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Michael Bedard
| BOX(s) | FILE | TITLE | YEAR | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| 2012.03 | ||||
| 2012.03, Box 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodsege and Other Tales (published 1979) | ||||
| 1 | 1 | Drafts | 1978, n.d. | |
| 1 | 2 | Published text | March 1979 | |
| Pipe and Pearls (published 1980) | ||||
| 1 | 3 | Drafts | 1979 | |
| 1 | 4 | Illustrations by Stan Zych | n.d. | |
| 1 | 5 | Published text | July 1980 | |
| A Darker Magic (published 1987) | ||||
| 1 | 6-7 | First draft | Oct. 1982-May 1983 | |
| 1 | 8-9 | Plot outline and second draft | June-Oct. 1983 | |
| 1 | 10 | Draft submitted to publisher | March 1984 | |
| 2012.03, Box 2 | ||||
| 2 | 1 | Draft with magic show added | April-Fall 1984 | |
| 2 | 2 | Rejected Prologue and opening | 1985 | |
| 2 | 3-4 | Development of magic show | [ca. 1985] | |
| 2 | 5 | Pre-copyedited text | Feb. 22, 1986 | |
| 2 | 6 | Correspondence and reviews | Sept. 1984-April 1989 | |
| The Lightning Bolt (published 1989) | ||||
| 2 | 7 | Draft | Nov. 28, 1988 | |
| 2 | 8 | Correspondence and reviews/published text | Sept. 1988-June 1990 | |
| Redwork (published 1990) | ||||
| 2 | 9 | Early drafts | n.d. | |
| 2 | 10 | Notes | Nov. 1985-Nov. 1986 | |
| 2 | 11 | Notes and drafts (4 notebooks) | Nov. 1985 | |
| 2 | 12 | Notes and drafts (8 notebooks) | Sept. 1986-Summer 1987 | |
| 2 | 13 | Mr. Magnus and partial plot outline | Summer 1987 | |
| 2 | 14 | Research | Jan. 1989, n.d. | |
| 2012.03, Box 3 | ||||
| 3 | 1 | Notes and drafts | n.d. | |
| 3 | 2 | Second draft | n.d. | |
| 3 | 3-4 | Third draft | n.d. | |
| 3 | 5-6 | First manuscript sent to publisher | Nov. 1988 | |
| 3 | 7-8 | Revision | Feb. 23, 1989 | |
| 3 | 9 | Correspondence | Sept. 1988-Jan. 2000 | |
| 3 | 10 | Reviews | Aug. 1990 | |
| 2012.03, Box 4 | ||||
| 4 | 1 | Governor General's Literary Award | 1990 | |
| The Tinder Box (published 1990) | ||||
| 4 | 2 | Drafts | Sept. 1989, n.d. | |
| 4 | 3 | Correspondence and reviews | Feb. 1989-Nov. 1990 | |
| The Nightingale (published 1991) | ||||
| 4 | 4 | Drafts | Nov. 1990, n.d. | |
| 4 | 5 | Correspondence and reviews | Dec. 1989-Aug. 1993 | |
| 4 | 6 | IODE Award acceptance speech | n.d. | |
| Emily (published 1992) | ||||
| 4 | 7 | Research and drafts | Nov. 1992, n.d. | |
| 4 | 8 | Correspondence and reviews | March 1990-Aug. 1995 | |
| Painted Devil (published 1994) | ||||
| 4 | 9 | Research and notes | Feb. 1988, n.d. | |
| 4 | 10 | Research, notes, and outline | Jan. 1990-Feb. 1992 | |
| 4 | 11 | First drafts | Nov. 1991, n.d. | |
| 4 | 12 | Conclusion notes | n.d. | |
| 4 | 13 | First typed draft | Oct. -Nov. 1990 | |
| 4 | 14 | First typed draft (cont.) | Oct. 1990-Feb. 1991 | |
| 4 | 15 | Draft | March-April 1991 | |
| 4 | 16 | Draft (cont.) | April-June 1991 | |
| 2012.03, Box 5 | ||||
| 5 | 1-2 | Draft | Jan.-Feb. 1992 | |
| 5 | 3-4 | Final revision | May 1992 | |
| 5 | 5 | Correspondence and reviews | Aug. 1990-Jan. 1994 | |
| The Divide (published 1997) | ||||
| 5 | 6 | Research and drafts | 1992, Feb. 1993, n.d. | |
| 5 | 7 | Page proofs | n.d. | |
| 5 | 8 | Correspondence and reviews | Dec. 1992-Aug. 1998 | |
| Glass Town (published 1997) | ||||
| 5 | 9 | Research and early draft | 1993, n.d. | |
| 5 | 10 | Second draft | Nov. 1993 | |
| 5 | 11 | Third draft | Nov.-Dec. 1993 | |
| 5 | 12 | Draft sent to publisher | Jan. 1996 | |
| 5 | 13 | Page proofs (including artwork) | 1997 | |
| 5 | 14 | Correspondence and reviews | Jan. 1994-June 1995 | |
| 2012.03, Box 6 | ||||
| The Clay Ladies (published 1999) | ||||
| 6 | 1 | Research and drafts | Feb. 1991-Dec. 1994 | |
| 6 | 2 | Page proofs | March 1998 | |
| 6 | 3 | Correspondence and reviews | March 1991-March 1998 | |
| 6 | 4 | IODE Book Award, Talking Book of the Year Award, and Mr. Christie's Book Award | Oct. 2000, June 2000, n.d. | |
| The Wolf of Gubbio (published 2000) | ||||
| 6 | 5 | Research and drafts | Oct. 1996, n.d. | |
| 6 | 6 | Correspondence and reviews | Nov. 1998-Feb. 2001 | |
| Stained Glass (published 2001) | ||||
| 6 | 7 | Thought books | Dec. 1995-1997 | |
| 6 | 8 | Theme and outline | Jan. 1996-Dec. 1999 | |
| 6 | 9 | History of the windows and Mr. Barclay | 2000, n.d. | |
| 6 | 10 | Research on stained glass | 1996, March 2000, n.d. | |
| 6 | 11 | Ambriel | Jan. 2000, n.d. | |
| 6 | 12 | Gran and curio cabinet | n.d. | |
| 6 | 13 | Emily's room | April 1994 | |
| 6 | 14 | Memory and amnesia | July 1996, n.d. | |
| 6 | 15 | Eliade: Myth and reality (myths of memory and forgetting) | March 1998 | |
| 6 | 16 | Time | April 1997, Dec. 1998, n.d. | |
| 6 | 17 | Rejected opening | Dec. 1995-April 1996, n.d. | |
| 6 | 18 | Second draft | March-April 1993 | |
| 2012.03, Box 7 | ||||
| 7 | 1 | Third draft (chapters 1-7) | 1996-1999 | |
| 7 | 2 | Third draft (chapters 8-14) | 1996-1999 | |
| 7 | 3 | Third draft (chapters 15-17) | 1996-1999 | |
| 7 | 4 | Third draft (chapters 18-22) | 1996-1999 | |
| 7 | 5 | Third draft (chapters 23-27) | 1996-1999 | |
| 7 | 6-7 | Final draft | July 2000 | |
| 7 | 8 | Copyedited text | Jan. 2001 | |
| 2012.03, Box 8 | ||||
| 8 | 1 | Copyedited text (cont.) | Jan. 2001 | |
| 8 | 2 | Correspondence and reviews | April 1997-June 2002 | |
| 8 | 3 | Permission for T.S. Eliot quote | March-May 2001 | |
| The Painted Wall and Other Strange Tales (published 2003) | ||||
| 8 | 4 | Notes and research | n.d. | |
| 8 | 5 | First drafts | n.d. | |
| 8 | 6 | Draft submitted to publisher | n.d. | |
| 8 | 7 | Copyedited text | March 2003 | |
| 8 | 8 | Proof | March 2003 | |
| 8 | 9 | Correspondence, reviews, and AESOP Award | July 2000, 2003-2004 | |
| William Blake: The Gates of Paradise (published 2006) | ||||
| 8 | 10 | First idea--Blake picture book | [ca. 1992-1995] | |
| 8 | 11 | Early notes | Feb. 1994, 1995 | |
| 8 | 12 | Notes on theme | Oct. 1994 | |
| 8 | 13 | Second and third drafts | n.d., April 1995 | |
| 8 | 14 | Draft | 2000 | |
| 8 | 15 | Draft submitted to publisher | 2002 | |
| 2012.03, Box 9 | ||||
| 9 | 1 | Bentley's edit | 2002 | |
| 9 | 2 | Revision notes and research | April 2003, n.d. | |
| 9 | 3-4 | Revision | 2003 | |
| 9 | 5 | Notes on fundamental principles | n.d. | |
| 9 | 6 | Drafts of Prologue (3 stages) | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | |
| 9 | 7 | The Artist and the Machine | n.d. | |
| 9 | 8 | Jerusalem research | n.d. | |
| 9 | 9 | Blake family and Moravians (Bentley letter) | April 2004, n.d. | |
| 9 | 10 | Engraving research | n.d. | |
| 9 | 11 | "Auguries of Innocence" | n.d. | |
| 9 | 12 | Swedenborg | n.d. | |
| 9 | 13 | Misc. research and notes | n.d. | |
| 9 | 14 | Second revision with Bentley's corrections | 2005 | |
| 2012.03, Box 10 | ||||
| 10 | 1 | Revision | 2005 | |
| 10 | 2 | Revision with Bentley's corrections | March 2006 | |
| 10 | 3 | Page proofs | 2006 | |
| 10 | 4 | Bentley correspondence | May 2002-Aug. 2009 | |
| 10 | 5 | Correspondence with publisher | Nov. 2005-March 2006 | |
| 10 | 6 | Correspondence and information re images and permissions (Robert N. Essick, Victoria University Library, The William Blake Archive, Library of Congress) | 2002-2006 | |
| 10 | 7 | Reviews | 2006-2008 | |
| Published texts | ||||
| 10 | 8 | A Darker Magic | 1987 | |
| 10 | 9 | The Lightning Bolt | 1989 | |
| 2012.03, Box 11 | ||||
| 11 | 1 | Redwork | 1990 | |
| 11 | 2 | The Tinder Box | 1990 | |
| 11 | 3 | The Nightingale | 1991 | |
| 11 | 4 | Emily | 1992 | |
| 11 | 5 | Painted Devil | 1994 | |
| 11 | 6 | The Divide | 1997 | |
| 11 | 7 | Glass Town | 1997 | |
| 11 | 8 | The Clay Ladies | 1999 | |
| 11 | 9 | The Wolf of Gubbio | 2000 | |
| 11 | 10 | Stained Glass | 2001 | |
| 11 | 11 | The Painted Wall and Other Strange Tales | 2003 | |
| 11 | 12 | The Green Man | 2012 | |
| 11 | 13 | William Blake: The Gates of Paradise | 2006 | |
