REH’s Writings

Exact textual stateFalse Start

Desert Blood — Draft 4 page 7 false start

StateFalse start — Draft 4 page 7Surviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units1

Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.

Textual relationship

Branch Of Draft 4

Characters in this exact text

Miss Augusta EvansMiss Augusta Evans — New England schoolteacher travelling in North Africa in Desert BloodMentionedfirst: Surviving fragment mentions her in Clanton's thoughts.ClantonWild Bill ClantonOn Pagefirst: Surviving false-start fragment.ZouzaZouza — Tebessa woman who lures Clanton into the lion-hunting trap in Desert BloodMentionedfirst: Surviving fragment mentions her in Clanton's thoughts.

Surviving manuscript evidence

The records below describe surviving physical typescripts, carbons, manuscript material and documentary catalogue evidence for this exact textual state. TSS numbers identify physical catalogue units; they are not story or draft IDs.

Draft 4 page 7 — surviving false-start leafHoward typescript

Extent1 pageCompletenessIncomplete

Physical extent: Single extra page 7 false-start leaf

TSS: 45078

Separate originally typed page 7 representing a false start to Desert Blood Draft 4.

Additional documentary notes

False Start: Extra page 7 representing a false start to Draft 4. (manuscript page 7)

Source: First Cuts: The Veiled Manuscripts v1.4, Desert Blood Editorial Notes p. 130; false-start transcription p. 193; TSS 45078.