rift (1999), typescript with handwritten edits, pages 118 - 218, October 1998

2/3: Rift (1999), typescript with handwritten edits, pages 219 - 346, October 1998

2/4: Rift (1999), typescript with handwritten edits, pages 347 - 480, October 1998

2/5: Rift (1999), cover flat, 1999

2/6: Rift (1999), review excerpts/pull quotes, 1999

2/7: Rift (1999), uncorrected page proofs, September 1999

2/8: Tropic of Creation (2000), planning file, 1998 - 2000, undated

2/9: Tropic of Creation (2000), 'free writing' notebook, 1999, undated

2/10: Tropic of Creation (2000), typescript second draft with handwritten edits, cover page - 123, December 1999

Manuscripts

3/1: Tropic of Creation (2000), typescript second draft with handwritten edits, pages 124 - 225, December 1999

3/2: Tropic of Creation (2000), typescript second draft with handwritten edits, pages 226 - 316, December 1999

3/3: Tropic of Creation (2000), first version typescript with handwritten authorial edits and handwritten comments from editor Anne Groell, cover page - 117, January 2000

3/4: Tropic of Creation (2000), first version typescript with handwritten authorial edits and handwritten comments from editor Anne Groell, pages 118 - 230, January 2000

3/5: Tropic of Creation (2000), first version typescript with handwritten authorial edits and handwritten comments from editor Anne Groell, pages 231 - 363, January 2000

3/6: Tropic of Creation (2000), typescript, cover page - 134, May 2000

3/7: Tropic of Creation (2000), typescript, pages 135 - 232, May 2000

3/8: Tropic of Creation (2000), typescript, pages 233 - 367, May 2000

3/9: Tropic of Creation (2000), typescript with galley proof edits added, cover page - 148, July 2000

Manuscripts

4/1: Tropic of Creation (2000), typescript with galley proof edits, pages 149- 252, July 2000

4/2: Tropic of Creation (2000), typescript with galley proof edits, pages 253 - 367, July 2000

4/3: Tropic of Creation (2000), uncorrected page proofs, 2000

4/4: Tropic of Creation (2000), cover flat and publicity cards, 2000

4/5: Maximum Ice (2002), contract for Maximum Ice and The Braided World, 2000

4/6: Maximum Ice (2002), summary and premise, typescript, 2002?

4/7: Maximum Ice (2002), preliminary notes, 1999 - 2000

4/8: Maximum Ice (2002), planning notebook, 2000 - 2001

4/9: Maximum Ice (2002), research notes, 1990 -1991, 1995 - 1997, undated

4/10: Maximum Ice (2002), correspondence with editors, 2001 - 2002, 2015

4/11: Maximum Ice (2002), production materials for final version, 2002

4/12: Maximum Ice (2002), final draft typescript with copyedits, title page - page 138, 2002

4/13: Maximum Ice (2002), final draft typescript with copyedits, pages 139 - 230, 2002

Manuscripts

8/1: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, title page - page 33, June 1997

8/2: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, insert page 34, June 1997

8/3: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, title page - page 34 - 177, June 1997

8/4: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, pages 178 - 197, June 1997

8/5: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, insert pages 202 - 206 and '2nd version' insert pages 198 - 201, June 1997

8/6: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, insert '3rd version' pages 198 - 207; page 198, June 1997

8/7: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, pages 198 - 245, June 1997

8/8: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, pages 246 - 320, June 1997

8/9: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, insert pages 307 - 320, June 1997

8/10: Leap Point (1998), typescript later draft ['Tom's Reading Copy'] with handwritten edits, [ages 321 - 414, June 1997

8/11: Leap Point (1998), editorial correspondence, 1997 - 1998; and transmittal letter to Cushing Library, November 2020

8/12: Leap Point (1998), uncorrected page proofs, 1998

8/13: The Seeds of Time (1997), uncorrected page proofs, 1997

8/14: Cover flats for Kenyon's novels, 1997 - 2003

Manuscripts

1-2/1: Queen of the Deep (originally titled The Voyage of Grand Design, 2015), typescript 'old version', page 321 - 502, 2008

1-2/2: Queen of the Deep (originally titled The Voyage of Grand Design, 2015), notes and documentation, 2005, 2007-2008, undated

Kenyon, Kay

Manuscripts

6/1: The Braided World (2003), typescript third draft with handwritten edits, pages 139 - 278, April 2002

6/2: The Braided World (2003), typescript third draft with handwritten edits, pages 279 - 376, April 2002

6/3: The Braided World (2003), typescript fourth draft with editorial comments and edits, cover page - page 135, May 2002

6/4: The Braided World (2003), typescript fourth draft with editorial comments and edits, pages 136 - 264, May 2002

6/5: The Braided World (2003), typescript fourth draft with editorial comments and edits, pages 265 - 361, May 2002

6/6: The Braided World (2003), typescript drafts of chapter 1, with handwritten edits, April 25 and May 1, 2002

6/7: The Braided World (2003), typescript draft with final production edits, pages 1 - 189, 2003, and cover letter, April 2004

6/8: The Braided World (2003), typescript draft with final production edits, pages 190 - 369, 2003

6/9: The Braided World (2003), cover flat, 2003

6/10: The Braided World (2003), correspondence, 2001 - 2002, 2020

6/11: The Braided World (2003), published pages i - v and xiii, with handwritten edits, 2003?

6/12: The Braided World (2003), style sheet for a copy editor, 2003?

Manuscripts

1-1/1: A Thousand Perfect Things (2013), planning notebook, 2010

1-1/2: A Thousand Perfect Things (2013), typescript alternate opening pages, undated

1-1/3: A Thousand Perfect Things (2013), notes and documentation, 2010-2011, undated

1-1/4: A Thousand Perfect Things (2013), transcript of Twitter chat w/Kenyon and Bryan Thomas Schmidt, August 2013

1-1/5: Queen of the Deep (originally titled The Voyage of Grand Design, 2015), planning notebook, 2005, 2008

1-1/6: Queen of the Deep (originally titled The Voyage of Grand Design, 2015), typescript draft with handwritten edits, title page - page 156, July 2007

1-1/7: Queen of the Deep (originally titled The Voyage of Grand Design, 2015), typescript draft with handwritten edits, page 157 - 315, July 2007

1-1/8: Queen of the Deep (originally titled The Voyage of Grand Design, 2015), typescript draft with handwritten edits, page 316 - 481, July 2007

1-1/9: Queen of the Deep (originally titled The Voyage of Grand Design, 2015), typescript 'old version', title page - page 172, 2008

1-1/10: Queen of the Deep (originally titled The Voyage of Grand Design, 2015), typescript 'old version', page 173 - 320, 2008

Kenyon, Kay

Manuscripts

5/1: Maximum Ice (2002), final draft typescript with copyedits, pages 231 - 306, 2002

5/8: Maximum Ice (2002), final draft typescript with copyedits, pages 307 - 394, 'About the Author', 2002

5/3: Maximum Ice (2002), uncorrected page proofs, 2002

5/4: Maximum Ice (2002), cover flat, 2002

5/5: Maximum Ice (2002), Kenyon interview for 'Alien OnLine', 2002?

5/6: The Braided World (2003), early planning notes, undated

5/7: The Braided World (2003), a planning notebook, undated

5/8: The Braided World (2003), writing diary, 2001 - 2002

5/9: The Braided World (2003), scene lists with handwritten edits, March 15, 2002; April 7, 2002

5/10: The Braided World(2003), synopsis with handwritten edits [written for editorial feedback], undated

5/11: The Braided World (2003), typescript first draft with handwritten edits, cover page - page 159, January 2002

5/12: The Braided World (2003), typescript first draft with handwritten edits, pages 160 - 289, January 2002

5/13: The Braided World (2003), typescript first draft with handwritten edits, pages 290 - 404, January 2002

5/14: The Braided World (2003), typescript third draft with handwritten edits, cover page - page 138, April 2002

March 2021 Addendum

This subseries consists of additional manuscript materials donated by Kenyon in March 2021.

Kenyon, Kay